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Hello Share Scrunchers. Am I the only one who doesn’t see how advertising can possibly justify the huge sums spent on it? If someone interrupts one of my TV programmes by trying to get me to buy a certain breakfast cereal, am I likely to rush out and buy it at the earliest opportunity? One can only assume that there is something subconscious at work here, which makes you buy the stuff on an involuntary basis.
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wildrides
Yeah I remember the old days when Malcolm said “ mum I cant take my exams blocked up like this “ and I felt a strange compulsion to rush out and buy some Sinex nasal spray ……….. those were the days . And I didn’t even have a blocked up nose . Scary that subliminal adverting before it got banned .