F-UnitMad Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 I don't watch much TV, usually just catch a bit of whatever SWMBO is watching around teatime, so it's taken me a few days to catch on, but it's only early November and Christmas adverts are all over the telly!!! Ok I must be getting old, but I've had enough of them - & the fantasy "perfect Christmas" they portray - already!! Bah humbug; here's looking forward to Boxing day, when the adverts for Summer holidays start... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted November 10, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 10, 2017 The major retailers realised a while back that it's November pay packets that are very important targets for separating us from our hard-earned. Waiting 'til Xmas means less profit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Davis Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 I had enough of them years ago and the had-enoughness lasts so I don't have to go through the not-mindingness into had-enoughness every year. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great central Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 I don't watch much TV, usually just catch a bit of whatever SWMBO is watching around teatime, so it's taken me a few days to catch on, but it's only early November and Christmas adverts are all over the telly!!! Ok I must be getting old, but I've had enough of them - & the fantasy "perfect Christmas" they portray - already!! Bah humbug; here's looking forward to Boxing day, when the adverts for Summer holidays start... I probably watch less telly than you and I've already seen holiday ads for next year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 I'm sick of the Thompson/ TUI slogan about crossing I's and dotting T's already... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 I'm happy to say that the only reason I know the Christmas adverts have started is because I read it here. I've got much better things to spend money on than a TV Licence . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefromacrossthepond Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Christmas ads on TV? No way! Don't they know it's too late for that, Easter is almost here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tender Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Nothing to do with TV adverts, but we were in Tesco the other day and enquired why there were no tea cakes on the shelves. We were told it was to make way for the hot cross buns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 Christmas ads on TV? No way! Don't they know it's too late for that, Easter is almost here! A few years ago as an HGV Driver, the last load I pulled one Christmas Eve, was a trailer full of Easter eggs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 I love the Christmas Adverts. They are great. It's those supermarkets AND shops selling Pancake ingredients ALL YEAR ROUND that bug me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 It's those supermarkets AND shops selling Pancake ingredients ALL YEAR ROUND that bug me. Is there a requirement that pancake consumption must be in some way seasonal? Eating pancakes is a year round activity here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthBrit Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Is there a requirement that pancake consumption must be in some way seasonal? Eating pancakes is a year round activity here. Not here. Only on Pancake Tuesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big James Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 On firework night I happened to be up watching tv the first advert that’s ome on after 12 midnight was an xmas one. I could believe it. I work in retail and no lie we usually get our xmas plans long before November. Big james 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 I work in retail and no lie we usually get our xmas plans long before November. Christmas is only six weeks away. The Christmas blitz here starts after the Thanksgiving holiday. This year retailers roll out the Christmas stuff on Friday, November 24. For now we're spared - sitting in between the fall holidays of Halloween and Thanksgiving. Once the turkey is eaten, Christmas is in full swing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 I love the Christmas Adverts. They are great. It's those supermarkets AND shops selling Pancake ingredients ALL YEAR ROUND that bug me. Yeah. Who would want flour or milk in July?You can enjoy pancakes all year round by calling them crepes, or by making the smaller, thicker ones that are actually cake-like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted November 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2017 Nothing to do with TV adverts, but we were in Tesco the other day and enquired why there were no tea cakes on the shelves. We were told it was to make way for the hot cross buns. Our Tesco seems to have hot cross buns for most of the year these days. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big James Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Hot cross buns are a year round item in aldi to. They also do tea cakes to. Big james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Zero Gravitas Posted November 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2017 (edited) One of my past lives was working for a large direct-selling beauty company (clue: ding d*ng - although they haven’t used that slogan since 1972). It used to be quite disconcerting to go into the marketing department in February and March and find it full of samples of Christmas merchandise, as they finalised the plans for the coming Christmas... Edited to add: the asterisk in “d*ng” is an “o”. Apparently the forum software objects to doorbell sounds that may also be slang for a part of the body... Edited November 11, 2017 by Zero Gravitas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Zero Gravitas Posted November 11, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 11, 2017 Yeah. Who would want flour or milk in July? You can enjoy pancakes all year round by calling them crepes, or by making the smaller, thicker ones that are actually cake-like. You migh call them crepes, but I didn’t think they were that bad. (With apologies to Sid Snot and Kenny Everett, circa 1978). