Why are so many people pissed off by adverts???
Soap Dodger
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I am getting really pissed-off at the attitude of many here regarding adverts. If you don't like them then don't watch!! However, remember that the programmes you are watching after skipping through them have been PAID FOR by the advertisers. There would be bugger-all to watch if they started pulling the plug because viewers were ignoring them!!!
Many are, yes, crass and over-repetative. However, many are works or art - John Lewis adverts just to name one!! How many of our now top-film directors cut their teeth on adverts??
Many of the future ones are doing just this now!!
So , by all means, skip through them, bfut just watch you do not throw the baby out with the bathwater!!!
Many are, yes, crass and over-repetative. However, many are works or art - John Lewis adverts just to name one!! How many of our now top-film directors cut their teeth on adverts??
Many of the future ones are doing just this now!!
So , by all means, skip through them, bfut just watch you do not throw the baby out with the bathwater!!!
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However, I am one who has recently been known to sigh as yet another ad break comes on and goes on and on and on.
I find them hugely frustrating.
And as for kowtowing to the advertisers because they have paid for the programe. Oh please. Do me a favour.
Using that argument, what's the next suggestion? That perhaps I should feel guilty for not immediately going out and buying their products as a 'thank you' for funding my TV programmes. Of course, on that basis I'd be seriously over insured, own about 8 cars and wash everything 3 times (all with Calgon, of course) in order to use up all my soap suds.
Or maybe I should Facebook all my friends and tell them how much I enjoyed the ads tonight?
There was once a time when no more than 6 minutes of time per our were allowed for ads. This restriction, sadly is in the distant past. But how I would love to see it return.
The last few times I went to the US I found the TV unwatchable as it has evloved into snippets of programmes slotted into the mass of advertising - an ironic upside down parody of how it all started.
Its clear that the TV people believe what was quoted on that fascinating programme on the American Dream recently; that it is definately possible to consume your way to happiness.
Our TV, bit by bit is going the same way, even the BBC channels with endless trailers.
My neighbours frequently hear the shout coming from my living roon 'GET ON WITH IT!!!':D
PS Better go as I'll miss the next Go Compare ads - there're bound to be on any minute now.
I have to meet anyone who finds them useful.
like the confused ad
18 million strong and growing
whats that got to do with insurance?
total boll*x
If I hear an advert in a commercial break that's my fault for not muting or switching but when its attached to every programme every ten minutes each side of the ads and at the beginning and end of a show it gets bloody well annoying.
Because I'm an anti-capitalist, and adverts simply attempt to perpetuate an inherently flawed system which relies on mythical "perpetual growth" ...
Maybe I'm over-thinking things ...
In some sections/threads, this is often true.
But read the 'Matt Lucas as Thenardier' thread here in TV Programmes as most posts on there are very positive and congratulatory (except one of course, who claims 'Lucas is crap, isn;t he?' - an opinion which most actually diagree with.).
This is true. Virtually every ad nowadays has some variation on the "men are stupid, and women know better" formula. It's been getting old for a very long time now. :mad::mad::mad:
You can't just say "if you dont like them then don't watch them" :rolleyes: it's not like we have a choice
Also some adverts are just so awfully repetitive, take Direct Line for example, who in August broadcast the same advert with Stephen Fry and Paul Merton on every single channel for every single set of adverts :mad::mad::rolleyes:
Then the likes of T-Mobile with that 3min long advert, which they seem proud of for some reason
Adverts are way to long and way to often, THATS why people don't like them.
Yep. And they don't exactly make the women look great in their constant putting down of males. The women are usually smug, power mad bitches while the men are simpering idiots.
It's just so old now.
Hmmmmm i subscribe to cable tv and i like to think my subscriptions would pay for programmes rather then the advertisers after all is that not what i am paying for,
Why pay for your tv and have adverts to contend with as well,seems i am being mugged off.;)
I cannot even get a lot of adverts, as take the Cadburys one with the two geeky kids moving their eyebrows. OK, so you might remember the advert and what it is for, but how is it meant to get you to purchase their product, as it would not make me think twice about buying a bar of chocolate, so what is the point.
I can understand why they are needed on say ITV, channel 4,or 5 as they are completely funded by advert breaks.
But surely on sky /cable the subscription revenue should mean ads are not neccessary as with the BBC which of course is funded by license payers.
I find it rather rich i should pay to have cable tv which is sometimes full of repeats and have to pay a sub as well as having to put up with adverts.:(
I don't watch any live commercial TV. If there's a programme I want to watch I record it and then sometimes start watching the recording twenty minutes after the programme has started. When the first advert break starts I press my PVR remote which skips 15 seconds every time you press the button, so with about six presses of the button I've reached the next segment and not had to watch any adverts. By the time the programme has finished my recording has usually caught up with the live transmission.
pphhhfft very few are works of art. Its rare to get a decent add. I mean DFS is seriously FFS
Not like we have much of a choice. I mean you can change over but if you're really into a program the you don't really want to miss is. Some of the adverts i have to watch on mute, like the go compare advert.
most seem to assume people have an IQ of 5.
just look at how annoying the adverts are,you have iceland carpet bombing the stations,Go compare..envirofone..WONGA.
The Ad's seem to have lost the knack to flow with the viewer they just come along and headbutt them.