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Sadgrandma Wed 13-May-26 23:26:18

I hate the constant pure cremation ones targeted at the older people who watch afternoon television. I find them really depressing. However, we rarely watch adverts as we record any ITV programmes so that we can fast forward through them.
Many years ago we were on holiday in the USA and a regular advert featured a taxi driver who said. ‘Gee what a time to get a job as a taxi driver just as I’ve got haemorrhoids!’ We found that hilarious at the time.

Allira Wed 13-May-26 23:03:32

The very personal ones, who wants to know about other women's menstrual or urinary problems except the GP?

The BBC puts on so many adverts now too. DH can't stand "I'm going back to Barry".

I'm enjoying this thread more than any advert! 😁

Wyllow3 Wed 13-May-26 22:23:50

I don't mind the more informative body function ones: its the sort of thing people are often embarrassed to talk about - the Tena ones are OK -

its that tummy one that cures di-or-eaa
and insurance for my ideal funeral plan
and endless ads for home bath or other aids featuring a smiling glam 60 yr old

Marg75 Wed 13-May-26 22:16:20

I don't like the bed ones where everyone goes to sleep smiling!

MissAdventure Wed 13-May-26 21:42:51

I thought you were going to say Peter Kay for a minute there.
Well guess what?
I don't like him, either. grin

Cossy Wed 13-May-26 19:30:21

Yeah most adverts annoy me, but I like the ones with Peter Crouch and I quite like the fairy washing ones with Vogue.

Other than that, they are mostly just very very annoying and far far too long and frequent! Sometimes they come on so quickly I think for a moment it’s part of the programme 🤣🤣🤣

Beechnut Wed 13-May-26 19:17:58

“It’s that time”

Fallingstar Wed 13-May-26 17:35:27

The older couple getting over excited about holiday insurance or the people who dance around with laundry and the man who uses Flash treating his mop with abnormal enthusiasm, make me chuckle. I mean who gets excited about these things, unless under the influence of something.
And I cannot stand the young woman with Fairy washing powder cuddling her small child, she just lays it on way to thick.

midgey Wed 13-May-26 17:34:48

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

Magenta8 Wed 13-May-26 17:29:53

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.

pably15 Tue 12-May-26 19:14:49

I hate the pure cremations, panty liners, especially the young woman walking about in her underwer, holding the baby,..

MissAdventure Tue 12-May-26 18:48:08

I used to work with all men at one time, and during our 12.5 hour shifts, there was a brief lull when we could sit down, before the chaos began again.

It was just at the time when the ads for tenalady, denture fixatives, and the "full handbag" (constipation) came on the tv.

REKA Tue 12-May-26 18:44:57

I can't think of one good advert at the moment. And there used to be many but those days are gone.

chrizzy Tue 12-May-26 18:38:35

Anyone else fed up with all the stupid adverts that are getting shown and all the ones for simple cremations