Which British TV ads annoy you most?
Posted by TRFKTA@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 337 comments
Are there any specific ads on TV / online currently that make you change the channel / close the tab out of pure frustration?
I’ll start off with the South Western Railways ad with the two birds that seems to be everywhere and drives me up the wall.
No-Camel-4832@reddit
I can't stand all that loud unecessary drumming behind every single ad for a tv show, its like being at the cinema, so have taken to muting all ads as a result.
No-Box-1812@reddit
Should bring back satire shows which include ads by I mean take the piss out off them, anyone remember satirical tv shows
StuPick44@reddit
That one with the twats in pink rubbing their stomachs and the wee prick saying “Diorreha!!” (Can YOU spell it?)
No-Box-1812@reddit
Advert diorreha
NeddTwo@reddit
Diarrhoea
Apprehensive-Till910@reddit
E FOUR, E FOUR E FOUR E FOUR
(To The Simpsons theme)
Mean_Cicada9142@reddit
and it isn't even NOW on E4. it's been for 18 months at this point. stop acting like it's a novelty.
Apprehensive-Till910@reddit
Mate, have a look how many days ago I posted that comment.
Mean_Cicada9142@reddit
it's not like I knew I would be here 10 months later
Icy_Meringue_5534@reddit
Argos with the frog and the creepy prostitute doll.
Mean_Cicada9142@reddit
this is the funniest description of those ads
SteveyPeas@reddit
I think it’s a dinosaur with the creepy prostitute doll.
Moppo_@reddit
Morrison's. Your jingle is shite. It's forced into a tune that it doesn't fit into. It is the foot-binding of advertising jingles.
Mean_Cicada9142@reddit
doesn't help that their shops are absolute shitholes
cmousey@reddit
Ha they haven't changed much in two years though, thankfully, I haven't seen so much of the on the beach family this year! I can confirm that if you are on a jet 2 flight you will hear Jess Glynne more than once, don't forget your ear buds
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/10yneo5/comment/j814zd8/?context=3
neilm1000@reddit
They actually play it on the planes?!
Mean_Cicada9142@reddit
yep
Redphantom000@reddit
Currently hate the ones for Plum, will definitely never use them.
Back when it was playing, I hoped that girl ringing her grandmother about getting a job on Indeed would be fired immediately.
Oh and people may talk about getting food from Deliveroo. Some may even mention uber eats. But nobody, literally nobody, has EVER said “Just Eat”
Mean_Cicada9142@reddit
it was totaljobs not indeed
Budget_Put_2286@reddit
I pay subscription because I don't want advertising shoved down my throat. If only the person responsible thinking it's a good idea. I suggest you might need is, a big hard cock down your morher fucking throat that chokes you. Leave me to watch without having to swallow. That's your decision. Thank fir listening. Someone's pleasure, ain't mine. Jon Doe
Budget_Put_2286@reddit
Every advert when I paid for premium. Fucking suck. I know tv listing's. I'll watch when I want to watch. Stop advertising & go suck cock. Meanwhile, can I watch TV without interruptions. Thank you. Jon Do
zillapz1989@reddit
Companion?
He calls us that because he doesn't want to imagine us.... getting it on.
Cringe.
sineadantonia49@reddit
Yuk I hate that ad
ghostlight1969@reddit
Seriously, no one wants to see you ‘getting it on’, flower. And put the sweets down you senile old git!
Disastrous_Meat5657@reddit
GOCHUJANG COOKIES. I’m disturbed by how much it irritates me
sineadantonia49@reddit
Or just throw it away and buy a jar of Dolmio
sideeye57@reddit
They’re showing a terrifying future where people are like this guy, hopelessly dependent on AI, take its advice literally on everything
Kitsonicko@reddit
Jet2's Overplayed "Hold My Hand" Campaign and GoCompare's Opera Singing Gio Compario Make Sonic.EXE Look Like a Christian!
Shewasaskaterbratz@reddit
Bit late commenting but I cannot stand that new advert for Royal Caribbean (or something similar) It's the song they use....it goes right through me everytime it's on
CarrbonaraUK@reddit
Cuvva bunch of batty boys
sideeye57@reddit
Incessant astroturfing on the nosebleed channels (old parlance) for cancer charities, cremation services and mattresses
Empowerthis91@reddit
The very ads. With those flamingos and that pigeon who is punching above his weight.
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
🤣🤣
Due_Virus_687@reddit
The flamingo add pisses me off, what are they even saying
Disastrous_Till7504@reddit
Hi I'm molly mae doing her laundry. It feels like it's on every break and it is really getting on my nerves over kill will make her unpopular drives me mad anyone else?
10dollarscratchy@reddit
Mmmmmm....maggi? Iykyk
Wild_Region_7853@reddit
The voiceover on the Aldi adverts is annoying as hell. I can’t even see the guy and I know he’s got a punchable face.
beetshelbournelips@reddit
sounds like the guy on the loctite superglue adverts circa 2008
douggieball1312@reddit
Every single Curry's ad at the moment. Stop trying to be funny and quirky and making your staff/customers look like gormless morons.
beetshelbournelips@reddit
the guy on it has such an obnoxious loud annoying voice and the newest advert only exuberates it
Moppo_@reddit
I can't remember if it's Curry's or a similar shop, but there's also those where it's just a montage of products with annoying music and a voiceover, but the sound mixing is atrocious. The music drowns out the voice, so not only is the music MORE annoying, but none of the "information" gets through.
yorkshire106@reddit
Toothpaste ( any) , just eat, and absolutely any that show women shaving their minge, I'm not a fan of the sanitary towel adverts either, especially since they went from blue blood to red. I hate seeing people sitting on a toilet while I'm eating.
maelie@reddit
I disagree on the sanitary towel one. A relative of mine went off on a MASSIVE rant about seeing an ad about heavy periods, saying she was going to complain to the brand, the channel, and the ASA. Disgusting how they talk about periods on TV, she said.
