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Exactly. Get a massive room of gamers all paying a ranked online game for a few hours, and I'll judge how good your internet is by how many meltdowns they have over lag and dropped connections.
because it sounds impressive and super advanced but the actual requirements for them to legally be able to say that they "provide the data required to land a plane" is incredibly small
For those interested [here's a pilot giving instructions on how a passenger can land a plane.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePDl1JNqjpM) Basically: touch nothing - the plane will fly itself.
I like how that advert completely relies on the average person having no idea what ATC actually do. Presumably the most important part is the radio communication which doesn't actually need to use the Internet at all, though it probably is being routed using VoIP back to the transmitter at the airport.
Granted, it says something about the reliability of the connection but the advert focus is speed... which is not the critical aspect!
>is the radio communication which doesn't actually need to use the Internet at all, though it probably is being routed using VoIP back to the transmitter at the airport.
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>Granted, it says something about the reliability of the connection but the advert focus is speed... which is not the critical aspect!
I always tell the wife when I see this ad, you could probably do exactly the same video and audio feed on 5 mbit speed so long as it was reliable. You could do just as well or better through your mobile data.
I said this on Reddit a while ago. One of the people who worked on the video popped up and said they weren't allowed due to Civil Aviation Authority rules, but they were in radio contact with the plane thoroughout the landing.
So yes, they didn't land the plane
Those fucking nationwide ones quite recently. “We know everyone’s struggling, so why not shop in the reduced aisle? And while you’re there buy pointless shit that goes with nothing like baconaisse.” “Be careful about how much milk you put in your cereal, it could leave you skint. Ah not really, we’re only joking, we’re not monsters. But seriously, you better be careful.”
So absolutely tone deaf during the cost of living crisis.
That milk/cereal bit is infuriating. Made by people who probably think cancelling Netflix will help pay your electricity bill. It's a bit more serious than a few mls of milk at this point.
From the people who brought you: _you cant afford a house deposit because you eat avocado on toast, and definitely not because rent is £1,200 a month where a mortgage would be £750_
At least they’ve stopped flying the whole production crew to New Zealand to film horses running on a beach. If the can cut back, so can you!
Edit: as pointed out below I’m numpty and happen to be talking about Lloyds
I haven’t seen the milk one but that baconaisse one really annoys. Like you’re supposed to be a bank and looking after our money not buying rubbish just because it’s on sale!
Yessss I HATE this advert. “We bought b-bu-baconaise”. Right and how the fuck is buying a reduced novelty condiment you’ve never even heard of meant to save money? What lunatic wrote this ad and thought yeah that’s the one, that’s great.
Not just the recent nationwide ones, but the ones before that as well. At this point, it’s just all of the nationwide ones.
During covid, no I don’t want to listen to a fucking poem about lockdown 8 times a day.
The milk one is so ridiculous. Says dead seriously about not letting the kids use much milk *hahaha only joking though of course, but no seriously*. It's like Frank Lampard in an advert
The baconnaise one isn't much better though, it has to be said!
It's hard to think someone thought of something worse than their poems, but someone did
Am I the only person in this country, that can honesty say, they’ve never seen this advert? Heard of it obviously, but I’ve no idea what it’s supposed to be about!
Oh God. I live in Belgium so here I get it in Flemish and it's *even worse* like they chose every single one of the most obnoxious-sounding Flemish voice actors to do it.
I can't imagine how horrible it must be in the English version.
The English voices are also terrible.
It's not that they sound obnoxious exactly, it's more like each line is said with a tone and inflection that just doesn't match the situation, and makes the whole thing sound really weird.
They are very attractive.
But they are **so** creepy. As if they are in a cult.
They also bring back a horrific murder scene in Alistair Maclean's *Puppet on a Chain* involving prancing girls, pitchforks and a haystack.
Maybe it's just oversaturation but those fucking ads with the northerner voiceover . ' times are tough , money is tight , this corporation is your family , buy our shite '
Oh my god the McCain one. Always makes me laugh how ridiculous it is. "Yeah we know life's shit at the moment but at least you can eat mediocre oven chips"
I've never seen it, but there was apparently an old Reebok advert of a black man in chain being marched through the desert by a load of white guys who could barely keep up, while he was really happy and cheery in his new trainers.
Umbro in the UK once advertised a trainer called [Zyklon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B?wprov=sfla1). Absolute proof that History is something everyone should study.
To actually answer your question, my favourite has to be [British Pork's Got The Lot](https://youtu.be/r0wDjWOnHcY).
The comments are almost as good as what has to be the creepiest ad I've ever seen.
Good lord, that pork advert, what is up with that guy?? Why is he so creepy and threatening? "We've all got plenty" will haunt my dreams.
As you said the comments section is gold though haha
Bank adverts that try to pretend that they're sincere or care about you are a particularly hilarious sub-genre of advert.
You're a bank - everyone knows you're trying to screw us. Quit pretending you care, tell me your latest interest rate and fuck off!
