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Posted by Slightly-Foxed_a cat needs rehoming in Droitwich (U9332727) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
I don't think we've had one of these for a while, though they feature regularly on Digital Spy.
I'd like to propose two categories:
Appallingly awful dire drivel that just immediately makes you fast-forward or channel hop and
Adverts which are maybe not as bad as the above, but still fail as adverts, because you would never buy the product or service offered, even if you could work out from the advert what it was, because the ad agency have lost the way and got completely self-referential.
My nominations are, in the first category, that dreadful advert where the idiot just runs about shouting "football! on now!". Pass the tranquilising dart gun!
And in the second category, the Go Compare ad with Stephen Hawking. Seriously weird, quite funny, but unlikely ever to convince me to do anything other than never buy insurance through Go Compare. All kudos to Stephen H for taking part, though.
the cadbury's galaxy one with that terribly skinny woman with the croydon facelift.
Anything with that rob brydon in it
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Posted by Christina Rossetti til the end (U7692958) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
That one with the bloke who's in black and white, complaining about being grey. He's not grey, he's in black and white!
But his wife still looks the same.
That's because she's a 25 year old supermodel.
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Posted by Slightly-Foxed_a cat needs rehoming in Droitwich (U9332727) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Oh yes, and the Halifax with their stupid choir. Whoopy do, so you are going to give new people £60 a year. Considering it's their own money anyway, since you urined away all of yours on imaginary derivatives in 2008.
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Posted by Now Locking for a house (U3261819) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
You're SO Money Supermarket'! Aaaaagh!
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Posted by CC Growing old disgracefully (U13344869) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Those happy family adverts at Christmas. All the family smiling and looking happy eating their Christmas dinner
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Posted by Christina Rossetti til the end (U7692958) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
I leap on the mute button like a bat out of a 70s power ballad when those confused.com adverts pop up.
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Posted by The Blessed Songsinger (U2319309) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
The one with Michael Parkinson which I can almost relate word for word.
This thread made me realise that do not watch adverts on television.
I no longer have any idea what any of the current adds are.
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Posted by The Blessed Songsinger (U2319309) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
You haven't missed a thing.
Its just got to be that 118,,, does ANYBODY actualy use that service anyway???
Yes and definatly agree on the Go compare
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Posted by Now Locking for a house (U3261819) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
I use 118...
My step -sons wore the curly wigs and vests and shorts for the stag weekend of elder ss.
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Posted by The Giddy Kipper (U10918464) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
One thing I completely loathe to the point of foaming at the mouth are adverts for private health care, especially the BUPA ones. I know there are issues with some areas of the NHS but on the whole it is brilliant and anyway, the only option for most if us. The ads slyly imying they will look after our parents better or are cleaner or quicker are beneath contempt......grrrr
The dreadful Churchill advert with Dawn French and that stupid laughing dog.
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Posted by La Min gibbon swinging strumpet draped in black (U12534030) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
All of the gambling and dodgy loan company ones, urgh!
Those ruddy Ryvita women and anything that restores your natural rhythm.
Especially but that daft one with the woman in the purple dress who wets herself, I can't help wondering what might happen when that bloke she's hanging about with finally gets his way with her....
Ps that's the advert I am ranting about, not belittling pelvic floor issues.
The Oreo advert with the bossy little girl and her pervy sounding dad. I can hardly work out what she's saying, but the first word just sounds like she's "parped", which always makes me look up from whatever I'm doing. Makes me feel sick.
Oh, and that awful one about constipation, where the woman keeps pouring more food into her handbag - bleurgh!
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Posted by Slightly-Foxed_a cat needs rehoming in Droitwich (U9332727) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
I've just remembered another one that really gets on my cakes "Gary's cat is missing" with its sneering contempt for people who care about pets, people who look out for pets, people who take care of lost pets.
I can just imagine some kewl sixteen year old advertising exec with a black polo neck, a pony tail and a rotring thinking it's a really brilliant advert for whatever stupid car it is.
Well. you dingbat, whoever you are. Cats are more important than cars, and I hope you get an expensive transmission failure. At 4AM on a deserted motorway with a flat battery in your mobile.
Ooh, I've never seen that advert, but now I've heard about it I hate it too. Of course cats are more important than cars.
What's a rotring?