But I think it's kind of shameful that we can't talk about periods openly. As someone who had heavy periods that turned out to be a symptom of a medical issue that went undiagnosed until I tried to have children, I feel sure that if we normalised talking about periods I might have learned earlier what's "normal" and what's not. And i always think of that poor poor girl who killed herself because she started her period and didn't know what it was and killed herself because she thought there was something wrong with her. Which was what led to the creation of the Samaritans. And there have been other similar stories of suicide around the world where people were scared or ashamed of their periods. Why? Why is something that is part of (almost) every woman's life, for a significant chunk of it at least, come with such stigma? If you saw blood in an ad for something else, like an injury on another part of the body, would it concern you? Why is it any different?
That's my stance. Same with towels/tampons being out visibly in public toilets in cafes etc. I think if people take offence to that then it's just a sign we need to work harder as a society to normalise and acknowledge a basic bodily function.
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
You can talk about periods openly without it being a marketing ploy. It's nothing to do with giving a damn about women and girls, it's trying to make us buy and also they wouldn't be classed as a luxury item still, if it was about our welfare. That's shocking in this day and age that young girls don't know what's happening to them. I didn't know what was happening to me either but I had a vague idea from my peer groups.
maelie@reddit
It's a marketing ploy because it's an advertisement. This whole thread is about ads, and if you want to discuss how ads generally are a bad thing we can do that too! And the luxury item thing is a Government tax, not anything to do with the ads or the manufacturers (who I'm sure would love to have the tax taken off, since it would boost their sales and profit margins).
But what I meant is that periods shouldn't be specifically singled out as something to not be shown on TV.
yorkshire106@reddit
I didn't say it offended me, I was asked a question which I answered as I feel. I said I'm not a fan of that advert!
Violet351@reddit
There’s one with running dogs with a really annoying song
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
Little bit of mmm??
Violet351@reddit
That’s the one!
duckiebrown@reddit
Lloyds Bank
Violet351@reddit
I totally thought it was for dog food!
Kickkickkarl@reddit
I just mute the adverts as soon as they come on so tend not to hear adverts on TV.
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
I pause the TV go and faff about for half an hour, then fast forward whilst laughing insanely like a mad scientist.
Blueknightuk77@reddit
All of the ads that make men look stupid, as this "empowers" women into buying their stupid cleaning product.
Then there's nearly every ad that has racial tokenism.
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
"Multi-racial couples selling stuff" sang in hot chocolate style on famalan!!
Hulkenberk@reddit
The current Bold advert with the "ASMR" whispering makes me irrationally angry, It's shouldn't piss me off so much but it really does.
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
I bet it doesn't smell anything like that meadow!
DogDrools@reddit
For me it’s the GNER one. Train companies seem incapable of having a decent advert made. And then it’s on multiple times a night. Thank god for the mute button.
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
Yeah and let's face it, you'd still be on the platform waiting for it, or on a replacement bus!
MrMoobz@reddit
I travelled everywhere across this land......
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
And....should've checked Trivago... aaarrgghhhh!!
LidgetTheMidget@reddit
That tit who puts too much sugar in his pasta sauce and then somehow makes cookies out of it
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
Who puts sugar in pasta sauce??!!
nomeancity29@reddit
Yes! This. Feckin idiot. His cookies look and probably taste disgusting.
Dry_Run9442@reddit
He's a c*** and should be put in the oven along with his cookies.
Loose_Acanthaceae201@reddit
And still doesn't have any pasta sauce.
Huge-Promotion-7998@reddit
Or any dinner, only dessert. I'd be so angry.
carl84@reddit
If you actually ask the AI that they're advertising if turning it into cookies will work it will tell you that no, it won't, it's dramatic license
CrimsonArrowXIII@reddit
This one utterly infuriates me
Existing-Ad9730@reddit
Adverts are my biggest hate!
Fucking macmillan adverts on like 12 times an hour ffs and those Dusk adverts ughh! It's not female empowerment when you're just the same as a dirty old man! And "oh that's all I want from my life, a diamond solitaire engagement ring"
Those scent boosters when they're all in beds in the park. "Can I keep this?" Fuck off!!
Over 50 life cover and get yourself cremated, you're at home in the day you must be halfway there by now. "Are you going to kark it soon? Get cremated!"
Fuck off with your bulky pee pants nobody cares!
Nobody wants to see simulated blood in period sanitary pad adverts, we know ok!!
itsdan23@reddit
Go compare.
DepartureAwkward5002@reddit
Haribo one with the kids voices makes me cringe.
Ok-Solid-5870@reddit
Yep! Makes me want to jump through the telly and beat them to death!
Dry_Run9442@reddit
I have to mute that one straight away. Some people find it hilarious and should be excommunicated as a result.
Electronic-Industry4@reddit
I had trouble thinking and yes this one this is like my modern day Harry Hastings (if you don't know you are safe 😂) these adverts really are not funny just make me mute or switch off.
PostersAreHuman@reddit
In the latest one with the two old ladies, I can only hear what one of them says as 'Ooh! Purple Pubes!'
I know it's probably cola cubes, but I hear too many stables for that to work, it must be my ears, I know that as well
PsychologicalNote612@reddit
Pineapple cubes.
This is also my least favourite advert. Of course you've had a pear drop before because you can identify what sweet it is and the fact that it isn't normally, 'squidgy like a jellyfish'. The voices irritate me more than the words though.
the_gwyd@reddit
why on earth are you giggling like that about the phrase "squidgy like a jellyfish"? And the intonation of that phrase does my head in
CatnipManiac@reddit
I came here to say the same thing. Some think it's the funniest thing ever; I just want to attack the TV with a club.
mkaym1993@reddit
I must admit the first advert for pretty good and seemed quite “clever” (for want of a better word!). All these years later they really grate! Should have been a one off ad campaign
Scooob-e-dooo8158@reddit
I found the ones with the police men in the car funny.
chris5156@reddit
If I ever meet the person who came up with these I will not be responsible for the consequences.
E5evo@reddit
‘WE ARE THE POLICE’! I love that one!
Ok-Solid-5870@reddit
"I'll Monzo you right away"! Like it's actually going to become a saying! OTHER BANKS EXIST! Aaaagh!
Dry_Run9442@reddit
The audible comedy ad - Bing bong exsqueeze me
Proper_Instruction67@reddit
All the gambling ads, why are they eveywhere?
Yellow--Calx@reddit
People with addictions are easy prey
BananaHairFood@reddit
“What if they draw pictures of me and show their parents?”
