Absolutely love that song....always have....takes me back to my younger days!!! So its a YES from me!!
Reminds me of my brother in laws wedding in Melbourne, the last time as a family we were all together before the father in law took ill and died shortly after returning. It’s the BIL and his wife’s song.
Nobody is aware that John Lewis exists so there has to be an advertisement purely to inform you of the institutions presence. Yeah right. Err no, most advertising is designed to mould you and do your thinking for you and corrupt your ability to make an objective decision. There is money in advertising, but merit? I suppose it can be said that the industry launched the career of Ridley Scott and many others, but it is an insidious industry operating under the guise of faux entertainment. Advertising is essentially vacuous, masquerading as something that in the case of the John Lewis advertisement has virtue. My advice when experiencing any kind of advertising is to argue and fight back, probably verbally and out loud. The few campaigns that are simply informative are the exception rather than the rule. Do your own thinking guys, and please gamble responsibly!
Nobody is aware that John Lewis exists so there has to be an advertisement purely to inform you of the institutions presence. Yeah right. Err no, most advertising is designed to mould you and do your thinking for you and corrupt your ability to make an objective decision. There is money in advertising, but merit? I suppose it can be said that the industry launched the career of Ridley Scott and many others, but it is an insidious industry operating under the guise of faux entertainment. Advertising is essentially vacuous, masquerading as something that in the case of the John Lewis advertisement has virtue. My advice when experiencing any kind of advertising is to argue and fight back, probably verbally and out loud. The few campaigns that are simply informative are the exception rather than the rule. Do your own thinking guys, and please gamble responsibly!
Love for some one to go up to all the creatives, artists and designers who worked on the John Lewis campaign and tell them their work has no merit, I wonder how many sucker punches you’d get!
Love for some one to go up to all the creatives, artists and designers who worked on the John Lewis campaign and tell them their work has no merit, I wonder how many sucker punches you’d get!
Point me in the direction. Engineers in the arms industry doubtless have brilliant skills and abilities. what a shame those attributes are used to create death machines. Advertising does not create death machines, but it is an exercise in manipulation and to an extent mind control.
So what have you purchased from the John Lewis Partnership over the past five years @seth plum.
About time your political rants were removed from every thread you post on. No one's listening and you're just making your self look like a killjoy idiot.
You've just given three good reasons why JL should continue with their Christmas campaign - nowhere does it suggest you should actually purchase something from them - yet they provide an incredibly high customer service and for a lot of people a once a year high quality shopping experience..
Go and stop some traffic somewhere if you want to 'be useful'.
Nobody is aware that John Lewis exists so there has to be an advertisement purely to inform you of the institutions presence. Yeah right. Err no, most advertising is designed to mould you and do your thinking for you and corrupt your ability to make an objective decision. There is money in advertising, but merit? I suppose it can be said that the industry launched the career of Ridley Scott and many others, but it is an insidious industry operating under the guise of faux entertainment. Advertising is essentially vacuous, masquerading as something that in the case of the John Lewis advertisement has virtue. My advice when experiencing any kind of advertising is to argue and fight back, probably verbally and out loud. The few campaigns that are simply informative are the exception rather than the rule. Do your own thinking guys, and please gamble responsibly!
Nobody is aware that John Lewis exists so there has to be an advertisement purely to inform you of the institutions presence. Yeah right. Err no, most advertising is designed to mould you and do your thinking for you and corrupt your ability to make an objective decision. There is money in advertising, but merit? I suppose it can be said that the industry launched the career of Ridley Scott and many others, but it is an insidious industry operating under the guise of faux entertainment. Advertising is essentially vacuous, masquerading as something that in the case of the John Lewis advertisement has virtue. My advice when experiencing any kind of advertising is to argue and fight back, probably verbally and out loud. The few campaigns that are simply informative are the exception rather than the rule. Do your own thinking guys, and please gamble responsibly!
I’m doing that right now reading this post but I’ll leave it inside my little head.
So what have you purchased from the John Lewis Partnership over the past five years @seth plum.
About time your political rants were removed from every thread you post on. No one's listening and you're just making your self look like a killjoy idiot.
You've just given three good reasons why JL should continue with their Christmas campaign - nowhere does it suggest you should actually purchase something from them - yet they provide an incredibly high customer service and for a lot of people a once a year high quality shopping experience..
Go and stop some traffic somewhere if you want to 'be useful'.
In what way is my personal anti advertising stance political?
Although, if anyone is thinking of standing behind a spaceship while the alien is about to give it a turn over, please think again. This time luckily enough, it was only snow, but cosmic fumes are deadly and spaceships are known to have a large carbon footprint. It looked well insulated though.....
Although, if anyone is thinking of standing behind a spaceship while the alien is about to give it a turn over, please think again. This time luckily enough, it was only snow, but cosmic fumes are deadly and spaceships are known to have a large carbon footprint. It looked well insulated though.....
Good point mate - I hope they used a ULEZ compliant ship for the ad.
So what have you purchased from the John Lewis Partnership over the past five years @seth plum.
About time your political rants were removed from every thread you post on. No one's listening and you're just making your self look like a killjoy idiot.
