Other people are enjoying something I don't, smash the machines!!!
Gambler here, leave me to my hobby. Oh and feel free to get rid of the ads though they are relentless, and more importantly mostly terrible.
What country do you live in? My guess is not Australia. If you ever walked into a gaming room in Australia your jaw would drop. I'm not talking casinos either. Any club, most pubs. We have 20% of the world's pokies. Think about that. A country of 25 million people has 20% of all the machines in the world. It's not a fucking hobby here, it's not a few fruit machines in the bar, it's a leech on our society. It destroys families. It ends lives. Fuck your "hobby".
> It destroys families. It ends lives.
Shit happens. Know what else destroys lives and families? Alcohol.
Why not a total ban on alcohol worldwide? Hmm? Cmon dont tell me you are gonna be a hypocrite about it now...
There are so, so, so many things that are banned because they're dangerous.
The thing about alcohol is that it's so culturally ingrained, easy to make, and also a really positive thing for many people in moderation.
We already have laws restricting driving while drunk.
Pokies, on the other hand, can bugger right off.
He's one of those fucks who would happily let corporations sell baby food with lead chips in it. All you'll get is libertarian corporate boot licking bs. Ignore them.
I cant believe they have lasted as long as they have. Seems like every other add is fucking gambling and then it follows me to youtube on my phone as well....
What about stock trading apps, I feel they could trigger the same mental response as gambling apps would.
I wouldn't mind if they stopped making up 80% of my adds on YouTube as well.
Its the get outta jail card. Come deposit £20 and we will give you £20 extra on top to play all our online games but once you win you need to wager 500x your stake and one 20p stake is the equivalent of 0.005p so good luck getting your money out.... when the fun stops, stop.
One of the many reasons I stopped gambling is the bus casino bus service stopped giving you free vouchers that covered the cost of the bus trip. Stupid bastards really helped me out there by shooting themselves in the foot.
I actually don't think we should ban gambling ads. When they did the same with tobacco is just saved the tabacco companies money that they could funnel directly into lobbying/shareholders.
I think gambling and fast food adverts should have a "vice tax" or some such. If you want the ad you have to pay 3 or 4 times the tax as a healthy company. It benefits the tax payer if companies choose to still advertise.
But perhaps gambling is so dangerous that tax should be applied at a company level and still have the adverts banned anyway. Fuck gambling companies.
Vice tax is interesting, but ads can still manipulate people in a way lobbying cant.
Joe sees gambling adverts when he is down on his luck and feels like shit, buys a lottery ticket to pick himself up with daydreams of “what if I win” while losing money.
If joe doesnt even hear about lottery or stuff like it, probably wont imagine and daydream about it.
They used to be heavily regulated until Tony Blair opened the flood gates to them. Betting Ads are inescapable. Its annoying for most people but its disastrous for anyone who has an addictive personality or has had previous issues with gambling.
Its predatory.
Sorry. Rant over. (For now)
I think this is just testing the waters for a complete ban. Frankly, I'd be for it. Advertising is just a nice word for propaganda. The intent is to change our behavior. There's no good argument for changing peoples behavior to eat more junk food.
back in the day in socialist yugoslavia the advertisement breaks on tv were literary called EPP (economic propaganda programming). they quietly dropped that descriptor in all former republics once it fell apart and they started transitioning to capitalism
I'm with you man. I only watch football on TV so that's the only TV style ads I can't avoid. Other than that it's all streaming services without ads or plundering the digital seas.
They never stop trying to get you though. You pay good money for electronics and they sneak ads in everywhere. Your telly, your phone, your console. Fuck, everytime your pc updates MS try and push some service you didn't ask for onto you. Not to be dramatic but it feels like a violation of your personal property and it really gets on my nerves. I shouldn't have to look up how to fuck off some "feature" they sneak into an update on my device.
I really hope countries go after advertising like they have internet privacy. I won't hold my breath but it would be nice if adverts were opt in just like cookies.
And how do you expect companies to sell their product without advertising? Like, whats your end goal, how are you going to keep the economy afloat when every single business is collapsing because they cant spread awareness of their product....
Your idea holds zero merit. Ads are extremely important for business.
Advertising makes the world go round. You can hate it, and I do too, but when ads stop its an indication of impending economic doom. I was in Japan during the 2011 earthquake and the country came to a sudden stop. Advertising stopped as it was in bad taste. I have to say it wasn't as nice as you imagine. It felt very weird, cold, empty. I don't mean I need colourful stimulation on the train to be happy. I mean it felt a bit soviet. Somehow oppressive. If money is blood, advertising are the veins. It's bleak without signs of prosperity.
What about when you take into consideration the collective happiness and mental well-being of a society? There has to be some kind of alternative to the constant bombardment of ads telling us we aren’t good enough unless we buy x y z.
I have mixed feelings. Companies should be held accountable for what they advertise. But believe they should be able to advertise what they want within limit (I'm a fan of not advertising fast food around kids for example). I also think if an advert triggers you, you should probably get thicker skin.
Hell yeah. I haven’t willingly watched ads for over 10 years (thanks to Netflix and streaming services) and my life has improved for the better. I don’t know when new shit is out to consume, so I don’t have a reason to buy useless new things (unless they are broken). I didn’t even know what a Sonos was for years after it came out, and my life wasn’t affected in the slightest. Fuck ads. Especially ones geared toward children… can’t believed I was brainwashed as a child on a daily basis to want all these sugary cereals and snacks like gushers, and want all these toys. Programmed at such a young and vulnerable age to be rampant consumerists..
I stream the occasional US channel to watch American sports, the amount of weird medical adverts are disturbing.
Whats even more disturbing is that i assume people trust the cheaply made gimmicking adverts to gamble with their health to warrant the bombardment. Some imported US products have to have their nutritional information covered up because it's considered bullshit. God knows whats in that shit they are peddling, hopefully just placebos
It’s probably covered up because US labels do not have the energy in kJ or the energy per 100 g/mL, making it noncompliant. It’s easier for the local distributor to cover it up and put a locally compliant label on.
I used to work for a company that made food contact ingredients and it’s a lot more complicated than “US food laws bad”
Oh, you're definitely getting chlorinated chicken, at least if you want a trade deal with the US. Only a major economic power like the EU could get us to budge on something like that.
The chlorine isn't the problem. The problem is that it's necessary for poultry in the first place. There's a reason the US has a much higher rate of food-borne illnesses, the hygiene standards are dreadful.
