Fucking Gross Adverts

[BlueEyedBogWitch]

It started with little kids on the toilet with their pants round their ankles, holding their noses.

Then there was the one with a woman farting at work and then scurrying to the bathroom clutching a bog roll.

I think I reached the nadir last night when I was subjected to an advert for razors which treated me to the sight of a man bending down with his back to the camera and his hand under his dressing gown, shaving his sack and crack.

I mean, that might not be the nadir. Maybe next time they’ll drop the dressing down, and I can feast my eyes on his arsehole winking at me while it gets a short back and sides.

At this rate I’ll have to clear all the crap off my kitchen table and start eating like a civilised human again.

AIBU, or are adverts getting increasingly foul?

Nope you're not being unreasonable...they are getting out and out worse! Even the period ones are going too far now 🙄

I think that might be where it started. Remember “Get it up there, girls!” ?

The boundaries are getting pushed further and further, to the point where they’re knocking me sick now.

YANBU. There's a full body deodorant one which is rank too. Not to mention that it's a stupid, needless, and damaging product.

Yep...! I remember when the adverts could only show blue not red now its In Your Face at teatime 🙈

I thought you were going to be talking about the chewing gum (I think, because I can’t actually bear to watch) advert where the person has a whole mouth in their forehead that talks and they feed it. It’s so fucking gross and weird.

There used to be an advert for Sanex body wash which zoomed in on a naked person showering. As it zoomed in the skin turned into thousands of naked humans writing around. The visuals of it make me feel so unnerved. It was horrible.

Note - I do have Tripophobia which explains my deep loathing of these ads, but they’re grim regardless

I really don’t see the problem with this. I was just thinking the other day how refreshing it is that advertisers no longer have to use blue liquid to represent menstrual blood. Why should something experienced by half the people who have ever lived to adulthood be something to be ashamed of or disguised?

I have a problem with it being over used- got no issue with necessary openness for the benefit especially of younger girls who need to know how things work but literally like everything else its going too far now. Personal opinion probably.

I’m not bothered about red period blood; if we have to see it, it might as well be red.

I don’t understand why we have to see it at all, though. Loo paper and nappies manage to advertise without showing what they’re there to soak up.

Up to now, anyway…

It's the "oh my gush" moments one that makes me shudder. It's great that periods are not whispered about and boys are taught about them and all the rest of it, but I can't stand this "come on girls, you know what I mean" tone. I don't like it when women over share the biological details of their flow, cramps, peri / menopause symptoms in the staffroom at work either. I just stay quiet. There's online anonymous forums if needed for advice or "is this normal" concerns, or absolute best friend types, but it feels like now everyone is supposed to be fine hearing about everything..it's unnecessary. Let's retain some privacy and dignity.

Along with the ones advertising incontinence pads or sanitary towels....oh my gush!!! Then checking after....but the man shaving his bits is the absolute worst.

Nothing is taboo these days. I hate these adverts too, especially the mouth in the forehead.
I suppose the point is that everybody farts, some more than others, should we be quite so ashamed of it? My Aunt has had chronic constipation all her life, because she was too embarrassed to use the toilet at her work in the 1960’s, held it in all day.
Having said that, every work toilet I have ever used has had loo roll in it… the idea of walking through the office cradling your own roll is a different type of cringe from just taking a shit at work..
Also, l loved the Andrex puppy, ( that creepy koala though.. ugh!)

We've always muted the ads since I was a kid so I've never really seen them. They're not something you watch, they're like an excuse for a tea break.

Why do you watch them? Why do you leave the sound on?

The dancing Pepso Bismol people. “Diarrhoea!”

To be fair, the adverts pay for the programmes, I’m not saying that I’m up my arse enough to say you should watch them for that reason, but you should at least be aware that nothing costs nothing.

I saw that razor ad yesterday too and thought the same thing as you OP. No redeeming qualities, not funny or clever with it, just gross.

Same! We always used to mute them and I still do that now. It’s nice to have a pause from the noise for a minute or two and there’s absolutely no need to watch the adverts!

I feel the same about that Sanex one!! Couldn't watch it. Made me feel disgusted.

Now this commercial has a little bit of a charm to it: the wink the chap gives, plus the Welsh accent and bottom cluck - makes me laugh

That one came know while I was eating dinner. Gross

I think its largely indicative of the increasing reduction in boundaries, privacy and standards.

All very boring to some people but I think it has an emotional impact on how we interact and manage ourselves as a society. We're pretty emotionally incontinent, lacking in resilience, very poor MH, this isnt because we're all more in tune or in touch with our emotional health, its quite the opposite, and it might not seem connected but a breaking down of boundaries and taboos is part of that in my view.

Humans need structure and rules. We're just big children after all.

I’m not overly keen on bulky pee pants. Those men singing about diarrhoea nor the kid going to the loo at school with a loo roll & everyone is clapping.

It’s the kid farting at school and crop dusting his way to the toilet with a big roll in his hand that’s makes me feel gross

The one with the men playing basketball and the crotch smelling

Yes! Foul!

I haven’t been treated to this yet, thankfully.

FFS.