Adverts that make you wanna smash your TV set up.

[CooperD]

The Esso advert with the kid making racing car noises then the mother starts. Voiced over by Martin Brundle. Total pants and very fking annoying.

[Chipmunk1]

The bank advert when the father loses the scarf his kid made for him when he was going on t fisher mans boat, now when his kid grew up he gave it back after cherishing for many years, but oh no he leaves it on the bus, luckily one of those great bank workers finds it and brings it back to his house, cue teary reunion with kid and scarf, see how annoying it is ?

[Bluedot]

CooperD said:

The Esso advert with the kid making racing car noises then the mother starts. Voiced over by Martin Brundle. Total pants and very fking annoying.

This one popped up last night and I thought exactly the same.

[JonRB]

The one that really annoys me at the moment is for an aftermarket car warranty (it sounds like it is voiced by James Nesbitt) where it tries to scare people into the fact that an out-of-warranty car is a TICKING TIME BOMB (yes, he does pretty much shout it). It's blatant FUD designed to scare people into buying their product. Frankly I'm surprised they can get away with it.

Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 16th June 12:20

[PanzerCommander]

JonRB said:

The one that really annoys me at the moment is for an aftermarket car warranty (it sounds like it is voiced by James Nesbitt) where it tries to scare people into the fact that an out-of-warranty car is a TICKING TIME BOMB (yes, he does pretty much shout it). It's blatant FUD designed to scare people into buying their product. Frankly I'm surprised they can get away with it.

Edited by JonRB on Tuesday 16th June 12:20

These adverts really irk me as well. A well maintained car is not a ticking time bomb of any description. But then I guess that’s the problem, maintenance. I imagine the sort of person that believes an MOT is a service (I am aware that some people do combine the two thus avoiding multiple trips to the garage) and who will also rant at the warranty company when they find out that the exhaust that has just come off or battery that has died is classed as a wear and tear item.

I wonder how many of them put the excess (all of these policies have an excess to pay) away so they can claim if something does go pop – I’d hazard a guess at not many.

[Langweilig]

That awful Cathedral cheese advert. As far as I'm concerned they call all go and dance in the traffic.

That Jacob's crispbread advert. That little should be sacked for gross misconduct - wilful destruction of company property.

[Hrimfaxi]

I'm pretty sure this must of been mentioned before, but...

The Hugo Boss advert. What a load of wk!

[J4CKO]

Quentin Wilson with his warranty, might be a nice bloke but he doesnt fill me with trust.

[Countdown]

Jimboka said:

'darling, you're so Money supermarket'
I don't get that at all. What the hell does it mean?
I've never used money supermarket whatever it is . And never will due to the annoying ad now!

The advert with the guy in hot pants and high heels shaking his "booty" in the faces of random strangers?

I don't understand anything about the advert. Why is he wearing high heels or hot pants? Why does he have that really aggressive walk? Why is he shaking his arse? Why are any of those things going to make my use money supermarket?

[Beati Dogu]

I'm so sick of seeing that creepy Audrey Hepburn one. For a start, most people under a certain age probably don't know who she was and even if they did, they'd assume (as I did before reading about it) that they'd just used an actress that looks like her. So all that money they spent on fancy computer graphics is wasted anyway.

[cold thursday]

Countdown said:

I don't understand anything about the advert. Why is he wearing high heels or hot pants? Why does he have that really aggressive walk? Why is he shaking his arse? Why are any of those things going to make my use money supermarket?

I don't have a tv or watch any of that advertising st, but your post made me laugh, reminded me of why I gave it up.
Nobody needs any of that in their life

[boobles]

Chipmunk1 said:

The bank advert when the father loses the scarf his kid made for him when he was going on t fisher mans boat, now when his kid grew up he gave it back after cherishing for many years, but oh no he leaves it on the bus, luckily one of those great bank workers finds it and brings it back to his house, cue teary reunion with kid and scarf, see how annoying it is ?

Am I also right in saying that he is on the said bank website looking for his scarf?

Pretty certain there isn't that function on my online banking!!!

[Europa1]

Countdown said:

Jimboka said:

'darling, you're so Money supermarket'
I don't get that at all. What the hell does it mean?
I've never used money supermarket whatever it is . And never will due to the annoying ad now!

The advert with the guy in hot pants and high heels shaking his "booty" in the faces of random strangers?

I don't understand anything about the advert. Why is he wearing high heels or hot pants? Why does he have that really aggressive walk? Why is he shaking his arse? Why are any of those things going to make my use money supermarket?

All of that pales into insignificance alongside the presence in the advert of that dreadful old trout Sharon Osbourne.

[Brigand]

Europa1 said:

Countdown said:

Jimboka said:

'darling, you're so Money supermarket'
I don't get that at all. What the hell does it mean?
I've never used money supermarket whatever it is . And never will due to the annoying ad now!

The advert with the guy in hot pants and high heels shaking his "booty" in the faces of random strangers?

I don't understand anything about the advert. Why is he wearing high heels or hot pants? Why does he have that really aggressive walk? Why is he shaking his arse? Why are any of those things going to make my use money supermarket?

All of that pales into insignificance alongside the presence in the advert of that dreadful old trout Sharon Osbourne.

These are just "nonsense" adverts not designed to sell the product directly, but get your attention and generate a "buzz". A lot of people will know the advert you mean even if they haven't seen it because they've heard other people talking about it, and that's how the product name spreads.

I fking hate that advert.

[Halmyre]

Bluedot said:

CooperD said:

The Esso advert with the kid making racing car noises then the mother starts. Voiced over by Martin Brundle. Total pants and very fking annoying.

This one popped up last night and I thought exactly the same.

Me too. Horrible bratscute children in adverts = fail.

[fathomfive]

Radio not TV, but on my local station there is an M&S advert featuring a kid and his mother and the "adjutable hems" on his strides.

It obviously plays on his developing reading skills but forgets the fact that the little fker just isn't listening to his mother when she corrects him, as he continues to say the same fking thing.

[rohrl]

Jimboka said:

I've never used money supermarket whatever it is . And never will due to the annoying ad now!

I have used Money Supermarket in the past but that ad has put me off them completely.

There are plenty of other similar sites like Compare The Market, Confused .com & GoCompare, none of which stick a man's arse in my face when I'm trying to watch television and I'll take my money to them instead.

[Halmyre]

rohrl said:

Jimboka said:

I've never used money supermarket whatever it is . And never will due to the annoying ad now!

I have used Money Supermarket in the past but that ad has put me off them completely.

There are plenty of other similar sites like Compare The Market, Confused .com & GoCompare, none of which stick a man's arse in my face when I'm trying to watch television and I'll take my money to them instead.

Compare the Market - Alexander the meerkat. fk off.
Confused.com - Brian the Robot. fk off.
GoCompare - comic opera singer. fk off.

[rohrl]

Halmyre said:

Compare the Market - Alexander the meerkat. fk off.
Confused.com - Brian the Robot. fk off.
GoCompare - comic opera singer. fk off.

Well yeah, fair enough, but they're all infinitely preferable to a bloke shaking his fat arse in your face aren't they?

[JonRB]

rohrl said:

Well yeah, fair enough, but they're all infinitely preferable to a bloke shaking his fat arse in your face aren't they?

Depends on how insecure in your own sexuality you are, darling.