Annoying television adverts...

[Peter Mugridge]

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

I've managed to find it on YouTube... after quite a lot of searching! The bloke in it does look fairly old.

 

[GusB]

I've managed to find it on YouTube... after quite a lot of searching! The bloke in it does look fairly old.

I was quite amused one day when that advert followed another which was advertising a plant-based product!

 

[AM9]

I was quite amused one day when that advert followed another which was advertising a plant-based product!

No, having compared as best I can, I don't think it's Eric. The noses are different and the hairline is a different shape. Actually the chap in the ad looks like Kevin McCloud in 20 (or maybe 10!) years time.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Glow Worm. Not a annoying advert in itself,it’s just annoying that I cannot find any details of its excellent music anywhere. Any ideas?

 

[swt_passenger]

Glow Worm. Not a annoying advert in itself,it’s just annoying that I cannot find any details of its excellent music anywhere. Any ideas?

I suppose if they ran that today they’d need a caption explaining that they don’t actually burn any worms…

 

[yorksrob]

Good old Glow Worm. The boiler that came with my house must have lasted at least thirty years, given the model.

 

[Ashley Hill]

I suppose if they ran that today they’d need a caption explaining that they don’t actually burn any worms…

It was today, I’ve been trying to find what the music is for months

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Can I nominate the Jet2 adverts both on TV and online? They open with a heavily processed female voice singing "Darling hold my hand!"... which I assume is supposed to hint at romance and pleasure, but due to the frantic and sudden way this vocal line comes in, makes me think this poor woman must be dangling over a precipice whilst clinging on to a slowly disintegrating tree root!

 

[341o2]

Verisure alarms on Sky. Number of times it is repeated (daily) plus it basically preys on people's fear.
Reminds me of the time I was doing some window cleaning and was asked whether I was a burglar

 

[Graham H]

Can I nominate the Jet2 adverts both on TV and online? They open with a heavily processed female voice singing "Darling hold my hand!"... which I assume is supposed to hint at romance and pleasure, but due to the frantic and sudden way this vocal line comes in, makes me think this poor woman must be dangling over a precipice whilst clinging on to a slowly disintegrating tree root!

on the other hand if the obnoxious family depicted in the "on the beach" advert is the target then theres no way I would ever book through that company.

 

[EastisECML]

Those adverts which try to convince kids vegetables are terrifying blood thirsty creatures that they should kill by eating them alive or condemning them to being sliced by blender are back.

Oh and the voice over guy for the Alpro adverts just before and after channel four morning comedies is very grating. I like Alpro almond/oat milk, but their patronising voice over people can do one.

 

[duncanp]

Car adverts shown in the UK where the car is a left hand drive, and the car is shown driving on the right hand side of the road.

 

[PeterY]

Car adverts shown in the UK where the car is a left hand drive, and the car is shown driving on the right hand side of the road.

All car adverts annoy me. They make driving look really cool, in reality it's nothing like the ads portray , in respect of traffic jams, roadworks. endless queues etc

 

[Huntergreed]

Car adverts shown in the UK where the car is a left hand drive, and the car is shown driving on the right hand side of the road.

All car adverts annoy me. They make driving look really cool, in reality it's nothing like the ads portray , in respect of traffic jams, roadworks. endless queues etc

Also car adverts (or car scenes in TV/Films) where the driver spends over 10 seconds looking at someone in the backseat/passenger seat without so much as glancing out the windscreen.

That’d probably kill you in real life!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Any adverts that show people able to levitate. I can't remember the most recent company one, but it showed a girl in a queue suddenly levitating upwards, smashing her way through the ceiling point of a glass cupola and being totally unaffected by gravity.

 

[Ediswan]

Direct Line landlord insurance. I know the trade items on top of the vans are oversized, but what kind of domestic plumbing uses stainless steel pipework with high pressure flanged joints !

