Ok the biggie: your most hated Adverts.

[BigBucket]

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!

[maxedout]

...all the way over to the lastest 'high five' advert with a bunch of fat retards in a radio studio that can't act.

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.

[blondifan]

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.

[eelcat]

Originally Posted by maxedout

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"

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

[Refhand]

Originally Posted by maxedout

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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"

d) chronically constipated and in need of yogurt to help you have a crap.

[goonerkev]

The ones that really get me are the increasing number of charity appeals. Of course most charities do good work, but do we really want them constantly shoving out their begging bowls during our leisure time ??

A good example was the Sally Army asking for about 30 quid so they could provide Christmas dinners for the homeless. Fair enough, but the bloody ads were still running in the middle of January !!!

[maxedout]

To expand the idea a bit - non-specific annoyances in ads.

-Chemicals you've never heard of in beauty products
"Now with new fictionite to shrink the water molecules in your skin contravening the laws of physics & creating a tiny quantum singularity to just suck the ugly away"

-Claims by a "real person" who is obviously an out-of-work actor (& after the ad you realise why they're out-of-work)

-All men are whining babies at the first sign of a cold.
(when they're healthy they're just idiots)

-All women are obsessed with bingo & beauty products when they're not having orgasms over chocolate.

-In any group of more than 3 women in a public place the conversation will eventually turn to the subject of bowel problems.

-If the advert is for a training course a shop assistant will walk straight into a job as an IT consultant even though they have no experience & the qualification isn't recognised by any official body.

-Ant & Dec

-Your children will love you even more if you give them fruit instead of chocolate.

-At the first appearance of a stain on your favourite shirt a strange woman will appear with detergent suggestions.

-Christmas starts on November 6th.

[Giacson]

Just imagine this guy being a sponsor to a network show you're trying to watch and have this repeated every 10 minutes. For anyone feeling ill after watching it, remember, you were warned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGw3A9Dg-Q

[Aubrey]

Originally Posted by Giacson

Just imagine this guy being a sponsor to a network show you're trying to watch and have this repeated every 10 minutes. For anyone feeling ill after watching it, remember, you were warned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGw3A9Dg-Q

Wagnerian costumes, but they don't have the wit to do a Wagner pastiche, which for any kind of a musician would be fairly easy, I'd have thought.

That is another thing about adverts, though: they are memorable not because of any intrinsic merit, but because they're repeated a lot; anything's memorable if you see it often enough.

I've been watching a lot of video tapes from around 20 years ago. It is rare that I remember any advert that I see on there; and they are all so dated - much more so than the films they break up.

[heretic(666)]

Originally Posted by Giacson

Just imagine this guy being a sponsor to a network show you're trying to watch and have this repeated every 10 minutes. For anyone feeling ill after watching it, remember, you were warned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbGw3A9Dg-Q

Thanks for this. Every UK resident should watch this. Although our one hour shows have dwindled to 46 minutes of 'real tv' we do not suffer one minute solid dross like this