as in adverts or promotion which actually put you off a product. Prompted by comments on WCA's thread, and looking at that Charge ad over there - distinctly put off by the fakenger and his skiddie. What else is supposed to promote something but does the opposite?
Gordon Brown
Oh Felix
DFS
Gilette.
Asda - adverts just make me want to thump a chav for some reason
Any flashing or animated ads on webpages. I hate them and will not click thru on them
I call them anti-verts.
So many things i will never buy, including some i actually used to love.
Doritos
Pringles
Purgeots
Charmin
Any fast food pretty much
'I want to poo in Paul's house'.
Actually, I can't remember what the ad was for, it's so ****ing annoying.
'I want to shit in Sharon's house' would be preferable. Maybe they could do an after the Watershed version?
'I want to shit in Sharon's house.'
'Why?'
'Because our bog is knackered, and full of logs. And there's a tapeworm swimming around in it.'
Good call, TJ 😀
that fat **** winner and his car insurance commercials.
calm down dear? I will once he's met the business end of an RPG
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if you can't remember what the advert is for then they've shot themselves in the foot and deserve to go under. I can barely remember what those ridiculous cadburies adverts are for because there's no chocolate bar in them. In fact, any advert where the advert is the talking point and not the product is a failure and should be dropped immediately. The day marketing becomes more important than real life things is the day we have failed as a species and should all shoot ourselves.
calm down dear? I will once he's met the business end of an RPG
LOL!
I like that one!
A more worthy candidate for a baseball-batting, I can't imagine*...
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*RudeBoy's views are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
'I want to poo in Paul's house'.
ahahaha that poor child is going to getso much abuse from his mates when he's older. terible ad worthy of changing channel.
Oh and that insurance ad with iggy pop.
Those adverts where glamorous women sit around sipping chardonnay discussing their bowel movements and incontinence pads.
Aaargh!
davidrussel; line your sights up:
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What a ****.
Morrisons. I hate the place and the ads make it seems like they have fresh, nice stuff (they don't) and their staff are all freindly and helpful (they are not). In the past I have seen rotting tomatoes in their "fresh" veg stand and they just don't care about it.
Morrisons (or "Scums" as I call it) is shit.
There, I feel better for that.
Tampax.
All that roller skating. Just cant bring myself to buy Tampax.
might it be quicker to list the adverts that [b]work [/b]??
I can't think of any yet...
In fact, any advert where the advert is the talking point and not the product is a failure and should be dropped immediately
Failure by what measure? They don't just make this stuff up you know. If it didn't work (ie increase product sales) they wouldn't do it.
That Man Coke stuff?
Coke Zero was it called?
Offensive in much the same way as Gilette adverts, presuming some shallow and one-dimensional measure of masculinity that seems to be derived from lads' mags.
Lemsip TurboBastardStrength....because you really can't afford to ACTUALLY be ill! the entire fabric of society would collapse if you had to take a day off ill.
No, far better to dose up on some plastic placebo and take all your germs in to the office and make sure everyone else gets 'em.
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Captain, do you have a cold by any chance? Maybe one that you caught from a co-worker?
Ads that have made me want to buy stuff? Errrrrr. Hang on. Ummmmm.
Maybe that scene from "Ice Cold in Alex" with the beer. I always feel like a beer at that point.
oh, and any advert that includes a man and a women where they are competing at some level. The woman always wins, and the man is invariably made out to look like a stupid ****. That doesn't bother me in the slightest and I'm sure it doesn't bother most men either but the advertising satan's know this and capitalise on it, which is annoying enough to put me off the prduct (if I can remember it)
Iceland, nuff said 🙄
ads that have been over dubbed, Kinder surprise for example and some stupid drink that's supposed to help your guts.
Halifax. Even now the've got rid of the singing workers they still get on my tits.
Lemsip TurboBastardStrength....because you really can't afford to ACTUALLY be ill! the entire fabric of society would collapse if you had to take a day off ill.
Agree about the product but if its the advert I'm thinking of it defines 'woman flu' - about as serious as man flu but with more Rita Hayworth/martyred histrionics with the added symptom that the sufferer suddenly believes that the husband/SO, kids, parents lives will suddenly dissolve into chaos (Ok a bit more TV will be watched but the outstanding repairs & fettling to the bikes & kids toys gets done (And no the oil stain on the kitchen floor wasn't me it was the toddler....(And at least now he knows how to use a hammer drill))).
Any advert showing a faux-jeep-4x4-chelsea-tractor being driven round the desert in Nevada, or through a 6 foot deep tropical river, usually by some chiselled cowboy type. Everyone knows that they end up being driven round Sidcup by middle-management ****s.
Those ones for nationwide, they show a rubbish bank with the fat smarmy bloke working there, and then at the end they say why nationwide is better....when i see that advert i remember it as this rubbish bank is nationwide
The sleazy ad with the puppets picking up the girl on the bike. It makes me cringe.
I also hate the "women get one over on the men" type adverts. Jeeze will we never learn that if we endlessly disparage what men do, we'll just end up having to do it all ourselves and that's just crap.
