Current Adverts you hate!!

The 3 advert where the guy wants to know what gravlax is

altrinchamaddick said:

The Ian botham advert, promoting some dodgy foot/leg massage machine. Cringing!!

Can't see that without thinking 'No wonder your legs have gone, the amount of timber you're carrying'

London Transports,

See it
Say it
Sorted

Like F*ck there's never any staff around.

The f*cking Cupra advert I keep seeing...

It's just a collection of insane clips strung together by a Spanish voiceover, which thank fuck I can vaguely understand, or else I would feel like I'm having some sort of stroke. The weirdest clips I remember is a woman in full motocross gear with one tit out breastfeeding and some weird mindbending piano

On writing this I've discovered it's cut down from a half spanish/half english advert which has slightly more continuity, but is equally insane

I wish I could find it...

Numan. 

I guess the advertising agencies would argue the adverts are working then 😉

Algarveaddick said:

Any of them that have a breathy teenage girl doing a slow, weak, shitty version of an old song in the background.   

Virtually all perfume/aftershave adverts. 

As a side note to your post, it’s amazing how many great old rock and pop songs are used in all manner of ads.
Of course they are much appreciated and spotted straight away by us oldies but most youngsters will not know the songs at all and I guess they’ll think they are something new. 

Volvo adverts, they usually come on just before the opening credits for any series you download on sky.  “Incredible stories start with feeling safe, Volvo”.  No they don’t, they’re the worst stories, most good stories start with a pint which reduces safety after two or three.

Booking.com and that awful fat bird! Makes me determined never to use that app! So many poor ads now. They used to be far more creative.

The MacMillan Cancer advert were the (actor/talking head?) fluffs the line “You probably didn’t know my dad Robert”, putting too big a gap between ‘dad’ and ‘Robert’ and making it sound like the listener is Robert. ‘But, I'm not Robert’, I often shout at the radio!  [corrected, thanks MrOneLung] 

Robert DeNiro advertising Uber. WTF? Bob, are you really so poor that you need to sell your soul to Louis Cyphre?

The Gas advert that proclaims, ‘You’re Tom Daley”. No I’m not, stop messing with my head. I know who I am. 

There’s another ad that I think might be for British Gas (I can’t stand it though, so I mentally switch off before they tell me), which is essentially a menu containing a load of completely unrelated foodstuffs which ends with ‘bring it home with a spatchcock’. I presume I’m missing out on some cultural reference, but it’s just gobbledegook. Stop this nonsense.

Ads that pretend they have the endorsement of people who are dead. The Checkatrade ad where that bloke claims, “I’m Julius Caesar” strikes me as bizarre, but the use of Albert Einstein to push smart meters seems truly unfair to the great man’s memory if not completely duplicitous. How do they know that Albert would have been in favour of these devices? He might, had he lived to an improbable age, have shared exactly the same reservations that many of us have about these products.

The McDonald’s ‘Change a Little Change a Lot’ propaganda that tries to persuade us that because they now use free range eggs or that their beef comes from Britain or Ireland (so what?) they are paragons of virtue. No, they are still a shitty corporation that pays low wages, has an anti-union history and has even been implicated in the use of child labour. All this whilst pushing a culture of high calorie, low nutrition fast food.  

Worst of all though are the terrible ‘More Reasons to Shop at Morrisons’ ads. They take the iconic final phrase of Jesús González Rubio’s Jarabe Tapatio (Mexican Hat Dance) and absolutely mangle it. An extra note having to be crammed in to cater for the fact that their strapline doesn’t scan. Whoever did this should be jailed for crimes against music.

Stig said:

Oh yes, On The Beach just dreadful:
1. For using 'It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year'. It's a Christmas song you morons.
2. For imposing Paddy McGuinness' annoying northern tones on us.
3. For the strap line, 'Book like a genius, holiday like a fool'. What the actual? 

The mum's a would ya though (a yes from me)

MrOneLung said:

Stig said:

The MacMillan Cancer advert where the (actor/talking head?) fluffs the line “You probably didn’t know my dad Robert”, putting too big a gap between ‘dad’ and ‘Robert’. This stops Robert from being his dad and makes him the listener’s. This invariably has me shouting at the radio, ‘But, my dad’s not Robert’! 

Robert DeNiro advertising Uber. WTF? Bob, are you really so poor that you need to sell your soul to Louis Cyphre?

The Gas advert that proclaims, ‘You’re Tom Daley”. No I’m not, stop messing with my head. I know who I am. 

There’s another ad that I think might be for British Gas (I can’t stand it though, so I mentally switch off before they tell me), which is essentially a menu containing a load of completely unrelated foodstuffs which ends with ‘bring it home with a spatchcock’. I presume I’m missing out on some cultural reference, but it’s just gobbledegook. Stop this nonsense.

Ads that pretend they have the endorsement of people who are dead. The Checkatrade ad where that bloke claims, “I’m Julius Caesar” strikes me as bizarre, but the use of Albert Einstein to push smart meters seems truly unfair to the great man’s memory if not completely duplicitous. How do they know that Albert would have been in favour of these devices? He might, had he lived to an improbable age, have shared exactly the same reservations that many of us have about these products.

The McDonald’s ‘Change a Little Change a Lot’ propaganda that tries to persuade us that because they now use free range eggs or that their beef comes for Britain or Ireland (so what?) they are paragons of virtue. No, they are still a shitty corporation that pays low wages, has an anti-union history and has even been implicated in the use of child labour. All this whilst pushing a culture of high calorie, low nutrition fast food.  

Worst of all though are the terrible ‘More Reasons to Shop at Morrisons’ ads. They take the iconic final phrase of Jesús González Rubio’s Jarabe Tapatio (Mexican Hat Dance) and absolutely mangle it. An extra note having to be crammed in to cater for the fact that their strapline doesn’t scan. Whoever did this should be jailed for crimes against music.

I have no idea what you saying here  - does the gap make him the viewers Dad ?

It's a radio ad, I don't know if it's on the telly.

Sorry, I got it all around my neck. It's not my dad that's not Robert, it's me that's not Robert, if you get the drift. The gap makes it like he's addressing someone called Robert.