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02 Jan 2013
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Season Change

Now that we’re over and done with on the Festering Season, it’s a season change in the advertising world.

Away go all the ads for perfume, shitty music compilations, and Christmas stuff in general.

Instead, for the start of the new year we get adverts for

  • Dating sites – eHarmony, Match.com, etc.
  • Weight-loss programmes – WeightWatchers, DietChef and Slimming World
  • Holidays (and airlines)
  • Banks

One advert is missing from the list though – I think this is the first time in about a decade that I haven’t seen an advert for stopping smoking . I assume they think everyone who’s going to quit has done so by now. Or maybe it’s an extension of all the other laws/rules about not advertising cigarettes – they now also can’t advertise stopping smoking?

Anyway, it’s all interesting, in that it shows how much advertisers expect people to be ‘normal’, to do certain things at certain times of the year. I find that fascinating.

Posted by lyle in Advertising, Cynicism, Festering Season, People, Thoughts
25 Dec 2012

Christmas

Happy Christmas, and all that.

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18 Dec 2012
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The Festering Season, 2012

For whatever reason, 2012′s Festering Season hasn’t really had as much of an impact on me as usual.

Maybe I’m mellowing. Maybe I’ve just given up on it as an unwinnable fight. I don’t know.

I still get annoyed by the bullshit commerciality of the entire enterprise – things like

  • seeing Christmas cards in the shops before Hallowe’en
  • Hearing Christmas Carols in November
  • Mince Pies with a ‘best before’ in November
  • All the insane consumer-driven shopfests in December – particularly in supermarkets

But for whatever reason, I can’t really find it in me at the moment to rant about it. Maybe I’m feeling pretty chilled at the moment, maybe it’s just (as I said before) because it’s pretty much an unwinnable fight. Maybe I’m just a bit tired of being ranty.

Whatever the reason, it just hasn’t annoyed me as much as usual.

Posted by lyle in Advertising, Festering Season, Introspective, Shopping, Thoughts
26 Nov 2012

Counting Down

Did you realise that one month from today, the Festering Season will be all over and done with for another year?

How time flies…

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11 Nov 2012

Signs of the Season

TV Adverts for perfume, gadgets, books, furniture sales and so on.

It must be the run-up to the Festering Season.

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31 Oct 2012
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Hallowe’en

Yes, once again it’s that time of year.

The one where, after telling children all year that they shouldn’t talk to strangers, let along accept sweets etc. from strangers, it’s now acceptable – but only for one night (and the following weekend, of course) – to go knocking on doors and – um – accept sweets from strangers.

What could possibly go wrong?

I feel the same about Santa in the Festering Season – again, don’t talk to strangers, but oh, it’s ok this time because you’re talking to Santa and accepting presents. Hey, good move.

 

In short, ’tis the season to introduce your children to hypocrisy and double-standards. Enjoy.

Posted by lyle in 1BEM, Charm School, Cynicism, Domestic, Festering Season, Hypocrisy, People, Thoughts, Weirdness
02 Apr 2012
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Crackers for Easter

Over the weekend, in Sainsbury’s, I spotted packs of Easter Crackers. Yeah, like Christmas Crackers, but for Easter.

What. The. Fuck?!?

(Looking on Google, it appears that this is becoming a common thing, somehow)

I didn’t get any photos this time – I’ll try to get some next time I’m there.

But really, what the hell is going on, if Easter Crackers are now a thing?

Posted by lyle in 1BEM, Charm School, Cynicism, Festering Season, Sweary

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