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to want to scream at that stupid commercial

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EarthMotherImNot · 25/02/2010 08:03

Perle-du-lait, what the hell kind of witchcraft is it?

The dowdy woman looking crumpled and grey eating her nasty yogurt suddenly becomes a good foot taller with a smoothly ironed top and a funny light shining from her as soon as she tucks into the good stuff.

Yeah right

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YanknCock · 25/02/2010 17:20

Oh, and is Martine wearing nearly the same outfit in that ad (complete with beret) that she's wearing at the end of Love Actually? I'm sure she is, to remind everyone 'I was in a movie a while ago'

Poshpaws · 25/02/2010 17:22

Iklboo's 'Grapes be gone' had me PMSL

The Cash for Gold one with the man with the mad eyes.

And as for the Glade pebble one

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 25/02/2010 17:23

Aaargh the "have a happy period" one - is there a woman in the entire land who doesn't retort "no YOU have a happy period, now FUCK OFF"?? What were they thinking, really? I mean periods can be ok, or they can be vomit-inducingly painful - what they canNOT do is make you happy.

Really, please, does anyone understand this madness?

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 25/02/2010 17:26

"If a friend started showing me her collection of artfully arranged rocks, I'm afraid I'd have to take the largest one and cave her smug skull in with it.

When my sister was studying geology she wasn't even that banal."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

YanknCock · 25/02/2010 17:27

Does anyone NOT want to punch the guy who says 'WONGA!!' in that phone recycling thing?

Incidentally, moneysavingexpert.com has a nifty little application so you can check which phone recycling service will give you the most money. I love Martin Lewis.

DorisIsAPinkDragon · 25/02/2010 17:31

The wonga.com one drive me mad, apart from his irritaing smug grin the APR of 2000 and something percent makes me scream at the tv everytime arggggghhhh loan sharks now on a tv near you. It (and all the bingo ads) are just a small slice ofwhat is so wrong with our society!!

Sorry I realise this was quite an amusing thread till I stuck my oar in !!!

TulipsInTheRain · 25/02/2010 18:31

DavidTennant.... i just saw that one too and ran over to add it to this thread

trice · 25/02/2010 18:49

I hate that pink bingo advert with an overweight obviously stupid woman on who jumps into a swimming pool full of pink floating balls. If you are dim, poor, overweight and unattractive then you too can be fleeced out of your meagre earnings by pink bingo dot com.

StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 25/02/2010 19:02

Great minds think alike, Tulips!

darksideofthemooncup · 25/02/2010 19:13

YanknCock The pink stripy pant woman is for Adios. They also ran an ad of a young girl with her mother for the same product which was equally irritating

BooyhooNOTboohoooORbooyou · 25/02/2010 19:23

"get the milk in mum"

hate hate hate.

dont know if it shows in eng, scot and wales but i hate it. why is it always mum taht has to think of everything? why cant 17 year old danny get it on his way back from footie practise or dad get it because mums in her jammies and he is already outside chatting with the niegbour. why always mum?

sorry . it affects me more than it should.

NormalityBites · 25/02/2010 19:42

How has noone mentioned the Cow and Gate 8/10 toddlers don't get enough iron one? Drives me batty. Same with the 'so easy only a man can do it' - that's not funny, that's sexism Don't get me started on 'I want to do a poo at Paul's'....

Well fuck off to Paul's then

Rebeccaruby · 25/02/2010 20:39

BooHooMonkey says her TV is behind piles of unwanted gold she doesn't want. Maybe it was put there by somebody else. Maybe she could trip over it. In which case it would be An Accident Which Wasn't Her Fault. She'd be in the money twice over!

Is anybody else annoyed by the accident compensation claim where the woman is carrying a box and says that there was plastic strapping left all over the floor? And then there is a close up of her feet and she has three inch heels on? Like you would turn up to a job carrying boxes in a messy warehouse in those!

YanknCock · 25/02/2010 21:04

oh thank you darkside! All I could remember was the tune she dances around to....Burn baby burn....

