Page 1 of The worst advert you`ve ever seen?

Kicking this one off with the old Ocean Finance one on Sky. You know, the one with the `quiz` show. Talking about this in work the other week and it was virtually unanimous. The guy look`s like he should be selling `furniture` in MFI!! (Apologies if you work there) Lol.........Roger.

God, there`s so many!
What about the advert for a finance company, well I think it`s a finance company!? (obviously didn`t have any effect on me!).

Basically theres a group of people doing the hurdles but can`t get over them because they`ve got "CCJ" and crap written on them. Suddenly a call to this super finance company and the hurdles shrink. They show the muppets leaping over them as if they`re on crack or something!

At the end they all stand there with chessy grins congratulating each other.

Truely s***e!

Halifax ads using `real` empoyees who can`t sing, dance or read lines out...and it`s evern worse when they use puppets (although they have more life in them)...oh yes, and that expensive retailer whoever they are - ` Keeping prices down` (Stamp!!)....I was sure you weren`t allowed to lie in these things.

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I suppose technically a trailer is an advert, so see my link re. Druids.

That crappy Werther`s Original ad drives me potty. Not on so much now!

There`s a stinker running in the STV region for a Scottish teabag where a cafe is overflowing to the doors with hungover Glaswegans who have all got up at 8.00 am on a Sunday morning to come in for pots of tea as a cure.
Yeah right
What an insult ! Glaswegians don`t have hangovers on Sunday mornings ;-))
P.

One currently drives me nuts, and that`s the Cancer Research UK ad with the mirrors. I think it`s the lowest form of moral blackmail, and I can`t understand how reputable charities (the NSPCC, RSPCA and NCDL all pull the same stunt) can stoop to that kind of thing. Show your good works, for goodness sakes, not your failures/ death rates etc. to wring money out of the public. This kind of collecting-tin-rattling is tantamount to the proverbial fiddle playing at a saps` convention.

J Mark Oates

The Kinder Bueno ads are usually pretty horrific. Terrible dubbing and I can remember one ad even superimposed (badly) the product into the shot over an existing product - some bright exec probably thought that no-one would notice and that it`d be cheaper than to have to reshoot the commerical. Genius.

That annoying t**t who says `looking for a loan?` I`ve seen him in quite a few ads, its a shame someone doesn`t shoot the p**k.

the one thats really freaky is the one where the dog crawls out of that blokes mouth.

Also WHAT THE HELL IS THOSE GUNNIESS ADS ALL ABOUT!!! All the adverts they have shown have been annoying meaningless crap.

floyd

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what the learn direct ad with the moron who keeps answering peoples phones? If I grabbed someone`s mobile off them I`d get beaten to death so why doesn`t he?