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I'm always happy to complain about adverts but how "unpopular" is it to do that? Don't most sensible reasonable people hate adverts?

Though that said, there are the soppy ones that a lot of people seem to like. A couple of years back there was a rash of big monolithic corporations doing these intelligence-insulting ads featuring a supposedly life-affirming story such as the one where a bank showed their soft caring side by having a member of staff returning a lost scarf to someone. There couldn't be anything more calculated to ensure I don't set up an account with them.

The ones with talking or singing animals are ghastly but seem to be liked by a baffling number of people, as are the ones that use a well-known song but in a really naff slow cover version featuring a tired listless-sounding female singer.

As for those Halifax ones that stick that gratingly cheery pillock into appropriated much-loved old films.... Every single person involved in any way in the making of those ads should be sentenced to a Clockwork Orange style looped screening of the same ads, while strapped into their seat and their eyes clamped open like Alex.

Oh man...

I must withdraw my previous comment about your jib!

In fact, I just patted my pockets and established I don't have any shrift on me but if I did, I'd tear off the shortest possible bit of it to give the above post.

I like well thought out and original advertising. I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but a few years ago when the Freederm "Boy Meets Girl" advert and the later "Goose" ones were playing in the cinema I felt slightly cheated if I didn't get to see one of them. If advertising is done right people will want to see it.

Rant time. Advertisers: If you have to force people to watch advertisements then you've failed twice over. You've failed once because you lack the talent to create something interesting and engaging. And you've failed again because you've trained the public to associate your client's product with being annoyed, which is entirely the opposite of what you're supposed to be achieving. You couldn't possibly get it more wrong. You're crap at your job and you should be ashamed.

I don't see tv ads as I don't watch tv but I see cinema ads, some of which I believe are the same. Two things in particular annoy me, one of which has long been the case and the other seemingly of more recent origin: firstly, seeing an ad with music I love but don't recognise, then having to google it to see if I can find the name of the artist and song.

Secondly - and presumably advertisers pay more for these slots as they must be considered premium - just when you think you've sat through all the ads and trailers and are at last about to see the film you came for, another ad appears. This seemed to begin with the dire Max Factor ads associated with The Greatest Showman (and I don't even agree with wearing make-up, as I think it's insulting to yourself and others), but has alas continued since, with different offenders taking over the slot.

As for the ridiculous words some actors doing the voiceovers are required to say (OK, so three things), they're embarrassing to hear, especially the current car ad with the line about "audacity drives ..." something or other which I can't remember. If advertisers must do this, at least get someone who doesn't have an issue with glottal stops.

This happened when I was in a cinema yesterday, with an Apple ad.

At our local arts centre staff told me audience members complained when short films were screened ahead of main features in the old "support film" way. The staff wondered why they seemed fine about sitting through a big long chunk of ads but griped about a creative short film just a few minutes long!

Oh god yes that's rotten.

Lily.... oh, Lily....

Oh god there's a new one for Bingo with the Macarena.

Or the reference : You'd be lucky to get him to work for you.

"Lucozade - Find your flow"

I find my flow a once a month thanks, without needing reminders from your ads. Wtf does it even mean anyway? Can't imagine the brainstorming that goes into coming up with some of these slogans.

"someday you can tell your kids that you were only feet away (the Soho Playhouse is very, very small) when she briefly flashed her lacy black bra."

From today's article in the Daily Fleabag*. Well, at least they're being honest...

(*Guardian theatre review of the off-Broadway transfer)

Remind me in the future that seeing improv on International Women's Day isn't necessarily the best idea. Why does celebrating women also have to involve denigrating men? Nowadays it seems to be not only acceptable but almost expected for men to be referred to patronisingly. You get good and bad (and mostly somewhere in between) men and women and I don't think people should be criticised en masse for being one gender or the other.

I saw Hamilton last weekend and I don’t get all the hype!