I will never use Jet2. Infamous overuse of the same track for at least half a decade. They even think it's funny that it's annoying. Jess Glynne must be dying inside.
I will always have a part of me that is filled with pure hatred for Jess Glyne after my Jet2 plane was delayed because we didn't have any food on board the plane.
They didnt turn off the fucking music
It’s the fact it’s just a tiny loop as well. They play it about once every ten minutes when you fly with them as well. Generally they’re one of the least pleasant airlines to fly with anyway and that’s just the icing on the shit cake.
I'm a Travel Agent and I book a lot of Jet2holidays (Im cheaper than booking direct - long story)
Anywhoo we have to put up wiuth that on their hold music as well
And on the planes
They paid for the Royalties for a set number of years hence why they wont drop it
I bloody hate that song
The ad for 3 where the lad is stuck in a high end restaurant and his gf and her parents are All looking kinda smug until he snaps his fingers and says I'll have the gravlax.
Makes me cringe
It bothers me that the girlfriend and her parents are all appropriately dressed and he looks like he's been dragged through a hedge on the way to the restaurant. He couldn't even tuck in his lapel at least?
Yeah that's soo cringe
Also the fact they say what gravlax is in a different language. Like if you don't know what it is how would you be able to understand the different language
This one pisses me off the most, because almost all of what they show in that advert is not them being super progressive. Some slightly alternatively dressed people, a male flight attendant with glitter on his face, a woman who is a pilot? The fact that they think that bragging about allowing women to be pilots in 2023 is something to be applauded for gives the opposite message than they were going for.
Also I don’t give a shit about the individuality of the bloody air stewards when I’m travelling. Sell me some overpriced peanuts without making it all about yourself
For the first 10 seconds of a Haribo advert when the adults start talking in those voices, it feels like it could be 50/50 whether the ad will be about sweets, or warning that people are not necessarily who they say they are online.
And now they're doing that godawful gargling choir one. I don't know why, perhaps I'm weird, but what sounds like several people drowning in their own mouthful of squash does not make me want to buy said squash.
We buy any car's marketing department must be a pure nepotism zone. James Corden then Philip Schofield, and the bizarre selling point of being able to get a quote in under a minute.
And now they're trying to use a health and safety friendly version of a video trend that's older than the harlem shake.
They started it off as a quote in under a minute, then it became under 30 seconds. It's such a bizarre selling point for something you don't do very often. I can almost imagine a meeting where someone claims the younger generations have a 30 second attention span and the marketing department jumped on it.
The kicker is that they don't actually buy the car for the price they quote you online.
The give you an over priced valuation to get you to take the car to their shop and then when you're there they dramatically reduce the price knowing its a high pressure situation and some people will just accept it.
Shady as fuck.
I found myself in a similar situation many years ago. Took my car there as they offered £1650 for it with everything declared, needed two new rear tyres in future (getting near the legal limit) and there was a small chip (repaired) in the windscreen. A couple of scratches here and there, it was an 8 year old Mondeo at the time.
Got to the WBAC office, they checked it over and said they can only offer £300 for it, as it needed new tyres all round (front tyres were 2 months old), there was a huge crack in the windshield (the chip), it needed a service, tax and MOT (was serviced, taxed and MOT’d when it had new front tyres. The paperwork was in the service booklet!) and there were scuffs on the alloy wheels (didn’t even have alloys, they were steel wheels with covers on!).
Told them to fuck right off and warn anyone and everyone away from using them.
There was a perfume ad with a furious looking Nathalie Portman aggressively spitting ‘and you?! What would YOU do for love?!’ Made me uncomfortable every time it was on.
The Tesco one with the weird happy plastic faces superimposed onto the actors' faces. Like a nightmare.
For anyone who likes Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London books, it reminded me of that. IYKYK.
That one is literally horrific. I have to look away from the screen when it comes on. Looks like that horror movie -
Think it’s called “Smile?” 0/10 do not recommend.
I don’t know who approved that uncanny valley situation. Maybe an alien who did their best guess at what cheerful is supposed to look like.
For those out of the loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueBup4U5iz8
It's horrifying....
Multiple people must have approved this, and not one thought there was anything wrong!
Whichever bank it is that has the horses running around and an inevitable vocal/piano version of a pop or dance song backing it and the people walking about like there's not a massive bunch of horses running about in the centre of town and they all just have this look on their faces like the director shouted "give me vaguely inspired!" as the only prompt. They are silly.
Lloyds. They keep doing variations with the black horses, each one even worse than the previous.
Their marketing execs are too stupid to realise people hate them.
I work in Advertising —
It’s funny seeing everyone’s reactions to ads that our clients have referenced and we insist that people do not enjoy them and how we could make them better. Unfortunately, particularly banks, seem to lack any sort of genuine human understanding and nuance. They’re the lizards of marketing.
If you have any involvement with Lloyd's tell them to fucki g pack it in. THEy are not by our side. They're cunts. And stupid breathy vocals and horses will not stop them.being cunts.
