What drives you mad about adverts?

I despise adverts so never watch them! If I want to watch a programme on a commercial channel I simply record it. I can then watch it and fast toward through the adverts

??? I need cupboards to shut the doors on shelves bursting with crap I keep shoving in, instead of clearing them out and donating the unwanted crap ?

That they are so infantile.
It never ceases to amaze me that puppet meerkats make grown people all gooey eyed.

They’re mostly so boring, or else ridiculous - car and perfume ads are IMO the most ridiculous/ludicrous/both.

Oh for the days of genuinely funny ads - the Boddington’s ones come to mind (still there on YouTube) - and some Batchelors noodle one IIRC, where the two blokes are moaning about disgusting girlfriends using their razors and leaving hairy bits in the washbasin - while licking their plates clean before putting them back in the cupboard! ?

But like so many of us, I usually record and zoom through them now.

I love the Haribo ones.

I get annoyed at the ones that I can't work out what they're selling.

My favourites are the Check A Trader ones with Julius Caesar - I love the sly digs at the treacherous Brutus, and in the last one I saw JC said "Thank you" in Latin to a neighbour.

Classy.

MissAdventure
We will have to agree to disagree on that one I simply can't stand them ... I even put it on mute can not stand the voices ! ARGH ! Even young children don't speak like that !

Well Mollygo in answer to your question……it is almost certainly not her.
With her pale blue top that “happens” to match the Fairy products being advertised and her (no doubt) immaculate dainty hands ??there is no chance that this women is going to get down and dirty or up rather .. in this case, and wield the dishcloth or mess up her perfectly tamed locks by scooping it all up into a scrunchy
Jealous who Me!

The length of them!!! You used to dive out the room to put the kettle on and a t bag in a mug. Now you can make a whole meal ?‍♀️

I normally manage to record most things so I can fast forward through the ads but, for what it's worth, I like the Haribo ones. A previous favorite was the Old Spice one "I'm the man your man could smell like - I'm on a horse"

Everything

I'm another who hates the Haribo ones and is fond of the Meerkats .

I hate the ones with long shouty bits. Cavooooooooorrrrnia, or one of the car hire/sales ones. I think there's a pot noodle one, too. I'm certain that they are timed to go a smidgeon over the tolerable zone, so that you have to look up and see what's going on. It clearly hasn't worked though, as you can tell from my lack of recall of the products.

Those were the days!

LINK > www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk31k2BIFR0

I never bought it though ... nor drank it either ... nor spilled it.

Men portrayed as being stupid and useless, then put right by their smug wives/girlfriends/children.

I quite enjoy glamour adverts for perfume with good music and beautiful settings, but they have zero effect on my buying habits.

The repetition. Also put on ‘posh’voices from bad actors, not that we get that many here. Dysons put you right off. There is an absolutely vile annoying one here for Strepsils with this woman with a fake cough. Haven’t bought any since !

Switch over to whatever is on BBC 2 or Channel 4 for at least 5 minutes.

The sheer number and length of them.
The fact some are so slick I have no idea what product they are promoting.
Celebrities promoting products.
June (you know).

Argh! The Fairy laundry pod advert where the young boy is painting in a WHITE top as well as his Mum. Both are covered in paint and she is smiling............seriously?!?!

In fact, most modern adverts irritate me immensely and certainly don't inspire me to rush out and but that particular product/service.

The old ones are the best, Boddingtons, PG Tips, and many more

I often put YouTube on a continual music playlist, with video displayed when eating and just hearing the sound when doing something else.

From time to time, there is an advertisement, which can be for 5 seconds unskippable, 15 seconds unskippable, or longer, skippable after 5 seconds.

Sometimes these advertisements are quite interesting and I watch all the way through, if they are short I just let them roll through anyway. Recently, with music in the background, an advertisement started and after a while I realised that there was a man talking, no music: so I put YouTube as the displaying window and found that the advertisement had being going for about 5 minutes and was over an hour in length!

Recently there is one that arises that is about 5 minutes about a system for teaching.

One advertisement came on recently and it was a lady singing with a small group of musicians. I wondered what it was advertising. It was about three minutes long. It turned out that the group was advertising itself as a musical group.

I had not known of a musical group advertise itself like that before, well done them.

Patronising and half the time you don't know what is being advertised. I fast forward or watch advert free same on the radio switch off as soon as I hear them.

I don't like any of them, but the one I find really irritating is the one for Vimto or Ribena, where the bloke is trying to park his car, and all the (stuffed) cats are saying "Mate", then one cat tries to park the car. Utter drivel.

youtu.be/9gXmuBN10ZA

This is it

I hate the " ice skating is my passion""one. Been on far too often.
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