Irritating adverts.

[Mr Mystery]

Yup. It's another rant. Brace yourselves.


It's advertisers this time. Just saw one for baby milk. Apparently, it's hard to come by Vitamin D. What absolute twaddle. It's in sunlight! We metabolise it from sunlight! Which is pretty damned plentiful.

I really hate it when they spew such utter rubbish. Like when skin creams boast some ridiculous ingredient. Worst I heard was 'botulox'. Then there's the 90% of women (based on the response of 132 women) say it left blah blah blah.

Or perhaps adverts for mascara, where the fine print down the bottom states the advert was filmed using false eyelashes. Hardly what I'd call a vote of confidence in your product.

Grrrr!

[Wolfshade]

I thought that when I saw that.

Another one that irritates me is the one for a CMax with it's 7 seats that can be arranged in an infinite number of positions, well not quite though, each seat can be in one of two positions, so simple maths says it is more like 128

[Mr Mystery]

Yup. Unless they are counting the various degrees and positions between the extremes. Even then, it's clearly not infinite....unless you can fold them into other dimensions...

[Wildeybeast]

They don't bother me. If people are dumb enough to fall for such twaddle, then I say let them waste their money. So long as the adverts aren't slanderous, offensive or telling outright lies, then let them get on with I say. Besides, if something is on any channel other than Auntie I never watch it live, I record and skip the adds.

[Wolfshade]

Now that would be a car that I would buy

[eldargal]

I don't pay any attention to ads, the exception being posters of luxury companies like Guerlain which can often be very pretty.

[Up The Walls!]

It's in sunlight! We metabolise it from sunlight! Which is pretty damned plentiful.

Had to pick the one sunny day this week to say it. Particular personal pet hates:
The term 'Pro-vitamin'.
'Clinically proven' (which means the company making it ran their own tests and paid the people doing it to come up with the right answer)
'No Win, No Fee' and everything to do with it.
Anything claiming to mbe made with '100% natural ingredients' (which is either bull, we've been genetically modifying since we started agriculture in, like, 7000 BC, or so blanket a statement it's silly. Anything that exists is a product of nature.)

I did spread a rumour though (false, but I'm impressed by how far it got) that in shampoo adverts the woman using it always had to have both hands on her head or in-frame when applying it because of the sounds they make, because it'd be considered indecent if they didn't (because of the ridiculously ecstatic sounds they always make doing it)

[Deadlift]

For me it's those adverts you see that claim you can get ripped and buff in 6 weeks just by using their products and using a model to prove it.
Said model is usually actually quite fit anyway but jut carrying extra water, which is easily shed in a few weeks and has feck all to do with their product.
Maybe it's because I'm jealous :) and never managed "ripped" but then never wanted to really.


Oh and don't get me started on Wonga.com, those adverts make me want I punch the tv.

[Kirsten]

adverts I hate:
the baby milk advert that says breast milk is the best protection. what about car crashes? pretty sure a good car seat would provide better protection.
the DKNY apple advert, the woman pulls an apple from the middle of the stack, causing it all to collapse, she doesn't pick them up, doesn't pay for the apple she takes, and just walks off with some bloke.
Continental snow tyres ad, kids run out into the road with looking and smile smugly at the driver. run the f**kers over, that will teach them.

[Wildeybeast]

Continental snow tyres ad, kids run out into the road with looking and smile smugly at the driver. run the f**kers over, that will teach them.

Yeah, that one annoys me to. I don't care what tyres he's using, in that speed on those conditions, he'd have run over the child before he even saw him. And even if he hadn't, the way he jumps on his brakes is going to send him into a skid.

[Kirsten]

I don't care about the tyres, the smug child annoys me, it should be killed.

you can also add to the list any perfume ad ever

[eldargal]

Oh, yes television ads for perfume seem to be universally terrible. Take the Brad Pitt Chanel 5 Ad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGs4CjeJiJQ) for example. This ad alone exceeded the whole pretentiousness quota for the internet for the 2012 -13 financial year.

[Kirsten]

yeah I hate that advert too, so awful

[Mr Mystery]

Oh, and any advert which tries to make us blokes out as incompetent idiots. It's not feminism, it's sexism. And to be honest, given the women in the adverts appear to be housewives, if I were the husband, I'd divorce the smug cow, see how she copes without my wage to fund her 'ladies who lunch' lifestyle.

As for baby product adverts, please stop using that one bloody giggle. It's cute the first time you hear it, but quickly becomes irritating.

Women's adverts are the worst. Like Special K. Really? The hottie in the advert just got her firm, toned body by eating your cereal? Pull the other one.

And if I see one more advert with a group of 40 something women pretending to be sex in the city (a most piss poor programme) I am going to start hunting down those responsible.

[Psychosplodge]

I thought that when I saw that.

Another one that irritates me is the one for a CMax with it's 7 seats that can be arranged in an infinite number of positions, well not quite though, each seat can be in one of two positions, so simple maths says it is more like 128

Well you're never going to move the drivers seat so really you're down to 64...



'Clinically proven'
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/clinically_studied_ingredient.png


I hate the check your mirrors one with the motorcyclist.
You can clearly hear the indicator going in the car so it's the muppet on the bikes fault for overtaking a turning vehicle....
Now if the motorcyclist had overtaken some muppet not indicating then he'd have my sympathy...

[Mr Mystery]

That and the motorbike was nowhere to be seen. But as the car was joining the main road, he is at fault. You'd be surprised what motorbikes get away with in case law! If you know it, it's essentially a carte Blanche to ride like an absolute fanny.

[Psychosplodge]

Wasn't there one with overtaking before that one?

[Mr Mystery]

Dunno to be honest. But how about adapting a classic...

Think once!
Think twice!
Think don't ride like a fanny.

[Phototoxin]

Had to pick the one sunny day this week to say it. Particular personal pet hates:

'Clinically proven' (which means the company making it ran their own tests and paid the people doing it to come up with the right answer)


I hate that because if they cannot pronounce proven (hint: pro-ven) properly then I have little faith in their pruven product.

Pefume ads - because they are just idiotic.
Car ads, fashion ads and glasses ads.
Also sexist ads where the man/dad is an idiot.
The budweiser. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP ads - hate them. Contrast with their Christmas happy horses ad.
Google Chromebook ads as they are so pretentious.

[DrLove42]

My newest hate is the new Iphone ad.

it goes along the lines of "how can our phone be bigger and yet smaller! Proof apple can break the laws of physics!"

Just pretencious annoying ****

[Wolfshade]

adverts I hate:
the baby milk advert that says breast milk is the best protection. what about car crashes? pretty sure a good car seat would provide better protection.
the DKNY apple advert, the woman pulls an apple from the middle of the stack, causing it all to collapse, she doesn't pick them up, doesn't pay for the apple she takes, and just walks off with some bloke.
Continental snow tyres ad, kids run out into the road with looking and smile smugly at the driver. run the f**kers over, that will teach them.

Chuckle :D

Also, the DKNY one the scent is for delicious or golden delicious and quite clearly the apples are not golden delicious, they are far too green and shiny, maybe a scent called "Granny Smith" might not have the same appeal.