Annoying television adverts...

[Typhoon]

I would imagine that sufficient number of people are gullible enough to fall for their slick advertising so that they can make their money from the sum total of all the entries to each prize draw. If they didn't, they wouldn't be doing it.

Their website makes a lot about participants are supporting charities. Doubtless there will be some who think if they don't win, the money goes to good causes (no mention of the 20% cut of the profits that go to Omaze, a US for-profit organisation). There are subscription plans where those that sign up are automatically allocated places in the draw, and gift cards, meaning the recipient can choose which property they buy tickets for/ charity they support. Some people must be signed up for these.

One of the draws for Teenage Cancer Trust made £800,000 (after costs) from their 80% share, so Omaze made $200,000. They are doing alright! As you say, it must be working!!

Source https://omaze.co.uk/pages/teenage-cancer-trust

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The Christmas advert of Sainsbury's Taste the Difference advert seems to have connotations to the pantomime season with its portrayal of somewhat unbelievable characters and is most definitely an advert that would put me off purchasing their food products.

 

[Master Cutler]

I do, by contrast, like the full version Just Eat song by Katy Perry.
A great marketing and sales decision to get Katy on board even if the standard non-music advert is a bit repetitive.

 

[Western Sunset]

The Christmas advert of Sainsbury's Taste the Difference advert seems to have connotations to the pantomime season with its portrayal of somewhat unbelievable characters and is most definitely an advert that would put me off purchasing their food products.

All the food adverts this year seem to extol the virtues of gluttony - do folks really have tables heaving with that amount of food? But the Sainsbury's one takes the biscuit (intended pun) and it's put me off shopping there.

 

[daveo]

Battersea dogs' home with Paul O'Grady. (But then again that may be because I find that gentleman thoroughly irritating)

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

The advert for On the Beach which uses a reworking of the Christmas song “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”. If that family turned up on my holiday I’d be on the next ✈️ home.

 

[philthetube]

Another annoying advert for me is the BT one that advertises broadband (for new customers only) at £28 per month, whilst I, as an existing customer, have to pay more than £50 per month (with a CPI + 3.9% increase each year on top of that)

contact them and tell them you are leaving, then wait for offer.

 

[birchesgreen]

All the food adverts this year seem to extol the virtues of gluttony - do folks really have tables heaving with that amount of food? But the Sainsbury's one takes the biscuit (intended pun) and it's put me off shopping there.

Yes, and so much gets wasted. Then next year the same happens again. Never understand it!

 

[Lost property]

All the food adverts this year seem to extol the virtues of gluttony - do folks really have tables heaving with that amount of food? But the Sainsbury's one takes the biscuit (intended pun) and it's put me off shopping there.

Well in the, ahem, "creative minds " of ad.agencies, yes they do, and to be honest, when you see people loading trolleys to over capacity, they would seem to have a point....you know, just in case long lost Aunty Mabel should suddenly arrives, or the neighbours decide to pop in.

Interestingly though, and this isn't a scientific survey you understand, whilst the ads were promoting gluttony, the in store displays at Sainsbury's were remarkably subdued. Tesco however, the opposite....but strangely, as was all too evident and confirmed by a nice lady who works there, the stock wasn't exactly flying off the shelves...

Slight thread drift please....visited a local farm shop, which is very good I have to admit, just for a browse. Asked about the price of a chicken.."£8-£10 a lb sir "...and individual pigs in blankets ? " 50p each ".....however, I could have bought a whole cockerel for £63 !..bargain !

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Going back to the trailer adverts for the recent Anne Boleyn portrayal by a dark-skinned actress, would that have meant that her daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth I would have also been dark-hued and that being the reason why it was said that copious amounts of white leaded-based face cream were applied to her?

 

[Western Sunset]

Going back to the trailer adverts for the recent Anne Boleyn portrayal by a dark-skinned actress, would that have meant that her daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth I would have also been dark-hued and that being the reason why it was said that copious amounts of white leaded-based face cream were applied to her?

I'm just doing some Christmas reading about the royal family history of that period. The author, Count Arthur Strong, gives a very clear explanation, and I quote:

"... do you know to this day I can still remember his eight wives off by heart, without even thinking about it. Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleaves, Ann of a thousand days, Katherine of Argon, Katherine Parr, Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Felicity Kendall and Glenda Rogers. There you are!"

