Hello all,
Now I want you all to be honest with me here on this one. Last weekend, an advert came on the TV for what I think is cancer awareness. I would imagine most here in the UK would have seen it. There are two, one shows a lady tube feeding herself and her family sitting around the table looking pretty depressed, and the impact is supposed to be "quit smoking, this is what it does." The other one shows all different people, including the lady tube feeding, but also a lady with an ostomy.
I'll get to my point...
I felt aggrieved at this as I felt this was not showing our unique situation in a positive light. Now, further to this, I actually had someone say in a conversation yesterday that they had seen the advert and, in their words, "it must be awful to have one of those things," I saw it on the TV advert.
Now, at this moment, as a few of you may know, I've got a lot going on and to say I'm slightly emotionally charged would be an understatement. I have today, for the first time in my life, complained to OFCOM or ASA as it is with adverts. I agree with the campaign wholly, but to use the threat of an ostomy to get folk to quit is, in my opinion, wrong, as we all know our ostomies are for all different reasons and not as a punishment as this advert is putting over.
Please tell me if I'm being a little tetchy.
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I don't know why you have just seen this anti-smoking (not cancer awareness) ad. Were you catching up on recorded programs maybe?
Anyway, it was released about a year ago (April 2015) and caused a furor. Believe it was then adapted.
I have not seen it live (checked it out online before posting this)
No, you are not being tetchy; I understand your reasoning here.
But, I smoked all my life. And my ileostomy is because of cancer.
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Tetchy? Isn't your response a just a natural reaction to something you find obnoxious?
Personally I find all advertising obnoxious and I wish that someone would invent an advert eliminator.
I didn't see the advertisement you refer to because up to now I have used the off button for the TV and radio, but sometimes they even sneak in adverts within the programmes.
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I have not seen the offending advert, but I get your drift and completely understand where you are coming from. Please bear with me, I am about to change the subject slightly. I am finding myself troubled by something else on UK TV at the moment. Its a show called "Too Ugly for Love". It's basically a show where people go on blind dates. The twist in the tale being these people have a hidden health condition which hinders them in their quest for finding a partner/soul mate. Needless to say, some of the lovely (and very attractive) people taking part have an ostomy and they have to decide whether to divulge their condition to their potential partner during the date, at the risk of scaring them off. Being single myself, I find it quite depressing that I must be, myself, too ugly for love and therefore no-one will want me. Why even bother looking, I ask myself. Having an ostomy can be good; it has certainly freed me from a lot of pain and misery and I do not resent it at all. However, it's time like these when it is perceived by the media as ugly and shameful and in the case of the advert - some sort of punishment for smoking - well, it's just another challenge us ostomates have to face. I am not offended by the dating programme I have described, just defeated. My solution - never to watch it again, I have enough hang-ups as it is! It's not easy, is it? Best wishes, Tracey.
Well Tracey, it's their loss. They only get their publicity by causing distress and controversy, so leave them to it. Not sure how long you have had your ostomy; mine is 2 years old today and I can say hand on heart I don't care anymore. I'm fitter than I've been for years.
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And for the record, my complaint was ignored on the grounds that they had no other complaints and it never stated that an ostomy was a bad thing. In my opinion, the decision maker does not have an ostomy.
Ha ha, my lady,
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Or, my lady, are you going to use the words of a famous French pensioner and say, "I didn't see it"?
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And leave Arsene alone! Although I have to admit he is guilty as charged. "I did not see it" sounds good in a French accent though.
Ha ha, my lady,
It's good va va vu from my mate Terry Henry (I really do have a mate called Terry Henry), but from the old man, it's more like the copper in 'Allo 'Allo.
Oh, and, how is your French (with or without the south coast accent)?
Hello, my lady,
Where have you gone? You're coming up as unknown.
My French is as good as the day I walked out of the place of life learning all those years ago, and that wasn't very good. I still remember that French teacher though; to a spotty 15-year-old, those skirts and the perfume will never fade.
Hope you are well.
Gonna watch that bloody Leicester at Sunderland next Sunday.