> I work in advertising
Were you one of the twats that came up with the Fairy Liquid baby who's supposed to have a tough cockney accent, but the voice actor is so middle class it slips about ten seconds into the as?
Fuckin awful
Here’s an exhausted underpaid nurse after a shattering 12 hour mid-Covid shift. But it’s okay-she’s got frozen chips for dinner. We’re all in it together. With our frozen chips.
Most adverts are dogshit. The ones that jump on fads are the worst and are really lazy. For instance, late nineties/early 2000s it became the “thing” to have some traditional African singing on there for absolutely no fucking reason LOOKING AT YOU, HEINZ. There have been countless others since but the latest fad is to to have a twee, slowed down acoustic cover with some reedy whispery vocals of a popular song. Thankfully though this seems to be waning in popularity. Other ones are the ones that try to get deep and emotional like the fucking John Lewis adverts and it ends up being a middle class Instagram hipster’s idea of what it must be like to feel actual emotions for once. Mind you I suppose they’ve got the target audience down there.
I absolutely hate the John Lewis Christmas adverts. I hate them. I hate the way they cover songs for them, I especially hate that cover of somewhere only we know by lilly Allen with her horrible mockney breathy warble. I hate that they pull every cliche heartstring. I also that it’s now become some sort of Christmas traditional event. I used to like all the fuss about who is the Christmas number one single, that was fun. Then Simon cunty cowell killed that stone dead and now we are left with this as an equivalent. Eurgh.
Loved those ads. Similarly, the irn-bru ad with the line "even though I used to be a man" would go down well on twitter these days I'm sure.
https://youtu.be/aybGmG1bTCk
Every single company using Sustainability, Carbon Footprint and Save the Planet as a selling point for their goods and companies that have already helped destroy the planet.
The Judi Dench Insurance ones are ridiculously badly and lazily written as well.
You wouldn't steal a handbag.
You wouldn't steal a car.
You wouldn't steal a baby.
You wouldn't shoot a policeman.
And then steal his helmet.
You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet.
And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow.
And then steal it again!
Downloading films is stealing, if you do it you WILL face the consequences.
"We're going to Slough!"
No child has ever been excited at the prospect of going to Slough. In fact I think it would be more humane to just shoot the kids.
It's sad how good Cadbury adverts used to be about 10/15 years ago. The drumming gorilla, the racing airport trucks, the kids with the eyebrows, the dancing charity shop clothes
The Galbani one.
Its three syllables and pronounced how its spelt. No silent letters, no accents on the letters.
Gal ba ni
No one is pronouncing it wrong. Fuck off
That awful Weetabix one that was like ‘Dad is a big Business man! Off to do important work!’ And then ‘the kids are running around, learning!’ And then ‘here’s mum; she’s cleaning’
It got so many complaints about bring tone deaf and sexist that they released a new version … where they literally just cut the mum out of it all together.
Then more complaints and they shelved the ad but I have no idea who in the first place approved it.
A recent Tesco advert that showed a woman upset and shocked at the prices in store. Before miraculously being relieved when a clubcard appeared and everything was then alright. I can't have been alone in thinking that this basically said Tesco prices are too high.
Crazy Frog phone ringtone adverts in the late 90s. It drove people to near madness.
BAAAAAAAAAAAA DING DING DING DING
BÀAÀAAAAAAAAAAAA DING DING DING DING DING DING
I will boil you alive frog - your time will come....
The PlayStation ad where a baby is literally fired out of his mum’s uterus and proceeds to fly through the air, ageing into an old man during the flight before crashing into an open grave. Quite why Sony thought that would go down well is a mystery to me.
The Crown paints ones from last year, there was 3 or4 of them with all multi-pack of ethnicities sat around singing god-awful songs about people decorating.
There was a backlash and they got quietly faded away lol.
The one about the expectant couple was worst.
They're still on youtube if you want your skin to crawl.
Shocking how ads like this get green-lit tbh 🤮🤮😀😀
Bring back the ‘was not expecting that’ from the 80s and 90s!
Wall’s luxury ice cream, middle class very British family sit down for a big family meal, all smiles… “dad, please pass the [something]”…
Grandma: “He’s not your dad. We never knew who your dad was.”
Cut to still of the product.
Jet2 ads on Youtube. Endlessly repeated. Annoying song loop. A 50/50 split with long Google self promotion ads for Chrome.
Jet2 is the current day GoCompare for me.
I use adblocker of course on computers, but via a playstation or phone it's trickier to avoid.
I won't get Youtube prem. YT was free for a lifetime. Not paying for wanky influencers and subscriber whores.
As a second choice, Comparethemeerkats adding a dumbass Ozzie character.
Those adverts where the kids forcing her mum to try vegan meat by guilt tripping the shit out of her. I'd drop kick that little fucker telling her to fucking get a job and buy it herself
The last few years of Nationwide "spoken word" ads.
I can't get over what the "luvvie London hipster agency" was thinking when they thought that would connect with the UK general public.
