Adverts that drive you mad

[andthesunshineband]

Sky Sports ads with a bad ass mofo telling us about forthcoming games in a south London street cred accent.

Skayyyyyy Spawwwts

 

[Kippaxpete]

Now I'm retired I watch far too much daytime TV but I'm utterly sick to back the teeth of
a) adverts for pre-paid funerals or "guaranteed payment" life insurance
b) Adverts for 'charities' who want £x per month to save whatever
c) anything advertised by Eamon Holmes, his wife or Philip Schofield - seeing them advertise anything ensures I would never ever consider buying it
I mute them all or turn to another channel

It's what the mute button was invented for!

 

[urban genie]

Now I'm retired I watch far too much daytime TV but I'm utterly sick to back the teeth of
a) adverts for pre-paid funerals or "guaranteed payment" life insurance
b) Adverts for 'charities' who want £x per month to save whatever
c) anything advertised by Eamon Holmes, his wife or Philip Schofield - seeing them advertise anything ensures I would never ever consider buying it
I mute them all or turn to another channel

Are sun life still going strong, and do you still get a free pen?

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

Generally any with talking animals or babies, ukuleles or whistling.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

That job one with the redhead yank talking to her granny

Does my fucking head in that too.

Looking forward to the follow-up where her granny's dead and the woman isn't allowed to go to the funeral because the boss in her new dream job is a massive ****.

 

[the blue panther]

Deodorant adverts that try to outdo each other.....
As if any fucker has ever woken up on a Wednesday morning, had a quick whiff off their pits and thought…Still smelling fresh. That Lynx Africa I put on Monday morning is still good for another day yet.

I resemble that remark!

 

[old blue]

Are sun life still going strong, and do you still get a free pen?

Parkinson took them all home with him.

 

[mexico1970]

Knott Mill carpets had a sale going for about 20 years constantly, they never even bothered to change their adverts.

Joy division filmed the video "Love will tear us apart again" in their warehouse in Manchester.

 

[snorky]

Garth Crooks doing a spazdance waiting for his chubby nosh to be delivered.

 

[BlueRodent]

Just about any ad with people singing, especially the one with the woman complaining about her room smelling like an armpit!

 

[SJT]

 

[Koniec]

Every advert annoys me. I don’t buy almost any of the things advertised. And if I did an advert won’t swing it.

I do enjoy American medicine adverts. The side effects disclaimers in the ads are hilarious. One genuinely said “may cause death”.

 

[Gogootz]

Does my fucking head in that too.

Looking forward to the follow-up where her granny's dead and the woman isn't allowed to go to the funeral because the boss in her new dream job is a massive ****.

Elon Musk likes this

 

[Barcon]

I don't usually pay much attention to them but there's one over here that comes on during the world cup games.
It's for Adidas. Shows a load of football players getting on a bus.
The ad itself isn't a problem but the **** driving the bus can't speak English and mumbles his way through the ad.
I suppose I'm suppose to know who he is but I don't. If I was to take a guess, I'd say it's Lukaku.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Deodorant adverts that try to outdo each other. It started off at 12 hours protection I think and even that is clearly bullshit. But then it went to 24, 48 and now 72 fucking hours.

As if any fucker has ever woken up on a Wednesday morning, had a quick whiff off their pits and thought…Still smelling fresh. That Lynx Africa I put on Monday morning is still good for another day yet.

The new version of razor ads.

The new Wilkinson Sword Mega Ultramax Superbastard Deluxe Razor, with 37 blades and sixteen gallons of moisturiser squashed into the little sponge!

 

[Marklr]

Bullshit. It's just not done.

 

[laserblue]

The AirBnB ad with the Yeti family.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

The Jet 2 one with the overly cheerful woman voiceover.

I get it, you’re selling tacky package holidays to Benidorm and that’s the sort of lowest common denominator tone that works for that sort of customer, but it’s still annoying as fuck.

 

[bluetonium]

There's an ad for a new TV series out now, Otto, that keeps popping up on my podcasts.

The advert repeatedly has people saying Otto but with American accents, so it sounds like Oddo, and at the end they say, that's (spelled) O-T-T-O. No idea if it's a joke on the accent or lack of self awareness, but it grinds my gears.

And just to prove my dislike of certain accents / pronunciations isn't just confined to outside the UK, so does that 'Air Up' advert with the savvern lady... "What the hell is air ap? It's a bottwl" Yep. End of and I'm not paying a tenner or more for one, now piss off.

A new one is for a car manufacturer, it may be Mercedes. They go on about how they are changing the way you will buy and use cars and have roped famous names into chatting it up in their adverts and they sound about as genuine as a new signing at the rags claiming he still wears giggys pyjamas at night. Amazing things like a new navigation system that can make your journeys more efficient by detecting faster routes and traffic jams. Because that definitely doesn't already exist for free. May as well have painted a big sign and put it up at their HQ saying "Mercedes, pay us for stuff you could get free elsewhere".

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Every advert annoys me. I don’t buy almost any of the things advertised. And if I did an advert won’t swing it.

I do enjoy American medicine adverts. The side effects disclaimers in the ads are hilarious. One genuinely said “may cause death”.

And that's if you're quick enough to hear them let alone read them