Yellow--Calx@reddit
Sorry about the days late reply but I swear this advert has been in rotation for a good year now. Give it up guys.
Moppo_@reddit
Pretty much every single parson licks the lid. Who came up with that?
BananaHairFood@reddit
“Oh my god, guess what the teacher did today! She liked the lid of her yogurt!”
Scandalous.
douggieball1312@reddit
That teacher is such a massive drip, coming down with social anxiety around a bunch of primary schoolars. Every real teacher will tell you she wouldn't last a day in that job.
thrrowaway4obreasons@reddit
Former teacher, would not be seen dead eating my lunch with the kids.
trimble24@reddit
The “poonami” one 😡
ScraggyFridge@reddit
I hate it too. Also, it is close sounding to ‘poonani’, which is Jamaican slang for lady parts, so I’m really surprised it made it past the ASA. Also, don’t they change ads any more? It’s being going for ever!!
ScraggyFridge@reddit
McDonald’s. Instant mute/change channel. The guy that does the voiceovers has the most irritating voice in history, and they’ve kept him for like 95 years. Hate his voice so much I refuse to eat in their restaurants. Also they put on like 6 million ads a day. Guys, we know what you sell.
TheGoldenBeryl@reddit
That Lucozade one that I see twenty times an hour on YouTube.
Some arsehole says "oh yeah!" and then loads of idiots start dancing on a basketball court.
I never had anything against Lucozade until they made this advert but now I hate them like nothing else.
Psycho_Husband@reddit
"Did somebody say Just Eat?"
Do they didn't! Shut up and go away!
curious_pinguino@reddit
I dunno man I think the Snoop Dogg mix is fire
https://youtu.be/uFPEedHvHqs?si=z7u5p96EIgPouEB7
E5evo@reddit
Just Eat. & pay a fucking fortune for delivery. Fuck that.
FizzbuzzAvabanana@reddit
Local takeaways fucked em off round us & sorted their own app. Prices tumbled, good on em.
CatnipManiac@reddit
Just Wait (& pay a fucking fortune for cold junk food.)
cwatt69@reddit
The patronising Einstein / Angela Rippon smart-meter advert. I know fully well what a smart-meter is and how it works, but thanks to this advert I will never install one.
Jumpy-Brilliant-3880@reddit
AMEN to that! Imagine that you are a leader in the modern understanding of Physics, and many years after your death, with years of respect and praise, your image is being used to sell smart meters to middle England, accompanied by a newsreader from the 1970s, to people in their 70s+.
spikewilliams2@reddit
I call it necro puppetry. Same for Peter Cushing in star wars.
BoxWonderful5393@reddit
Well two spring to mind...
People's Postcode Lottery..."Someone's knocking at the door".... just fuck off with that fucking song.
Pure Cremations. Who the hell sits in a bath and waxes lyrical about how nice a funeral was then immediately talks about sorting out their own plan?
PublicPossibility946@reddit
In the Pure Cremations adverts they never expressly confirm that they wait until your dead before burning you. For this alone I will take my cremation ISA elsewhere.
spikewilliams2@reddit
Sounds like the Monty Python sketch where the organ donation people knock on the door and say "we've come for your liver"
yorkshire106@reddit
Oh gosh,you just reminded me about that funeral advert, as if they had a lovely time 🤣 oh it's definitely up on my top 5 hated
Highway-Organic@reddit
Ah funeral envy , it's the best
neilm1000@reddit
People do always say "ooh it was a lovely service, wasn't it. A lovely service", though. No one ever says "Christ, that was bloody awful."
Moppo_@reddit
Or bumps into a friend at the garden centre, picks up a hydrangea and says "You know who I want to incinerate me?"
finestryan@reddit
SOMEONES RINGING THE BELL 🗣️
Leicsbob@reddit
My colleague who's nearly 60 was gobsmacked when the original song was played on the radio. She thought they had turned the advert into an actual song. I was trying to explain it was Paul McCartney singing his song but she wouldn't have it.
Enchant2020@reddit
Those sausage rolls though... 🙄
BALLCLASH@reddit
The Sure advert one that unnecessarily details how you can use their deodorant on your "bits", "balls" and "bum". Not because I'm a prude, but I'd rather not have the discussion of what balls are to my young daughter off the back of an advert for bloody deodorant.
Rikishi_Fatu@reddit
Someone's tugging on his balls, somebody's ringing his bell
Oh sorry, got my annoying adverts mixed up.
NeddTwo@reddit
Have you seen the new Lynx one? Guy sprays it down his shorts, goes and plays basketball, his team mate picks him up to slam dunk the ball and has his crotch right in his face. The team mate then sticks his face in the guys crotch to smell it........ I kid you not.
EvandeReyer@reddit
Both of these showed at the cinema when I saw Superman the other day. Delightful on the big screen (not). I’m actually offended by them.
Highway-Organic@reddit
Please complain , lets all complain . It's just not right that ad .
BeagleMadness@reddit
Jesus! The only time i really see TV ads is when I visit my elderly mum who has Sky. But even then she generally records stuff to watch later so can skip through the ads. So I just looked up this advert thanks to.your comment and, christ....
I've noticed end of aisle stands with "all over body deodorant" in supermarkets lately and thought "Wtf?? Just have a daily (or more, if needed in summer etc) shower?" . I hadn't considered what the TV adverts for such products would be like. This one is particularly revolting, I have to say.
fatboyslick@reddit
The USA version is worse….its the same ad but with less rude names and a breezy soft pop song
Komahina_Oumasai@reddit
Oh, it absolutely was. They evidently believe that all PR is good PR.
Intelligent-Bee-839@reddit
Domino hop hop the fuck do you think you are with your ridiculously overpriced pizzas. Fuck off!
maddypadden@reddit
"Domino hoo hoo!"
I cringed just typing that out.
Intelligent-Bee-839@reddit
This one.
rjgfox@reddit
We mute the adverts on 4OD for this very reason. Drives me mad
neilm1000@reddit
I've not had the Domino ooh ooh ones at all recently but the Google Pixel one that has replaced it has put me off 4OD.
