Your all time most HATED television advert.

[howdidthishappenthen]

I'll start. The tampon one from a few years ago where man & woman are sitting in an outside cafe, and she drops a pink wrapped min-tampon from her purse, and he hands it back to her thinking it's a sweet. FFS. If he doesn't yet know she menstruates, he's prob not ready for a sexual relationship.

Your turn..

[sethstarkaddersmum]

Flibberti - oh I so agree! If you eat Special K you will be hungry again in half an hour, it will NOT help you lose weight!

[SpringHeeledJack]

oh I hate that one grottie

especially the fucking pilot

[grottielottie]

Virgin Atlantic (the "retro" one with the air hostesses).

Would love to give that Branson bloke a kick up the arse.

[flibbertigibbert]

Special K and their sodding diet. I hate the fact that intelligent women that I know have fallen for it and done the Special K challenge. That cereal is just sugary crap - have some porridge and fruit for breakfast and soup for lunch if you want to lose weight, not something with the nutritional value of cardboard.

[chocolatestar]

That Coleen boot camp one.

[wukter]

Snuppeline that's for Corsydol (sp) mouthwash.
Doesn't matter how pert your bum is if your mouth belongs to an old toothless hag.

I think. Well, let's make sure. Let me see your bum. Hmm yes.

[MrsClown]

The recent Spec Savers ad with the guy on the beach and about 10000 women in bikinis really annoys me.

[Snuppeline]

Not sure what the product is for but the advert where there is a naked woman in a field of hay (or sommat) and the camera goes all up her legs and bum and then stops with her face. She smiles and has black teeth. If the ad is about teeth show the bloody teeth not the bum. I get it. You want to show that said woman has bad teeth but is still pretty. Buy our toothpaste or whatever and you'll not risk same fate. Guess what, you could have had better effect if you spared me her bum and just showed her face. Would have dunnit see. Not sure why that advert is allowed, must be stretching the point surely.

[Poshpaws]

believe

[Poshpaws]

Special K ones - not very large model looks in the mirror/shop window and agonises over her weight.

Eats a bowl of Special K and voila - not much difference in weight, but we are led to beleive she is happier and has a better social life/boyfriend/job because she has 'lost weight' .

[TheJollyPirate]

The Galaxy ad which basically says all women are chocolate addicts who have to hide their stash of....... oh wait a minute

Has anyone mentioned the ad yet where the women are in raptures about the walk in wardrobe while the men in the same flat are high fiving one another over the walk in beer fridge ?

[ShatnersBassoon]

I really hated that one for Mexican food somethings, where the woman is on the phone, being awful about her poor husband who is trying to cook tea for the ungrateful cow: 'Yeah, and now he's pouring summat in the pan, the great bastard idiot'.

Really it's any advert where the point they're trying to get across is 'Grr, those bloody useless men might be useless at everything, but even they will be able to suss out what to do with this shit we're peddling'.

[Faaamily]

Here come the girls!

FUCK OFF

[PuppyMonkey]

Getorf... I came on this thread to add the Halifax icer icer baby woman. WTF are the ads supposed to be saying? They infuriate me to the point of actually being capable of commiting murder.

The BT couple are also getting on my tits a bit now. Something not right about their relationship IMHO.

[CatIsSleepy]

well the current Iceland one is bloody appalling and goes on forever, finishing up with a shot of jason donovan in suspenders-bleuuuugh!!!!

[thumbwitch]

Currently:
We have one here in Australia - can't find it on Youtube - for tampons (Liberty). Women in the supermarket going craaaazzeeeee - hair tearing, screaming, fainting - as though Take That or the BEatles had come to town! All over a friggin tampon. We're supposed to be thrilled because they've been repackaged into boxes of 4 (WHY? for the love of God, who only needs 4?) and each one has a (wait for it) different pattern on its cellophane wrapper! Whooo!


I hate the WKD ones, or Pepsi Zero or whichever is the one where the bloke tricks the girl into sleeping with him in the bar.

But my all-time most hated ad was for AOL, with Connie. Her voice set my teeth on edge (I realise it's not anti-feminist though).

[GetOrfMoiLand]

Those BASTARDS on the Halifax ads.

The isa isa baby woman

And the one where 'Lucky You' is being played and someone drops a mug of tea. WHY?

I hate them and would refuse to bank with halifax on principle.

[pinkthechaffinch]

That Mikado one with the woman accidentally photocopying her genitalia whilst being leered at by her boss. Grrrrr

[NicknameTaken]

This man asks the Italian woman next door to rustle up a tasty supper for a date and then announces that she's the date.

He's just never going to lift a finger ever, is he? Look down the years to come and tremble, woman.

[Unprune]

David Mitchell made a point once (on QI?) about the germ-killing hysteria: that whatever germs are lurking about at home are in the main absolutely fine since we're not all puking or dying from dirty worktop.

[StayingDavidTennantsGirl]

The soap dispenser one makes me furious too - after all, you are going to wash your hands after dispensing the soap, so it doesn't matter if you pick up germs from the soap dispenser, does it??! And anyhow, you are going to have to touch the taps, which everyone else will have touched with their germy hands, so it doesn't matter a single flying fuck if your dispenser is automatic.

I know it is not a feminist issue, but my most hated advert is:

"YOU BUY ONE, YOU GET ONE FREE - I SAID YOU BUY ONE YOU GET ONE FREE!!!!!!!!"

If I want to buy double glazing, I shall not be buying it from a madman who shouts at me!

[msrisotto]

I've probably linked this a million times but it's spot on

[Unprune]

I've never worked out WHY we have had over the past decade a slew of adverts depicting men as useless in the home.
It's insulting to men (and inaccurate). But that's not my main point.
If it were the other way around, depicting women as stereotypically crap at, say, DIY or car maintenance, with a man rolling his eyes and thrusting some Polyfilla at his woman - we'd be up in arms. That's not my main point either, really.

It's so fucking patronising to women: telling us it's our job to deal with the poor hapless men who can't clean properly. Why is that ok?

I know advertising people are very clever at tapping into these things (with the exception of whoever makes the Halifax adverts, not a feminist point but god they are execrable) and the format endures, so they must see an improvement in sales.

[wukter]

All the muller yoghurt ads.

[msrisotto]

This Perle de lait advert. don't like it, WHY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ARE YOU EATING IT??????? RAAAAAAAAGHH!