Ok the biggie: your most hated Adverts.
 

Ok, Ive seen this on 'most annoying' thread but its so common that it deserves its own thread.

What are your most hateful, annoying adverts. Old, new, any nation or creed which adverts make you want to smash up the telly.

I'll start.

All Halifax adverts, pompous p*ss taking wastes of my life. That howard bloke started it all off and it went downhill from there, swinging over to that fat bint who sings like a kitten thrown in an acid bath, all the way over to the lastest 'high five' advert with a bunch of fat retards in a radio studio that can't act.
High five? Bunch of fives more like covered in an armoured glove with rusty spikes applied liberally to the face more like. GodAlmighty i hate these BLOODY ADS!

The BT adverts, with Mr Sh*t-for brains, his bitch and her spawn.

Go Compare advert, another fat tw*t who thinks hes Paverotti but comes across as someone who wants a good smack in the mouth.

Confused.com advert with 'members of the public, yeah riiight!

Finally, Because your worth it adverts. Not that those products wont make you look better or younger, but because the models in the adverts cant move theor faces with all thew surgery they have had!

PS: have you noticed the channels all put their adverts on at the same time now so its almost impossible to channel surf away from the buggers!

Well there is thing called a 'mute' button and its very popular among my family.

Some one pass a puke bag please! :mad:

As soon as I saw the thread title I thought of that one.

Another couple:-
Late night ads for "sexy" chat lines - yeah, right. If you're at home late at night you must be desperate to listen to some bored tart at a call centre & happy to be charged £1.50 per minute for the privilege.

Daytime ads that assume if you're at home during the day you're either
a) - retired &/or near death
b) - seriously in need of debt management
c) - you've "had an accident which wasn't your fault"

As a Linux user I scream at the TV whenever anyone says "Windoze 7 was my idea"
NO IT WASN'T (excuse the shouting) most of it wasn't even micro$oft's idea. They just claim they came up with things that have been available in linux or on macs for years.

There are many loathsome commercials out there, too many to mention, but what really annoys me are ones that feature people behaving in a way people only do in commercials, and doing things that would get you or me arrested.

The worlds worst has to be "Go Compare".That really screws me up.Coldman

Radar(se) Promotions
 

Be thankful (most of you) that you never have to endure this particularly bad flavour of telemarketing.
Mostly if features a particularly adenoidal and irritating personality of one Tim Franklin, whom I'm assuming named his company 'Radar Promotions' in some allusion to Radar Oreilly of M.A.S.H fame -
because they both wore glasses? Or maybe it was their common confidence with women?
Either way he makes me reach for the remote and is largely responsible for me spending so much of my leisure time online.
His ideas of a 'Gig Guide' is purely to advertise restaurants and for 'Leisure and Pleasure' bury our pets.
Probably says more about life here generally than any vitriolic comment can.

Well put maxedout microsoft owe all windows users massive refunds for an OS that should never have been released to begin with.
Maybe 'Radar' should have sole advertising rights to Microsoft, that way nobody would ever be aware of them. ;)

Oh yes, there are so many choices here. Already mentioned is the reincarnated Mr Creosote in the Go Compare ads. Then there's cofused.com and that red telephone on wheels for Direct Line. The pharmaceutical ads in the States would be awful but they make me laugh with all the riders that they have to cram into the end of the ad. We can go on. Andie MaDowell in those cosmetic ads. The theoretical maximum of smugness with all the sexuality of a runner bean. Boiled. And as a category, Christmas ads that kick off in September and holiday ads in January.

But the one that really gets me is those Churchill ads .... oh yes. No one's ever asked "Churchy" whether he would retain his deep, sonorous voice if he had a replica of John Holmes schlong up his khyber. I suspect not.

For an alternative view, check out www.annoyingtvads.co.uk for a UK-centric perspective.

There is a special place in Hell for whoever came up with the "Phones 4 U" adverts ,full of people chosen for their annoyance,all of whom I'd happily beat senseless(Which probably wouldn't take long).

"i want to do a poo at paul's"

I have the same problem here with the radio station I listen to. The station plays a lot of oldies and unfortunately the commercials are directed to the baby boomer generation. My gripe is with EVERY ad. Most hated are

- financial planning
- commercials for items/services for younger people stating it would be a great gift for the grandchildren
- funeral home commercials
- real estate ads...especially those with a tie in to retirement villages.

That's my gripe for radio ads.
As for tv infomercials I don't think there is enough hours in the day to relay my distaste for them :)

That Guinness advert with the waves turning into horses. It won a lot of awards, etc, but it was just ripped off an Athena poster from the 70s, with the difference that there wasn't a woman with her arse out like there was on the poster.

That one from a lot of years ago, with the famous model walking downstairs and losing her clothes, before she gets into a car. All the money they must have spent on that, and they still didn't manage to film it right because one of her nipples was airbrushed out (or whatever they call it), giving her breast a deformed look. This also won a lot of awards, which shows how bad the standard of adverts generally is.

All car adverts (except the one that used a Fall song, heh heh), for their "wry" - IE, deliberately not funny - and laboured humour.

Actually I should just say the adverts that I like; it would be a lot quicker.

Then again, I wouldn't mind them nearly as much if we weren't invited (by the people who make them) to think of them as Art. Ripping off an artist, of whatever kind, does not make art.