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Posted by Slightly-Foxed_a cat needs rehoming in Droitwich (U9332727) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
A particular type of pen used by graphic designers and advertising executives. Not everybody who owns a rotring is automatically bad.
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Posted by Slightly-Foxed_a cat needs rehoming in Droitwich (U9332727) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
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Posted by Auntie Molly (U14110968) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
The tenalady ads where the woman looks 40 years too young to need incontinence aids.
Ah, thank you.
The one where the woman breaks her shoe heel, falls over and wets herself
Also the creepy trolls - money lending?
As soon as these ads come on, the TV goes off, so no idea what they are for
=^..^=
That awful woman on the dating advert.
She infuriates me
Not really sure why but I get quite riled when she starts waffling on
Category 1:
The Sensodyne adverts - why should I trust a denstist who can't even set up a camera straight?
The Go Compare adverts - especially now that they are effectively admitting that they are annoying but still doing them. (Blowing the singer doesn't make him any less irritating, although I will concede the Steven Hawking one is ammusing at least).
Ambulance Chasers 4 U (or whatever they're called) and similar.
All the Lynx adverts - sexist, and (more importantly) blatent false advertising.
Category 2:
That car advert. You know, the one with the really cool car, being driven by really cool people. With great music, and awesome scenery. I'm sure you know the one I'm thinking of. Its for a...car. Of some sort. With... four wheels. (Or am I confusing it with that other advert for that other car?)
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Posted by Slightly-Foxed_a cat needs rehoming in Droitwich (U9332727) on Sunday, 17th February 2013
Blowing the singer doesn't make him any less irritating Â
But it might make the adverts more entertaining
Usually turn the sound off as soon as ads come on so it's a shock if we're in someone else's house and hear what we're missing - not much usually.
Can't stand the creepy wonga ladies.
We were at Castle Howard a few years ago for last night of the proms and Wynne Evans was introduced as someone we were soon going to hear an awful lot of. Cue Go Compare which I could tolerate but I don't like the blowing up development.
Blowing the singer doesn't make him any less irritating Â
But it might make the adverts more entertaining Â
Up! Blowing the singer UP I mean!
Anything with puppets, Nicholas Parsons and 4,000% interest.
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Posted by virtual_jan (U13662056) on Monday, 18th February 2013
In reverse order:
Anything featuring Carol (you can trust me cos I'm good at Maths) Vorderman
Martine Mc Cutcheon and Activia
Lynda Bellingham and the ISME ad - makes me want to put a brick through the TV screen.
v_j
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Posted by Former Archers Listener known as Fausto etc (U14266958) on Monday, 18th February 2013
Price comparison web sites full stop.
Its just got to be that 118,,, does ANYBODY actualy use that service anyway???Â
Gotta agree with that. The most patronising piece of **** on TV. I only ever record ITV movies, so that I don't have to watch those clowns in real time.
Next worse has to be those kind of adverts that shout at you (double glazing moron) all the time, endlessly yelling their stupid phone number.
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Posted by The Blessed Songsinger (U2319309) on Monday, 18th February 2013
Yes, like Cillit Bang!
The woman who waves her arms about like a hyperactive windmill advertising somebody or other's sofas, she has only just stpped throwing pizzas about.
The scruffy man in the green cape shouting about somebody or other's windows.
Wonga
Ads glorifying envy, greed, and nastiness.
All skin care ads, who ever wants a face with no lines at all, you would resemble an overinflated ballon.
Any of the payday or other easy loan adds, especially the ones voiced by celebs who should know better.
Though as a Man City fan, i'm currently cringing my way through The Head and Shoulders ad with Joe Hart. Why is he doing it, it's not like he doesn't earn enough already.
Can't remember which airline it is for but they have several ads, all bad.
A chap with bacon on his face, same chap wearing a bath rob who is fed up with all these showers, and same irritating chap wearing shorts but pulling on a ski hat. Grrh!
°Â´Ç²Ô²µ²¹Ìý They're not just bad, but evil IMO. A bunch of puppet grannies in reality one step above loan sharking.
There was a time when adverts could be really good. My own favourite was the dog, cat, and mouse cosying up in front of a coal fire, to the sound of 'Will you still love me tomorrow'.
Now there isn't a single ad that has any charm whatsoever, or would make me take an interest in the product.
