I’m not in the habit of being the grumpy old lady who sends Sternly Worded Letters to companies who irritate me. In fact, this is the first time I’ve been moved to write such a complaint (and I told them so). But this one just hit me sideways.
I’ve been watching Al Gore try to raise the alarm about climate change for more than 40 years. His opus, An Inconvenient Truth, is as germane today as it was when it was first released in 2006. If anything, it was too optimistic.
To see a stupid conglomerate blatantly ripping off his work and making mock of such a serious concern 13 years on, all in the name of peddling some new crap snack food, well… for better or worse, it triggered my moral outrage.
I’m just glad they changed it. As I said, I’m likely not the only person who reacted with… vigor. :o
And yeah, it was cheesy, in every meaning of the word.
In the genre of “cater to everything your little brat does, no matter how annoying or self-destructive”, we now have the Country Crock plant butter ad featuring the a-dor-able little girl who eats nothing but spaghetti with butter.
All the adoring parents have to do is substitute plant butter for regular butter, and voila! problem solved.
The kid will die of malnutrition anyway, just not quite as fast. :smack:
Not that I find it annoying, but puzzling: That – coffee? commercial with George Clooney in a movie, all dressed up in armor, and he steps out of the screen into modern day lifew while ‘Solsbury Hill’ plays…does George Clooney own the coffee company? does he need the money?? I don’t know why he’s in that commercial. And he isn’t noted for playing in costume dramas. I don’t dislike this commercial, but I don’t know how it came about with George Clooney.
I read somewhere that he agreed to it in order to support one of his charities. So basically he worked for free and the money went straight to helping Sudanese refugees or some other cause.
On another subject, I like the commercial where Peloton suggests the the best way to celebrate the holidays is to stay home and exercise all alone.
That IS George Clooney? I saw that commercial and thought ‘Wow, that guy looks very much like George Clooney’ never dreaming he’d be in such a, um, low end ad.
Slight correction: He uses the money to support something called the Satellite Sentinel Project, which buys satellite time to observe what’s going in Darfur.
The things people find to complain about! Apparently grown men singing in a high voice, called singing ‘falsetto’, is a very old tradition some are horrified to hear. Prince and many many African American men sing in a falsetto, as do many Africans, I would think.
Do you think somehow it makes the woman a ball-buster and the man ‘GAY’?
This is completely ridiculous. As others have noted, the guy’s singing voice might be a slightly higher register than the woman’s, but it’s clearly a guy’s voice. There is nothing at all in the characters’ actions and behavior, or the words that they’re singing, to distinguish the man from the woman. In fact, the commercial seems to suggest that the mother and father are taking equal responsibility for the domestic tasks in the house. If you think that this constitutes “deriding the husband,” you might be projecting onto the commercial your own outdated expectations.
Actually, to the extent that this is true, the commercials that make men seem incompetent or inferior are usually commercials related to domestic duties like cooking, cleaning, child-raising, etc. And of course, by doing this, the commercials also tend to reinforce the backward notions that domestic tasks are really a woman’s job.
The things people find to complain about! Apparently grown men singing in a high voice, called singing ‘falsetto’, is a very old tradition some are horrified to hear. Prince and many many African American men sing in a falsetto, as do many Africans, I would think.