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Worst Ad's of 2006

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
edited January 2023 in General Chat
These all did my head in:

Sheilas Wheels

Picture Loans/Ocean Finance- ARGH! If you didnt waste you flippin money on football tickets and video camcorders then you wouldnt be in fuckin debt now would you?! Also i hate their stupid visual representations like the guy on the tightrope who cant manage and falls off- wish he fell onto sharpened bamboo.

Diamond car insurance: Why didnt they just hire a real singer, instead of that shite for the new ones..and the old ones were worse. "No mum, i'll pay for it" No, i got cheap car insurance bla bla bla" Just pay for the fuckin thing and leave. (Didnt that girl turn out to be Dawn from eastenders?)

Injurylawyers4U/accident helpline: All their no win no fee bollocks gets on my nerves: That woman with the mingey little fringe pisses me off as well (she won £30,000 but she still cant afford a decent hair cut), although it does give me a warm feeling inside seeing her fall in the water...

Insurance: "Are you old? Need money for that new hip, Viagra or winter visits to Alicante? Give us the deeds to everything you own and not only will we help fund your geriatric lifestyle, we'll also rip you off for free. Bwahahaha."

Cillit Bang: Barry Scott- Stop fuckin screaming at me about ur product

Frosties Ad: TOO ANNOYING TO SAY- I wanted to kick that kids head in and anyway Tesco's own brand are better.

Persil Ad with the woman who used to do Diamond ad's: Stop fuckin about, get changed and leave you house with your shit excuses

M&S Copycats: Everyones trying to do the orgasmic M&S ads. Just promote your 1p beans (ALDI) and leave the ad's to the big boys.
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Im really not liking the Argos one just now, the wee boy writes his list to Santa and then his dad hops on a chuffing star to Argos to get it all.

    My 4 year old nephew asked if that's were Santa got his presents from after seeing that advert :(
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sheilas Wheels - that is shit and makes me cringe. Any of those loan/finance adverts are SO poor they should be banned.


    The worst advert of this year was Aldi trying to copy the M&S food adverts. Train wreck.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I :love: Barry Scott:heart:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The worst ads have a habit of being the ones most talked about. They've done something right, as irritating as they are.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    YES, the Frosties advert. Since when did Frosties "hit your PLATE"? I thought it was a bowl. Apparently the kid got loads of hate mail about it which I thought was a bit sly, but I can kind of see why people felt moved to do it. Apparently he prefers Coco Pops anyway :lol:

    Oh and the singing ASDA kids are pretty awful, too. "Woah woah WOAH it's magic etc etc blah". Makes me want to do some serious damage to someone... anyone... or myself. Thankfully they seem to have disappeared.

    There is also one on the Hallmark channel (this is just desserts for watching the Hallmark channel, of course) for some shitty, old-fashioned, love songs CD collection with a couple walking hand in hand around a village. Then then are magically whisked back in time and everything is sepia coloured, with steam trains and babies in old-fashioned prams. Boke. It lasts a literal eternity and is on in ever break without fail when I just want to watch The Day they Gave Babies Away FFS.

    All said, my hatred of the Clover advert wins out over any other. Who the fuck CRIES because someone has put butter on their jacket potato? For the love of god man strap on a pair!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Still loving your rants briggi :D

    The ASDA adverts with the singing children sends shivers down my spine. I want to take a pair of high heels to whoever thought that would be a good idea. Lets not even get into the 7 shades of wrong Jamie Oliver. :grump:

    Iceland. Enough said. :grump:

    This isn't just related to 2006, but fecking blue water + towels/tampons. Stop it. :grump:

    Frosties ad :grump: (the kid seriously got hate mail?!)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It would probably make a much shorter list to name the ads that didn't totally annoy me in 2006! I HATE adverts and i usually turn the tv over for the 5 minutes they are on (i'm sure it's longer than it used to be!). Anyway on top of my annoy list are;

    Sheilas Wheel's, Asda, Iceland, Norton Finance, Lambard Direct, Clover, Frosties, Picture Loans, Ocean Finance, Argos, Diamond, injury lawyers 4 u, Herbal Essences (i mean who has an orgasm from washing their hair!?), safestyle windows, crazy frog, Phones 4 U, norwitch Union, elaphant.co.uk, walkers, renault Clio, Vauxhall Zafira, National lottery, Halifax....
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    satehen wrote:
    Herbal Essences (i mean who has an orgasm from washing their hair!?)/QUOTE]

    You, my friend, are using the wrong shampoo :naughty:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    lol i'm actually using herbal essence atm, i may contact trading standards, i haven't had a single orgasm from using it yet!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Every single Lynx advert is a pile of shite.

