WebForum: Advertising space

Jan 26 2010 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

ANOTHER day, another gripe! This time it’s the number of adverts in one guise or another that are appearing around the area.

Whether they’re legitimate or not, they’re certainly winding the Examiner’s Web Forum users up.

TommyDGNR8said: “It strikes me that, recently, there has been a marked increase in the amount of advertising in our environment.

“It seems every gable end has a banner stuck on it, every lay-by has a trailer left in it; there’s even a significant number of vans being parked on a semi-permanent basis at ‘strategic’ road junctions, all advertising car pimping kits, no-win-no-fee lawyers, double glazing or garages.

“Surely it’s within the council’s remit to push through a few by-laws to rid us of these eyesores?”

Otis said: “You have just reminded me that I was going to make a similar point some time ago. Guess what? I forgot.

“The fields at the side of some of our motorways are beginning to look like the slum areas more usually found abroad. Not a very impressive advert for the town or city adjacent. The collections of old vans, trailers and hoardings are an eyesore.

“If I was promoting a product or venue I am not sure I would want to do so in surroundings which at best could be described as ‘tatty’ and at worst a blot on the landscape.

“Maybe it is time for councils all over the country to turn their attention to this ‘pollution’ blighting their areas.”

markmyword49 added: “Almost all films, books and plays about the future have a dystopian vision of a society in which conditions of life are miserable and characterised by poverty, oppression, war, violence and/or terror, resulting in widespread unhappiness, suffering, and other kinds of pain.

“Often this vision is reinforced by the writers with shots or descriptions of never-ending public announcements and public areas plastered with advertisements. Think 1984 and Blade Runner. We are just starting down the slippery road.”

Otiscame back with: “‘We are just starting down the slippery road’. An unfortunate choice of words given the recent transportation problems experienced locally.”