Creepy Adverts on Television. [1]

That creepy man on the dating website who sticks his tongue out in imitation of a Picasso-esque picture annoys me when I don't look away in time

The Dominoes and Just Eat ads get the volume turned down and that silly Pot Noodle ad with the donkey getting a piggy back, what is that all about.

Doodledog

Grandmabatty

Doodledog Derek!

Yes!

Maybe he is on commission, GSM, or maybe he has got rich by murdering all the local widows he's picked up at the garden centre, pocketing their insurance money and burying them in his parsnip patch.

🤣🤣🤣

Agree Doodledog I know where I'd like to shove Derek's parsnips!
What about that dreadful yodelling one? it makes me want to throw things at the telly

Grandmabatty

Doodledog Derek!

Yes!

Maybe he is on commission, GSM, or maybe he has got rich by murdering all the local widows he's picked up at the garden centre, pocketing their insurance money and burying them in his parsnip patch.

Doodledog Derek!

I do wonder whether they strive to slightly irritate so that you remember the product. After all, if the price is right would we not buy something anyway, whether you’d seen an annoying ad or not.
I find those that leave you completely forgetting what it is they’re advertising the worst, those arty farty ones. But I suppose I do watch them through just to satisfy my irritation about not remembering the product. I can’t give an example as I can’t remember!

I swear that man’s on commission Doodledog, the way he whips his phone out so the woman can apply for insurance.

Oh dear, I thought we moved on from the days when advertising sanitary products was even an issue? And why should the liquid shown be red? I could never understand why it was always blue? The stigma around periods should be a thing of the past now, surely?

Shinamae

The Pure cremation one and… “my lot know how to party”😂😂😂
Verisure alarms….
Daisy,daisy b****y Daisy
All grate on my nerves..🤦‍♀️

Yes, to all of these

The Verisure lot are so selfish - 'Oh, my neighbour has just been hacked to pieces by an axeman.' '
Never mind about that, dear - we'd better get an alarm'.

'Oh hello, neighbour! Look - we've got an alarm fitted.'
'Humph. Can't have that. We'll order one too, so they don't have something we don't.' Not a word of concern or an 'are they ok?'

I agree about the terrible party, too. And the irritating Daisy one.

Has anyone mentioned June and her parsnips? What's the chap's name again? I can't remember, but he mansplains over 50s plans to adoring women and I want to kill him.

The ‘my lot love to party’ chap also has a small independent general dealers and a Verisure alarm.
Advertising agencies must think he has an honest face!

My mind seems to switch off when the adverts come on. The only one that gets my attention briefly at the moment is "Go Compare"

Sparklefizz

Dickens The idea that a mundane household cleaning agent can transform your life is just rather silly. Of course it's nice to put on clean fresh clothes - we do it every day, it's part of life's ritual but it's not going to make or break your 'date' night!

Clean clothes - or lack of - would "make or break a date night^ as far as I'm concerned!

I met someone on a blind date many years ago and he turned up in old worn cords with baggy knees, a stained tee shirt and muddy shoes. We didn't meet again.

Clean clothes - or lack of - would "make or break a date night as far as I'm concerned! ^

... of course! But that's down to personal hygiene... his clothes don't have to smell like he's been stuck all afternoon behind the fragrance-counter in Boots...

Your blind date - I'm just trying to imagine how you must have felt when he introduced himself. Did your mind immediately start planning an emergency "something's-just-cropped-up" escape? Shudder!

Do the Always ads really need the red liquid?

Shinamae - so glad you brought up the "my lot know how to party"! That's a party? 6 assorted age adults and a preschool child? I usually end up 'raising my voice' (aka shouting) "Party? For god's sake that's not a party! " It's one of my most hated ads. The 'pee pants' woman who ends up sitting on someone's shoulders at a concert....,...it's dreadful. Hope she got well paid as she'll forever be known for that ad

my Mum always says, from the adverts on tv you would think only women have continence problems

The viagra on the cruise one makes me cringe

I think that’s the On the Beach one aquagran. Definitely one company to avoid if they’re promoting that family!!

The Pure cremation one and… “my lot know how to party”😂😂😂
Verisure alarms….
Daisy,daisy b****y Daisy
All grate on my nerves..🤦‍♀️

There’s a holiday add with the most obnoxious family. The son teases his sister who has dropped her ice cream, the mum throws her flip flop at a sunbather and the son is seen tucking into doughnuts in the “private “ lounge. I must remember the name of this company to ensure I never travel with them.

I find the one where the donkey gets on the woman's back weird, I think its for pot noodles or something similar.

I agree about the Malteser eating boyfriend Calendargirl he is really creepy.

I'd quite like to wipe the smile off the Jane Plan woman's face!

Thanks for the comments, Grans.

Can I add another creepy one?

The ad for `Qatar Airlines sometimes ends with the hostess smiling at the camera with enough lippy to empty the no. 7 counter at Boots.

With you on the ads for wee-pads. It reminds me of the ads for vaginal deodorant a couple of decades back - could wreak havoc with natural flora and fauna but it must have sold. Same message : you are 'unclean'. The anthropologist Mary Douglas would have a field day!

I just think there’s a time and place Doodledog. Children need to be educated, of course.

I also hate the Scottish donkey one with the enormous teeth, the Tena one on the toilet, and the eyebrow raising one for McDonalds. I look away until they have finished.

And it may have been mentioned, but the older woman introducing her new creepy boyfriend, think he’s eating Maltesers or something.

Weird, would put me off buying them.