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What tv advert is annoying you at the moment?

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TemptedToSleepInTheShed · 14/12/2021 13:12

Maybe I’m getting old and grumpy, but loads of adverts are annoying the hell out of me these days.

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sofakingcool · 14/12/2021 22:57

@Lojama75

Vax bloody carpet washer AngryAngryAngryAngry
Yes!! Twee daughters and Dad in old man slippers
lisaandalan · 14/12/2021 23:14

The M & Ms advert drives me nuts been the same advert for years surely they can afford to change it. X

WeasilyPleased · 14/12/2021 23:41

The humming ads. There are 2. One where loads of people and a water feature gurgle the word ooooh and the humming bird and woman at her computer.
Both drive me wappy.

LittleRoundRobin · 14/12/2021 23:55

@JuergenSchwarzwald

And the Cinch ads. Why do we need a "geezer" - surely that's sending out exactly the wrong message about buying a car from Cinch?

Ooooh, I HATE those ads! And I know having a vasectomy is a perfectly normal and OK thing to do, but Rylan Clarke saying to the man who has got about 4 or 5 kids now 'don't forget the cue scissors motion with forefinger and index finger (the SNIP!) It just makes me cringe.

And yep Natalie Portman miming/fake screaming to Janis Joplin is cringe.

Plantur 39 - especially for women OVER 40! Whispered of course as it's a fucking crime for a woman to be over 40 Hmm

DAISY DAISY DAISY and PARRRFACT

@Sunbird24 All the bloody stupid people going “Ooooooooooooo…” just because somebody now takes card. I change channel every time.

ALSO annoying ^

@Rosebean92liveson

The tampax advert. “You got to get em up their girls!!” Makes me cringe it’s just awful.

Wasn't that banned?

@starrynight87

I hate the one with the girl singer using her dad's old music to make a new track, on every 5 mins for months now.

I hate that too. 'All I can understand is 'I got a legacyyyy.' Load of shit.

Also hate ANY advert that had a classic rock song mutilated by a breathy indie singer.

The yodelling dominoes ad!

The Christmas VERY ad (I think) 'It's the ECK-scuse' of the year! The emphasis on the first syllable of EXCUSE makes me Angry

Jane plan.

Sun Life, with awful actress 'JUNE' and her equally bad actor mate.

Although it hasn't been on for a while, Jenny Eclair and the VAGGIE DRYNESS ad!

Any pissy pad ads.

Anything with those cunty meerkats.

ALL of the Nationwide ads (with their 'inspirational' poetry!')

The Branston pickle ad with the young woman who has moved away from home, and the ridiculous phone message left by someone who is meant to be her parents. 'Be careful. No boys now.....' cringe

Any ad that is advertising a compilation CD ... Love songs CD out in early February that says 'the perfect gift for VALENTINES DAY' or a CD of naff and cheesy pop songs released in mid March that says 'the perfect gift for Mothers' day.' Then the album of rock songs in early June that says 'the perfect gift for FATHER'S day.' Boils my piss! I like rock more than my DH. It's like the shop MENKIND. I like more of the gifts and items in there than my DH does. And remember the TV channel 'men and motors?!' They had more programmes on here that I liked than most other channels.. So sexist! Hmm

That's it for now!

Doingtheboxerbeat · 15/12/2021 00:02

The perfume ad with Jared Leto and Lana del Ray is pretentious as fuck.

Cheesefiend36 · 15/12/2021 00:21

QuickBooks - a bunch of suit laden office workers 2 cm tall with heavy rock music "TAKING CARE OF BIZNUSSS.,.."

There's a car showroom one which has no music or sound, has anyone else seen it? It's clever as it's designed to get you to look at the TV because you think something's happened to it, but it's so annoying. Marketing ploys like that piss me off

There's one that plays Backstreet boys I want it that way, I don't know what it's for but it's very annoying.

Invictus aftershave ad. So many of these ads use Kanye West songs

Vagisal - just not necessary.

In contrast, I love the Visit Turkey one - well, the music

AmberLynn1536 · 15/12/2021 00:23

@MamaOdie

The Branston pickle one, with the voicemail from the mum (who sounds like she’s in her 70s) to her daughter who's just moved away: “It’s only silly, but I know it’s your favourite” Just winds me up and I’m not really sure why!
You beat me to it I HATE this advert, firstly the overbearing mother who sounds about 95 badgering her daughter by ringing her up all the bloody time, leave her the fuck alone! And then then the gormless dad who sounds about 85 telling his grown up daughter “no boys” as if she is 12 years old, then the “Shut up Richard” my hackles are so high by this point they are practically in orbit. Then to top it all the daughter phones them back, and is simpering like a 9 year old down the phone. I feel so much better now that is out my system!
AmberLynn1536 · 15/12/2021 00:32

Why do they make parents of adults in their 20’s and 30’s so old in adverts? The Facebook Portal one where the parents are saying goodbye to their daughter on her doorstep for example, she is in her early thirties at the most, and the parents must be pushing 80, it’s really bizarre.

