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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

tinaf1 Wed 10-Feb-21 13:40:39

I have really gone off Idris Elba ( used to really like him) he is on every break for sky advertising their programmes he did one before Christmas where he sang the twelve days of Christmas it was excruciating.
Also all the celebrities that promote gambling companies.

bikergran Wed 10-Feb-21 09:31:23

The Pringles one is rubbish, a zombie sitting on a sofa with a lad then starts to dismember his body plonks a thumb on the table, it then becomes ermmm erect and looks like something else! (well it does to me) hmm

Billybob4491 Wed 10-Feb-21 08:37:17

"Lets talk about leaky bladders" I'd rather not thankyou.

nanna8 Wed 10-Feb-21 07:39:33

Can’t stand most of them but some of the Aldi ones are ok. At least they don’t have the same ones over and over again. We have a particularly unpleasant one, repeated ad nauseam, of a very , very well endowed bloke advertising mens’ jocks. I would say there is a large potato down there.

Fecklar Sun 20-Dec-20 09:27:34

Youngism....I cannot stand those adverts for women’s fashions and the jingles used I do a rugby tackle across the room for the remote...some of them are so annoying. Advert jingles in general annoy me. There is one for a red SVU SEAT that really annoys me. Most of the time I have the mute button on. The begging adverts during the day and the funeral adverts. The revolting bodily function adverts put on at tea time generated to repulse and hopefully stay in your memory. The sponsor adverts, sponsor a donkey, tiger,elephant,monkey,lama,camel,snake, spider, ant......etc....

lemsip Sat 14-Nov-20 14:32:00

the ad for 'your dry intimate areas'

sparklingsilver28 Fri 16-Oct-20 22:02:41

I ignore adverts almost all inane. Hence why my viewing preferred from recordings where I can blast through them. Ad blocks on my desktop as well - darn nuisance. Oh, for the day someone invents an advert switch off button on the remote like that for subtitles.

The other day, the signing person appeared at the bottom right-hand side of the screen. Such an improvement on the usual manic arm waving going on behind the speaker - does strange things ones eyes. And before someone jumps in my gc is deaf.

Grandmabatty Sun 11-Oct-20 11:08:37

The most recent ad which irritates me is not to do with older people but is advertising diluting juice. It's a young boy regaling adults with tips for dinner parties etc. He is a dead ringer for a young Rees Mogg, and I would dislike the advert for that alone. However the script calls for him to be patronising and smug and drives me wild! ☺

annep1 Sat 22-Aug-20 12:08:00

We don't need tv adverts to know about new sanitary products. There are women's magazines, newspapers. Also companies used to give free samples of new products.

Jaxjacky Fri 21-Aug-20 13:52:52

Daytime ads, watched a Place in the Sun as it was to feature where we used to live. All the ads are for funeral plans/life insurance/care homes/meal deliveries/stair lifts/incontinence.
A) it’s obviously assumed an older demographic are the only people that watch daytime TV.
B) All of them are decrepit.

How presumptive and demeaning!!

Kate1949 Fri 21-Aug-20 13:33:05

That coffee bags one annoys me too. I was buying them in the '70s.

Karen22 Wed 19-Aug-20 23:23:48

The ad showing either Holly Willoughby or Davina McCall using a colourant to colour their own hair.....really?? , don't believe for one minute they don't go the hairdresser !

Also I'm unusual as I do enjoy the kid in the AA advert , so cute

Jaye53 Fri 17-Jul-20 10:29:29

the one where a friend tells her how to insert a tampon!!!!angry yuk yuk

Floradora9 Sun 08-Mar-20 19:16:09

We always record programmes which feature adds so we fast forward them all . What I really hate are the adds on Classic FM radio. They all have terrible put on accents and the content is cringeworthy. They must think their audience are morons.

3dognight Sun 08-Mar-20 17:54:52

There is one, and I can't remember what it is advertising, but it is a baby about six months old or so in a crib, close up of face and there she is 'singing 'the words to a song, it creeps me out every time.

The viagra couple floating about their home, in post coital ecstasy, just stop in bed and have a cuddle why don't you!
Or fall back to sleep again, like most people.