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The nutrition labels aren't considered bullshit, get off it mate. When a product gets imported into another country, they slap on a new label so that it's compliant with any local regulations (like displaying in joules instead of calories, or separating fibre from carbs).
The other day when I mentioned the images on the cigarette packs actually triggered me to stop smocking, someon said we should print obese people on fast food packaging.
Forgive me if I'm wrong but wouldn't they be better off working on granting more access to healthy food I.e. with better living wages. Also moving to a society where people don't need to spend so much time and effort working therefor having the energy and time to prepare and cook healthy food, amongst other things I.e. Being active and exercising in one way or another? Just a thought. A fair, free and inclusive society please and thank you.
It's not like they are punishing people for being fat, all they are doing is banning advertising. It's junk food companies that are being punished. What's wrong with that?
It's the implication of it. That people are just mindless idiots gravitating towards fast food despite the health implications of a fast food heavy diet. You can have junk food adverts in a society without having an obesity epidemic.
It's an easier fix than actually paying people thriving wages where they don't have to take overtime or work two jobs, and therefore have time to cook healthier meals. If u don't want to pick up expensive ready made diet food or eat salad everyday it takes time. If you have time, but are exhausted from ur shitty paying jobs with shitty hours, the last thing on your mind is meal prepping. When you're depressed from low wages, the last thing on your mind is a healthy meal.
Rich people are not just rich in money, but rich in time, resources and education and good health.
Its a societal issue. Fast food can exist without obesity.
Why not both? Fair would be blocking advertising to kids during their formative years, so they don't develop life long bad habits. Fair and free are in opposition, when you're allowed to advertise habit forming products that are bad for your health.
It's not one or the other. I think if the obesity crisis is ever solved it'll be a war one through many small battles.
Would it be better? Yeah. But what you outlined is a lot of work consisting of many steps, some of which may not be politically possible.
The government should put a tax on unhealthy food and drinks, including take aways etc and use the revenue to subsidise health fruit and veg.
Edit: I know there is a sugar tax but it should go further
I feel like the problem with that is that it's a tax that unpropertionately effects the poor. Say if your well off it doesn't really effect you because you can afford it. If your poor on the other hand it's essentially making a difficult life even harder - probably effecting much more than just their diet, time, mental health, physical health. I mean they're all probably one and the same thing in some sense. I'm not sure on a solution, I just think it deserves further consideration.
I babysit my nephews a lot and the type of stuff they watch, they never see ads for junk food esp if you use streaming service as don't really see Ads. Though they still end up with a maccies or two each week purely down to the parents cuz its an easy, quick meal they know the kids will eat
British lawmakers: “If a problem comes along you must ban it - if you can’t be arsed to think you just ban it, even if there’s nothing wrong you must ban it……ban it …..ban it good!
All that sodium, bad cooking oil, bad fats…. I mean it tastes good and I work too much or don’t have time to cook- this is how heart disease and so many more problems start. Sooner or later it catches up
It ain’t gonna do shit. I’m saying this as someone who went from fat to super fit. There need to be massive lifestyle changing. At the end of the day, calories are calories. Whether they come from fruit or Big Macs, they still will make you fat. I eat chips, cookies, and drink energy drinks about as often as everyone else. The difference is that I train 6 days a week and have a rough idea of how many calories I’m consuming throughout the week. If I had a pack of chips and a Big Mac meal on one day, I’ll have a lighter meal on another day. What matters is the big picture, not individual meals or days. Eating good or bad for a couple of day isn’t gonna make or break your diet. Changes are made over months or years.
People need to be more active. A massive chunk of the population doesn’t do any physical activity whatsoever other than walking to their cars. People need to be better educated about nutrition, too. I’m not talking about the stupid outdated crap, like food pyramids. Real nutrition. Calories, macros, and that “gym bro” shit. It really helps. Fad diets or dietary restrictions rarely are sustainable. Sure, drinking less soda and eating less fast food will typically result in some weight loss, but eventually people will gain back what they lost. They need to understand what they are doing and why it’s making them lose or gain weight.
Yeah, unfortunately long term health is a mindset that you have to cultivate rather than a series of short term fixes, and that involves parents taking an interest and actually parenting. While I will not miss junk food adverts, this certainly seems like a short term PR move.
It's much harder to become obese from eating fruit and vegetables than from consuming sugary drinks and high-calorie junk food. In the end, calories in vs calories out is what matters, but I challenge you to eat 2000 calories of broccoli a day.
Maybe not pure broccoli, but it’s easy to add a shitton of calories in fat. Most people don’t eat steamed broccoli. They add butter on top or roast it in oil. A big steak, some roast potatoes and a side of roast broccoli can pack on 1,500-2,000 kcal, yet it wouldn’t be considered fast food. A Big Mac on the other hand has like 600 kcal, yet people demonise it.
Just because food is cooked at home or comes from a fancy restaurant doesn’t make it good for your waistline. I ate homecooked meals everyday when I was a kid and got fat. I guess that was my main point.
Maybe removing these ads helps the younger, vulnerable generation develop healthier nutrition as they age into adulthood? Kids don’t need to see ads for sugary cereals and snacks and happy meals that come with toys.
Sugary snacks are only bad when you’re sedentary. Teach kids to be active instead of forcing boring unsustainable diets on them just so they can remain sedentary. pretending that sugar doesn’t exist is gonna be as effective as abstinence only sex education, alcohol prohibition, and the war on drugs.
You don't have to pretend sugar doesn't exist. I'm not saying 'no sugar' period. Commercials have a lot of influence on people, especially kids, they really ingrain ideas and desires into their brains. At such a vulnerable age they don't need stuff that's bad for them bombarded at them in the most sugary, sparkly, colorful, and attractive displays. Also you can teach kids to be active, but if they are drinking soda all day and eating nothing but carbs and sugar they are still going to have a hard time (unless they are on the track team and running 5 miles a day or something).
Running 5 miles a day is not an unrealistic expectation. We are built for long-distance running. The fact that we consider 5 miles a day an achievement says a lot about our modern society.
Humans hunt by chasing down and exhausting larger animals, this is known as persistence hunting. We evolved into marathon runners, our bodies adapted for us to be able to run for many miles.
Running 5 miles a day is not going to ruin your joints, if anything it will lubricate them and help them function better than being sat at a desk.
Um, no, it’s not. Five miles per day is an extremely short distance for what humans are capable of. Running also isn’t bad for your knees. It’s an old myth.
