Annoying television adverts...

[Busaholic]

Having a search for "costs" on their website brings this up from october,

That weasel word 'just', always indicative of being overpriced imo.

 

[dgl]

That weasel word 'just', always indicative of being overpriced imo.

The teleshopping word of choice!

Any adverts on YT for stock trading, with them using the very small print to tell you that you'll probably lose money despite the person in the ad telling you how great it is.

And adverts for Chromebooks (and any google advert that just seems to be saying that we are the best when they are far from it) that say how they are always updated and safe, yeah pull the other one, if I want a phone i'll buy a phone, otherwise I will stick with my much more versatile windows laptop.

 

[Typhoon]

Any adverts on YT for stock trading, with them using the very small print to tell you that you'll probably lose money despite the person in the ad telling you how great it is.

I quite agree, especially the stupid series that in which people brag about trading while doing something else (riding a bike through a forest, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, white water rafting, whatever). The other thing that isn't mentioned is the fees for fairly mundane tasks (like taking out your money and currency conversion).

The similar ones that annoy me on You Tube are the 'make money quick' by selling or investing in stuff for which we are invited to go on some training for (but hurry up because there are not many places available). My guess is that when these characters started off, it was easy to make money because no one else was in the field but now the market is becoming flooded so they try to get people to sign up for 'training' ('I'll see you on the inside'). And the ads go on so long, I can make a cup of tea while it is on, If it is so easy to make money this way, why hasn't Sunak taxed it?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

If it is so easy to make money this way, why hasn't Sunak taxed it?

Is it not potentially subject to UK capital gains tax?

 

[trainophile]

That weasel word 'just', always indicative of being overpriced imo.

And "from only £...", with the "from" in tiny letters.

 

[dgl]

And advets on YT for the likes of Hello Fresh and other meal kit delivery services, one of the current Hello Fresh adverts has the perosn in teh ad saying how it saves money as she now don't have waste or need to find time to go out shopping, well I like to know where she gets her breakfast food, drinks, toiletries and cleaning supplies from

 

[BluePenguin]

And advets on YT for the likes of Hello Fresh and other meal kit delivery services, one of the current Hello Fresh adverts has the perosn in teh ad saying how it saves money as she now don't have waste or need to find time to go out shopping, well I like to know where she gets her breakfast food, drinks, toiletries and cleaning supplies from

She probably gets them from the co-op on Deliveroo

 

[61653 HTAFC]

And advets on YT for the likes of Hello Fresh and other meal kit delivery services, one of the current Hello Fresh adverts has the perosn in teh ad saying how it saves money as she now don't have waste or need to find time to go out shopping, well I like to know where she gets her breakfast food, drinks, toiletries and cleaning supplies from

Worst one of that ilk is for "Huel" (Human + Fuel... see what they did there? ). Not only is it a stupidly expensive product compared to good old fashioned food, the idea that there are people who are both busy enough and depressed enough that they take no pleasure whatsoever from either preparing or consuming real food, makes me utterly miserable.

 

[yorksrob]

Worst one of that ilk is for "Huel" (Human + Fuel... see what they did there? ). Not only is it a stupidly expensive product compared to good old fashioned food, the idea that there are people who are both busy enough and depressed enough that they take no pleasure whatsoever from either preparing or consuming real food, makes me utterly miserable.

I take absolutely no pleasure in preparing food, but it's made up for by the amount of pleasure I get in consuming it !

 

[Typhoon]

Worst one of that ilk is for "Huel" (Human + Fuel... see what they did there? ). Not only is it a stupidly expensive product compared to good old fashioned food, the idea that there are people who are both busy enough and depressed enough that they take no pleasure whatsoever from either preparing or consuming real food, makes me utterly miserable.

But you are forgetting the free t-shirt, which means that you can go around showing that can afford to spend 'from £2.67' on what seems to me little more than a glorified Pot Noodle.

 

[birchesgreen]

I always find the idea of Huel, which sounds like someone throwing up, hilarious for some reason.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Will we now be spared those nonsensical storyline "perfume" adverts that have plagued the nation for more weeks than I care to remember?

 

[trainophile]

Will we now be spared those nonsensical storyline "perfume" adverts that have plagued the nation for more weeks than I care to remember?

Only until pre-Valentine's day.

 

[Calthrop]

... the idea that there are people who are both busy enough and depressed enough that they take no pleasure whatsoever from either preparing or consuming real food, makes me utterly miserable.

