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

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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!

Verisure alarms, life insurance, funeral plan ads.
I agree, any advert that annoys me gets boycotted forever. I still won't buy a certain butter because of an advert they ran 20 years ago.

Kevin Whatley selling equity release, are we meant to think it's a more honest compay because Lewis is flogging it?

I assumed that the parsnips were symbolic!

HiFormula adverts that have to start with a disclaimer that of course breast milk is better (oh so that would be all of them, in all media) fuck me off. Yeah I’ll just reactivate my tits shall I, the ones that were starving my baby? Just sell me the fucking formula and fuck off. The worst is when online you have to click to show you understand the message that breastfeeding is better, but you’re one of those crap mums who needs to access aptamil (or whoever’s) website.

”If you choose to move on from breastfeeding” also pisses me off. Unless you’re planning on breastfeeding an 18 year old you will have to move on eventually, there’s no “if” about it.

The current Virgin one enrages me but I can’t quite put my finger on why. It’s just every single person in it, I think.

Adverts for something quite pedestrian with a very famous person always make me think they must have just been landed with a huge tax bill.

Indeed. And anyone who truly believes that a yoghurt is 'crazy good fun' needs to get out more......

Also perf with Surf for hiring Dani Dyer.

Oh god i'd forgotten and it's just come screaming back!

The Indeed advert where the mum "makes the choice" to go back to work really boils my piss. First, why does it automatically have to be the woman who gave up work to look after the kids and second, a huge majority of us don't have a choice. Patronising bullshit that belongs in the 50's.

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Because 9 times out 10, it IS the woman who gives up work for the children

Money Super 7 adverts. Makes my teeth itch!

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. ☺️

Oh God - so many of these!

I hate any ad which uses screeching to get the point over - that one for KFC where they turn into shrieking chickens the Sum Up one OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooothe GoCompare one...

Any that use whispering - the Voyage Prive; don't tell anyone (Um, better not use a Britain-wide ad then?)
The Haribo ones - just creepy.
The toilet roll ones - started off quite nice (clean as - Gold Pants!) but descended into just desperate.

The new Boots one is just - do they think women really talk like that?

Anything with Philip Schofield in.

Any Dove advert - especially that new one which shows a young girl making her face up in reverse . tagline is how lovely she is au naturel and of course Dove support her in that. The same DOVE that championed Laurel Hubbard in 'her' role in the Women's olympic weightlifting team. I don't buy any Dove items now, no matter how cheap they are.

Any overly corporate advert for something like insurance or financial services with an emotionless professional doing the voiceover. Direct Line, Lloyd's Bank, Barclays.

I don't want to be reminded of work when I'm trying to relax.

"I'm not confused. I'm confused.com".

It makes no sense. What does it even mean?

There's a difference between adverts that irritate and those which are nonsensical. It winds me up that someone was actually paid to create the confused.com adverts and that this was the best they could come up with.

If I were in a position to have to create an advert, the first thing I would do would be to find out which agency created such dross, and actively avoid them at all costs.

Any advert with sickly sweet kiddo voices e.g. haribo and one on commercial radio. I have to switch over.

Also the payment one where they all go soooooo. Gives me the rage.

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

Oh my god
I haven't seen this

Those post poo spray ones 🤮

Or ringing phones

Was that the "it's noice wiv a crumpet, but don't tell the woife"?

The Nationwide advert where she's holding the baby, and going on about a house or whatever and the bloke just goes" yeah, yeah". Her voice goes through me.
And the Ionis web building one. Can't stand it!

EE broadband.

"I can't believe we just landed a plane."

No you didn't. You waved around like a tit in the background whilst someone else did, in an exercise that will never be repeated.

I had no idea the woman who does the Fairy adverts is some kind of celebrity - never heard of her! I did think it was weird the way she uses her babys name.

Anyway, I hate the advert with Ian Botham moaning about his aches and pains. And all the ones about funeral plans. And the life insurance ones that proudly state they guarantee they will pay out on any claim - what, even fraudulent ones?

@Whatalovelydaffodil scrap my last comment its actually first formula milk that can't be advertised

Muller yogurts - why are there never any male Olympians getting all giddy over corner balls and ending up with a cute little blob on their nose? Not that there's anything intrinsically cute about a grown adult getting food on their face.

The latest Gucci perfume one with an ostrich in it. A fucking ostrich! I've never been close to an ostrich but I'm pretty sure I don't want to smell like one. Every time I see it I scream "What the FUCK is that all about?" at the TV.

See, threads like this make me irrationally mad at the Apprentice when they have a crack at the contestants for making a crap ad in four hours.

Half the ads on TV are AWFUL.