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?

😂!

I draw the line at the BBC though 😁 .

I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I pay, £16 per month, so I don’t have to see any adverts. I think it’s worth it!

If anything, I might have wondered why they didn’t just use plain water, give that the object of the exercise was to show how much liquid the product can absorb. It never occurred to me that red was needed, to point out what we all already knew, i.e. that the product was designed to absorb menstrual blood.

If she's so worried about her soggy Tena, surely she could just change it for a new one!

It’s like sex in dramas. We all know what sex is. We can watch them close the bedroom door or just sink into an embrace. We don’t have to see naked arses thrusting. We know what blood is, we know what menstruation is, I just don’t want to look at realistic used sanitary pads or tampons when I’m relaxing on my sofa after work.

I have absolutely no idea how on earth this one is allowed on the tv - it hairs me feel so sick

Serious for the spondoolicks, as my dad would say.

"I went to RADA FFS!'

I used to work in a call centre and a few of my colleagues were bit part actors who did adverts. I am just imagining his colleagues in the call centre ripping the piss out of him.

I'm also wanting to know the name of the copywriter and art director so I can stan them! 🤣

The full body deodorant ones are really ick. Close ups of sweaty bits with "hilarious" slang words. FGS if you stink, go and have a wash, don't make it worse with a mixture of sweat and artificial scent!

Natalie Portman perfume adverts I agree are awful too. Dancing on the dinner table with her mucky feet and trashing designer dresses jumping in the sea "for love". One of the earlier ones showed her slapping and shouting at her partner- oh yes, domestic violence, how romantic!

One of my favourite adverts was the Chicken Tonight one with the panda falling off a wall and going "ooo me conkers!" I used to laugh my head off, although I've no idea why a panda was advertising chicken casseroles.

"How is it undignified to discuss periods? Is it undignified to discuss migraines, or a bad back?

I'm glad the world has moved on - for some of us."

That's a ridiculous comparison and you know it. A period is a function that involves the discharge of bodily fluids.
No one is complaining about the inclusion of a woman saying "ouchie, I've got cramps" so not comparable to head or back ache. It's imagery relating to body fluids, unnecessary close ups of crotches and underwear.

It's more comparable to other bathroom related bodily functions. Almost all of the population do it, it's normal, no one should be ashamed. But it's still private and no one wants or needs to see a realistic representation of related products.

We all know how toilet paper works for example. An ad might say this loo roll is thick and gentle but ultra strong and absorbent. We understand, thanks for the info. We don't need to physically see something brown on the flipping paper to understand 😆

My dad used to get the rage at an advert with cartoon sailors in a gravy boat singing In The Gravy. He said it popped into his mind at Sunday lunch and made him feel sick.

100% this.

Oh good Lord yes! I don't want to think who has been in a bed before I have!!

My daughter and I both commented on the razor one. The close up of someone’s stubbly pubic area.

They think they’re being ‘authentic’ and people will appreciate it. In reality though, we all know we fart and stuff, we’re not embarrassed, but it doesn’t mean we want to see it on TV

My mum (who's 79 now) used to rant about the adverts for washing powder, featuring ecstatic housewives enthusing about how white it got their whites, and how bright it made their coloureds. Like anyone with a half a life seriously gave a shit.

A lot stuff on screens is grim these days. We're increasingly back to books and printed newspapers in a bid to escape it all

That might be the one that has just appeared in New Zealand. The theme is whatever you call them. An unnecessary product and I do wonder how safe it is for women especially after the talc revelations.

I hear ya.

Agree! There are some very prim people around!

Some people have the sensitivities of a drunken navvie and are offended by nothing, nor see any reason to respect others’ sensitivities (how old fashioned).

Can't bear the advert where the woman sings 'Last night a Tampax [def not a DJ] saved my life' . It's not even funny .

Society is getting more disgusting

I'm not sure if a tampon has ever saved a woman's life. If she were haemorrhaging it would be fuck all use. More like caused deaths, in the case of TSS. What a shite premise for an advert. Or maybe I've had a sense of humour bypass.

Wow, it definitely seems I’m not alone!

No and I'm sick of seeing vaginas and ass cheeks in public. But mums net tells you to shut up and put up with it

Yes, the man shaving his bits is too much.

I dont want my eyes and ears assaulted when I'm watching adverts.

I think common decency has gone out of the window. This week alone, Ive seen naked bum cheeks on people walking down the street or in shops (one wearing shorts, the other wearing a mini skirt on the tube escalators).