Most annoying advert

[Russian Doll]

any advert that advertises kids toys/sweets cause you can garentee i have the kids asking me for it for three days after then the advert runs again

viscous circle

my best advert this year was last night and was the doctor who one simply cause im a doctor who freak

The trick is to never let kids watch tv with adverts - a friend switched from his kids watching ITV to Cbeebies and within days the "Nag" factor had fallen to almost zero

we do have cbeebies on during the dfay but when the older nes get home from school and havre done homework etc the last thing they want to watch is yet another rerun of something special lol

[Helsbells]

Maybe she's born with it or maybe its *makeup*

[Thomzo]

That bloody building society that has become a bank and gets its workers to sing about interest rates butchering songs that you actually like so that when you hear them again you end up singing about f**king interest rates.

That wouldn't be the one that's in the same group as the bank that brought Farepak down now would it? Yup, irritates the cr*p out of me too.

Any loan advert and any of the injury claims companies.

There's also a bizarre ad at the moment with a dog singing in a car. Out of the car he's all scared with his tail between his legs. I've no idea what the advert's for. At first I thought it was for a dog rescue centre but I think it's the car. I really can't work that one out.

Cheers
Zoe

[Mydreamlife]

Well the one that I LIKE is the one where they make a car out of cake all to the sound of Julie Andrews singing My Favourite Things.

My little people want us to have that as our wedding cake!!! We are BIG skoda fans in this house I'm afraid!!!

[Mydreamlife]

[/quote]The trick is to never let kids watch tv with adverts - a friend switched from his kids watching ITV to Cbeebies and within days the "Nag" factor had fallen to almost zero [/quote]

We have never let the wee ones watch anything other than cebeebies untill a couple of weeks ago when we were at a friend's house. They could only have seen 2 hors max and were playing (often upstairs) but for the next week all we heard was B*RBIE this and BR*TS that I was ready to move to a caravan in a field and NEVER set foot in a shop again Let alone turn on the television.

An old friend used to joke about there being a highpitched sound that tunes the little darlings in (Like a dog whistle) to ensure proper absorbsion of the latest item needed!!!!

[Russian Doll]

The trick is to never let kids watch tv with adverts - a friend switched from his kids watching ITV to Cbeebies and within days the "Nag" factor had fallen to almost zero [/quote]

We have never let the wee ones watch anything other than cebeebies untill a couple of weeks ago when we were at a friend's house. They could only have seen 2 hors max and were playing (often upstairs) but for the next week all we heard was B*RBIE this and BR*TS that I was ready to move to a caravan in a field and NEVER set foot in a shop again Let alone turn on the television.

An old friend used to joke about there being a highpitched sound that tunes the little darlings in (Like a dog whistle) to ensure proper absorbsion of the latest item needed!!!![/quote]

lol i think all kids adverts especially round xmas have the dog whistle effect

[ina]

I remember some really brilliant ads, from back in the "good old times" when I lived in Germany and still went to the cinema occasionally. The government had started an AIDS campaign, trying to get folks to use safe s*x. Those ads were so good - funny, intelligent, well made - that everybody made sure they arrived at the cinema well before the main film started! Often better than the film itself.

So advertising can be good. As I don't have a telly and only get to the cinema about once every two years, I'm not quite up to date with what's on today.

[Thurston Garden]

switch the f*****g telly off!

Thats the ticket! We don't have a telly, use Firefox with Adblocker on it and don't buy a paper very often so I could not even tell you what the last Ad I saw was!

[witch way?]

this could run and run...............
the really tasteless one with a "dead" kiddy in the road, with the message about them being alive at 30mph, but dead at 40mph..........which I'm afraid has me tempted to yell "teach the silly brat not to run in the road without looking, and there wouldn't be an accident at all" (has that never occurred to anyone as an even better solution?)

Do you have children Martin?

The one I hate is Cilitbang or whatever it is where that man shouts at you. Even if it miraculously cleaned my oven on its own I wouldn't buy the damned stuff on principle. W.

[Annpan]

Yup, I am also a proud non- TV owner

I ignore most adds online and tend to stay away from the websites advertising stuff (The Independent web site really gets on my nerves)

[ina]

Even if it miraculously cleaned my oven on its own I wouldn't buy the damned stuff on principle. W.

That's my way of handling it, too: should I find anything that I know gets a lot of advertising, I won't buy it. I won't waste my money on something where I know half of what I pay goes on advertising...

[Martin]

unfortunately, my only child is all growed up - but when she was little I did exercise the power of the "off" switch!
And I DID teach her to look before crossing the road!

[ina]

unfortunately, my only child is all growed up - but when she was little I did exercise the power of the "off" switch!
And I DID teach her to look before crossing the road!

Well, Martin - I was taught that, too. But sometimes a child has more pressing concerns than thinking of what she had been taught. The ad may be annoying - I've never seen it - but it does help if drivers don't speed where there's kids around...

[oldfella]

As Kids live in this world which is consumer Orientated and all that they see in the streets, on TV, children's magazines, is adverts, I think, and this is solely my opinion, that to try and shield the child from all this, we should rather point out and reinforce what the adverts are for, to sell the product. When my daughter was growing up we watched the adverts and made up a game, which we called FIBS and TAT. She has her own kids now and they play the same game.

[old tree man]

i just hate all adverts especially when the make them louder than the normal programs

Russ