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

[RocassaCH]

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).

Dove underarm deodorant: does the Marketing team really believe we will be entranced and encouraged to purchase and recall the product by the sight of bulky broads brandishing their 'pits' with unattractive abandon? 🙄

The We Buy Any Car ads, Lynx GOAT ad, 32 red ad with Keith Lemon (just find him annoying anyway!!!), Lenor Outdoorables, the Lenor one with Vogue William's in it,

The where's my phone one. I couldn't tell you which company it's for as I try to switch off when it comes on.

I can't get over the previous Vogue W ad, whenever I see any of the later ones - the one where she used to talk about 'making lots of little sounds' when looking after Theodore, and just imagine her gassing him out with her relentless noxious trumps.

I also find it impossible to see her smiling and playing the kind, loving, caring, gentle type when I remember that news story about her cussing and screaming at somebody on a plane, when they didn't want to swap their seat, as she hadn't bothered to pay a bit extra to ensure that the family were seated next to each other.

Not TV but that annoying child on here, banging on about leaky loos and wipes really irritates.

I hate the pure cremations ones. They are trying to guilt trip older people into not having proper funerals. Obviously if you don't one that's fine. But the tone is "if you want a proper funeral you are selfish"

I agree re the Pure Cremations ones. Funerals are a very helpful way for many people to grieve, find closure and come to terms with the loss of their loved one. To be blunt, your funeral is not really for you at all.

For a great many people, being denied that is absolutely not a kindness to them, whatever the pedlars of direct cremations may claim.

The advert for The Queen of Oz where she's screaming and shouting makes me want to break the TV.

Agreed. I love Catherine Tate but can't bring myself to watch that at all due to the awful ad.

The Maltesers ads. Woman relating how she told her auntie that she was having casual sex with someone rather than getting engaged to him, and the one with the woman in a wheelchair who was at a wedding and smashed someone’s foot with a wheelchair, then went home with the best man… I cringe so much.

I love that ad!

He looks like he's auditioning to play the role of Lee Mead for a cheap biopic on Channel 5.

All travel adverts it's like they want to annoy you 😫 especially the booking.com one it's everywhere and I'm now irrationally irritated whenever it's on. The silent car one makes me think my tv is broken, I'm guessing the plan is to make you look.

Oh and the head and shoulders 'i didn't know you have dandruff'

He does indeed! I still love it😁

The 'I didn't know you had dandruff' one. I mean, seriously? Would anyone really say that to someone?!

Any of the ads featuring Claudia Winkleman.

That one always makes me laugh "Let me tell you about Jane Plan"
Then never appears in the ad again. 😂

And bless her, the woman in the green outfit who is shaking with excitement as she overacts says, 'it changed my life!!'

The people they have praising the Jane Plan always look to me like they're in some kind of a brainwashing cult.

One chap is on a (very expensive) diet that takes over and dictates your entire eating regime and then he still only loses a stone and a half in an entire year. They also only seem to have slightly chubby people in their adverts, rather than any of those who you would think would probably most benefit from it. Like those walk-in bath ads, where they show a youngish, healthy, able-bodied woman demonstrating it - never anybody properly elderly or clearly significantly disabled. Why do they do this? They don't advertise high chairs or child car seats with a 40yo using them

I came here to say this. I have to mute the TV when it comes on. I despise it.

Like those walk-in bath ads, where they show a youngish, healthy, able-bodied woman demonstrating it - never anybody properly elderly or clearly significantly disabled. Why do they do this? They don't advertise high chairs or child car seats with a 40yo using them

Oh god I know! I've got awful arthritis and I'd love to see someone with actual lumbar problems demonstrate how it all works, how long it takes, how you get the temperature right without sitting in scalding/cold water for goodness knows how long, how you wash yourself.

Oh no, it always some model in a swimsuit wafting about looking like she's just off to run a half-marathon once she's driven to Waitrose for her venison order.

I'll be pleased when Queen of Oz has finished too so we don't have to hear the trailers anymore, all that screaming !

@AutumnCrow

It's mad, isn't it? Many of these products are designed as best they can to make an otherwise-impossible task reasonably possible, albeit with obvious challenges and difficulties for the disabled or elderly user; but they always have to make out that they're pure magic and an absolute dream to use.

It's not really that different from certain companies using male-bodied people to advertise their sports bras and women's swimming costumes and proving that - surprise, surprise - when wearing said garment or not, the model has 100% of the upper-body support that they need...

I don't see it on TV much anymore and I can't remember what holiday company but that stupid advert where the girlfriend is pulling her boyfriend by the hand, and the cameras filming from his POV. I just feel like screaming "let go of him and let him walk in his own pace for god's sake" 😆