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To be this good takes a few days.

Incidentally, Patreon's bullshit new fee structure (wherein you guys get charged an extra "service fee" because something something Jack Conte got bills to pay) has come at exactly the wrong time for me because I inevitably lost my ESA appeal and thus have no means of support other than this. So not a good time for the company to make a naked cash-grab and chase away business for itself and its creators. Fuckers. I might look into Ko-Fi and Drip and such in the New Year.

I used to quite like Pomplamoose, too.

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The Hard Sell, Episode Sixty-Eight: Have a Break - Christmas '92

Advertising: the rattling of a stick in a swill-bucket? Welcome to the show where the stick rattles back: The Hard Sell. Adverts from history, treated with the respect they deserve. This episode: Have a Break visits a few days before Christmas in 1992 and discovers mint betrayal, Birdsalls of burden and painstakingly constructed hamburger sammiches!

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Chris Oakley

Great spot of Lucy Alexander in the Burger King advert! As for the Boddingtons advert, I always thought that was Anna Chancellor. Shows how much I know. I feel almost allergic to the 90s now. I think I went through it in some sort of anaesthetised state that prevented its absolute awfulness from affecting me at the time. Now, when I see any British TV footage from the era, my skin starts to crawl as if I'm belatedly getting a bad reaction to it. And the funny thing is, I'll probably feel the same about the first 10 years of the 2000's in a few years time too.