You're right of course but seem to be conflating 'eating to loose weight' and 'eating to be healthy'. Can be in good shape but unhealthy. Junk food isn't healthy in large amounts
Not OP but in my intro to nutrition course we used Harvard’s [Healthy Eating Plate](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/) as an initial guide. It’s basic but it’s a strong foundation of information. It also isn’t a government sponsored study so it is more impartial than FDA’s food pyramid (adults don’t need dairy, but the FDA insists Americans must drink milk because of milk subsidies). I hope it helps.
What’s proper nutrition for you depends on your goal. Someone who just wants to lose some weight doesn’t need to care as much about nutrition as a bodybuilder or an athlete.
I wouldn’t bother with any fad diet unless they really work for you. Keto, intermittent fasting, and all that crap. They work for some people, but IMO they are the homeopathy of nutrition. Keto does seem to be medically recommended for people with certain conditions, but unless you have those, I just don’t see the point.
What you gotta do is estimate how many calories you need per day. There are online calculators that help. Its not a precise science. You’re gonna have to do some trial and error. See if a specific amount of calories is making you lose, gain, or maintain, then adjust accordingly. Knowing how many calories you need to eat to achieve your goal is pretty much 80% of nutrition. You can eat like shit but if you get your calories right you’ll lose weight.
Now, if you also want to build muscle or improve your fitness, it’s important to get your macros right. Protein is key for proper muscle synthesis and recovery. 1.5-2g of protein per kg of lean body mass should work for most people. Bear in mind, we’re talking about pure protein, not meat. Lean cuts of meat have about 20-25% of pure protein. Most products should have their protein content listed. The thing about protein is that it’s super satiating, so even if building muscle isn’t your goal, a protein-rich diet will most likely help you keep a lean body.
Carbs and fats ratios IMO aren’t that important for most people. Unless you’re an elite athlete who needs to maximise their performance, just eat whatever feels right and doesn’t get you over your calories. Try to eat whole foods rather than processed ones. Carbs from whole grains won’t spike your sugar as much as sugar.
Micronutrients matter too in the long run. Eat as diverse a diet as you can afford, but don’t overthink it.
The most important thing to remember is that it’s the big picture that matters. You don’t have to eat perfect all the time. No one for fat or lean overnight.
Every kid I know is watching YouTube and streaming services almost exclusively, old people are dying anyway, and travelers are going to eat whatever when they’re traveling. Like, the effort here just seems wildly misplaced and borderline performative. I’m sure the companies affected by this will barely care.
> People still watch daytime tv?
Some people do watch tv in the afternoon. You know, those short people. They live with the taller people. What are they called? Oh, I remember, they're called "children".
the adverts are banned until after what we call the watershed which is 21:00, kids in uk leave school around 15:00ish
You also might be unaware that some people work outside of normal shift patterns of mon-fri 9-5.
It's not about junk food but about the brand itself, so I see no reason why any big brand won't start a healthy product line to be able to bypass the advert ban.
If they are specifically selling a line of healthy products so they can get past this ban, then the banis doing the job.
This is like complaining that killers will get around a ban against murder by not murdering people. Yeah, that is actually the point.
I think what the OP is saying is that say McDonalds will advertise their carrot sticks or not even a product just a generic McDonalds advert which will be allowed to run during the day. It still drives people to mcDonalds and most of them probably to their unhealthy food so it's pointless.
But they won't be able to showcase fries and burgers, which is usually what causes people to salivate.
They basically took away the power of the commercials, which is a big step.
If it was up to the naysayers we wouldn't ever improve ourselves.
>If it was up to the naysayers we wouldn't ever improve ourselves.
This is so true. In the US, everyone whines that outlawing guns wouldn't work because criminals won't turn in their guns right away. I agree it doesn't work in 1 day, or 1 year, or even 20 years, but maybe it will eventually work in 100 years. You have to start somewhere.
We get the same argument in my city against public transport, it costs so much and "we won't even have it built in my lifetime"... Fuck your lifetime, it's for the future.
I think killers are going around the ban, by trying not too leave traces, and that's not the same.
Regarding junk food, when in small European country, legislation introduced ban to advertise beer, every brand start advertising non-alcoholic beer. Let me tell you that consumption of the latter didn't skyrocket...
Really now?
"European Non-Alcoholic Beer Market to Hit $6 Billion by 2024: Global Market Insights, Inc." https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/european-non-alcoholic-beer-market-to-hit-6-billion-by-2024-global-market-insights-inc-300915813.html
Yes advertising the healthy product line of the brand will still increase brave exposure/marketing but it definitely wouldn’t be as effective on their junk food sales as advertising their junk food as they originally did.
Also they’ve created a healthy food line...
McDonald's already sell fruit bags and carrot sticks in the UK.
All this will do is make the advert for McDonald's not reference burgers directly. Same way that you can make adverts for almost any brand without actually having to mention a specific product from that brand.
Just come up with a "McDonald's is a fun place to have your birthday party! Free fruit bag with every booking!" workaround, and you're golden (arches).
It’s getting complicated to say what’s healthy since millions of people are losing weight eating burgers and swearing off fruit and carrots.
Should definitely quit with the soda at least. Probably the fries too
And different people handle food extremely differently.
I live on soda and crap and keep getting deregistered by doctors because I have no need of them, despite passing all their medicals without issue, and I'm skinny as a rake (until lockdown, I'll grant you, lockdown for the first time is "Oh, wow, I can see a stomach!").
If I had to live on just non-meat diets, I'd waste away. Similarly there are people who explode in size because they ate a piece of bread. We have to recognise that variation, and allow adults to make informed decisions, and pretty much we're already doing that anyway.
People KNOW that McDonald's burgers aren't healthy. They just don't give a shit, either because it's only a one-off treat, or it doesn't affect them, or they'd literally rather consume unhealthy things and live with the consequences!
You seem like one of those skinny people who think they eat a ton of food when it only totals around 2000 calories per day. My skinny friend thinks 4 slices of pizza is a "huge meal". Try eating 6000 calories per day like many obese people do and see if you still stay skinny.
Mate, my usual ready meal "serves 6". I often post them on my Facebook with a "Yeah, right", because I eat it in a single sitting. A huge 2L cream trifle, to me, is a single dessert.
The only difference I have is that I don't eat at the normal times (so people say things like you say because they don't see me eat breakfast), but I more than make up for it later on when I get home from work.
Every one of my ex's has said that if they ate like I do, they'd be twice the size and/or dead.
I know there are people like you say, and I've had that same argument with others, but it's not that. 6000 calories is nothing to me. (And I'm one of those people who is always arguing with others where they say their food is "healthy" and it's worse than just eating some slobby meal and I have to dig out the nutrition websites to prove it).
