Yep, I find that Alzheimers ad offensive too. Imagine saying that your Mum had died just because she couldn't remember how to make a Sunday roast! It doesn't kill you over and over again, rather it gradually blocks the pathways to all the different things that combine together to make you "you". (I say blocks the pathways, rather than destroying them, because sometimes particular music or smells or other triggers mean you can route around the blocks temporarily). I much prefer the depiction in the Cadbury's Whole Nut ad, where the Dad doesn't recognise his adult daughter as his daughter, but he remembers that she buys a bar for him for his birthday every year.
On a lighter note, WTAF is the new KFC advert with the giant golden egg all about?
The KFC ad where they dunk the bloke in the lake and he comes up as a chicken fillet.
What the fuck is that all about???
Wouldn’t mind but the last KFC fillet burger I had was absolute jank and tasted like it had been fished out of a lake.
Maybe they’re spending all their money on gravy lakes now instead of worrying about the quality of the chicken or whatever animal it was that I was served up.
I saw a very powerful ad last night for quitting smoking.
Lady at a wedding reading out a message to the crowd from her late father who wishes he could have been there - then switches to him writing it in a bed hooked up to oxygen gasping for breath.
The really depressing one for the Alzheimers Society that goes on about how many times Mum dies. Yes, it's a serious message and yes, I'm sure they do good work. But, as someone with a close relative suffering from Alzheimer's, the last thing I want is to keep being reminded of bad times and likely bad futures every time I listen to the radio or watch telly.
I do agree with you, its typical of charity adverts to play this tugging on your emotions card, almost saying contribute and it might not happen to you. One really good reason I pay Sky Glass an extra £5/month so I can skip the ads. I actually pay a charity, (Alzheimers or Dementia, worryingly I can't remember what one), each month a very small amount. But I get through the post each month, letters from them both to pay more. I contribute because I want to, after seeing my nans final few very long years of decline it seemed a worthy charity. I like most right minded would like to improvement peoples suffering from any disease but adverts like these must grate with a good proportion of their target.
Anyway, losing your brain function isn't always a bad thing. My 87 year old mum is most likely nearing the end now, lives in a care home, (which we sold her home for, would have been cheaper to buy a her a nice 2 year cruise rather than a room without a view). She has lost most of her sight, hearing, sense of smell, has stage 4 kidney failure, heart failure, lymphedema, arthritis of the spine, diabetes, maybe some other things, and on top of that a touch of dementia and can't remember her age. The dementia for her is an alternative happy reality for her. She talks of appearing on shopping channels selling all kinds of stuff. This week she told me she knew Paul Whitehouse when he first came to her studio when he was 14 and very talented at that age as well. She is actually reasonably happy a lot of the time, doesn't talk much about my dad or her parents or doom and gloom in general. And to top it all she actually believes she is in good health and is not on any medication, which isn't quite true.
The whistling bloody go compare adverts really boil my piss!!! I would rather have the opera singer and that's saying something! Pity he couldn't keep his wandering hands to himself the Pervy wank muffin
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What the fuck is that all about???
Lady at a wedding reading out a message to the crowd from her late father who wishes he could have been there - then switches to him writing it in a bed hooked up to oxygen gasping for breath.
'specially ones that just pop up halfway through some music video, I mean, does anyone actually watch the stuff!!
Any advert where they try to slip through that the interest rate is 1500% or something crazy, with small print and rapid speech.
Up to clearly includes the number 0...
Anyway, losing your brain function isn't always a bad thing. My 87 year old mum is most likely nearing the end now, lives in a care home, (which we sold her home for, would have been cheaper to buy a her a nice 2 year cruise rather than a room without a view). She has lost most of her sight, hearing, sense of smell, has stage 4 kidney failure, heart failure, lymphedema, arthritis of the spine, diabetes, maybe some other things, and on top of that a touch of dementia and can't remember her age. The dementia for her is an alternative happy reality for her. She talks of appearing on shopping channels selling all kinds of stuff. This week she told me she knew Paul Whitehouse when he first came to her studio when he was 14 and very talented at that age as well. She is actually reasonably happy a lot of the time, doesn't talk much about my dad or her parents or doom and gloom in general. And to top it all she actually believes she is in good health and is not on any medication, which isn't quite true.