    You're just jealous that you don't have the lynx effect :p
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    :(

    :heart:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    satehen wrote:
    lol i'm actually using herbal essence atm, i may contact trading standards, i haven't had a single orgasm from using it yet!
    I wouldn't use Herbal Essences anyway :grump:.

    I shouted at the boy when I found out he used it :o
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Oh and the singing ASDA kids are pretty awful, too. "Woah woah WOAH it's magic etc etc blah". Makes me want to do some serious damage to someone... anyone... or myself. Thankfully they seem to have disappeared.

    omg! I thought it was just me that HATED that, those ad's make me wanta punch the tv when they come on - keep the choir kids for singing hymns, dont make them sound like a team of nobs singing SHIT like that! grrrr

    i'll never shop at asda again :mad: (well never have but still never will ;d)

    Any adverts for loans and stuff like that are also fucking annoying, where they try to have this (trying to be) genuine guy/girl being really friendly and its so over the top that it looks blatently false (e.g. virgin one account).

    cillit bang is good though :(
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    go_away wrote:
    The ASDA adverts with the singing children sends shivers down my spine.

    Yes. Any ad about claiming for being a twat.

    'I was at work and they gave me the wrong kind of ladder to install an alarm' Well if you knew it was the wrong sort of ladder why did you fucking use it you prat ?

    'I was unloading the lorry and i didn't use a ladder to get into the lorry and fell and broke my hip' Well shame it wasn't your neck wasn't it you tit.

    'I was walking into work one day and slipped on some water' Well maybe if you weren't rummaging through your handbag all the time and looked where you were going maybe you'd of seen it eh ?

    'I sat on on a chair at work and it broke and i hurt my hand' Try losing a few stone ya fat bint and maybe the office supplies will be able to support you.

    Ads for 'loan consolidation'. 'Struggling with several small unmanageable loans ? Then why not borrow some money of us and you can struggle with one huge unmanageable loan'

    Especially that Picture Loans ad, where they try to convey they're your friend and 'Mike from Picture Loans will have a chat about football with you' FUCK OFF. These companies have one reason for being in existence and one reason only, to screw you for as much interest as possible because you can't get a loan anywhere else.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    briggi wrote:
    All said, my hatred of the Clover advert wins out over any other. Who the fuck CRIES because someone has put butter on their jacket potato? For the love of god man strap on a pair!

    Oh you are so right :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Any advert that advertises products sold by M&S, I mean your a retailer like most others on the highstreet, not a semi divine shop of the gods, oh no its just M&S, I think their advertising gurus forget this sometimes.

    I feel I should have a multiple orgasm everytime I go in there, but I never know if I should feel more dissappointed before or after I leave.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    That ad on Tv to make young people think about unprotected sex is rubbish...

    it's so mild it's like pointless.

    It doesn't inform or educate - it's just a tiny reminder and probabaly wouldn't have much of an effect, nothing like those AIDs adverts of the 80's those had a huge impact they spelt it out good and proper, "there is no cure"
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I love Briggi's rants. Even if I don't agree on some things the way she says it is soooo funny!

    This year the most hated advert for me was the Frosties ad. I actually used to scream when it came on. Oh shit.... it's reminded me of the song, "they're gonna taste great"... ARGH! :banghead:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'd like to add those fucking awful and patronising Dove ads. After their tireless effort in going against facist beauty standards, in bleating about their 'Campaign for Real Beauty' we were given their ideal of what makes 'real' beauty. You can even go on their website and have a self-esteem check up. Do check out their 'real women have curves' section. Heartwarming reading.

    So, the party season comes about, and ooooh look! They tell you *just* the thing to wear this season: beautiful underarms! Boy oh boy! How lucky are we! Wait a sec. All of the underarms in the advert are hairless! Oh noes! What happened there?! Aren't we supposed to be embracing 'real' beauty? Or does that only apply to women with a motor in the back of their Honda? Gosh Dove, you've really shot yourselves in the foot there! I mean, I don't have hairy underarms, that's not my preference, but you spent so long in telling us what 'real' beauty is, and giving all those 'real' women, it's a shame you had to conform with the ideal that the only beautiful underarm is the hairless one.

