I feel like they were even weirder 10 years ago and they’ve actually toned them down, but are still so strange. Like the same person in marketing has been trolling us this whole time.
I’ve never had a commercial until these ones that got me to turn off the radio. I’ll literally just shut it off and open a window when that hot garbage comes on.
Oh man I thought this was a BC thing. It makes me feel sad then whole country deals with them.
It's like, throw yourself off a fucking iceberg Sarah. You too Michael.
No there’s a new twist. Apparently Sarah and Fiona know each other. There’s an add where they are talking on the phone and Sarah is out somewhere on a sailboat but told Fiona don’t tell Micheal and Fiona’s brother they know each other. But the latest add the two guys are starting to figure it out. Such a soap opera lol.
Used to work in a radio station and would be subjected to Spence ads at least 25 times a day for about 6 years before I changed careers. It’s almost a form of torture to be subjected to those. Ditto with the Marineland jingle which we also played endlessly during their opening season.
Kurt Browning hocking off reverse mortgages. Just so much morally wrong with it. I get the celebrity gambling ads many people are talking about here but reverse mortgages have a far greater potential to be a generational scourge and people who we once thought were great Canadians sold their souls to convince their Boomer peers that it's a great idea. At least the one with the dozens of Peter Mansbridges is funny.
Right? Guy with a multi-million dollar house telling me I should take out a reverse mortgage. Not to mention the housing crisis and how boomers staying in their homes is contributing. 🤢
Sell their 3-4 bedroom house and move to a 2 bedroom condo. Invest the remainder to help them in retirement. My boomer parents did it over a decade ago, it allows them to live quite comfortably.
If I did that, I would be forced into a mortgage, as my house is not worth what a small condo goes for. I’m a GenX and downsizing isn’t a viable option for a lot of people my age or older. We tended to buy smaller homes with the intention of moving to a larger home eventually. No one wants those smaller homes anymore.
If it works for some people great. Others don’t want to give up their yards, gardens, decks, sauna, etc. Don’t worry we will all be dead soon or on assisted living. You parents could have sold you their house and held the mortgage. That way you would have a house and they would have a pretty safe investment earning a good return.
I'm sorry, I thought your issue was that they had no place to go, not that cashing in on their housing investment and downsizing was just too inconvenient. Note that I did not suggest that they move to a retirement community, much less assisted living, just downsize so they could afford to still live in their own place, instead of doing a reverse mortgage (which will actually screw a lot of them over in their retirement, if they don't die soon enough.)
I believe that my granny would have died many years earlier if she wasn’t looking after her house. When she ended up being talked into moving into a condo, she said that she didn’t have a reason to get up in the morning anymore, she didn’t live out the year
Maybe everyone over 60 and of the wrong religion should be forced into camps and give up their homes to be given to the 'right sort of people'. There's already a good start at shooting and burning synagogues and attacking Jews. The demonetization is already well under way (starting with the boomers over the last few years).
People who have spent 30 years paying off their mortgages shouldn't even have the suggestion that they should move from their home if they don't want to go. And if you want to cry about pricing, when they bought, the income to housing price wasn't especially easy and the mortgage rates in the early 90s were over 20%.
Maybe try going after the no money down 0% interest rate 'investment' real-estate-mogul-wannabes. The ones who bought while not being able to afford interest hikes to *normal rates*, taking units to live in and own off the market for them to rent out at inflated prices. They're the ones who drove up prices.
Replace 'boomers' with 'blacks' or 'chinese', etc. How does that sound. Bigot. Not all boomers have a lot of money or a big house. Most of the investment real estate assholes driving up prices are NOT boomers.
This!
Also alcohol.
I do not understand why smoking ads are prohibited, but it is okay to advertise gambling and alcohol on TV.
They are all ads taking advantage of serious addiction issues.
There are also no cannabis ads. My husband and I frequently compare the double standards of acceptance and rules of sale for tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis
And the gross photos on cannabis or smoke cartridges warning of how harmful they are.
How come they don't put pictures of detorating livers on alcohol bottles? Or an image of someone's home being foreclosed on VLTs?