Cantbearsed1992@reddit
Aaaaaaaagh Do they actually think these ads encourage people to buy their product - delusional
ddttm@reddit
This makes the inside of my head itch. They’re not even saying the name of the company.
louswheel@reddit
The 1st word is the name of the company!
Professional-Pin147@reddit
Sssssssssss
BackgroundCookie752@reddit
Gochujang cookies
MLMSE@reddit
The Lucozade one - mostly because Youtube also shows it me about 10 times during every video i watch
No-media6788@reddit
Stupid fucking song PISSES ME THE FUCK OFF,
shedbastard12@reddit
This is what I came to find, every youtube video is that advert and it's mostly down to that fucking song.
Komahina_Oumasai@reddit
UBlock Origin and ReVanced can help you with the YouTube problem. UBlock to deal with web YouTube, ReVanced to deal with app YouTube.
ldn6@reddit
I get it nonstop and I want to throw my computer out the window.
genepy123@reddit
The Vitality ads with the totally unfunny dachshund playing every single time there is a break in play on cricket coverage on Sky.
A dachshund saying "Don't tell me to silly mid off. You silly mid off. So there!"
Just annoying.
macsikhio@reddit
It's desert it's dessert it's desert it's dessert! Laithwaits and before Come dine with me. Aargh.
Extra-Fisherman-995@reddit
Lenor ads
Darrowby_385@reddit
That bloody one about the candidate's salary. Indeed, I think. Dull as feck.
Bertman-UK-26@reddit
“Bing Bong, ex-squeeze me”
It’s not funny, it makes me want to throw something at the tv.
tiggytoad@reddit
This advert gives me the utter rage. This was seriously the best advert Audiobook could come up with?
ghostlight1969@reddit
I used to work with someone who said “bing bong” when she wanted your attention. Shudder.
guildazoid@reddit
I think the advertisers were like "people will think this isn't funny, and then laugh at the fact the people he thought they thought it was funny were actually finding this thing we're selling funny on earth pods" but no. It's not in any way funny. And worse, I can't tell you what the product is. At least the other responses I can tell you exactly what it is with the "darling hold my hand" etc.
Also, what person is listening to a hilarious podcast to the point they can't perform their job role effectively (i.e. doesn't note he's there nor switch off mid hysteria) AND STILL GETS their own office. Guessing they are in advertising.
douggieball1312@reddit
I just come away thinking that lady in the shop really shouldn't be laughing at an audiobook while she's meant to be serving customers.
Bertman-UK-26@reddit
It’s one of those ads that has the opposite effect on me, I know what you are advertising and I may be interested in your product, but the way you’ve done it irritates me so much there is no way I’m ever giving you my money. Jet2 also falls into the bracket, (although there are more reason to never use Jet2 than just their annoyingly persistent, never ending marketing campaign).
Moppo_@reddit
That's one of those situations where I'll only consider the product if someone I know has already tried it and says it's actually good.
PostersAreHuman@reddit
I saw that for the first time in the cinema the other day, and it already went almost to the top of my most annoying current ads list
Pineapples-1971@reddit
It’s just painful isn’t it…
Weekly_Customer_8770@reddit
granny I got the job!
arjay555@reddit
The army or navy or marine ones whichever it is. The ones where it’s like “if you can fix a skateboard…[several steps later]…you can fix an aircraft carrier.” No the fuck you cannot.
Also any of those ads that glorify joining the army. No thanks, I’ll stick with a job where I won’t get shot at or bombed or killed.
littleboo2theboo@reddit
We do need an army
SamVimesBootTheory@reddit
I went to the cinema yesterday and had to sit through four military recruitment ads in under 10 minutes
SamVimesBootTheory@reddit
I went to the cinema yesterday and had to sit through four military recruitment ads in under 10 minutes
SamVimesBootTheory@reddit
I went to the cinema yesterday and had to sit through four military recruitment ads in under 10 minutes
Highway-Organic@reddit
WWF adopt an elephant for just £5 a month ?
How big of a garden shed do they think I have ?
LidgetTheMidget@reddit
Bulky pee pants
Highway-Organic@reddit
Can't go to that concert ? Just use the bloody toilets you dimwit
EatenbyCats@reddit
That one. I go from calm to rage if I hear it. I'm cross now just thinking about it!
MrsTheBo@reddit
I’m letting it all go…
sweetpicklemilk@reddit
The Andrew one about pooing in school.
CrustyHumdinger@reddit
The Boots suncream one with the brain-dead blonde
Mooman-Chew@reddit
Either the KFC ones or the deodorant ads for people who refuse to wash their bits
hoochieboochie77@reddit
I hate jet 2 ads but I hate that on the beach one more with that fucking insufferable family. Seriously If that’s the type of people you have going On your holidays you can count me the fuck Out.
Physical_Orchid3616@reddit
The son... I can't say what I'm thinking
hoochieboochie77@reddit
You can. You absolutely can. Let it out. This is a safe space
reeko1982@reddit
It is NOT the most wonderful time of the year. That is Christmas and Christmas is five fucking months away, when I’m sure we will be saturated by that song anyway!
MrsTheBo@reddit
I would pay to avoid an airport lounge if that lot are going to be there getting all smug over a buffet.
vegan_voorhees@reddit
That On the Beach one seems designed to repel.
Physical_Orchid3616@reddit
I know. It's the world's worst family shown. The family you would DREAD being in the same hotel with.
BlueBucket0@reddit
That weird Extra chewing gum advert with the mouths on people’s foreheads.
JazzlikeFlamingo6773@reddit
The weird one with the dog that seems desperate to shag its owner, and the one with the arse sniffing humans…. Just to add to that, it is not necessary to deodorise your junk! Man or woman
EvandeReyer@reddit
I know, I find those ads absolutely vile. Lynx for the arse sniffing and Sure for trying to convince everyone they need to be spraying their balls. Gross.
Physical_Orchid3616@reddit
And how they have to point out they're showing someone's balls with giant text. Moronic.
NowWe_reSuckinDiesel@reddit
Absolutely. And the one where they have shots of body areas and words coming up in big letters like "BALLS"... very tacky
ConnectionPlus7415@reddit
Extremely annoying,I turn the telly over when this is disgusting add comes on,my wife also finds it unbearable.
