Adverts that are being shown on the tele

All of the above plus the very long one for Vintage Cash Cow. I have to mute them.

MissAdventure

I don't like the ones where a stern man is telling you how your family is going to suffer if you don't sort out your money... his face goes all sad as he thinks about our families.

There's an advert with a man telling you to invest in Trading 212.

He sounds so angry, ordering you to do so like a Sergeant Major and so offputting that it is a firm I will avoid at all costs to invest my £millions.

I don't like the ones where a stern man is telling you how your family is going to suffer if you don't sort out your money... his face goes all sad as he thinks about our families.

I’ve just retired and how deepressing these adverts are! I honestly think it might be time to go back to work!

dolphindaisy

I hate the sofa advert with the old lady sitting on her new sofa and telling us it was so cheap she can now afford "Carlos" a fit, topless young man serving her tea. Imagine if that was reversed and it was an old man on the sofa drooling over a glamorous, topless young woman serving his tea.

Good point.

I hate the sofa advert with the old lady sitting on her new sofa and telling us it was so cheap she can now afford "Carlos" a fit, topless young man serving her tea. Imagine if that was reversed and it was an old man on the sofa drooling over a glamorous, topless young woman serving his tea.

The grandkids love the pepto bismol ad and do the little song and dance. I really can’t stand it but they are too cute to not love their efforts.
Don’t watch telly much, prefer to watch Netflix or prime video. However, on prime some films/programmes show ads and you have to pay extra not to watch them, also you can’t fast forward.
I just wonder if anyone has ever bought anything after watching an advert. I haven’t.

Lovetopaint037

Have enjoyed the Specsavers adverts - that one where the fellow misses his plane. Then the current one (not Specsavers) where the man misses his check in because he has to negotiate the way to the desk where that woman sits with that superior look on her face. Then there are those adverts which I have no idea what they are advertising. Also all those ones which advocate hiding smells by smothering them with some potent substitute which probably irritate your lungs. Hate that pair who coo over travel insurance or the ones where dealing with your funeral is really exciting.

I hate the one where he has to go through that maze to get to check-in. My DH is disabled and walking is very painful and they made him do that for a COVID jab back in 2023. Just like the TV one is was totally empty no queue and medical people looked at the old disabled man and made him do it. Still makes my blood boil.

The one where the older woman is complaining about the kitchen cupboards needing replacing and the husband saying they can buy a replacement door from x company. Door replaced, woman happy, hubby smug. Cut to new ad in the same kitchen but with a younger woman - rinse, repeat but with an estate agent this time suggesting one door replacement. Every time I see this ad, I'm wondering if the older couple sold the house and took their new cupboard door with them

I'm annoyed at those charity adverts that tell you how much to donate
I'm with you MT62 about the blast of deodorant down the pants guy! why don't they just have a quick shower
Then there's those two morons screaming at each other through the two-way mirror in the toothpaste ad

We used to laugh at adverts in the day, now it's who can make us squirm and irritate us the most

V3ra

I've given up on watching live TV, I watch what I want through the apps for each channel. Far more choice that way.

I've recently treated myself and paid for ad-free on ITV (£60 for a year) and Channel 4 (£40 for a year).
It's made such difference to my enjoyment of watching a programme or series!

Same here V3ra! I'm on my third year of these two subscriptions and it's worth every penny. Lots of choice and excellent programming on BBC, ITV and C4 - more than I could ever need

midgey

It’s the constant begging ones that really annoy me, so many on in the afternoons.

This ^

My current pet loathing (apart from the usual e.g. life insurance, cremations etc.) are the ‘Fresh!!!’ ones for smelly laundry additives. I do wonder why anyone ever buys them, especially given the CoL crisis, but I suppose the marketing men know what they’re doing. If you tell people they need something, enough of them will fall for it.

I do find that ‘Fairy’ woman particularly irritating!

Oh, and the gormless looking Febreze woman - ‘…after I catch my dog on the couch’, etc.

Not to mention famous footballers, or ex footballers, used to advertise a particular detergent, so all his T shirts can be sparkly white!

Have enjoyed the Specsavers adverts - that one where the fellow misses his plane. Then the current one (not Specsavers) where the man misses his check in because he has to negotiate the way to the desk where that woman sits with that superior look on her face. Then there are those adverts which I have no idea what they are advertising. Also all those ones which advocate hiding smells by smothering them with some potent substitute which probably irritate your lungs. Hate that pair who coo over travel insurance or the ones where dealing with your funeral is really exciting.

Maybe his wife has to stay on the other side of the bathroom door because she has an irresistible urge to push him under the water.

When the cremations ones -particularly the Simplicity ones I switch off ,
mute the TV,.change channels,make a cup of tea or go to the loo !
Anything,but listen to the "way to go " jingle.

The man in the over-filled bubble bath who enjoyed the sausage rolls at a funeral turned up again last night. His wife is still talking to him from the other side of the bathroom door.

MT62

I saw advert for all over deodorant (in Spain) but itv. Then showed the the guy spraying down below & the word (balls) in brackets 🤦‍♀️ name escapes me, could be ‘lynx’ which I hate the smell of.

Advert I hate on Netflix is the guy driving up the steps in a blue Range Rover, gets out & gives the dog a ball he’s retrieved.
Now when I see that actor in anything, I switch off.

I saw advert for all over deodorant (in Spain) but itv. Then showed the the guy spraying down below & the word (balls) in brackets 🤦‍♀️ name escapes me, could be ‘lynx’ which I hate the smell of.

Allira

Tizliz

Why do men think it’s so wonderful to get a clean house when women have been doing it forever with no fuss.

I wouldn't mind if one of them came and cleaned mine!

I'll award them a 🏅 as they pose with their mop and bottle of Flash!!

Tizliz

Why do men think it’s so wonderful to get a clean house when women have been doing it forever with no fuss.

I wouldn't mind if one of them came and cleaned mine!

I'll award them a 🏅 as they pose with their mop and bottle of Flash!!

Why do men think it’s so wonderful to get a clean house when women have been doing it forever with no fuss.

Magenta8

I am fed up with the endlessly boring ones like the ones which show cars (this model is not available outside the EU) being driven on the right.

Also the bodily function ones such as menstruation, urinary incontinence, constipation and diarrhoea!!

Advertisement breaks seem to be longer with a seemingly endless stream of tedious short films. They are more frequent than they used to be as well, the first break often occurring less than ten minutes after the start of the programme.

They seem to me to merge into each so that one minute I'm in the kitchen mopping the floor with a super mop and then all of a sudden I'm on a cruise ship.

And the ads for cars nearly always display the model in question sweeping along empty Highland roads, hindrance-free, beautiful scenery and not a caravan in sight. Nor a traffic policeman.

I've given up on watching live TV, I watch what I want through the apps for each channel. Far more choice that way.

I've recently treated myself and paid for ad-free on ITV (£60 for a year) and Channel 4 (£40 for a year).
It's made such difference to my enjoyment of watching a programme or series!