(John Lewis Ad from 2021 – Day Admin)
I just read my e-mails, and was delighted to find one from retailer John Lewis, inviting me to be among the first to view its new Christmas advert. Apparently it features a boy whose grow-your-own Christmas tree turns out to be a giant Venus Flytrap.
Stifling a yawn, I had a look at the papers online, where to my further delight, I found ‘The Daily Express’ once again inviting me to ‘watch the full and festive heartwarming advert HERE’;
Ditto ‘The Daily Fail’. I can barely contain my apathy.
Gawden Bennett. It now seems that we’ve reached a point where a bloody ADVERT gets premiered. They should get a full red carpet do organised for the actors and the production team. What next, a blaze of publicity for the premiere of Asda’s ad about its special cranberry and orange scented Christmas bog roll?
Am I just an old fogey to be amazed that members of the public get genuinely excited and bound up in this kind of marketing rubbish? All I can do is to borrow a Scots expression from the wife, and murmur ‘ho’d me back!’ in exasperation.
Gosh, only forty odd days to go! Ho fucking ho.
Nominated by: Ron Knee
The fuckers that make these adverts don’t even believe in Christmas. They should fuck off on their Hajj, or visit Lenin’s tomb, or do whatever other bollocks they do for their multi-cultural ‘holidays’ . Then we could have our own proper White Christmas ads back. Fuck off.
Good morning, everyone.
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Indeed.
Wishing you all a happy Winter Festival when it arrives.
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You’re not an old fogey, Ron, just somebody whose education and life experiences enable him to recognise and sift shit from things of true value. Additionally, I long ago banned ‘festive’ and other it’s ilk from this house and from my vocabulary. I’ve no time for those in the advertising business who consider their minds to be so superior to those of the rest of us that, with a wave of their wit laden wands, we can be influenced to buy things that we neither want nor need whilst simultaneously failing to recognise the grotesquely twisted images of reality that they use to appease the woke. TV ads should be banned as incitements to racism because that’s what they’re doing to me. Festive my cold Northern English arse. Merry Christmas.
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*Superfluous ‘other’ in post. 9/10 – must try harder.
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I suppose the one thing that you could say about the Lewis’ advert is that it’s not dripping with wokery.
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I’ve not seen it, Ron, because I mainly record or watch on catch up. What I don’t like in this case is the use of ‘Festive’ instead of ‘Christmas’ so as not to offend non-Christians, most of whom we didn’t ask to come here in the first place. We do not substitute other words for Diwali
or Ramadan.
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Crazy innit Isabel?
I’m surprised that cunt Noddy Holder hasn’t seized the opportunity to squeeze a few bob more out of Slade’s perennial Xmas bore by doing a re-record ‘Merry Festival Everyone’.
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I loathe all modern Xmas adverts, Ron. Some celebrity cunt making out they get their groceries from Asda. That autotuned cunt Michael Buble. Never been in Asda in his life, and he’s certainly never worked there, the twat.
And that prancing bag of mince, Graham Norton and his luvvie cohorts in that Waitrose advert. What a bunch of bastards.
The old Woolies adverts were the best. Joe Brown, Tommy Steele, the Goodies, and the lovely Anita Harris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2rN4az_bcY
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M&S Christmas adverts out early.
“These aren’t any old bed sheets, these are M&S luxury bedsheets” 🤣
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_Zi0q-WAAA3_Q1?format=jpg&name=small
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Anita Harris has certainly matured like a fine wine;
https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/showbiz/2023/08/25/singer-anita-harris-to-bring-out-new-song-in-time-for-world-alzheimers-day/
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Loved Anita in that nurse’s uniform in that Carry On film.❤
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If norton died an agonising death, I’d become Ebenezer Scrooge after waking from his nightmare and believe in all that’s not true. But the Irish could will outlive me, the fucking twat.
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Cunt became could. It may be a sign.
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And which bright spark thought up Dawn fucking French as a flying Christmas fairy?
A fat cunt flying round would put you off your Christmas dinner, not encourage you to buy it.
And that Lidl advert…. Traditional Christmas dinner setting. Kids, old granny, all that and all white. Then the head of the household comes in with the turkey. A Chicken Floyd George look-alike, as black as newgate’s knocker. Fuck off.
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I love the M and S ‘burning the Palestine flag’ ad getting pulled.
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Sad bastards.
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And I hate that Mariah Carey record…. I am sick to death of it.
Mind you, a younger Ms Carey in a saucy Santa outfit would be of some use.
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I saw Charlotte Church in the lighting dept. of Cardiff John Lewis a few years back. I got the ‘orn.
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I also hate that Celebrations advert, with those dumb annoying Beatle wigged chinks (or whatever they are).
And that Twix advert, with those two ginger curly haired ‘geek’ cunts on it. They look like kid .e. fiddlers. I wish those bears would eat the cunts.
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Look on the bright side.
At least Lily Mong isn’t squawking her tone deaf bollocks all over this year’s John Lewis advert.
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Norman they will probably have that other cuntfuck Dani Dyer on next year ….
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