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium rab Posted November 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2017 I love the Christmas Adverts. They are great. It's those supermarkets AND shops selling Pancake ingredients ALL YEAR ROUND that bug me. And Hot Cross Buns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Neil Posted November 11, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 11, 2017 (edited) .... I've had enough of them - & the fantasy "perfect Christmas" they portray - ... You've hit the nail fair and square there. The early Christmas is bad enough but the sickly perfection is the really nauseating bit. They're much like those American films that celebrate some plastic Barbie meets Stepford stereotype of imagined Christmas designed to match cloying sentiment rather than real life. I note that my Freesat box has a multiplicity of channels, there are two or three of them seeming devoted to food and another pair for horror, surely there must be a market for a no Xmas channel? Edit: The reality of Christmas. Hard work in bad weather for some, chaos for the unprepared and grumbling for those who are predisposed to whinge. Edited November 11, 2017 by Neil 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 If I am honest, I thought this year the retailers have been relatively restrained with Christmas advertising so far. I remember about 8-10 years ago Asda had begun showing lengthy festive adverts (you know the ones - with dinner tables the dimension of my living room packed with food, including a 100lb turkey, a similarly sized rib of beef and a ham from the biggest pig known to man, together with 15 tureens full of different vegetables; in other words just the average UK family Christmas dinner - NOT ) from the beginning of October, and our local Somerfields (now fortunately defunct and replaced by a Waitrose) had had their festive ceiling decorations in place on September 1st (I kid you not). I think that year Asda received so many complaints that the supermarkets revised their ideas of the build up to Christmas from 4 months down to about 6 weeks, which is a step in the right direction as far as I am concerned. What really does annoy me, is the idea that somehow certain Christmas adverts must be treated like a blockbuster Hollywood movie accompanied by free advertising of its first showing by sycophantic and brain-dead radio and TV presenters, and full page newspaper articles which are simply a cut&paste retailers press release, in advance of this "momentous" event; and even followed by a daily update of how many zillion youtube views the adverts have had. What usually appears is a saccharine-filled vomit-inducing 90 second clip of some poor child being befriended by a cuddly "thing" which has even bigger eyes than the most stupid cartoon character, and the creature takes the kid to a sad fantasy world where selfish materialistic ideals have triumphed over everything else and only the biggest and most expensive presents matter. These productions cost £millions which could be put to far better use giving food, warmth and shelter to the hundreds of thousands who are going to spend the holiday period on the streets of a country which is supposed to have one of the top ten largest economies in the world. There; I feel a little better now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG John Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 One of my past lives was working for a large direct-selling beauty company (clue: ding d*ng - although they haven’t used that slogan since 1972). It used to be quite disconcerting to go into the marketing department in February and March and find it full of samples of Christmas merchandise, as they finalised the plans for the coming Christmas... Edited to add: the asterisk in “d*ng” is an “o”. Apparently the forum software objects to doorbell sounds that may also be slang for a part of the body... But why is the ding bit OK? My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling I want you to play with my ding-a-ling My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling I want you to play with my ding-a-ling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free At Last Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 (edited) BG John, on 11 Nov 2017 - 09:41, said: But why is the ding bit OK? The ding is only a bell, it's the other bit that has the end. Edited November 11, 2017 by Free At Last Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Radford Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 You've hit the nail fair and square there. The early Christmas is bad enough but the sickly perfection is the really nauseating bit. They're much like those American films that celebrate some plastic Barbie meets Stepford stereotype of imagined Christmas designed to match cloying sentiment rather than real life. I note that my Freesat box has a multiplicity of channels, there are two or three of them seeming devoted to food and another pair for horror, surely there must be a market for a no Xmas channel? Edit: The reality of Christmas. Hard work in bad weather for some, chaos for the unprepared and grumbling for those who are predisposed to whinge. You are in luck! There is a ?CBS channel in the 60s that is showing Christmas films as you describe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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