Annoying television adverts...

[Ashley Hill]

Not so much an advert but a trailer for the TV show Harlots. It’s the woman at the end who has a laugh that sounds like mobile phone interference.

 

[Ediswan]

The latest Amazon advert where the sulky teenager tries to skateboard on a beach is unintentionally hilarious. To me at least. He could have found a more solid surface nearby because even beaches require roads and pavements to access them.

I will double check, but my recollection is that it is a hard surfaced path, contaminated by sand, which is normal near a beach.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

I will double check, but my recollection is that it is a hard surfaced path, contaminated by sand, which is normal near a beach.

Inclined to agree. Video clip of Amazon "Moving Day" follows...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

My eyes may have deceived me, but in a TV advert, a grandfather sings that had travelled every road in Dixieland (which I take to be the area once under the Confederate States in America) and at the side of the road was a sign with what really liked like a kangaroo or a wallaby, which are not animals in the wild in that part of America. Have my eyes deceived me?

 

[Harpo]

I find the advert with everyone (including a bride’s father) whistling a shanty-style tune irrationally annoying. To get an even longer version of it (the 12 inch re-mix?) in the cinema was purgatory.

While not annoying, the ‘go vegan’ advert that was shown after the annoying whistling s.ites was thought-provoking but not for its intended reasons. Has that appeared on TV?

 

[BlueLeanie]

These daytime tv adverts must be incredibly cheap to book.

It's a shame that someone doesn't offer small-batch adverts. Say "Super Eastern Hotels" had a chain of 250 UK hotels. Book a selection of National Treasures (or influencers) to do a 30 second review of each one.

With 96 ad breaks a day, even if the ads were cycled continuously, the same advert would only be shown every 60 hours.

 

[Cambus731]

There are so many at the moment.
That one with the gay rodents and the washing up roster is possibly the wors. Either that or the bank robbery AA one

I dont know whos in the advert but one male appears to have too many teeth.

I really like that advert because of that gorgeous redhead in it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

One of the easy-listening songs I liked in my very much younger days was "La Mer" sung by Charles Tranet and I was utterly horrified to find garbled musical advert backing using it as part of a cruise line TV advert.

 

[Benters]

There are so many at the moment.
That one with the gay rodents and the washing up roster is possibly the wors. Either that or the bank robbery AA one


I really like that advert because of that gorgeous redhead in it.

The advert with the gay rodents in sounds like it's voiced by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. They're definitely characters who wouldn't be out of place in an episode of 'Inside No.9.'

 

[styles]

Inclined to agree. Video clip of Amazon "Moving Day" follows...

Looks like a beach to me?

Albeit one where a production crew has been in and pushed some sand to the side to fill in some pools of water.

Possibly the more irritating thing to me, as someone who used to skate, is the idea that because someone likes skating, they'd take to surfing. Part of skating was actually rebelliousness and these activities have their own subcultures. I don't think I'd have taken to surfing quite as well as the lad in the advert!

 

[Northumbriana]

Looks like a beach to me?

Albeit one where a production crew has been in and pushed some sand to the side to fill in some pools of water.

Possibly the more irritating thing to me, as someone who used to skate, is the idea that because someone likes skating, they'd take to surfing. Part of skating was actually rebelliousness and these activities have their own subcultures. I don't think I'd have taken to surfing quite as well as the lad in the advert!

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The important thing is we've started a discussion about how strange this advert is.

My next advert of amusement is that phone AI advert where the lady asks her phone to find her a pet friendly Italian restaurant with outdoor seating. That seems very specific? Maybe something you have the luxury of only in London?

 

[Steddenm]

My eyes may have deceived me, but in a TV advert, a grandfather sings that had travelled every road in Dixieland (which I take to be the area once under the Confederate States in America)....

The lyrics is actually "I've travelled every road in this here land", not Dixieland according to the subtitles on the ad. I think it's originally an Australian advert for a travel compahy rehashed for a British audience.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The lyrics is actually "I've travelled every road in this here land", not Dixieland according to the subtitles on the ad. I think it's originally an Australian advert for a travel compahy rehashed for a British audience.

I can only go off what my ears hear. I am told that there is a Country & Western song that mentions Dixieland that is played to the same musical intonation featuring Willie Nelson and Hank Snow.

 

[side effect]

Depends on what channel your viewing. It's always on no 21 csi type of programmes and all I can hear is that sad music and a dog coming out of surgery with a plastered leg. Pet plan or similar. It continued so much one night I just asked for the remote and put youtube on.
Anyway that's the advert that annoys me.

 

[Howardh]

Can I extend this to Youtube? recently, within the last week or so, more than every other advert has been for gambling firms. No idea how the algologs came up wit that, I don't gamble, I won't gamble, so they are simply wasting their money trying to attract my attention.

