The Andrex advert where a schoolboy walks from the back of the classroom to the front before leaving in the direction of the toilet. Every step he takes, he makes a very loud, rude noise. He is also clutching a roll of Andrex. When he returns to the classroom, everyone cheers. I much preferred the puppy.
I thought that this advert had descended to a new low, only to be treated today to an advert with two ladies jogging when one of them tells her friend that she is about to flood. In my innocence, I thought it was an advert for incontinence products but it turned out the menstrual flooding and was advertising transemic acid tablets, which can now, apparently, be bought over the counter.
I cannot understand why these adverts have to be quite so graphic. We all have to go to the toilet, many people have occasional continence problems, everyone in this group had periods in the past and many of us had heavy periods/flooding as we were coming up to the menopause. We also all wear deodorant in order to keep ourselves sweet smelling. We don’t need to be reminded of the facts so openly. Surely, a little more discretion could be utilised.
