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Room 101 Speech

Just imagine the situation – there you are snuggled comfortably on your sofa, with all your snacks laid out in front of you, totally transfixed by the gripping horror film with its premiere on TV that you’ve been waiting ages to see. You just can’t take your eyes away from the action, and as the suspense builds slowly and inexorably to a climax and your hand grips the side of the sofa, you ask yourself who the murderer was, and it’s about to be revealed when, suddenly, the dark scene is replaced by a blinding flash of light and a scene of a smiley dog owner patting his smiley dog on the head and recommending that you buy pedigree chum because 8 out of 10 dog owners prefer it. That carefully constructed suspense is just totally obliterated and it is just at that point that I felt like smashing my new flat screen TV to tiny pieces and filling the air with expletives that I couldn’t possibly repeat here, and waking all the neighbours. TV Adverts – just saying the word causes a rush of blood to my head. If only I could banish them forever to room 101. Whether its adverts on the television or in a magazine, they are all extremely irritating and I think many people will agree with me.

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And what is that is so important, that I just won’t be able to live my life without, the product that will change my life completely and fill me with ecstasy and thank my lucky stars that I saw the advert? No, they are all just a load of rubbish that will be thrown into the bin and leave me that little bit poorer for my trouble.

And what about the ridiculous creatures that take part in these so-called reality adverts. Is that shampoo really going to change your life when you have a face that looks like the back ...

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