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?

[bobbinwales]

A detest those funeral plan adds- the 'actors usually sound so patronizing or false allmost as if there taking the mickey and the conversations are just so unreal

[bobbinwales]

ACtually a find myself watching them thinking how bad they are and surely no-ones persuaded by them??

[ubasses]

Record them, and watch a bit later fast forward through all the ads. I never watch anything on a channel with adverts live.

[MWG14]

Also funeral plans and equity release! It thoroughly annoys me too.

[ToraToraTora]

is there a library near you?

[Togo]

Yeah the Sky Documentary channels are the same. I thought that they had nothing to offer me though as they all appear to be for the black people.

[barry1010]

I have had to resort to recording day time tv programmes that my aged relatives watch (they live with me) so they can fast forward through the adverts. The charities begging for money and the funeral plans were upsetting them. Disgraceful the sheer amount of this type of advert

[barry1010]

Talking of books, I get ebooks for nothing from public libraries, download at home. Wonderful service.

[ladybirder]

Carole I'm permanently annoyed lately.
Have a look on the BBC website. I like reading their shortish stories, for free of course.

[zebo]

No-one can fake sincerity as well as Carol Vorderman . I also hate the adverts with the former Mrs Paul Daniels wafting her magic over her grotty kitchen. When one persuedes oneself to marry a multimillionaire then one can afford a new kitchen, not stick-on worktops! Had he lived and declined into obscurity what would she have done with herself??

[elliemay1]

I detest those funeral plan ads too. So-o patronising especially that bloke with the parsnips. I know what I'd tell him to do with them! I see Carol Vorderman has even got in on the act

[Mamyalynne]

I don't watch daytime TV but to be fair to the commercial channels they cannot insist who pays to advertise at different times of the day and probably fewer adverts are being made just now with difficulties in filming etc.

Hence the abundance of animated Christmas ads.

[barry1010]

Carol Vorderman was advertising financial services (loans I think) as soon as she left Countdown. I lost any respect I had for her at that moment.

[elliemay1]

I can't stand her, she's so false in every way

[barry1010]

I like Debbie McGee. Can't a wealthy man get married without his wife being accused of money grabbing? They seemed happily married, there has been no scandal and if she was just after his money she would have divorced him long before he died.

[Arksided]

How very dare they try to drum business getting folk to shuffle off on their zimmers to collect their pensions because they can't operate a computer or a romote. Disgraceful.

[carolegif]

I usually record all channels with adverts so I can fast forward them, but lately I have watched some in entirety. Can we get up a petition against ageist adverts?

[Theland]

'' Dad, its Joan from next door.''
'' Oh hello Joan.''
'' This letter kerm ter me bah misterk. ''
''That will be my funeral plan and free pen from Happydeath!''
''I've seen those adverts on mah telly with Grimshaw Reaper.''
''Well I thought I'd sort it out now, a d save a few Bob, because I pay more than that for a cup of coffee!''
''So when are you p!banning to go then?''
''Oh I don't know ......... maybe when I've sampled all of the delights of this decrepit mortal coil, you know, nod nod wink wink!''

[andy-hughes]

zebo - // I also hate the adverts with the former Mrs Paul Daniels wafting her magic over her grotty kitchen. When one persuedes oneself to marry a multimillionaire then one can afford a new kitchen, not stick-on worktops! Had he lived and declined into obscurity what would she have done with herself?? //

As 'the lovely' Debbie McGhee points out - Paul Daniels was not a millionaire when she met and fell in love with him.

So the short answer to the question of what she would have done had he lived and 'declined into obscurity' as you callously and inacurately suggest he would have, is, she would have been with the man she loved before he was wealthy, so she would have been where she started out, with the man she loved.

Imagining that a total stranger married another total stranger purely for money is the attitude of someone who is angry at the rwards for hard work that others enjoy - not a nice personality trait to have.

[jno]

people may buy less during lockdown but they don't die less.