Adverts that make you not buy something

Adverts that make you not buy something

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richhead

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2,368 posts

25 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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As well as the adverts that make you want to smash your tv,.
What adds make you actively avoid a product.
For me its the EE new ipone one on at the moment.
I hate it so much i would never buy either.

PM3

985 posts

74 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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All adverts with overtly fake and laughably unlikely " diverse" families in them

steveo3002

10,792 posts

188 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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kevin bacon

faked diverse families for the sake of being pc

richhead

Original Poster:

2,368 posts

25 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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steveo3002 said:
kevin bacon

faked diverse families for the sake of being pc
thats the advert.
I was going to change to EE, but im not going to now, those adverts annoy me so much, stupid i know, but well.

MBBlat

1,932 posts

163 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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Any advert that starts X “doesn't want you to know about this” where X is doctors, power companies etc. Thanks for telling me your product is a scam.

Huzzah

27,979 posts

197 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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There's a really, really horrible one at the moment.

A flabby fat bird, horrible blotchy, subcutaneous skin, shaving her bikini line. What in the name of all that's holy convinced the manufactures it's an aspirational beauty product.

Spare tyre

11,125 posts

144 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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Pretty much anything that involves shouting or that shouting fella from xfactor / the ant and dec tv shoes


I stand to be corrected, but I think I’m past the stage of being manipulated

Except boobs

Funk

26,757 posts

223 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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You guys are still seeing adverts...? Other than billboards out and about, I've not seen or heard an advert in years. It's bliss.

Porsche-worm

286 posts

24 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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Anything overtly woke for the sake of being woke.

Like the John Lewis advert with couple buying a bed with their dog in the shop.

1. I don't think dogs are allowed in John Lewis unless a service dog.
2. She's a fat ginger and he's a Muslim gentlemen.

Now I have nothing against fat people, gingers or Muslims but it seems an unlikely match to me based on my experience in life thus far. Also in my experience Muslims don't seem to keep dogs as pets very often, certainly not ones that get in bed with them.

If diversity is the goal then why not have a Muslim couple, or two fat ginger women or any other combination of likely matches.

shtu

3,888 posts

160 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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Huzzah said:
A flabby fat bird, horrible blotchy, subcutaneous skin, shaving her bikini line. What in the name of all that's holy convinced the manufactures it's an aspirational beauty product.
"Body positivity".

In a similar vein, surprisingly overweight ice skaters\ballerinas\gymnasts\etc. Like they've ever done anything more athletic than queue at Greggs.

Porsche-worm

286 posts

24 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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shtu said:
"Body positivity".

Like they've ever done anything more athletic than queue at Greggs.
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TorqueVR

1,874 posts

213 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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Virgin Airlines. I thought it was just me thinking all their staff and passengers are weidos, but it seems most of my friends say the say.

Antony Moxey

9,572 posts

233 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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Porsche-worm said:
Anything overtly woke for the sake of being woke.

Like the John Lewis advert with couple buying a bed with their dog in the shop.

1. I don't think dogs are allowed in John Lewis unless a service dog.
2. She's a fat ginger and he's a Muslim gentlemen.

Now I have nothing against fat people, gingers or Muslims but it seems an unlikely match to me based on my experience in life thus far. Also in my experience Muslims don't seem to keep dogs as pets very often, certainly not ones that get in bed with them.

If diversity is the goal then why not have a Muslim couple, or two fat ginger women or any other combination of likely matches.
1. Dogs are allowed in John Lewis shops as long as they are on leads. I think they’re only banned from their cafe/restaurants. This is certainly the case for the huge John Lewis store in Exeter.

cheesejunkie

4,605 posts

31 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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I go out of my way to avoid adverts as much as possible to the point of not watching certain channels but I don’t always get to decide.

Ads that have put me off a potential purchase as opposed to ones where they just confirm I’d never buy it anyway … any that try to curate an image including quite a few car ones. Posh people in cars (yes I’m going back to 80’s Vw ads when I was far too young to buy a car but so what, I still remember smile).

More recently and continuing my dislike of lifestyle branding every aftershave ad under the sun.

I never notice wokery unless it’s ridiculously overt, typically where I see it it’s some family product ad or a loan offering one that won’t register with me anyway.

nikaiyo2

5,265 posts

209 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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The arm pit deodorant adverts. It was one thing seeing a perfectly manicured pit having sure or dove applied, now it’s a blotchy, hairy, sweaty, fat blobby pit it’s gross. I think we all know that some things shown on advertising are not real, but I would rather see an idolised version than a gross version.

The Gauge

4,548 posts

27 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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Despite all the TV adverts, I am yet to buy any panty liners or roller blades.

DodgyGeezer

43,655 posts

204 months

Saturday 12th October 2024
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PM3 said:
All adverts with overtly fake and laughably unlikely " diverse" families in them
meh - not the worst thing. IMO the 'diverse families' are not diverse for the sake of being PC (in the main) rather to include as many people as possible to sell to


bitchstewie

58,162 posts

224 months

Sunday 13th October 2024
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Is this thread a wind up?

You were going to buy an EE phone but you decided not to because their advert had a diverse family in it?

loudlashadjuster

5,677 posts

198 months

Sunday 13th October 2024
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bhstewie said:
Is this thread a wind up?

You were going to buy an EE phone but you decided not to because their advert had a diverse family in it?
Thats the snowflake generation for you, I guess?

cheesejunkie

4,605 posts

31 months

Sunday 13th October 2024
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loudlashadjuster said:
bhstewie said:
Is this thread a wind up?

You were going to buy an EE phone but you decided not to because their advert had a diverse family in it?
Thats the snowflake generation for you, I guess?
Lol, if I'd known this thread was an anti woke one rather than an anti advert one I'd probably not have commented.

Hate ads. Think people who get annoyed about woke need to get a life and put the phone down. But they're seeping into everywhere online.