Annoying adverts

I'm another anti Haribo. Makes me positively cringe.

So, oldandbold, I'm not the only Haribo fan.
Not crazy after all

The one with the Action man dressed as a scuba diver has my family in fits because he is the image of my dreadful scuba diving Turkish ex husband! Shirley Vealentine? Yes that was me!

Yes I love the Haribo one too.

Forgot to say that it's the 'So Supermarket' advert that has Action Man.
BUT, I usually FF all the ads except the Haribo where adults sound like kids - I really Love that one! Cracks me up every time

I like that one too .
I play Barbies with my GD and we make the action men (belonging to my GS) do very funny girly things.

I don't like the ones when they are sponsoring a program eg the meerkats before coronation street . The funeral plan ones what make out you will only have to pay a small amount a month and that will cover all funeral costs and there will be some left for the family .

The postcode lottery really grates on me, and them singing 'someones knocking on the door'....awful.....

They all annoy me! I have the tv on mute when they come on, usually when you are settling down enjoying a programme.

The worst and most cringe making for me is the one where smart alec kids are saying some loo paper is "As clean as a .... "
I genuinely detest that advert...

Tui - Oh oh oh oh Ain't nobody loves me better.... etc etc. Something about it is so annoying. I hate it so much and would never now book a Tui holiday.

G tech ad my dog hates it and barks his brains out, and funeral cover ads, why are there so many these days, did people not have funerals before? It's depressing,

The sad thing is that the advertisers believe that so long as we remember the ad (be it for all the wrong reasons) then they have been successful. They quite like us getting annoyed and talking about them on Gransnet!

I can't actually think of anything I buy, or bought, just because I saw an ad for it. I do wonder if they are all worth the money spent on them.

I don't watch them, we make a point of only watching the BBC live, so the ads can be easily skipped. It doesn't sound as though I'm missing much!

I must admit to sneaking a look at the Christmas adverts though - amongst the dross there's usually one tearjerker that appeals (sorry, gummibears).

I hate the advert where a woman is leaning over a man sitting in a chair 'interrogating ' him about what sort of locks he has and he doesn't know- I think it's for Aviva. I don't really think it's very appropriate in view of the fact most people are against torture and that is what it is implying, in my mind anyway. In general, most ads wash over me and those which especially annoy me -I mark down as never to use that company's products but the ones which seem to be on constantly are hard to ignore.

I hate the head on wheels awful

I love that one

It’s impossible to avoid the adverts totally, so I just mute them. Easy.

So many that irritate me have already been mentioned. What staggers me is why so many famous people feel its necessary to make adverts in the first place! I could forgive them if the £££ they earn is donated to charity, because I can’t think they need the money!

Can’t stand the TUI advert. They seem to have missed the idea that lots of us go on holiday with children. Also the creepy child on the AA ad - scary

The Tombola advert that seems to suggest players are living it up socialising with friends when in fact they are hunched over their phones all alone at home.

Most of them are rubbish. I'm with Camelotclub over the shouted cilletbang ( advert (I've never bought the stuff on principle), and the silly haribo nonsense. However I do like the action men adverts, though I have no idea what they are advertising!

I think my favourite advert was the one for 'living in peace with your pipe', years ago where the chap in the advert had a radio controlled model submarine, which he used to torpedo the model speed boats which were disturbing the peace on the model boating lake. Well deserved, I thought!

I love the Flash advert because we have a dog that looks just like that. I think he is moonlighting. Meerkats and the Skeletor Dirty Dancing always make smile, but I hate any advert with children in. I think I just dislike the idea of children telling me what to buy. I hate Owen Wilson and Purple Bricks too.

I love the comments about the guy with the parsnips, I shall watch them carefully now.

The girl singing - is it Tui? She has the most bland, most expressionless voice ever.
I also hate the spate of recent ads featuring “real people” “singing” very badly. Why would anyone want their ears to be assaulted as an incentive to buy a product?
I detest the HUGE number of gambling adverts for bingo, football betting, race betting, casino gambling, bet on anything you can come up with gambling - they should all be banned.
The charity adverts are horrendous- the sad, dirge like music, the emotive pictures, the emotional language, the pleading.
Most of the rest are very poor - unimaginative or totally over the top. Very few witty, professional ads these days.

The one for quorn mince where the poor bloke has been doing overtime and has to make dinner when he comes home to placate his wife. Surely doing overtime means he should be looked after.