Advertising make me want to kill myself. Morbid..? yes

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I swear I CANNOT stand advertising of most types unless it is SPECIFICALLY RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS, and seeing as it rarely is, it kills me.

I hear them yelling and screaming in my ear to "BUY THIS" "USE THIS PRODUCT" trying to sell any useless piece of f*****g crap they can produce and trying to force it into my head.

EVERY SECOND I HEAR IT, I feel, infected, like I'm being changed or tainted, its like this virus that spreads from my head all over my body. I cant stand it, but its everywhere and it just wont go away.

Their slogans and catch phrases and colloquialisms just ANGER ME BEYOND CONTROL, I cant live in this f*****g place anymore, I feel diseased.

Maybe I should run towards an explosion, I'd GLADLY destroy my hearing.

At least my eyes I can close...

Hey, I agree (though maybe not quite as strongly)
Adverts can be quite annoying. I usually switch to something else when they come on.
They often seem so obvious. I mean the words that they use, and the tricks they seem to be playing to get you to buy / remember their product. And some of the things they say just make you crazy, because they don't make sense, or are incredibly vague or just wrong.

Sometimes this kind of language makes me laugh, but quite often it makes me think they are trying to trick their audience.

What I dislike about advertising is that it is about manipulating emotions. The advertiser says “Buy this product/service and you can achieve x” where x is whatever attribute the advertiser wants you to think you can achieve: being wealthier, happier, more attractive to the opposite sex or anything else.

Personally, I dislike being told that if I do not have a product or service, then I’m somehow a lesser mortal. Celebrity endorsements are especially ludicrous. Why should anyone think that buying a product will cause some of that celebrity to rub off on them? What do celebrities know about the product or service that they are pushing?
I’ve always thought that if a product or service is good enough, it should not need promotion; excellence speaks for itself. However, advertising is central to a capitalist, consumer society, in that it has to instil wants and needs in the minds of consumers. Further, on a mass level, advertising appears to work and any individual dissension isn’t going to stop it.

Advertising on TV and in movie theaters irritates me to no end.

Those banner ads and pop ups that make noise are really annoying too, like that one for the smilies that goes "Happy Thanksgiving!" everytime you are unfortunate enough to roll your mouse over it.

Something I learnt from reading Douglas Adams' Dirk Gentley series:

When the ads come on, the networks deliberately make them a little bit louder, with reduced clutter in the background, to make them "easier" to hear.

I hate that because it means I can never get my TV to just the right volume. You know? When you can hear the show you want to watch but the ads are not too loud.