SALE MUST END TOMORROW
I don't know what the situation is like elsewhere in the Anglosphere, but here in NZ TV advertising is dominated by cheap, garish, shouty screamy ads from big stores plugging discounts. If the noise and flashing colours seem geared to the tastes of chavs and the mentally sub-par, it's because the ad agencies twigged long ago that it was more lucrative to cater to the stupidest 20% of the population despite their lack of money, simply because they're easier to part from it. So every 10 minutes it's like your home is being invaded by a gibbering cretin. Generally I'm quick with the mute button, but what a fucking imposition. And foreign visitors must think we're a bunch of boofheads.
In my more violent reactions I fantasise about kidnapping an ad narrator and confronting him with the hatefully inane banality of his life so he commits suicide. Or twisting his head off and defecating down his still-spluttering windpipe.
(mudskipper, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 8:35, 4 replies)

boofheads
is a word I'm going to try and use as much as possible today.
(Kaplaaah Wasting time on the net since 1994., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 8:38, closed)

Pretty much the same in the UK
We get that over here, but it's generally restricted to furniture stores. Constant 'Sale ends this Friday!' ads, for sales which never actually end. Actually, I think it's toned down now to an extent that furniture store ads will now just use a popular song from either the last few years or the 80s to the extent that you will feel sick if you ever hear that song again.

By far the worst offender though are the Safestyle Windows advertisements, a loud mouthed twunt screaming 'You buy one you get one free', or more accurately 'YA BAA WUN YA GET WUN FREE!'.

Proof: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0-2n8JHc1M

Ugh.
(Lythium deals in lead, my friend., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 8:46, closed)

Don't forget the volume.....
Why is it they boost the volume for those ads up to ear-bleeding loud, meaning you have to locate the remote and drop it down a few cogs? Harvey Normans are the main culprit here.....
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Fri 1 Apr 2011, 10:24, closed)

Slight tangent here, but...
Do you have the "Go Compare" adverts in N.Z.? If you don't, just pray you never get them. That man is a walking, singing case for euthanasia.
( Awk Industries is actually a helic- NO, STAY BACK SHARK!, Sun 3 Apr 2011, 23:29, closed)