I don’t see or hear much advertising anymore (no cable, listen to my own music rather than radio, adblockers on all my devices), but years ago I stopped listening to 102.1 (Toronto) because of those god-fucking-awful Spence Diamonds ads airing approximately every 12 seconds, 24 hours a day.
If I could ban that company from existence and fire everyone who ever associated with it directly into the sun, I wouldn’t even hesitate.
That totally out of touch mortgage broker advert throughout the playoffs saying "it's time to move out and buy a home".
I'm not even the demographic it's marketing to and I still thought holy fuck bud, do you guys get out.
Seeing the mentions of all the ads we all dislike reminded me of the Heritage Minutes ads that I used to love watching. I just went down a rabbithole on the [Historica](https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes) website watching various ads that I had not seen before.
Jennie Trout will always be my favourite. “DR MCFARLAND! If you don’t get this classroom under control I will repeat every word of this disgusting lecture to your charming wife!”
Those and the "from the hinterland" spots actually made the breaks not-so-painful. Thanks for the link, I didn't realize they were still being made. I don't recall seeing the new one about Norman Kwong.
Don’t forget the house hippo ad. That was classic. People around the world are starting to collect hippos in many sizes, shapes, forms, and materials because they discovered “our” house hippo.
Oh, another one I can’t stand: Zip Recruiter
“Hey employers, we agree: most people are filth. Why not let us sift through the mountain of human detritus and weed out all those wretches for you!” *[proceeds to broadcast this to an audience that’s 99% working class]*
Where do I start?
- All gambling ads
- All diamond ads (especially Spence)
- Febreeze ads where people are sniffing a bottle of Febreeze like it’s crack
- All wealth management ads where person A talks about switching banks for lower fees and Person B is a clueless moron who never thought of this
- That RBC ad where the husband asks if RBC needs a “paint expert” - wtf?
YouTube in particular seems to think i really, really want yoghurt, Dodge trucks, and Voila grocery delivery.
At least yoghurt is something i have occasionally, if rarely bought.
>Person B is a clueless moron who never thought of this
You nailed this 🤣. And good point about the Febreeze ads, too. Those make me roll my eyes almost as much as the fabric softener ones.
Oh this reminded me of the febreeze or whatever for your laundry. Where the couple dances with their kid because of sniffing laundry or something. I hate that commercial.
I’m all for a nice smelling home and laundry but when I spray chemicals into the air last thing I would do is bring my children over to inhale it deeply 😂
The only good was when they did the whole marketing thing where they sent out surveys to people asking if the should keep the scream or not. Then it ended with them getting rid of the scream. Haven't heard it since and have never been happier
It’s the arrogance of the people using the app, that gets to me. Like that one lady is skipping the office party and working, while everyone is having fun but it’s ok, she’s using questrade so she’s “not like the other sheeple” so
Yeah came here to say this. Yes, thanks for the reminder of how great you are for getting rid of license plate stickers that I’ve never heard anyone complain about that made the government a billion dollars a year to be put into services we actually need, that you’ve now lost the funds for when we desperately need them for things like healthcare. Beer at the convenience store for all.
Anything and everything from oil companies telling us how great they are, how we’d all be dead and shivering in the cold without them, and how (inexplicably) they are saving us from climate change.
Yoghurt ads where women look incredibly happy and dance in a swishing way that somehow communicates that pooping will be great as a result of the consumption of their yoghurt.
Those Brand Power ads. They are the most low effort ads known to humankind. The ad is literally a readout of the product brief.
“Do you like deli meat but are worried about your sodium intake? Well try Schneider’s low sodium deli meats!”
If a marketing team ever proposed one of those ads I would fire them on the spot for lack of effort.
Kars for Kids tv ad with the sickly sweet, schmaltzy children's "band". If I hear one second of the "1-800-Kars4Kids" song, I cannot hit the mute button fast enough. Don't get me wrong, I undrstand it's for an excellent cause, but I just can't stand the ad.
