To think I'm not alone with not falling for adverts

[Sh20]

I can't remember the last time I bought anything that was ever advertised. I get all most of my food from my able and Cole and local Indy organic shop. I go on holiday in interesting places that the average person wouldn't of heard of. When I need a new car I just get whatever my friend with a garage has a good deal on. With electrics I always just get something that has good reviews from somewhere like which.

I really can't think if the last time I bought anything branded. I do feel like I'm the only one in modern Britain.

I don't understand who falls for adverts?

You sound fantastic sh, thanks for sharing your miricles.

uh huh

I don't normally do this, but given that you're acting all superior like...

"Wouldn't have"

Hang on how is Abel & Cole not a brand? It would spend a fair bit on marketing. And it's worked for you. Or to use your words, you fell for it.

Ditto looking up reviews on Which - a brand with marketing - before buying.

I wish Abel and Cole would stop sending those little squashes. By the time you've peeled them and removed the seeds there's nothing left.

HAVE heard of!!!

Well in fairness I wouldn't know the name of individual towns in Spain or Greece or other popular holiday destinations either.

It is entirely possible that you wouldn't know the individual towns, even the 'holiday destination' towns in the part of the UK where I live.

But I'm not sure what any of that has to do with advertising.

"Yes you may have heard of the country but wouldn't of heard of any of the places I visited or stayed."

Had you before you researched the destination? Do you know all the destinations in all the lesser visited countries of the world?

Wonders if op went to Armenia the same time as the Kadashians went

Well this hasn't been any use, I thought at least one person would of felt the same.

Anyway I'm off to go on a bike ride, might follow one of the national cycle routes, they have zero advertising behind them BTW.

really?

Try asking us op, I bet we would! I saw an advert to holiday in Tonga just the other day. I watched and booked my ticket the very next moment.

Ffs. "Would HAVE felt the same"

HAVE ffs. Even this average person knows that...

As opposed to one of the routes that is choc full of adverts??

When I went on holidays to France a few years ago, a colleague said to me 'oh, that's an unusual place to go on holidays, what made you decide to go there?'

So other people's ideas of a perfectly normal travel destination do not always tie in with our own.

I had the same thought, just the other day, OP.

When I was younger (and especially as a new mum), I always bought stuff that I'd seen advertised. I think age has made me less inclined to believe everything I'm told.

Is your bike branded? Or your helmet?

Or were they cobbled together by local artisans?

It's 'would have' OP. Maybe you should look out for ads about grammar/language courses?

And what brand is your bike? Or did you make it yourself from iron pipes?

Is it not Abel and Fernández Versini now??

It's a penny farthing of course, Mardy.

The national cycle routes are brilliant. Whereabouts are you?

You've hit on something there though... word of mouth is the advertising I now listen to. If somebody has experienced, or used something that they think is fabulous, then I'm more likely to try it. They have no interest, other than enthusiasm in selling that product, or experience.

"When I was younger (and especially as a new mum), I always bought stuff that I'd seen advertised. I think age has made me less inclined to believe everything I'm told. "

A big dollop scepticism of advertising never hurt anyone. I think that's basically what the OP is trying to say. But unfortunately she lacks the ability to articulate that and it's coming across as some sort of superior stance.

Are there signs on the cycle routes?

They are probably designed by graphic designers. Which isn't advertising but ties in a lot with the world of advertising - designing something to catch your eye etc...the world is immersed in advertising and I think even the cynics amongst us (of which I am one) have to concede that we are influenced in ways we aren't aware of.

I work with someone who says stuff like Sh20 - and he then wonders why people are always backing away looking for an escape route or why we all power walk past his office with our heads down