Sean Bean shouting do it for Yorkshire really gets on my nerves.
John.
John.
What TV adverts really annoy you ?
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I’ve seen it and haven’t a scooby what it is advertising. A Smurf-positive employment initiative?!!
Proper advert that
Proper gobshite
The card advert that everyone goes oooooOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo. Really winds me up.
They’ve started parodying themselves which lets them off the hook!
That bloody ebay add with "the mechanic mindset " oh and the new wave of we buy any car adverts....now where's my shogun 
I was going to write the same, but read through the thread to see if anyone else had got in first.
They are hardly representative of reality. I don't even know any black or gay people.
Unlike @dubber36, I know, employ and generally mix with a pretty diverse bunch of folk and I find it very insulting that businesses pick up on diversity and spin things for the sake of marketing.
For example- It is common to see same sex couples in public, or somebody in their workplace with a disability. My issue is that this isn't the most common and therefore can't be classed as...... erm.....normal.
(I have done everything I can with my limited vocabulary to avoid the word "Normal"! I and wish to completely avoid entering into the "What is normal" debate!)
Look at TV adverts from Virgin or Cupra who are so keen to push what they have decided society has decided is the new "normal"!
I detest media bods attempting to push sensitive and contentious topics in order for them to be perceived as more acceptant of a diverse world that their competitors!
My view is that diversity is something that bothers very few people and why should it? However, when you watch the TV you'd think that being disabled, homosexual, transgender was "normal".
Now..... Will somebody please give me a better word that "normal"?
For example- It is common to see same sex couples in public, or somebody in their workplace with a disability. My issue is that this isn't the most common and therefore can't be classed as...... erm.....normal.
(I have done everything I can with my limited vocabulary to avoid the word "Normal"! I and wish to completely avoid entering into the "What is normal" debate!)
Look at TV adverts from Virgin or Cupra who are so keen to push what they have decided society has decided is the new "normal"!
I detest media bods attempting to push sensitive and contentious topics in order for them to be perceived as more acceptant of a diverse world that their competitors!
My view is that diversity is something that bothers very few people and why should it? However, when you watch the TV you'd think that being disabled, homosexual, transgender was "normal".
Now..... Will somebody please give me a better word that "normal"?
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There’s a scene from Ricky Gervais’s Extras, with Keith Chegwin, that describes how “normal” things are!
I think our definition of "normal" has changed massively. What my kids (ok, young adults) see as their normal is different to mine.
We shouldn't ignore the fact that those diverse groups are big sales targets for advertisers, as are the non-diverse groups who want to see more diversity.
I don't get wound up by adverts that portray diversity, but I bloody hate the latest We Buy Any Car adverts just for the sheer stupidity of them.
Pete
We shouldn't ignore the fact that those diverse groups are big sales targets for advertisers, as are the non-diverse groups who want to see more diversity.
I don't get wound up by adverts that portray diversity, but I bloody hate the latest We Buy Any Car adverts just for the sheer stupidity of them.
Pete
At least they've binned the really annoying Schofield.