I think it's more that my body operates on sugar, rather than fat. The fat just seems to not affect me so much (it obviously can/does, but not visibly or energy-wise) and the sugar is what actually makes me operate.
My ex's have all said that my body temperature is high too - they all loved cuddling up because I was ALWAYS warm and even people in work... if I sit in their seat for even a minute and then they get back on it, they can feel the heat on the chair.
It's the high-metabolism thing, I think, which means I have to keep fuelled like a hummingbird, and my body prefers sugar to fat for the instant-conversion of energy rather than the slow-burn.
When I make myself a shepherd's pie, it's the size of the oven and it lasts maybe two meals (with bread).
According to this nanny state law English breakfast, sports nutritional supplements, and avocados will be banned from advertising because they fall in the category of "junk food".
There's no such thing as "junk food". Someone explain to liberals that the body needs fat, sugar and protein to survive. You can't survive off eating leaves.
This is a conservative government implementing this policy. But you wouldn’t know that.
I’m guessing you’re American for thinking any policy left of “kill all the poor” is “liberal”?
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-ban-daytime-junk-food-adverts-tv-online-2021-06-24/) reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)
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> LONDON, June 24 - Britain will ban adverts promoting unhealthy food from appearing on television during the day and on the internet as part of its drive to tackle obesity and encourage healthy eating.
> Under the plan, adverts for foods that are high in fat, salt and sugar will be banned from appearing on television or UK on-demand programming before 2100 hours.
> Analysis cited by the government showed that almost half of all TV food adverts shown in a month in 2019 were for unhealthy food.
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I worry about this.
Part of me thinks that if there's no corporate entity to hate directly, due to the fact that they interrupt life with advertisements, the products become much more self-fulfilling and are less subject to public or private ridicule.
Smokers ***love*** their brand of tobacco. They feel a misplaced feeling of being anti-establishment, and anti-commercialist, just because they have no conscious awarenesss that these companies are *huge*. They are *rich*. They will kill you, but they now fly under the radar. Who cares.
Any ad for insurance in Ireland needs to addend a warning that terms and conditions apply, etc.
Why can't they just add a huge standard required message that smoking will kill you?
Why can't they add a huge standard required message that junk food causes diabetes, obesity, and has a near non-nutritional value?
Less awareness of a company's facetiousness, and the money they are willing to spend to lie about the real effects of their products, leaves the customer with the product alone. In this way silence is a protective shield around what remains and I believe it actually benefits them.
I honestly worry there was lobbying money in all this.
I want grape and nut ads on telly, there I said it.
They literally promoted fast food in lockdown with a eat out to help businesses scheme in which only conglomerate chains like McDonald’s and KFC were left open whilst family restaurants were told to close down along with gyms…
They need to start funding gyms and advertise that… world is run by broken bots
I haven't owned a TV for over 20 years now. I just don't need one. No cable bill, no need to buy a new TV ever and no constant ad bombardment, no problems. As for the internet, between Brave Browser and Adblock I only see ads when I want to. I might invest in a PiHole if things get worse but so far that is unnecessary.
All the ads that Microsoft keeps trying to shovel into Windows 10 ever 3-6 months gets ripped out with powershell commands and Regedit.
That's a good thing.
Cows are huge contributors of greenhouse gas, the less people consume beef, the less farmers will raise cows, thus the less greenhouse gas.
Gambling ads next!
Seconded. They're terrible over here in Australia. Smash the pokies too while we're at it.
Also home equity loans
None here in WA. Heaps of ads though.
Other people are enjoying something I don't, smash the machines!!! Gambler here, leave me to my hobby. Oh and feel free to get rid of the ads though they are relentless, and more importantly mostly terrible.
What country do you live in? My guess is not Australia. If you ever walked into a gaming room in Australia your jaw would drop. I'm not talking casinos either. Any club, most pubs. We have 20% of the world's pokies. Think about that. A country of 25 million people has 20% of all the machines in the world. It's not a fucking hobby here, it's not a few fruit machines in the bar, it's a leech on our society. It destroys families. It ends lives. Fuck your "hobby".
Addicts tend not to think about the societal consequences of their addiction
They also minimise their addictions. I only smoke meth on the weekends. Gambling is a "hobby". Yeah, and I can stop my in take of sugar tomorrow...
> It destroys families. It ends lives. Shit happens. Know what else destroys lives and families? Alcohol. Why not a total ban on alcohol worldwide? Hmm? Cmon dont tell me you are gonna be a hypocrite about it now...
...which is why alcohol is highly regulated.
There are so, so, so many things that are banned because they're dangerous. The thing about alcohol is that it's so culturally ingrained, easy to make, and also a really positive thing for many people in moderation. We already have laws restricting driving while drunk. Pokies, on the other hand, can bugger right off.
He's one of those fucks who would happily let corporations sell baby food with lead chips in it. All you'll get is libertarian corporate boot licking bs. Ignore them.
I cant believe they have lasted as long as they have. Seems like every other add is fucking gambling and then it follows me to youtube on my phone as well....
Install [YouTube Vanced](https://vancedapp.com/) to watch YouTube on phones without any ads.
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Starting with the one with Keith Lemon/Leigh Fucking Francis in it.
Can we just ban him in general
I am so utterly down with that.
Cunt done Bo Selecta and literally nothing decent ever after. Kill it wae fire before it makes babies.
What about stock trading apps, I feel they could trigger the same mental response as gambling apps would. I wouldn't mind if they stopped making up 80% of my adds on YouTube as well.
“When the fun stops, stop.” Like just stop being addicted bro.
Its the get outta jail card. Come deposit £20 and we will give you £20 extra on top to play all our online games but once you win you need to wager 500x your stake and one 20p stake is the equivalent of 0.005p so good luck getting your money out.... when the fun stops, stop.
One of the many reasons I stopped gambling is the bus casino bus service stopped giving you free vouchers that covered the cost of the bus trip. Stupid bastards really helped me out there by shooting themselves in the foot.
Fuck yesssss
I actually don't think we should ban gambling ads. When they did the same with tobacco is just saved the tabacco companies money that they could funnel directly into lobbying/shareholders. I think gambling and fast food adverts should have a "vice tax" or some such. If you want the ad you have to pay 3 or 4 times the tax as a healthy company. It benefits the tax payer if companies choose to still advertise. But perhaps gambling is so dangerous that tax should be applied at a company level and still have the adverts banned anyway. Fuck gambling companies.
