TV Advertising

oldgaijin I know how you feel, he makes me want to ... well not buy the sofa. Another I don't like is the man advertising beer in the snow. Moreover I wish they would show children being polite not "order, order juice ad" etc etc...

I wonder what the quality is like though and the thickness. I was overjoyed when Always ultra became available. They were very expensive.. But I didn't care.

I do empathise with idea of anyone unable to afford hygiene products...but a quick look online (havent bought any lately!) tells me Tesco sell a pack of 14 regular ownbrand towels for 66p! So the average female should be able to cope for say £1.32 a month. I know we have poverty but can't believe a woman can't find 33p a week for this !!

I'll have a look synonymous. I remember having monthly problems as we were very poor.

NotSpagghetti and annep if you are interested in the global work being done in this field do look at www.daysforgirls.org and I recommend it as something very important to support. There are many small groups all over the world and all playing a small part. Sorry, but I don't know how to make it a link.

Agree with the PP re. the SpecsSavers' advert,where the vet mistakes the veterinary nurse's fur hat for a cat. Always makes me laugh.

The advert that really annoyed me was from a few years back. I think it was for Andrex toilet paper,and was asking people if they 'scrunched or folded' the tissue before using it! I mean,really? I don't really want to know whether people scrunch or fold toilet paper before using,and if someone asked ME that question,they'd get told to mind their own damn business!

NotSpaghetti I'd forgotten the sofa thing, I remember- think it was 1972- searching and finding a £1 note wrapped round coins down the settee. We were ecstatic!

The 'my teeth are so clean' and the woman 'getting her mojo back' adds have me at screaming point.

You are right annep - the idea that young women in a first world country are struggling for sanitary products and should be expected to manage as though we were still in the 1930s is demeaning. When everyone is doing it, it’s the norm, but I feel for them deeply if they have to do this now. I don’t think any of us would want it for our daughters or granddaughters if we’re honest.
Certainly I have worked with families who have NO spare cash - one springs to immediate mind as they were teetotal, didn’t smoke and bought very wisely. Circumstances are different for everyone. This family had a working dad.
In my early family years, more than once I rooted about in sofa crevices in the hope of finding small change for a pint of milk.
Savings are just not always possible I’m afraid, however careful you are with your cash.

And as for all those people talking with false smiles about their funeral plans...!!!

I dislike many but especially the one for, I think, equity release or some such which mentions leaving something for the grandchildren. I can just imagine someone being very pleased with themselves for thinking of something that is bound to tug on the heartstrings.

Those payday loans and others like them with exorbitant interest rates should be banned all together. There is no place for them in a so called civilised society . Imagine being so desperate as to need to borrow £200 to buy a new washer and find the interest rate is over 1500% (as I have seen recently) its obscene.

We always mute the ads, I'm surprised more people don't do this.

Those people stepping into the step-in baths in the adverts in the paper always look very young and fit.

My lovely sister in law starred in one of these adverts, Jalima. Nearly 30 years on, she’s still very glamorous. To my knowledge, she hasn’t worn a swimsuit in the bath since.

Greengran you really haven't a clue how difficult life is for so many. People actually go to food banks. Do you know how awful it must make a person feel to have to do that. For many years when I had young children I struggled from one week to the next and had to borrow money for food until payday. I am so lucky that I managed to get a really good job when I was forty and I am so grateful that I never have to worry now. But I have not forgotten and feel nothing but sympathy for people struggling. Payday lenders take advantage of those who are vulnerable.

spot on paddyann

I agree with more openness and being able to discuss things more. Much healthier. But I don't want to be watching tv with friends and have to watch ads for tampax, tena pads etc. Nor I suspect do all young girls. I hate the one where they are exercising and say "I've just had an Ooh moment. ( and I don't remember having an ooh moment at that age anyway nor do my friends, so its misleading) And why aren't men used more in ads for incontinence and constipation. They suffer too. And the poo deodorant advert. Really? Or how soft toilet roll feels on your bum? We don't need these ads. I'm sorry. I can't be convinced.

I don't see why personal and sanitary products shouldn't be advertised. When I was a teenager, talk of periods and sanitary towels, was embarrassing even amongst ourselves. I think today's increasing openess about such matters is a good thing.

starbox I was going to say the same thing myself. That ad with the dad and daughter walking up the beach having the most ridiculously unnatural conversation about how thoughtful mum was in purchasing a funeral plan, how easy it was to do, etc. etc. - drives me mad.

Those oh-so-scripted funeral plan ads with earnest OAPs merrily discussing price of the ceremony. You KNOW what it's for even if you've never seen it before- no other ads are quite like them!

I think it should be illegal to charge people such exorbitant rates for loans and they should have to include a warning.
Tena ads should be banned as should the new one for anusol ( I think thats the name). I reallylike cant believe the graphics in this one. Years ago when a new product came on the market like Tena, free samples were distributed to homes rather than adverts on tv. Much more discreet Bring back discreetness! Nothing is sacred nowadays. I sound old but I don't care!

I like (if one can actually like an advertisement) the ones that are like mini soaps (not that I watch the soaps, mind). Remember the Nescafé couple? I remember being on tenterhooks wondering if they’d get it together; then the batchelor whose gf moves in with her family and, week by week, we saw them grow and need more and bigger things (‘twas an ad for BT I think). Those ads were more interesting than the modern rubbish, with Gofi (or whatever her name is) making a mess with her pottery, or small child actors pretending to collect water from miles away from home (but no signs of any other children doing the same, oh no, this ones on her own). Drives me batty - and I don’t watch a lot of telly!

Agree with the above comments which is why we also record what we want to watch and flip past the ads. In any case there is no cleverness or wit used nowadays and one wonders if it has all got lost as a result of all the current pc nonsense and dumbing down.
It doesn't take a genius to see that we are being treated as if we are idiots which is far from the case in many instances. That is why we were not surprised to read that the largest power supplier admitted to aiming to use smart meters in the future to increase power prices at 30 minutes notice when they feel the 'need'. One wonders how long it will be before we are forced to have one installed.

and they wear swimsuits in the bath