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Commercials are the absolute worst
Fandyien
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These commercials make me want to choke people. Girl approved hair? chocolate? fuck these goddamn stupid executives and all these awful actors
They are second only to that stupid commercial with gerbils driving cars
WHY AM I SUBJECTED TO THESE THINGS IT IS MAKING ME HATE GIRLS AND GERBILS AND VIDEO CAMERAS
They are second only to that stupid commercial with gerbils driving cars
WHY AM I SUBJECTED TO THESE THINGS IT IS MAKING ME HATE GIRLS AND GERBILS AND VIDEO CAMERAS
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is it a superstition
Do you know what the absolute worst is? Advertising when you've already purchased the product.
I'm sitting in Borders enjoying a coffee, and the fuckers on the intercom keep droning on and on about trying one of their new mochafrappachino amalgamations. I've already bought your fucking product, can you leave me alone for a bit without cramming more of it into my ears?
Argghh rage against the man/consumerism.
I haven't actually watched tv in forever because it's all on the internet
it is the incredibly awful content of these adds that grates on me
COMPUTER ANIMATED GERBILS DO NOT ENTICE ME HUURRRRGH
like, they put awful wigs on models and have the guys accost girls in the park in a really aggressive and obvious way, at one point basically trapping a girl between them and a wall
the girls, unsurprisingly, are unreceptive
all this I can kind of get, except the fucking closing line
"if these gorgeous guys can't get girls with bad hair, what chance do YOU have?"
fuck you corporation and your assumptions about me you fucking asshole bitch motherfucker
my girlfriend is twice as pretty as those girls on a bad day you cunts
heres some books
I never get tired of seeing this.
I actually don't really watch television outside of anything I may TiVo, in which case I just skip commercials.
But commercials on the radio at work? When I work with others who are listening to the radio that I can't turn off? God, it's like day-long torture.
commercials like that just convince me to stop trying
to get consent
Like, at parties I tend to get a little "seek and destroy."
bro your girlfriend looks like tammy faye bakker and those girls are professional models
OH WHOOPS
also that chocolate-guy ad is so goddamn creepy
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and he gets right up in her face and YELLS "YOUR MOM?"
she runs off
and again, "YOUR MOM?!"
and then it's like
LEAVE TIME FOR WHAT'S IMPORTANT IN LIFE
and i'm left sitting there utterly confused
The best part about my friends down south is that one of the guys is a 6ft 7 man mountain
I love hanging around with a guy that makes the average jock feel
well, like I do
I now want this product more than anything else in the entire world.
I've never been to a party like that, but I'll keep on hunting
FOR FREE?
hit me up when you find it.
I've totally been to parties like that.
They're awesome parties. Therefore, those commercials make no sense to me. Why am I being told not to have fun?
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Yes, in my experience they get really high, then get mega obnoxious and break shit.
Or maybe that's just my roommate.
I can't be sure.
We used to do that
Several parties me and six other friends would sit down with two or three ounces and not emerge for ~12 hours
I don't get it.
Also, before a few movies lately there has been this anti-drug commercial with a painted moving panel coming towards the foreground with the shape of a person cut out of it, and the dude in the commercial gets into the different positions to "fit in" with the scene as it passes over him and falls. There's even a skateboard one at the end which I thought was kinda clever. But alas, the last one is a picture of a kid handing him a joint and he walks away.
What I was thinking was certainly not "man I guess it's not cool to do drugs," it was "that was actually kind of entertaining to watch, why'd they waste it on an anti-drug commercial?"
I don't even know what kinds of houses you guys are partying at that apparently have these walk-in weed closets
Well, duh.
What else are they gonna do with 'em?
Oh god, I wish we could. The higher-ups keep mandating all this obnoxious customer outreach stuff when we on the store level know full well that the average book customer just wants a coffee and a book. If he or she needs help with either of these, they will ask on their own.
I wouldn't say a "crazy sex addict" would be the first thing that comes to mind when picturing a rapist.
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I guess they figure if you're going to smoke crack a commercial ain't gonna help you too much