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"Wrinkles appear reduced" means that they only appear to be reduced, but, in fact, are not. There have been some lawsuits over this. Hence the word "appear" appeared.

Count me in on the "I hate advertising" vote.

Voices decreeing what someone else needs, deserves, wants, ought to do, etc.

Yet another reason not to watch the television. Tee hee! Or to not listen to mainstream radio. Tee hee!

Plenty of news on the internet and shortwave radio, plenty of things to read thru private subscription and the public libraries.

Here's to a world without advertising!

LBR wrote: Here's to a world without advertising!

Think of what we could do with all the money saved... (Use it to save banks? )

Advertising = LIES and more DAMN LIES

I've created a stupid, useless product that nobody really needs and have been doing perfect well without. Let's get the advertisers to convince people they can't function properly without it, that they have somehow 'earned the right' to have this product in exchange for cash, and I will hopefully become rich.

witch way wrote:At least that man who advertises Cilit Bang has stopped shouting at us. ww.

I HATE the Cilit Bang adverts. One bottle is all you need - it cleans everything. Now also available: Cilit Bang Grease and Floor. Two bottles are all you need - they clean everything..... How long before there is a Cilit Bang for each different job around the house?

I could go on (an on and on....), especially about adverts for cleaning products. In fact, I once did - my dissertation was called 'Parental Attitudes Towards Cleaning in a Spermophobic Age of Advertising'. I basically tried to show that advertisers have made us all spermophobic (fear of germs) in order to sell us all the cleaning products. The only decent advertising is word-of-mouth, and even then it's not always reliable.

Perhaps advertising is more appealing to those who are more worried about 'appearance' than I suspect us lot are. Some days I don't look in a mirror for a week. I wonder if we'd all be happier if mirrors were abolished? The cosmetics market would collapse. [/quote]

witch way wrote:... and teenage girls would be so much happier.

I defiantly wouldn't be happier, I'm a 14 year old that looks in mirrors at least 5 times a day I'd guess but I don't count so probably more often. I need a mirror to brush my teeth wash off my makeup ect.
Yeh i care about how I look or school I do my makeup then again to go out and I always carry about my trusty eyeliner.
But back on the subject yeh i hate adverts too :P

Rosendula wrote:
I could go on (an on and on....), especially about adverts for cleaning products. In fact, I once did - my dissertation was called 'Parental Attitudes Towards Cleaning in a Spermophobic Age of Advertising'. I basically tried to show that advertisers have made us all spermophobic (fear of germs) in order to sell us all the cleaning products. The only decent advertising is word-of-mouth, and even then it's not always reliable.

I once stood open mouthed as I watched a child build a sandcastle and his mother wipe his hands after every single scoop of sand.
We have something which protects us from bacteria, it's called an immune system and the more you use it the more efficient it becomes. I despair for those kids brought up in homes that are little more than sterile bubbles. What happens to them when they eventually start school and come into contact with bacteria and viruses for the first time? What happens when an unchallenged (and therefore 'out of practice') immune system meets something truly awful? I've also seen parents who, for several months, would only handle their newborns whilst wearing surgical masks. I'm not advocating that we all live in filth, but frankly, in my opinion, we're taking cleanliness to the point where it's becoming dangerous.

I do reserve my pet hates though for the 'beauty' products. 'Hey, Guys, lets make everyone feel insecure, give them a low self esteem, then make them think they can be happy again if they buy a useless pot of gunk or put some black muck on their eyelashes' It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.

Bluemoon wrote: I once stood open mouthed as I watched a child build a sandcastle and his mother wipe his hands after every single scoop of sand.

What?!!

I remember getting covered in dirt and eating sand when I was on the beach as a kid. Hell, I still do that now, and I'm 38.
Isn't that how the immune system builds itself?

I like to use the 'grannie button' when caught out by adverts. Its basically the mute button on the remote, named after my grannie who used it religiously to blot out all in between programme fillers, this included the bbc jangles or whatever they call their ads for their own programmes.

Oh rockchick, what a perfect name - jangles - just what advert jingles do to my brain!

Enormous Sage wrote:
What?!!

I remember getting covered in dirt and eating sand when I was on the beach as a kid. Hell, I still do that now, and I'm 38.
Isn't that how the immune system builds itself?

Yes, it's like, if you were a non-swimmer and suddenly fell in the river, which life-guard would you want; the one who'd patrolled a busy beach for years with rip-tides, dangerous currents and high waves, or the one who'd only ever sat by a kiddie's paddling-pool? In over protecting our families we are turning their immune systems into the paddling-pool option.
Furthermore, the woman who diligently wiped away the sand had, apparently, covered every table-leg and similar item in her home with foam rubber, so how her child was supposed to know these things were potentially painful or know instinctively to avoid them when he began school in a hectic, desk-strewn, classroom is beyond me. The principle is the same, being over-protective can be just as harmful as neglect.

I hate to be a killjoy for the anti-advertising campaign but without adverts all but one of the TV channels in this country wouldn't exist (and no TV in other countries) unless you can afford subscription TV. Also most of the internet is funded by adverts, without which, sites such as this one, would be subscription only.

Also, some of them are actually slightly funny.
OK - I'll shut up and go away now.

Cheers
Zoe

Thomzo wrote:... without adverts all but one of the TV channels in this country wouldn't exist ...

Aah! What a lovely thought Only joking.

I'm not against people showing us what's out there and available should we wish to buy it. I just hate the way things are advertised - the way they use scare tactics to sell us cleaning products or sell us a pro-biotic drink (I've often wondered if Actimel is secretly sponsored by, or sponsors Domestos), or make wrinkles and gray hair something to be ashamed of (which I'm not). The way they patronize us, and the way they often portray men as imbeciles. The way they change the words of nursery rhymes so my daughter walks about the house singing about Kumon Maths instead of about catching a fish, the way try to get claim to be able to sort out people's money problems (which can be done for free at the Citizen's Advice Bureau if anyone out there needs help ), the way they tell us they can save us time and trouble AND find us cheaper car insurance (they've NEVER found car insurance for us cheaper than we can find it ourselves).... *inhales deeply*

The .... way they often portray men as imbeciles.

Well they had to get something right by the law of averages!

I agree - advertising per se is not the problem, but the blackmail, guilt trip, you're not cool unless..., you're a bad parent if your kid's not got one of these and all the other devious means of selling stuff that no-one needs (and judging by the rubbish that gets put on ebay and in skips, landfill etc, no-one really wants either.

And the fact that advertising agencies are so hideously wealthy on the back of it incenses me beyond just about anything

Thomzo wrote:I hate to be a killjoy for the anti-advertising campaign but without adverts all but one of the TV channels in this country wouldn't exist (and no TV in other countries)

Now that really would be great... Haven't watched TV in years, and really can't see a reason why anybody would want to! Think of all the wonderful things people could do if they didn't waste their time in front of that box!

The Shredded Wheat advert is big pile of poo. They make a huge deal out of the fact that their product is 100% shredded wheat, nothing but nothing more. Then they go and say there's now a shredded wheat with honey and oats.... do advertising and marketing people have their sense of hypocrisy surgically removed before or after the interview??

And Christmas advertising, just don't get me started...

(sorry for so many angry smilies... peace and love, peace and love... )