We have been around the UK to ask - do you have a favourite Christmas advert?
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00:00 I don't think I've watched a lot so far but I don't know what the company is that did the elderly ladies who get the sledges.
00:08 Amazon.
00:09 Amazon? Anything heartwarming. Yeah I don't mind. If you're going to be forced to watch adverts, I would like to watch a Christmas advert.
00:27 I mean I'm looking at them and I'm thinking, oh here we go again, Kevin the carers. Apparently they were queuing up outside Aldi because they do a different Kevin every year.
00:36 And I'm kind of thinking I'm sick of looking at these jingle bells and everything's wonderful. People are going through a cost of a living crisis. Make it logical for where we are now as a country.
00:49 As far as the M&S advert goes, I did see it and I was absolutely baffled by it. And it was instead of celebrating Christmas, they were trying to destroy it.
01:01 I just don't see what the marketing department thought that that would attract people. It just bamboozled me completely.
01:15 They were putting cards in the fire, they were putting paper hats in the fire and they were throwing the snowman away.
01:35 So all the lovely traditions. There's no sign of kids opening presents, which is what it's all about. And I think they lost a lot of business through that. And it's their own fault. Just sheer stupidity.
01:49 I haven't seen any yet. I'm starting to see some. I know there's supposed to be a good one coming out. There's usually a good M&S one. But I haven't seen any yet.
01:59 I haven't actually seen that many, to be honest, this time. I've seen the Marks and Spencers one, because we actually live in Wrexham, so it's where the football is.
02:07 So I've seen that Marks and Spencers one with reference to Ryan Reynolds and Rob Maffehenny. So that's good. That's my favourite one.
02:14 Speak to me left.
02:16 I got snow right up my a**.
02:19 Merry Christmas.
02:20 Oh, hello. I'm right. And my damn friend here is left.
02:23 Yeah, he does that when he gets excited.
02:25 I've not seen any of them really this year, apart from the Amazon one. I know the John Lewis one's normally good, but I've not seen it.
02:32 But I don't know if that's because we don't really watch television in the way that we used to watch it. So you're not forced to sit through the adverts anymore.
02:39 What was it? It was the John Lewis one, wasn't it, I think. They were always good. And I think Aldi did quite a few. You know, with the carrots. Do you remember that one?
02:49 A magical Christmas Eve, the most wonderful time of year. Five lucky winners waited. Then William Conqueror appeared.
02:57 Inside the flumpty dumpties prepared a big celebration.
03:02 Welcome to my world.