Those too, are slowly creeping into our TV ads but not overtly, due the laws here where lawyers can't directly advertise the wording in the ads is very loose and they skirt around the issue.
TV ads that make you want to turn off the TV
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Those too, are slowly creeping into our TV ads but not overtly, due the laws here where lawyers can't directly advertise the wording in the ads is very loose and they skirt around the issue.
This is mostly on radio, but...
THAT STUPID GAD DAMNED 1-800-KARS-FOR-KIDS AD
Seriously. This ad was made by agents of Satan. I'm firmly convinced of that. This ad doesn't just want me to turn the set off, it makes me want to bash my head against a solid object.
What the ad doesn't tell you is that Oorah, an extremist Orthodox Jewish cult, is behind the whole thing. And even if you're fine giving them money, almost all of it goes to New York and New Jersey. They also lost a lot of the money in ponzi schemes and poor real estate investments.
Any drug ad that takes (What feels like) 5 minutes explaining why you shouldn't take it rather than explaining what the benefits are. They are so annoying.
Especially when they need a speed talker to go through the list of side-effects.
And speaking of drug commercials, you can sometimes notice some of them use templates, because I once saw a drug commercial aimed at a kid's drug that hilariously enough said 'don't operate heavy machinery', because let's be honest, what kind of kid has access to heavy machinery?? It stopped me in my tracks and I had to rewind it and see if I'd heard right, and sure enough that's what was said.
And the side-effects are worse than the disease they are supposed to treat. Meanwhile there are long-established drugs that can be bought in generic form that do a better job of curing the problem like Wafarin or Lasix. I mostly keep my TV muted now because of the loud and odd audio these things persist in playing.
Oh yeah, they are much louder than most for some reason. Do they want people to have a heart-attack??
Regarding generic drugs though, I have a friend who's been one of the worst cases of epilepsy in Canada. He's had many surgeries to try to limit how many he's been getting, and every few years his medication always need to change as it eventually ends up becoming less effective. He's told me and several others that because the medication is so expensive, his pharmacist had tried to save himself some costs by switching to a generic. But in this case, the generic version had minute differences that were just enough to be ineffective compared to the brand name and it caused him problems, and he had to confront his pharmacist and ask him to switch it back, even though it cost more for the pharmacy to procure.
Regarding generic drugs though, I have a friend who's been one of the worst cases of epilepsy in Canada. He's had many surgeries to try to limit how many he's been getting, and every few years his medication always need to change as it eventually ends up becoming less effective. He's told me and several others that because the medication is so expensive, his pharmacist had tried to save himself some costs by switching to a generic. But in this case, the generic version had minute differences that were just enough to be ineffective compared to the brand name and it caused him problems, and he had to confront his pharmacist and ask him to switch it back, even though it cost more for the pharmacy to procure.
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I can't stand the adverts for the holiday company On The Beach. It's bad enough that the ads use Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year all year round but for a new low the latest campaign is using the word 'booking' in place of the expletive with Paddy 'not funny' McGuinness saying things like 'stop booking about and book yer 5 star hol with On The Beach' Yeah, hilarious 
I hope booking.com try to sue them or have the adverts changed or taken off the air. It also gripes me that the new trend is using voiceovers with northern accents like you have to sound like Jane Horrocks or Fred Dibhah to imply that a service is hassle free and simple to use. Speaking as a Boltonian....fuck off On The Beach and your low brow shite adverts.
I hope booking.com try to sue them or have the adverts changed or taken off the air. It also gripes me that the new trend is using voiceovers with northern accents like you have to sound like Jane Horrocks or Fred Dibhah to imply that a service is hassle free and simple to use. Speaking as a Boltonian....fuck off On The Beach and your low brow shite adverts.
I'm a Christian, and even I don't like those ads.
I cringe at those ads, and I'm catholic. I don't need to see my religion as an advertisement, especially during sporting events.
"What does God need with an advertisement?"
I'm just glad we don't have cringy ads like that any more on TV here but boy did we have some doozies like this........ This was circa 1995
"Enjoy the go"? REALLY? What the fuck? 
Any ad where the third and fourth words are ''is hard!'' while some moron shouts ''OWWW!!'' followed by ''the secret is''.
Oh my......... We don't have that brand here. That I know of
We have Kleenex, Aldi, Quilton, and a few others
Almost any Shen Yun ad.
I didn't have a problem with it until I looked up that little detail: Hobby Lobby, and a group that keeps company with an SPLC-recognized anti-LGBTQ+ hate group. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, but still . . .
As to direct-to-patient ads for prescription drugs, I agree that they're a bad idea. That doesn't keep me from snarking that anti-diabetes drug J... might cause you to break out in a production number, or that weight-loss drug W... might cause spontaneous flash-mob drill-teams (ye vish! self-injectibles for a non-life-threatening condition?!?). I will say that I rather like the long-running "My Way" spots for C... branded colon cancer screening kits (even if my way is to take a guided tour of my lower intestine). At least, if the people in the spot actually have good voices (some don't!).
Lord save me from spots about the latest wet-AMD treatments, though. Even though they're devoid of any explicit footage of how the drugs are administered, the very idea is a large scoop of "eye-scream."
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