You've just given three good reasons why JL should continue with their Christmas campaign - nowhere does it suggest you should actually purchase something from them - yet they provide an incredibly high customer service and for a lot of people a once a year high quality shopping experience..
Go and stop some traffic somewhere if you want to 'be useful'.
In what way is my personal anti advertising stance political?
I was quite triggered by the anti gun rhetoric tbh mate
So what have you purchased from the John Lewis Partnership over the past five years @seth plum.
About time your political rants were removed from every thread you post on. No one's listening and you're just making your self look like a killjoy idiot.
You've just given three good reasons why JL should continue with their Christmas campaign - nowhere does it suggest you should actually purchase something from them - yet they provide an incredibly high customer service and for a lot of people a once a year high quality shopping experience..
Go and stop some traffic somewhere if you want to 'be useful'.
In what way is my personal anti advertising stance political?
Of course it's not political.
I mean bringing the arms trade into a thread about one store's Christmas TV advert, that millions look forward to each year and ranting about "corrupting my ability to make an objective decision" is nothing but anti free market posturing.
Why John Lewis as your target? Why not all the perfume companies with their Christmas campaigns? There's enough of them at every ad break to sink a battleship. But then you probably never watch capitalist TV with 'sponsorship'. Or are swayed anyway whatsoever to try a new product. Or wear any clothing with a manufacturers brand on it.
I love Christmas traditions too like complaining that Christmas is too commercialised now, that the John Lewis Ad isn't as good as it was in the old days, that people use Xmas instead of Christmas, that somewhere unspecified, someone unnamed is "banning" Christmas.
All part of the run up to the holiday. It wouldn't be Christmas without them.
Just watched it with my young daughter who loved it.
As for adverts, you can avoid them if you want. Very difficult to draw the line, what about Charlton advertsing matches, Charlton TV, kits etc?
Advertsing has been around for 100's of years.
So have miserable old kill joys who think they're so clever because they know, and we all don't, that adverts are trying to promote the businesses that made them.
Just watched it with my young daughter who loved it.
As for adverts, you can avoid them if you want. Very difficult to draw the line, what about Charlton advertsing matches, Charlton TV, kits etc?
Advertsing has been around for 100's of years.
So have miserable old kill joys who think they're so clever because they know, and we all don't, that adverts are trying to promote the businesses that made them.
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Sorry kid, you got a brand new form of the plague for Christmas.
Not bad this one, they've not been quite as good for a few years now, the kid counting the days to give his present was the best.
Yeah right.
Err no, most advertising is designed to mould you and do your thinking for you and corrupt your ability to make an objective decision.
There is money in advertising, but merit?
I suppose it can be said that the industry launched the career of Ridley Scott and many others, but it is an insidious industry operating under the guise of faux entertainment. Advertising is essentially vacuous, masquerading as something that in the case of the John Lewis advertisement has virtue.
My advice when experiencing any kind of advertising is to argue and fight back, probably verbally and out loud.
The few campaigns that are simply informative are the exception rather than the rule.
Do your own thinking guys, and please gamble responsibly!
Engineers in the arms industry doubtless have brilliant skills and abilities.
what a shame those attributes are used to create death machines.
Advertising does not create death machines, but it is an exercise in manipulation and to an extent mind control.
If you don’t like it, switch it off 🙄
Whats the song (I’m on mute).
I do love the original tune though. One of my favourite songs. shame about the cover version the advert uses.
About time your political rants were removed from every thread you post on. No one's listening and you're just making your self look like a killjoy idiot.
You've just given three good reasons why JL should continue with their Christmas campaign - nowhere does it suggest you should actually purchase something from them - yet they provide an incredibly high customer service and for a lot of people a once a year high quality shopping experience..
Go and stop some traffic somewhere if you want to 'be useful'.
Although, if anyone is thinking of standing behind a spaceship while the alien is about to give it a turn over, please think again. This time luckily enough, it was only snow, but cosmic fumes are deadly and spaceships are known to have a large carbon footprint. It looked well insulated though.....
I mean bringing the arms trade into a thread about one store's Christmas TV advert, that millions look forward to each year and ranting about "corrupting my ability to make an objective decision" is nothing but anti free market posturing.
Why John Lewis as your target? Why not all the perfume companies with their Christmas campaigns? There's enough of them at every ad break to sink a battleship. But then you probably never watch capitalist TV with 'sponsorship'. Or are swayed anyway whatsoever to try a new product. Or wear any clothing with a manufacturers brand on it.
Hypocrite.
Just watched it with my young daughter who loved it.
As for adverts, you can avoid them if you want. Very difficult to draw the line, what about Charlton advertsing matches, Charlton TV, kits etc?
Advertsing has been around for 100's of years.
I love Christmas traditions too like complaining that Christmas is too commercialised now, that the John Lewis Ad isn't as good as it was in the old days, that people use Xmas instead of Christmas, that somewhere unspecified, someone unnamed is "banning" Christmas.
All part of the run up to the holiday. It wouldn't be Christmas without them.
Seasons Greetings.
*if anybody get this, it'll be a miracle.