What drives you mad about adverts?

The ones that irritate me are the ones with manic people dancing around and giggling about some ordinary product.

No, and Carol Vorderman doesn't need a funeral plan.

The car ones with Phillip Schofield. Surely he doesn't need the money

The toothpaste ones where whoever speaks is slanted at a diagonal.

Oh and let’s not mention Numan and erectile dysfunction! Why can’t they have an ‘after the watershed’ rule for that?
We’re watching reruns of Death in Paradise, which, although they were BBC, with no adverts, now have adverts including the ED one. DH suggested that it’s perhaps a warning that if you’re travelling somewhere hot like St Marie you might have problems.

You only seem to start to enjoy a programme and then the adverts come on. The majority of them drive me nuts, Go Compare especially, but I do love the dog on the AA one. The ones selling alarms or insurance have the worst actors ever.

I smile at the dancing old man. He seems so much cheerier than a lot of the older people in ads (and the vacant ones advertising mobility aids with bland surroundings and permasmiles).

I can't bear the ones with smiling mums in pristine white clothing in pristine white kitchens where a pristine toddler dressed in white is smearing or dropping something on her newly disinfected white floor, and she shakes her head affectionately and redoes it.

Also the ones that tell us that everything is alive with bacteria and needs to be disinfected regularly - clothes, furnishings, surfaces - nothing is safe from GERMS ?

I enjoy hearing Judy Dench’s voice.

The one that drives me mad is Harry Rednapp on LBC telling everyone to ‘gamble responsibly’ those two words do NOT go together you can’t gamble responsibly. If you are responsible you won’t gamble and if you do gamble then your irresponsible

I hate the Specsavers ad, where the old man keeps dancing. (I think it’s Specsavers)

I want to beat my head on the floorboards when the ad about the older woman who doesn’t know what the ‘cloud’ is, or what modern jobs her family do comes on - aaaargg!

We mute them when watching as a family and there’s a point for the first to say what it’s advertising. Good laugh and gets us through to the think we really sitting there for. Try it ??

They've trawled new depths with the girl sitting on the toilet telling us which incontinence pads to use and pair in the gym using Tena pads while they jig about weeing themselves. Honestly, is nothing private anymore?

Scams are the worst for me. I saw an ad on the internet yesterday that fired me up. The photo was of a little toddler girl who had cancer. She had lost her hair. It was such a sad picture and the “charitable organization” was asking for donations. I decided to check them out before I would donate and it turns out it was a scam! How dare they use an innocent child for unlawful purposes. I’m trying to look into who I should contact about it.
Be careful out there!

I hate the constant, unrealistic smiling or grinning.

Who in real life grins like an idiot while brushing their teeth,
while cleaning a disgustingly filthy bath or toilet, while opening a packet of oven chips, while talking about their incontinence, etc.

I must be a really miserable old whatsit, because it drives me mad!

I can’t stand that one with the bloke with the black hair and beard, who tells us so loudly how to sell our MO’OR! - or else how to buy one, I can’t remember. To me he looks like Mephistopheles! Or at any rate Mephistopheles’ brother.

Sure 72 hour protection -demonstrated by a very energetic, very sweaty dancer. I can’t help wondering if she applied it all over? Wouldn’t a shower and a reapplication be better?

I record and fast forward through the ads usually, but do catch them now and again on some of the Freeview channels. I don't even know what most of them are advertising I'm so out of touch. As someone else mentioned, you could probably have a three course meal now in the time devoted to ads and previews in the middle of the programme. I think it's something like 20 minutes out of each hour for ads.

At least ads used to be amusing - the Smash aliens, Boddingtons, the coffee 'affair' (Gold Blend?), and a few others.

My OH is greatly taken by the Zoflora lady's sashay and spray technique!
My favourite is the AA one when the dog gets the fan going.

I can't stand the one for a car seller where they fall through the air and land on the sofa; just irritates immensely.
Usually go and do something else while ads play out.

Oh yes! We always laugh at how the first reaction on hearing the neighbours were burgled when they were in the house is 'Oh, we should get an alarm', not 'Oh God, how are they?'

Daisy Daisy Daisy and any of the veri sure alarm…??‍♀️

Never watch. To is paused/fast forwarded. The radio goes off. Cannot stand the “terms & conditions apply” bit, spoken quickly at the end!

Don’t get me started on the woman’s voice for the Vodaphone ads!!!!!?

I'm another who records and fast forwards but if I am watching catchup on Channel 5 or 5 then I press the mute button for the adverts and read my Radio Times for 5 mins. So they rarely inconvenience me.

When I have caught a few adverts (just out of curiosity) they either seem to be made for 5 year olds (infantile and stupid) or I have no idea what they're advertising (too sophisticated). They don't seem to cater for middle England who want something entertaining but clever that identifies with the product. Remember the Gold Blend couple and the Oxo family? They are still with us all these years later. As are PG Tips, Yellow Pages and various Cadbury adverts.

The breaks during and after programmes seem to be getting longer these days - and the adverts are continually repetitive. I tend now to put the programme on hold for 15 minutes and go and do something useful and then whizz through the ads until the next session. Sometimes I record the whole programme and then whizz through the ads - it depends what I'm watching and what time it is.

Sorry for going off topic www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L6PDVWz3ng