Physical_Orchid3616@reddit
The most recent Cuvva advert with the screaming fuzzy duck irritates the shit out of me. Why do so many advertisers have to make one MORONIC advert after another?
Moleicesters@reddit
Pepto Bismol
CocoRufus@reddit
Those bloody meerkats. Enough already
Fluffy_Specialist593@reddit
Robinson's fuck you teacher ad.
Gryeg@reddit
Darling hold my haaanndd....
Sirlacker@reddit
They're following the Go Compare formula. Annoy you so much that the company is forever ingrained into your brain. A year after the ads have stopped, you'll have forgotten about how annoying they are, but you will remember Jet2.
_HGCenty@reddit
Jess Glynne's music career was never the same after that.
Moppo_@reddit
You know what the worst part is? They play that while you board the plane.
thisriveriswild57@reddit
It’s beyond the point of annoying now for me, to the extent that I enjoy it ironically
BrowsingOnMaBreak@reddit
I don’t mind this one, the Tui one annoys me tho
Jimmy_Maximum@reddit
This one really rubs my partner up the wrong way. He was convinced the words were "Standing on my heeeead", and down right refuses to believe that the real lyrics are what are actually being sung
mynameisollie@reddit
It’s even more annoying now that it’s on 50% of videos on social media. Kill me
arjay555@reddit
That song plays on the playlist in the store I work in, and whenever it comes on and gets to the “darling hold my hand” line, you always without fail hear someone say “nothing beats a Jet2 holiday”, and it makes me laugh every time
KaylsTheOptimist@reddit
nothing beats a jet 2 holiday
deadliftbear@reddit
With £50 off, that’s £200 for a family of four!
Littlemissmilne@reddit
You mean this one?
TRFKTA@reddit (OP)
Yes.
If I ever finish watching a video and an app tries showing me that it makes me irrationally angry.
FizzbuzzAvabanana@reddit
Flash. Arrrrggghhh!!!
Aggravating-Day-2864@reddit
Every fkn one on you tube
victory-or-death@reddit
The monzo and revolut ones are so desperate and they’re EVERYWHERE
DramaFearless8411@reddit
Bing bong exsqueeze me - personally I gotta turn the channel over - cannot stand that advert !
Jumpy-Brilliant-3880@reddit
Any chugger advert. Ones for donkeys, RSPCA, sight savers, red cross. How much do they cost to make and run, how much of my £5 a month is spunked away on ads and phone call staff asking me to donate more?
ThrustersToFull@reddit
Marketing director here. They are not as expensive as you might think - and they do provide charities with a substantial return on investment.
Angelmumuk@reddit
And now there’s one for the bloody canals! Most families are struggling to put food on their tables and now you want them to write a will leaving money to protect canals! Absolute madness!
Jumpy-Brilliant-3880@reddit
God. They aren't even short adverts. They go on and on, like a chugger on your doorstep trying to sign you up to the air ambulance lottery.
I will happily give to charity, I will happily pay a small amount monthly, but don't fucking hard sell me. And don't show me, you spending my money on constant ad campaigns and people going out there to get more money. I want to know if my money is going directly to the cause.
I miss the adverts from the 808s and 90s, where they were 30 seconds long.
missingfromearth@reddit
This whole comment section is just free marketing
SamVimesBootTheory@reddit
The army one involving a flood and has the tag line 'no one can do what a solider can do' as it kind of feels like it's implying the emergency services don't exist.
The Sure and Lynx 'full body deodorant' ones
The ones for AI in your phone that are basically pushing that 'dw you don't need to think for yourself just ask your phone!' narrative
SamVimesBootTheory@reddit
The army one involving a flood and has the tag line 'no one can do what a solider can do' as it kind of feels like it's implying the emergency services don't exist.
The Sure and Lynx 'full body deodorant' ones
The ones for AI in your phone that are basically pushing that 'dw you don't need to think for yourself just ask your phone!' narrative
general-waster@reddit
Any Flash ad
fatboyslick@reddit
“I own this, darlings” can go fuck itself. IONIS surely have a worst brand recognition after these ads
ghostlight1969@reddit
Magnum. With the unapologetic sound effect when they bite into one of their ice lollies that sounds like they’re eating granite. And now the newest advert has the sound used twice!
Flash. A shit song made shitter by adding increasingly convoluted ’lyrics’ about floor cleaner.
Both adverts have me reaching for the mute button.
Oh, and the dead-behind-the-eyes woman selling all her boyfriend’s stuff on Vinted.
GarwayHFDS@reddit
Anything advertising Perfume, Worst part of Christmas.
vegan_voorhees@reddit
That one for Daisy (?) where the bottle is the size of a keg. Bet a lot of people are disappointed by the actual size.
Moppo_@reddit
They have to get extra inventive because there's absolutely nothing they can show in the advert... and it results in crap.
MrHotfootJackson@reddit
"I'm not going to be the person I'm expected to be!"
FAAAAACK OFF!
That one inparticular always boils my pee when they wheel it out year after year.
cloche_du_fromage@reddit
Johnny Depp shovelling dirt all over his own back always raises a smile though.
KaylsTheOptimist@reddit
When you have nausea, heartburn, indigestion….
DevilishlyHandsome63@reddit
Aww I love that one,makes me smile.
ResplendentBear@reddit
Upset stomach, diarrhoea-aa-aa
Fuck me. If that isn't a sign it's time to let the human race die out from global warming I don't know what is. The dolphins couldn't do worse.
Moppo_@reddit
It reminds me of that Japanese video that was supposed to teach English phrases, but completely unfunny.
Apprehensive-Till910@reddit
I want to learn the dance though.
DeepNegotiation4542@reddit
Someone at work had been off poorly and when I asked if they were now ok they said they'd been off with "diarrhea". Did the dance actions for that bit of the song lol
Hazapots1@reddit
I have nausea heartburn indigestion an upset stomach and a lot of verbal diarrhoea every time it comes on
vipros42@reddit
There is nothing fun about chocolate, caramel and toffee. So Toffifee you can fuck off with your stupid pointless catchphrase.
XPixel-OtterX@reddit
You're forgetting the hazelnut.
vipros42@reddit
The least fun bit of all!
PostersAreHuman@reddit
They were only sold in Poundland for ages (back when everything was a pound) They should know their place; they're ok for bottom of the barrel sweets, nothing more
doofcustard@reddit
They are actually quite nice though.
