Advertising

[ppeatfruit]

AIBU to wish that people would not believe what the adverts want us to. for example; "I only use .....brand 'cos it's the best"

Even when it generally contains the cheapest ingredients 'cos the company wants to make huge profits.

Yeah SPB. to know what do means you have to go Mumsnet home page duh.

it's about the idiots who buy shit 'cos they is brainwashed by the ads.

Eh?

I think half of MN has gone a bit mad lately.

Don't understand squeaver comment

Don't understand what a do is

Think anyone who believes they are genuinely immune to all advertising lacks self awareness TBH.

Why come onto a thread with about 6 posters and make a sarcy comment, then pick out your mates and say "well not you obviously" about half the people on the thread?

Seems to be a lot of people being deliberately infammatory lately. If people want to talk about advertising then why not?

Because these are kind of discussions that you have when you're 13 and suddenly become all wordly.

I wasn't really defending Edam etc - they were the only ones not getting all riled about something that's pretty bloody obvious.

End of. Nuff said. etc.

I don't think anyone was riled though really?

Just nattering.

Let's face it MN threads are hardly sensible at the best of times. If people want to talk about advertising , then why not let them?

If we all had to go onto threads and point out when they were shit/dull/repetitive/been done/silly etc etc there'd only be about one thread on here.

Well there should only be one thread on here and it should be OF MY CHOOSING

I'll bugger off now.

What would you choose though?

I know which ones I would get rid of

i hate adverts.

my biggest irk is the 'assumed brand loyalty/superiority'...that advert that has two ladies discussing air freshener who say 'and its glad you know' and give knowing looks.as if people actually talk like that.

Those ads are known in the trade as "2 Cs in a K", sungirltan. Nice, huh.

Now I really must get off this thread and find something more confrontational...

hmmm. k for kitchen?

more to the point adverts are the most shamefully sexist media ever.

when i see an advert for vanish with only male actors i will be happier

Those bloody Brand Power adverts...grrr!

yeh i dont understand them - is brandpower a shop?

they take patronising to a whole new level!

(meanwhile ponders....gosh i wish i had someone to help me choose loo cleaner...i'd be a much better 50's housewife if i did!')

so squeaver, when you posted, was i riled or talking like a 13yo? Can you show me where please?
Not often I get really angry about a thread / comments on MN but this "laugh at the idiots" one is close. Smug lack of self awareness - good point ISNT

Neither, SPB. I was being an arse.

Do you mind, that's my livelihood you are casting nurstushums (sp?) on! But yes, it's all a load of well researched customer need shite!

Darn that strike through not working!!

i'm going to blithely ignore the fighting on this thread and drag it kicking and screaming back on topic

the adverts i hate the most are the ones that make people (ok, women) paranoid about something they probably never thought about before...

things like 'i used to worry when people come round that my house doesn't smell nice.. but now i buy xxx airfreshner' or 'my dishwasher pongs so now i've got a dangly freshner in it' or 'do you worry about your fanjo smelling, then buy scented tampons'

ok, so i sound like i've particularly got a thing about smell but i'm sure there are others... wrinkles are another similar one, making people worry about laughter lines fgs! or 'sunspots' errr.. yes, freckles.. some of us would have to stop leaving the house or wear a burkha to avoid them!

i don't mind at all the ones that say 'buy this car and you'll be sexier' or 'this shampoo is shinier than the others'...

Reality- apologies for my spelling not being up to your standard, I did add (sp?) for a very good reason and my name being wrong and my general idiocy with strike through. Would you like to have a go at my chosen profession as well? Maybe my kids?

Glad we cleared that one up. Next!