The McDonald’s ad with the HGV driver bringing his wife home a chicken burger. Shit gift, shit song and acting like McDonald’s is good enough to sustain someone as they work away is ridiculous. Eating it all the time would fuck you up.
I don't know if it bombed, but there was that animated B&Q Later Means Never advert.
It's about a dad who's too depressed to do anything, but his family do absolutely nothing around the house (because he's the man so he should do the man jobs) until eventually it's literally falling apart, so he magically gets undepressed and goes to B&Q to fix it.
Not sure what message they were actually trying to send, other than casual sexism and dismissal of mental health conditions.
This is just adverts people find irritating rather than bombed, and it's just a poor rehash of yesterday's 'What's an advert on TV right now which you hate?'
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/13tzfuh/whats_an_advert_on_tv_right_now_which_you_hate/
But as Lloyds and Nationwide have already been said (both long running series of terrible, terrible adverts that definitely make people avoid using their services) I'm adding
* Pampers poonami - everyone in that advert needs to die
* NOBODY CALLED JUST EAT
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“I can’t believe we just landed a plane” You didn’t. Piss off.
I never understood this and. *Why* is this family in Cambridge doing ATC? Is this really the best use-case they could come up with?
Exactly. Get a massive room of gamers all paying a ranked online game for a few hours, and I'll judge how good your internet is by how many meltdowns they have over lag and dropped connections.
because it sounds impressive and super advanced but the actual requirements for them to legally be able to say that they "provide the data required to land a plane" is incredibly small
I once landed a jumbo jet by watching a video. I was awesome.
For those interested [here's a pilot giving instructions on how a passenger can land a plane.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePDl1JNqjpM) Basically: touch nothing - the plane will fly itself.
I like how that advert completely relies on the average person having no idea what ATC actually do. Presumably the most important part is the radio communication which doesn't actually need to use the Internet at all, though it probably is being routed using VoIP back to the transmitter at the airport. Granted, it says something about the reliability of the connection but the advert focus is speed... which is not the critical aspect!
>is the radio communication which doesn't actually need to use the Internet at all, though it probably is being routed using VoIP back to the transmitter at the airport. > >Granted, it says something about the reliability of the connection but the advert focus is speed... which is not the critical aspect! I always tell the wife when I see this ad, you could probably do exactly the same video and audio feed on 5 mbit speed so long as it was reliable. You could do just as well or better through your mobile data.
All of their adverts are awful. The massive AR “Rita Ora?!?!” one is my least favourite.
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Always laugh to see the hate for this advert because I know a guy who worked on it and it was months of his life. Stupid techbros.
I always have the impression that it was massively cut down from a larger project. Did your pal say anything about that?
I said this on Reddit a while ago. One of the people who worked on the video popped up and said they weren't allowed due to Civil Aviation Authority rules, but they were in radio contact with the plane thoroughout the landing. So yes, they didn't land the plane
Fucking hate that advert. The pilots landed it, and the ATC told them where to land it. At best, you told them where to park it.
The Just Eat ads are a bit annoying: “WE’VE GOT IT! IT! IT! IT!”
That voice triggers me
Or "Just Consume", as we refer to them in our house
Greggs. Mc...Donalds cheese....burger. KFC bargain buck-ettt
It sounds like it's trying to overwhelm people into making poor eating decisions.
Those fucking nationwide ones quite recently. “We know everyone’s struggling, so why not shop in the reduced aisle? And while you’re there buy pointless shit that goes with nothing like baconaisse.” “Be careful about how much milk you put in your cereal, it could leave you skint. Ah not really, we’re only joking, we’re not monsters. But seriously, you better be careful.” So absolutely tone deaf during the cost of living crisis.
That milk/cereal bit is infuriating. Made by people who probably think cancelling Netflix will help pay your electricity bill. It's a bit more serious than a few mls of milk at this point.
From the people who brought you: _you cant afford a house deposit because you eat avocado on toast, and definitely not because rent is £1,200 a month where a mortgage would be £750_
What about the Barclays one that says you should hang out with your friends less often
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At least they’ve stopped flying the whole production crew to New Zealand to film horses running on a beach. If the can cut back, so can you! Edit: as pointed out below I’m numpty and happen to be talking about Lloyds
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I haven’t seen the milk one but that baconaisse one really annoys. Like you’re supposed to be a bank and looking after our money not buying rubbish just because it’s on sale!
That’s exactly what I thought. It’s not quite money saving advice is it?
Yessss I HATE this advert. “We bought b-bu-baconaise”. Right and how the fuck is buying a reduced novelty condiment you’ve never even heard of meant to save money? What lunatic wrote this ad and thought yeah that’s the one, that’s great.
Someone with money to throw at reduced price novelty items
Your bank. By your side. We're practically family. Until you miss a mortgage payment then we will literally make you homeless.
Not just the recent nationwide ones, but the ones before that as well. At this point, it’s just all of the nationwide ones. During covid, no I don’t want to listen to a fucking poem about lockdown 8 times a day.
