Companies you WON'T use due to their adverts

[Behemoth]

Why on earth are you watching Jeremy Kyle?

Because sometimes you could just use a good laugh. If ever I'm feeling down in the mornings I'll watch this just to remind myself things aren't as bad as it first appears.

[oolon]

One advert that always makes me laugh (and as a result I will never try) is ggmarkets, which is a spread betting firm called Gekko Global markets! Who thought of that name? Have they not seen wall street where the lead villain is referred to by the nick name GG or Gorden Gekko! I am so going to trust you with my cash.

[matty-hodgson]

Men can suffer from Thrush too !

Yes, but if someone popped up on the telly and said "Are you a man? Do you suffer from an itchy penis, well heres Penisil, a cream designed specifically to combat penile itching" it'd be ripped out of all the TV companies hands and burnt.

But because it's women with itchy vaginas, it's perfectly fine for the advert to be aired.

Why on earth are you watching Jeremy Kyle?

I don't start work til 12 some days, so I've gotta do something in the mornings .

[Mutley]

Pretty much agree with all those listed.
I'm so sick of DFS. Stupid couches that require lounges the size of my entire house.

I'll also add Homebase. I CANNOT STAND that hideous whistling...noise (I can't call it a tune), that goes with that advert. I won't go there any more.

[razer121]

Yes, but if someone popped up on the telly and said "Are you a man? Do you suffer from an itchy penis, well heres Penisil, a cream designed specifically to combat penile itching" .

Dude you just made me snort my hot chocolate lol

I hate all adverts, i see the flaws aswell as the lies in all of them, but one that makes me wonder the most is them L'Oreal adverts, they state a mascara that can make your eyelash's however many times larger....yet it has in small print at the bottom "filmed with lash inserts" i mean really?

Oh a girl i know was in that "we buy any car advert" she was the dancer on the far right on thier first advert XD

[peterb]

Don't think I've seen any of these adverts on BBC!

[neonplanet40]

Don't think I've seen any of these adverts on BBC!

Well for £145 a year I should bloody hope not!!

[roorooroo]

Nearly every advert I accidentally see on TV (only see them when at friend's houses) immediately puts me off purchasing anything from them.

[adder]

As above and SwiftCover

[mikemikemi]

Go compare, Moonpig.

I hate the BT adverts too, the ongoing saga of guy who steals the other guys wife. But until my contract with them runs out I'm stuck.

[0iD]

Safestyle windows
Activia

[Tumble]

Is that the "YA BUY WUN, YA GETS WUN FREE!!" Chap? I tried strangling my telly when that come on once. Adverts is what They invented the "mute" button for.

The latest BT ad, about the fibre connections strikes me as a touch apocalyptic - biiiig nuke in space and fallout all over Britain?? nice...

[Peter Parker]

Cringe-worthy at best, hatred at worst:

• Senokot laxatives.
• Pele doing the erectile dysfunction ad
• Tesco and Asda
• Almost all insurance (oh, and my friend Mark is personally responsible for the Swiftcover ads. Really. )
• All glasses ads. I wear them, it's no big deal. I want one good pair, not two cheap ugly frames. Because I only have ONE HEAD you fools! Specsavers et al can f right off.
• Capital One
• 118 118
• All perfume ads at Christmas. What's the link between Jesus and people smelling so bad? I don't get it.
• Every single ad that insinuates that buying their product will get you laid.
• That one with all the politicians telling lies on it ... oh wait, that's the news.

So basically everything. I'm a very bad consumer and won't be helping spend the country out of the mess it's in.

[Behemoth]

Is that the "YA BUY WUN, YA GETS WUN FREE!!" Chap? I tried strangling my telly when that come on once. Adverts is what They invented the "mute" button for.

The latest BT ad, about the fibre connections strikes me as a touch apocalyptic - biiiig nuke in space and fallout all over Britain?? nice...

Oddly enough the Safestyle UK one doesn't bother me all that much. At the end of the day we all have either a remote control so we can switch channels while we wait for the annyoing ads to go away or we can turn off the TV and do something far more constructive.

That said with any program I want to watch and I know it's got ads in it I'll turn on the PVR, pause it and leave it go for 5 mins so I can skip through the ads when they come on

I'm sure I read somewhere that said you don't watch the ads it's theft.

[Alex]

What's the one for some tool hire company with god-awful singing and dancing? Tool station perhaps? That one. Also ocean finance and go compare.

There's plenty of the others mentioned I wouldn't do anything with - due to them being awful businesses (www."we buy any car - for half it's value".com) but the above are the only ones I can immeadiately think of that I won't have anything to do with purely because of the adverts.

[petercook7]

tesco because their milk contains added sugar like the rest of their foods, bt, dfs , pc world, next, vodaphone, danone