NewDayNewBeginnings · 15/12/2021 00:39

I agree with daisy and perfect... And the card payment one with the oooooooooooo,s.

But the ring doorbell one... You try telling the dog there is no-one at the door.. Every time!! And they ring the bloody thing twice in the advert!!

ginghamstarfish · 15/12/2021 00:44

Most of them, the M&S with the woman in ill-fitting and dowdy outfits dancing about, all the perfume ones, the Uber Eats one which is creepy and weird. Can't believe people get paid to come up with this crap.

PixieLaLa · 15/12/2021 00:47

A couple of older adverts that still give me the rage are that “Perf with Surf” cringe and
the Haribo one where the adults have baby voices arghhhhh!

Tunnocksmallow · 15/12/2021 01:05

Oh Christ wowcher ad with the 3 women in ‘hilarious’ situations, gurning away. 🙄😡

Holothane · 15/12/2021 08:14

The very ad so that’s what their saying excuse of the year, give me strength.

Mrsjayy · 15/12/2021 08:20

Katherine Ryan is now advertising Wowcher she isn't any better than the "Wowcher girls"

Snowisfallinghere · 15/12/2021 08:25

@AmberLynn1536

I'm 31 and my mum is in her 50s. When I was a teen she was only just turning 40. I remember most TV shows and movies I watched at that age, the parents were always in their 50s and 60s. I feel like younger mums aren't represented much, you're either a teen mum or you're in your 50s, there's nothing in between.

MouldyCheeseOnGreenToast · 15/12/2021 08:28

I like the “oooooooo” advert, it really makes me laugh as it’s so stupid 😂

I get irritated with the advert for the HIV documentary at the minute
“We lived through HIV, don’t you remember?” Said in a whispy Hollywood type voice. Really irritates me!

JuergenSchwarzwald · 15/12/2021 08:59

All TV ads need to go via Clearcast before they can be broadcast. I think they should be able to refuse to transmit them on the basis they are so irritating.

Mind you, there would be none left.

They are so universally awful I wonder if WFH has had a negative effect on creative agencies, as they only seem to be able to come up with complete rubbish!

driftcompatible · 15/12/2021 09:18

I hate all perfume ones it seems.

The Keira Knightly one where she's riding a motorbike. Her outfit makes me enraged.

The one where Jennifer Lawrence is in a swimming pool.

The stupid one with Natalie Portman.

ANYTHING with Schofield. As if you use Ibuyanycar you absolute muppet.

I also despise the new John Lewis Christmas advert. I hope America shoots down the alien ship. Tell a ballistic missile all about the meaning of Christmas.

Mochudubh · 15/12/2021 09:20

Linkdin - Saw it last night, loads of trendy types strutting and posing on meeting room tables. Yeah, that's gonnae get you hired in the real world.

MabelsApron · 15/12/2021 09:38

The one where Kevin (possibly that's his name?) is on a video meeting with lots of clients and they're all cheering and yelling his name because he introduced some sort of HR and planning technology system for the company. As if they'd give a monkeys. Honestly!

hangrylady · 15/12/2021 09:40

Perfect, perfect, perfect, perfect
Daisy, daisy, daisy, daisy
And you? What would you do for love?
Sauvage
Basically any perfume or aftershave ads

Fomofo · 15/12/2021 09:44

Daisy daisy daisy, great concept, teenage girls running braless through a field, mmm
i wonder who came up with that idea? I must get me some

hangrylady · 15/12/2021 09:45

Oh and the Pepsi Max ad, making out like it's a festive drink (only as a mixer).
I do love the food delivery ones with Snoop Dogg though - Tacos to the Chateau, Chicken wings to the crib. The man gives not a fuck if they're paying him!

Fomofo · 15/12/2021 09:46

And Julia Roberts taking her shoes off to walk through fountains at a party can fuck right off, can't even remember the perfume name

Artichokeleaves · 15/12/2021 10:04

ALL of the Nationwide ads (with their 'inspirational' poetry!')

Oh that. ^

Like ruddy FB, I feel like doing the head in the hands Lord Flashheart bit about the trauma of the endless bloody awful poetry of the last year of two. Purple prose incontinence.