What drives you mad about adverts?

I use the adverts to do a chore or two- in fact you could do your entire housework list during some advert breaks. Even on the BBC you have to suffer endless trailers. I guess it must pay off or they wouldn't do it.

We record most things on commercial TV so we do not have to watch the adverts. I find it really annoying when I have missed something or someone recommends post watching and I have to view it on All 4/5.
I liked the Budweiser Frogs and the Walls Sausages dog, amusing.

Not only dust but things in my kitchen get very greasy if they’re not in a cupboard, even though I have an extractor fan on and don’t actually fry much either.

I used to work in market research so I do find advertising fascinating.

Hate that one where somebody famous has a yoghurt with a side of little chocolate balls and laughs hysterically when she gets it on her face ! How utterly stupid ! Am annoyed just thinking about it.

Worst one got to be for Magnum ice creams. A woman bites into making a big cracking noise.

Is it my imagination or does the volume become louder for ads? I've noticed that if you put a young child in front of the telly with some toys to play with they always look up when the ads appear.

I automatically press the mute button so I don't have to listen to them as well.

The one that irritates me most is the one for Over 50s Life Insurance. I've seen better acting in a school play.

Is that the one with the ever-knowledgable bloke and the dippy woman (June) who takes his word for everything and takes out insurance because he's done it?

Yes, the acting is awful, as is the portrayal of a retired lifestyle.

I used to like the one for a beer (forget the name) when young monks on skates bring a crate onto a frozen lake and it falls through the ice. It always made me smile.
(but I can't for the life of me remember the beer's name)

Sorry for going off topic www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L6PDVWz3ng

The breaks during and after programmes seem to be getting longer these days - and the adverts are continually repetitive. I tend now to put the programme on hold for 15 minutes and go and do something useful and then whizz through the ads until the next session. Sometimes I record the whole programme and then whizz through the ads - it depends what I'm watching and what time it is.

I'm another who records and fast forwards but if I am watching catchup on Channel 5 or 5 then I press the mute button for the adverts and read my Radio Times for 5 mins. So they rarely inconvenience me.

When I have caught a few adverts (just out of curiosity) they either seem to be made for 5 year olds (infantile and stupid) or I have no idea what they're advertising (too sophisticated). They don't seem to cater for middle England who want something entertaining but clever that identifies with the product. Remember the Gold Blend couple and the Oxo family? They are still with us all these years later. As are PG Tips, Yellow Pages and various Cadbury adverts.

Never watch. To is paused/fast forwarded. The radio goes off. Cannot stand the “terms & conditions apply” bit, spoken quickly at the end!

Don’t get me started on the woman’s voice for the Vodaphone ads!!!!!?

Daisy Daisy Daisy and any of the veri sure alarm…??‍♀️

Oh yes! We always laugh at how the first reaction on hearing the neighbours were burgled when they were in the house is 'Oh, we should get an alarm', not 'Oh God, how are they?'

My OH is greatly taken by the Zoflora lady's sashay and spray technique!
My favourite is the AA one when the dog gets the fan going.

I can't stand the one for a car seller where they fall through the air and land on the sofa; just irritates immensely.
Usually go and do something else while ads play out.

I record and fast forward through the ads usually, but do catch them now and again on some of the Freeview channels. I don't even know what most of them are advertising I'm so out of touch. As someone else mentioned, you could probably have a three course meal now in the time devoted to ads and previews in the middle of the programme. I think it's something like 20 minutes out of each hour for ads.

At least ads used to be amusing - the Smash aliens, Boddingtons, the coffee 'affair' (Gold Blend?), and a few others.

Sure 72 hour protection -demonstrated by a very energetic, very sweaty dancer. I can’t help wondering if she applied it all over? Wouldn’t a shower and a reapplication be better?

I can’t stand that one with the bloke with the black hair and beard, who tells us so loudly how to sell our MO’OR! - or else how to buy one, I can’t remember. To me he looks like Mephistopheles! Or at any rate Mephistopheles’ brother.

I hate the constant, unrealistic smiling or grinning.

Who in real life grins like an idiot while brushing their teeth,
while cleaning a disgustingly filthy bath or toilet, while opening a packet of oven chips, while talking about their incontinence, etc.

I must be a really miserable old whatsit, because it drives me mad!

Scams are the worst for me. I saw an ad on the internet yesterday that fired me up. The photo was of a little toddler girl who had cancer. She had lost her hair. It was such a sad picture and the “charitable organization” was asking for donations. I decided to check them out before I would donate and it turns out it was a scam! How dare they use an innocent child for unlawful purposes. I’m trying to look into who I should contact about it.
Be careful out there!

They've trawled new depths with the girl sitting on the toilet telling us which incontinence pads to use and pair in the gym using Tena pads while they jig about weeing themselves. Honestly, is nothing private anymore?

We mute them when watching as a family and there’s a point for the first to say what it’s advertising. Good laugh and gets us through to the think we really sitting there for. Try it ??

I want to beat my head on the floorboards when the ad about the older woman who doesn’t know what the ‘cloud’ is, or what modern jobs her family do comes on - aaaargg!