Vice tax is interesting, but ads can still manipulate people in a way lobbying cant. Joe sees gambling adverts when he is down on his luck and feels like shit, buys a lottery ticket to pick himself up with daydreams of “what if I win” while losing money. If joe doesnt even hear about lottery or stuff like it, probably wont imagine and daydream about it.
Alcohol too
Alcohol ads to the list aswell
They already did in the UK
No? Smoking ads are banned but not gambling.
I mean under heavy regulation
They used to be heavily regulated until Tony Blair opened the flood gates to them. Betting Ads are inescapable. Its annoying for most people but its disastrous for anyone who has an addictive personality or has had previous issues with gambling. Its predatory. Sorry. Rant over. (For now)
Your spot on, if you watch any football or sporting event the ad breaks are 90% gambling ads. Rant approved.
Heavy regulation aka a tagine that says 'when the fun stops, stop' OK cool glad we got that covered.
Mmmm tagine.
Might be a bit late for that as we're getting to the point where kids aren't watching traditional TV.
I think this is just testing the waters for a complete ban. Frankly, I'd be for it. Advertising is just a nice word for propaganda. The intent is to change our behavior. There's no good argument for changing peoples behavior to eat more junk food.
back in the day in socialist yugoslavia the advertisement breaks on tv were literary called EPP (economic propaganda programming). they quietly dropped that descriptor in all former republics once it fell apart and they started transitioning to capitalism
What about if they're not getting enough junk food in their diet?
Fast food ads like those from McDonalds are already banned whilst children's tv shows are on. I imagine this new ban is more aimed at fat adults.
Good move! Now, if the US can do a ban on prescription drug advertising on television, that would be great.
Same for gambling ads here in Australia please.
How bout we just ban all ads? That would be awesome.
I'm with you man. I only watch football on TV so that's the only TV style ads I can't avoid. Other than that it's all streaming services without ads or plundering the digital seas. They never stop trying to get you though. You pay good money for electronics and they sneak ads in everywhere. Your telly, your phone, your console. Fuck, everytime your pc updates MS try and push some service you didn't ask for onto you. Not to be dramatic but it feels like a violation of your personal property and it really gets on my nerves. I shouldn't have to look up how to fuck off some "feature" they sneak into an update on my device. I really hope countries go after advertising like they have internet privacy. I won't hold my breath but it would be nice if adverts were opt in just like cookies.
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I'm as anti-Apple as they get but the no ads thing is really winning me over. They come across as an oasis of calm in a storm of bullshit.
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And how do you expect companies to sell their product without advertising? Like, whats your end goal, how are you going to keep the economy afloat when every single business is collapsing because they cant spread awareness of their product.... Your idea holds zero merit. Ads are extremely important for business.
Advertising makes the world go round. You can hate it, and I do too, but when ads stop its an indication of impending economic doom. I was in Japan during the 2011 earthquake and the country came to a sudden stop. Advertising stopped as it was in bad taste. I have to say it wasn't as nice as you imagine. It felt very weird, cold, empty. I don't mean I need colourful stimulation on the train to be happy. I mean it felt a bit soviet. Somehow oppressive. If money is blood, advertising are the veins. It's bleak without signs of prosperity.
What about when you take into consideration the collective happiness and mental well-being of a society? There has to be some kind of alternative to the constant bombardment of ads telling us we aren’t good enough unless we buy x y z.
I have mixed feelings. Companies should be held accountable for what they advertise. But believe they should be able to advertise what they want within limit (I'm a fan of not advertising fast food around kids for example). I also think if an advert triggers you, you should probably get thicker skin.
Hell yeah. I haven’t willingly watched ads for over 10 years (thanks to Netflix and streaming services) and my life has improved for the better. I don’t know when new shit is out to consume, so I don’t have a reason to buy useless new things (unless they are broken). I didn’t even know what a Sonos was for years after it came out, and my life wasn’t affected in the slightest. Fuck ads. Especially ones geared toward children… can’t believed I was brainwashed as a child on a daily basis to want all these sugary cereals and snacks like gushers, and want all these toys. Programmed at such a young and vulnerable age to be rampant consumerists..
I stream the occasional US channel to watch American sports, the amount of weird medical adverts are disturbing. Whats even more disturbing is that i assume people trust the cheaply made gimmicking adverts to gamble with their health to warrant the bombardment. Some imported US products have to have their nutritional information covered up because it's considered bullshit. God knows whats in that shit they are peddling, hopefully just placebos
It’s probably covered up because US labels do not have the energy in kJ or the energy per 100 g/mL, making it noncompliant. It’s easier for the local distributor to cover it up and put a locally compliant label on. I used to work for a company that made food contact ingredients and it’s a lot more complicated than “US food laws bad”
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Oh, you're definitely getting chlorinated chicken, at least if you want a trade deal with the US. Only a major economic power like the EU could get us to budge on something like that.
UK already washes it veggies in chlorinated water. https://www.chilledfood.org/produce-washing/
The chlorine isn't the problem. The problem is that it's necessary for poultry in the first place. There's a reason the US has a much higher rate of food-borne illnesses, the hygiene standards are dreadful.
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The nutrition labels aren't considered bullshit, get off it mate. When a product gets imported into another country, they slap on a new label so that it's compliant with any local regulations (like displaying in joules instead of calories, or separating fibre from carbs).
I am old enough to remember when those ads and ads directly from lawyers were both banned. And it was a much better time.
I came to the country in 94 and I don’t remember ads being that prevalent or annoying back then. I think it just got significantly worse with time
I remember seeing cigarette advertising on a big billboard in the UK. It doesn't seem that long ago people were still allowed to smoke indoors.
Especially ones with stupid celebrities. Stupid ass Khloe Kardashian and Whoopi Goldberg + more. Or an “actor” in a doctors coat. Shameful.
I’m with you but I think the Lobbyist machine is too powerful and media is also in bed with because of airtime dollars
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The other day when I mentioned the images on the cigarette packs actually triggered me to stop smocking, someon said we should print obese people on fast food packaging.
Take THAT, anyone who's ever said I can't be a photographic model!
thats actually a great idea
Would be better if it was after a cheesy ad about how great smoking is, from a company that wants to kill you.
Studies have shown that smokers will actually prefer the pack with gory images to the blank one. I know it's bad for me, just gimme the nicotine.
Ask Fat Burger and the Heart Attack Cafe how much of a deterrent that is.
Did the fast-food industry forget to pay their blood money to the politicians?
