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Embarrassing ads

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biglouis Tue 03-Sept-24 23:20:15

Love the crypto one! Clever.

Hate all the period and incontinence ones. These things are bad enough for women to have to suffer without making a drama of them. Especially the "gush" ones.

The ones where the "professional expert" wears a white coat to convince you of the latest statistics/development. No, its just another actor.

And this "boomerang smell" that someone has invented for freshly washed clothes ???? Just to con you into a certain washing powder.

henetha Tue 03-Sept-24 23:07:05

I like the flying goats which all remind me of Richard Branson.

LauraNorderr Tue 03-Sept-24 23:02:05

I agree with all of you. Nothing left to the imagination. Lots of unnecessary yuk, yuk, yuk.
I do love all the Specsaver ads. Very clever and always make me laugh.

Allira Tue 03-Sept-24 22:54:07

I'm clutching my pearls at that one Shinamae

The one with a woman with a mouth in her forehead. Why?
I have no idea what it's for.

Shinamae Tue 03-Sept-24 22:51:11

Yes, they are quite unsavoury some of them particularly,some woman sitting on the toilet something to do with periods and there’s one that’s come on quite recently about the “gush” and a certain type of ST will contain any sort of gush…
Talk about too much information.. 🙄
Almost makes me clutch my pearls 😉

Ellie Anne Tue 03-Sept-24 22:35:11

Oh yes I like the crypto one too.

specki4eyes Tue 03-Sept-24 22:01:22

Sky News Pollen Count when a young woman with large nostrils comes up to the camera and sneezes openly into it. It is disgusting and aren't we all told to trap germs in a handkerchief ? Even more so since Covid!
How advert appeal has degraded these last years. They're mainly about smells. I seems that Britons have smelly bedding, smelly lavatories, smelly clothes, smelly bodies, smelly houses and smelly pets. Yes the incontinence pads is obnoxious - when she says, "Im letting it all go!" I could vomit...but I'd better not, it could create a smell!
There is one that amuses me....when the guy asks for crypto currency to pay for potatoes and onions - always makes me laugh. And the webuyanycar dancers - they're fun.
But funeral plans...."when Tony passed"....grr, pass me the remote!

MissAdventure Tue 03-Sept-24 22:00:37

grin

Rekarie Tue 03-Sept-24 21:45:11

I prefer unreal women I think!

MissAdventure Tue 03-Sept-24 21:14:00

I like the Dove ads.
Real women showing all their real woman bits

Rekarie Tue 03-Sept-24 21:09:43

I'm not happy with a lot of adverts. We used to get really clever ads Carling Black Label, Cinzano with Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, R Whites lemonade, crazy Shake and Vac lady, Old Spice, Coca Cola and many, many more.

Today we seem to just have boring and unimaginative ads.

Tesco is dreadful, Curry's is horrendous, the bingo ads, ugh.

My least favourite at present is the young lady wearing next to nothing. I think it's for Dove, but there's no need for it. And the skating girl with the sanitary pads. Just ugh

sassenach512 Tue 03-Sept-24 20:58:18

I really hate those adds especially when we get a close up of their backsides to show there's no leakage! Call me old fashioned but is nothing private anymore? sad

Ellie Anne Tue 03-Sept-24 20:52:10

I m sure it’s been said before but I hate these embarrassing ads. Pet hate at the moment is the lady peeing her pants at the yoga class. Yuk!