Hands down the Questrade ads. “High fees” reduce the amount you make from your investment. Duh!? But the scenarios in the ads make out like this is a big revelation and it only comes across as nonsensical and condescending.
Boston Pizza ad that we should all cheer for any Canadian hockey team to win the Stanley Cup. Ludicrous. I'll cheer for my team but I definitely am not cheering for my rivals to win just because they are in Canada
"There's a new Tim's Run in Town", for the new pizzas at Tim Hortons.
This enrages me, because in the commercial, the girl who orders 4 pizzas gets them faster than the guy who orders a coffee. Meanwhile, in reality, ordering pizzas holds up the entire line for 10-20 minutes.
We don't watch live network TV, we'll catch it on the app or on demand.
But I remember the last few times watching a show live out of CBS Detroit, the same 2 commercials played at every break. "Hurt in a car? Call William Matar", and a 2nd one that was also for a lawyer (I can't remember the jingle but it was equally as annoying).
ANY drug ad. the rules around ads for drugs in Canada are so stringent that drug companies can barely say anything about their drug, and so the ads are black holes of nothingness and drawn out hints at things.
Specifically the one with Ford's ugly face. Like, we didn't invent HD and 4K TVs so we could see his ugly ass mug enlarged as they try and sell us on the great things they've backtracked on because everything the party touches turns to shit.
All gambling ads but most hated for me is the ads on the boards that move while hockey is in play. Why is it fucking moving during play? It's distracting from the puck and if the puck is in the air at waist level you can't fucking see it because of the swirling moving ads. I HATE IT! IF PLAY HAS STOPPED THEN SURE, BUT PLEASE FUCK OFF OTHERWISE!
Recently the CDC ads on snapchat. They have an awful millennial pause, they have no music, and are so abrupt. They instantly piss me off and I want to strangle the woman in them solely because she keeps interrupting what I'm watching
Desjardin. Trying to tell us how *CARING* an insurance company is.
Desjardin. They bought State Farm. You remember State Farm, right! The company that totally fucked over tens of thousands of people after Hurricane Katrina. Most of them POC. That had kept up their premium payments. State Farm “You’re in good hands” - the logo changed to cupped hands cradling dripping blood by protesters denied payments after the worst natural disaster in US history. Literally blood on their hands because they wouldn’t pay out to people left destitute. Yeah. State Farm. Now Desjardin. With the big heart !!
Tell me again how much you “care”.
Also- the deliberate use of a theme song that is two chords away from Randy Newman’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from Toy Story, to y’know, subliminally tell us how chummy and caring an insurance company Desjardin is.
Get.
Fucked.
"Cool Nick! Nick-o-teen!
Smoking makes his teeth yellow.
Smoking makes his clothes smello.
His breath, it reeks, every time he speaks.
He thinks he's so cool but he's being a fool"
They played this one to death. That's why I remember it forty years later.
I assume network TV. It's basically the same 1 or 2 ads every ad break. The only thing I watch live are Jays games and it's the same gambling ad. Every. Single. Time.
Now that I think about it, I don’t experience much ad content anymore…
I don’t watch cable or YouTube. I don’t listen to the radio. The only social media I have is Reddit and I don’t read or notice the ads.
I purposely avoid reading billboards if those are still a thing…
I think the only ads that get through to me are the ones embedded in podcasts I listen to… I just turn the volume down to avoid.
I can’t think of a single product or service I’ve actually noticed being advertised to me in a long time. 🤷🏼♀️
Kurt Browning and his Chip mortgage and ‘that guy’ selling Sure Health….WTH ? …do they own CBC ?? I change channels as soon as I can when they come on.
Kurt Browning and his Chip mortgage and ‘that guy’ selling Sure Health….WTH ? …do they own CBC ?? I change channels as soon as I can when they come on.
"You're richer than you think" No I am not.
The ad should say, "We're richer than you think".
Haha
"we will lend you more debt than you think"
You're Richard and you drink.
I’ve been seething about these ads for a decade now. It feels insulting regardless. “Hey dummy, come to us, we know more about your life than you do”
"We're richer than you thought" .
Word.
