Shall we have a thread about adverts we hate...?

[babyignoramus]

Probably been done before, but anyhoo -

I hate that volvic challenge advert. 'Volcanic goodness' - it's water for chrissakes.
And that advert for 'chicken' bites where the guy appears to transform into the cowardly lion.

NB this does not negate the fact that I despise all adverts. These ones are just particularly high on my list!!

Has no-one mentioned the T-mobile ones? Where the person is miming to 'When I rule the world'.
I really, really hate them. Cannot bloody stand them.

They aren't ads, exactly, but I hate the knorr sauces sponsorship bits before and after Home and Away. The ones where a superior mumsy type is using the sauce in a jar to make a delicious meal whilst a hapless and incompetant bloke is trying to make the same sauce out of actual raw ingredients!! 'Cos only an idiot would try to cook from raw.

The pooing at Paul's advert makes me want to scream. As do:

The hairdye one with the hooker shoes, because I hate the song Bette Davis Eyes and because the woman shouldn't be made to feel bad by a couple of shop assistants.

The insurance ads featuring Iggy Pop, 'time to riiiiiiiide' or whatever.

The oven cleaning plastic bags advert that basically says 'Men are all thick but even they will be able to clean an oven now.'

Any ads that are so 'artistic' that their content has no connection with the product it's selling. The gorilla playing drums Cadbury's one springs to mind.

lol at the made up names of products - bifidus digestivum etc.

I remember an ad for face cream featuring the beautious Claudia Schiffer where the magic new ingredient was called Boswellox. Boswellox!. It reminded me of the scousers in Bread.

I second the hatred for Iggy Pop.

The (only shown on daytime) ones for life insurance for the elderly featuring June Whitfield get on my nerves, as well. They are clearly designed to put the fear of god into old people about having enough money to pay for their funeral etc. June Whitfield should be ashamed of herself (that's her crossed off my National Treasure list).

All the Churchill ads with that stoopid nodding stuffed dog who says 'Ooooooh yes'. Sets my teeth on edge.

That woman who meets her four friends for lunch and tells them about her really hard poo takes a lot of beating for naffness.

I also detest the BT couple. On, off, on, off, on, off. And why has he booked tickets for Rome now anyway?

gibbersih - oh I love those adverts. He has such a lovely face and they are funny. Mind you, I like dogs so they all have lovely faces.

nannyogg, you make me larf! And I agree with you - pizza off the floor or nothing, boyo!

hehe evenbetadad. Would be boring if we all liked and hated the same things. I have to admitting to loving some of the ads that have been mentioned on here. The gorilla playing the drums one for starters

But the Paul poo one I have to agree with

The mens' deodorant one where he hold the door open for a female colleague and they exchange flirty lingering looks and she has to practically scrape her body against his to squeeze through the doorway, then the ad eventually ends with him at home with the kids and his wife.

So wear this product if you want to have a sneaky bit on the side at work.

That Peugeot advert where that women tries to be sexy in the car showroom 'we have it in noir' grrrrrr

ErnestTheBavarian - agree with you about that stupid advert - its so cheesy.

PuppyMonkey, yes the BT adverts are so irritating. 'We're getting marrieeeeed'

Whoopydodah! You've been living together for how long? So why would your parents act as though your certain death has just been saved by the mother of all miracles? I could understand it if she was telling her family that she was pregnant for the first time but it's hardly a whirlwind romance marriage proposal. The news surely doesn't warrant breaking down in tears and acting as though it's a gargantuan surprise.

I've got a new version of that bloody constipation one so they don't have to have a grown woman looking as if she's never heard of constipation and doesn't know what it is (it was all hard and uncomfortable - puzzled look - fuck off you silly cow, fuck right off).

Anyway, here it is:

Woman walks into chi-chi cafe meeting friends (3?), dumps designer bag down on table and says "Bloody hell, I'm bloody constipated again". Friends all laugh uproariously while friend no 1's little one says in cute lisp that makes you want to kill her/him "what'th conthtipathion mummy?" Friends 2 and 3 look around at assembled chi-chi cafe other customers, smirking while friend no 1 wonders how to handle this without having to find a hole in the floor to hide in. Decides to tough it out. "It's when your poo gets all hard and uncomfortable to push out darling" Constipated woman is glad the eyes are no longer on her (and very glad that she doesn't have to pretend to be an idiot any more).

Ghastly lisping child "my poo'th like that"
Constipated woman "what on earth can I do?"

All together now:

Eat more fruit and veg, drink more water, you fuckwit.

Everyone laughs uproariously.

Excuse language, but I really hate that ad.

www.visit4info.com/advert/Pizza-Tricks-Fix-with-Vanish-Vanish-Range/72363

I challenge any mum to stay that composed and even to smile in such a situation!