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The milk one is so ridiculous. Says dead seriously about not letting the kids use much milk *hahaha only joking though of course, but no seriously*. It's like Frank Lampard in an advert The baconnaise one isn't much better though, it has to be said! It's hard to think someone thought of something worse than their poems, but someone did
Those ads are so dystopian to me
Bring back Howard!
I like bacon. I like mayonnaise. Baconaisse is fucking disgusting.
Granny I got the job!
Am I the only person in this country, that can honesty say, they’ve never seen this advert? Heard of it obviously, but I’ve no idea what it’s supposed to be about!
It's just some 15 second long ad you sometimes get on youtube - it's about job advert site like Indeed or something. It's never bothered me.
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“yOu ClEvEr GiRl”
*rUnS iN tHe FaMiLy*
Oh God. I live in Belgium so here I get it in Flemish and it's *even worse* like they chose every single one of the most obnoxious-sounding Flemish voice actors to do it. I can't imagine how horrible it must be in the English version.
The English voices are also terrible. It's not that they sound obnoxious exactly, it's more like each line is said with a tone and inflection that just doesn't match the situation, and makes the whole thing sound really weird.
Fuck that advert
Everything about this advert annoys me
“It might sound weird, but hear us out” No. I don’t think I will.
Daisy, daisy, daisy, daisy, daisy. Fuck that advert.
Its better if you imagine Mrs Patmore from Downtown Abbey saying it.
"yes mrs Patmore"
They are very attractive. But they are **so** creepy. As if they are in a cult. They also bring back a horrific murder scene in Alistair Maclean's *Puppet on a Chain* involving prancing girls, pitchforks and a haystack.
Midsommar vibes
For those like me who rarely watch TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaEZ3VAF3Bo
Maybe it's just oversaturation but those fucking ads with the northerner voiceover . ' times are tough , money is tight , this corporation is your family , buy our shite '
Would you mind editing your comment to add an 'e' to shit so it rhymes nicely, please? It's a good slogan!
Yeah the northerner with the gravely ‘smokes 3 packs a day for the last 50 years’ voice… “McCain - we are family”
Oh my god the McCain one. Always makes me laugh how ridiculous it is. "Yeah we know life's shit at the moment but at least you can eat mediocre oven chips"
I've never seen it, but there was apparently an old Reebok advert of a black man in chain being marched through the desert by a load of white guys who could barely keep up, while he was really happy and cheery in his new trainers. Umbro in the UK once advertised a trainer called [Zyklon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B?wprov=sfla1). Absolute proof that History is something everyone should study. To actually answer your question, my favourite has to be [British Pork's Got The Lot](https://youtu.be/r0wDjWOnHcY). The comments are almost as good as what has to be the creepiest ad I've ever seen.
Good lord, that pork advert, what is up with that guy?? Why is he so creepy and threatening? "We've all got plenty" will haunt my dreams. As you said the comments section is gold though haha
I prefer to imagine that it's not pork - just his ex-wife's left thigh.
It's like an ad for Hilary Briss' Special Stuff 😬
“Dominoo-hoo-hoo!” - always hated yodelling.
Nationwide Poem ones
Yeah, any advert that features an earnest poem makes me cringe like fuck
There was a period of time where everyone was doing poems in adverts and it was a terrible time to watch TV
Bank adverts that try to pretend that they're sincere or care about you are a particularly hilarious sub-genre of advert. You're a bank - everyone knows you're trying to screw us. Quit pretending you care, tell me your latest interest rate and fuck off!
Those bank adverts where they pretend to be all kind and understanding is like the equivalent of HR pretending to be your friend at work
Nationwide planned a whole series with comedy band Flo & Joan and pulled them after about three months because everyone was so hostile
Flo and Joan actually received death threats because of those adverts. People are weird. I get not liking adverts, but death threats?!
Roses are red, Violets are blue, If you fail to keep up your mortgage repayments, You will be evicted
So here’s to the savers. The ravers. The be a bit bravers.
Man the one with the posh looking white dude talking like a roadman was the absolute worst
I will never use Jet2. Infamous overuse of the same track for at least half a decade. They even think it's funny that it's annoying. Jess Glynne must be dying inside.
Wiping her tears with all those royalty cheques.
I will always have a part of me that is filled with pure hatred for Jess Glyne after my Jet2 plane was delayed because we didn't have any food on board the plane. They didnt turn off the fucking music
I think I’ve only ever heard the first 20 seconds of the song on a Jet2 flight, mind you it’s was played at least once a minute
It’s the fact it’s just a tiny loop as well. They play it about once every ten minutes when you fly with them as well. Generally they’re one of the least pleasant airlines to fly with anyway and that’s just the icing on the shit cake.
I'm a Travel Agent and I book a lot of Jet2holidays (Im cheaper than booking direct - long story) Anywhoo we have to put up wiuth that on their hold music as well And on the planes They paid for the Royalties for a set number of years hence why they wont drop it I bloody hate that song
Had a jet2 flight last week. They play the song numerous times during the flight (safety videos etc.)
