It's a bit like 'Unbirthdays', but I suspect with less to celebrate.
So for the last few days we have been treated to BBC commercials for conspicuous consumption and travel in complement.
Apparently, the big wheeze is to go shopping in the US.
Those well known essentials, Prada, iPods and Designer jeans, are all available much cheaper over there, plus you get to fly across the pond taboot. And, as the next spot showed, you can do it with BA, who are making record profits by cutting costs... if not flights.
There were the usual gushing bouffant and b...runette, and two 'expert' 'guests'. A geezer from the (now BBC) Lonely Planet Guide and a lady from Shopaholics.com. She was, if anything, the only one with a small voice to reason, pointing the potential advantages of online. That said, having what you get get here shipped form the US by courier seems... odd. Mind you, I guess I depends on where iPods are made.
But good news! Duty Free allowances are going up next year, so yet more expensive tat can be shunted around the stratosphere, adding kilos to the fuel cost of each aircraft, and the passengers lugging it all along.
Meanwhile, it's ski season! At least they were showing it from the indoor (where I guess a load of energy is used making the snow outside the few months it may arrive by nature) slope in Manchester. But their notion seemed to be that 'we' all are hitting the overseas resorts pretty soon. Maybe the salaries and holiday allowances are more generous in White City thanks to our licence fee contributions.
Nice one, Aunty. Look forward to the next climate change slot when what we do is bad for the planet.
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