 

[GusB]

Any adverts that show people able to levitate. I can't remember the most recent company one, but it showed a girl in a queue suddenly levitating upwards, smashing her way through the ceiling point of a glass cupola and being totally unaffected by gravity.

It isn't real!!

 

[EastisECML]

Any adverts that show people able to levitate. I can't remember the most recent company one, but it showed a girl in a queue suddenly levitating upwards, smashing her way through the ceiling point of a glass cupola and being totally unaffected by gravity.

Showers large shards of glass on the people below. Bound to have been injuries.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It isn't real!!

It most certainly is in the mindset of the advertising agency copywriters.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Adverts that have people jumping around doing stupid dances. Wren Kitchens is the latest irritant.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I can't think of the name of the company in the advert, but it shows students in an examination room and suddenly, one male idiot starts jumping around, disrupting the other students, In real life, what fate might have befallen the individual in question?

 

[Paul Jones 88]

We buy any car.
Fed up with Scofield s face on the telly, the advert is also on the radio.
With all that he does, how much more money does the greedy git need?

 

[Spamcan81]

Verisure alarms are annoying and laughably amateurishly acted.
Then there's the Octosmart ads that seem to last longer than the program they interrupt.

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We buy any car.
Fed up with Scofield s face on the telly, the advert is also on the radio.
With all that he does, how much more money does the greedy git need?

That's another gripe of mine. Exceptionally well off personalities doing ads when there's other actors crying out for work. I assume some companies think that a well known personality gives some validity to their product.

 

[ABB125]

Who's Philip Schofield?

I genuinely had never heard of him until he started appearing on WeBuyAnyCar adverts!

 

[Typhoon]

Who's Philip Schofield?

Best keep it that way! Intellectual hi-light was playing second fiddle to Gordon The Gopher.

 

[EastisECML]

Adverts that have people jumping around doing stupid dances. Wren Kitchens is the latest irritant.

I can't think of the name of the company in the advert, but it shows students in an examination room and suddenly, one male idiot starts jumping around, disrupting the other students, In real life, what fate might have befallen the individual in question?

I know the advert you're referring to, dancing in adverts seems to be the go to cliche for advertisers to have people show how happy their product or service makes them.

Verisure alarms are annoying and laughably amateurishly acted.
Then there's the Octosmart ads that seem to last longer than the program they interrupt.

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That's another gripe of mine. Exceptionally well off personalities doing ads when there's other actors crying out for work. I assume some companies think that a well known personality gives some validity to their product.

I lose all respect for any famous face who appears on betting adverts. There's just no need.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I lose all respect for any famous face who appears on betting adverts. There's just no need.

Remember what was once said about the removal of TV adverts (and other media) some years ago in an attempt to cut down cigarette addiction levels of the young who are prone to advertising, yet despite sanctions being imposed on certain gaming machines in bookmaker shops, it seems the powers-that-be see nothing wrong with the TV adverts specifically aimed at women for online bingo and gaming adverts that blithely state "deposit £20".

 

[DunsBus]

The latest Amazon Prime adver. Both the voiceover and the rap music get on my nerves.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I know the Hey Car advert with the large bearded man in a car has previously been mentioned on this thread, but considering the product being advertised, does anyone know exactly what the man in question is saying? He becomes animated, raises his hands to his lips at one point and points directly at the recording camera during the advert more than once.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

The beardy guy in the HeyCar ad seems to be miming the lyrics to "Good Feeling" (2011 song by the artiste known as 'Flo Rida').

"Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, sometimes I get a good feeling, yeah;
I get a feeling that I never never never never had before, no no;
I get a good feeling, yeah;
Oh oh, sometimes I get a good feeling, yeah;
I get a feeling that I never never never never had before, no no;
I get a good feeling, yeah.

"Yes I can, doubt better leave, I'm running with this plan;
Pull me, grab me, crabs in the bucket can't have me;
I'll be the president one day;
January first, oh, you like that gossip;
Like you the one drinking what God sip dot com;
Now I gotta work with your tongue."