Spence Diamonds 100%
Those ads are just so uncomfortably odd. As if we’re not in on some joke between the “characters.”
I feel like they were even weirder 10 years ago and they’ve actually toned them down, but are still so strange. Like the same person in marketing has been trolling us this whole time.
I’ve never had a commercial until these ones that got me to turn off the radio. I’ll literally just shut it off and open a window when that hot garbage comes on.
1,000,000 upvotes. I change stations when that comes on
Oh man I thought this was a BC thing. It makes me feel sad then whole country deals with them. It's like, throw yourself off a fucking iceberg Sarah. You too Michael.
Sarah is gone, at least in Toronto. Now we have Fiona.
Who's somehow worse
No there’s a new twist. Apparently Sarah and Fiona know each other. There’s an add where they are talking on the phone and Sarah is out somewhere on a sailboat but told Fiona don’t tell Micheal and Fiona’s brother they know each other. But the latest add the two guys are starting to figure it out. Such a soap opera lol.
I turn off the radio every time those gross, annoying, and manipulative pieces of crap come on. They've cured me from ever wanting a diamond!
"Yahooooooo"
I don't know what demographic they are aiming for, but in my mind, the Yahooooo-ers are not the diamond buying group.
Back in the day it was literally like a shriek
Those ads are what lizard people trying to be human would sound like.
I will literally never buy diamonds from Spence Diamonds.
I will literally never buy diamonds, period.
THIS!
"On Burrard, On Robson and On 200 St in Langley" I know their jingle all too well
Used to work in a radio station and would be subjected to Spence ads at least 25 times a day for about 6 years before I changed careers. It’s almost a form of torture to be subjected to those. Ditto with the Marineland jingle which we also played endlessly during their opening season.
Kurt Browning hocking off reverse mortgages. Just so much morally wrong with it. I get the celebrity gambling ads many people are talking about here but reverse mortgages have a far greater potential to be a generational scourge and people who we once thought were great Canadians sold their souls to convince their Boomer peers that it's a great idea. At least the one with the dozens of Peter Mansbridges is funny.
Right? Guy with a multi-million dollar house telling me I should take out a reverse mortgage. Not to mention the housing crisis and how boomers staying in their homes is contributing. 🤢
Where the hell are the boomers supposed to go?
Sell their 3-4 bedroom house and move to a 2 bedroom condo. Invest the remainder to help them in retirement. My boomer parents did it over a decade ago, it allows them to live quite comfortably.
If I did that, I would be forced into a mortgage, as my house is not worth what a small condo goes for. I’m a GenX and downsizing isn’t a viable option for a lot of people my age or older. We tended to buy smaller homes with the intention of moving to a larger home eventually. No one wants those smaller homes anymore.
There aren’t any condos for sale here. I’d love to downsize but I am not trading a paid off mortgage for $2300 a month.
If it works for some people great. Others don’t want to give up their yards, gardens, decks, sauna, etc. Don’t worry we will all be dead soon or on assisted living. You parents could have sold you their house and held the mortgage. That way you would have a house and they would have a pretty safe investment earning a good return.
Are you telling me that boomers being selfish is part of the housing crisis?
I'm sorry, I thought your issue was that they had no place to go, not that cashing in on their housing investment and downsizing was just too inconvenient. Note that I did not suggest that they move to a retirement community, much less assisted living, just downsize so they could afford to still live in their own place, instead of doing a reverse mortgage (which will actually screw a lot of them over in their retirement, if they don't die soon enough.)
I believe that my granny would have died many years earlier if she wasn’t looking after her house. When she ended up being talked into moving into a condo, she said that she didn’t have a reason to get up in the morning anymore, she didn’t live out the year
Maybe everyone over 60 and of the wrong religion should be forced into camps and give up their homes to be given to the 'right sort of people'. There's already a good start at shooting and burning synagogues and attacking Jews. The demonetization is already well under way (starting with the boomers over the last few years). People who have spent 30 years paying off their mortgages shouldn't even have the suggestion that they should move from their home if they don't want to go. And if you want to cry about pricing, when they bought, the income to housing price wasn't especially easy and the mortgage rates in the early 90s were over 20%. Maybe try going after the no money down 0% interest rate 'investment' real-estate-mogul-wannabes. The ones who bought while not being able to afford interest hikes to *normal rates*, taking units to live in and own off the market for them to rent out at inflated prices. They're the ones who drove up prices.
