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AIBU to want to put a brick through the TV

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Nanny0gg · 12/11/2011 23:54

Everytime the M&S Christmas as comes on?

How many times must this be endured in the run up to The Day?

(The John Lewis ad, on the other hand...)

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LineRunnerSaturnalia · 12/11/2011 23:56

My DCs like the M&S advert just so they can call out, 'The Bully!' 'The Druggie,' 'In her pants!' etc.

I'm not sure this was what M&S had in mind when they signed up for the deal.

raffle · 13/11/2011 00:00

Keep hearing about the JL ad, not seen it and feel very much left out.

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Nanny0gg · 13/11/2011 00:11

LineRunner, that's what my DD said too (when I was asking who the hell those people were).
What I don't get is, if they're dropping each one as they get eliminated, what are they going to do if the girl who is singing the last line gets chucked off this week?

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AgentZigzag · 13/11/2011 00:12

I've not seen the JL or the M and S ads, I must leave it on the DCs telly too often because I'm sick to the back teeth of coming over all judgey when I see the Doggie-Doo fucking advert Hmm

£17.86 for pretending to teach your children that animals poo??

I wonder if they have a smell to them...

AgentZigzag · 13/11/2011 00:15

I take these adverts too much to heart Grin

But Pumpaloons??

First to pump up the inflatable 'character' with a foot pump, wins.

What fun to have on Christmas day morn Hmm

LineRunnerSaturnalia · 13/11/2011 00:18

Nanny, we can only surmise that the end-stage of the M&S advert involves voice-over group singing, miming and CGI.

I think the shareholders should be told.

raffle · 13/11/2011 00:27

Okay, been and had a look at the JL ad, either I'm a cold hearted bitch or I'm watching the wrong one. Small chap huffs a lot, pulls several stroppy faces then presents ma and pa with a badly wrapped gift? Yeah? It's shit.

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Nanny0gg · 13/11/2011 00:30

Raffle, you have no heart! The rest of Mumsnet has been sobbing into their cocoa over that advert!

Linerunner, I have to confess, I am a shareholder. What should I do?

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LineRunnerSaturnalia · 13/11/2011 00:39

Nanny, you know the pack drill by now. Get a grippette. You need to write a Strongly Worded Letter to the Chief Executive about Bad Role Models (and that's just Louis Walsh for starters) and the waste of shareholders' money on such a badly planned PR catastrophe - and furthermore pointedly state that any company that purports to support the manipulation, exploitation and adulation of the dysfunctional lifetsyles of commercialised young poplets will certainly not be supplying the NannyOgg household with Christmas turkey, trimmings and treats this year. Smile

HedgeHop · 13/11/2011 00:45

I've not seen this one but my brick's at the ready.

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Nanny0gg · 13/11/2011 00:46

Linerunner have a (non-M&S) Wine
I will send off your thoughtful missive forthwith.

Grin
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Nanny0gg · 13/11/2011 00:47

Hedgehop, have you not had the telly on a commercial channel? I swear it's on every 5 minutes!

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HedgeHop · 13/11/2011 00:50

nannyogg - Commercial channel? Wash your mouth out. :)

FrizzyFrazzled · 13/11/2011 05:25

I just watched the JL ad on YouTube (in Australia all our Xmas ads are crap) and am in TEARS! Very feeble of me...

StealthPenguin · 13/11/2011 05:39

YANBU. I have to mute the TV every time that bastard Littlewoods ad comes along.

Damnit. It's back in my head!
Sad

giraffesCantDookForApples · 13/11/2011 05:45

not seen it

ChippingInNeedsSleep · 13/11/2011 05:55

I haven't seen either of them - but I blame MN for that!! The TV is on MN is so distracting that I miss entire programmes let alone single adverts!! I shall watch out for them, just to share your frustration - a frustration shared is a frustration halved and all that :)

Tee2072 · 13/11/2011 06:24

Just watched JL on YouTube. That's making people cry? Made me go Hmm.

Andrewofgg · 13/11/2011 08:57

Nanny0gg Only if you have one of those new TVs without an off switch.

You've never seen one? Neither have I.

Sparklingbrook · 13/11/2011 09:00

I am still waiting for the Stacey Solomon Iceland 'Porn Ring' advert to come on. Then it really is Christmas!

SuePurblybiltbyElves · 13/11/2011 09:01

Ah Tee, you big old meanie pants.

I think they're fairly sure that the main XF singers on the ad will be in it for a bit. But it's not a fix or a foregone conclusion and the advert in no way indicates that Hmm Grin.

AgentZ - I agree about the Pumpaloons but I am tempted to buy them. Partly for the excellent name and partly because I think they would be the best drunken fun ever Grin. Just maybe not for children.

BatmanLovesRobin · 13/11/2011 09:03

The JL one didn't make me cry, and I'm known for crying at the drop of a hat...

Fo0ffyShmooffer · 13/11/2011 09:11

Batman - I am a crier but I don't like the JL advert. Can see what they're trying to do but still has me thinking:

Who gave you the money for that present?
If you saved, who helped you buy it?
Who helped you wrap it?
And FFS put your bloody face straight.

It doesn't touch my fuzzy button.

HoneyPablo · 13/11/2011 09:13

YANBU
I find the M&S advert so annoying that it is making want to avoid shopping in there for the rest of my life.

Sparklingbrook · 13/11/2011 09:16

Fo0ffy we already know though. It's a severed head/his sister in the box!

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