    Nice try fuckers. I don't buy your products anyway.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The new Coke ad. What happened to the lorries and the song? :(
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A radio advert for some plastic sugery place called linear
    It annoys me so much. The persons voice and the supposed to be calm and relaxing music does my head in. I have to turn off the radio everytime it comes on which is quite alot.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ASDA annoying singing kids

    Jamie Oliver putting gingerbread on the top of trifle??? WTF. Try something complety insane this christmas :confused:

    That stupid loan one where she's on the phone and the kids going 'where my shoes' and she's like 'IN THE BEDROOM!' and the dad can't find his screwdriver or something and it has absolutley no relavance to getting a loan. I think its supposed to be like getting a loan is easier than finding your kids tricycle or something? I don't get it. It annoys the tits off me
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Also a sofa advert i cant remember which one but there singing the song Wonderful World and they completely kill it
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    kangoo wrote:
    That stupid loan one where she's on the phone and the kids going 'where my shoes' and she's like 'IN THE BEDROOM!' and the dad can't find his screwdriver or something and it has absolutley no relavance to getting a loan. I think its supposed to be like getting a loan is easier than finding your kids tricycle or something? I don't get it. It annoys the tits off me
    It's called kissing your customers arse. Not only is she a full time mum and carer for her family, (and what's this disturbing trend of men always being shown as the stupid one in adverts), but she even finds time to sort out the finances - or at least sort out the mess she's got them into in the first place.

    I actually have a new champion for most annoying advert ever, after a long reign at the top for the the AOL lady. She's been knocked off by Tom Tom, the portable navigation system. Basically an advert saying "If you're an utter prick, buy this." Like a worse version of those Honda Accord adverts from a few years ago.

    Other annoying adverts: Cash Converters, Admiral Insurance, Clover, Zafira, Iceland (if you've never heard of anything other than chips, shop here for your sophisticated dinner party), Crazy Frog, Halifax, Cillit Bang, Injury Lawyers 4U, Cesar (it's a dog for fuck sake - it's not going to be swayed by an M&S style advert), and probably a million others.

    Oh and I see Esure have managed to find something more annoying than Michael Winner.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    briggi wrote:

    There is also one on the Hallmark channel (this is just desserts for watching the Hallmark channel, of course) for some shitty, old-fashioned, love songs CD collection with a couple walking hand in hand around a village. Then then are magically whisked back in time and everything is sepia coloured, with steam trains and babies in old-fashioned prams. Boke. It lasts a literal eternity and is on in ever break without fail when I just want to watch The Day they Gave Babies Away FFS.

    They also put that advert on during Diagnosis Murder. It disgusts me it really does.

    I hate the Picture ads with a passion, Sheilas Wheels, Argos, Iceland, any loan/finance ad, Asda, Halifax, AA, Herbal Essence and Tresemme.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I was watching Angel (back to back to back - i was in David Boreanaz heaven!) and every 10 minutes Angel would be rudely interrupted by an advert break. Very annoying at the best of times, but i started to notice it was the same adverts constantly repeated; Dove, NSPCC, Cats Protection, Heroes, night nurse and a few others, constantly repeated. So annoying!!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I also hate the marks and spencer adverts cos all the food on them looks so nice and it makes me so hungry.. as my friend says "Food Porn" :P
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Anything with Kerry Katona/McFadden/Oink. I don't like the big 'I'M A WORKING CLASS MAM MEEEE!' parade thing she has going on. It's gross.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I hate a lot of the ads already mentioned.

    Just arrrrghh at the car insurance, stuff like claims direct accident claims, loan consolidation bullshit. As Rachael said, Kerry McFadden is seriously eww. She's so desperate for cash she has to lower herself to be in an Iceland ad acting all common.

    God, and ALDI. I mean wtf?! Surely there isn't an Aldi east of Manchester or something? There definately isn't one here and I'm near London. Aldi is not POSH, there food is obviously cheap crap. And they sell Lobster? LOL!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I think the food snobbery in this thread is hilarious. I'll shop anywhere I can get a bargain. I've had cheap party food from Iceland and cheap plonk from Aldi. Aldi do a great version of Tia Maria and it's about £4. You really can't taste the difference. I don't like the unstated suggestion that only really poor people would shop in either of those places. I'm in no way poor but I'd rather save on stuff like drink and buffet food and spend my money on nicer meats and stuff.
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