Speaking of adverts, is it just me or does “I can’t wake up without my furry alarm clock” (Iams cat food advert) sound kind of ‘rude’?

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Confronting mortality on a Monday evening

Is the new Lloyds TSB “…for the journey” ad campaign totally egregious and depressing or what? It features a fat animated couple on a streamlined animated train passing through life from cradle to grave, accompanied by poignant music, purchasing financial products from Lloyds TSB at each critical point.

Thank you, Lloyds TSB. I am aware that my likely to be unremarkable life is slipping away towards my likely to be unremarkable death and that looking back my most significant contribution to the planet will probably have been to have acted as an income stream for various financial institutions and businesses. But, on a Monday evening in front of my television after work, I do not care to receive stark reminders that the sands of my hourglass are inexorably trickling away as I continue to consume.

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