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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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Mydpisgrumpierthanyours · 12/06/2022 21:41

Lloyd's bank. No idea why but the song they use on that advert gives me the rage.

SausagePourHomme · 12/06/2022 21:41

oh friggin cinch -
no rylan i do not want a new Mo'ah

L1ttledrummergirl · 12/06/2022 21:56

The Mayland cookie ad where the strange women's says the dc can have a cookie for a kiss.

PinkArt · 12/06/2022 23:45

I'm heartbroken to hear the hate for the Verisure ads. I love them! There are so many of them, so there's a new treat at least once a week. And they all have the same 'one too many espressos' style of delivery: Oh no we've need burgled! Us to! We should get a Verisure alarm! We have one! It's great! Oh look someone is here to fit one! Hi I'm here to fit a Verisure alarm! Great! It is so great!

SkiingIsHeaven · 12/06/2022 23:47

The grown men talking like kids. Hate, hate, hate it.

I won't even buy haribo's for my kids because I hate it so much.

FatOaf · 12/06/2022 23:54

I imagine that everyone who works for muller constantly has yoghurt on their nose and is baffled by anyone who can eat a yoghurt without falling head first into it. It must be very weird for people who live in the area where their head office is wity all the yoghurt covered people walking about

I've no idea what you're on about (I don't watch/listen to adverts), but I drive past the Müller yoghurt factory on my way to work and used to live quite near it. I've never seen anyone with yoghurt on their nose (or any other part of their body). Perhaps that's an everyday occurrence wherever their advertising agency is based, which I presume is in London. I don't think many advertising people have mastered the spoon yet.

HostessTrolley · 12/06/2022 23:55

The radio ones for confused dot come with the bloody vile high pitched singing.

And there used to be a radio one with a doorbell in, played several times a day, which would make my dogs bark and get all excited while I was trying to wfh 🙄

FatOaf · 13/06/2022 00:00

Expedia advert with Ewan McGregor. Its not so much the advert but the tune at the end "I go the whole wide world" that singers voice goes right through me.

Wreckless Eric? I love that song. I guess you've never seen the movie Stranger than Fiction.

WisteriaLodge · 13/06/2022 00:31

JayniSummers · 12/06/2022 20:00

I'd rather slam my left t*t in a car door than book a holiday with "on the beach" if that family are their target audience/ customer . Vile , arrogant, rude obnoxious family .and they've murdered one of my favourite Xmas songs .....

Yes it pisses me right off they've used a Christmas song ..

Peccary · 13/06/2022 06:43

I'm generally unbothered by ads but I was recently researching which smart watch to buy. The absolutely tone deaf Samsung one with the woman running alone at night really put me off them. I think it's been pulled now after complaints.

Sunbird24 · 13/06/2022 07:05

The new Ribena one with the ratty-looking cats saying “maaaate”. Just why?

ShirleyJackson · 13/06/2022 07:17

‘Fee fie foe FIX
I have had my Weetabix!’

Fee fie fuck off.

TambourineOfRepentance · 13/06/2022 07:43

Loaf sofas.

I would like to find whoever voices those twee little adverts and beat them to death with a shovel.

Aprilx · 13/06/2022 07:48

Not me but my husband says he will not but Galbani because he hates the ads which for some reason make out it is a difficult word to say.

NoWordForFluffy · 13/06/2022 08:08

TambourineOfRepentance · 13/06/2022 07:43

Loaf sofas.

I would like to find whoever voices those twee little adverts and beat them to death with a shovel.

I'm in on that! 🤣

sueelleker · 13/06/2022 09:18

Mydpisgrumpierthanyours · 12/06/2022 21:41

Lloyd's bank. No idea why but the song they use on that advert gives me the rage.

I do love the herd of black horses though.

DwightShrutesYFronts · 13/06/2022 09:29

Any advert on LBC. Do they only have a handful of advertisers and are they in a competition to see who can produce the absolute worst ad? The Experian one is probably the worst but up there with it is the broadband one "Whatever you think that means times it by a zillion and dip it in chocolate". Fuck off. Forever. You irritating fuck.

Excited101 · 13/06/2022 09:53

Cinch is just awful, everything about it- the slogan doesn’t work, Rylan is awful, the name, what even IS it?! Absolutely not.

Whatever company uses the Christmas song should be shot. There’s a reason no one listens to Christmas music all year round.

I’ve long since thought that any advert featuring car horns, emergency vehicles should not be allowed for radio ads, I jump out of my seat when driving when I hear them, it’s bloody dangerous.

riesenrad · 13/06/2022 10:17

Anything with awful music, which is most of them.

Along with Daisy Daisy Daisy and I'm perfect perfect perfect, both of which make me want to throw things at the TV.

Tiredmumno1 · 13/06/2022 10:31

ComfortablyGlum · 12/06/2022 20:44

DAISYDAISYDAISY

Fuck right off.

Yes this one. Sorry Mr Marc Jacobs I will never be fucking purchasing DAISY DAISY DAISY DAISY DAISY DAISY AGGGGHHHH.

Sorry just having a little rant, and breathe.

Hesperatum · 13/06/2022 10:50

Verisure, Perf with surf, Nationwide - all dreadful.
My nephew, along with his class, was asked to write to a 'celebrity' to ask them to open the school fete. He chose Barry Scott from Cillit Bang. The teacher wasn't amused. I was.

PaddleBoardingMomma · 13/06/2022 10:58

ShirleyJackson · 13/06/2022 07:17

‘Fee fie foe FIX
I have had my Weetabix!’

Fee fie fuck off.

🤣🤣🤣

JudgeJ · 13/06/2022 11:04

Wowcher with the screeching canadian woman.
Verisure, it's the very last company I'd buy a security system from.
A double glazing company that's risen from the ashes of its own dodgy origins so many times in the last 40 years, renowned in the NW at one time.

SomethingOnce · 13/06/2022 11:05

HSBC for their lecturing.

Just stick to what ought to be the serious business of financial services.

SomethingOnce · 13/06/2022 11:11

Pets In A Pickle 🤢 “Awww, Socks!”

And that one for Vitabiotics dog vitamins.