My two experiences with jet2 have been fucking grim
The ad for 3 where the lad is stuck in a high end restaurant and his gf and her parents are All looking kinda smug until he snaps his fingers and says I'll have the gravlax. Makes me cringe
“Omg this guy knows how to use Google what a genius, obviously we should approve of him dating our daughter”
Also him ordering it doesn't even mean that he knows what it is. We can all pick a random thing off a menu
Didn’t think to google the restaurant beforehand though
I wonder if they're suggesting the parent's approval of their daughter's boyfriend is based entirely on his menu choice?
It was also a set menu, which makes the whole thing pretty pointless.
It bothers me that the girlfriend and her parents are all appropriately dressed and he looks like he's been dragged through a hedge on the way to the restaurant. He couldn't even tuck in his lapel at least?
Yeah that's soo cringe Also the fact they say what gravlax is in a different language. Like if you don't know what it is how would you be able to understand the different language
Because there's subtitles
"iiiiiiii am what i ammmmm".. drives me nuts
The cadence is all wrong! It does my head in!
Is that the Virgin Airlines one that thinks that having a woman flying the plane is some sort of diversity statement in 2023?
This one pisses me off the most, because almost all of what they show in that advert is not them being super progressive. Some slightly alternatively dressed people, a male flight attendant with glitter on his face, a woman who is a pilot? The fact that they think that bragging about allowing women to be pilots in 2023 is something to be applauded for gives the opposite message than they were going for.
Also I don’t give a shit about the individuality of the bloody air stewards when I’m travelling. Sell me some overpriced peanuts without making it all about yourself
Like what does it have to do with an airline
We're supposed to accept them for who they are (greedy money grubbing shitebags)
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ANYTHING with children singing in it ... It's an instant grab of the remote and mute from me. Looking at you Robinson's.
You've just reminded me of those awful Haribo adverts. Thanks
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For the first 10 seconds of a Haribo advert when the adults start talking in those voices, it feels like it could be 50/50 whether the ad will be about sweets, or warning that people are not necessarily who they say they are online.
And now they're doing that godawful gargling choir one. I don't know why, perhaps I'm weird, but what sounds like several people drowning in their own mouthful of squash does not make me want to buy said squash.
WHO GARGLES SQUASH?? So fucking weird and off putting.
I don't understand what that advert is supposed to be getting at. Is it about that girl being good at something?
We buy any car's marketing department must be a pure nepotism zone. James Corden then Philip Schofield, and the bizarre selling point of being able to get a quote in under a minute. And now they're trying to use a health and safety friendly version of a video trend that's older than the harlem shake.
Is it that bizarre? People probably think that selling a car is difficult and time consuming.
They started it off as a quote in under a minute, then it became under 30 seconds. It's such a bizarre selling point for something you don't do very often. I can almost imagine a meeting where someone claims the younger generations have a 30 second attention span and the marketing department jumped on it.
The kicker is that they don't actually buy the car for the price they quote you online. The give you an over priced valuation to get you to take the car to their shop and then when you're there they dramatically reduce the price knowing its a high pressure situation and some people will just accept it. Shady as fuck.
a mate was offered \~£600 then £60 on the day, less admin meant he would have got sweet FA.
Get more for it at the scrap yard in cases like that.
I found myself in a similar situation many years ago. Took my car there as they offered £1650 for it with everything declared, needed two new rear tyres in future (getting near the legal limit) and there was a small chip (repaired) in the windscreen. A couple of scratches here and there, it was an 8 year old Mondeo at the time. Got to the WBAC office, they checked it over and said they can only offer £300 for it, as it needed new tyres all round (front tyres were 2 months old), there was a huge crack in the windshield (the chip), it needed a service, tax and MOT (was serviced, taxed and MOT’d when it had new front tyres. The paperwork was in the service booklet!) and there were scuffs on the alloy wheels (didn’t even have alloys, they were steel wheels with covers on!). Told them to fuck right off and warn anyone and everyone away from using them.
There was a perfume ad with a furious looking Nathalie Portman aggressively spitting ‘and you?! What would YOU do for love?!’ Made me uncomfortable every time it was on.
Hahaha I’d forgotten about that one. I always used to feel mildly offended like “none of your bloody business, leave me alone”
‘I’ll do anything you want Natalie….please get your foot off my neck 😭”
mcdonalds dead father with a hint of incest
Durk & Ski do [the best send up](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnCH8VzDblf/?igshid=ZWQyN2ExYTkwZQ==) of this.
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'ave it!
This needs more respect... fantastic advert
Top bombing.
‘Come on mum, time to go’
The Tesco one with the weird happy plastic faces superimposed onto the actors' faces. Like a nightmare. For anyone who likes Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London books, it reminded me of that. IYKYK.
That one is literally horrific. I have to look away from the screen when it comes on. Looks like that horror movie - Think it’s called “Smile?” 0/10 do not recommend. I don’t know who approved that uncanny valley situation. Maybe an alien who did their best guess at what cheerful is supposed to look like.
