Christmas ads

John Lewis have teamed up with Age UK for the ad. It's a real tear jerker.

Oh dear, it made me cry thinking of all the grandparents "half the world away" from their DGC!
I suppose I had better man "granny up" though, as we will be seeing a lot of this in the next 6 weeks.

I don't like much advertising anyway but I cannot help feeling that these usually very cheesy adverts are just manipulating and exploiting the public .

I wonder how much us shoppers actually pay for these massive Christmas greed campaigns.

Yes me too.

Oh dear, how sad, more than a few people upset by that I think. Loved the music though.

Oops me too in tears I mean.

Yes, a tear jerker, more than usual from JL in fact, I wonder if it will have the required shopping effect?

Sorry, just far too sad and depressing. And how many millions did it cost.....we should think of others all the time not just at Christmas.

Hmm....great sentiment but it didn't really 'grab' me. At the end of the day the old chap is still entirely on his own-he just has a parcel now -and is still looking at life from the outside.

I agree with Katek great sentiment. Loved the music and just out of interest to some other grans. the lyrics are provided via captions and improve the understanding!!

Glad I watched that on my own, DH would think I had gone mad crying at an advert! My son and grandchildren are overseas and he says he is not coming back for Christmas, the first time we shall be without him in 41 years. He's perfectly entitled to stay put of course, I will get used to it, but adverts like that don't help.

I wonder who they employ to write these tear jerkers, I much preferred the penguin last year. Will obviously feel the urge to go to the loo everytime this comes on now!

Just been discussing these ads on Good Morning (tea break from cleaning) Apparently 20% of people have already completed their Christmas shopping which is why the ads have to come out quite early. Haven't started mine yet unless a tin of shortbread counts?

I wondered at first if Grandpa had died and it was heaven she was looking at but as it's called The Man in The Moon I can't "get it".

I agree with KateK - he's still on his own Perhaps watching the celebrations through his telescope was supposed to make us think that he was participating, but I just felt that it made him seem even more alone/lonely. Definitely backfired as far as I'm concerned!

No tears here. I am afraid. NannyDee I fully agree. A salute to our world's greed.

If Age UK were involved they could have go the message over better by showing an older person living alone in Britain. It might be more more realistic than someone in a hut on on a planet. So that a family will need to spend lots of money on a telescope to see him.

However They they could just show a lonely next door neighbour being invited round for the day.

I am not impressed.

Perhaps it means we should Skype more?

Though a good suggestion of NellieMoser's to have a neighbour instead of a man on the moon.

That would have been much better and sent the message much more clearly too.

Having two of my grandchildren in this country and three in Australia I found it very sad as we are never all together. Our phrase is "We are looking at the same moon"

No. I don't like that. Apart from the fact that it really did make me cry, it's commercialising the extreme sadness some people really do feel at Christmas. No. Don't like it at all. He still ended up miles from his loved ones.

It's the worst kind of bad taste.

Having him as being "on the moon" is a cop out. They just mean miles from his family, but that could have upset some of their customers.

Talk about rubbing salt into a sore wound for those elderly people who can't be with their families at Christmas.

I will try very hard to avoid this cruel advert

No I don't like this one at all. It does absolutely nothing for me. Why depict a lonely old person as being on another planet, unreachable except by telescope? So is that all his family do for him? Send him a present that will allow him to keep in touch, but don't actually invite him round for Christmas? Blimey .
I'm surprised at Age UK being involved in this sort of sentiment