John Lewis advert

[PeteXXX]

You have the Internet though...it'll be on the JL website, YouTube etc

Oooh! I can avoid it there, too 😂

 

[Juan Kog]

My nearest John Lewis store is no more , it was culled during the first lockdown

 

[DRM]

No, the John Lewis Christmas advert is definitely about going woke.
The moral of the story is if you're woke you should shop at John Lewis.

I thought the moral was “Go woke, Go broke”

 

[Cycleops]

I thought the moral was “Go woke, Go broke”

In the case of John Lewis that certainly seems to be coming true.

 

[Drago]

My guess is this years advert will have...

F15 fighter jets napalming AK wielding insurgents, the SAS storming an embassy, and the Salvation Army waterboarding a homeless man.

 

[theclaud]

No, the John Lewis Christmas advert is definitely about going woke.

What does this mean?

 

[BrumJim]

What does this mean?

Christmas has been ruined by the 'woke' brigade. It used to be about gluttony, shopping, and getting the best presents. Then some meddling do-gooders (Christians, in particular, I'm looking at you) started to shoe-horn "Goodwill" and "Peace" into the Christian message, and wanted us to think about those without lots of presents, and visiting people we don't like and being kind and generous to them.

Well, to those without enough, 'your fault' I say. Work harder. If you try to cancel my Christmas by forcing my relatives to spend money on something other than presents for me, or by making it illegal to avoid family members I don't like, or by the thought Police arresting me if I say something rude about someone, then we should cut your benefits completely, until you become grateful for them again.

And don't get me started on the writings of that High Priest of wokeness Charles Dickens. I've never read so much drivel as the Christmas Carol in my entire life. I say burn all copies until we've made cancel culture history.

 

[Beebo]

And don't get me started on the writings of that High Priest of wokeness Charles Dickens. I've never read so much drivel as the Christmas Carol in my entire life. I say burn all copies until we've made cancel culture history.

For all his Wokeness, Dickens wasn’t a very nice person.

 

[DRM]

My guess is this years advert will have...

F15 fighter jets napalming AK wielding insurgents, the SAS storming an embassy, and the Salvation Army waterboarding a homeless man.

No, just an alien of indeterminable gender, previously they had an insurance ad with a boy caked in make up and wearing a dress flinging glitter all over the house, it was pulled…………when pointed out they wouldn’t pay out on a glitter flinging incident

 

[DRM]

For all his Wokeness, Dickens wasn’t a very nice person.

i thought Dickens wrote about what he saw going on around him, with a view to improving the lot of the poor

 

[Fnaar]

*November 13th
*Refugee choir sings "Oh Come All Ye Faithful"
* Strange lights appear in the sky... Fascinated kid and a dog wander up on to the moor, where Santa has adorned the wind turbines with Christmas lights, powered by a petrol-driven generator.

 

[Drago]

We all know its a LOB. Its nothing to do with religion, and all about shifting units and maximising profit and share value. They'll use whatever the prevailing societal fashion or norm of the day is, and if there is a sudden sirge of naziism theyd happily use swastikas. They cynically manipulate whatever the fashionable social cause of the day is in order to make lots of dosh, reyardless of how stupid, dangerousmor ephemeral thar cause may be.

Were having conversations about saving the planet, and in the next breath were all discussing and even celebrating the rampant consumerism which these ads represent. Shame on everyone - there are no inncoent parties in any of this, me included.

 

[theclaud]

Shame on everyone - there are no inncoent parties in any of this, me included.

LOL we must all remember to self-flagellate through every ad break.

 

[DRM]

We all know its a LOB. Its nothing to do with religion, and all about shifting units and maximising profit and share value. They'll use whatever the prevailing societal fashion or norm of the day is, and if there is a sudden sirge of naziism theyd happily use swastikas. They cynically manipulate whatever the fashionable social cause of the day is in order to make lots of dosh, reyardless of how stupid, dangerousmor ephemeral thar cause may be.

Were having conversations about saving the planet, and in the next breath were all discussing and even celebrating the rampant consumerism which these ads represent. Shame on everyone - there are no inncoent parties in any of this, me included.

Don’t forget as well as using the popular theme du jour, they like to add a popular song, slowed down and performed as a dirge