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Which of the most recent batch of TV Ads. most make you grit your teeth?

268 replies

RocassaCH · 18/06/2023 19:27

I'll go for "I'll have the gravlax", "Dust Magnet", "The Happy World of Haribo", "Bladder leakage" and Plusnet's Pink Furry Ball (the vacuum cleaner ad that never was).

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BellyBeGone · 19/06/2023 16:06

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Ha! Yes love this one. Really made me chuckle when I first saw it

cruisebaba1 · 19/06/2023 16:31

Mtande · 18/06/2023 20:16

At least you don't see her fanny.

😂😂😂😂😂

EbonyRaven · 20/06/2023 20:38

@Laughingravy

And I do find amusement in thinking an alien who only ever watched TV ads to learn about us, would be surprised to find all our households aren't ethnically mixed or gay.

😬😆

There is a ridiculous over representation of both on many TV ads isn't there? Wink

AutumnCrow · 20/06/2023 20:42

And the aliens would think we're all incontinent and impotent. And sing all the time.

TheWernethWife · 20/06/2023 21:24

Another one is the Viviscal ad. Blonde woman with the thinnest hair going on about "Hollywood waves"

HorseyMel · 20/06/2023 21:33

People still watch live TV and/or ads? How quaint.

Plonkdropdown · 20/06/2023 21:40

Any with Boombastic playing in the background. Just stop it already! Eyes offended. Ears offended. I don't remember what's being advertised. Just no.

I actually liked the song till advertising spoilt it.

Iloveburgerswaymorethanishould · 20/06/2023 21:48

Any that’s on between about 2-6am involving mattresses!!! I could recite them!!!! They bug the living poop out of me!! Though I think it’s because years ago, if I heard these type of ads, I ended up buying whatever it was!!! You name it (X5 steamer, bloody stupid dance exercise dvd things, nutri-bullet etc) I had them ordered!! Was like I was brainwashed and HAD to have them!! Now I fall asleep thinking about mattresses then wake up thinking about them!!!! (Said in a very lighthearted way like lol!!!)

SofiaSoFar · 20/06/2023 22:33

The "Who Gives a Crap" toilet paper one.

Why the F does it need multiple close ups of a load of MASSIVE fat arses wobbling towards the toilet/bathroom?

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

EbonyRaven · 20/06/2023 22:40

HorseyMel · 20/06/2023 21:33

People still watch live TV and/or ads? How quaint.

Ooooh aren't you just sooo cool and EDGY not watching live TV or TV ads? 🙄

Here have a carrot. 🥕

You're just soooo quirky and yoooneek. 🥱

Inthedarkagain · 20/06/2023 22:42

We buy any car. The way they dance is desperate and contrived. Its like they are literally dancing for their lives because someone is pointing a gun at them making them do it.

I wish they brought back the lockets advert with the aristocrat guy. Very apt for the current climate.

Reigateforever · 20/06/2023 22:45

Aer Lingus
Father? leaves his young daughter to amuse and get to sleep his younger son without helping her.

CaptainMyCaptain · 21/06/2023 09:04

EbonyRaven · 20/06/2023 22:40

Ooooh aren't you just sooo cool and EDGY not watching live TV or TV ads? 🙄

Here have a carrot. 🥕

You're just soooo quirky and yoooneek. 🥱

😄

the80sweregreat · 21/06/2023 10:43

Ads on the streaming services ( more 4 etc) you can't avoid really.
I sometimes will make a quick cuppa and hope I get back to the sofa before the programme starts, you can tape a programme and whizz past the ads that way on normal tv, but not so much on other viewing platforms if your catching up with something.

JudgeJ · 21/06/2023 10:51

Surely that On the Beach one won't be back as it seemed to be loathed?

If the purpose of an advert is to get the viewers' attention then it succeeded though, judging from how many people on here hated it. I don't recall it at all.

I detest the adverts where some personality is used in a specific way, eg Carol Vordeman putting her name to anything regarding money, ie numbers. Are people supposed to be conned into trusting the advert because an ex Countdown performer says it's OK?

the80sweregreat · 21/06/2023 10:55

The worst ads are those that sponser a particular programme as it's on all the time then

Mochudubh · 21/06/2023 14:37

The truly awful "GI Joe" type adverts for a men's healthcare company.

lieselotte · 21/06/2023 14:43

Woahbodyforrrrm · 18/06/2023 22:33

Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy

And I'm perfect perfect perfect. AAAAGGGGHHHHH.

Floogal · 21/06/2023 20:04

Sorry for saying this and I feel guilty. But the woman on the breast cancer awareness advert. Literally a combination of nasty women I work with

Catbumps · 21/06/2023 22:24

‘Hey, it’s me, your dry skin, I’ve lost the ceramides I need’

so creeeepy

SnuggleBuggleBoo · 22/06/2023 21:43

Catbumps · 21/06/2023 22:24

‘Hey, it’s me, your dry skin, I’ve lost the ceramides I need’

so creeeepy

Is that the one where the advert then immediately forgets it's meant to be the skin talking and continues with 'your skin' blah blah blah?

Nagado · 22/06/2023 22:30

I currently loathe the ad where a man is trying to buy some potatoes and the farmer tells him he only accepts cryptocurrency. That bit doesn’t bother me. It’s the ‘what a load of malarkey’ bollocks. Malarkey isn’t measurable. Something is either a malarkey or it’s not. I don’t even remember what the ad is for because I’m concentrating on how annoying the malarkey bit is.

FatherJackHackettsUnderpantsHamper · 22/06/2023 23:45

That smug bish Jane Plan going on about her diet products. She’s so fake I can’t bare her

Jane Plan just seems like a cult to me. Imagine being a (non-vulnerable) adult who entirely hands over their meal shopping options to a stranger. And what do you do if you have a family, so you have to shop for them anyway? Also, the chap who has lost a stone and a half in a whole year: I mean, well done for your weight loss; but it hardly screams 'miracle solution', does it?

Spray White Dung. Why would I want to decant bird poo throughout my home? I want to clean it, not make it dirtier! I'm sure whatever product it is is not actually called 'White Dung', but if not, they need to stop having somebody very clearly singing 'Spray White Dung' when advertising it!

It is so infuriating when you Google a hotel and it takes you ages to find their actual website because the first 20 hits are booking websites.

They're such massive hypocrites, too. They and their ilk have purposefully inserted themselves as an unnecessary middleman (especially in the internet age) and claim that they help to get you the best prices; but in reality, they take something like a 20% cut, so the end providers have had no choice but to all increase their prices across the board, since they came on the scene, in order to still be able to make the same living that they did before. Because they're so invasive and ubiquitous, anywhere that avoids using them now is put at a huge disadvantage.

Malarkey isn’t measurable.

Grin That is screaming for somebody to adopt it as a username now!!

DerekFaker · 23/06/2023 13:43

MollysBrolly · 18/06/2023 21:44

The holiday one think it's Jet2 maybe not where the woman NEVER EVER lets go of her bf/husbands hand - we get it, you're together. Pisses me off big time. The song is shit too

DARLING HOLD MY HAND!

Oh God I hate that song so much. Jess Glynn (I think it's her) has a horrible voice.

This one is always on YouTube as well 😡

FooFighter99 · 23/06/2023 13:48

All the erectile dysfunction ones!!! Que DD11 asking what ED is....