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Some adverts are so bad you’ll never purchase the product?

278 replies

NellesVilla · 12/06/2022 16:42

That bloody Abel and Cole as has just been on whilst I was happily listening to LBC radio. It’s so crap, especially compounded by the fact that the young lad can’t sing (I’m sure he’s lovely but he’s time deaf).

I’d never purchase from them as the advert winds me up so much; what adverts put you off the company to this extent?

I also hate any cereal adverts, the Ariel ones and ones where women are doing every shitty domestic crap for the men and children.

I'm a sucker for most adverts with cute dogs in though!

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SherbetDips · 13/06/2022 15:26

I love Stacey Dooley but her hair dye advert makes me cringe!!

SherbetDips · 13/06/2022 15:27

On a brighter note I love the ocardo Advert.

Curlygirl06 · 13/06/2022 16:24

SBAM · 13/06/2022 12:23

Agree. They’re perfectly nice looking prams but I couldn’t push one around because of the name.

My daughter bought one and I must admit there was a little bit of sick in my mouth when she told me what brand she'd bought.

sueelleker · 13/06/2022 16:29

SiobhanSharpe · 13/06/2022 11:51

I agree with most of these (especially the stupid Haribo ads) but I have to say I do like the NatWest one with the badass little girl! I feel quite protective of her when she's so crestfallen. ☺️

Has anyone else noticed she's also in the Voltarol gel advert, with her motor cycling grandad? I thought she looked familiar, so googled her.

AclowncalledAlice · 13/06/2022 16:41

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 12/06/2022 21:28

The Verisure Alarm ads are beyond dreadful - the acting is so wooden

Yes, the chap who hesitates before saying "Oh, that's awful" when told that the neighbour has been burgled; surely he's actually mentally rubbing his hands together and thinking "Oh, yes - that's what we like to hear!!"

I always think he hesitates as he's trying to form an alibi and work out where to stash the loot from the neighbour's house.

Happygirl79 · 13/06/2022 17:04

Skodacool · 12/06/2022 19:32

These are probably my most hated ads

Verisure are totally bad. The actors must be cheap as they are all rubbish. Rubbish actors. Probably a rubbish product too. Awful.

CandyLeBonBon · 13/06/2022 17:08

I see your verisure advert and I raise you: THE SQUATTY POTTY

DisforDarkChocolate · 13/06/2022 18:17

CandyLeBonBon · 13/06/2022 17:08

I see your verisure advert and I raise you: THE SQUATTY POTTY

This is a wonderful advert!!

sandragreen · 13/06/2022 18:41

Oh I think we forgot the Oscar Worthy performance that is the RSPCA advert - "The poor thing."

Gingernaut · 13/06/2022 19:08

Freemans with the weird dance moves showing us all the 'lovely' fashion you can buy.

Lemonyfuckit · 13/06/2022 19:23

FayeGovan · 12/06/2022 17:17

I want to punch everyone who says
"That's a splash of the bold"

That one inexplicably gives me the rage!

SunflowerGardens · 13/06/2022 21:16

Perf with Serf
It's so much fun with Toffifee
Anything with Philip schofield

SunflowerGardens · 13/06/2022 21:17

And Sauvage, aside from anything else WHERE has Johnny Depp plugged his guitar into in the middle of a desert?

thenightsky · 13/06/2022 21:19

sandragreen · 13/06/2022 18:41

Oh I think we forgot the Oscar Worthy performance that is the RSPCA advert - "The poor thing."

Especially when we see all the posts on MN where people have reported shocking cruelty to pets and RCPCA don't want to know.

SunflowerGardens · 13/06/2022 21:22

NellesVilla · 12/06/2022 21:14

Just thought of another one, a cheese ad- Boursin or something similar?

it features an annoying woman in a clinch with a man and she goes: “get ooon with it!”, to the tune of ‘Killing me Softly’. Makes me want to kill the pair of them not too softly and not really to do with cheese.

There’s also one in Asia (for washing capsules) where a woman forces a black man into a washing machine and he come later out as Asian. Could not imagine it being featured in the UK or US.

Oh yes that one makes me laugh. Who came up with that idea? The guy is trying to seduce her and she's like just fuck me already so I can eat my garlicky cheese!

NellesVilla · 13/06/2022 22:23

The Apprentice adverts were absolutely hilarious, @thecatsthecats - I often think they made them as shit as possible on purpose!!

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JennyWren87 · 13/06/2022 22:27

CampervanKween · 12/06/2022 17:27

This one came up on my Facebook and appalled me although the first comment made me smile.

That ad is horrendous but they're actually really good shavers 😂

Naan32 · 14/06/2022 05:57

The Listerine donkey advert - my immediate take was "so use their product and you'll look like an ass?"

Labradoodlesnoodles · 14/06/2022 06:37

The Vax advert where each one says a fact then asks the other person “what does that mean?”

CandyLeBonBon · 14/06/2022 07:47

SunflowerGardens · 13/06/2022 21:17

And Sauvage, aside from anything else WHERE has Johnny Depp plugged his guitar into in the middle of a desert?

I'm more concerned as to exactly what he's burying in the desert!

NellesVilla · 14/06/2022 08:54

*Someone’s turds, @CandyLeBonBon!

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Athenajm80 · 14/06/2022 09:49

sandragreen · 13/06/2022 18:41

Oh I think we forgot the Oscar Worthy performance that is the RSPCA advert - "The poor thing."

I was just thinking that. I reckon the guy phoning in went to the same acting classes as the Verisure guy. He couldn't sound like he gives less of a fuck about the animal he found.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/06/2022 10:22

Every time I see the Vax advert, where the little girl throws the spaghetti over the floor - and then the food is instantly cleaned up - I so desperately want it to turn into a super-industrial vac that hoovers her up as well, so you see the big child-shaped bulge moving up the pipe, as the real source of the problem is quickly dealt with!

Of course, I don't actually want the girl to be harmed or punished in any way - I think I've just seen too many cartoons Grin

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/06/2022 10:27

I just had a moment of real befuddlement, as I mixed up a few posts and my odd mind told me that Johnny Depp had been plugging his guitar into somebody's turds Grin

I was most impressed at some very clever person harnessing the energy of jobbies as a positive power source although I'd still give the plug an especially good scrub afterwards!!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/06/2022 10:30

I'm hearing Al Murray now, saying "I'll have a pint of Sauvage pour homme and a bucket of bum Sausage for the Fender!"

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