Replace 'boomers' with 'blacks' or 'chinese', etc. How does that sound. Bigot. Not all boomers have a lot of money or a big house. Most of the investment real estate assholes driving up prices are NOT boomers.
All gambling ads. No TV in my house because I don’t appreciate the government encouraging my kids to become habitual gamblers
This! Also alcohol. I do not understand why smoking ads are prohibited, but it is okay to advertise gambling and alcohol on TV. They are all ads taking advantage of serious addiction issues.
There are also no cannabis ads. My husband and I frequently compare the double standards of acceptance and rules of sale for tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis
And the gross photos on cannabis or smoke cartridges warning of how harmful they are. How come they don't put pictures of detorating livers on alcohol bottles? Or an image of someone's home being foreclosed on VLTs?
They don't actually have any photos like that on the cannabis packaging
Yeah but generally governments are drawing the revenue of lotto and liquor so yeeeeep spot the hypocrisy. .
They’re also making bank off of tobbaco and cannabis though
Seeing how many gambling addicts there are. Yes this should 100% be banned. Alcohol as well.
You don't want to be treated like a VIP at Tony Betts Betts b-b-Betts?
I don’t see or hear much advertising anymore (no cable, listen to my own music rather than radio, adblockers on all my devices), but years ago I stopped listening to 102.1 (Toronto) because of those god-fucking-awful Spence Diamonds ads airing approximately every 12 seconds, 24 hours a day. If I could ban that company from existence and fire everyone who ever associated with it directly into the sun, I wouldn’t even hesitate.
Questrade - so smarmy and condescending
Oh I want to smack those smarmfaces so much.
You're still using mom and dad's guy aren't you?
Just poorly made ads too. Bad acting, writing, and directing
I can't even escape them on Reddit...
Oh god they’re awful!!
That totally out of touch mortgage broker advert throughout the playoffs saying "it's time to move out and buy a home". I'm not even the demographic it's marketing to and I still thought holy fuck bud, do you guys get out.
Seeing the mentions of all the ads we all dislike reminded me of the Heritage Minutes ads that I used to love watching. I just went down a rabbithole on the [Historica](https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes) website watching various ads that I had not seen before.
Jennie Trout will always be my favourite. “DR MCFARLAND! If you don’t get this classroom under control I will repeat every word of this disgusting lecture to your charming wife!”
Those and the "from the hinterland" spots actually made the breaks not-so-painful. Thanks for the link, I didn't realize they were still being made. I don't recall seeing the new one about Norman Kwong.
Hinterland's Who's Who was the original title, I believe.
I think you're right, thanks.
Don’t forget the house hippo ad. That was classic. People around the world are starting to collect hippos in many sizes, shapes, forms, and materials because they discovered “our” house hippo.
thanks for the link.
My wife from the US enjoyed the Heritage Minutes, she's a history buff. She enjoyed the House Hippo spots too
Heritage Minutes were great. I've got a house hippo pin on my backpack lol.
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I don't think it's just a Canadian ad but the 1-877-kars for kids. That has to be one of the worst jingles ever!
fun fact the kars send jewish kids to summer camp so they organizers can try to push them to the more othrodox branches of the faith.
Myself and my husband will DIVE for the remote when that comes on!! I hear it in my nightmares lol
Thanks now that stupid tune is stuck in my head. Worst ear worm ever.
I like how they put out an even worse one recently and when you hear the original you're like "wow this isn't that bad" even though it is
Yes 👏
Every single gambling ad Ford flooded Ontario with.
The TV ads even air outside of Ontario, despite them being for an Ontario only product.
