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[Closed] Ads that are currently annoying the crap out of me. Nos. 1 to 3.

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1) The aspirational beacons that are the Redknapps and their interminable glottal stops. I' would'n' ma'er so much if "I'" wasn'' the 'ole of the fu''ing adver'.
2) Dear Halifax: Bring back Howard or I start bombing your ATMs.
3) Gloria: Squiggly purple bits animated around squiggly green bits does not impart much information about how plant sterols actually "work". I'm now 4.9! You are just annoying.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 2:59 pm
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That McDonald's one where the voice-over claims that the £ is also known as a bob

??? WTF?

a 'bob' was, is a shilling,12d or [if you must] 5p

Kids in charge of ad companies eh?


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:03 pm
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You watch too much TV: I've never seen 1 & 3. And f%^&ing Howard was the most irritating thing on TV ever.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:03 pm
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so you've bought a TV then Stoner?
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Posted : 26/01/2010 3:04 pm
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Stoner, you need to get out a little more!


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:05 pm
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1/we buy any ****ing car.com
2/all of them with the new craze of putting firework noises in them.
3/Anything from Natwest where they go to your house to help you bank better - you mean sales staff selling bad investments and loans to pay off loans.

Rant over.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:06 pm
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so you've bought a TV then Stoner?

Jr was taking over my computer for Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder DVDs so it seemed my stoic rejection of modern TV was doomed to fail.

I do now get to watch old Poirots, Sherlock Holmes and CSI NYs though so not all bad. The adverts on Five USA and ITV3 are an eye-gouging price to pay though 🙁


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:07 pm
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4) That ugly bint off Eastenders selling yoghurt. TLC = "talentless lost cause"


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:08 pm
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actually not rant over

4/ the hallmark one which is a blatant iphone/apple rip off
5/ Car spotter text adverts

That feels better.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:10 pm
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gocompare surely. FFS, blatant annoying response to the less annoying and catchier 'Seemples'.

actually, haven't seen a decent, clever, witty advert in aaaaaaaaages.

EDIT: MOON****ingPIG!


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:10 pm
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[i]/Anything from Natwest where they go to your house to help you bank better [/i]

"That would look like savings bonds. It would look like..."

Christ! What a pillock. Has anyone actually started banking with NatWest because of those ads??


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:12 pm
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I'm sure I overheard one the other day waffling about skin having "rights". WTF is that all about?

Oh, and I don't care what people say, the Meerkat rocks.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:12 pm
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I giggle the other night at the "cushion yourself" advert by ING with the well-off gent and the gold-digging mutton 😉


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:12 pm
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CFH - that one is getting my blood pressure up too. Apparently 87% of women thought the showergel made their skin feel [i]healthier[/i].

This perhaps says something disappointing about the general IQ of the fairer sex, but Ill be generous and just think its says something about the advertiser.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:14 pm
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I think I'm gonna need....MORE TIES!

why? you gotta go loads more interviews you grey heaired ****?!


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:14 pm
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get sky+ or similar

record all the shows you want to watch
begin viewing at least 15 mins after actual start time

never watch an ad again thanks to the ability fo FF through them all


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:17 pm
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One of my all-time faves:

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Posted : 26/01/2010 3:17 pm
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also, sky sports car garage one, 'they don't know about cars, but they know about football'

no, they know how to make reactionary and often hypocritical and biased clichés.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:17 pm
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+1 what jimmy saids


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:19 pm
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cant be arsed with Sky+.

Long live the BBC iPlayer though - no adverts [i]AND[/i] no Come Spunking on Ice.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:19 pm
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The 'we buy your gold for cash' ones - financial planning for the terminally stupid

DFS adverts - all of them, all bloody year to match the sales they have all bloody year

Adverts for bed companies where they'd have you believe you are in someones bedroom and they are laid down on their bare matress - really? who the f£$% lives like that?

Air freshner adverts - all of them, particularly those stupid plugin things

Morrisons adverts - they just grate

Any advert with Michael Winner in it

Captain Birdseye ones - something slightly peado about them

Perfume / aftershave adverts as these are all just b*****ks


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:20 pm
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you lot are lucky! mrs 83 flicks over to america's next top waste of space every ad break


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:20 pm
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What you need is a digital recorder, BT Vision do a neat one for £30.

Programme all the shows you like, watch them whenever, zap the ads. That Series Record button changed my life.

And the one I hate the most ever is Sheilas Wheels. Being an Aussie Strumpet is not something to sing about.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:21 pm
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Anyone else seeing this thread come up with no name and no link in the forum?

