Ads That Generally Annoy You

[RabbiiFrystofsk]

Mazuma FUCKING mobile.
Although the adverts with the WONGA guy are brilliant.

 

[FalloutJack]

Truthfully, all ads are irritating and may make the watcher less inclined to buy the product because of their nature. However, television ads don't bother me as much as ads on the internet THAT TALK. I don't want my internet to talk to me, especially if I'm trying to watch something or listen to music!

 

[SimuLord]

Ads in general annoy me. Most places on the Internet, ads are dealt with accordingly, here on the Escapist a few bucks take care of things with nobody having to engage any ethical dilemmas.

 

[A Username Not In Use]

Those fucking Go Compare Ad's

 

[masher]

When all the Fast-Food joints wouldn't SHUT-UP with how they're all better than one another.
GOD, that was annoying. Freaking Sub-way started it all, too, and for that, I'll forever hate them.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Go compare! Go compare!

That is all.

This, and may I also add We Buy Any Car.com and Wonga.com

 

[Rayken15]

There's this one when I watch videos on blip.tv with some Windows phone or something.

 

[Scabadus]

There was a Boots advert on over Christmas that really pissed me off (I don't have a TV anymore so I don't know if it's still showing). It had two women, very obviously ill, meeting on the street and talking about how much work they had to do, then saying they were out buying medicine for their husbands because the men were a little poorly so had to stay in bed.

There's literally nothing to like about this advert; it implies that men are too pathetic to get out of bed it they have so much as a sniffle, and don't get me started on the ill women who don't just tell their husbands to get their own fucking Lemsip.

After seeing this advert I started walking right past my local Boots pharmacy, going almost twice the distance to visit a local store.

 

[Something Amyss]

Easily ads for life insurance with their really fake situations. "Oh it's so sad my husband died, why didn't he have life insurance to cover the expensive funeral." Like anyone actually says that just after someone has died, morons. On Australian pay TV they literally play two every ad break.

I was just in the hospital for two weeks with little to do but watch TV. So I saw a bunch of these.

"I'm sorry for your loss."
"Thank you...OH LOOK MY CHECK CAME FROM...."
"Are they really any good?"

Well, that hardship just washed away, didn't it?

 

[kebab4you]

Ads with sound are the worst, other ads are tolerable.

Ninjad in the first post, way to go ._.
Edit; ads that´s open up in it´s own window(not tab), causes firefox to freeze for 2-3 minutes if I try to instant close it, drives me nuts.

 

[CoffeeOfDoom]

Those Swiftcover adverts with the scary Iggy Pop puppet - that thing gives me nightmares!

 

[Lewieroo0]

ok theres this one Ive seen

A bunch of beatiful well dressed women ready to go out for a night on the town meeet up with another one in their lounge room, the conversation goes somthing liek this:

"uhhh like whats this x...box thing?
"Oh did you know I can get foxtel on an xbox?"
"foxtel?....on an xbox? duuurrrrr thats great"

I don't know, as a female gamer it irritated me for some reason

i've seen that ad, it is quite retarded >:|

 

[Lewieroo0]

the ada one where a group of woman go out and think that the best thing to do is go to asda I mean WTF why do they think thats fun

I also hate adverts that never change their music but change the advert like a milliom times a year

The AAMI ads are a prime example of that, it took them a bloody long time to stop using Shannon Knolls "What About Me?" song, especially when they fucking sung it horribly.

 

[Haydyn]

Progressive commercial ads. No woman alive has stirred up as much hatred in me as Flo.

 

[Racecarlock]

"IT'S MY MONEY AND I NEED IT NOW!"

Wonderful, now would you shut the hell up about it?

Also

"Hey pete, you waiting for an engraved invitation?"

I'm not your dad, you're note intervening me, and I don't need goddamn niaspan.

Also any commercial that advertises toy pets. They always have to come up with a loud ass theme song that usually results in headaches and telling the judge where in the ear you were raped.

 

[Ldude893]

The internet ads for imvu. I am SICK of being bombarded by images of badly 3D modeled Twilight stars and Avatar characters having intercourse with each other (and yes, this is the internet we're talking about but still).

 

[mjc0961]

If it only does everything, tell me why you removed:
PS2 backwards compatibility
Install Other OS
memory card readers
2 of the original 4 USB ports

I don't care about all the crap it does do: when you are constantly REMOVING features, the last thing you should pick as an ad campaign is "It only does everything."

Another commercial going around that really bothers me lately is this one credit card commercial that gives you "cash back" on all your purchases. This guy is trying to get through airport metal detectors, but his wife is out shopping with the card, and she keeps buying things right before he goes through, which puts some change in his pocket and he sets off the detector. Then he empties his pockets and tries again, only for the cycle to repeat. So damn stupid.

And the last one is those damn WWE commercials you see on USA. I am so sick of watching John Cena wave his hand in front of his face like he's tough shit. Yeah man, you look like a real badass waving your hand in front of your face like that. And by badass, I actually mean dumbass. And related, USA, please stop having other little wrestler douchebags pop up in the corner of the screen and do stupid shit when the show is actually on. Although I guess it's better than the giant banners that fill the entire bottom of the screen with their nasty bright yellow color that NBC likes to slap in there every now and then.

I guess that's all of the active commercials that are annoying me right now. There are others I've hated over the years, but since they aren't on anymore they aren't actively annoying me, so I'm not going to bother trying to remember them.

"Hey pete, you waiting for an engraved invitation?"

I'm not your dad, you're note intervening me, and I don't need goddamn niaspan.

Ah yeah, I've seen that one once. If I start to see it more, it's easily making my list.

 

[Racthoh]

I can't think of a single fast food commercial that didn't make me reach for the remote. I envy those outside of Canada who don't have to put up with Tim Horton's commercials. I really do. What take the cake are those commercials for some pill that'll cure one thing while causing fifty other problems.

Let Depressionaway take the depression away. Side effects of Depressionaway may include nausea, headache, tremors, restlessness, irritable bowel syndrome, decrease in cognitive response, parched throat, back aches, decrease in appetite. Avoid eating sweets or dairy for 12 hours after ingesting Depressionaway. Do not operate heavy machinery. If you have a heart condition, smoke heavily, pregnant, use a pace maker, or currently use any other prescription contact your physician before using Depressionaway as it may increase your chances of stroke, lead to birth defects, or cause internal bleeding in your lungs. Depressionaway may increase feelings of depression. In some studies Depressionaway has lead to suicide.

THAT is the kind of commercial I hate. I am literally not exaggerating on the number of side effects, if anything I was too lenient with that made up description. "Take our miracle drug that cures one problem and introduces 10 other far more serious ones!" is what it boils down to.