Most of my watching has been sport based admittedly, but they have started to descend on me since I began to watch anti-MAGA videos/presenters in the last week or so! Surely a coincidence?

Anyway, if anyone knows how to get rid of these pesky and useless adverts maybe to something more appropriate I'd love to learn!

 

[GusB]

Can I extend this to Youtube? recently, within the last week or so, more than every other advert has been for gambling firms. No idea how the algologs came up wit that, I don't gamble, I won't gamble, so they are simply wasting their money trying to attract my attention.

Most of my watching has been sport based admittedly, but they have started to descend on me since I began to watch anti-MAGA videos/presenters in the last week or so! Surely a coincidence?

Anyway, if anyone knows how to get rid of these pesky and useless adverts maybe to something more appropriate I'd love to learn!

I've also noticed the increase in the number of gambling adverts on YouTube. There's one in particular featuring a young lady in a red dress and if I had a quid for every time I've seen it, there'd be no need to gamble!

The other one that grates is the Activia Kefir advert.

 

[Welly]

If you want to stop seeing adverts on YouTube - use FireFox browser and add uBlock Origin to Firefox.

I do that - no YT ads, bliss!

 

[Northumbriana]

The Tombola adverts are maddening. First they suggest any moment is a good time to play. And then on another advert they tell you not every moment needs to be gambling time.

'Hey, alcoholics, you can put the lid back on that bottle!'

Anyway, I originally thought that new KFC advert was selling Easter eggs as the giant egg is in a shiny, golden wrapper and that lake appears to be chocolatey. But turns out rather than being a magical Easter wonderland full of joy, wonder and giant chocolate confectionery it is instead a Maze Runner-esque dystopia where the young adults have to transport the egg of some giant creature and then sacrifice one of their own into a lake of batter.

I have to assume that lake of batter is boiling hot and thus an agonising death. And once the corpse is fully battered will be offered as food to whatever hatches from that giant egg.

So yeah, KFC nuggets are made of people. Also, check out their new Soylent Green shakes.

 

[Howardh]

If you want to stop seeing adverts on YouTube - use FireFox browser and add uBlock Origin to Firefox.

I do that - no YT ads, bliss!

I do on my PC, however you can't block ads on the TV app! Yes, one can run a HDMI cable from the PC to the TV but it means getting out of your comfy chair to move to the next video!

 

[75A]

I've just been watching Rory MciIroy win the Players Championship in a play off and Sky were still advertising yesterdays League Cup Final.

 

[Mr. SW]

The advert where a woman vacuums up some spilt food including a raw egg.

Now you've got raw egg inside your vacuum cleaner.

Similarly another advert where some spilt cereal is sucked up.

Milk inside the cleaner.

Hmm.

Stinky.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

One TV advert ends with a large typesize web page, that does not seem to work, I refer to booking.yeah.

 

[Forty29]

Inclined to agree. Video clip of Amazon "Moving Day" follows...

Great song.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I dread the rail advert with its monotonous repetitive bass chanting of "fee-fi-fo-fum" as the supposed motivation. Thankfully, the remote is always close to mute it.

 

[SLC001]

There are several groups of adverts which I find irritating to put it mildly. Gambling or betting. These are offensive especially as we have had to help a family member who got into financial difficulties through addiction.
Then there are the funeral plans which must be really comforting for those who are terminally ill....
Then the charity adverts asking for you to leave something in your Will. You are nice and relaxed and then face distressing scenes of torture and cruelty. There is a time and place and these charities do a good job in difficult times, but I don't want their deliberately upsetting adverts in my face.

 

[dangie]

Not an advert as such.
During this unusual sunny dry spell the countryside has become extremely dry. There are Public Informion broadcasts to tell the public not to have barbecues etc due to fire risk.

Is is unfortunately a double edged sword. The sensible ones obey the instructions, but some take it as a great bit of fun. “Let’s go and start a fire…..”. Without the fire warning they’d never have thought of doing it.

Reminds me that some years ago “No Swimming” notices were put up around our towns park pool, despite the fact I’d never known any reports of anyone swimming in it. Within weeks there were reports of guess what? People swimming in it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Does that mean a real walrus did not attempt to board the speedboat?....

I have been speaking to a professor from Manchester University about this matter and was told that a fully-grown male walrus could reach a weight of 1.5 tons. There have been a number of occasions in the waters of both northern Norway and of Franz Josef Land, where a large male walrus capsized a small motor boat by attempting to haul its bulk aboard. Kayaks used by humans are far easier to sink and there have been many instances of that over past centuries.

The professor had seen the TV advert in question and wondered if the very large front flippers had the dexterity to switch on the small ignition key, let alone having the thought processes needed to understand such an operation.