I've known a certain number of people for whom food / eating was / is pretty well devoid of pleasure or interest; yet, still seemingly well-enough-adjusted, and passably contented, individuals -- have a brother and a cousin in this category. For sure, it's not that common among our species; but humans come in very many varieties, and there are lots of things -- besides the more-nearly-universal ones -- which folk can and do find absorbing.

 

[TwoYellas]

Been watching 'The Wire' - up to series 5. In every break there is a Volvo ad which I'm seeing nearly everyday a few times. The tune gets right into your head.

So much so, I recently traded in my old car and bought a........ Seat

To be honest Volvos look like cracking vehicles - but a little too expensive for me at the minute.

 

[dgl]

Halifax adverts, going on about how great they and how much they care when their recent history shows they will do what they can to make momey.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Halifax adverts, going on about how great they and how much they care when their recent history shows they will do what they can to make momey.

Any bank adverts really.

With the exception of that Lloyds one that has Tornado in it.
Even though it has annoying music, all the usual annoying weasel-words and nothingburger platitudes of other bank ads... and isn't actually going to make me bank with them, at least they made an effort.

 

[DunsBus]

The Salesforce "meditation" advert. Do we really want to see a close-up of a clothed human arse lifting off a chair?

And that "Tommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" cry really gets on my nerves.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the HSBC advert, no-one seems to take Richard Ayoade to task for wheeling a line marker across a glass roof of a building or for entering a home during a family dispute with the line marker. Who has the responsibility for the removal of the white line markings in both occasions?

 

[61653 HTAFC]

In the HSBC advert, no-one seems to take Richard Ayoade to task for wheeling a line marker across a glass roof of a building or for entering a home during a family dispute with the line marker. Who has the responsibility for the removal of the white line markings in both occasions?

Probably the studio staff. It's mostly done using a greenscreen with the backgrounds added in afterwards.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Today, I saw a charity advert in which bears were said to be "defenceless". I had always assumed that bears could look after themselves quite well.

 

[adrock1976]

Not sure if mentioned already, but in the second half of the 1980s, I remember the one for Ariston washing machines.

"Ariston, and on, and on", etc.

It got annoying after a while.

 

[GusB]

Not sure if mentioned already, but in the second half of the 1980s, I remember the one for Ariston washing machines.

"Ariston, and on, and on", etc.

It got annoying after a while.

This one?

(Link to clip of Ariston advert)

There are a couple of adverts that are doing my head in just now, both internet related. The first is for Ionos and the other is for GoDaddy.

 

[adrock1976]

This one?

(Link to clip of Ariston advert)

There are a couple of adverts that are doing my head in just now, both internet related. The first is for Ionos and the other is for GoDaddy.

Yes indeed.

 

[EastisECML]

It's only just occurred to me that when that man on the Plusnet advert claims he has just finished the entire Internet, that means he has looked at a hell of a lot of porn. That is a man who has seen a lot of ****, figuratively and literally.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The most ridiculous "Boomin South Pole" 2022 TV advert with people dressed in traditionally dressed explorer furs and a team leader crawling towards a "metal pole marker" is unbelievable in the subsequent image of a standard UK property with totally inadequate heating barriers against the extremely low South Pole temperatures shown in the preamble to the advert and the subsequent image of a male and female in British summer wear clothing hanging out washing on a washing line at the South Pole.

Thought for the day....Do not ask for reality, as a refusal often offends,

 

[AM9]

The most ridiculous "Boomin South Pole" 2022 TV advert with people dressed in traditionally dressed explorer furs and a team leader crawling towards a "metal pole marker" is unbelievable in the subsequent image of a standard UK property with totally inadequate heating barriers against the extremely low South Pole temperatures shown in the preamble to the advert and the subsequent image of a male and female in British summer wear clothing hanging out washing on a washing line at the South Pole.

Thought for the day....Do not ask for reality, as a refusal often offends,

Most entertainment has little to do with reality and rarely makes much of an attempt to be accurate, so why shouldn't advertisers use production license to get their message across to an already receptive audience.

 

[Busaholic]

Most entertainment has little to do with reality and rarely makes much of an attempt to be accurate, so why shouldn't advertisers use production license to get their message across to an already receptive audience.

Partially receptive audience, obviously.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Not an annoying advert, but something I'm wondering...

The meats advert where someone is rolling down a hill in it... is the bloke in that advert Sgt Cryer from The Bill...? Eric Richard? I'm sure it's him???

 

[AM9]

Not an annoying advert, but something I'm wondering...

The meats advert where someone is rolling down a hill in it... is the bloke in that advert Sgt Cryer from The Bill...? Eric Richard? I'm sure it's him???

He's 81 now, maybe a bit old for that!