{"id":41879,"date":"2023-05-31T00:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T23:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=41879"},"modified":"2023-05-31T22:16:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T21:16:21","slug":"annoying-adverts-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=41879","title":{"rendered":"Annoying Adverts 2023 &#8211; I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"236\" data-src=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/secretescapes.jpg\" alt=\"The kings of idiotic whispering - Secret Escapes\" class=\"wp-image-41929 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/secretescapes.jpg 900w, https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/secretescapes-300x79.jpg 300w, https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/secretescapes-768x201.jpg 768w, https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/secretescapes-730x191.jpg 730w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 900px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 900\/236;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite a few years ago, I wrote about Secret Escapes, and it&#8217;s inane fascination with whispering. In fact, I wrote about it four times (two separate ads), <a href=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=9067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Secret Escapes first ad (2012)\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Secret Escapes second ad (2014)\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=10787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Secret Escapes (referenced)\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Secret Escapes ad (2014)\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those were in 2012 and 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But bugger me, they&#8217;ve managed an even more annoying whispering pile of crap in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to provide a link. The sooner they go out of business, the happier I will be. I <strong>hate <\/strong>whispering, and this company hasn&#8217;t got a clue. And the evidence suggests a lot of other people dislike it as much as I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thing is, I haven&#8217;t got a clue what it is they actually do &#8211; I switch channels the moment I hear the whispering. And TRESemm\u00e9 had better watch out. I use their products, but their current whispering ad is driving me nuts. My general policy is to boycott companies who annoy me, and TRESemm\u00e9 is doing that right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4532794719633406\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a few years ago, I wrote about Secret Escapes, and it&#8217;s inane fascination with whispering. In fact, I wrote about it four times (two separate ads), here, here, here, and here. Those were in 2012 and 2014. But bugger me, they&#8217;ve managed an even more annoying whispering pile of crap in 2023. I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}