Fuck off Christmas advertising

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Yes, thank you for pointing out that Bose speakers are the very gift I have been looking for for my loved ones.. what are they ooh, a grand!? Fabulous, I'll have 3 please. Never mind that I've already bought mother a digital camera and a Wii - after all, I have my littlewoods card.

And while I've got it out, what is that you say..? Flat screen TVs only £459? Brilliant, just want I want to buy in the run up to the single most expensive time of the year.

And are we really supposed to beleive that Freddie Flintoff buys his Cristmas dinner at Morrisons!? Do me a favour.

And no your "lovely lovely muvvvva" didn't buy your christmas presents... it was Santa.. and he's skint this year, he's lost a day's pay through striking over pay conditions and Mrs Clause has been laid off since August.

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Oh no and now the Stacey Solomon Iceland advert where she pulls up to basically a mansion in a beautiful dress and theyve laid on an Iceland spread.

They would have been better off filming my hovel if they really wanted to appeal to their customer base.

Or maybe even the rich have spent so much money on electrical toot that they can't afford to eat.

The cathedral city cheese one gets my goat. That poor mother whose kids have grown up and come home for Christmas and she is in a kitchen full of mess and watching up and her family are nowhere to be seen.

And shit, I think I might just kill myself if I don't get a shitty sofa from DFS in time for Christmas. I mean, imagine sitting on an old sofa at Christmas time. My arse wouldn't know it was Christmas.

I particularly hate the Wii/Kinect?DS type adverts where whole families are laughing uproariously while enjoying a game - basically implying that these toys are good for your FAAAAAMILY

Ha Ha so true... who on earth buys a sofa now! That's the last thing on my mind! Other than hoisin duck christmas tree shaped kebabs.. theyre pretty low down the list.

Absolutely. Good for your family until your ranting and the children for being ungrateful bastards when come January you are struggling to pay your credit card bills and the wii lays untouched in the corner.

you're ranting at the children goodness grammar and spelling out of the window when cross!

But but but?

You could have a Bright House Christmas!

'I wish we could do this every week!'

That's right, the quality street might be gone by the 28th but you will still get the pleasure of paying for the flatscreen tv, cooker and sofa every week. Forever.

Wahey!

Don't worry about all the Xmas debt, you can bury your head in the............holiday sand!

Yes, that's right, after squandering all your money on Xmas, on the Xmas sales, drowned your sorrows in the 'cheap' new year booze, its 'bing!' the 1st of January and when Thomsons and First Choice will lure you away with the offer of free kids places for a fortnight in the sun!

YANBU, particularly advertising aimed at children, I hate it.

For 3 years in a row now my DD has wanted some overpriced plastic tat as her present, as advertised on channel 5 Milkshake, the last 2 years I went ahead and bought said tat, both times she has ended up sad and deflated when the nasty plastic has turned out to be a disappointment.

This year i imposed a rule - if she has seen something being advertised, then she's not allowed it.

I agree Bluebell, that said I'd like to know what she puts in that cheesy bake that everyone loves so much; because it doesn't have the sound of a gourmet experience.

That's a great rule!!

We have that rule Anony.

My eldest can explain exactly why TV advertised toys are a load of crap from her experiences in the past with that fucking golden coin maker

Saves me the bother of having to explain it to the younger ones

We have a similar rule about toys advertised on TV. The ones on during Milkshake are the worst. We don't watch Milkshake (even though I prefer the programmes to Cbeebies) on account of these adverts.

I can't see why parents would buy some of the stuff it's so obviously crap!

Neither of mine are particularly wanty children. DD pesters a bit more than DS did, but largely because she's attracted by anything pink and sparkly

I think this thread is worthy of resurrection as it died too early a death.

Has anyone seen the ad for a perfume with a lovely blonde model in an old beige flash mac? WTF is that all about?

RIP THREAD

I had xmas advertising too. I also do NOT get the Bright House thing "I wish we could do this every week" What? Pay over the odds every week for household items?

*hate