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Annoying television adverts...
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Why do Morrisons adverrtise in Northern Ireland, when they've no shops here?
We used to have Safeways but when Morrisons bought them out they sold all the shops to ASDA.
We used to have Safeways but when Morrisons bought them out they sold all the shops to ASDA.
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nlogax
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Probably for the same reasons I see ads on C4 streams for obtaining London mayoral election ID although I'm living NOTB.
Those ITV2 sponsorship ads by iD Mobile, they’ve been on the channel for like over a year now, and they’re utterly cringe.
One of the ones I watched leading into an episode of American Dad! (which you can tell by PFP I’m a fan of) was about some guy making a really cringey joke about pushing an old lady down some stairs, and the punchline was cheesy as ever.
Really hope they get rid of them soon, I just want to be able to watch my actual funny shows in peace.
One of the ones I watched leading into an episode of American Dad! (which you can tell by PFP I’m a fan of) was about some guy making a really cringey joke about pushing an old lady down some stairs, and the punchline was cheesy as ever.
Really hope they get rid of them soon, I just want to be able to watch my actual funny shows in peace.
IanD
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There's an ad (that I've only seen on ITVx but may be available on other channels) for LNER with a furry puppet muppet dancing around the carriage and doing headspins on the ceiling. Seriously annoying.
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This one, presumably?
LNER launching a mascot
Given today's fare announcement, she should have, to quote Peter Kay, a "mask and a striped jumper." New TikTok ad idea to educate customers?
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IanD
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That's the character. Nightmare fellow passenger.
dangie
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The advert for Cadbury’s Cream Eggs asking how you eat your Cream Egg.
Then shows a man stuffing a whole one in his mouth.
Then shows a man stuffing a whole one in his mouth.
Western Sunset
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Another annoying thing is those adverts that begin with "Who said?"
Ashley Hill
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Shows you how much smaller the eggs are these days!
That reminds me. I don't know whether it is on TV but YouTube have Domino's cookies with a cream egg inside. Not only does it look awful, like some failed contribution to a TV cooking competition, but they cost £6.99
Xenophon PCDGS
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I am sure that I saw a very much amended version of that advert for the first time today.
Three months have elapsed since I made the above posting and that very strange advert was showing this morning still. I did leave a message with the receptionist at the time of seeing that advert for the first time at our local health centre to ask the doctor where these boxes could be obtained on an NHS prescription of if they have to be brought privately, but no answer ever came.
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Ashley Hill
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I think the answer lies in that the cancer is like a Jack In The Box. Until you turn the handle (ie visit your doctor) you dont know if you`ve got it.
Please tell me that you aren't being serious when you say that you've left such messages with the receptionist at your local health centre.
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One I see frequently on YouTube is
'Learn 100 songs on the piano in a hour with these 4 chords' cue annoying bloke breaking out into 'Let it Be' or 'Can you feel the love tonight'
'Learn 100 songs on the piano in a hour with these 4 chords' cue annoying bloke breaking out into 'Let it Be' or 'Can you feel the love tonight'
Xenophon PCDGS
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Why not. It was an NHS advert, paid for with taxpayers money, so if they choose to show barmy meaningless TV adverts, they should expect responses to them.
As a representative to the local Primary Care Network (PCN) I can give you two reasons:
1. Most receptionists (despite rumours to the contrary) work hard, desperately trying to meet demand for medical services (of all types), The chance that they will do anything other than filing it in something cylindrical or pass it to someone who will file it in a similar receptacle are minimal. I can only speak of the professionals that I deal with but they are overworked. There is a reason why we have meetings on a Saturday, because that is a time that they are guaranteed to be free.