Edit: Odd. Appears ok in IE8 but not chrome.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:28 pm
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While I hate it, the 'webuyanycar' bit of the advert doesn't annoy me that much.

It's the 'dotcom' afterthought that ****s me over.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:28 pm
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We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com. We buy any car dot com.

AARGH - GET OUT OF MY HEAD NOW


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:28 pm
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cant be arsed with Sky+.

Just get a freeview+ box. No extortionate subscription fees to pay that way.
Humax do decent ones.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:32 pm
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cant be arsed with Sky+.

Just get a freeview+ box. No extortionate subscription fees to pay that way.
Humax do decent ones.

& you'll also get iPlayer on your TV


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:34 pm
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sounds promising. WIll investigate.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:35 pm
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& you'll also get iPlayer on your TV

Is it only certain ones that do this? Mine doesn't, but it's quite an old Humax jobby.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:37 pm
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Mute ads and do pressups while they are on - used to work for me - till I got lazy and now I just mute all ads.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:38 pm
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Is it only certain ones that do this?

sorry, I meant Freesat
Freeview won't be getting it anytime soon


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:39 pm
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In no particular order -

Yellow Pages with that annoying tune.

Moonpig

Halifax - stop spending money on poxy ad's and pay me back you b4st*rds!!

Go Compare

And any for gold - simple put it in the envelope it'll be insured for up to £500, yeah right!! And how the hell are you going to get a refund if you fund a better price within 28 days? They'd have smelted it down as soon as it hits the floor.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:40 pm
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I foolishly agreed to appear in a TV advert for a holiday company. It's currently being shown 6 times a day on ITV. Every time it's screened, I get a text/email/phonecall asking if it's me or taking the p*ss. Or a text from my Mum saying "Hi luv, it's your mum. I've just cn u on telly."

Don't know what's worse, the fact that she feels the need to introduce herself in text messages, or the fact that a 65 year old is learning text speak!

So, at the moment, that one particular advert is annoying the hell out of me.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:41 pm
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I hate the advert with iggy pop and that ****ing ugly puppet scares the crap out of me and makes me want to never [u]EVER[/u] buy insurance from them!

I also despise the standard formula adverts of a catchy song, "We buy any car", "Go compare etc".

I do quite like the Tesco Mobile advert mind!


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:43 pm
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I think I'm gonna need....MORE TIES!

why? you gotta go loads more interviews you grey heaired ****?!

s****.

Nice use of the word Strumpet Hels,, A word we don't hear often enough


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:48 pm
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Go on then Shibboleth, what's the advert?


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:51 pm
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annoying as they are, the we buy any car, and go compare ads do stick in your head. If i was selling a car for cash, or looking for insurance right now they'd be the first sites i would try despite me hating the ads, so i guess from an advertisers point of view they have worked.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:52 pm
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what's the ad shibboleth?

who are ya?
who are ya?
who are ya?


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:57 pm
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"Go on then Shibboleth, what's the advert?"

You'd only see it if you're in the Granada region, let's just say it's for a coastal holiday destination.

I'm seen running along a beach, in great pain because I'd dislocated my shoulder and separated my AC joint the night before in Gisburn Forest!

The director wanted me to spin a little girl round by her arms! No chance of that, so my on-screen wife had to do that bit. Good fun though, and great to see how much work goes into such a short piece.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 3:59 pm
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Freeview won't be getting it anytime soon

Bugger. Oh well I'll just keep using the Wii iPlayer channel instead 🙂


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 4:10 pm
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Ooh I'll look out for you Shibboleth. Just remembered I don't watch ITV.

I love the new trailer for the BBC - 2010 Olympic winter games, classy.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 4:13 pm
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Go and Compare
that f*cking meerkat one. [i]Simple...squeak[/i] does not advertising brilliance make.

and

anything which tries to convince birds that they should have a nice yoghurt, rather than going for a crap.


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 4:26 pm
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That reminds me that one for the 'stool softener'.

Utter utter poop


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 4:27 pm
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Mute ads and do pressups while they are on - used to work for me - till I got lazy and now I just mute all ads.

thats a great idea. lets see if it works...

what about envirofone? Want cash for your old mobile? Just pop it in the post and we'll send you up to £150.

Yeah if I go buy an iPhone for £300, stick it straight in an envelope and post it, you might give me £150. Otherwise we're talking enough for a pint at best, right?


 
Posted : 26/01/2010 4:32 pm
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