It's one of those "knowing" adverts: "we know it's still only October, but let's play Wizzard at you anyway whilst telling you to get our Xmas catalogue".
thankfully I have avoided that so far, but as a postie, i have been delivering brick thick Xmas tat magazines since about August. :(
Studio "the christmas book" is the worst culprit.
Won't be delivering the mail for a while though, docs put me on "light duties", I've badly knackered my left leg, and didn't realise, trying to walk it off has compunded the problem, I technically have a bad sprain, but apparantley its really quite a serious injury.
I shall of course milk this for all it's worth, and try and work indoors until after Christmas. :)
That's the one thing I don't miss about England all those feckin' ads, they stuff chrimbo down your neck here from about late July though, but not on TV or Radio (It's past Mid-October now and I haven't seen a single chrimbo ad on TV or heard one on the Radio).
thankfully I have avoided that so far, but as a postie, i have been delivering brick thick Xmas tat magazines since about August. :(
That's because the companies knew what striking shirkers you all are, so posted them early in the hope that customers would get them in time for Xmas! :)
To be honest everytime it gets near Xmas i'm jealous i'm not a kid again.
Think back to those glory years, most of the year you spent saving your pocket money for a couple of games and loads of copies of all your friends tapes.
However it was now coming up to Xmas, all those enticing ads were appearing in the mags for the Xmas blockbusters, you couldnt wait to get those games at Xmas ! Plus the mags around then were something special, how about the Crash Xmas issue ! Jampacked with extra pages and great reviews/previews of all the big games.
For a kid with a Speccy it was fun fun fun.
Roll on 20 years later and the 'excitement' is what colour socks you'll be getting from your parents (sigh)
To be honest everytime it gets near Xmas i'm jealous i'm not a kid again.
Think back to those glory years, most of the year you spent saving your pocket money for a couple of games and loads of copies of all your friends tapes.
However it was now coming up to Xmas, all those enticing ads were appearing in the mags for the Xmas blockbusters, you couldnt wait to get those games at Xmas ! Plus the mags around then were something special, how about the Crash Xmas issue ! Jampacked with extra pages and great reviews/previews of all the big games.
For a kid with a Speccy it was fun fun fun.
Roll on 20 years later and the 'excitement' is what colour socks you'll be getting from your parents (sigh)
Yeah, I remember I was 13 when Christmas stopped being Christmas. I remembered the excitement from the previous year and was expecting to feel the same way again...and I didn't. Would be nice to get that excited about something again....far too cynical now though.
Since I've had kids it's got a lot better, I really do look forward to it now. It really is wonderful to see the excitement on the kids faces. There is just one problem with it personally though:
My birthday is Christmas Eve. So I've got the perfect excuse to get shit-faced with no re-percussions, but it's no fun waking up at 5.30am with a hangover and the kids bouncing on the bed! It doesn't stop me though!!!
One good thing as I've got older (with a birthday on the 24th) is I don't get shit presents (such as socks, etc). I insist on one big present that everyone can club together to get that covers both my b'day and christmas day. So it means I can really have what I want rather than some pointless crap.
I dunno what to have this year though. I've got a Wii, PS3, PSP and DS (already done the 360 so don't want that). I'll have bought/"you know what" all the good games for them by Christmas. So I don;t know what to ask for this year. I generally get around £200 spent on me and I like fun electronic gadgets. Has anyone any ideas?
Oh, Christmas adverts, how I despise thee! I hate ninety-nine percent of advertising anyway, but there's a special place in hell reserved for these parasitic guilt-inducing ads that appear earlier and earlier every year.
"Look at all this stuff! Don't you want your children to love you? You'd better buy all of it, RIGHT NOW! Don't worry about paying for it, either - we'll sell you a great credit deal so that the whole of next year is Christmas for us too!"
"Look at all this stuff! Don't you want your children to love you? You'd better buy all of it, RIGHT NOW! Don't worry about paying for it, either - we'll sell you a great credit deal so that the whole of next year is Christmas for us too!"
Couldn't have said it better!........Well actually maybe I could have......but with more vitriol :D
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Studio "the christmas book" is the worst culprit.
Won't be delivering the mail for a while though, docs put me on "light duties", I've badly knackered my left leg, and didn't realise, trying to walk it off has compunded the problem, I technically have a bad sprain, but apparantley its really quite a serious injury.
I shall of course milk this for all it's worth, and try and work indoors until after Christmas. :)
That's the one thing I don't miss about England all those feckin' ads, they stuff chrimbo down your neck here from about late July though, but not on TV or Radio (It's past Mid-October now and I haven't seen a single chrimbo ad on TV or heard one on the Radio).
That's because the companies knew what striking shirkers you all are, so posted them early in the hope that customers would get them in time for Xmas! :)
Didnt realise you lot were still working ! ;) Its like we're living in France with all these strikes ;)
(Quickly runs away)
Oh *&$?...
Think back to those glory years, most of the year you spent saving your pocket money for a couple of games and loads of copies of all your friends tapes.
However it was now coming up to Xmas, all those enticing ads were appearing in the mags for the Xmas blockbusters, you couldnt wait to get those games at Xmas ! Plus the mags around then were something special, how about the Crash Xmas issue ! Jampacked with extra pages and great reviews/previews of all the big games.
For a kid with a Speccy it was fun fun fun.
Roll on 20 years later and the 'excitement' is what colour socks you'll be getting from your parents (sigh)
Yeah, I remember I was 13 when Christmas stopped being Christmas. I remembered the excitement from the previous year and was expecting to feel the same way again...and I didn't. Would be nice to get that excited about something again....far too cynical now though.
so, erm, you watch to see if your rich neighbours leave the country for christmas, and then break in and nick all their stuff? :-o
:D
My birthday is Christmas Eve. So I've got the perfect excuse to get shit-faced with no re-percussions, but it's no fun waking up at 5.30am with a hangover and the kids bouncing on the bed! It doesn't stop me though!!!
One good thing as I've got older (with a birthday on the 24th) is I don't get shit presents (such as socks, etc). I insist on one big present that everyone can club together to get that covers both my b'day and christmas day. So it means I can really have what I want rather than some pointless crap.
I dunno what to have this year though. I've got a Wii, PS3, PSP and DS (already done the 360 so don't want that). I'll have bought/"you know what" all the good games for them by Christmas. So I don;t know what to ask for this year. I generally get around £200 spent on me and I like fun electronic gadgets. Has anyone any ideas?
"Look at all this stuff! Don't you want your children to love you? You'd better buy all of it, RIGHT NOW! Don't worry about paying for it, either - we'll sell you a great credit deal so that the whole of next year is Christmas for us too!"
Vampyre: How about a radio-controlled helicopter?
Couldn't have said it better!........Well actually maybe I could have......but with more vitriol :D
These adverts, aimed at shallow individuals weak minded who think these adverts are aspirational.
They are all so crap and unrealistic. What ever happend to the Perfum adverts of old.
argos advert for anyone who's not seen it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAZ9Vu6PtxU