Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.

[andyjo1982]

The Smyths toy store, 'if I was a toy' advert. Gonna be played to death over the next 3 months isn't it. FFS

[Zad]

"The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had" says so much about the attitude of banks to their customers really.

I wonder if Barnardo's really wanted to use Suffer The Children but it was just too appropriate and near the knuckle. I'm glad they didn't. Rule The World was never a favourite, and it was flogged to death with the Run The World version, so the ad didn't spoil it too much. Even so, this is an awful version, and I'd hate them to utterly ruin one of my all time favourites that just gets better as I get older and it means more.

Talking of which, I look back at the videos and realise just how young they were when they recorded tracks like these. Roland and Curt were 21-22 and Ian Stanley 25 or so. Bloody hell, subject matter, lyrics, and "big" music like that, which seems to get better as time passes. I guess that's talent and hard work.

[Issi]

Can anybody explain the Jeremy Clarkson/Amazon firs stick advert, were he sends some sticks across the channel with drones?

I've watched it a couple of times and just can't seem to get the gist of it.

[Shakermaker]

Issi said:

Can anybody explain the Jeremy Clarkson/Amazon firs stick advert, were he sends some sticks across the channel with drones?

I've watched it a couple of times and just can't seem to get the gist of it.

Its Amazon making the most of their enormous expenditure on JC, so they have to get him to do their adverts.

Doesn't matter what it means, it just means that you associate JC with Amazon...

[droopsnoot]

Zad said:

I wonder if Barnardo's really wanted to use Suffer The Children but it was just too appropriate and near the knuckle.

Reminds me of a BBC "Children in Need" film where John Bishop had gone out to make a film in some godforsaken place where there were loads of starving children. Cue the depressing slow piano music, except no-one seems to have noticed it was Birdie's first hit, inappropriately called "Skinny Love".

[Dr Murdoch]

Humpy D said:

Another really annoying radio ad is the one for Vauxhall saying that they got an extra £500 off for test driving a car.

It features 2 women - Lou and Bec - who are obviously heavily based on Mel and Sue!!

I can see that Becs,

I can see that!

[AlexRS2782]

A couple I've noticed today.

Nescafe with a rather weird advert featuring a long haired guy getting showered in coffee beans and then dancing in the street.

Costa Coffee with an even more ridiculous advert featuring a "motivational spokesman" geeing up the Costa employees.

Kinder for continuing to encourage poor grammar & language with "mum, I'm stopping to grows up".

Some scumbag solicitor / money agency running an advert explaining how you can go about suing your previous solicitor(s) that handled a previous personal injury claim / accident, etc, if you feel you should have got more £££££. WTF

Edit - Also McDonalds with the bellend pulling into the drive through and talking to the waste bin, rather than the ordering point, because he's evidently not woken up yet and the only way he can is by shoving a load of unhealthy junk food & overpriced coffee down his throat.

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Saturday 15th October 22:55

[easytiger123]

The Oxo ad where the most popular girl in the school comes over for dinner. More like the most ill-mannered girl in the school. Put your fking mobile phone down while the woman who's going to cook you dinner introduces herself and then put it down again when she asks you if you enjoyed it. For fk's sake!!

[Mcphisto]

Oh My God just put those furkin bean cans down!!! I know it's been mentioned before but It came on just now and annoyed me a lot more than it should have!
The people who thought this monstrosity up should be shot!.............then hung..........then quartered just to be sure they don't do anything like this again.

[bobbo89]

Channel 4's current Yakult 'sponsor' adverts that keep shouting at me in Japanese. I've no idea why they annoy me, they just do!

[kowalski655]

The crisp one(Golden Wonder?) with the woman's face distorting..just creepy

[RemyMartin]

Shakermaker said:

Issi said:

Can anybody explain the Jeremy Clarkson/Amazon firs stick advert, were he sends some sticks across the channel with drones?

I've watched it a couple of times and just can't seem to get the gist of it.

Its Amazon making the most of their enormous expenditure on JC, so they have to get him to do their adverts.

Doesn't matter what it means, it just means that you associate JC with Amazon...

I also believe France was one of the few countries not to buy the rights to top gear or view the uk original.

[davek_964]

RemyMartin said:

Shakermaker said:

Issi said:

Can anybody explain the Jeremy Clarkson/Amazon firs stick advert, were he sends some sticks across the channel with drones?

I've watched it a couple of times and just can't seem to get the gist of it.

Its Amazon making the most of their enormous expenditure on JC, so they have to get him to do their adverts.

Doesn't matter what it means, it just means that you associate JC with Amazon...

I also believe France was one of the few countries not to buy the rights to top gear or view the uk original.

In that case, France has just gone up in my estimation significantly.

[AlexRS2782]

Argh, Royal London and the guy strumming his lute are now doing the pre & post advert break stings for every single evening, through into the night, show on 5USA

[J4CKO]

Issi said:

Can anybody explain the Jeremy Clarkson/Amazon firs stick advert, were he sends some sticks across the channel with drones?

I've watched it a couple of times and just can't seem to get the gist of it.

I know, the last one sort of had a point "Demand 5, Netflix and er, that", i.e. drawing attention to being "unbusy" and this one he makes a sort of peace with the BBC and says it in a sort of forced enthusiasm but the drone bit lacks a punchline, you get ride of the Valkyries and it doesnt then have any point whatsover.

[Bluedot]

Actimel and the farmer to the tune of 'walk this way'
Awful advert that really doesn't work.

[HustleRussell]

Bluedot said:

Actimel and the farmer to the tune of 'walk this way'
Awful advert that really doesn't work.

Is that the one where the farmer is on his knees rabidly masturbating a milk bottle with milk spurting out of the top? Graphic.

[AlexRS2782]

Asda can now be added to this list as well for their advert with the family of "real" werewolves and their child wanting to be something different for Halloween.

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Sunday 23 October 21:16

[Hainey]

AlexRS2782 said:

Asda can now be added to this list as well for their advert with the family of "real" werewolves anD their child wanting to be something different for Halloween.

I actually quite like that one

[Bluedot]

HustleRussell said:

Bluedot said:

Actimel and the farmer to the tune of 'walk this way'
Awful advert that really doesn't work.

Is that the one where the farmer is on his knees rabidly masturbating a milk bottle with milk spurting out of the top? Graphic.

Yes. Very disturbing.