 

[birchesgreen]

Going back to the trailer adverts for the recent Anne Boleyn portrayal by a dark-skinned actress, would that have meant that her daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth I would have also been dark-hued and that being the reason why it was said that copious amounts of white leaded-based face cream were applied to her?

No it just means they cast a black actress to the role. Its not exactly a new thing, though in the past it was usually white actors playing non-white roles (e.g. Charlie Chan).

 

[Benters]

The advert for On the Beach which uses a reworking of the Christmas song “It’s the most wonderful time of the year”. If that family turned up on my holiday I’d be on the next ✈️ home.

To top it all, the fat boy licking the ice-cream bears an unfortunate resemblance to Donald Trump.

 

[ANDREW_D_WEBB]

To top it all, the fat boy licking the ice-cream bears an unfortunate resemblance to Donald Trump.

He is also the most irritating of the family.

 

[D821]

He is also the most irritating of the family.

I'm baffled as to how they thought it would be a good advert for the company. I watch it and think it shows that the obnoxious family are the sort of people who use the company and the sort of people you'd be stuck with if you went on one of their holidays.

 

[Ediswan]

The current Hyundai advert, which seeks to establish a correct pronunciation of the name, then finishes with two different 'correct' pronunciations. (They sound different to me.)

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In one of those recent "cremation" adverts, a woman says no-one wants funerals any more.

Yet to prove the woman wrong, in the short time the advert was on, two funeral corteges passed her, going in different directions.

I mentioned the above posting on this thread six months ago and for some strange reason, it is being shown again. The advertising agency appear not to see their advert being proved wrong in terms of my final paragraph above.

 

[birchesgreen]

I mentioned the above posting on this thread six months ago and for some strange reason, it is being shown again. The advertising agency appear not to see their advert being proved wrong in terms of my final paragraph above.

Couldn't those funeral corteges be going to crematoria?

 

[Andy Pacer]

I mentioned the above posting on this thread six months ago and for some strange reason, it is being shown again. The advertising agency appear not to see their advert being proved wrong in terms of my final paragraph above.

The last funeral I attended resulted in a cremation.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Couldn't those funeral corteges be going to crematoria?

I have never seen corteges of the type portrayed in this advert with the typical floral surfeit in the hearse around the coffin in anything but a normal burial scenario, as cremations are usually more of a down-key affair.

 

[Andy Pacer]

Perhaps the advert was intended to prove her wrong, to labor the point that people do in fact want funerals.

 

[birchesgreen]

I have never seen corteges of the type portrayed in this advert with the typical floral surfeit in the hearse around the coffin in anything but a normal burial scenario, as cremations are usually more of a down-key affair.

Its pretty normal around here, i think most graveyards are getting full now. The funeral i went to before xmas had the full cortege... to the crematorium.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Its pretty normal around here, i think most graveyards are getting full now.

I know of quite a number of locations where the old Victorian graveyards were as you say, but new extension areas (or even new graveyards) have been established. The very large Southern Cemetery in the south of Manchester is an example of adjoining land areas being used for such a purpose.

 

[Typhoon]

I mentioned the above posting on this thread six months ago and for some strange reason, it is being shown again. The advertising agency appear not to see their advert being proved wrong in terms of my final paragraph above.

I think the advert is referring to "Pure Cremation", where a body is sent to the crematorium without having a funeral beforehand.

I don't know if there are figures available for the number of pure cremations compared to cremations following a funeral service.

Looking back, the I think the second post clarified the matter which later posters may have not picked up on. I think that cremations are the norm now but 'pure' or 'direct' cremations are not.

