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Which adverts make you mad?

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LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 05-Jun-19 09:42:20

We're doing some research again on advertising and how over 50s are misrepresented (if they're featured at all).
Have you seen any particularly bad adverts recently? Or any good ones? Thanks smile

phoenix Thu 06-Jun-19 19:47:09

I only watch tv from about 7.30 pm to 10 pm ish, so I'm spared many of the ads mentioned (funeral plans etc) that seem to be mostly on daytime tv.

The ones in the evening are bad enough, especially as previously mentioned what seems to be the current plethora of ones for toothbrushes and toothpaste!

Not keen on the Tena ones either, especially the pants ones.

Lady, if you think those look "pretty" you are delusional. I have this image of her dating someone, getting to the erm, you know, sort of stage, used to be called "heavy petting" in the U.S and her chap wondering what on earth...........

Plus, how do you dispose of them?

7 pairs of those a week will impact on your household waste.

LullyDully Thu 06-Jun-19 19:44:46

(I do like the little girl who" sings"on the AA advert and the Specsavers ones.)you

LullyDully Thu 06-Jun-19 19:40:11

Also I loathe the American teeth ads dubbed with impossible English accents. The ghastly woman for example who knows how to care for her body but not her teeth. As if.

starbird Thu 06-Jun-19 19:32:40

The ad for garden furniture that says it is so good you can wear it - which they do - is a ridiculous concept.

Loislovesstewie Thu 06-Jun-19 19:29:27

That flipping peloton advert drives me mad! No, I am not stronger than I know, neither do I want to be sold a lifestyle, riding a bike going nowhere isn't going to buy me a loft apartment and when did the word saddle become a verb? Or an instruction? I must be getting old because I just want to punch them all.

hallgreenmiss Thu 06-Jun-19 19:05:10

The man in The Dreamies Treats advert enticing his neighbours' cats to impress his lady friend is seriously creepy.

M0nica Thu 06-Jun-19 17:50:37

I have to all intents and purposes given up watching tv. Just one hour a week when I do the ironing. It means I do not have to watch any adverts, annoying or not.

chickkygran Thu 06-Jun-19 16:56:50

Every advert makes me mad!

KatyK Thu 06-Jun-19 16:03:26

I agree re all the funeral ones, especially the 'its June dad' one.

GrannyIris5 Thu 06-Jun-19 15:53:54

Looks like we agree on the ones we don’t like.
The % thing annoys me. If it’s people out of 100 it doesn’t make sense to me.

tinaf1 Thu 06-Jun-19 15:27:02

Agree GillT57 also think the many celebrities endorsing these ads need to take along hard look at themselves

GillT57 Thu 06-Jun-19 15:21:23

I get very angry with the gambling adverts. They always show good looking people with great dentistry, great clothes, loving life and spending time with a great laughing group of close friends. This is now how your life will be if you sign up, the reality, as we have heard many times, is solitary addictive behaviour often leading to financial ruin. These adverts are not only annoying and untrue, they are irresponsible. I would like to see an end to online gambling full stop. As for other adverts, we often record programmes which are on Ch4 or ITV for that very reason, we can then zap through the adverts!

Wobbles Thu 06-Jun-19 12:50:04

lizzypopbottle
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sessanach512
Agree completely, some things should stay private.

sassenach512 Wed 05-Jun-19 21:31:28

I just hate that nothing is private anymore. The girl wearing tampax riding her bike with a camera a foot off her backside. The dopey guy and his lover floating around the house after a good night on the viagra. I also hate that vaginal moisturiser ad [Wobbles] Jenny Éclair does a similar cringy one. Why is all of this personal stuff up for grabs these days? Crikey I'm getting old sad

lizzypopbottle Wed 05-Jun-19 21:20:15

Wobbles 95% of 49 women is 46.55 so the odd half a woman is enjoying a moist vagina along with the 46 whole women! ???

I get a bit steamed up if I see the Tombola (bingo app) advert with all those people having a lovely, sociable time. The reality is that they are all hunched over their phones at home losing money!

Wobbles Wed 05-Jun-19 20:48:57

I've just seen one for a vaginal moisturiser for post menopausal women!!!!!
Apparently 95% of women trust this product according to a survey.
And the number of women surveyed was 49. hmm

Bellasnana Wed 05-Jun-19 20:17:03

None of them make me mad, but I don’t like them. Too repetitive and mostly plugging the same things. Time to make a cuppa and/or go to the loo when the adverts are on.

lovebeigecardigans1955 Wed 05-Jun-19 19:57:06

Ooh Phoenix!

Redtop1 Wed 05-Jun-19 19:45:33

I hate all the adverts that are targeted at us people of a certain age.

When I was living in Australia I refused to switch the TV on during the day. We were continually bombarded with advertising for the over 50’s, funeral plan, car insurance, house insurance, over 50’s villages, that awful feet and leg massage machine, equity release and numerous funeral companies it was so morbid and ageing smile. We have a way to go to catch up over here.

Callistemon Wed 05-Jun-19 19:38:17

So many of the above
And the newspaper adverts showing a young, fit-looking woman sitting in her swimsuit in a walk-in bath tub.

How do those things work anyway? Presumably you have to climb in, shut the door, then run the water (at just the right temperature), bathe then let out the water (freeze in the meantime), open the door and climb out?

I'm doing my pelvic floor exercises right now - I don't want to be a Tena Lady (although they look much younger and more glam than me).

annsixty Wed 05-Jun-19 19:28:05

This thread has made me laugh out loud.
How easily we ( me included) get annoyed.
Lets just switch off and do something interesting or ecxiting.
Well not me obviously
I am too busy watching tv and criticising the ads.??

Harris27 Wed 05-Jun-19 19:26:17

The June one is hilarious him traipsing in with parsnips! I know every word that he says now!!! Get the phone out I've brought you parsnips so ring sun life for a quote hillarious!!!

Treebee Wed 05-Jun-19 19:19:16

Just because we don’t need sanitary pads anymore, it doesn’t mean that we need pads for wee.
So annoying. I’m sorry if you do need them, must be annoying, but otherwise, pelvic floor exercises is what we need.

Loulou798 Wed 05-Jun-19 19:00:23

I’m irritated by those groups of people shown by BBC before programmes, eg Birdwatchers. Many of those are of a certain age.

It’s also annoying that many ads say they are products for the “over 50s” yet the actors shown are nearer 80. Its almost as if the day we say goodbye to 49, on the stroke of midnight we transform into equity-releasing high-seat users who worry constantly about their funerals.

And I do understand how to use a laptop, mobile phone, SD card, to download music and sometimes I even manage to make my own tea.

Sara65 Wed 05-Jun-19 18:47:23

I don’t know the company, but I think it’s equity release, a lot of smug middle aged people dancing in the street!

Can’t bear it!

Like the AA one though