Ha! Yes indeed, this was written at least a couple of years before I took up meditation, and I must say that me, really shocked the me of now, my god I was angry!

I even thought about censoring past me a bit before putting it on, but then realised that would be self-defeating!

I'm totally on board with your point about the overuse of the word creative in advertising. Not to say there aren't lots of creative people involved in it, however it seems that a lot of the so-called creativity is based around adapting pre-existing ideas to ABC or XYZ product.

Anyway I still hate being advertised to when I'm not in a buying mood, but these days I deal with it by having adblocker plus installed and not watching TV.

On the rare occasions I do watch the old goggle box, I watch pre-recorded stuff, or pause the program for enough time to be able to fast forward the ads.

... but then again, I've never seen "Halifax Howard," have I?

I'm fairly sure if you had, you'd also want to see him suffer extensively before dying a bloody and painful death. (oops, breathe @cryptogee, breathe!)

Cg