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 think it’s great. It’s trying to get rid of the embarrassment

100% this.

None of these are as bad as MN constantly and relentlessly advertising fag ends on every thread.

If they want people to use the forum and maybe even click on the ads, it might help if they were for something that isn’t utterly revolting and at least useful.

@Bastilee I'm surprised he was allowed to go to the toilet in the first place 😂

I’ve never been embarrassed to go for a crap. I don’t need to witness some drama school reject fart her way round the office to help me confront anything; it just makes me feel sick.

Even if was the type to be embarrassed about bodily functions, I can’t see how watching someone play out my worst case scenario would do anything other than unlock a whole new level of anxiety!

There's nothing wrong with being a bit private about bodily functions. Only absolute twats would make fun of someone if there was an accident, leak, smell or whatever (I'm talking about adults here). I agree with the pp who said we are losing that sense of self control and basic manners really.

The irony in complaining about revolting adverts without resorting to an expletive in just a three word title.

I don't like the one for toilet paper with the boy needing to do a poo at school and everyone cheering him on. It makes me cringe.

The other side of this is, how the hell do you face your mates in the pub after ‘starring’ in one of these?

”How’s the acting going, Sheila? Parp, hehehe”

I never watch anything live that has adverts for this reason. I always record it and start half an hour later.

I didn’t resort to an expletive. I chose it, gleefully.

Maybe some posters here need to unclench and release the gas a bit themselves 💨

Oh phew!
Im glad I’m not the only one who finds the body spray advert offensive.

I also find some of the urinary incontinence pad adverts too near the bone, embarrassing in mixed company, of a woman in her sheer, see-through knickers, pad on show, lifting a child into her arms. I know the condition exists but really? I don’t need it shoved in my face quite like that.

Why don’t we ever see adverts for male incontinence products? Dont men dribble and sometimes lose control of their bladder?

The one I found really gross, but also acceptable as it was the whole point of the advert, was the Channel 4 Change Climate season of TV, which had loads of businessmen and women, and politicians, seemingly engaged in some kind of Bacchanalian orgy while wearing huge white Y-fronts that oozed oil from the bum crack. 'What are they doing about their carbon skid mark?' was the tagline. Very clever advertising IMO.

https://www.4creative.co.uk/work/change-climate

Also, on the tube, a guy spraying deodorant into his pants (in an advert, I mean, not in real life).

Structure and rules don't teach you resilience. Taking risks and failing teaches you resilience. Nothing to do with the thread but this is what I wanted to add.

Makes me laugh that all those people probably dreamt of acting fame when they started at drama school and now they're paying their mortgage by singing abiut diahorrea.

The 'Come Up and See Me' one for Viagra was also 🤢

Yes, the Viagra ones are a bit much for the time they’re on, but I left them out because they don’t actively disgust me.

The stupid chewing gum one is more irritating for the poor English. “Chew good”? What is ‘good’? It’s not a thing I feel equipped to chew. I can chew all kinds of nouns - toast, gum, a steak - but I cannot chew an adjective.

Agreed, OP. I sit in disbelief at the hideous ads they foist on us now. It was bad enough with the deodorant one showing everyone's crotches, feet and whatnot - then they plumbed the depths with the woman in the cinema sniffing the bloke's backside. They’re absolutely gross.

Oh, and yes, the Pepto-Bismol one. Can you imagine being that actor?
'Had any good jobs lately, Fred?'
'Well, yes actually, I gave my Diarrhoea in a Pepto-Bismol ad. Some of my finest work, actually.'

But why?

Personally I can’t stand the Dominos pizza one - couple sharing a bath and the delivery guy comes up out of the water to join them?….its grim and I can’t imagine it makes anyone want to order a takeaway! Bleurghh.

Blimey mumsnet is regressive

Are you genuinely offended by swearing, or do you just feel like passing some time arguing on the internet this morning?

Totally agree. It’s just too much. Shoved in your face. Makes me switch over so totally misses the point of an ad My DD21 was aghast at the new period ones the other day so it’s not just my old fashioned mind.