Campaigner Charlotte Gage says that the outdoor adverts you see on billboards and bus stops should all be removed.
There’s always someone who has nothing better going on in their life who turns their attention to meddling on others’.
“These ads are in the public space without any consultation about what is shown on them,” she says. “Plus they cause light pollution, and the ads are for things people can’t afford, or don’t need.”
Oh my, so much bullshit to unpick in such a brief statement. These ads are paid for, so someone owns the land or the building and is happy to be paid to host them – just as happens in magazines and television. It’s a free(ish) country and they can do as the please – we can always ignore them, which is what I do. That’s how this liberty thing works. Some might cause light pollution but most don’t. That last bit is the corker though. Who, exactly, decides what people can afford or need? Commissar Gage? Who is the? The bastard spawn of Commissar Murphy? For the sake of clarity, I decide for me and you decide for you and if I see something advertised that I either have no need for or cannot afford, I simply do not by it. I don’t need some jumped up self appointed authoritarian bansturabtor doing it for me.
Ms Gage is the network director of UK pressure group Adfree Cities, which wants a complete ban on all outdoor corporate advertising. This would also apply to the sides of buses, and on the London Underground and other rail and metro systems.
Well, fuck off. Seriously, this is the only rational response to these people.
If you think this is a fanciful aim, then you might need to think again, as it has already happened in a few places around the world.
That doesn’t make it okay.
Ms Gage says that while there are “ethical issues with junk food ads, pay day loans and high-carbon products [in particular], people would rather see community ads and art rather than have multi-billion dollar companies putting logos and images everywhere”.
Yeah, I’ve seen examples of the art. usually by that fuckwit Banksy. Dire, amateurish daubs that despoil whatever wall is unfortunate enough to suffer his attention and if not him, various wannabees who make the place look like a slum. Again, fuck off. I’d rather have the billboards.
She adds: “We’re not saying people shouldn’t own cars or eat burgers, but we know there’s a direct correlation between seeing ads and purchasing these products.”
That’s exactly what you are saying, or you wouldn’t want to ban the ads. Again, fuck off.
Another peerless example of Reversed Alimentary Canal Syndrome – Word issue uncontrollably from the rectum while excrement gushes from the woman’s mouth. Classic.
The Queen is dead.
Long live the King.
Yes. I was wondering what to say, but can’t offer anything insightful, so I’ll say nothing.
Was she shouting this loud during the covid scam? Would have been actually useful then.
Presumably, advertising on the side of buses and at bus stops enables reduced bus fares.
It’s the walking dead, only they aren’t physically dead, just dead in every other human way: culturally intellectually, emotionally (apart from hate of course).
Part of me feels genuinely sorry for her, as she has decades of this soulless existence ahead of her.
She is high carbon product, as is just about every other living thing on this planet. If I every encountered this creature I would amuse myself by pointing this out, utilising the white male created cancerous blights of logic and science.
’…people would rather see community ads and art…’
Has she polled all the people in the UK then? I don’t remember being asked.
“people would rather see”
That was going to be my comment to. These morons always assume everybody agrees with them. In reality, it’s probably less than 0.01%
More and more I think that live and let live is a really sound philosophy. I’m starting to think that anyone who disagrees with that is a bad and immoral person.
Talking of signs, he says to pretend not to be a bit off topic, I saw some new motorway signs today that I found slightly amusing. Back when our road signs were standardised, the symbol for a car was established as something resembling a Ford Prefect. Now we have motorway signs indicating the availability of EV charging points at the services. A Ford Prefect with a flex and plug attached.
Looking at Charlotte’s image, she doesn’t strike me as ‘ star ‘ material but dountless sees herself as some sort of ‘ Social Warrior ‘ who’s ambition to be someone important far exceeds her intellectual capacity.
Indeed. And true of most of them.
Very well put sir
I’m going to steal this comment and unleas it on the sad fcuks I have to deal with
“…things people can’t afford, or don’t need.”
If we can’t afford them we won’t buy them. If we don’t need them we won’t buy them. If nobody can afford them and nobody needs them, nobody will buy them and the advertisers will go out of business. The problem, if there is one, solves itself.
I would confirm if she is in receipt of any income from the public purse and if so, cancel it. I’d then round her and her ilk up and put her on a one way flight to Pyongyang. No time for these people whatsoever.
The question I ask myself when faced with some ‘demand’ for improvement is “How much of their own money they have already spent?”
A few stamps and the odd day out protesting is thin gruel. If the “problem” is serious enough in their own eyes to require significant change then they should already have spent a significant amount of their own money.
I just clicked on the link (BBC natch) and looked at her picture….she has the eyes of a dead person.
I work for a care company, we are so short staffed they have put adverts on the bus stops. So if one advertises something you can’t afford, we have the answer, take a job with us.
One of the private schools always advertises, but they also point out they offer scholarships. Then there seem to be charities which often are trying to reach people who need them, ie ones offering assistance if you have mental health issues.
If they want to start a campaign against adverts I suggest they go to some of the American cities. Here we need permission to desplay posters in the public domain. In America anyone can put an advert up resulting in a messy confusing townscape.
“…the ads are for things people can’t afford, or don’t need.”
How is that her problem? How is it mine? The implication seems to be that poor people need her help to protect them from the ads which pretty much compel them to ruin their lives by burying themselves in debt.