Punk was never 'alive' as it was always manufactuered bulls**t, only difference was it was the smaller independent label that created it rather than the big labels.

And even if punk was alive, it died many years ago when Johnny Rotten started flogging Country Life butter! He didn't even have the decency to sing a punk version the old Country Life 'Buttermen' song:-

Oh, We are the lads from country life,
And you'll never get a better bit of butter on yer knife,
If you haven't any in, have a word with your wife,
And she'll spread it on your toast in the mornin' .

It's country life, its english too,
From the cow to the dairy, to the dairy unto you,
If you haven't any in, have a word with your wife,
And she'll spread it on your toast in the mornin' .

I'd agree with you on the majority of these 'lifespan' ads, especially the ones that follow a couple through family life and into old age.

However I do like the HSBC 'Lift' ad (admittedly the full 1min 30sec version, not the 30sec TV version where - like you say - it too short) as it just follows one man in a lift from the day he starts his company until (I assume) the day he steps down as the CEO. I like if for no other reason it isn't an advert showing a man being a bit of an idiot, and a great piece of music for the soundtrack.

If your interested here is the full unedited version:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UorGMsrclrs

Even worse was the Sex Pistols logo on Virgin credit cards!

I think that he is fed up with her actually, Look if you don't playing with her, why did you have her.
I use to love playing with mine, game like "Bobbing for chips" ; take a chip pan fill with oil, then fry the chips and get the kids to bob for them
"Hide" it's like hide and go seek, but they just hide and we don't look for them;
Playing dodge on the motorway, oh we had lots of fun, especially now that their mother doesn't let them visit

Spoilt brat? Just because she's being pushed on the swing by her grandpa!

Dear God, talk about histrionics!

Please tell me you don't have children!

The new Sun Life ad where an old man and his daughter are referencing an earlier ad as if they're just watched it, with the man saying, "Oh, I love Parky!", and when the daughter talks about the policy info and shows him the leaflet, he says "Oh, the famous pen!" etc.

Also, the way they talk is as if his wife is dead.... but no! Then she comes in with a cup of tea!

So, everything in the garden is lovely. And he's also got his crappy pen to look forward to.

I detest that postcode lottery advert with that awful woman hanging onto to her husband to be. He looks really uncomfortable and she is so ott its ridiculous. I turn the sound off when she comes on.

two points always strike me about those ads, 1; would I want to be on a scheme that as no qualification, i.e. there are no medicals, this would be like a car insurance where the insurers did not care about no claims bonuses or whether one had only just got back one's licence after a drink drive ban, in other words if they give the same rate to all regardless, that rate can not be as good as one based on one's health status.
and 2, if one is able to pay the premiums, then one is not likely not be able to leave to enough money to pay for the funeral., If one can afford the premiums, one must be earning a reasonable sum and therefore should be able to save a fair sum

You have my total respect for knowing the lyrics of the country life song! And even more for exposing punk for what it was - a bunch of middle class pr"ts pretending to be working-class rebels. I thought I was the only one on both counts

ETA: Your next assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to REALLY create a punk version of that song....this tape will self-destruct in 15 seconds, much like the punk "movement"...

Exactly. it's wrong on all levels.

They can certainly afford Amazon prime if that was their garden, It was HUGE, they must live in mansion! I thought it was a park til I realised the wife was doing the gardening!

And Grandad Duggie Brown was doing cartwheels on a gate for the Aldi ad! lol His back weren't bothering him then!

Can anyone explain why a London based company has a comedy Welsh V/O on its telly ads ?

because the accent make it funnier?

Anyway, in the Maltesers ad, we will assume Neil & Annie live together from the context of the ad. The question is, why does Neil have to go to live with his Mum even if he did kiss the other girl? After all, Annie's first Malteser going away from the table is supposed to be demonstrating her leaving ... so if she's leaving then why is the second Malteser flicked across the room supposedly representing him going to back to Mum? In these days of housing pressure, it seems an extravagance to leave the property empty.

If you're going to accuse me of over-thinking it then fine, I acknowledge that, but it's better to think about this than the rest of what's going on in the world.

Hahaha, they make me squirm as well. Not to mention the fact that she looks so much older than him, or she's just had a hard life.

The worst thing about the postcode lottery ads is how they say in virtually every one that money is going to charity, they play it so money goes to charity and that money goes to charity "is all that matters".

Just give money to charity then? Or if it's all that matters, give your winnings to charity?

or to get out more?

The flicking of the first Malteser represents her 'leaving' him, not leaving the home. That's my guess anyway. However I am more concerned about the waste of good Maltesers and who exactly does she expect to pick them up? However she's upset so I'm going to cut her a bit slack.

Look what I've started! Wish I hadn't have mentioned it now.

There’s an ad, I think it’s for Gillette or something. Schoolgirl on a bus looks at this famous footballer dude so he waves, then she gestures to him that he’s a loser. It’s a bit weird.

We all know if it were realistic, she’d be straight on her twitter telling all her mates about it and begging for follows. That’s what girls do isn’t it?

The latest Postcode Lottery ad with the couple who are getting married and the woman has the most annoying laugh and says to her fiance, "You're gonna cry aren't you?".

I wanna cry every time I hear her voice grrrrr

Even if it was "manufactured" with the Sex Pistols, (which I think's debatable) what about the generations of kids it influenced to pick up instruments and do it themselves? Or start up a fanzine, or organise gigs?
The media tends to focus only on the 1977 era of punk and then skips to 1992 when Nirvana's Nevermind came out. The really interesting stuff happened in the years in between.

But, back on topic, Buzzcocks' "What Do I Get" was used about 25 years ago on an Arthur's cat food and. They're always at it😉

Is there a thread for great adverts, the James Blunt lotto ad is hilarious. Sends himself up good and proper!

That iphone "This our...this is our...this is our...this is our...." bloody poem that goes on and on and on and on.....
Shut the **** Up already!

The JD Williams ad. Fergal Sharkey, what possessed you?!