I am also very irked by the one for the lotto with the skinny dipping couple. The message I take from that one is, 'If you're stupid enough to risk hypothermia and probably death by swimming on a deserted beach with no lifeguard in subzero temperatures....you're the perfect idiot to pick up a lottery ticket!'

ProzacTheGiggleFairy · 25/02/2010 21:24

The most disturbing ad I have seen recently is for a set of puppies to go with Barbie.

Will it be puppy poo or puppy pee?

Why would you want that

cyteen · 26/02/2010 10:05

Prozac, that just makes me think of Danny in Withnail & I, talking about his plans to make a doll that shits itself: "it's horrible, really, but they like that, the little girls."

TulipsInTheRain · 26/02/2010 10:10

Prozac... even my very pink, girlie, barbie and puppy obsessed dd was at that one!

normality... dp has to listen to me rant every time that ad is one.... and the laughing babies one.... yes, because clearly a baby that is capable of laughing is in 100% perfect health and is never going to get sick ever thus proving that formula is superior to breastmilk

bandgeek · 26/02/2010 10:16

Ha! There is a sign on our bandhall bog saying 'Don't have a poo here, have a poo at Pauls!'

I'm glad someone else mentioned the Dale Winton ones. He needs to eat a few burgers and lay off the fake tan.

Most perfume adverts annoy the shit out of me. So pointless!

Fimblehobbs · 26/02/2010 10:18

I like We Buy Any Carrr Dot Com!

I hate the one with the baby telling everyone to be quiet. I think its for Pizza Hut. I can't watch it. yuk.

officialimjones · 16/08/2010 15:32

your all wonderful ppl on here :) just to let you know i'm a guy and yes we do go to the loo and no i dont drink WKD its a girls drink? lol Grin

just read the long line of comments and no one mentioned the very irritating windscreen advert with 'Steve' from autoglass its not to bad until he says 'and we will even do the boring papework for you' wtf? i should hope so too WITH THE ECCESS I JUST HAD TO PAY!.... it comes across as there doing you a favour for delaying the inevitable of replacing the screen. GGrrr

top 10 anoying advert are:

  1. Adiós advert

  2. Senacot advert

  3. lorel ( miss tweedy)

  4. stupid babys laughing (milk + Iron)

  5. The Gaviscon advert with the girl canoeing

  6. Glade (pebbles)

  7. Pantie liner advert (happy? yeah right ive never met a girl thats had a happy one there all evil!! nevermind pads or towels give them morphine sulphate! )

  8. any super stylish enhanced hair product advert with scientific crappy virtual images..Mmm

  9. singing insurance ad with the silly tash and socks (CANT SAY IT ITS THAT BAD)

  10. the winer is ........

those perls (dont know what they are but the advert is wrong) im guessing they are inserted? Mmmmm shocking and the young girl seems a bit slutty? think her halo has slipped. and mothr nature? who thinks of these things...

Myleetlepony · 16/08/2010 15:50

Anything with Boswelox in, or ProRetinolA, or any other freakin' fancy pseodo-scientific rubbish that claims to smooth your face out.

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emptyshell · 16/08/2010 16:05

I'm in the middle of moving my bank account in protest over the flipping Halifax adverts (both Howard and the new ones)!

Noteable mention for "poo at Paul's house" - well Paul's mum's a bit thick having half the kids in the street coming to her house to have a dump isn't she? Don't buy the air-freshner = have an un-stinky bog!

Worst one "Can you afford to GUESS your pregnancy test result?" Well yes, you've got a 50% chance of getting it right anyway and one line or two line is hardly flipping rocket science is it?!

Oh and any one with a doting mother being a patient eye rolling door mat while the kids/husband do what they feel like and act arkwardly. We really haven't moved on from the 1950s have we guys?!

kelly2525 · 16/08/2010 17:25

I know this is an old thread, but those fucking "wash it with fabreeze" adverts wind me up, as do those Slugger Cole adverts for shampoo and conditioner, the ones where it says at the bottom of the screen she is wearing hair extensions, same goes for mascara adverts when they have false lashes on

RandyRussian · 16/08/2010 17:25

And the pregnancy tester that helps you get pregnant.

HOW precisely??