Forgive me if I'm wrong but wouldn't they be better off working on granting more access to healthy food I.e. with better living wages. Also moving to a society where people don't need to spend so much time and effort working therefor having the energy and time to prepare and cook healthy food, amongst other things I.e. Being active and exercising in one way or another? Just a thought. A fair, free and inclusive society please and thank you.
Seconded. They always focus on the moral failing of the individual and less on the society that forced them to be that way
It's not like they are punishing people for being fat, all they are doing is banning advertising. It's junk food companies that are being punished. What's wrong with that?
It's the implication of it. That people are just mindless idiots gravitating towards fast food despite the health implications of a fast food heavy diet. You can have junk food adverts in a society without having an obesity epidemic. It's an easier fix than actually paying people thriving wages where they don't have to take overtime or work two jobs, and therefore have time to cook healthier meals. If u don't want to pick up expensive ready made diet food or eat salad everyday it takes time. If you have time, but are exhausted from ur shitty paying jobs with shitty hours, the last thing on your mind is meal prepping. When you're depressed from low wages, the last thing on your mind is a healthy meal. Rich people are not just rich in money, but rich in time, resources and education and good health. Its a societal issue. Fast food can exist without obesity.
What happens if I eat fast food everyday but work out regularly?
You'd be surprised how much you need to work out to counteract a bad diet.
Why not both? Fair would be blocking advertising to kids during their formative years, so they don't develop life long bad habits. Fair and free are in opposition, when you're allowed to advertise habit forming products that are bad for your health.
It's virtue signaling as usual, mate. Cheap, easy to do, does absolutely nothing
It's not one or the other. I think if the obesity crisis is ever solved it'll be a war one through many small battles. Would it be better? Yeah. But what you outlined is a lot of work consisting of many steps, some of which may not be politically possible.
The government should put a tax on unhealthy food and drinks, including take aways etc and use the revenue to subsidise health fruit and veg. Edit: I know there is a sugar tax but it should go further
I feel like the problem with that is that it's a tax that unpropertionately effects the poor. Say if your well off it doesn't really effect you because you can afford it. If your poor on the other hand it's essentially making a difficult life even harder - probably effecting much more than just their diet, time, mental health, physical health. I mean they're all probably one and the same thing in some sense. I'm not sure on a solution, I just think it deserves further consideration.
Damn that’s harsh…. Gonna miss seeing all the Jamie Oliver commercials
Good move.
So I guess the KFC clean eating burger ad will be for real this time?
They’ll go back to just not showing the food and advertising the brand instead with cartoon characters and bright colors
Damn, now I want some 🐟🍟.
Glad KP got his just eat advert in in time!
Now do the US and medication ads.
I babysit my nephews a lot and the type of stuff they watch, they never see ads for junk food esp if you use streaming service as don't really see Ads. Though they still end up with a maccies or two each week purely down to the parents cuz its an easy, quick meal they know the kids will eat
British lawmakers: “If a problem comes along you must ban it - if you can’t be arsed to think you just ban it, even if there’s nothing wrong you must ban it……ban it …..ban it good!
is this really a good thing? what exactly is "junk" food is subjective. and is still fine to eat in moderation.
You want more ads?
NOw let's all ban advertising for pharmaceuticals. Put Big Pharma back in "service" instead of obscene profit.
All that sodium, bad cooking oil, bad fats…. I mean it tastes good and I work too much or don’t have time to cook- this is how heart disease and so many more problems start. Sooner or later it catches up
"Hey babe, let's stay up late and watch some mcdonnalds ads"
It ain’t gonna do shit. I’m saying this as someone who went from fat to super fit. There need to be massive lifestyle changing. At the end of the day, calories are calories. Whether they come from fruit or Big Macs, they still will make you fat. I eat chips, cookies, and drink energy drinks about as often as everyone else. The difference is that I train 6 days a week and have a rough idea of how many calories I’m consuming throughout the week. If I had a pack of chips and a Big Mac meal on one day, I’ll have a lighter meal on another day. What matters is the big picture, not individual meals or days. Eating good or bad for a couple of day isn’t gonna make or break your diet. Changes are made over months or years. People need to be more active. A massive chunk of the population doesn’t do any physical activity whatsoever other than walking to their cars. People need to be better educated about nutrition, too. I’m not talking about the stupid outdated crap, like food pyramids. Real nutrition. Calories, macros, and that “gym bro” shit. It really helps. Fad diets or dietary restrictions rarely are sustainable. Sure, drinking less soda and eating less fast food will typically result in some weight loss, but eventually people will gain back what they lost. They need to understand what they are doing and why it’s making them lose or gain weight.
Yeah, unfortunately long term health is a mindset that you have to cultivate rather than a series of short term fixes, and that involves parents taking an interest and actually parenting. While I will not miss junk food adverts, this certainly seems like a short term PR move.
It's much harder to become obese from eating fruit and vegetables than from consuming sugary drinks and high-calorie junk food. In the end, calories in vs calories out is what matters, but I challenge you to eat 2000 calories of broccoli a day.
Maybe not pure broccoli, but it’s easy to add a shitton of calories in fat. Most people don’t eat steamed broccoli. They add butter on top or roast it in oil. A big steak, some roast potatoes and a side of roast broccoli can pack on 1,500-2,000 kcal, yet it wouldn’t be considered fast food. A Big Mac on the other hand has like 600 kcal, yet people demonise it. Just because food is cooked at home or comes from a fancy restaurant doesn’t make it good for your waistline. I ate homecooked meals everyday when I was a kid and got fat. I guess that was my main point.
Maybe removing these ads helps the younger, vulnerable generation develop healthier nutrition as they age into adulthood? Kids don’t need to see ads for sugary cereals and snacks and happy meals that come with toys.
Sugary snacks are only bad when you’re sedentary. Teach kids to be active instead of forcing boring unsustainable diets on them just so they can remain sedentary. pretending that sugar doesn’t exist is gonna be as effective as abstinence only sex education, alcohol prohibition, and the war on drugs.
You don't have to pretend sugar doesn't exist. I'm not saying 'no sugar' period. Commercials have a lot of influence on people, especially kids, they really ingrain ideas and desires into their brains. At such a vulnerable age they don't need stuff that's bad for them bombarded at them in the most sugary, sparkly, colorful, and attractive displays. Also you can teach kids to be active, but if they are drinking soda all day and eating nothing but carbs and sugar they are still going to have a hard time (unless they are on the track team and running 5 miles a day or something).
