Ads put me off my tea
I read Tony Levy’s letter regarding daytime adverts with some amusement. I gave up watching daytime television some years ago when I was confined to the chair following a serious operation.
For me it was the programmes not the adverts – , rather than helping me on the road to recovery they depressed me beyond measure. Don’t get me wrong I am not an unsympathetic person, but day after day of people screaming and shouting at one another on one channel and someone who is at death’s door or in floods of tears on the other. Films or programmes so old you could almost smell the mothballs.
So these days, after the morning news, our television does not go on again until teatime. But now our problem is with the adverts.
We usually watch The Chase and then the evening news while we eat our tea and that is when they start. All the adverts about spitting blood when you clean your teeth, medicine to stop your constipation/diarrhoea/heartburn, treatment for head lice, something for smelly armpits/feet or even something to stop you making the toilet smelly.
Anything unpleasant they save for when you are eating. I am sure it is planned! Pity our favourite programmes are on ITV.
Jenny James, Wordsley
