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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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AppaTheSixLeggedFlyingBison · 14/06/2022 10:30

Verisure alarms. She rings to tell her husband the neighbours have been broken into. At no point do they talk about whether the neighbours are okay or how they can support them. They just jump straight into "that could have been us".

AppaTheSixLeggedFlyingBison · 14/06/2022 10:31

Oh and the other version of the advert where they go up to a random couple who then tell them all about their alarm and how it works.

AppaTheSixLeggedFlyingBison · 14/06/2022 10:33

@tulippa see you beat me to it with Verisure!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/06/2022 10:47

She rings to tell her husband the neighbours have been broken into. At no point do they talk about whether the neighbours are okay or how they can support them. They just jump straight into "that could have been us".

I always assume that, by "that could have been us", they're referring to to the perpetrators of the burglary rather than the victim!

In the extended version of the advert (that I've only ever 'watched' in my head), it goes like this:

"Our neighbours were burgled last night - that could have been us."
"Which house was it?"
"Number 61."
"No, that definitely wouldn't have been us - we were turning number 47 last night!"
"Oh, of course, yes - I was thinking it was Tuesday today!"

elisenbrunnen · 14/06/2022 12:24

Oh and the fucking 'no more mr noice baiby' - fucks sake, I hate that fucking little cartoon!

Who thought to take a sweet little baby image and give it ray Winston's voice, tatts and a leather jacket like a fucking Hell's angel? It's not funny. It's not cute. It's horrible.

Bonjovispjs · 14/06/2022 12:45

I agree with everyone who said on the beach, that song is now ruined for Christmas and also agree about Rylan, I like him, but shut up about the mo-er, it's motor, try saying it, it's not difficult😡

sueelleker · 14/06/2022 14:14

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

Sounds like something from Willy Wonka!

Northernsouloldies · 14/06/2022 15:40

The life insurance ad. I'm 32and don't smoke. Creepy kid listening in on convo, that would pay the mortgage for her que creepy kid giving mum a hug. Bloody sinister. 😁

ghostyslovesheets · 14/06/2022 16:16

The perfume one with the actress 'and you? What would you do for love?' ah fuck offfff - relationships like that - it's basically the JK show in a nice setting

and that silent car supermarket one that makes you look up as you think the telly has turned off - bastards get me every time

Waitwhat23 · 14/06/2022 16:55

The Wowcher ads with the lassies dancing about with personalised cushions. The high kicking antics gives me the rage.

I'm so glad other people have mentioned Ikkle Bubba (or whatever teeth grindingy nonsense it is).

EcoEcoIA · 14/06/2022 17:52

When's your Dolmio day?
Kia- Ora - too orangey for crows
Um-bongo Um-bongo they drink it in the Congo

The Coco Pops monkey

The one for a Scottish beer they had of the black African guy being bumped into by people on the London tube.

Magner's cider and anything that does fake Irish whimsy. Anything that uses the cringy Gaelicized "craic" spelling of that word instead of "crack" as it used to be spelt cf "The Crack was 90 in the Isle of Man".

Remember the paint colour matching advert where someone cuts a square out of the passenger in front's yellow hoodie on the bus, and (having grown up in a rather rough area) my first thoughts being, do you want to get stabbed? And if you were, you'd deserve it.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 14/06/2022 19:16

The life insurance ad. I'm 32and don't smoke. Creepy kid listening in on convo, that would pay the mortgage for her que creepy kid giving mum a hug. Bloody sinister.

Is that the one where she seems unnaturally happy about the circumstances in which she would be cashing in? Rather than "Well, if the unthinkable did happen, and we tragically lost our precious husband and dad, at least one small consolation would be that our mortgage would be taken care of in amidst all of our grief and life upheaval" she seems to be saying "Yay, the old man pegs out and we hit the jackpot - woo-hoo, get in!!"

WisteriaLodge · 14/06/2022 21:43

Debbie Mcghee, "aren't you glad we had this little chat?"

HintofVintagePink · 14/06/2022 22:09

The singing dog one. Is it Flash? Eugh
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Arm and Hammer - Katy Hill slobbering ‘feel wuff?’ put me off for life

Toddlerteaplease · 14/06/2022 22:21

Snag tights. I'm all for body positivity but the sizes of the models really put me off. There would be uproar if anorexic models were used.

Gingernaut · 21/06/2022 14:08

That Sure ad with the woman in the dance class.

Yes, 'Big Gurl' body positivity vibes but what is the point of the ad?

At the beginning of the ad, she sprays her armpits, we see a montage of the high energy dance workout and at the end, she tells us the antiperspirant is still working. WHEN THERE'S SWEAT DRIPPING FROM HER CHIN AND NOSE!!

What is the point, we can't see if it's worked or not, we only have her very sweaty word.

FayeGovan · 21/06/2022 14:54

Thats a splash of the bold

Soooo annoyyyyying

Gingernaut · 24/06/2022 14:17

Experian credit score ad with the twat 'singing' the blurb to Fanfare for the Common Man.

Boooost Your Experiaaaaaaaan Credit Scoooooooooore

He sounds like he's being strangled.

JudgeJ · 24/06/2022 14:19

WisteriaLodge · 14/06/2022 21:43

Debbie Mcghee, "aren't you glad we had this little chat?"

Any advert she's on, don't now why she annoys me so much.

tensmum63 · 25/02/2024 20:06

I despise all ads for being intrusive, annoying, uninformative, condescending, greed based abuse. Neither I or anyone I know ever been positively impressed or persuaded by them, nor bought their products. What idiotic management believes that Ad. agencies are nothing but con. trick charlatans with no artistic creativity or humour? You do not enamour the public to your product by annoying them. Idiots!

MyLadyTheKingsMother · 25/02/2024 20:07

Never buying a pot noodle again

Puzzledandpissedoff · 25/02/2024 20:13

Anythiing for a cleaner - especially a saucepan or hob cleaner - which makes it look as if the item will instantly be showroom-clean with one quick wipe

Who do they think they're kidding?

Tattletwat · 25/02/2024 20:15

Santender with ant and dec nauseating adverts.

AgathaCrispy · 25/02/2024 20:19

AppaTheSixLeggedFlyingBison · 14/06/2022 10:30

Verisure alarms. She rings to tell her husband the neighbours have been broken into. At no point do they talk about whether the neighbours are okay or how they can support them. They just jump straight into "that could have been us".

When I hear that I always think surely they’d know if they’d robbed the neighbours 😂

FatOaf · 26/02/2024 09:21

Santender with ant and dec nauseating adverts.

Surely there's a message there. Look at these overpaid, talentless twerps. If you bank with Santander, expect to deal with overpaid, talentless twerps. Helps you face the irony that Santander have actually kept some branches open but put staff in them who don't have any idea how a bank works.