Adverts on TV today are shit.

There was a time when the odd amusing one would appear and raise a smile, even the odd titter. Strangely I used to find the old Rowan Atkinson Barclaycard ones quite funny. Unfortunately the recent dumbing down of advertising has left me worried for the state of the nation as we must assume these adverts are actually working.

Surely we’re not all sheep?

Are we?

Personally I think it began with Budweiser and the “Wasssup” campaign. I still know people that answer their phones like this. Complete twats the lot of them.

Also, I pay good money to watch my TV, about £40 a month, so I don’t want to be inundated with advertising Mr Sky TV. Especially not between the low-brow dumbed-down retardvision you seem to be showing by the bucket-load at the moment.

The BBC isn’t much better though. OK, I may not have to listen to that old bat from Terry & June witter on about paying for funerals and stairlifts and stuff, but I pay a licence fee for programming, not for you to tell me how fucking great you are. Apparently it’s called ‘positive reinforcement’. I’m paying over £100 a year to be told how good a channel, that I had no choice in purchasing, actually is. What a load of fucking arse. (more…)

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