BarryIslandIdiot@reddit
Fage. And it rhymes with cage. Where whoever came up with that advert belongs.
Moppo_@reddit
The advert might be annoying, but it's a Greek name, it does not rhyme with cage.
BarryIslandIdiot@reddit
I'd be happy with that if the advert wasn't annoying. I'm pretty good with pronouncing things correctly, usually. Im just being an obstinate idiot with this one, for my own petty satisfaction.
W51976@reddit
Everything’s Premium but the price! Lenny Henry just annoys me full stop, he was never funny
BarleyWineStein@reddit
What's the one where the old guy comes over to meet the family and there is some awkward conversation about "friend" or "sexual partner". I can't even tell you what it is for because I just tune out.
Moppo_@reddit
Malteasers.
TheBristolBulk@reddit
That Haribo nonsense where the adults talk like kids literally makes me want to vomit blood.
Moppo_@reddit
It was bad enough with the jingle saying "Everybody loves it so".
I do not. Haribo is crap. Do not speak for me.
Pineapples-1971@reddit
The Haribo adverts make me nauseous 🤢
NeddTwo@reddit
Can anyone actually understand what the two fishermen in the boat one are saying? I think they're speaking with an irish accent but even after seeing it about 20 times, i still cant understand what they say.
Moppo_@reddit
They're clearly Scottish. They're even talking about Nessie.
sharps2020@reddit
We are the police - fuck off and do some police stuff then.
Loose_Acanthaceae201@reddit
How am I the first to say the Virgin Airlines one, where they butcher "I Am What I Am"?
We dive for the remote if that bollocks comes on.
Moppo_@reddit
"I am what I am", ok, but what's that got to do with air travel?
Youngfolk21@reddit
"Darling hold my hand"
Moppo_@reddit
No, no, it's "DARLIHOLMAHAAAN".
daniel2hats@reddit
"You're a lifesaver. I'll Monzo you right away"
ImmenseMagnitude@reddit
Oh no we've run out of tigapo, can you Monzo me? No I only use remitly darling.
ZeldaFan158@reddit
"Granny I got the job" still gives me nightmares
PuerSalus@reddit
This is on YouTube but the damn PaddyPower and other betting ads.
I've probably placed a bet on the horses twice in my life (whilst at the track for a stag do) and never been in a betting shop (is that even what they're called?) and yet every time I go to YouTube it tells me how I should be betting on the football or using their new super-extra-bonus-casino-funhouse-moneyback-bigwin-games app that they offer.
Times like this I wish the ads actually were better targeted from my cookies so I at least cared about the product.
JimmyHaggis@reddit
The one where they lose the tent poles, when they finally find a tent pole shop after dangerous driving the girls then demand pastries.
Get off your arse and get your own fucking pastries!
Jumpy-Brilliant-3880@reddit
Also, what I know of festivals, the cunts will just leave that fucking tent, used johnnies and sanny pads in the field, sleeping bags, carry bags, afterwards. The same field, they stayed up until 4 am in, in which they've toked and vomited all over, between seeing bands that were big in the mid 90s and trying hippy crack and spending £11 on a vegan burger that looks like a cow pat, as well as getting upset about climate change and homelessness, yet leaving most of what they brought to go into landfill.
PangolinOk6793@reddit
My partner who is a teacher almost destroyed the TV when the new Robinsons ad came on. The one where the mum takes the naughty kid from school and then they sit in the kitchen and start pissing themselves laughing.
Any cross country trains ad that shows a train leaving on time and attentive staff gets the same reaction from me!
Angelmumuk@reddit
The Robinson’s one drives me nuts too. When I was a TA, we had a disruptive (we’re not allowed to say naughty anymore!) kid in class. Each time we spoke to his mum she would say to him, in front of us “well if you’ve been spoken to by your teacher, I won’t punish you when you get home.”
It was so frustrating because it basically told him there would be no consequences. It made him invincible and that year was hell. Thanks for reinforcing that message, Robinsons!
Jumpy-Brilliant-3880@reddit
I hate that ad for the same reason. The kid is obviously a shit and the parent a failure, because of their inability to actually parent behaviour.
TRFKTA@reddit (OP)
The train ad must be due to your location. I get South Western Railway where I live that has two birds chatting about going to see various attractions. As soon as it starts one of them is like ‘Saaaandy!’ and I’m like ‘fuck off!’
neilm1000@reddit
This thread tells me that we're all getting different ads. Obviously it's been like this on websites for years but it's interesting that I'm getting wildly different ads to other people. Is this based on what you're watching (a specific group might be watching repeats of The Bill), because a company has bought a load of slots for every advert gap (like the Crazy Frog did in 2005) on a particular channel/service or something else? We've had regional ads on TV for years and I occasionally get an advert for NOW Cars on 4OD (presumably because my IP address gives away where I am), but I've never had this birds train advert or the LNER one.
ImmenseMagnitude@reddit
Anytime an animal sings or speaks. Think the flash advert. It's repellant! For a classic does anyone remember "talk to you later, if I'm still alive..."
Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit
Other than Jet2 ads, I find any of the 4-5 ads that are endlessly on rotation on streaming services annoying.
The repetition of a tiny selection of them drives me up the wall.
neilm1000@reddit
The England team Google Pixel ad is just noise. It's utterly horrible. I've never felt like this about an advert before.
Austen_Tasseltine@reddit
A group of vaguely-aspirational men are having a work meeting in a pub. One of them is new, and has arrived late. He sits down, and takes a swig of his drink. But it’s not his drink, it’s a fingerbowl! He styles it out though, because of the product being advertised, and says it “needs more salt” to general hilarity and acceptance among his peers.
Why is he drinking a pub drink out of a bowl? Why is there a fingerbowl at a pub table? If they’re having a meal, why is he so late that a course requiring a fingerbowl has been served and (except for the fingerbowl) cleared away? Why would you want your drink to be salty? Has anyone involved in making the advert ever been to a pub, eaten a meal or observed any kind of human interaction?
