??? I first heard of CD' ten years after they launched. How? Someone laughed at me because I had a turntable. So I had to ask.

I don't own a TV. I was 25 when I first saw one. I never had any intereest in owning one after that. I stopped listening to radio 50 years ago. I read books - not magazines. Ii haven't been to a cinema for 25 years.

I have no lounge suite in my sitting room, and I don't have a dining room table so I don't have things like table cloths.

I don't own a car or a bicycle. I don't use moisturisers for my skin, and I have probably been to a hairdresser two dozen times in my 73 years.

One does not need to see advertising in order to know one needs clothing, food, or other basics.

It would be impossible for me to hear about products from other people because I don't socialize at all. It's why I could never hold down a job. People get offended when you don't talk.

So you're saying that I wouldn't know to buy rice or potatoes or meat unless I heard about them first in an ad? I could not have grown up eatiing? Don't be absurd.

You are talking nonsense. Then, again, the odds are that you grew up in America, while I grew up in Africa.

Somehow, in Africa, we knew that we needed to eat to survive. We had two feet to walk somewhere, and that we smelt if we didn't bath.

Believe it or not, humanity thrived for millions of years without advertising and brands.