as i may have mentioned in passing once or thrice, i rarely sit and watch television but having sat watching 'Dave' and an old Top Gear the adverts seem to have gone all to hell. lots of charities requesting donations, a couple of 'staycation' promotions and cremation packages (where the feck did those come from) any products seem to be on a loop of repeating almost every break, is this normal now? while on the subject of charities i really cannot fathom that things such as cancer research have to almost beg for funds while the government spend billions on trying to land a probe on some distant asteroid, my take on this is fairly straight forward...your house is falling down and in need of urgent repair, do you make sure those repairs are done so you know you have many years left in your home and can safely look around until the right home comes up to move into, or do you do nothing to help your home apart from a couple of bodge jobs and go searching for a home you cannot possibly get to have a look at for many many years never mind move into. obviously, you would look after what you have, many billions can be found when needed and apparently readily available to hand out to certain companies in the form of big contracts, we read about 'cures' being found, now in my humble opinion, the government need to show that they either work and start using them to help people or they use those billions to research better treatments, rather like fuel where a few alternatives have been tried and proven to be completely green and emissions free yet they are insisting on going all electric...at the end of the day money or the promise/possibility of more money is being put before the health and welfare of the people and that can only be wrong. rant over, off to find something to stream that does not contain adverts.
at the end of the day money or the promise/possibility of more money is being put before the health and welfare of the people and that can only be wrong. That's just the world we live in. A fella named Michael Parenting summed it up nicely. The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force. Most of us will live too poor to do anything but work and drink and maybe watch some football and then die.
We try to record everything we want to watch and FF past the ads Even the BBC television is full of ads...for their own programs
Pretty sure funeral plan advertisements have always been a thing on television, might be a conversation most people don't want, but glad it's getting aired at least. I suppose if you're talking about television in general, I think it went down when streaming services first took off. Why watch a load of ad breaks, when you can watch the next episode now? If we're on about charity adverts, they never bothered me....until this year. The checklist is amazing... - Have you been affected by the pandemic? (Who hasn't?) - Do you find (insert issue or something you hold close to your heart, or have a mild interest in) isn't getting the attention it needs? - We lack funding and need (specific amount that ranges from 2 - 30 pound) - Shows image of child and/or animal and/or issue in dark light, with sad sombre music in background. Gah, enough anger....I suppose if TV is good for one thing, I guess.....hmm.........re-runs of The Office? But that's on Netflix now.
Streaming has made it hard to put up with adverts and puerile reality/game etc shows, especially if you can binge a series in one go. Or have have to wait a week for the next episode. Its like watching a movie without adverts!
That's why it's almost impressive , when a TV series gets good mainstream attention, that isn't on streaming sites. Have to admit I'm almost tempted to buy YouTube premium, because I am ****ing sick of those 30 second adverts saying "RAID SHADOW LEGENDS"
I hate the advert where a cow is pissing in the drinking water and they want X thousand pounds to pipe it away, I could spend 50 quid and put a fence and rail round the hole in the ground just to stop the cow pissing in it for a start.
I’ve pretty much stopped watching live tv at all. We either stream it via iPlayer after the event or I download it to watch at a time that suits me. use iptv for sports.