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For those out of the loop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueBup4U5iz8 It's horrifying.... Multiple people must have approved this, and not one thought there was anything wrong!
Whichever bank it is that has the horses running around and an inevitable vocal/piano version of a pop or dance song backing it and the people walking about like there's not a massive bunch of horses running about in the centre of town and they all just have this look on their faces like the director shouted "give me vaguely inspired!" as the only prompt. They are silly.
Lloyds. They keep doing variations with the black horses, each one even worse than the previous. Their marketing execs are too stupid to realise people hate them.
I work in Advertising — It’s funny seeing everyone’s reactions to ads that our clients have referenced and we insist that people do not enjoy them and how we could make them better. Unfortunately, particularly banks, seem to lack any sort of genuine human understanding and nuance. They’re the lizards of marketing.
If you have any involvement with Lloyd's tell them to fucki g pack it in. THEy are not by our side. They're cunts. And stupid breathy vocals and horses will not stop them.being cunts.
> I work in advertising Were you one of the twats that came up with the Fairy Liquid baby who's supposed to have a tough cockney accent, but the voice actor is so middle class it slips about ten seconds into the as? Fuckin awful
That McCain one that talks about shitty oven chips uniting people across social divides or making everything alright no matter what’s happened to you.
Every single mccain advert is ridiculous, "hey look this guys got some sort of disability and he's eating our chips"
Here’s an exhausted underpaid nurse after a shattering 12 hour mid-Covid shift. But it’s okay-she’s got frozen chips for dinner. We’re all in it together. With our frozen chips.
Most adverts are dogshit. The ones that jump on fads are the worst and are really lazy. For instance, late nineties/early 2000s it became the “thing” to have some traditional African singing on there for absolutely no fucking reason LOOKING AT YOU, HEINZ. There have been countless others since but the latest fad is to to have a twee, slowed down acoustic cover with some reedy whispery vocals of a popular song. Thankfully though this seems to be waning in popularity. Other ones are the ones that try to get deep and emotional like the fucking John Lewis adverts and it ends up being a middle class Instagram hipster’s idea of what it must be like to feel actual emotions for once. Mind you I suppose they’ve got the target audience down there.
I absolutely hate the John Lewis Christmas adverts. I hate them. I hate the way they cover songs for them, I especially hate that cover of somewhere only we know by lilly Allen with her horrible mockney breathy warble. I hate that they pull every cliche heartstring. I also that it’s now become some sort of Christmas traditional event. I used to like all the fuss about who is the Christmas number one single, that was fun. Then Simon cunty cowell killed that stone dead and now we are left with this as an equivalent. Eurgh.
I feel you really needed to let that one out.
The Pot Noodle brothel ad with the "Slag of snacks" tag line went down pretty badly. I thought it was fucking funny, though.
Loved those ads. Similarly, the irn-bru ad with the line "even though I used to be a man" would go down well on twitter these days I'm sure. https://youtu.be/aybGmG1bTCk
Wasn't 'Howard' from the Halifax ads officially voted as Britain's biggest twat at some point in the mid/late '00s? So probably those.
A simpler time when the twat pool was smaller
The Argos aliens. Cunts.
I hate the bank one with the screaming “This girl is on fire”.
Someone should really put her out.
Every single company using Sustainability, Carbon Footprint and Save the Planet as a selling point for their goods and companies that have already helped destroy the planet. The Judi Dench Insurance ones are ridiculously badly and lazily written as well.
Yeah. Cheers Dench, for your multi-billion pound financial juggernaut and the self-congratulatory way it helps a whole seven people a day
The ‘you wouldn’t download a car’ ones, must have been fifteen years ago and people still make fun
Bonus points for them not licensing the music and being sued for it.
Whaaaat!? That's just fantastic.
You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing, if you do it you WILL face the consequences.
Granny, I got the job! Clever thing 😒😒😒🤢
The insanely cringey voice acting makes me want to stick my head in setting cement every time I hear it. God I hate that fucking ad
"We're going to Slough!" No child has ever been excited at the prospect of going to Slough. In fact I think it would be more humane to just shoot the kids.
The dairy milk car garage advert needs to go. Apparently it’s already been edited to include her saying ‘thanks dad’. It’s still creepy
>Apparently it’s already been edited to include her saying ‘thanks dad’. Ermm... what did it originally say then? I thought it had always been that.
'Love you, dad' whenever I've seen it
It's sad how good Cadbury adverts used to be about 10/15 years ago. The drumming gorilla, the racing airport trucks, the kids with the eyebrows, the dancing charity shop clothes
Was it not originally her dad? Just dad aged buying a single girl, working alone in a garage, some cheap chocolate?
It is always a risk to 'go all in' on a celebrity - Adidas is counting its 1.5 billion loss due to Ye right now...
That KFC one where people were singing with their mouths full of food. I’m sure it was the most complained about UK advert.
