Adverts from hell

I’m back in a Location Up North and thus back in the world of four channels, no Freeview and unskippable adverts, and there’s a few that have been annoying me repeatedly – Peugeot’s Rugby World Cup bumpers are major annoyances already and we’re only two games in (shame about that Italian non-try), and I want to seriously inhibit whoever made the talking animal technology from Babe cheap enough for insurance hawkers to use in their advertising.

(I am also, as you can see from this, somewhat lacking in good blog post ideas, hence this.)

The point here is: why do adverts seek to annoy? It is of course hard to make a piece of film that, shown repeatedly every fifteen minutes, that won’t annoy, but a lot of them seem to want to do it deliberately. Why do people buy stuff that seeks to annoy them into doing so? It’s perplexing.

I really do not get why people would want to use a Shiela’s Wheels type business from the image that they put out. I suppose this goes in the same questions bin as “why do people phone 090 numbers”, really, a question that I would also have trouble answering. I suppose I must think differently in some way, although I cannot think how.