IRRITATING ADS

MissAdventure

The thing is, though, everyone can remember the irritating ads.
Job done!

We might remember them but do we know what they're advertising? I don't know what half of them are advertising. And if we do then we are most likely to go out of our way to avoid that product because of the annoying advert.

It's a whole psychological game, isn't it?
Absolutely nothing is done without studying the habits and lifestyles of their targets.
People may think they avoid a particular product, but I'm very tempted to look up the daisy daisy ad, because I've never seen it.

Then perhaps if I was in a shop with a tester, I might be curious to see what it smells like.

I do love flowery perfumes (presuming it has a floral smell)
Someone may ask me what I want for christmas, and to make it easy for them I might ask for some daisy daisy perfume...

Trust me, you will HATE the Daisy, daisy, daisy advert so much that you won't buy the perfume on principle. Nobody has mentioned the Shark/Gtec adverts where the most revolting messes are sucked up into the machine. The adverts for erectile dysfunction that come on when you are eating or the bladder leak pads that make you still feel sexy and desirable even if you are a bit damp.
The totally unrealistic families laughing hysterically whilst sitting around a table loaded with so much food that it is obscene. I could go on but I would be here all night.

I completely blank out when adverts are on so most of the ones you’re all talking about I ve never taken any notice of
Why do you all watch them ?
Adverts are the time to have a wee, make a coffee, get a few bits of jigsaw in or just look into space (I do perk up when the sweets with the blokes talking as kids is on because I like that one but couldn’t tell you what sweets they are advertising)

I don’t think I ve ever bought anything from seeing as advert

Bit of a nasty observation homefarm

The new one for incontinence pads, where the 2 women are doing yoga. The 2nd woman, wearing her pad, apparently, says something like "I'm just letting it all go"

One for cars, where the man is rapping

And I'm adding HD mops to the irritating
list .
Thank goodness for Thane , says the highly
enthusiastic presenter.
It might be a great product ,but the ad makes me feel totally crazy !

For me it’s the beige cardy woman from next door with her wrongly delivered Sun life insurance letter and monotone NORTHERN dialect

Most of them! I often wonder about the mindset of whoever invents them decides they are good enough! I do like the Lloyds Bank advert with the horses though. That’s a good one.

Granmarderby -I think that it's beige cardied June with her indeterminate Northern accent .

I love our accents and think that we should celebrate them .

I think that the ad agency have created her as someone you'd like and listen to .

I know what they can do with their bloody parsnips !

@missAdventure. I agree with you about McMillan nurses. When my mum lost her sister to lung cancer she made a donation to McMillan. They hounded her for a long time afterwards for more money . In the end I spoke to them to explain my mum was a widow and didn’t have two pennies to rub together. They did leave it after that . I also nursed my mum and my uncle through cancer in their own home . The good boy contact I had from McMillans was a phone call they day my uncle died to see if I wanted to sit with him ! No thanks .

Those ads reduce me to tears, regularly, when I see how things could have been.

For some people, Macmillan really are like that, and provide endless support, I know.

Just not for others.

What concerns me more than the actual ads is that the ad agencies know their business, and adverts are an insight into how they see society and how to sell things to us. If using ads didn't sell their products no business would pay for them. I'm sure there have been a few over the years that were a waste of money but on the whole they have to deliver if the ad agency is to survive.

So somewhere there are a lot of people who are convinced enough by these mind-numbing ads to spend their money. Perhaps these are the same people who think vaccines magnetize you and/or carry chips so we will all become slaves to Bill Gates.

I know we're talking irritating ads but it irritates me when you get a good one and after a few days they shorten it. The one I really liked was for HeyCars. The driver who lip-synced to Flo-Ridas "Feel Good". I would stop whatever I was doing to watch then and they shortened it.

I love the advertisement for Ladbrokes ,though I always forget what it's advertising !
It's the one when they have an office party and they all chase after a balloon ,then a squashed can !
I don't know what the music is .

And the Lloyd's one with horses is nice to watch .

I preferred the more filmic ads of yesteryear …I’m thinking Milk Tray, Old Spice, Guinness (other stouts are available) and the comedic ones.
Alas they cost much more money to make and the population as a whole are more cynical and ?

…suspicious I meant to add

Agree with the sentiment of the Lloyds bank as haters but I personally love the actual ad the horses are magnificent!

I have enjoyed TV ads but am often sitting eating when that revolting vacuum cleaner ad comes on so I don't risk watching any daytime ads.

The most annoying adverts are the ones I sit through, losing the plot of the programme, and then when the adverts have finished I realise I’ve recorded the programme! I do it every bl**dy time.

I’m not in the UK so haven’t seen some of the irritating ads mentioned here but in general I’m greatly annoyed by ads that pander to older people as if they’re idiots. There are a few insurance company ads that send me over the edge!

The older people are sometimes portrayed as clueless nitwits, ill-informed and suspicious.

I watched some afternoon TV recently and all the ads seemed to be about FUNERAL planning or using your home to pay for a holiday! Put me right off

Hippo Bags
Drives me mad

One ad which annoys me is the one for coffee bags with the question - why didn't they think of them before?

Fact - they did think of them. Over 40 years ago I kept some in the store cupboard for visits by a coffee loving friend who eventually asked if there were many left. 'Just a few,' I replied. 'Please don't get any more, they're putrid! he laughed. I've never bought them since and I believe it's the same firm who advertise them now. Note to Kenco - some of your customers have long memories.

MissAdventure Don’t be tempted to put Daisy perfume on your Christmas wish list! My DGD asked me for it last Christmas and it’s horrible, sickly sweet and cloying. Lovely bottle though.