That Nationwide advert featuring the black guy with the most nauseating speaking voice you've ever heard in your entire life.

Clearscore, a talking dog in Crocs and an annoying voiced lazy cow who never gets off the sofa.

Samsung/Jack Whitehall could he be any more offensively patronising?

Staysure, I see the gurning, simpering woman with the 84 year old mother with arthuritus is back.

Sun Life where the daughter ambushes her parents separately about their funeral arrangements. The acting is appalling as is the concept of a couple who don't actually talk to each other. If the husband noticed that his wife had a new phone would he not ask about it?

Nationwide - why?

That woman Who thinks these ad's are clever !!!

I love the Jack Whitehall ads. So funny.

I cannot stand the parachuting granny in the Aldi ads

It does however show us what advertising creatives think people are obsessed with.
Why on earth would having a new couch "matter" for Christmas ??
What's next - new car for Easter?
A boob job for New Year's Eve ?

There was an ad for a fabric conditioner some years ago - where a guy who was supposed to be on a long-haul flight did not want to get up and walk around as "people might see the creases in my trousers"

So the advertisers think that the public believe it is a good idea to risk getting a deep vein thrombosis and dying in agony, just so a few complete strangers on a plane don't see that there might be few creases in your trousers if you get up and stretch your legs (as you are medically advised to do)

Would it be a word beginning with F?

Argh!!!!!! The Barnardos ad. with THE most nauseating version of Tears For Fears' 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' by a female who a) can't sing, b) has a voice that sounds like she's on 150 fags a day, d) sounds like she's just woken up from a coma and d) has a speech impediment. I nearly punched the TV screen!!!!

The one we hate is the one where a guy is telling his Father all about his prostate.

The Yakult ad, OK it's sour milk, we get it, so what? but why do we have learn Japanese now? BTW what is Japanese for "Kindly depart in any direction of your own choosing, with the greatest of Immediacy"

what are you anti-animal now? OH you mean the wife

I find that totally annoying and doing nothing to help and I have Prostate Cancer, none of my fellow "Sufferers" or the staff at the cancer hospital think that it does any good either

Where do I recognise the dad from?

I wonder who at Confused.com or their advertising agency thought it would be a good idea to flog car insurance using a backing song written and performed by a bloke who died in a car crash?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bolan#Death

I think the problem is they chose a breathy-type version and used the voices or real people who they have helped, when something with more of a triumphant feel to it would have served them far better, i.e. a 'we are succeeding' rather than 'we want'. Or I could be totally off the mark and owe loads of people an apology.

As regards japanese translations, on here I get squares with codes in them and no sign of a bird flapping its wing ("medifus"?) or urinating dogs. It all displays correctly on the other box but I get a distinct impression that what was really wanted was the extra-short version of the expressed sentiment which I expect, much like the english version, has a greater syllabic simplicity.

The idiots in advertising have no idea of the context of songs.

"Something Inside so Strong", by Labi Siffre is a vicious attack on Apartheid in South Africa, but has recently been used in several adverts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B-4Lsrx8IA

It was also covered by Rik Waller from Pop Idol - an overweight white guy - which REALLY misses the point

The Dad is Jeremy Swift, I recognise him from being Barry in "The Smoking Room" , more recently he was in Downton Abbey.

Thanks.

I first thought it was Tiger's dad in Benidorm.

That irritating lisping Steven, flogging Safestyle windows, he does my effing head in every time he minces on.

Why ever would these price comparison sites think that watching a group of blokes wiggling their backsides make us want to use their site? Out of sheer principle I would NEVER use their site because their judgement is obviously flawed!

すぐに出発 or in Romaji "Sugu ni shuppatsu"


You think thats inappropriate. Back in the mid 1990's the South African division of BMW ran an advert starting James Dean (via using clips from a safe driving PSA that Dean had done in the USA shortly before his death in a road traffic accident).

The final clip of James Dean in the BMW ad is from the end of the original PSA when Dean goes:-

"Drive safe kids, the next life you might save might be mine, you know."

Screen fades to black with the 'might save might be mine' echoing over and over.

The screen fades back in from black to show the new BMW car (M3?) with a sombre voiceover saying:-

"If only he had a car with front & rear airbags,
side impact bars, {another 2 or 3 safety features}.
If only the icon of the 50's... was driving the icon of the 90's"

If this isn;t cashing in on someones death then I don't know what is.

Difference is that BMW knew what they were doing, bad taste or not.

I suspect that as Marc Bolan died nearly 40 years ago most of the 30 somethings in the ad agency coming up with the Confused.com ad had probably either never heard of him or had no idea how he died, if they even knew he was no longer with us in the first place!

They probably thought "oh that's a nice tune" and bunged it on the ad with no thought for the context.

I prefer Ah Voetsek man

I read the song was also about his experience with being gay during that time

The new Vanquis advert set in olden times and booming voice but then referencing a tablet and modern terms is going to irritate very quickly.

Is there a smart TV that automatically mutes ads?

No but you could install a Big Jim Rennie
https://giphy.com/gifs/under-the-dome-gwjFanrSx9mP6

[ disclaimer : loved the show in spite of how that one looks but that was the only one I could find, there was a better one somewhere... ]

I believe it's supposed to be a 'clever' reverse of a father son chat with the father doing all the teenage angst bit. Doesn't stop it being dire though.