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NEVER AD IT SO GOOD

By Dave Loftus ⋅ December 10, 2007 ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

What happened to all the loathsome debt consolidation advertisements? I haven’t seen one for weeks or even months. Come to think of it every advert at the moment seems to be focusing more on flashy physical objects which, strangely enough, could theoretically be given as gifts to people. How very odd!

False naivety aside, my point is that it’s that time of year again when companies everywhere go into fits of apoplexy about getting people to literally shed pounds on their products. Before sounding entirely like a noughties version of Scrooge, I’d like to point out that I love Christmas, with its merriment and myriad of parties, preferably all backed by the unearthly roar of Noddy Holder screaming “It’s Christmaaaaaas!”.

It’s the advertising that really annoys me. Forcing us to get excited about Yuletide, it ends up dominating everything we see to the point of lunacy as television screens are pelted with snowy Dickens-esque streets that look so far removed from reality as to be depressing. The glorious phrase “holidays are coming” may no longer get the pulse racing but I still want to enjoy Crimbo so advertise things that are in a normal person’s price range and stop making it sound like you’re doing us a favour by dropping the cost of something by seven pence. Otherwise my heart may just start to secretly yearn for the return of the debt consolidation adverts.