More tedious, fatuous wankery.
Television dramas should feature more characters buying electric cars or ordering vegetarian options in restaurants, as part of an attempt to nudge the general public into taking action against global heating, Sky has said.
Other suggestions include storylines showing people discussing how they need to save energy at home – or a plot “involving a fundraiser to install solar panels at a community centre”.
I don’t have Sky. Never will, now. I watch the occasional bit of goggly box for entertainment, not sanctimonious lecturing, so fuck off. You and the horse you rode into town on.
Sky hired the behavioural insights team, originally founded as the government’s “nudge unit”, to develop suggestions on how the television industry can help change the public’s behaviour using small changes.
Ah. Those despicable charlatans. I have managed so far by not doing what they have tried to nudge me into. I’m sure I can continue. I understand psychology enough to be able to see what is happening and to resist it. In this instance, if I saw something that was clearly a nudge, I’d switch off.
Let’s be clear here. It is not the televisions industry’s role – nor is it of the nudge unit – to change our behaviour. Fuck off.
The guidelines also propose using trusted news presenters…
Bwahahahahahaha. Trusted. Love it.
This comment applies to the previous post too. I don’t watch much telly but the few TV ads that I get to see suggests that every advertiser is out to save the planet from the climate crisis, or evil plastic.
Not to mention they are all in mixed race marriages…
Mixed race, same sex I think
Oh, yeah, forgot that one.
They could have the dusky hero pulling up in his all electric car to his heat pump warmed house to tell his multi-racial (but no Chinese, thank you) family that they are all, even the newborn, popping down to get their fifth booster Covid jab. And then returning home to delicious solar power cooked alfalfa.
In an alcove in the chilly room (they only have a single very energy efficient room as a home) there is a small image of the blessed Greeter, her face screwed up as if she was sucking a lemon through a sloe berry.
Then the single low energy light dims and the heat pump fan slows as their neighbour arrives home and plugs in his electric car.
Their six year old crippled son (they are still “Saving The NHS”) suitably multi racial, raises his glass of nettle juice, and calls out “God, or any other appropriate idol, bless us every one.
Who could resist it?
It seems you’ve had a sneak preview of the John Lewis Christmas ad for 2022 – or anything on the BBC between now and then.
“The guidelines also propose using trusted news presenters…”
What? Are they going give us a CGI Reggie Bosanquet next?
“This is the Two Minute Hate, with the synthesized voice of Alvar Lidell reading it.”
“It is not the televisions industry’s role – nor is it of the nudge unit – to change our behaviour”
Actually, isn’t that precisely the role of the ‘nudge unit’? As to whether the ‘nudge unit’ should exist? That’s another question…..
Meh. Semantics. No one voted for these fuckers and I do not recognise their authority. Hence they have no role in changing our behaviour.
When Cameron introduced his nudge unit I recall saying to a friend that “they can nudge all they like, I will just ignore it if I choose. When nudge becomes push, push becomes shove and shove becomes compulsion you will regret thinking this was a good idea”.
Look where we are now, those same psychologists have led us through this virus du jour to what was unthinkable a few years ago.
Quite so. Cameron’s nudge unit was an insidious idea born of evil and evil is what it is. How dare these people think it is their place to dictate to us how we live our lives.
Perhaps they could start with adverts portraying the actual demographic in the UK where all families are not mixed race or black? It’s tedious and very unrealistic.
I stopped watching the actual TV several years ago but I guess it’ll get to the stage where I cancel Britbox, which I got for the old pre-propaganda programmes, but which even now is being polluted by woke nonsense. Will I eventually get to the stage where I remind myself how to use the DVD player and just watch Benny Hill episodes and 1940s films interspersed by vids of people repairing shoes on YT?
Jay, I was caring for my mother when the TV series Call the Midwife came out. Mum had dementia yet still recognised the bs. At first she enjoyed it, then she was saying it wasn’t like that. If it was so obvious to her how can it escape others?
May I recommend Talking Pictures TV, channel 81? Some lovely old gems appear from time to time. Interspersed with the occasional Pinter codswallop, naturally.
I just hope no taxpayer money is going to any of these second rate fuckwits
Andy5759, some great shows on there. I particularly like the ‘Look at life’ shorts made by J Arthur Rank they used to show at the pictures before the main event. Very illuminating, particularly in this context, “Flood Tide” about UK flood defences. The ones about HMS Hermes (Flight Deck), and the Vulcan (Thunder in Waiting) are really worth watching too. The days when we had something to be proud of………