For every tena lady add, there should be a tena man add.
(They do exist for men, I've seen them in wilkos)

The peliton adverts, drive me insane, just ride your bike in the open air for goodness sake.

I love the 'black horse' adverts, in one of the earlier ones the horse went to nuzzle a woman's baby bump at the end, made me nearly cry.

fiorentina51 Sun 08-Mar-20 14:51:12

The one about the "amazing new idea" of coffee bags. It drives me mad. My Belgian mother in law used them back in the 70s and 80s. Think she got them in Waitrose.

LullyDully Sun 08-Mar-20 13:45:33

I don't like the one of the young girl sitting like a Buddha. It's for one of the internet companies. She is in bed insisting she watches one last episode before going to sleep. Surely not.

timetogo2016 Sun 08-Mar-20 13:09:14

All adverts.

Doodledog Sun 08-Mar-20 13:02:20

I don't mind ads for medical problems - how else would we know that products were available, or what to ask for if we need them? I don't think that we should be ashamed of bodily functions, or find them too gross to watch.

It's more the portrayal of older women as dependent, or in need of advice from random men that I find annoying, when in reality we are expected to work until 67, and many go on to volunteer for long after that.

I think that the funeral plan/'over 50 plan' ads should be strictly regulated, too. Anyone with a house to leave behind doesn't need one, as the money for a funeral can come out of their estate, so there is no question of being a burden to loved ones.

For those in rented accommodation with no savings, it might be different, but I think that the ads should have to make clear exactly what the responsibility of loved ones would be, and where the state would step in. If people are going to leave less than £3k behind, they can't have a lot of disposable income, and it seems to me exploitative to guilt trip them into putting money into a scheme that makes money for the company, and might not pay out if they cancel when the premiums increase.

picturepainter Sun 08-Mar-20 05:15:04

I agree with most posts on here, all the irritating adverts for tena (particularly the one where a woman says at last shes found some pretty bladder leak underwear and its basically plastic paper pants or whatever and not pretty at all as if it matters... incidentally no adverts for similar mens products. but latest hate is an advert for shampoo showing pretty girl with long hair in a tropical greenhouse with very long hair being shaken around saying with a vile accent saying something like "shake what nature gave ya!" don't remember the shampoo brand might be Herbal essences (sorry HE if not) anyhow apparently endorsed by Kew Gardens and unlikely normal Kew Gardens type sensible woman watching the other lunatic gyrating carried away with love for her hair. Also now you have got me started adverts for thrush cream and bacterial vaginal infections.... just going too far. If women are not making gravy and beingmum they are bleeding or wetting themselves or leaking in some way..... Funny how we get annoyed by adverts but then dont remember the brand. Used to love one years ago for Hamlet cigars with man with a comb over in a photo booth though...

Purplepixie Sun 08-Mar-20 02:51:14

I hate just about all of the adverts but who wants to see sanitary pads with blue liquid poured on them? Also the vaginal dryness advert right at teatime! The funeral plans when I've just woke up from my afternoon nap! An insurance plan that gives you a free pen if you sign up with them - bloody whooppeedo!!! The list is endless! Oh an don't get me started on the incontinence pads! Grrrrrrr. Bring me more cake! Night night ?

Hetty58 Sun 08-Mar-20 01:50:29

I despise all of the above and I actively hate the Jane Plan woman (smug bitch) - oh and all the car adverts where they're cruising on an empty mountain road, not stuck in traffic!

Doodledog Sun 08-Mar-20 01:29:38

The elderly lady standing on the doorstep of the couple saying she doesn’t have a roast dinner very often these days. For crying out loud cook yourself a dinner woman! They won’t ask you again.

I just logged on again because I remembered this one grin.

It's dreadful, isn't it? Is the ad for instant gravy?

Why is she there? She doesn't know the family, so it must be some sort of charity thing, which isn't really the image that the gravy makers want to put out, surely? And whereas it's a lovely idea to invite someone who is on their own for Sunday lunch, it's not something that gives a positive image of older women.

Scribbles Sat 07-Mar-20 23:25:33

Those wretched talking meerkats

Ninarosa Sat 07-Mar-20 23:17:51

The Tombola bingo ad. As an introvert, all that sociability makes me feel a bit sick and quite anxious.