patronising digital advert

Derek Geldard wrote:
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:45:36 +0100, Andy Champ
wrote:

Mark Carver wrote:
tony sayer wrote:
It seems that in modern Britain, whilst racism is almost a
capital offence, ageism is officially condoned.


Totally agree!. Don't they -ever- think that one day they'll be
old to?..

You don't when you're in your twenties, and that's the root problem.


One of two roots. The other is - why are people that age in charge
of the ad. campaign anyway?


Not exactly the same topic but why do females allow themselves to be
presented as totally air-headed or vacuous on TV adverts.


He he, University challenge was a treat this evening, a team of lovely young
women whipping the asses off the boys, final score 260 to 120..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mkggt

"Andy Champ" wrote in message
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Mark Carver wrote:
tony sayer wrote:
It seems that in modern Britain, whilst racism is almost a capital
offence, ageism is officially condoned.

Totally agree!. Don't they -ever- think that one day they'll be old
to?..

You don't when you're in your twenties, and that's the root problem.

One of two roots. The other is - why are people that age in charge of the
ad. campaign anyway?
Andy


Gov ministers love giving contracts to quangos run or chaired by
their friends / relatives / children.

Every party since the war has claimed it will reduce quangos when they get
into office, then when they do they realise it's an easy and legal way to
funnel
large quantities of taxpayers money to friends and relatives.

As we don't have any anti-racketeering laws in the UK, our contractual
law is a farce and would be illegal in more civilised countries

Nepotism you know it makes sense.

Steve Terry

In message , Bill Wright
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I've just seen an advert on BBC-1 for the government's digital switchover
help scheme. This is intended to help those over 75 make the switch from
analogue to digital TV. The advert showed a garulous old fool who seemed to
lack social awareness and common sense. The young relative and the young
engineer exchanged meaningful glances, as if to say, "She can't help being
daft; she's old." How incredibly patronising and insulting this is to the
very people they claim to be helping. It seems that in modern Britain,
whilst racism is almost a capital offence, ageism is officially condoned.

As patronising as the item on Country tracks on Sunday, where they
interviewed "The worlds biggest liar" who spilled a yarn about how
Sellafield (or somewhere) wasn't powered by nuclear energy, but by ducks
(or something)

Why they felt a need to run a text across the picture explaining that
this wasn't true really made me wonder ...

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geoff

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tony sayer wrote:
In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus
I've just seen an advert on BBC-1 for the government's digital
switchover help scheme. This is intended to help those over 75 make
the switch from analogue to digital TV. The advert showed a garulous
old fool who seemed to lack social awareness and common sense. The
young relative and the young engineer exchanged meaningful glances,
as if to say, "She can't help being daft; she's old." How incredibly
patronising and insulting this is to the very people they claim to
be helping. It seems that in modern Britain, whilst racism is almost
a capital offence, ageism is officially condoned.


Totally agree!. Don't they -ever- think that one day they'll be old
to?..


And *WHAT* were your thoughts on 'oldies' when you were in your teens,
twenties, thirties - and possibly forties when you were showing them how to
use that new fangled invention called the video recorder - or even early
mobile phones? ;-)

I do remember a letter to one of the papers years ago asking why they
didn't wait until the old people had died off before introducing
decimalisation


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geoff

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geoff wrote:


I do remember a letter to one of the papers years ago asking why they
didn't wait until the old people had died off before introducing
decimalisation

my favourite letter was in the Sunday Excess many years ago which said of
course we should drive on the right side of the road since it would mean
that the driver got out at the pavement side which would be so much safer
....

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Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

"charles" wrote in message
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In article ,
geoff wrote:

I do remember a letter to one of the papers years ago asking why they
didn't wait until the old people had died off before introducing
decimalisation

my favourite letter was in the Sunday Excess many years ago which said of
course we should drive on the right side of the road since it would mean
that the driver got out at the pavement side which would be so much safer
...

Not if you are driving a LHD car

So to keep it simple, for safety the driver should drive on whichever side
of the road he's nearest to the pavement

Which Romanian Truck drivers seem to do anyway

Steve Terry

I don't really see what the problem is with this advert, though I'm in
my mid-30s. There's another advert, which I'm surprised nobody on here
has picked up on, and features the double gold-winning Paralympian
Ellie Simmonds. The ad begins with her talking to some man about her
achievements, and it's then revealed that he's installing a Freeview
box for her. One of her lines then is "Oh I don't know, I couldn't do
what you're doing". I think we try to over-analyse these things, and
look for offence where it probably doesn't exist ("if you're not
prepared to be offended by this, I order you to be, or I'll be
offended for you"). My opinion of these ads is that they're
deliberately light-hearted in order to make the discussion of the tech
(the DSO) a little less frightening.

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tony sayer wrote:
In article , Bill Wright
scribeth thus
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I do remember a letter to one of the papers years ago asking why they
didn't wait until the old people had died off before introducing
decimalisation
geoff


Lucky the Gov didn't use it as the excuse they needed to introduce
euthanasia

Save the elderly from decimalisation, knock them all off

Steve Terry

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:12:28 +0100 Cash wrote :
And *WHAT* were your thoughts on 'oldies' when you were in your teens,
twenties, thirties - and possibly forties when you were showing them
how to use that new fangled invention called the video recorder - or
even early mobile phones? ;-)

So true. In the sixth form we had a class in marketing, business or
somesuch, meant to widen our perspectives beyond our A-level subjects.
Our teacher was 60ish and it was extraordinary to us that he might
understand the then new Dolby system, let alone be able to explain to us.

The original author of what is now my ProSteel program still provides
background advice and a second opinion when needed. He's just bought a
laptop so he can work on his computer programming in the garden of his
residential home. Pretty good for 90 next birthday!

--
Tony Bryer, 'Software to build on' from Greentram
www.superbeam.co.uk www.superbeam.com www.greentram.com

Owain wrote:
On 31 Aug, 22:30, Derek Geldard wrote:
Not exactly the same topic but why do females allow themselves to be
presented as totally air-headed or vacuous on TV adverts.
What an empty meaningless life they must lead.

What do you expect from people who grew up with Barbie dolls instead
of train sets as children.


Quite!