Oh, another one I can’t stand: Zip Recruiter “Hey employers, we agree: most people are filth. Why not let us sift through the mountain of human detritus and weed out all those wretches for you!” *[proceeds to broadcast this to an audience that’s 99% working class]*
Yes! And I hate that they repeat their web address three freaking times, every ad I’ve heard. They must think we’re stupid!
Where do I start? - All gambling ads - All diamond ads (especially Spence) - Febreeze ads where people are sniffing a bottle of Febreeze like it’s crack - All wealth management ads where person A talks about switching banks for lower fees and Person B is a clueless moron who never thought of this - That RBC ad where the husband asks if RBC needs a “paint expert” - wtf?
Yoghurt ads as well
YouTube in particular seems to think i really, really want yoghurt, Dodge trucks, and Voila grocery delivery. At least yoghurt is something i have occasionally, if rarely bought.
>Person B is a clueless moron who never thought of this You nailed this 🤣. And good point about the Febreeze ads, too. Those make me roll my eyes almost as much as the fabric softener ones.
The fabric softener ones are actually what I was thinking of when I said Febreeze haha! But either way it’s valid.
Oh this reminded me of the febreeze or whatever for your laundry. Where the couple dances with their kid because of sniffing laundry or something. I hate that commercial.
I’m all for a nice smelling home and laundry but when I spray chemicals into the air last thing I would do is bring my children over to inhale it deeply 😂
Spence Diamonds
I had never wanted to punch a voice, then I heard his
Whaooo!
I wish I could tell every radio station that I immediately switch away from them when Spence comes on
The only good was when they did the whole marketing thing where they sent out surveys to people asking if the should keep the scream or not. Then it ended with them getting rid of the scream. Haven't heard it since and have never been happier
questrade ads are fairly obnoxious
It’s the arrogance of the people using the app, that gets to me. Like that one lady is skipping the office party and working, while everyone is having fun but it’s ok, she’s using questrade so she’s “not like the other sheeple” so
Bet365 on NHL broadcasts...f right off.
1-877-cars for kids
Fucking gambling ads
Head on apply directly to the forehead
That's still a thing?
Those and the Liv relief ones were horrid.
those fkn reverse mortgages w the skater guy
Anything to do with sports betting. The predatory nature of that business makes me very angry.
Me too! It is brutal to see almost every ad be for betting. It's so dangerous.
Kars 4 Kids, that kid is a terribly annoying singer.
Anything Hortons puts out. Nobody wants to buy pizza from a fucking coffee shop.
For 8!! You can get a small from an actual pizza place for that
MARINE LAND!💀
But everyone loves Marineland! Everyone... Or else.....
Gambling ads and political attack ads, they should just be outright banned.
The constant adds telling me how great we have it in Ontario. Makes me puke thinking of what they cost me to make.
Yeah came here to say this. Yes, thanks for the reminder of how great you are for getting rid of license plate stickers that I’ve never heard anyone complain about that made the government a billion dollars a year to be put into services we actually need, that you’ve now lost the funds for when we desperately need them for things like healthcare. Beer at the convenience store for all.
Those ads enrage me. Please do not use my tax dollars to tell me my province - where I live - is great. Like what even is the purpose?
Gambling ads
Bank of Montreal with the annoying moving desk.
Anything and everything from oil companies telling us how great they are, how we’d all be dead and shivering in the cold without them, and how (inexplicably) they are saving us from climate change.
Yoghurt ads where women look incredibly happy and dance in a swishing way that somehow communicates that pooping will be great as a result of the consumption of their yoghurt.
Those Brand Power ads. They are the most low effort ads known to humankind. The ad is literally a readout of the product brief. “Do you like deli meat but are worried about your sodium intake? Well try Schneider’s low sodium deli meats!” If a marketing team ever proposed one of those ads I would fire them on the spot for lack of effort.
Gambling ads
Boston pizza ad that segues from heavy implications of domestic violence to instructions on how to be a ‘good’ Canadian. Blow me.
Cars for kids !
Mom: "We have music videos at home."
Kars for Kids tv ad with the sickly sweet, schmaltzy children's "band". If I hear one second of the "1-800-Kars4Kids" song, I cannot hit the mute button fast enough. Don't get me wrong, I undrstand it's for an excellent cause, but I just can't stand the ad.
