Lord Noel On Advertising

Whatto! Pepys...

Isn't it great that everything is paid for by advertising?
And now computers have little spy programmes in them to watch what you are watching and make sure you get to see lots more of what YOU want!
I especially love the way they interrupt programmes with a growing number of adverts during each commercial break!
I jest of course!
I F&*()%^ HATE adverts!
I only ever watch programmes I have pre-recorded so I can zoom through the breaks at 30x speed to get back to the bloody programme I sat down to watch instead of all the garbage they keep pushing onto all couch potatoes.
If subliminal advertising works at 30x the normal speed I have yet to see the results of it.
I buy far less now than ever before....
...I use a salt crystal I bought in Thailand for underarm deodorant and that's easily going to last me 200 years - in fact I may leave it to some well deserving person when I finally peg it! (applications on a postcard please)
I use salt on the driveway instead of poisonous chemical insecticides and it works great at keeping down the weeds!
And I'm always looking into what else I can stop buying and make it myself.
When I'm on the computer I use ADBLOCK - it's free and it stops all those tiresome interruptions.
Don't these Companies get it?
Adverts are an extremely RUDE intrusion into our lives...
...it's like someone walking into your home whilst you're having a nice chat with a friend and trying to get you to buy a vacuum cleaner!
It's really really RUDE!
And - if anything - it gives me an aversion to the products on display!
I now HATE MacDonald's, KFC, M&S, Loan Companies, Pension Plans, Injury Lawyers, Iceland, Specsavers and many many more.... with a vengeance!
All I can hope is that everyone is doing what I'm doing so that these Companies go out of business or at the very least have so little money they can't afford to advertise any more.
There was probably a time in the dim and distant past when ads were fun to watch and creative (maybe even better than the programmes themselves) but that time has passed.... and viewers have become much more sophisticated....

...which means that advertisers are busily beavering away as you read this - planning their new advert and devising a way to make sure that you are forced to sit through the whole sorry business.

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Tallyho!

Best Wishes - Lord Noel