I think it’s for deodorant.
neilm1000@reddit
This seems specific to whatever 4OD is called now (I appreciate it hasn't been called that in years). There is a Google Pixel advert that is something to do with the England football team. It's just noise and it's horrible, like a real sensory overload. I mute the ads every time and because it's just so awful I've thought about contacting as Channel 4 to ask them to not target it at me but I'm aware that it doesn't really work like that and they'll just say I can subscribe to avoid the ads.
It's so bad that it's actively put me off buying a Pixel.
Ilsluggo@reddit
Those stupid LNER ads with the dancing puppet (her name is Elenor, I understand). These commercials scream 1970’s, low production values to me.
CatnipManiac@reddit
Anything with those fucking meerkat puppets. Yes, they were cute 20 years ago. Briefly. Very briefly. Now fuck the fuck off. You're just shit and annoying.
evielstar@reddit
My husband has misophonia around food noises, the magnum advert drives him to distraction. He hates it.
OrganizationFun2140@reddit
Fortunately, haven’t seen that one but any crisp ad where they amp up the crunch has me ready to inflict unspeakable torture on the creators.
plumplumforeveryone@reddit
Lately there's a hearing aid one - Pindrop maybe (I never get through it enough to see).
Here's your suncream! I said some cream...
Urghhhhhhhh
Polz34@reddit
At the moment that Boots one where the dad goes 'did we forget the bag' doesn't help that it seems to be the ad of choice on iPlayer, ITVX etc.
03fb@reddit
The nationwide ads with the smug out of touch banker.
I know he's not Nationwide but the ad has planted the thought that Nationwide is also ran by people like him.
reeko1982@reddit
I don’t know what data annotation is and I don’t care, I’m on Reddit for cats and the interminable trudge of being British, now off you fuck.
DPropish@reddit
The sobbing wanker with the tins of baked beans
ratscabs@reddit
Every damned one of them. That’s why I never watch live TV, and record what I want to I can fast-forward through the breaks.
Jonny_Dangerous999@reddit
The answer to this - for me - is any advert that takes a popular, instantly recognisable song and changes the lyrics to flog whatever dreadful product they're selling. If the words can be badly shoe horned in so it doesn't scan properly, bonus points.
So, currently BetFair (Back Street Boys), Flash (Queen) and WeBuyAnyCar (Nightcrawlers - and yeah I had to look it up but I remember it from when it came out...) are probably annoying me most at the moment.
The Jet2 one doesn't bother me too much because they just used the original song, although I'm not keen on the song.
Legitimate-Nobody542@reddit
Pretty much all of them. They all seem to have some weird song attached to them now
I’d love to see honest advertising. Something like “shop at Aldi, it’s cheaper than Tesco and it’s the closest shop to you” in a really monotone, blunt voice
Scooob-e-dooo8158@reddit
Not an advert in the strictest sense of the meaning but last month, I signed up to ITVX Premium for a spell to binge watch some shows without ads. I started with Pennyworth and was increasingly pissed off each time the show was interrupted with a promotional break for David Tennant's Genius Game and later the promotion for the women's Euros. I know the licence for streaming US shows requires ad breaks, but I would have preferred actual adverts as long as they were alternated.
Machinesteve@reddit
Ok I see you Cherry Hill……I don’t know what it is for I just turn it off on YouTube
HoraceorDoris@reddit
The one for washing additives with the rugby players. I thought the sock sniffing pervert in the shoe shop was annoying enough, but this is another level of nauseating shite. They even throw in a random woman as the referee to “appeal” to a wider audience, whose expression asks “what have you done to my big strapping models who look like they’ve never been in a scrum in their lives?”. Just to add, I’m pretty indifferent about rugby, it’s the ad that annoys me!
Also, any advertisement that shoehorns in as many stereotypes as it can, with PDA’s just to make sure you realise that they are a blended family/LGBTQ+ etc. I have no problem whatsoever with anyone belonging to a different community to me, or PDA’s if that’s what you want to do, it’s the cynical marketing practices that piss me off! Their only saving grace is that the “man of the house” is no longer a total fucking moron who is tolerated/patronised by his wife and kids!😑
87catmama@reddit
Well thanks a lot, because every time this question comes up, I feel compelled to reply and I remember the stupid man with the stupid smug face.
'I didn't know you had dandruff' Smug man 'I don't'
Just a disclaimer, I'm sure he's a perfectly lovely man, but I honestly can't stand him
UniquePotato@reddit
Corsodyl and super noodles. Can’t stand unnecessary screaming
FewEstablishment2696@reddit
I can't remember the last time I saw a TV advert. How do people see them nowadays?
No_Coyote_557@reddit
That dachshund on the sky cricket.
cwatt69@reddit
All McDonalds adverts. From the shite 'food' being advertised to that annoying voice and even more annoying whistle. I detest everything about this brand
Idoleyesed@reddit
I'm SO MAD they are using Enigma for the backing tune in their latest one. McDonald's has no place with them.
OkPomegranate9160@reddit
"Get the Boots bag"
sychtynboy123@reddit
GB news,gold reserve jewellers omg
Missbhavin58@reddit
Haribo/we buy any car.com. MUTE BUTTON
cloche_du_fromage@reddit
Omaze.
Something about the woman who does the ads face just rubs me up the wrong way.
Wild_Region_7853@reddit
Yes! She’s like a stepford wife.
Apprehensive-Till910@reddit
MILLION …pounds
NeddTwo@reddit
The ones for dog and cat charities, donkies, RSPCA etc. The ones with eyes falling out, skin and bones, weeping sores etc. Always shown at tea time, when you're eating for some reason.
ahoneybadger3@reddit
Haven't watched TV in about 5 years now.
I just don't see the point in it. You can watch any subject you want at any time without having to pay a licence fee.
im-yxz@reddit
quite literally every advert but the bing bong exqueeze me, the trivago adverts and the ryobi/karcher adverts piss me off the most
finestryan@reddit
Jess Glynn airlines ads give me an uncontrollable burst of rage.
Another_Random_Chap@reddit
Currently, the Confused.com whistling adverts.
LimeyUK@reddit
"On the beach" with the damn Christmas song well into spring. It can fuck right off.
prustage@reddit
I don't discriminate. They ALL annoy me. Every single one of them. There are no "good" ads.
This is why I never watch live TV. I record everything and then play it back and fast-forward through the ads. This is the only way.
