Most annoying advert

[Russian Doll]

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...

i have to agree my kids all have been taught how to cross the road and only use crossings..but once when we were crossing the traffic lights some idiot decided to jump the lights...thankfully i manged to pull my son out of the way

[Birdie Wife]

That new Sacla advert was instantly annoying from about three seconds in the first time I saw it. Now when that stubbly Italian puts his head right up to the camera and goes "SA.CLA." I just want to PU.NCH.HIM.

[ina]

I don't even know what Sacla is!

[kiwirach]

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.

i did/still do this with my dad.....'cept we called it FA....false advertising. can about cos of an ad for tyres in NZ, and they tried to land a car on an aircraft carrier or somesuch thing...twas yrs ago. my dad, being a pilot, sat there and said 'that wouldnt happen, and that' etc etc....and so the game grew from there.
i have to say, i look at all ads that way now!.

someone mentioned the ad for the singing dog and car....its a car ad (dont ask me which one....it hasnt had that much of an effect on me )...saying if you're in this car you have confidence....dogs all cool in the car, shy as in public......thats how i take it anyway.

[mrsflibble]

that sacla ad is sooooo ripping off chris levins:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0oSVFPxfxQ

(www.cutewithchris.com)

[QuakerBear]

I hate the cleaning product adverts.

1. Cleaning your house is not a terrible chore.
2. The germs aren't little mosters with faces that jump up and attack you.
3. Not bleaching your house every five minutes won't kill you.
4. Men do, do the cleaning sometimes you know.
5. Advertisers, your audience isn't stupid you know.
6. I could continue for much longer....

I also hate the way adverts are louder then programes. I'm having hearing difficulties at the moment and I'm rather enjoying listening to the gentle burbeling of a Poirot episode in the background while I'm knitting and then BANG "IS YOUR TOILET FULL OF RUST AND FURRY GERM MONSTERS?". It really startles me and is very distressing

[ina]

I also hate the way adverts are louder then programes. I'm having hearing difficulties at the moment and I'm rather enjoying listening to the gentle burbeling of a Poirot episode in the background while I'm knitting and then BANG "IS YOUR TOILET FULL OF RUST AND FURRY GERM MONSTERS?". It really startles me and is very distressing

Well - that sounds almost more exciting that Poirot! (Don't get me wrong - I quite like the good old comfortable Christie stories...)

[mrsflibble]

air freshener adverts. AAAARGH! I don't feel the need for 3 rotating artificial smells "open windows, newly mown grass and morning breeze." WTF??! if I want the smell of flipping open windows I WILL OPEN A FLIPPING WINDOW!!!

my house currently smells of clean washing, a hint of curry and nag champa inscense.

ok, so by this evening when the curry is cooked it will smell of curry and little else, but the tomorrow soph and I will wear jumpers and have the windows open to clear it. and burn more nag champa 'cos I love it

[Merry]

- - and do you think anybody ever buys a sofa when it isn`t half price with ten years to pay and interest free?

[mrsflibble]

I have to admit ours did come in a dfs sale; but when offered 3 years free credit and a year off, hubby and I said "no thanks, we will take it on 2 years and start pying immediately". the salesman seemed shocked that we didn't want to wait a year before starting to pay and then have another 3 years paying the damned things off and tried to put us off by saying "but that will cost you £60 per month *raised salesman eyebrows included*. Hubby said "yes I know that, but it's only for 2 years."
our sofas became ours last february. if we'd gone with their offer we'd still be paying for them and wouldn't have been able to afford to beg hsbc for cash for a better car when our latest banger died lol!

[QuakerBear]

We had the same thing at Christmas. Our little car got written off so we had to buy a new one. We were having all sorts of credit deals pushed at us and we had to be really firm in saying, no, we'd like to pay for it in full, in cash, today. It was as if we were being a difficult customer

The thing is, most of these credit deals are a rip off becuase you end up paying the shop more money because of the interest.

[tim&fatima]

It's a bit like those "finance" adverts.
Consolidate all your debts into one monthly managable loan, yes you may pay less money each month, What they don't tell you is that you will be paying twice as much in the long run, and you will be paying it for the rest of your life.
It's just for people who can't count!

(I can't spell, but i can count)
rant over.

[Thurston Garden]

nag champa inscense.

Mmmmmm nag chaaaaammmmppppaa

[mrsflibble]

whenI'd lit it soph sniffed the air and said "harry house! where harry?" so I then had to explain that Grampy Harry is at work and casn't come and see her right now.
she then asked for nanny . My mum in law and her hubby got me into nag champa; they're a pair of wonderful ageing hippies and their house always honks of the stuff.

[Stonehead]

OR, the really tasteless one with a "dead" kiddy in the road, with the message about them being alive at 30mph, but dead at 40mph..........

Our boys saw this recently and were talking about it, not knowing I could hear them. Little One says to Big One, "what would happen if someone hit us?"

Big One says "Pa would kick their butt all the way to Mexico."



The ones we don't like are the NSPCC ads that are shown early in the evening. The boys find them extremely upsetting and distressing. I complained to the NSPCC about them, but was told they needed to be hard hitting to get the message across. Well, how about putting them on after the watershed, and not freaking out children?