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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 wonder, does anyone actually like adverts besides those that make/write them (or potentially media types?

    It is interesting to observe them from a design perspective, for example if you listen to a television voice over or radio advertisement, you can 'hear' that the speaker is smiling (try it yourself and you'll see that you voice is different). I'm not sure what the purpose of this is in most contexts and it seems a little pointless, especially in food advertising.

    I think more frustrating are similar kinds of items in news programmes. So far, the ITV morning news is, to my knowledge, the most common offender in this (although I imagine satellite/global news is far worse); the slow zooming in (and potentially sinister music overlay) of portraits of potential or convicted criminals.

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  • I wonder, does anyone actually like adverts besides those that make/write them (or potentially media types?

    It is interesting to observe them from a design perspective, for example if you listen to a television voice over or radio advertisement, you can 'hear' that the speaker is smiling (try it yourself and you'll see that you voice is different). I'm not sure what the purpose of this is in most contexts and it seems a little pointless, especially in food advertising.

    I think more frustrating are similar kinds of items in news programmes. So far, the ITV morning news is, to my knowledge, the most common offender in this (although I imagine satellite/global news is far worse); the slow zooming in (and potentially sinister music overlay) of portraits of potential or convicted criminals.

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