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Date: 28 December 2006 12:19:01
Steve's latest blog entry refers to him buying a winter coat this week - oh, the joys of seasonal merchandise. Once the sales are over, shops will fill with shorts and singlets for men, and flimsy, floaty clothes for girlies (in pastel colours, or possibly acid greens and oranges - Gah!)
As we slumped in front of the telly on Boxing Day, I remarked to my mother-in-law (Spike and my family will have heard this many times before) how now all the adverts would start to fall into two camps:
Something to look forward to, to treat yourself - ie January sales, summer holidays
Self-improvement - smoking cessation treatments (who is this Nickerty Nell woman anyhow?) and slimming products. So far I've only seen one dieting ad, but I've seen it several times and am already having to bite my tongue because Spike has heard quite enough of me yelling, 'Yeah, you get to eat chocolate bars, but they're crappy ones! You could lose weight by eating actual, like, FOOD, you know, if you just chose it carefully! But no, carry on eating junk food, don't lose your taste for it, because that way when you stop dieting you'll just eat loads of proper chocolate and put the weight back on, and then what a coincidence, you'll have to pay out MORE money to S***F***, I bet they didn't intend for that to happen!' Humph. Tina plans to bore you with her dieting reflections in the New Year.
The other thing with THAT meal replacement ad is she then says how she's wearing clothes she hasn't worn for years. My initial reaction was that she will be mocked mercilessly by her mates, but then again, yesterday I saw a bright young thing wearing a puffball skirt with footless tights.