There are two adverts you won't be seeing again because they've been deemed too offensive for your eyes.

In November an ad was launched in which a female tennis player was holding a Tunnock’s teacake in place of a tennis ball at the top of her thigh.

It has now been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority due to it being likely to cause serious offence to those of a more sensitive disposition.

The poster showed the player with her skirt raised at the hip and included the phrases: “Where do you keep yours?” and “Serve up a treat.”.

One person complained that the ad was irresponsible because it was sexist and objectified women.

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Thomas Tunnock Ltd, trading as Tunnock's Tea Cakes, said the ad appeared on a poster site adjacent to the SEC Hydro Arena in Glasgow to coincide with a charity tennis match, and was created with a tennis audience in mind.

It said the placement of the teacake was a substitute to the normal placement of tennis balls, adding that it did not intend to offend anyone.

The ASA noted that the ad showed the woman's bare thigh exposed and her underwear clearly visible, and while it was placed opposite an arena hosting a tennis match, it bore no relevance to the advertised product.

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Another advert that caused offence and has been banned was from Poundland around Christmas.

The high street chain came up with a campaign called Elf Behaving Badly featuring a child's elf toy in a series of sexualised poses.

But the ads have been banned for being irresponsible and likely to cause widespread offence.

The campaign was posted across the retailer's Twitter and Facebook pages, which in turn helped the business to achieve its most successful December since it opened.

The campaign included images of the elf playing strip poker and sitting in a tub with naked dolls.

During the December campaign, tea company Twinings accused Poundland of "misusing" its product after the retailer tweeted an image of an elf dangling a Twinings teabag over a female doll in a simulation of a sex act. The tweet was accompanied by the caption: "How do you take your tea? One lump or two?"

Another ad on December 20 showed the elf playing a game of strip poker with three unclothed dolls with the caption: "Joker, joker. I really want to poker."

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The ASA received 85 complaints that the ads were offensive for their depiction of toy characters and other items in a sexualised manner and were unsuitable to appear where children could see them.

Poundland said the double entendres used throughout the campaign would not have been understood by children, adding that Twitter and Facebook had policies preventing under-13s from creating accounts with them.

It said a "large number" of people found the campaign to be humorous, engaging, and "in line with what it meant to be British", adding that it also did not intend to offend anyone.

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The ASA said other campaign images, including a pair of breasts drawn on a car windscreen, the elf beside a sketch of a penis-shaped tree and the elf waving a vibrator, were obvious sexual references.

It also noted the strip poker and teabag images presented the female dolls "in a manner which could be seen as demeaning to women".

It ruled that the ads must not appear again and told Poundland to ensure that their advertising was presented with "a sense of responsibility and did not cause serious or widespread offence".

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What do you think? Were these ads genuinely offensive or are people just too sensitive and humourless? Let us know in the comments below.