If you watch TV when abroad

[susanb]

If you watch TV when abroad do they bombard you, to pay money each month to a charity?

I have spent a total of 4 years in India. Their adverts that I remember, are hair products, body sprays, chewing gum and Pamper Nappies.

Is it just the UK that has charities for everything?

[*concerned*]

Similar in Spain, little or no charity adverts, and all the actors in the adverts are Spanish!

[joan ofarc]

If you watch TV when abroad do they bombard you, to pay money each month to a charity?

I have spent a total of 4 years in India. Their adverts that I remember, are hair products, body sprays, chewing gum and Pamper Nappies.

Is it just the UK that has charities for everything?

I've never thought about it before but now you mention it I don't remember seeing adverts for charities to any great degree when I was abroad. American/Canadian adverts seemed to be mosty about pills, beauty products and a huge variety of potions, lotions and weird gadgets supposed to alleviate various aspects of your health. And food.
European adverts seemd to be for household cleaning products, weirdly, with a, to British sensibilities, cringeworthy lack of modesty regarding things like stains on your underpants!
Here we do get bombarded with emotional appeals to our purse strings. I switch over when it's about donkeys with overgrown hooves or baby bears being forcibly taken from their mothers, so those don't work with me. When it's natives of any country drinking polluted water I end up shouting at the TV - FOR GOODNESS SAKE BOIL IT! I've grown quite hard-hearted to appeals for countries that prioritise, say, a space programme over basic sanitation for its citizens. Charities are all desperate for money after the lockdowns and they must think we are a country that has more disposable income than others. It must work or they wouldn't do it.

[Blackrock]

I've grown quite hard-hearted to appeals for countries that prioritise, say, a space programme over basic sanitation for its citizens. Charities are all desperate for money after the lockdowns and they must think we are a country that has more disposable income than others. It must work or they wouldn't do it.

It makes me wonder how much of the donations they receive is spent on making and showing these adverts. I don't have the figures but I know a thirty second ad on TV can cost thousands depending on when it's shown and how often.

[said]

It makes me wonder how much of the donations they receive is spent on making and showing these adverts. I don't have the figures but I know a thirty second ad on TV can cost thousands depending on when it's shown and how often.

I find it so sad that people watch organised programmes by which to keep themselves entertained - especially when abroad when there is so much to do and so much to see, and you can arrange your own schedules. Who cares about advertising?

[*concerned*]

............not forgetting multiple charities for the same cause !

[Mr Saxon]

There are far, far too many adverts for charities on all the channels in the UK, mostly for wonky donkeys, kids in Africa and Asia and then there's the multiple funeral companies and life insurance adverts too. I just change over the channels or turn the sound off until the programme I'm watching comes back on.

[*concerned*]

Also, many times we get 'warnings' the next TV clip contains flashing lights or disturbing scenes. With these adverts there is NO warning at all, and next minute you are faced with VERY distressing images of animals or humans !

[salus.populi]

Christ on a bike. Let's hope you lot are never in need of any charity.

[Hamble]

I seem to only remember USA adverts of the odd (medical fees) bod(car salesman) and god (help us) variety.

[joan ofarc]

I find it so sad that people watch organised programmes by which to keep themselves entertained - especially when abroad when there is so much to do and so much to see, and you can arrange your own schedules. Who cares about advertising?

Well some of us actually lived there and were grateful for a bit of telly of an evening, dire though most of it was. I'm sure you would be out culturally enriching yourself though.....bully for you.

[joan ofarc]

Christ on a bike. Let's hope you lot are never in need of any charity.

If I am going to donate my money I reserve the right to give it to whoever I choose and on that basis I will not be choosing countries whose ruler has rooms full of shoes,or goldplated swimming pools or prioritises the military over basic public health. That rules out America then.

[salus.populi]

If I am going to donate my money I reserve the right to give it to whoever I choose

Of course you do, that doesn't mean they shouldn't advertise to try and persuade you just like any company advertises their products in the hope that you buy them.

and on that basis I will not be choosing countries whose ruler has rooms full of shoes,or goldplated swimming pools or prioritises the military over basic public health. That rules out America then.

Entirely your choice but it's hardly the fault of the poor people of any country if their rulers are corrupt. Rules out the UK too.

[joan ofarc]

No one is disputing that charities can make begging adverts. No one has to either watch them or donate as a result of them either. I decided to stop donating money some years ago when the direct debits on my bank account reached epic proportions and instead to donate my tme and talents, such as they are. The only cause I will give money for is a natural disaster.
Feel free to donate to the poor people of a corrupt country and I'll feel free not to.

[said]

Also, many times we get 'warnings' the next TV clip contains flashing lights or disturbing scenes. With these adverts there is NO warning at all, and next minute you are faced with VERY distressing images of animals or humans !

Did you know that during the 1970's, the USA were experimenting with the psychology of the human brain using split second flash images? It has been found that such images can pass information into the human brain without the observer knowing? Most of the population have been subjected to this on a regular basis, it can completely change the way people think.

http://nutesla.com/wp-content/upload...nd-Control.pdf

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...d-1794256.html