Reply to: Unwelcome Reminders of One's Mortality

[sbakoola]

The Charley Says TV government information "warning" ads gave me nightmares ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDu7yYHxZr0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDu7yYHxZr0

[greenlake]

Do you remember who got all the Relton shares in the end so I can stop watching?

You still haven't found out after all these years....?

I used to watch Howards Way religiously but I never saw the final season and didn't get to find out who got all the Relton shares.

She was in Howard's Way and I had a note to self to ask her who got all the Relton Shares in the end because I missed the last season. Damn....

[Pip in a Poke]

E

Damn those Sunday nights, with school following morning; hated that programme!

qh

I'm watching the re-runs.

Do you remember who got all the Relton shares in the end so I can stop watching?

[NotAllThere]

Listen to the Final Cut a few times and all those adverts become light entertainment.

[Pip in a Poke]

Well I still say those cancer ads are really horrible and depressing.

As others have said, why not focus on someyhing posititve thaf has cone out of research to encourage people to contribute rather than those utterly bleak scenes of a father visting his child for the last time.

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Brighton not Bath.

Passes through where I use to live.

Probably a nicer route and hopefully they don't do it in the middle of October like the one I did.

[SueEllen]

London to Bath? I was on that last year. Horrible cold ride along the A4 mostly.

Brighton not Bath.

Passes through where I use to live.

[Big Blue Plymouth]

The BHF L2B CUK ride was enormous fun. I think MS raised quite a lot for them.

London to Bath? I was on that last year. Horrible cold ride along the A4 mostly.

[BrilloPad]

The BHF L2B CUK ride was enormous fun. I think MS raised quite a lot for them.

[scooterscot]

This one came up in Google search results when I was quite concerned about a funny feeling in my chest one Sunday afternoon. As soon as I'd watched it I dialled 999, and it turned out I was actually having a heart attack, and within an hour I was having an angioplasty. So don't knock 'em

Is it just me or do you feel like your developing these symptoms just watching this advert?

Pah, watching this makes me want to get back out on that piste this weekend. Time is precious.

[NigelJK]

They disembarked in 45
And no one spoke and no one smiled
for there were to many spaces in the line.


They all agreed with hand on heart
to sheath the sacrificial knives.

[SueEllen]

You're very musical and jolly today....



Did you get lucky last night

TMI

[MrMarkyMark]

Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And what's more no-one ever disappears
You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door
You can relax on both sides of the tracks
And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law
And no-one kills the children anymore

You're very musical and jolly today....



Did you get lucky last night

[NotAllThere]

I didn't in a way I can remember.

I was going to be blown up by the IRA though.

Somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
Where you can speak out loud
About your doubts and fears
And what's more no-one ever disappears
You never hear their standard issue kicking in your door
You can relax on both sides of the tracks
And maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
And everyone has recourse to the law
And no-one kills the children anymore

[quackhandle]

Now, don't get me wrong. I'm happy to run a marathon for the British Heart Foundation and I recognise the sterling work such charities do but is there really any need for those depressing ads on Freeview?

One minute you're enjoying a bit of escapism watching Ken Masters and Jan Howard having a good romp on the deck of some gin palace in the Solent, the next you're suddenly presented with a rather unpleasant reminder that you could die soon. Horribly.

It puts me on a real downer.

I think the worst one at the moment is the BHF one where the bridesmaid dies at her sister's wedding and her voiceover intones the words "sorry to ruin your big day sis".

I watch freeview to escape all the depressing bilge on BBC; Eastenders etc. but it seems the tentacles of the miserabilists reach everywhere these days.

Damn those Sunday nights, with school following morning; hated that programme!

qh