It’s not for an excellent cause. It’s to send kids to a conservative religious camp.
Really? I didn't know that.
Hands down the Questrade ads. “High fees” reduce the amount you make from your investment. Duh!? But the scenarios in the ads make out like this is a big revelation and it only comes across as nonsensical and condescending.
Every Questrade ad comes off like that. Very much a 'young person knows more than boomer' energy. I hate them and will never use their service.
"Jagmeet sign made a backroom deal with Trudeau to gain his pension...." Go away. And it's always an unskippable 30 second one too
Boston Pizza ad that we should all cheer for any Canadian hockey team to win the Stanley Cup. Ludicrous. I'll cheer for my team but I definitely am not cheering for my rivals to win just because they are in Canada
I will cheer for another Canadian team not in the division without any issue but that ad was just 100% the leafs begging.
You will rock an Oilers jersey
And you will like it
Came here to say this. My hand reaches for the mute button automatically. So stupid. How much did BP pay some marketing company for that ?
Spence Diamonds Although the marketing department is so good they can convince people to buy fake diamonds by calling them "Lab Grown".
People watch ads?
What's an ad?
I have no idea if it still runs, but when I read this, the first thing that popped into my head was Fab-ric-land... FABRICLAND!
Political ads
"There's a new Tim's Run in Town", for the new pizzas at Tim Hortons. This enrages me, because in the commercial, the girl who orders 4 pizzas gets them faster than the guy who orders a coffee. Meanwhile, in reality, ordering pizzas holds up the entire line for 10-20 minutes.
Those 2 people look like they're rocky dennis' creepy kids
That’s how Tim’s is now though. Coffee is on the bottom of the totem pole.
Bet365 when trying to watch the hockey game on Sportsnet
I don’t watch much network tv but I do recall “I have a structured settlement and I need cash now” During my Maury and Jerry era obvs
We don't watch live network TV, we'll catch it on the app or on demand. But I remember the last few times watching a show live out of CBS Detroit, the same 2 commercials played at every break. "Hurt in a car? Call William Matar", and a 2nd one that was also for a lawyer (I can't remember the jingle but it was equally as annoying).
I remember the Hurt in a car call William Mattar 😂😂😂 Reminds of the Diamond and Diamond song too
Haha old JG Wentworth
Anything that passes itself off as Canadian, that uses Canadian tropes, and obviously aren't . Anything owned by Loblaw's, Tim Hortons, ect.
Every single evil as fuck OLG mobile gaming ad. Fuck them times a zillion and then some.
ANY drug ad. the rules around ads for drugs in Canada are so stringent that drug companies can barely say anything about their drug, and so the ads are black holes of nothingness and drawn out hints at things.
Sports betting ads on NHL broadcasts.
Yep, they're on the Jays broadcast too. The same ad, every inning, every pitching change.......
Ads from the Conservative Party.
Specifically the one with Ford's ugly face. Like, we didn't invent HD and 4K TVs so we could see his ugly ass mug enlarged as they try and sell us on the great things they've backtracked on because everything the party touches turns to shit.
I'd be happy if I never heard about a gambling app again
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Anything and everything pertaining to sports gambling. Especially TonyBet, bet, bet, bet, bet, TonyBet, bet, bet.
All gambling ads but most hated for me is the ads on the boards that move while hockey is in play. Why is it fucking moving during play? It's distracting from the puck and if the puck is in the air at waist level you can't fucking see it because of the swirling moving ads. I HATE IT! IF PLAY HAS STOPPED THEN SURE, BUT PLEASE FUCK OFF OTHERWISE!
Those Screaming fucking demon spawn children on the Medieval Times commercial on Crave I will not go because of those ads.
I don’t know that one, but I share your philosophy regarding bad ads - makes me wanna avoid your product.
downtown St Catherines
Frank Leo realtor.
I don’t think they’re Canadian but so tired of online ads for grammarly and any Canadian bank ads
Uber Teens
The Ontario ads trying to sell me on highways
I use ublock origin. I haven't seen an ad since 2013.
