John Crace’s digested week: from a man in denim hotpants to childhood memories being repackaged for a younger generation
Monday
I am not particularly keen on waking up to a bloke in denim hot pants and high heels strutting his stuff, but I don’t feel strongly enough about it to make a fuss. I appear to be in a minority as the Moneysupermarket ad topped the Advertising Standards Authority complaints list for 2015. It is the persistence and tenacity of the complainants that amazes me; I find almost every TV advert mildly annoying and offensive but never sufficiently so to do anything about it. Mind you, if the Ray Winstone Bet365 adverts had an interactive element as easy as their in-play betting function, I could be tempted. Press red for angry, blue for very angry, green for ‘I’ve just accidentally bankrupted myself’, and yellow for ‘can I have a Wonga loan at an annual interest rate of 1,509%?’
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