emilly | (no subject)

I don't watch tv very often, and I can ignore ads for lollies and soft drink and cars as easily as the next 25 year old, but did ads for anti-smoking and various other government-type initiatives recently get harsher?
The new quit ad just made me cry.
It could be really really simple: they're quiet. The background noise is just background noise - even a busy airport terminal is much much quieter than the jingle for some car.
And they're more graphic: I'm thinking of the Work Safe ad with the guy working in a restaurant. I tend to look away and talk loudly until the screaming stops.
And so I notice these ads and random colourful noisy 30 second block just slips past me.

Still. I don't think you can use "very quiet, no dialogue, severe injuries" to sell a car. Actually I think the TAC used that formula to sell not driving earlier this year.

Now, etsy will make me spend money. And yet, I have self-restraint, so I'm just going to avoid it until the dollar isn't at 5 year lows.

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oh i cannot handle those new worksafe ads! the one where the girl puts her hand in the breadslicer?? it made me feel physically ill! i change the channel every time they come on. and i don't even really watch telly much either, usually only sort of randomly late at night and yet i've come across them HEAPS.

oh etsy :( i haven't even checked there since the dollar went to crap.

as you can tell, i am studying hard!! 2 exams down, 2 to go!!

halfway there!!
no, the worst one is still the one with the pot of stock.