There are a number of organisations which provide 'direct cremations'; the follwing quotes are from the Co-op, only because they express the pros and cons better in my view (https://www.coop.co.uk/funeralcare/funeral-services/direct-cremation?gclid=316f6d0b9aa214d0a64e0ebea91aed3c&gclsrc=3p.ds&&infinity=ict2~net~mac~ar~75179268232420~kr~75179384373772~kw~cremation services~mt~b~cmp~NB - [Direct Cremation] - [UK] - Hagakure~ag~(CAT:NB)(SUBirect Crem)&msclkid=316f6d0b9aa214d0a64e0ebea91aed3c&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=NB - [Direct Cremation] - [UK] - Hagakure&utm_term=cremation services&utm_content=(CAT:NB)(SUBirect Crem)

Direct cremation​

A direct cremation is when we bring someone who has died into our care and provide a simple, unattended cremation. There’s no service, which means you can say goodbye in your own way.

What a direct cremation includes

• Bringing the person who has died into our care and transporting them to the crematorium
• An unattended cremation
• Carefully looking after them before taking them to the crematorium
• We can scatter ashes in the garden of remembrance at the crematorium or you can collect them directly from the crematorium
• Our basic coffin

Restrictions and limitations of direct cremation

• You cannot visit the person who has died in the chapel of rest
• You are not able to choose the date and time of the cremation
• The person who died cannot be dressed in their own clothes. We will provide a gown.
• Mourners, including family or friends, cannot attend the crematorium on the day.

(I have taken away any reference to costs because it is the concept of a direct cremation that is important, although they are obviously cheaper).

I have a family member who has signed up for one of these, and had her partner cremated in that way. However, when it came to arranging my mother's funeral, I think friends and relatives expected a form of service (I found the suggested celebrant had met my mother a few times); I was offered a choice of crematoria, and able to choose the one that most people preferred, and at a time when those coming from a distance could make without getting up at the crack of dawn; my mother was dressed in the same clothes as on the service booklet - ones many of her friends remembered her in, in the 'good times'.

These are an option, they will be right for some people and occasions and not right for others, however I am not sure that all advertising clearly indicates what you do not get, only an indication of what you do.

 

[DelW]

On YouTube rather than TV, but the current advert that seems to be advertising both Amazon Prime and American Express (coincidentally two companies that I am very averse to using) promoted via a musician with the tag "unsigned". I don't know or care what it's about, not only is it annoying but it turns up ridiculously frequently and it's not one that you can click away from before it ends. I can only imagine that YouTube are trying to drive everyone to their paid-for ad-free version.

 

[Bungle73]

On YouTube rather than TV, but the current advert that seems to be advertising both Amazon Prime and American Express (coincidentally two companies that I am very averse to using) promoted via a musician with the tag "unsigned". I don't know or care what it's about, not only is it annoying but it turns up ridiculously frequently and it's not one that you can click away from before it ends. I can only imagine that YouTube are trying to drive everyone to their paid-for ad-free version.

There's one that keeps popping up in YT about pension scams. It's getting really annoying now and it won't let you skip it. On PC I run an adblocker, but on Fire TV or iPad no such thing exists.

 

[150249]

On YouTube rather than TV, but the current advert that seems to be advertising both Amazon Prime and American Express (coincidentally two companies that I am very averse to using) promoted via a musician with the tag "unsigned". I don't know or care what it's about, not only is it annoying but it turns up ridiculously frequently and it's not one that you can click away from before it ends. I can only imagine that YouTube are trying to drive everyone to their paid-for ad-free version.

I'm getting adverts on YouTube about apps such as Rise of Kingdoms. I have never played any of these in my life

 

[JD2168]

Just seen a new advert for Reed with rather annoying singing & dancing throughout the advert.

 

[Jimini]

Just seen a new advert for Reed with rather annoying singing & dancing throughout the advert.

Aye, that one grates doesn't it.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

These are an option, they will be right for some people and occasions and not right for others, however I am not sure that all advertising clearly indicates what you do not get, only an indication of what you do.

When my dear wife to whom I married in 1975 died in November 2021, the Co-op Gold Plan covered all things that made it a notable occasion for people she had known over her lifetime to attend and pay their wishes. The church where the funeral service was held was packed to capacity with people from all areas of the country and the interment took place in the newly-dug family grave, which the Co-op and my twin sons were involved with, as a new grave cannot be now actioned until time of first bereavement. The celebration of her life was held, like our Wedding Breakfast in 1975, in a large Victorian building of note surrounded by well-tended parkland, which all of us thought was the best send-off to give her.