to already hate the new Boots ad and it's only been on once...

[PartyPooperz]

so Christmas is brought to you by the girls (aka women carefully selected to represent every age group so hardly girls)

which means that the girls nefariously arrange christmas (e.g. buy presents, decorate, wrap everything, put the lights up etc) like an overgrown bunch of overmadeup elves while simultaneously spraying themselves with perfume, as men wander through grunting in surprise at christmas just 'happening' around them

advertisers...I am heartily sick of your cheap exhortations at 'gender' fulfillment "men oh aren't you amusing because you are so useless/women be superhuman martyrs" so please do fuck off to the far side of fuck and while you're there please try and become the creatives you are so desperate to be thought of by the rest of us by abandoning trading on this kind of tired old shit. Grrrrrrr.

Too fucking right OP.

YANBU.

YANBU. Partly because my DF's old-fashioned attitude means my DM hates Christmas and recently confessed she's put a brave face on for the last 25 years whilst bringing us up (she did a fantastic job because I love Christmas) thanks to doing everything 'just so' according to some stereotypical superwoman crap.

Partly because in this house DP and I do equal amounts of getting excited and getting presents ready including a MASSIVE box from Hotel Chocolat online that he stupidly left on his desk when we went to his office and then crumpled up the branded envelope and pretended it was nothing to do with the box, oh no. Can't wait!

I hate this advert. It is a bag of wank. It actually puts me off Boots.

All those bloody gift sets are wank too - who wants 3 loo cleaner scented bath pearls, a novelty mini lipgloss in 'frosted dawn' and a teeny tiny pot of eyeshadow so small and fiddly to open that you might as well cut out the middleman and bin it immediately rather than risk your cream carpets. Wank I tells ye!

[bah humbug emoticon]

Is it just me or was anyone reminded of the MN logo at the end of the ad?

Which in itself is an homage to Charlie's Angels but...wot a fuckin' liberty!

I loathe it when grown women are referred to as girls. I can put up with it beyond legal majority to about university leaving age. After that it's just awful as an unmarked use.

YANBU - I hate all Boots adverts - they are just yuk yuk yuk and seem designed to make you never want to go in one of their shitkicking shops again.

They've butchered that amazing song.