I'M ADNUMB

Nope, a kindred spirit here!
Adignorant is me I don't even know what ad people are referring to half the time.....

Me too! In any case DD says many adverts are so obscure you wouldn't know what they are advertising especially the cars. I also have more important things to do like putting the kettle on.

They reckon that if you don't understand the advert then it's not aimed at you. Not much seems to be aimed at me anymore

Nor me! But I often like the accompanying music and have to find out what it is

I'm a bit of a sucker for a good advert, sadly there aren't many around at the moment.I loved the Guiness ads ( remember the white horses?)

When adverts are on I march/limp up and down the living room to keep fit, so I do not watch them.

And when the postman arrives with a stash of advertising material instead of proper post, I fling it all in the bin without even looking at it. What a waste of trees!

I feel sorry for our postie who has to drive two miles out of the village, a mile of which is down a bumpy farm road, just to fill our mailbox with junk which I then chuck on the bonfire.

I can't remember when we last had a proper letter.

The standards of everything has really plummeted, sadly there is little wit, imagination or even cleverness. Back in ye olde days when there were good adverts I rather enjoyed the long running saga of the Kenco adverts.

Nowadays my keep fit regime consists of a walk from the letterbox straight through to the utility room bin with all the rubbish which comes through the door or in the magazines.

Me, too. And now we have the ghastly Christmas ads. They all look the same to me, I couldn't tell you which one is M and S, which is John Lewis or which is Aldi. All horrible, all start far too early. And worse, remembering another thread, they all give the impression of happy families celebrating Christmas together in harmony - which we all know is far from the truth, as many of us spend the Christmas holiday alone. These ads just make the lonely people feel lonelier.

I'm the same, I rarely watch tv live nowadays, I record everything so that I can zoom through the adverts. If I have to watch something on catch-up, I keep something to read next to me, or go and empty the dishwasher, or some other little chore. The adverts nowadays are dire. I wondered if they just seemed dire because I was getting older - but no, the DCs agree, they are dreadful.

Even when I sign in for my emails, the adverts they force me to endure were so offputting and even sometimes really noisy so that I would forget my password, or type it incorrectly because the volume of sound made me jump. I have a cure for that too now - I leave the sound off, and have made a shield for the face of my computer that only allows me to see the sign-in area. I know I could sign in through a different web browser, but then I would have problems with my folders and favourites.

I know we have to endure adverts if we want a free service - but at least they could make them worth watching! It's a bit like when you used to go to the cinema. The main adverts would come in, and they would be very entertaining, then the local slightly weird local ads would appear and seemed totally cringeworthy by comparison. Now almost all ads seem cringeworthy.

Nice to know I'm not so odd after all.

For those of you who are sick of receiving junk mail, if you go to the Royal Mail website there is a link (below) to a preference website where you can request no junk main is delivered to you. It will only be the mail that doesn't have your name and address on, as legally they are obliged to deliver anything with your name and address on, but it should cut it down. Hope this helps.

www.mpsonline.org.uk/

The 'ads' that I hate are all the bits of paper that you get tucked in with magazines and as Luckygirl says all the rubbish that comes through the letter box. Yes, it all gets thrown straight in the bin as do all the charity gifts that I have not asked for.

I haven't seen the John Lewis ad yet so it shows how much commercial tv I watch and if I do I usually record it and whizz through ads.

Much as most people dislike junk mail it should be remembered that the money earned from the contracts to deliver it is what helps keep the postal delivery service going. Without it postage costs would be even higher and daily deliveries may disappear. Mine goes straight into the recycling bin but it must be of use to some people otherwise companies would not continue to send it out.

Sometimes I watch them sometimes I don't, but even when i do watch them I'm not usually absolutely certain what they are advertising. In fact there are some you can watch and if you miss the last few seconds you will be totally unaware of what is being advertised. Some of them amuse me for a little while- the meerkats for example, but advertisers can't help overdoing something successful.

I hate the adverts too but the thing is if you watch something on I-player (or similar) you can't whizz through the ads so yes I do something else like the loo or putting the kettle on. I prefer to record and then I can just whizz through. As for anything that comes via the postie straight in the bin ( after removing any addresses of course).

I like the John Lewis advert. It's sugary sweet but at least it's not the usual come and buy stuff sort of thing.

I'm not keen on the supermarket adverts esp LIDL's 'it's not just a Sunday dinner'. I don't like the happy family Christmas's because lets be honest how many people actually have that perfect day? Don't get me wrong I love Christmas but I've never had the TV ad perfect Christmas and I doubt anyone else has. The ads never show the tired/over excited/ fractious children, the frazzled over worked mother, the drunk father, the toys that need a degree in engineering and/or computing to put together or the host of other things that happen in real families.

I like ads that make me laugh like the Sly Stallone/Warburtons one but I get lost if the ad is too clever (usually the car ads) and I end up wondering what product was being advertised.

I dont watch adverts, so my DH got the John Lewis ad up on his computer for me to watch, as people talk about it every year even on gransnet, so I thought I ought to know what people are talking about.

Add breaks are for channel hoping, aren't they?

Yes Nina, I had forgotten, I also channel-hop during the ad breaks. I guess I do it automatically.

Is channel hoping when you change channels in the vain hope that something better is on

i'm another one who records programmes to watch later and then whizz through the ads. unless it's an ad i like of course - but they are few and far between.

the ads every a few years ago were more interesting and, like others, i don't think they're dull these days because i've got older!

as for the junk that the postman delivers, you can opt out of this by going to the royal mail's website. you have to look for it but when you've found it you can complete a form and, hey presto, in a few days you won't get the junk through your letterbox.

i opted out several years ago and my postman now knows not to put it through the letterbox - i told him that i was getting fed up with picking it up from my doormat and putting it straight in the bin.

thankfully i don't get ads on my internet browser - just a different picture each day which is good - i use "bing" and it's easy to find.

my local paper annoys me because of their ads - i have to wait ages for the page to load up as there are so many around the text. i enlarge the font so that the text fills the screen but, in the middle of every article, there's a video ad for something or other - fortunately i can specify in the "options" section of bing whether i want them to play automatically or whether i just want a still photo. if i've GOT to have ads then i'll put up with a still photo.

however there's no getting away from the ads on the radio if you listen to a commercial station as i do - apart from mentally tuning them out!

Did none of you see the piece on TV about advertising companies becoming worried about (this) attitude towards advertising.
They are looking more at product placement.

I believe product placement used to be illegal but it obviously is no longer. The commercial TV companies can get the brand producers to pay for the placement, which of course they will. It must be priceless advertising if we see David Platt pour some Coco Pops for Max's breakfast - that's Coronation Street for those who don't know!