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aspiecharles

Is it just me or does anyone else find TV adverts unbearable ? I'm not sure if it's an aspie thing or if it's a more general feeling but I cannot abide most tv adverts. The way they are directed at certain types of people (mostly people who don't think for themselves) and spoken in the most ridiculas accents with rising inflections at the end of each sentance. They presume that we are all a bit thick and will be impressed by their stupid presentation. I know companies have to advertise things in order to sell them but do they need to be so over patronising about it ? I have got to the stage now that I turn off the volume on the tv when the adverts come on otherwise I get so annoyed.  Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me?  

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  • I completely agree, and I do the same during adverts. They are usually at the intellectual level of a moron, the blatant manipulation makes me heave, and I'm incredulous that people are so gullible that they fall under their spell. And yes, BBC too, even the news seems to be a modern day version of Newsround. They use the same methods of manipulating the public emotions, they are very good at insinuating, and I think of them now as George Orwell's Ministry of Truth.

    You are clearly intelligent and therefore immune. But you're right, they're an insult beneath contempt! Usually, by the time you've worked through the flashing lights and shouty stuff, the only facts you can glean about the product is that it exists, and therefore is overpriced because they're paying for insulting adverts out of their profits.

    Humanity Sapiens, bless them, they know not what they do...

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  • I completely agree, and I do the same during adverts. They are usually at the intellectual level of a moron, the blatant manipulation makes me heave, and I'm incredulous that people are so gullible that they fall under their spell. And yes, BBC too, even the news seems to be a modern day version of Newsround. They use the same methods of manipulating the public emotions, they are very good at insinuating, and I think of them now as George Orwell's Ministry of Truth.

    You are clearly intelligent and therefore immune. But you're right, they're an insult beneath contempt! Usually, by the time you've worked through the flashing lights and shouty stuff, the only facts you can glean about the product is that it exists, and therefore is overpriced because they're paying for insulting adverts out of their profits.

    Humanity Sapiens, bless them, they know not what they do...

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