to think that Littlewoods advert should be banned?

[CherylWillBounceBack]

Shameful for all the reasons below:

a) Ruins Christmas by exposing the truth about Santa's existence.
b) Encourages debt fuelled consumerism (easy payments)
c) could pressurise people out of guilt to spend more than they can afford
d) Attempts to make presents which are ridiculously look like the norm
e) Suggests that we should pass our hard earned up a generation by putting laptops on the knees of grandparents. Rich old people can buy their own electronic tat if they so choose.
f) annoying tune that gets stuck in the head.

I bloody hate that ad.

What do you want Littlewoods to say? Don't spend, keep your money in the bank, so the bankers can have a bigger Christmas bonus and a more lavish Christmas party? I'd rather the cash was in circulation, maintaining employment.

'No I was more alluding to a Napoleon like figure.'

There was a Napoleon in Animal Farm. We've had quite enough of those. That's why the public voted for change.

Can't believe that ad is for real. it's like a comedy sketch, a parody of everything that's worst about Britain today.

Makes me want to be sick

oh im glad im not the only one who this advert makes feel sick.

i think the worse bit is the end part, my lovely lovely mother....

The most annoying thing to me is that annoying tune about 'My Muver' Its mother!
But then my girls are too young to understand about the other points raised here so guess I hadn't thought of it that way really.

Or, and here's a thought, make your house ad break-free. Turn it OFF when they come on, or don't let your children watch what I shall condecendingly refer to as 'The Commercial Channels, dear'. We don't watch Milkshake because DS1 has just, at 3, realised what ads actually are. Well, either that, or I flick the tv off at approximately 5 minute intervals.

Shite ad, I don't think anyone's going to dispute that. Turn it off, then.

Makes last years Colleen one look tasteful.

I don't think there should be ANY christmas adverts. They ruin christmas. It's way too commercialised, no magic left in it, another wheel in the greasy cog of capitalism. It's shite.

I just want to watch It's A Wonderful Life with a glass of eggnog and have DS playing gaily with his one wooden toy under the tree and DH wearing a Daniel O' Donnell style christmas jumper and MIL and DM asleep in a plate full of sprouts. No adverts. :(

Ick!

That's why I don't have a damn TV.

What Buppers said.

I will be having that sort of Christmas if anyone would care to join me in Minnesota. :)

It made me feel very depressed, as all the presents and all the trimmings that go to make Christmas (and Birthdays etcetc) is down to me, and me alone. That is a lot of pressure, anxiety, and hard work, and I think I'd like to run away this year instead of having to go through it all over again.......

Me me me me me me me me me me me me me!

CheerfulYank - am digging out my passport right now! It's a Wonderful Life and the original Miracle on 34th Street somehow make it Christmas for me. That and snow. If I can have that this Christmas, & Carols from Kings on the radio,I'll be ok...

I was going to sympathise (although not agree) about your views on this ad.

But now you tell me you thought Diana Vickers was good on X Factor? And you are of the opinion that Call Me was not a steaming pile of horse manure that should embarrass her to the end of her days?
Lady, you clearly have an interesting view of the world that I cannot get on board with.

YABU :o :o :o

Christmas starts here with a Christmas Eve screening of It's A Wonderful Life. Some years we forget how bloody long it is and are still watching at midnight, but It Is The Law. And DH and I both cry on cue when the pharmacist guy breaks down and hugs him and George Bailey says "I won't tell, I won't tell" and again when he sees his brother's "grave" and again at the end.

Welling up thinking about it actually....

That's inspired me, Georgi......off to start planning.......

agree with a lot of the comments on this thread, but not this one:"Who on earth, in this day and age, buys things on credit?"

umm, those on shit basic wages in shit jobs, those unemployed but desperate to work, those disabled, on benefits, mentally ill, caring for relatives, those who genuinely can't make ends meet, those who don't have a DH on a 6 figure or more salary, those without rich grandmas and grampas to help out.....those who don't have the kind of lifestyle which causes them to sneer at those less well off and having to resort to gasp credit.

ah well, at least they don't have to worry about having to buy gifts for the nanny/au pair/housekeeper/cleaner/gardener so I suppose it pans out in the end!

dementedma. I agree that there are people with less money who can't afford things and need to resort to credit to pay for them. But that's why this ad is dreadul, because it encourages people who can't afford all that stuff to think that's normal. And that's what makes a good Mum - buying Optimus Prime and X boxes. I know a really, genuinely lovely lady whose family lives off a low wage and she spends a lot more on presents than me (must be on credit and then gradually paid off all year). I just don't understand it.

Exactly MerryMarigold.

Panzee - I am unashamed of my admiration of Ms Vicker's performance of call me. I've been a huge Debbie Harry fan since the late 70's, and that rendition of Call me was one of the few times I felt we've seen her spiritual successor. Indeed, Cheryl Cole's nurturing of the immensely talented Diana is one of the reasons I chose my mumsnet name - that night I became a Cole-ite. The fearsome talent of these two women has been one of the few things I feel have made the last 5 years bearable. Thus to subsequently see her sell out in that Very ad has destroyed my faith in the world further.

But I digress - we were talking about the littlewoods ad and it's horrendous message. I see the we have a poster harping on about 'spending keeping people in jobs'. That is no excuse for the profligate nature of consumerist culture and the waste of resources that it entails. Thrift need not be an underground option, it should be the norm.

Somewhat ironic that its actually the children in the ad who are the winners....all earning a substantial amount.

It's a very irritating advert. I particularly hate the "my mother" bit, don't fathers buy presents?

Totally awful on all levels!