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The one where the kid has got a box on his head pretending to be a tv presenter (the kid's pretending, not the box), and he's just reading out the prizes you can win off a crisp packet. I don't know *what* it is about it, but I just can't stand it!
Any non-UK residents won't know what I'm on about, I'm sure. Count yourselves lucky.
And yes, I do feel a bit better for getting this off my chest, but I'd quite like to swear more...

Yup it is very very annoying.

Anyway I thought *all* kids spent *all* their time playing with their games consoles!

I hate that ad too. The worst bit's when the second kid says 'Whayya dooin' wiv maa fooooone!' That elongated syllable must be the worst sound ever.
An another ad with annoying kids is the CBBC one. It comes on at maximum volume and it's just so ugly! It just won't go away either! It's on morning noon an night and I can't stand it! ! !

I haven't seen that one. I do hate the one where the kids necks grow though.

I particularly loathe the music to that one. And I also hate the Skoda Fabia advert in the supermarket: would someone kindly explain that to me???

No. Cos I have no idea what that's about either.

Well, I drive a Fabia and that ad causes me more embarrassment than the car's badge.

I think it's supposed to say that Skoda's are more suitable for people who are likely to be able to help out in a tie/checkout emergency.

Bit of a strange demographic to aim for, but hey! What do I know?

I think it's supposed to project resourcefulness and just being a damn good human being. I don't find it particularly offensive.

The two kids with the growy necks and the damn awful music should be shot, though. I heartily agree.

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adverts for feminine hygene products featuring scantily clad attractive women. where's the demographic in that? it looks like its aimed at men, but they would never...


...would they?

that mobile-phone-our-customer-service-is-better-than-yours advert:

"do you text a lot?"
"yes, how did you guess?"

EVERYBODY TEXTS! That or she's got oversized thunbs.

**very proud to have only ever sent 3 text messages in his life**

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'I think it's supposed to say that Skoda's are more suitable for people who are likely to be able to help out in a tie/checkout emergency.'

Or perhaps only Skoda drivers have the wit to carry scissors around with them.

The music on the cbbc trailer is "wheres your head at" by basement jaxx and its great.

Id just like to say that if all you old farts dont like this stuff try watching countdown or water colour challenge, lots of ads for stair lifts and things to make you poo less/more would probably be more appropriate for you.

*removes colostomy bacg and hurls it at the previous poster*

On the left hand side of the pond here there's some adverts for 4x4s (SUVs they call them) that annoy me. The basic pretext is pointing out how scary and horrid the countryside is and aren't you glad you're inside a mobile pollution plant. There's more than one company that offends, I can recall a couple of slogans, such as "Welcome to the great INdoors" and "For your adventures in onroading".

Ford did one with a guy piling up snow in his driveway before driving his SUV over it telling us "Those who say you don't need four wheel drive in Toronto aren't having enough fun".

Dicks.

in slightly related news, most of the 4WDs we get here in the colonies seem to be imported from Japan or other Asian markets and they have annoying little environmentally "friendly" slogans on the spare tyre covers (gosh, makes them sound like middle aged men) which drive me NUTS! They say things like, and I am not joking or exaggerating:

"It is good to be friendly to animals. They are our friendly friends. [Insert Crap Car Brand] says friendliness to animals is good and fun."

Or they have pictures of whales on them. Or, for some reason, the Tasmanian Devil from Looney Tunes, which is probably more fittingly destructive.

The ads for these monstrosities are just as bad here. There is this really in touch (not) american one with the reading of a will where the dad (of course) has left two of his kids really wealthy properties and the third one (a son, of course) 150 somethings of useless undevelopable swamp land. Which of course he is insanely happy about because now he gets to drive his stupid car around in it. Apparently they film/test a lot of these cars here in NZ, because we are so "remote" that spies from other car companies don't come here and because we have lots of this kind of 4WD terrain. Of course most 4WD's in NZ are in Auckland, and never even get dirty, let alone drive through rivers, swamps etc. In fact there's even an ad here that blatantly admits this (as if it is a good thing to have something totally unnecessary that has a relatively large environmental footprint) by saying "you might never go off road but isn't it nice to know you could" NO IT'S NOT YOU TOSSERS!

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Yeah, that's exactly what ticked me off, as if redundancy is a virtue.

There was a brilliant pisstake of such 4x4 adverts in Viz: 'Primary school halfway up a mountain? No f***ing problem!
With its limited slip differential, the Satsuma mounts the kerbs outside the cashpoint with ease'.

The advert for Crusha with the dancing cats is disturbing to say the least. I mean, if the disjointed movements of the cats doesn't send you crawling behind the sofa, then their outfits just might. If, however, you've managed to survive that, the end line "Add milk, or we'll Crusha", coming from a tabby in a flat cap with a Yorkshire accent should finish you off. It's just plain wrong.