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?

Having worked in the industry I can assure you there’s not some puppet master trying to create deviants of us all. Usually, there’s a hapless marketing director at best….

The toleration of bad standards is as bad as the promotion of such. The outcome is the same. It's always top down.

This.
I feel sorry for the poor actors who probably studied drama and dance to end up in that ad.

5 star constantly show adverts for skin a & e around meal times

Gross

Well everybody shits but I don't want to see brown stuff in loo roll ads, and everyone has snot and mucus, I don't want to see green slime on screen depicting this either.
What's your argument here, because it's women we need to see depictions of blood and piss on the telly every 10 mins or its somehow misogynistic?
I don't find it refreshing in the least.

I hate the ones for 'lower body deodorant'. I think there's a Lynx one and a Sure one. The Sure one is the worst.

The one with the smiling woman, then close up to see the muck between her teeth..I think it must be for dental floss but it makes me feel sick.

I assume that the manufacturers want to show how much liquid - blood - a pad will absorb. This is not an issue with loo roll or tissues so showing poo or snot is unnecessary.

Did you object during the years when they showed blue liquid being poured into the pads? Or is it just the more realistic red you object to?

Do they pour yellow and brown (or green YMMV) onto nappies?

No, just liquid, liquid you can see so yo can see how much it absorbs, usually coloured blue.

But changed it to red for some reason for women. Why is that?

More the red I object to, do we not all know blood is red? Shit is brown? Mucus can be green? It's all gross to see and unnecessary. What does it add to the ad?

Sitting down with a chilli and immediately on cones a Welsh guy yelling Diarrhoea!

It's on in the mornings, I can't stand it. What the hell is that supposed to be in her mouth, it looks like cat litter, I always look away now.

What does it add? Realism. Pouring blue liquid on the pads always looked ridiculously coy, imo, as if periods were always something to be ashamed of and keep hidden.

The trouble is, their ad has worked because we’re talking about it and it has raised awareness of the brand and the uses of the product.

Why do we need to see any liquid at all? Thankfully the incontinent woman advert doesn't show us urine soaking in.....yet.

Like they pour blue liquid into nappies and continence products?

Wheres the shame there?

There isnt, it was something that some women got on an illogical bandwagon about while real issues continued to be a problem. A red herring

Whereas we should be splashing it all over the telly? Totally unnecessary.
Nobody should be ashamed of their periods, that would be ridiculous, but no need to show it like some badge of honour. Every woman has them, its no big deal.

But has it? I've no idea what the name of the product is in many of these cases.

And how bloody catchy that tune is! I keep catching myself singing it 😬

I hate the Andrex school one - I’ve got a good sense of humour normally but I just can’t stand the close up of the fart, the mate pulling his finger, the chanting… the plop!! Ugh!!

I also really dislike the one with the party with the child under the table sucking the chocolate off the nuts whilst wiping her nose, meaning the chap catches her lurgy

Ever heard of people making mistakes? And actually, not everybody 'knows that' - e.g. see Naked Attraction.

You are right.
I hate the deodorant one with a passion. It has people sniffing bottoms and arm pits. Just gross.
Everytime it comes on it makes me feel sick.
if they are doing it to get people to notice their products it won’t work with me !