Adam_1968_uk@reddit
What's the one with the footballers and the tune behind it goes "rock off, rock off" can't bear it
Komahina_Oumasai@reddit
Lucozade?
Adam_1968_uk@reddit
Yeah, i think that's it. I hate it
Superb-Ad-8823@reddit
Yes the current lucozade adverts. Frenetic basket ball styled.
Carta_Blanca@reddit
That lucozade one on the basketball court that's being broadcast currently
OddBirthday7@reddit
i know i keep saying this bur mother's/fathers days is out dared as people have lost both parents some people cant be parents and some kids are in care its not fair for them as you cant get away from it as its every where its just a narcissistic ego boosting useless holiday
ExPristina@reddit
Flo and Joan - Nationwide
mc2609@reddit
All the gambling ones online, plus that bloody Trading 212 ad
E5evo@reddit
That one on The Chase with the short haired blonde woman. She does my napper in.
broken-runner-26@reddit
Stopped watching the chase because of that.
pompombum@reddit
That stupid eBay ad in the middle of love island every 5 minutes
Semi-On-Chardonnay@reddit
It might be terrible, but it’s marginally less shite than the programme it’s nestled in.
A bit like a lump of sweetcorn in a giant turd.
TablePanic@reddit
The tesco "I got the power" ads
roozierooo@reddit
They’ve at least removed those hideous filters from this series of ads - maybe they got the message nobody liked them
Melissa-young@reddit
Every single advert really annoys me, it doesn't matter what it is, I hate them all
Rednwh195m@reddit
Some of these ads are annoying but in a way that you do actually remember what the product is. Does this make you buy the product or deliberately avoid it. Others can be so annoying or cringeworthy that you just totally switch off and never remember what the product is. At least with recorders or other tech you can fast forward through the crap at home.
Impressive_Goat_7567@reddit
The lucozade one on the basketball court where for some reason it's being painted but the balls miraculously don't hit any wet paint, no one running around the courts steps in any wet paint or knocks over any of the multiple open paint cans
NCHLT@reddit
Darling hold my hand
RockNMelanin@reddit
Guess what ad I got shown reading this thread...
sweetpicklemilk@reddit
The Curry’s ad. All the huffing and puffing. Crap
OperationMission8254@reddit
Samsung ads seem to get more annoying each time.
The latest one with that man-child turning his pasta sauce into biscuits inspired me to buy an ITVx sub for a month.
(It was an impulsive decision that now seems like a waste of £5.99. Now I just get bombarded with trailers for their dour dramas.)
I own a boring Samsung midranger that I'm very fond of. But the constant parade of smug pricks in Samsung's ads is making me question my brand loyalty
maelie@reddit
It's so annoying you still get ITV programme ads when you've paid for the sub. I'm already subscribed, you don't need to sell it to me, I can see what's there and decided I want to watch it and that's why I paid. But I might cancel future payments if you irritate me too much.
Makes no sense.
At least they're only short. But you can't even fast forward them (on my platform anyway)
blackcurrantcat@reddit
Jess Glynne- fuck off, they do not want to hold your hand and your incessantly shrill vocal is not gonna entice me to buy a package holiday.
OverPaper3573@reddit
All of them. Instant mute button press.
TWOITC@reddit
Just Eat.
Nobody in the AD says 'Just Eat' yet they constantly ask "did somebody say just eat"
No. No, they didn't
OkEmployeee@reddit
Pure cremation
Upper_Fail3752@reddit
All of them! I only ever watch things procured on the high seas so don't see adverts but I also sail for live sport on one of them sticks so have to endure adverts during that.
Wow. All the ad stuff is awful! Do people really still watch broadcast TV?!? I thought it had been left for dead in a bygone age when we only had four channels!
colourfulcacti@reddit
That current Asda one, I'm totally fine with the cutesy counting game with the baby but then the baby speaks in a gruff adult voice for no reason. Like a reverse Haribo ad which I incidentally also dont like.
rossburton@reddit
Domino who whoo FUCK OFF
cwatt69@reddit
Seriously annoying
Apprehensive_Ad4172@reddit
There’s an advert on LBC with some irritating woman wittering on about buying festival tickets which makes me RAGE! “You bought the tickets aaaages ago” fuckofffuckoff
Intruder313@reddit
The correct response is already being repeated: Jet2's ads are utterly unbearable and I stop watching any video that plays them. Most ads actually annoy me so much I do this.
A few ads will cause me to hit mute.
I never actually watch/listen to ads.
TRFKTA@reddit (OP)
I don’t think I’ve seen the Jet2 ad. Probably for the best.
FlightSimmerUK@reddit
Sod off - how?
TRFKTA@reddit (OP)
I don’t watch standard TV (mainly Netflix etc) so no adverts there, plus I have Adblock online so very rarely see ads online. Plus I don’t think Google likely has me down as someone to market package holidays to.
That said, now I’ve said that I’ll likely see nothing but Jet2 ads.
Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit
The ads themselves aren't that bad, the problem is they've used the same small loop of music in them for decades now.
I've also been told they play it repeatedly on holidays with them too.
Gryeg@reddit
And add the fact it's become a viral meme on tiktok etc
Ill_Refrigerator_593@reddit
I don't use tiktok, a fact you've just made me very glad of.
secretlondon@reddit
Any with crap rap in them. The ‘of corsa’ ad. Nice ladies shilling toothpaste
Remarkable_Hat8655@reddit
All of them. I mute the ads because they are unbearable!
ResplendentBear@reddit
The Poppy Lottery. The cause is good, the cause couldn't be better, it's just the wilful misuse of the Great in Great Britain infuriates me.
The McDonald's adverts with the strangely unpleasant looking McMuffin and the stupid "you know what this is" voiceover.
Also the McDonald's advert for the Big Arch. Which just looks like people coming down with explosive diarrhea.
K1ng_Canary@reddit
I think it was one for Lebara with 'Sophie from Stockport.' The whispering element puts my teeth on edge.
MandaZePanda84@reddit
The super noodle one with the donkey. I can’t be the only one that gets annoyed it only seems to come on when it’s bed time for the kids
ciro_the_immortal80@reddit
The national lottery one with that woman dancing.
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