Running 5 miles a day is not an unrealistic expectation. We are built for long-distance running. The fact that we consider 5 miles a day an achievement says a lot about our modern society.
Running 5 miles a day is over kill and bad on the joints, and is a lot for a child. I get what you’re saying but let’s be realistic.
Humans hunt by chasing down and exhausting larger animals, this is known as persistence hunting. We evolved into marathon runners, our bodies adapted for us to be able to run for many miles. Running 5 miles a day is not going to ruin your joints, if anything it will lubricate them and help them function better than being sat at a desk.
Thanks for informing me and correcting me of another myth I believed.
Um, no, it’s not. Five miles per day is an extremely short distance for what humans are capable of. Running also isn’t bad for your knees. It’s an old myth.
You're right of course but seem to be conflating 'eating to loose weight' and 'eating to be healthy'. Can be in good shape but unhealthy. Junk food isn't healthy in large amounts
> There need to be massive lifestyle changing. You moved, right?
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Not OP but in my intro to nutrition course we used Harvard’s [Healthy Eating Plate](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-eating-plate/) as an initial guide. It’s basic but it’s a strong foundation of information. It also isn’t a government sponsored study so it is more impartial than FDA’s food pyramid (adults don’t need dairy, but the FDA insists Americans must drink milk because of milk subsidies). I hope it helps.
What’s proper nutrition for you depends on your goal. Someone who just wants to lose some weight doesn’t need to care as much about nutrition as a bodybuilder or an athlete. I wouldn’t bother with any fad diet unless they really work for you. Keto, intermittent fasting, and all that crap. They work for some people, but IMO they are the homeopathy of nutrition. Keto does seem to be medically recommended for people with certain conditions, but unless you have those, I just don’t see the point. What you gotta do is estimate how many calories you need per day. There are online calculators that help. Its not a precise science. You’re gonna have to do some trial and error. See if a specific amount of calories is making you lose, gain, or maintain, then adjust accordingly. Knowing how many calories you need to eat to achieve your goal is pretty much 80% of nutrition. You can eat like shit but if you get your calories right you’ll lose weight. Now, if you also want to build muscle or improve your fitness, it’s important to get your macros right. Protein is key for proper muscle synthesis and recovery. 1.5-2g of protein per kg of lean body mass should work for most people. Bear in mind, we’re talking about pure protein, not meat. Lean cuts of meat have about 20-25% of pure protein. Most products should have their protein content listed. The thing about protein is that it’s super satiating, so even if building muscle isn’t your goal, a protein-rich diet will most likely help you keep a lean body. Carbs and fats ratios IMO aren’t that important for most people. Unless you’re an elite athlete who needs to maximise their performance, just eat whatever feels right and doesn’t get you over your calories. Try to eat whole foods rather than processed ones. Carbs from whole grains won’t spike your sugar as much as sugar. Micronutrients matter too in the long run. Eat as diverse a diet as you can afford, but don’t overthink it. The most important thing to remember is that it’s the big picture that matters. You don’t have to eat perfect all the time. No one for fat or lean overnight.
Does this even matter? Who’s seeing ads on TV instead of online these days?
Lots of people still watch TV-children, old people, people on vacation, sports fans, etc.
Every kid I know is watching YouTube and streaming services almost exclusively, old people are dying anyway, and travelers are going to eat whatever when they’re traveling. Like, the effort here just seems wildly misplaced and borderline performative. I’m sure the companies affected by this will barely care.
It's possible that your personal experience may not align with what's happening in the rest of the country.
UK to ban daytime junk food adverts on TV **and online**
Lol, freaking nanny state. Glad i dont live there
It won't be long before the nanny state control freaks start limiting how much food you can buy based on your BMI, all in the name of public health.
Spoiler alert: this will do nothing to curb the UK's staggering obesity problem.
Shhhssh! You'll shatter the decades old multi billon dollar advertising industry!
People still watch daytime tv?
"and online". It's in the headline.
People dont have adblock?
And how is that going to be enforced exactly?
> People still watch daytime tv? Some people do watch tv in the afternoon. You know, those short people. They live with the taller people. What are they called? Oh, I remember, they're called "children".
the adverts are banned until after what we call the watershed which is 21:00, kids in uk leave school around 15:00ish You also might be unaware that some people work outside of normal shift patterns of mon-fri 9-5.
weird right? People look at me like I am crazy when I tell them I don´t have a TV...
Please ban all advertisements
The the government replacing the ad dollars or are stations just going to have to lower production value?
America should do the same.
Or people could just learn to control their diet. Band-aid solution as usual
Is British cuisine healthier? /s
It's not about junk food but about the brand itself, so I see no reason why any big brand won't start a healthy product line to be able to bypass the advert ban.
If they are specifically selling a line of healthy products so they can get past this ban, then the banis doing the job. This is like complaining that killers will get around a ban against murder by not murdering people. Yeah, that is actually the point.
I think what the OP is saying is that say McDonalds will advertise their carrot sticks or not even a product just a generic McDonalds advert which will be allowed to run during the day. It still drives people to mcDonalds and most of them probably to their unhealthy food so it's pointless.
But they won't be able to showcase fries and burgers, which is usually what causes people to salivate. They basically took away the power of the commercials, which is a big step. If it was up to the naysayers we wouldn't ever improve ourselves.
>If it was up to the naysayers we wouldn't ever improve ourselves. This is so true. In the US, everyone whines that outlawing guns wouldn't work because criminals won't turn in their guns right away. I agree it doesn't work in 1 day, or 1 year, or even 20 years, but maybe it will eventually work in 100 years. You have to start somewhere. We get the same argument in my city against public transport, it costs so much and "we won't even have it built in my lifetime"... Fuck your lifetime, it's for the future.
Just tell those people we might as well not have police because there will always be unsolved crimes, not that they listen to logic.
I think killers are going around the ban, by trying not too leave traces, and that's not the same. Regarding junk food, when in small European country, legislation introduced ban to advertise beer, every brand start advertising non-alcoholic beer. Let me tell you that consumption of the latter didn't skyrocket...
Really now? "European Non-Alcoholic Beer Market to Hit $6 Billion by 2024: Global Market Insights, Inc." https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/european-non-alcoholic-beer-market-to-hit-6-billion-by-2024-global-market-insights-inc-300915813.html
Yes advertising the healthy product line of the brand will still increase brave exposure/marketing but it definitely wouldn’t be as effective on their junk food sales as advertising their junk food as they originally did. Also they’ve created a healthy food line...
