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songstress60 Mon 18-Apr-22 17:28:58

Do any of you have ads that really drive you mad? My 2 are the detergent ad where they sing "Where is the sun?" None of them can hold a tune, and the song is banal, and the other ad is that rip off of the Beyonce song "If I were a boy". That kid murders it by singing "If I were a toy", and he mangles the song too. Do any other grans have ads they utterly hate?

Grannynannywanny Wed 20-Apr-22 19:34:48

What about the one for the mens boxer shorts with the super glide panels to prevent chub rub. As if the sight of the guy standing posing in them isn’t nauseating enough we are told that they come with a full money back guarantee if not fully satisfied. I wonder if staff in the customer returns dept wear hazmat suits ?

Witzend Wed 20-Apr-22 19:36:02

I feel guilty for getting so irritated at it, but the Cancer Research ads where they keep saying REEsearch instead of reSEARCH, really winds me up.
And yes, I know it’s an accepted pronunciation now, but I still hate it!
(When I’m a dictator, anyone who says it will of course be thrown into a rat-infested dungeon, along with everyone else who irritates me. ??)

Neilspurgeon0 Wed 20-Apr-22 19:50:26

tidyscatemum you have hit the nail right on the head. Bloody mixed race families, sodding American thing

Tusue Wed 20-Apr-22 20:31:37

I agree with everyone on all the above mentioned ads.
Daytime tv is full of adverts to insure your life and to get your body off this mortal coil in the cheapest way possible,it’s soo depressing.
Also the Dior advert , don’t know who the woman is but she comes across as a spoilt Madame to me (now I sound like my grandma did) and I too hate the “where is the sun” song for fabric conditioner or whatever it’s for.
Moan over-sorry

Greciangirl Wed 20-Apr-22 20:45:28

I just mute them all. Simple!!

Snowbell Wed 20-Apr-22 20:48:40

There's an Ocado just for you. No there isn't!
McCain We are family. No you're not!
Hey babe dog's dead.

Caleo Wed 20-Apr-22 20:48:46

ICE cream instead of ice Cream is very very evil.

leeds22 Wed 20-Apr-22 20:56:11

They wash over me completely. But thanks to the poster who brought back memories of the Cinzano adverts.

Janetashbolt Wed 20-Apr-22 21:25:45

I record anything I want to watch and fast forward through ads what does make my blood boil though are the "sponsored by" ads as the break starts and as it ends, I'm not quick enough with the remote to avoid them all the Carpet rite one is especially annoying, it's driving me nuts

ruthiek Wed 20-Apr-22 21:29:54

Especially with their boobs bobbing about everywhere ?

ruthiek Wed 20-Apr-22 21:33:26

The Daisy Ad with their boobs bobbing up and down drives me mad

MissAdventure Wed 20-Apr-22 21:34:39

I've not seen the daisy one.
I feel I've missed out!

Shinamae Wed 20-Apr-22 21:58:36

MissAdventure

I've not seen the daisy one.
I feel I've missed out!

You really haven’t ?

Sassanach512 Wed 20-Apr-22 22:34:16

Those god-awful incontinence pad adverts drive me mad especially when she says the pants look pretty and they actually look like crêpe bandage material. There's a new one now with two dopey women in a yoga class where one of them thinks it's great that she can let her pee flow free into her incontinence pad and we get a close up view of their backsides as they bend over -arggggh!!

MissAdventure Wed 20-Apr-22 22:36:22

grin
I've definitely missed that one.

pooohbear2811 Thu 21-Apr-22 07:52:21

I don't usually watch ads either, most stuff is recorded and FF through them. But the nationwide one with the woman who's niece keeps drawing her pictures of houses was on time after time when I was binge watching tv last month. I could not sleep and was knitting/crocheting at the same time and could not ff quick enough to avoid her as she was first on every time. Her cheery voice irritated me

Jaylou Thu 21-Apr-22 08:08:59

4 words - Daisy Daisy Daisy Daisy. Others have mentioned it too.
I also hated the old wowcher adverts where they had those 3 girls "dancing". The red haired girl in that advert was so pouty and dreadful made me want to ......

Witzend Thu 21-Apr-22 08:25:35

www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HT4Om6JT4

Hope this works! Hilarious Mitchell and Webb sketch about women’s vs. men’s TV advertising - so true!

nipsmum Thu 21-Apr-22 10:14:12

Not everyone can remember the ads . I find them instantly forgettable. I know I have a bad memory for some thing's and that's definitely one of them.

Grannynannywanny Thu 21-Apr-22 10:32:13

Witzend ?

Peaseblossom Thu 21-Apr-22 10:50:55

I hate most of the ads. I hate the one for holidays where there’re singing a Christmas tune it’s the most wonderful time of the year. It just grates on me because it obviously is a Christmas tune. My friend mentioned it to me when it first came out and said she hated it because it’s a Christmas June and not a summer holiday tune .
The one for go compare with the opera singer.
The Flash adverts.
Head and shoulders advert with the extremely annoying Claudia Winkleman. I wish she’d cut her damn fringe!
I’m sure I’ll think of many more!

Peaseblossom Thu 21-Apr-22 11:02:11

Tidykatesmum. I wanted to say that, but I didn’t want to get a load of people calling me names!
Me and my friend have noticed that nearly all the ads have a black man with a white wife. I know this exists I’m far more than the other way round for some reason, but they are totally over represented and I’m sick of the diversity brigade shoving things in our faces. All it does it make us angry at the dishonesty of it. I think black people make up about 6% of our population so why are they in about 75% of the adverts?! To me diversity is now a dirty word, because it is rammed down our throats.
I have a niece with a mixed race child who I love dearly so that is not a problem to me, just the liberal brigade forcing things on us. Why aren’t there lots of adverts with Chinese people in? We have a lot of Chinese people living in the UK and also other nationalities.

MeowWow Thu 21-Apr-22 13:31:08

Claudia Winkleman ads, Philip Schofield ads, GoCompare ads, the Daisy,Daisy ad, to name a few! Most ads are annoying.

acornlady Thu 21-Apr-22 17:10:45

The one where the deaf girl"s boyfriend appears to have swallowed her hearing aid and she is told that she
can have it back in 24 hours YUK!!!

Paperbackwriter Thu 21-Apr-22 17:18:10

homefarm

Practically all of them. They are obviously not trying to sell their goods to me, all appear to be aimed at multi racial families and weirdos.

Wow: "multi-racial families and weirdos". That's a pretty breathtaking statement. You might want to have a think about that.