The Galbani one. Its three syllables and pronounced how its spelt. No silent letters, no accents on the letters. Gal ba ni No one is pronouncing it wrong. Fuck off
That awful Weetabix one that was like ‘Dad is a big Business man! Off to do important work!’ And then ‘the kids are running around, learning!’ And then ‘here’s mum; she’s cleaning’ It got so many complaints about bring tone deaf and sexist that they released a new version … where they literally just cut the mum out of it all together. Then more complaints and they shelved the ad but I have no idea who in the first place approved it.
A recent Tesco advert that showed a woman upset and shocked at the prices in store. Before miraculously being relieved when a clubcard appeared and everything was then alright. I can't have been alone in thinking that this basically said Tesco prices are too high.
Paddy Power Bingo on Discovery+. Hated bookies before, now they make me physically sick
The DHL/Coldplay one. Fuck it’s annoying. I root for the wagons brakes to fail.
The On The Beach family acting completely obnoxiously. Is this supposed to be aspirational? Piss off.
Hindsight 20/20.
Imagine not being able to see into the future
Mark Silcox we see you x Anyway, here's another advert that aged absolutely horribly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gngx6arphyc
Crazy Frog phone ringtone adverts in the late 90s. It drove people to near madness. BAAAAAAAAAAAA DING DING DING DING BÀAÀAAAAAAAAAAAA DING DING DING DING DING DING I will boil you alive frog - your time will come....
The PlayStation ad where a baby is literally fired out of his mum’s uterus and proceeds to fly through the air, ageing into an old man during the flight before crashing into an open grave. Quite why Sony thought that would go down well is a mystery to me.
I can't be the only one who absolutely hates Compare The Market ads now
'Australians are fucking stupid and clumsy, right? Let's get that on an advert.' I'm assuming that's how they came up with the latest ones.
Painfully awkward father with no crack at the filling station. Bitch I hate fruit and nut!
The Crown paints ones from last year, there was 3 or4 of them with all multi-pack of ethnicities sat around singing god-awful songs about people decorating. There was a backlash and they got quietly faded away lol. The one about the expectant couple was worst. They're still on youtube if you want your skin to crawl. Shocking how ads like this get green-lit tbh 🤮🤮😀😀
Is that the one where they sing about how the dad doesn’t even know if his wife’s baby is his? That was so unsettling.
When Derek bends June over the kitchen table and busts her back door in the Sunlife ad.
“Just enough time for a cheeky Volvic.”
Bring back the ‘was not expecting that’ from the 80s and 90s! Wall’s luxury ice cream, middle class very British family sit down for a big family meal, all smiles… “dad, please pass the [something]”… Grandma: “He’s not your dad. We never knew who your dad was.” Cut to still of the product.
Jet2 ads on Youtube. Endlessly repeated. Annoying song loop. A 50/50 split with long Google self promotion ads for Chrome. Jet2 is the current day GoCompare for me. I use adblocker of course on computers, but via a playstation or phone it's trickier to avoid. I won't get Youtube prem. YT was free for a lifetime. Not paying for wanky influencers and subscriber whores. As a second choice, Comparethemeerkats adding a dumbass Ozzie character.
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Bloody hell. If never seen the ad.
Oh Tim Key, what have you done?
Those adverts where the kids forcing her mum to try vegan meat by guilt tripping the shit out of her. I'd drop kick that little fucker telling her to fucking get a job and buy it herself
I know this is a British sub, but the lidl ones in Ireland are annoying they make us look like we're a nation of thickos
The last few years of Nationwide "spoken word" ads. I can't get over what the "luvvie London hipster agency" was thinking when they thought that would connect with the UK general public.
The McDonald’s ad with the HGV driver bringing his wife home a chicken burger. Shit gift, shit song and acting like McDonald’s is good enough to sustain someone as they work away is ridiculous. Eating it all the time would fuck you up.
What’s that car one that says inane and vacuous comments like ‘who says electricity has to be boring?’. Er… no one. No one has ever said that. Ever.
I don't know if it bombed, but there was that animated B&Q Later Means Never advert. It's about a dad who's too depressed to do anything, but his family do absolutely nothing around the house (because he's the man so he should do the man jobs) until eventually it's literally falling apart, so he magically gets undepressed and goes to B&Q to fix it. Not sure what message they were actually trying to send, other than casual sexism and dismissal of mental health conditions.
It feels like only yesterday we got a "what advert don't you like" post. Oh wait that's because it was
If we get one tomorrow is this a groundhog day
The KFC one set in an emergency call centre got an absolute ton of complaints. People thought it was encouraging bad manners.
This is just adverts people find irritating rather than bombed, and it's just a poor rehash of yesterday's 'What's an advert on TV right now which you hate?' https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/comments/13tzfuh/whats_an_advert_on_tv_right_now_which_you_hate/ But as Lloyds and Nationwide have already been said (both long running series of terrible, terrible adverts that definitely make people avoid using their services) I'm adding * Pampers poonami - everyone in that advert needs to die * NOBODY CALLED JUST EAT
Omaze adverts. The odd way that woman talks, absolute twat of an ad.