Adverts we hate

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I've started this one because of something someone said on another thread about overly sexualised advertising.

My prize idiot award this week goes to the TV exec who thought that running a program about matchmaking with the tag line "25 eager beavers - 1 lucky Jim" was humorous in an ironic, post modern way.

My other pet hate is the "look, my tampon looks like a sweet so that I will not be humiliated by the fact that you know I have periods" advert. Oh yes, that's a fantastic message to be giving to young women - a natural part of your life is so shameful that no one must know. (I had hoped we had progressed beyond having to hide tampons - although it took many weeks of negotiation to get DH to add tampons to shopping when he went).

Bring back the blue dye ..............

Oh I like the Halifax ones - mainly because the people are real people - ie. are really Halifax employees rather than overpaid glamorous actors/singers !! I like the fact that they're not perfect and I like the songs they use !

Sorry to disagree - but I do really like them !

Pot Noodles !!!! Well - the product stinks so the marketing is bound to be c**p too ! I hate them !

Scatterbrain - Do you really think they are real employees? I always assumed they were just actors. There's quite a market for 'normal' looking ones apparantly!!

I also hate the Pot Noodle ads, and the one for Bueno chocolate bars with the slogan 'I'll be whatever you want me to be' YEEEUUCHHH

Yes they definitely are Lynne33 - I saw a programme on TV about it a year or so back - they advertise within the company and hold auditions to get the best ones.

A friend of mine claims to use the branch that the first one managed (the black guy with glasses).

The radio ones for Jolly Phonics. I'm not sure if they are all idiots or they think we are. The man sounds so dull. They're on Capital in the afternoon. R

The Britta water filter ones. What would that woman be doing with that man? And why do they talk to each other like that?

I'm not sure what it's an advert for (dd2 says it's for tissues), but I'm very disturbed by the fact my 2 (aged 3 & 5) are going around singing "T-t-t-touch me, I want to be dirty". Of course they don't know it as anything but an advert, but I remember it from "Rocky Horror", and they certainly weren't singing about household hygiene.

The man talking about pigs.
Any Halifax one.
The ones about pads for women who 'leak'.
Anything with pretend plaque being scraped from pretend teeth.
The lady's hair on the one where she says 'That's good considering you only went with them cos they were cheap' when her fella has bumped the car.

Oh yes, and the one where the woman is washing her hair and going, 'it something something in a way I never thought possible' 'yes, yes, YES' Her bloke thinks she is talking about him but she is moaning on about the shampoo.

Do you know the one I mean, I haven't censored it, I just can't remember the words

Too many Blue Lagoons the night before shooting, maybe. But yes, you're right, steer well clear!

I think these may already have been mentioned, but the terrible new "Live Unlimited" ones for Ikea. Arghhhhhhhhh!

i hate that clean and clear wipes ad with the 2 girls in the changing rooms! I just want to slap them!!