I now mute the sound and look away, as do many others.
Own goal for the advertisers.
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Posted by sirblunderdog (U14202514) on Monday, 18th February 2013
Michael Parkinson and his 'loved ones'
Go compare
Anything with that oligeanous git Stephen Fry in it
ditto the sneering Graham Norton
Wonga
However, I've cured the problem.
I took down my TV aerial (I live in a chalet) and only use my set for watching VHS/DVDs
I'll be boggered if I'm forking out for a TV licence to help prop up the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Posted by cosmicJetson (U3163660) on Monday, 18th February 2013
Blowing the singer doesn't make him any less irritating Â
But it might make the adverts more entertaining Â
Up! Blowing the singer UP I mean!Â
See this is what I shall miss!! Monday morning, been away since 3am fretting about work, waited half an hour for the bus to get to work, now at work and cannot face doing anything with the piles of paperwork building up around me.
So I come here, enter a reasonably everyday discussion about adverts, and end up sniggering like a slightly over-excited 11 year old!!
Oh and to remain on topic, all ads for sports betting get my goat, but particuarly the chap who just appears to run around shouting at the top of his voice!
B/W to everyone, and hope to catch up in other places.
CJ
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Posted by cosmicJetson (U3163660) on Monday, 18th February 2013
Though as a Man City fan, i'm currently cringing my way through The Head and Shoulders ad with Joe Hart. Why is he doing it, it's not like he doesn't earn enough already.
+++++++
Having watched his performance against the mighty Saints last week, looks like he was far away wondering that himself! Back in the day when Keegan & Co were advertising Brut I suppose it was about being a cool/macho/sexy dude, but dandruff shampoo??
B/W
CJ
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Posted by ooo-- Misty --ooo (U2226804) on Monday, 18th February 2013
If I'm watching anything on a channel with adverts, I always automatically turn the sound off when the adverts come on.
The one where I close my eyes is the advert for "Go Compare" with that "singing chap" ~ can't stand it! I also dislike adverts where you're treated to a close-up of food going into someones mouth ... yuk ...
Any of the payday or other easy loan adds, especially the ones voiced by celebs who should know better.
Though as a Man City fan, i'm currently cringing my way through The Head and Shoulders ad with Joe Hart. Why is he doing it, it's not like he doesn't earn enough already.Â
What is it with Head and Shoulders? The Jenson Button advert for them was flesh crawlingly bad.
< shudder >
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Posted by Lady Trudie Tilney Glorfindel Maldini (U2222312) on Monday, 18th February 2013
Worst Advert on Television
Without a doubt, the worst advert on television, and radio, and online, is the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s insulting 'D-love' promotion of all things digital, the costs of which campaign WOULD HAVE PAID FOR THIS MESSAGEBOARD MANY TIMES OVER.
Sorry. That feels better though.
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Posted by cheekyrobin (U15446012) on Monday, 18th February 2013
Quite agree about the Wonga ad. Deliberately targeting older and more vulnerable people.
The two idiots on the 118
The silly woman in the purple dress who's always wetting herself. Come to think of it, most ads seem to bring out my inner homicidal maniac!
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Posted by RichTeabiscuit (U2000482) on Monday, 18th February 2013
A particular type of pen used by graphic designers and advertising executives. Not everybody who owns a rotring is automatically bad. Â
And draughtsmen, back in the days when it was proper drawing rather than this CAD stuff.
Ah, that takes me back. Many an hour spent over a sink at work, washing the ink off my fingers and trying desperately to coax my 0.35mm Rotring pen back into life. And woe betide you if you ever bent that little pin.
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Posted by The Blessed Songsinger (U2319309) on Monday, 18th February 2013
Have just caught a sinister and creepy one for the Red Cross and was so appalled I kept the sound on - something about dreadful things that happen to you and that she doesn't care. Where do they get these ideas from? It certainly would not make me contribute to the Red Cross!
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Posted by La Min gibbon swinging strumpet draped in black (U12534030) on Monday, 18th February 2013
Oh I saw it, nasty teenager stalking about all not caring, named Crisis.
Bit Greek mythology that, but also rather unpleasant about teenagers.
Can't bear the Wonga adverts both for the product and for the creepiness of them. Shame on Nicholas parsons for taking part.
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