Yet another ridiculous advert!

The one that puzzles me at the moment is where there are lots of paper plane letters flying between people at home, at work, on holiday etc. The letter flies in, someone catches it, is really pleased to have got a letter.

It’s an advert for BT

I don't like ads for gambling on-line. People can get sucked in and it can be dangerous. Yes, I know betting shops exist but you have to go out of your way to get there and it isn't quite so constant. With a computer, you could bet on things 24 hours a day.

And don’t start me on the Sun Life Over 50 ad with June in her slippers and the friendly neighbour with too many parsnips! He also lurks in his conservatory with powerful binoculars........hmmm.

annep, I too loathe all the 'in your face' way discrete products are advertised. Its true that in the past too much secrecy and embarrassment led to some people having a hard time. Years ago at school, if a girl was caught short at a certain time of the month she would have to creep to the toilets and dissolve into floods of tears and probably be traumatised for years....but I feel the pendulum has swung too far....a little decorum with certain bodily functions would not go amiss.

sodapop I was about to say the tenalady advert and I noticed your post. The advert is advertising a discreet product in a totally indiscreet way. What is wrong with popping a free sample through the letterbox anyway as they used to do? And dont get me started on the toilet poo spray!

I haven't seen the Anna Chancellor/Nigel Havers advert, must look out for it. It sounds like a classic.

I used to like the ones with Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter:

www.bing.com/videos/search?q=advert+wioth+joan+collins+and+leonard&view=detail&mid=76CA78CDD62F4FDD4B5D76CA78CDD62F4FDD4B5D&FORM=VIRE
and
www.bing.com/videos/search?q=advert+wioth+joan+collins+and+leonard&&view=detail&mid=DA335FF21F95579663ACDA335FF21F95579663AC&&FORM=VDRVRV
etc!

The bloody meerkats!!
We saw some meerkats not long ago at a wildlife park - they are so lovely and I think the advert gives them a bad press!

I get really annoyed at the Lloyds Bank ad because a lot of riders use one of our favourite beaches. And I just KNOW some kid will think it’s OK to run up to horses waving their arms.

Have you seen how much this stuff is its unbelievable !!

Is it the Purple Bricks ad where various folk end up putting their faces in cream cakes. I cannot stand it- I agree, the tenor with the cork screw mustache gets on my nerves.

Who allowed that ghastly VI POO one to leave the factory? I would never dream of buying it.

That dreadful advert chanting "are you gonna Bingo", absolutely awful.

Katek.....yes that one really makes me squirm.

The most cringeworthy at the moment has to be the “even a VIP has to VIPoo”! It’s appalling.

I hate the sight of that Italian tenor with the corkscrew moustache .

That was a classic ad Elegran.
At the moment I can't bear any ads done by the chap who hosts The Crystal Maze he does quite a few different ads and I still can't make out what he is selling.
He does grate on me for some unknown reason.

My all-time favourite was the one where the elegant woman (Anna Chancellor) daintily applies dabs of face cream, then the camera pans out and it turns out to be the froth on a pint of Boddington's. Husband (Nigel Havers?) in evening dress then helps her on with her wrap and sniffs appreciatively, "By 'eck, lass, you smell gorgeous".

The bloody meerkats!! I wouldn't buy this insurance if it was the only one available

I like the one of that lady on the big white horse cantering by the sea in slow motion, It's either for toilet paper or shampoo. I don't care, it's a pleasure to look at.

Also the Lloyd's horses on the beach I do love it. I liked the one of the noble horse accompanying a person through all the trials and tribulations.

I cannot look at that ad of hundreds of people making a horrid coloured pattern waving their arms about it looks like a fungus growth.

Ads that show people doing maniacal dances make me look away and dislike the product.

The Tena lady ones trying to convince us their pants look attractive when really they don't.
Do we need such detail as well with incontinence and sanitary items, we all know what they are used for.

Cannot bear the one for men whose hair apparently ‘works hard’ !!??? Speaking of adverts, ate a flake yesterday and got it all over me , the dog, and the sofa, so respect to that 70’s woman in the sexy ad!

The adverts seem to be getting more and more annoying. At least at one time some of them could be quite amusing.

lemongrove

Random things like the kitten’s tail Phoenix (DGD)?
Thankfully she didn’t chomp down, just sucked it a bit.

however, do worry if they have a tendency towards chemistry and want to be a chemist - they could be inventing even more anti-dandruff shampoos one day ...

and putting random things into their mouths
like beetles and flies unless you're quick enough

But don't worry, they may grow up to be a biologist