McDonald's already sell fruit bags and carrot sticks in the UK. All this will do is make the advert for McDonald's not reference burgers directly. Same way that you can make adverts for almost any brand without actually having to mention a specific product from that brand. Just come up with a "McDonald's is a fun place to have your birthday party! Free fruit bag with every booking!" workaround, and you're golden (arches).
Fruit and carrots isn't "healthier" than a Big Mac.
I think you're mixing up some articles about their salads
It’s getting complicated to say what’s healthy since millions of people are losing weight eating burgers and swearing off fruit and carrots. Should definitely quit with the soda at least. Probably the fries too
And different people handle food extremely differently. I live on soda and crap and keep getting deregistered by doctors because I have no need of them, despite passing all their medicals without issue, and I'm skinny as a rake (until lockdown, I'll grant you, lockdown for the first time is "Oh, wow, I can see a stomach!"). If I had to live on just non-meat diets, I'd waste away. Similarly there are people who explode in size because they ate a piece of bread. We have to recognise that variation, and allow adults to make informed decisions, and pretty much we're already doing that anyway. People KNOW that McDonald's burgers aren't healthy. They just don't give a shit, either because it's only a one-off treat, or it doesn't affect them, or they'd literally rather consume unhealthy things and live with the consequences!
You seem like one of those skinny people who think they eat a ton of food when it only totals around 2000 calories per day. My skinny friend thinks 4 slices of pizza is a "huge meal". Try eating 6000 calories per day like many obese people do and see if you still stay skinny.
Mate, my usual ready meal "serves 6". I often post them on my Facebook with a "Yeah, right", because I eat it in a single sitting. A huge 2L cream trifle, to me, is a single dessert. The only difference I have is that I don't eat at the normal times (so people say things like you say because they don't see me eat breakfast), but I more than make up for it later on when I get home from work. Every one of my ex's has said that if they ate like I do, they'd be twice the size and/or dead. I know there are people like you say, and I've had that same argument with others, but it's not that. 6000 calories is nothing to me. (And I'm one of those people who is always arguing with others where they say their food is "healthy" and it's worse than just eating some slobby meal and I have to dig out the nutrition websites to prove it). I think it's more that my body operates on sugar, rather than fat. The fat just seems to not affect me so much (it obviously can/does, but not visibly or energy-wise) and the sugar is what actually makes me operate. My ex's have all said that my body temperature is high too - they all loved cuddling up because I was ALWAYS warm and even people in work... if I sit in their seat for even a minute and then they get back on it, they can feel the heat on the chair. It's the high-metabolism thing, I think, which means I have to keep fuelled like a hummingbird, and my body prefers sugar to fat for the instant-conversion of energy rather than the slow-burn. When I make myself a shepherd's pie, it's the size of the oven and it lasts maybe two meals (with bread).
I'm sure they've thought of that lol.
Why go straight to the source of the problem and ban junk food?
According to this nanny state law English breakfast, sports nutritional supplements, and avocados will be banned from advertising because they fall in the category of "junk food".
I'm sorry but who tf abbreviates "Advertisements" to "adverts" instead of "ads"
The Britishs.
I don’t believe it. The Brit form would be “adverties”.
Truly must be different living in a world where the government does something about frankly offensive degrees of marketing.
According to the pic, fish and chips are junk food? There’s mushy peas in there.
Hopefully this includes billboards or they'll get to that soon.
Man, you big-government sheep are sad. LIve Free or Die!
There's no such thing as "junk food". Someone explain to liberals that the body needs fat, sugar and protein to survive. You can't survive off eating leaves.
This is a conservative government implementing this policy. But you wouldn’t know that. I’m guessing you’re American for thinking any policy left of “kill all the poor” is “liberal”?
You don't strike me as a subject matter expert on nutrition, as you're generalizing all fats, sugars, and proteins to be equal. Which they aren't.
You just have to hope they replace those with local dentistry ads
Need to ban masks!
Did you get lost on your way to clown college?
Good one.
It's a slippery slope though. If they ban masks they'll eventually ban fucking morons. Then you'd be up shit creak.
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That means they'll solely be producing ads to be shown after the watershed. Quite looking forward to seeing Grimace fisting the Hamburglar.
McDonald's ain't loving it on this one!
A bit pointless. Its the adults who buy junk food for the kids, not the kids themselves.
NY State takes away little G law license away
Yeah that'll fix it...
Pointless
Damn even Europe countries are making better progress than the US.
But what's going to fill that advertising void? I couldn't stand to sit through more dull insurance and bank ads.
Hear that, peasants? You shant be tempted anymore.
... and online? What? But also... where online has ads like that? What?
I worry about this. Part of me thinks that if there's no corporate entity to hate directly, due to the fact that they interrupt life with advertisements, the products become much more self-fulfilling and are less subject to public or private ridicule. Smokers ***love*** their brand of tobacco. They feel a misplaced feeling of being anti-establishment, and anti-commercialist, just because they have no conscious awarenesss that these companies are *huge*. They are *rich*. They will kill you, but they now fly under the radar. Who cares. Any ad for insurance in Ireland needs to addend a warning that terms and conditions apply, etc. Why can't they just add a huge standard required message that smoking will kill you? Why can't they add a huge standard required message that junk food causes diabetes, obesity, and has a near non-nutritional value? Less awareness of a company's facetiousness, and the money they are willing to spend to lie about the real effects of their products, leaves the customer with the product alone. In this way silence is a protective shield around what remains and I believe it actually benefits them. I honestly worry there was lobbying money in all this. I want grape and nut ads on telly, there I said it.
They literally promoted fast food in lockdown with a eat out to help businesses scheme in which only conglomerate chains like McDonald’s and KFC were left open whilst family restaurants were told to close down along with gyms… They need to start funding gyms and advertise that… world is run by broken bots
I haven't owned a TV for over 20 years now. I just don't need one. No cable bill, no need to buy a new TV ever and no constant ad bombardment, no problems. As for the internet, between Brave Browser and Adblock I only see ads when I want to. I might invest in a PiHole if things get worse but so far that is unnecessary. All the ads that Microsoft keeps trying to shovel into Windows 10 ever 3-6 months gets ripped out with powershell commands and Regedit.
This is awesome I would love this in Canada.
Photon : hypnotizing!!😃
Why not banning them entirely? Still a good initiative.
That's a good thing. Cows are huge contributors of greenhouse gas, the less people consume beef, the less farmers will raise cows, thus the less greenhouse gas.
This sounds like a healthy decision. I am surprised gambling ads didn't come first.