I'M ADNUMB

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/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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?)

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

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

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.

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