Is Anyone Else Annoyed.....

[carolegif]

With the ‘adverts for the elderly’. On TV in the afternoons and later? It has not stopped raining here for over a week! I normally avoid afternoon TV, but in desperation, after reading 5 novels a week during the last three weeks of lockdown, (no charity shops open to get more, and can’t afford to buy 5 more from Amazon) I have started to watch Morse, Midsomer Murders, Poirot et al on ITV 4. Every advert is for funeral costs, mobility scooters, equity release and over 60’s residential homes! Surely there are other age groups who have had to resort to daytime TV?

[Mamyalynne]

Perhaps the better course of action rather than grumping is to email all the companies that have adverts you do want to watch and beg them to advertise during the afternoon.

[barry1010]

Unless you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and know your death is imminent funeral plans and life insurance plans are a total rip off for the majority of people.

[andy-hughes]

If you can be bothered to think about them, you'll see that adverts are always targeted at the watching audience - obviously, since you want the maximum number of people to be interested in what you want to sell to them.

So it's pointless advertising funeral plans to a Hollyoaks audience, and it's pointless offering video games to an audience watching daytime re-runs of Inspector Morse.

The trick is to simply let them wash over you, until the programme restarts, apart of course from pondering why Carol Vorderman always wears clothes that make her look like a character in an anime movie, and seems to be moving towards her face looking like one as well.

[iluvmargie]

I must watch that ad. with Debbie Magee more carefully, I have never once noticed her 'grotty kitchen'!!

[andy-hughes]

iluvmargie - // I must watch that ad. with Debbie Magee more carefully, I have never once noticed her 'grotty kitchen'!! //

I think the company is one that simply replaces fronts and tops, a less expensive solution for those who can't afford a full brand new re-fit.

And yes, of course most famous people who appear in adverts don't need the items they are advertising - that's the reward for being well-known enough to feature in the ad in the first place.

It's about a subliminal level of trust from the viewer to the 'star' - that's the hook.

[barry1010]

andy, a lot of people find it difficult to let the adverts wash over them when they graphically show starving children, children drinking dirty water that will kill them and animals in great distress and pain when, apparently, their £3 a month will make it all better. I was keeping my relative company watching tv with him a few weeks ago and the adverts really were relentless. I gave up counting the begging ads after 30 - in a few hours! That is when I put all their favourite programmes on to record. I have had to rent another V6 box to cope.

[Peter Pedant]

they are all a bad deal
equity release probably the worst
funeral cost is £7 a month - and the pay out goes down !
Martin Fletcher on one of the progz
said that he cdnt believe such a thing and had rung
and found it was true

i have just terminated one for a fren' who would have got £550 after ten years conts ( £840 contriubted)

used to wonga a lot but they have been stopped

[teacake44]

You know what I like, the craftsmanship :0)

[Peter Pedant]

// Unless you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness //

you have to survive for 24 m before they pay out which is no mean feat ( having had my brushes with potentially terminal illnesses. They obviously werent - but I didnt know that at the time did I)

[smiley1]

And the media seem to think anyone over 60 is elderly. Most 60 year olds I know are in the prime of life and still working full time

[andy-hughes]

barry - // andy, a lot of people find it difficult to let the adverts wash over them when they graphically show starving children, children drinking dirty water that will kill them and animals in great distress and pain when, apparently, their £3 a month will make it all better. //

Hit the mute button and read a magazine for two minutes.

[ToraToraTora]

what's an advert? I record everything and zip through them.

[pastafreak]

TheLand @ 16:46 just made me splutter my sparkling water all over my tablet. Oh, that made me laugh. :))

[carolegif]

Never give to those child sponsor ads. A friend paid monthly for ten years to sponsor a child from Peru. 8 years in, her husband had to go to Peru on business, so they both went to see the child in her village. To their horror the child had died 6 years before at the age of 8!

[iluvmargie]

^ Hopefully though the money carried on helping another child.

[JimF]

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[gingejbee]

andy has the answer...if you're not willing to record everything that has ads, simply mute and look away for the duration...no need to get annoyed at all.

[237SJ]

^ or watch Channel 5 on catchup (they skip the ads )

[lankeela]

I just turn on my phone to check emails and messages during the adverts.

[Unsureme]

If £3 a Month is all they need to give a village water for a month,why is my Water Bill £43 per month?