2. Decisions like advertising are taken at a much, much higher level. At PCN level it will be nothing more than an invitation to attend a coffee morning where there might be a couple of nurses. perhaps a retired GP, and probably a couple of lay people to pour the coffee and open the biscuits. There will be leaflets of an informative nature - basic symptoms, as a minimum. The next level up is the Integrated Care Board. There is one for Lancashire and South Cumbria, based, I believe in Nelson. They won't have put the ads out but may have some idea where they came from (precisely). A letter to Sir Chris Wormald or Sona Dunn at 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 4NS will probably get a response but whether it will be any more than an acknowledgement, I am not sure. It would have been commissioned by someone centrally and produced by an overpaid whiz employee of an Ad agency who thought it was clever. Enough letters might encourage the DHSS to produce clearer adverts in future but I wouldn't put too much money on that.
nlogax
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Why on earth would you do that? You know full well no receptionist would be in a position to have any sway about those ads. They're not paid enough to deal with crank complaints.
dangie
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Whether you think it was a good advert or not, most people would work out the gist of what it was getting at. It maybe could have been better, but any advert calling for cancer testing certainly isn’t barmy or meaningless.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Is not the role of a receptionist to pass on messages, not to deal with matters. I will say that in real life, the only time that I have seen a person walking around continually turning a handle on an item they were holding was at a folk festival in the Somerset area and the item was a musical instrument known as a hurdy-gurdy, but that is an instrument that produces sounds, unlike the box in the TV advert.
Oh really? At what time in that advert prior to the comment at the very end, when the man in question was at the bus stop or in a room around a table with others was the object of the advert remotely made clear as what was being advertised. Would you have said anything to the man in the advert having seen what he was doing?
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Ashley Hill
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I think it was a metaphore representing the churning of ones mind with worry. Nobody else could see the Jack in the Box other than the man turning it.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Let me make matters clear for those who feel that a Jack in the Box is something that contains nothing but fresh air, as shown in the final sequence of the advert. If any parent had spent good money on such an item as a present for their children and no Jack popped up at the right moment, would they not return to the shop, show the lack of a Jack in the Box and ask to be recompensed?
Ii get the analogy, but it doesn't work well, at least for me. A real Jack In The Box always contains something, the suspense is when it will pop up.
Xenophon PCDGS
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The Head of Practice at our local health centre has regular meetings with the area NHS management teams. Ever heard of "feedback"?
nlogax
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Which won't go anywhere near the people you want it to. Not sure what part of that you don't understand. All of it, I suspect.
Xenophon PCDGS
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I hereby bow to your most obvious knowledge of the management tier structure of the NHS and have noted your clear view of how feedback is not a welcome role in the workings of the NHS .
Both the head of our local Primary Care Network and Lead Partner at my surgery (two different people) will say that their priority when talking to those in regional management is how they are supposed to jump through a new set of hoops and prove it so they can secure the extra funding that comes with the hoops so that can employ the extras (like physios, specialist nurses or paramedics) who can deal with patients directly and so take the pressure off of GPs. Subsequently might be the closure of pharmacies (so much for Pharmacy First), GPs retiring leading to surgeries closing (so practices having to take on more patients), endless house building (ditto), essential medicines being in short supply. They might raise your point but there are ways of doing so directly.
In my previous post, I made the assumption that you were in the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board ICB) area, I will continue to do so by way of explanation. They have a Citizen's Panel:
At this level, not all practices are represented, so your lead Partner way well not be. Mine isn't on the Kent and Medway ICB. It might be worth applying. These replaced Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). I sometimes attended my local one, occasionally asking questions; one, I remember, was answered fairly briefly but a GP who was on the CCG sought be out after the meeting and amplified the response, explaining, from a medical point of view why I was asked certain questions. This ICB has held six 'Listening Events' across the area, for which there is documentary feedback. I chose one at random - first item on 'How can we improve NHS Services in Central Lancashire' is 'Health Service Communication'. It is an issue - there is a chance to explain why it is an issue to you. There are 42 ICBs in the country, a lot less that the number of surgeries/ Health Centres. If you are prepared to spend a little time, you can ensure your voice is heard. I am invited to about 8 meetings a year - about 2 hours each. I have done some other work but that was an offer and only because it interested me, and I have some expertise.
If NHS advertising is an issue to you, there are opportunities to raise it. I urge you to use them.
A list of all ICBs can be found at https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/find-your-local-integrated-care-board/, surgeries should all have a Patient Participation Group.
The quote is from https://www.lancashireandsouthcumbria.icb.nhs.uk/get-involved/citizen-panel
Ashley Hill
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The current Flora Butter with the cow is quite infuriating. It asks why do we feed cows vegetation to make butter when we can turn vegetables into butter without the cow. Well,the better butter comes from milk therefore requiring a cow whilst the vegan option is emulsified vegetable oil and is quite different. It suggests one is guilty for eating real butter.