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Annoying Adverts 2015

Oh, obviously all those short term loan company ones are a disgrace. I was astounded to see in ad where a waitress was told she would get letting less shifts, and the ad suggested a loan (with massive interest to pay back) would be a good idea. Now there are loads of those ads. :mad:
 
two types of annoying ads atm - the "pay day loan" ones closely followed by the shanky xmas ones.
wonder how soon before we'll be getting the summer holiday ones ?
 
The Muppets for Warburton's giant crumpets might be the best ad I've ever seen since "Bring on the trumpets".And that's saying something.
I love it!

I know this is a thread for rubbish adverts, but I see no thread for good ones, so here is where it goes.

"Whatever happened to Stallone" :D
Genius.
 
Has no one mentioned the Tesco advert where Ruth Jones' son is a hilarious sex pest yet?

I have to leave the room...
 
I've come to find Idris Elba annoying since he's been appearing in lots of ads. He's trying too hard to be loveable and it is having to opposite effect on me.
 
Seiko have a new watch advert.

It features Novak Djokovic.

Just in case you don't recognise that its him they start the advert with a ruddy great big Seiko Novak Djookovic sign over a clip of him hitting a tennis ball at a tournament. Only then do they start the real advert.

He's gone jogging but as you do he's taken a racket and a ball to bounce whilst he runs in a egg and spoon way.
Lady cyclist goes by, he looks at her and she at him... briefly as she scoots past.
He stops, slams the tennis ball against a sea wall and sprints up the street, passes the cyclist and catches the ball, holds it in the air triumphantly with big shit eating grin on his face. She stops and smiles.

Caption: Competing is an obsession.

Oh so he's just being competitive! No one gets past me on a bike when i'm tennis jogging!

 
Seiko have a new watch advert.

It features Novak Djokovic.

Just in case you don't recognise that its him they start the advert with a ruddy great big Seiko Novak Djookovic sign over a clip of him hitting a tennis ball at a tournament. Only then do they start the real advert.

He's gone jogging but as you do he's taken a racket and a ball to bounce whilst he runs in a egg and spoon way.
Lady cyclist goes by, he looks at her and she at him... briefly as she scoots past.
He stops, slams the tennis ball against a sea wall and sprints up the street, passes the cyclist and catches the ball, holds it in the air triumphantly with big shit eating grin on his face. She stops and smiles.

Caption: Competing is an obsession.

Oh so he's just being competitive! No one gets past me on a bike when i'm tennis jogging!


Yeah I saw that one the other day, it is unfeasibly shit. Djoko must regret doing that one. Although the €100K or whatever he got paid has probably eased his pain and regret a little
 
You know, the one where teenage boy (?) goes up to unwary female shopper and leches over her. Sorry, I can never do links on this iPad but it's on YouTube if you really want to cringe.

It's meant to be cringe so that it's oh so funny when his mom embarresses him.

However I fail to see how he is a sex pest or a letch. Strikes up conversation about food products in an attempt to establish a common interest. Tries to pretend he is more sophisticated than he is. As if no one ever puts in a bit of a false front when they first meet someone they are desperate to impress.

I agree that it's a hideously annoying ad though.
 
It's meant to be cringe so that it's oh so funny when his mom embarresses him.

However I fail to see how he is a sex pest or a letch. Strikes up conversation about food products in an attempt to establish a common interest. Tries to pretend he is more sophisticated than he is. As if no one ever puts in a bit of a false front when they first meet someone they are desperate to impress.

I agree that it's a hideously annoying ad though.
It's so lucky you were here to once again point out what women should find lecherous. I really don't know how we cope without you.
 
I was just thinking the same about that Tesco ad. Ben Miller what are you playing at ffs.
 
I find the one where they're oh so hilariously trying not to let him know they're having a party really awful. Ha ha that boy has some social problems! Ha ha his parents ostracise him!
 
All of them. A product should be born organically and live or die on its reputation, not on some shite spiel from a has-been actor with orange skin and milky white teeth.
 
Gromit - being tailed around the supermarket by some semi-detached-from-reality creep who keeps wanting to talk to you even though you're plainly ignoring them, is not a failed attempt at seduction or a bit of gentle comedy. It's unpleasantly close to real-life stalking and harassment, for many people.
 
I've managed to avoid tesco and Jon Lewis ads so far but the Beeb one with the lonely sprout where Capaldi narates a poem- I just don't get why they CGI'd dot, the Doc and everyone else when they could have got them all in to do the trail/ad
 
Gromit - being tailed around the supermarket by some semi-detached-from-reality creep who keeps wanting to talk to you even though you're plainly ignoring them, is not a failed attempt at seduction or a bit of gentle comedy. It's unpleasantly close to real-life stalking and harassment, for many people.
Thank you! This sums up exactly what I felt about the ad. Maybe as an alternative ending they could have shown her hovering around the checkout, too nervous to go out into the car park alone. Fucking hilarious.
 
Gromit - being tailed around the supermarket by some semi-detached-from-reality creep who keeps wanting to talk to you even though you're plainly ignoring them, is not a failed attempt at seduction or a bit of gentle comedy. It's unpleasantly close to real-life stalking and harassment, for many people.

Quite frankly he should have gotten the hint after the second attempt. He could be forgiven for thinking that on the first attempt she just thought he was just exclaiming something to the nearest person and not actually trying to start a conversation.

However i still feel sex pest is a bit strong. Seems equal in my eyes to a man calling a woman a slut cause she's openly shown interest in a man.
 
I've managed to avoid tesco and Jon Lewis ads so far but the Beeb one with the lonely sprout where Capaldi narates a poem- I just don't get why they CGI'd dot, the Doc and everyone else when they could have got them all in to do the trail/ad
YES what the fuck is that all about - weak seasonal idents from the beeb. Disneyfication :(
 
I am currently transfixed by that Thomas Cook one with the dancing kid with the shark fin. It's just great - don't care what's it's advertising!
 
The Mr Green Light! advert with James Corden makes me want to kill him even more than very other time I've seen him does.

The Maltesers one with the two female friends, one of which makes a really annoying noise and it always does my head in

And the friend isn't that annoyed about her Grandmother's pearls being destroyed because her friend - who clearly dislikes Maltesers, since she threw them on the floor - got to snog someone.
 
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