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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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NellesVilla · 12/06/2022 17:32

Wow, @CampervanKween , that’s such a weird ad- thanks for pointing it out to me!

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LoobyDop · 12/06/2022 17:33

O2 with the voiceover by the woman with the horrible over-enthusiastic shouty voice like a hyperactive child. Nobody talks like that in real life, it’s so false. I have to mute her every time she comes on.

orangeisthenewpuce · 12/06/2022 17:34

Haven't bought walkers crisps for years because of smug Gary Lineker. Can't stand him.

Bonjovispjs · 12/06/2022 17:34

Vogue Williams and her stupid fairy tablet adverts, telling us to make sure we keep them out of reach of children like she's the only person who's ever had a kid, patronising cow😡And all Muller ads are crap, it wasn't funny when Nicole Scherzinger was getting it on her nose and it still isn't funny now when anyone else does it, can't believe celebrities agree to be a part of that, gives me the rage!

NellesVilla · 12/06/2022 17:35

Agreed, @ofwarren. I’d never buy owt from a company that couldn’t say girls and women. Just ridiculous. As women- the target buyer- I can’t believe we have to put up with this shit!

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orangeisthenewpuce · 12/06/2022 17:35

Borka · 12/06/2022 17:12

Yorkie bars - they used to be my favorite chocolate but I haven't eaten them since they introduced the 'not for girls ' slogan in 2002.

That was aged before 2002 and we all knew it was a joke

NellesVilla · 12/06/2022 17:36

oh yes, the Vogue Williams’ adverts. She seems fairly bright so I’m surprised she agreed to them. Oh yes I forgot, ££££.

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Barleysugar86 · 12/06/2022 17:37

My mum refuses to buy Magnum ice creams after the overly sexual mmm eating in the adverts turned her right off the idea!

Bonabee · 12/06/2022 17:37

Wren kitchens and that stupid dancing couple.
Actually most dancing adverts which have no relevance to the product.

ElenaSt · 12/06/2022 17:37

I have boycotted Walkers crisps and any other product they make because of that lefty goon Lineker. The adverts are awful as well.

tulippa · 12/06/2022 17:39

Verisure alarms. The acting is appalling and there seems to be a new one every week.

Momicrone · 12/06/2022 17:40

Money supermarket

Moithered · 12/06/2022 17:40

ShirleyJackson · 12/06/2022 17:07

Innocent smoothies.

Don’t patronise me. You’re not my pal, and I happen to know that the over-familiar ‘good guy’ marketing is a smokescreen for a company that treats its employees like crap.

Sadly sold out to coca-cola

GetThatHelmetOn · 12/06/2022 17:40

“Finger licking chicken” I feel like throwing up everytime I hear the slogan of KFC.

I also hate it when ads aimed to the American public are used in the UK, could they even bother to do some market research to notice we may speak the same language but we are a bit of a different culture who value stuff differently??

Malariahilaria · 12/06/2022 17:41

I only buy persil washing up because of the Robbie Coltrane and gran ads which were great in the 90s. I hated fairy because it was all about how soft it made women's hands. Fark orf does it make anyone's hand soft.

themonkeysnuts · 12/06/2022 17:43

agree with the money supermarket ad
Judy dench has sunk so low

Skelligsfeathers · 12/06/2022 17:43

Kinder surprise adverts are the absolute worst! All the terrible dubbing and cheesy acting

FionnulaTheCooler · 12/06/2022 17:43

That cashback one with the cartoon hummingbird does my nut in, I have to mute it when I see it coming or the noise gives me the rage.

Tothemoonandbackx · 12/06/2022 17:44

Any advert where someone is eating some form of crunchy food and they have to over emphasis a massive bite and they talk with their mouth full or they have a massively over emphasised gulp, and again all while still talking......makes me want to hit my head against a wall!!!!!

thereisonlyoneofme · 12/06/2022 17:47

The Just eat ones
Any of the funeral/cremation ones I seem to be targetted with

I cant remember ever buying something from an ad Ive seen on telly.

Sewingfanatic · 12/06/2022 17:47

The Nationwide adverts. The cod poetry ones were awful but the new one where the woman witters on and on is even worse.

BritWifeInUSA · 12/06/2022 17:49

Anything that uses the phrase “now, more than ever…”

Burgoo · 12/06/2022 17:49

MissAtomicBomb1 · 12/06/2022 17:11

The tampax ad that goes something like 'get it up there girls' gives me the rage!

I think you may need some :P haha kidding

DOBARDAN · 12/06/2022 17:50

Two come to mind ..

The No.7 advert, set in a store, where one woman compliments another on her skin, asking her what product she uses (in an over enthusiastic, prattling manner) and, on being told which product, then scoops the whole shelf full of whatever it is into her shopping basket, still wittering away.

Another ad that grates, which I'm not sure is still being shown currently, is where a woman whispers to us (in an over pronounced mouthy way) that she has 'a secret weapon in her pants'. We are then treated to a behind shot of her backside, legs akimbo, as she works it out at the gym. Tena Lady I hate that advert in so many ways.

xalo · 12/06/2022 17:52

The Omaze house raffle adverts!
No-one talks like that🙄