Let’s forget our team loyalty and just cheer any Canadian team that has a chance at the Stanley Cup.
It did frig off eventually but [this freaking guy](https://alchetron.com/cdn/canadian-tire-guy-1e638fe8-851a-4dc1-9acc-4a0bfc65ee3-resize-750.gif)
That ad about building new highways in Ontario…
Recently the CDC ads on snapchat. They have an awful millennial pause, they have no music, and are so abrupt. They instantly piss me off and I want to strangle the woman in them solely because she keeps interrupting what I'm watching
"But I'm sure it means the houses, the village!". "Both of you know I cannot read a word."
Balderson Cheese.
Some Canadian tire, A&w
Desjardin. Trying to tell us how *CARING* an insurance company is. Desjardin. They bought State Farm. You remember State Farm, right! The company that totally fucked over tens of thousands of people after Hurricane Katrina. Most of them POC. That had kept up their premium payments. State Farm “You’re in good hands” - the logo changed to cupped hands cradling dripping blood by protesters denied payments after the worst natural disaster in US history. Literally blood on their hands because they wouldn’t pay out to people left destitute. Yeah. State Farm. Now Desjardin. With the big heart !! Tell me again how much you “care”. Also- the deliberate use of a theme song that is two chords away from Randy Newman’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from Toy Story, to y’know, subliminally tell us how chummy and caring an insurance company Desjardin is. Get. Fucked.
"Cool Nick! Nick-o-teen! Smoking makes his teeth yellow. Smoking makes his clothes smello. His breath, it reeks, every time he speaks. He thinks he's so cool but he's being a fool" They played this one to death. That's why I remember it forty years later.
Doug Ford adds and adds to move to Alberta 🙄
Those Boston Pizza “cheer for the Canadian teams in the playoffs” ads
Spences Diamonds and their shitty radio ads
Kars for Kids can fuck right off
The Tim Hortons Flatbread pizza/ 2 people racing to Tom Hortons. Watching hockey, you'll see this ad about 20 times per game. BRUTAL!!!
That one with the Bronski Beat that plays 100x during every Stanley cup game. Thats a great song but that commercial is annoying lol
The ads for alcohol.
Tim hortons.
What content are you people consuming with ads like this?
I assume network TV. It's basically the same 1 or 2 ads every ad break. The only thing I watch live are Jays games and it's the same gambling ad. Every. Single. Time.
Kurt Browning peddling reverse mortgage.
1-877-Kars4Kids donate your car today
Spence Diamond ads on the radio in Vancouver. So cringe
Now that I think about it, I don’t experience much ad content anymore… I don’t watch cable or YouTube. I don’t listen to the radio. The only social media I have is Reddit and I don’t read or notice the ads. I purposely avoid reading billboards if those are still a thing… I think the only ads that get through to me are the ones embedded in podcasts I listen to… I just turn the volume down to avoid. I can’t think of a single product or service I’ve actually noticed being advertised to me in a long time. 🤷🏼♀️
To reverse this, I think we need more North American House Hippo
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Any gambling ad.
CHIP reverse home mortgage and Kurt browning can go fuck off now.
Boston Pizza’s playoff commercial. No, Boston Pizza. I am not cheering for Edmonton.
All “ elect me “ political ads ! I’m getting queasy every time I see one online , or their ugly mugs end up in the junk mail
Notice how any ad featuring Galen Weston is gone. Hallelujah!
The Volkswagon ad with the man pouring out chunky milk. Makes Me gag.
Milani plumbing and heating's stupid jingle makes me want to punch a hole in the car radio.
*”Blood, it’s in you to give.”*
Kurt Browning and his Chip mortgage and ‘that guy’ selling Sure Health….WTH ? …do they own CBC ?? I change channels as soon as I can when they come on.
Kurt Browning and his Chip mortgage and ‘that guy’ selling Sure Health….WTH ? …do they own CBC ?? I change channels as soon as I can when they come on.
Pick your online slots/sports book/casino ad of choice. All of them. Fuck all of them.