The faux 'real conversation' ads for yoghurts to stop bloating and "speed up digestive transit"? Lets get real, they just give you the sh*ts!
I hate the new wave of ads for the banks (they all seem to have one on at the moment) which aim to show how "caring" , "helpful" and "cuddly" the banks are
look they're showing him how to budget
ahhh look - he's joking with a pregnant lady
ahhh aren't they niiiice!
i remember it as this rubbish bank is nationwide
Me too!
I hate the new wave of ads for the banks (they all seem to have one on at the moment) which aim to show how "caring" , "helpful" and "cuddly" the banks are
That advert made me really cross, it's like they're proud of the fact that they make you sit and talk about your finances in a big open room in front of all the other customers.
On the subject of bank adverts, what the heck is that Lloyds one that's a bit like The Snowman about? It's so vague and woolly that it took me ages to even recognise it was for banking - let alone Lloyds.
what the heck is that Lloyds one that's a bit like The Snowman about?
It's [b][i]for the journey[/i][/b], of course.
Come on people; you're not trying hard enough. This is a perfect opportunity to really let loose with some hate, to really spit some venom and bile! Proper get the blood pressure up, to boiling point!
I coon't belive the conservatory ads, with [url= http://everything2.com/title/John%2520Stalker ]John Stalker[/url], and his dog Drummer. These would appear alongside ads for Stannah stairlifts, and incontinence pads, between such delights as 'A Place in the Country/Sun', and 'What cash is to be found in your elderly relatives homes?'
But these pale by comparison with the horrors that are Confused.com ads. And the Elephant insurance ones. Truly, truly horrible. So cheaply made, that you can have no confidence in the services offered. Unless you have been lobotomised. Or are on large doses of Valium.
And I will never bank with Failifax, purely for them unleashing this **** on us:
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Ready, aim....
I hate the new wave of ads for the banks (they all seem to have one on at the moment) which aim to show how "caring" , "helpful" and "cuddly" the banks arelook they're showing him how to budget
Yes - the irony of RBS/Natwest telling people how to be careful with their money is slightly breathtaking 🙂
Can you 'grow out' of advertising?
The levis ads (15 years worth whilst i was growing up) were pretty effective - cool music and the implication that you were somehow beyond the rules if you wore levis. It's laughable now, but i really really wanted some levis when i first saw them.
air freshener ads really piss me off at the moment - seem to say 'you used to buy our products, use them once and then store them in a cupboard until your house actually smelt bad, we're not happy with that so now we'll make one that will use itself up, getting you addicted to it's plastic smell in the process so you'll have to buy more next week'
I've been to a few houses recently that made me feel ill with the overpowering 'scent of summer meadows'. at may last work i was called to a first aid incident where someone had passed out in the loo - turned out the air freshener had squirted while he was just underneath and it had knocked him out!
I hate the stupid, shouty Safestyle windows adverts!
Have you noticed how most adverts talk to the viewer as if they are either children or idiots?!
What about the one where the man has a really stupid haircut and is acting like he has Down Syndrome or something, think it was Confused.com or something similar.
One for the Range Rover Sport(?) used to really wind me up- the one implying that driving a ridiculous car at ridiculous speeds in built-up areas was the same as skiing through trees like James Bond, as well as a bunch of other things.
Good adverts;
budweiser (wasssapppppppppp, Buuuudddd-weeisssss-errrrrrrr, etc)
Bad stuff;
bathroom freshner, (Its all gone, its all gone), your shit smells, eat more porridge and get over it.
banks, in general.
Ocean and all the other finance organisations were the (usually) overweight simpletons remark on how "easy" it was to get money.
Of course it's easy you're paying through the nose for it and will lose your house if it all goes wrong.
Or we'll buy your house from you whatever it's condition, alert you won't get market value and you'll be homeless in 6 months.
The picture loans one where he's on the phone asking for cash
Fatwassack to wife:'whadayya reckon, £25k?'
Wife nods
Fatwassack:'Yeah, 25 grand would be great. Yeah, over 40 years..really? thats so cheap'
Fatwassack bounces round the house like he's on the phone to his mum
Fatwassack:'those people at picture loans are so friendly'
Wife nods, Fatwassack pretends to hit wife in face with football.
See kids, plunging into debt is easy....
Yeah I hate that one, he pretends to throw the ball 2 or 3 times.
[i]Have you noticed how most adverts talk to the viewer as if they are either children or idiots?![/i]
Target audience. 😉
[i]Good adverts;
budweiser (wasssapppppppppp, Buuuudddd-weeisssss-errrrrrrr, etc)[/i]
see above. It's a good advert because it sells, it's bad because it appeals to ****wits.
HALIFAX!
I seriously considered changing all my accounts because of Howard - I still mention my annoyance at any bank interaction. I ask if they have sacked him yet. He seems to have gone quiet recently.
Meerkat.
Nuff said.
Have we covered the BT ads with that smug **** who wants to go out with the miserable hag who never smiles?
They're lovely 🙂