I disagree, and was finally, completely convinced of this when I watched the Olympics and everyone was marching around the stadium with their phones / cameras affixes to their mugs. Really? You have the chance to participate in a once in a lifetime event and you observe it through a viewfinder?:dubious:
This reminds me of the episode of Friends where Ross, in a lame effort to flirt with the pizza delivery girl explains how scent is added to gas so one knows if there’s a leak.
" The gas is actuallly odorless. They add that in so you know if there’s a leak.A lot of other gas smells. . . " 
By the way, I think there is an odorless Fabreeze. It’ s the pet odor eliminator or some such.
You can’t be serious.
Obviously not everyone was doing this.
Obviously those who were were not doing it even half of the time they were there, much less the whole time.
Obviously when it was happening it was because pictures or videos were being produced.
I guess that makes a WEEEEE bit more sense now. But not a whole hell of a lot. I do not think I am their target demographic.
You respond with this weird, literal interpretation of my post and *I *can’t be serious?
Do you really not get the gist of what I was trying to convey or are you just feeling argumentative / offended?
Let me rephrase:
I concur with Boyo Jim’s comments regarding peoples’ inability to experience the world around them without the aid of electronic devices and this opinion was greatly strengthened by my observation of a great( though admittedly unspecific) amount of the participants in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics engaging the use of said devices as they traversed the stadium. I have no way of knowing the duration of the use of said devices as I was not present and could only form my opinions based on what I saw on my TV. It was obvious to me that the purpose of this behavior was to produce pictures and videos.
To sum up: I found it weird and more than a little inappropriate.
Notice the price above the melons?
You were lucky, the disgusting clog in the U bend quite kills the mood.
This one.
Bad rhyming, stupid visuals and a voice that sounds like a 7 year old.
And it just fucking gets on my last nerve.
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Any of the lawyer commercials that start with ‘if you or someone you love has been injured or died’.
All I hear is, ‘if you has died, contact our law firm for more information…’.
Are those the lawyer commercials where the name of the practice is clearly dubbed in from a different voice actor? They clearly made a whole group of generic “Law Firm” commercials and sell them to different lawyers all over the country. Takes me right out of the moment, and I often cannot concentrate on turning my structured settlement into Cash Now!
Which brings us to the J.G. Wentworth “opera” ads. Mildly amusing at first, they eventually become absolutely excruciating after repeated viewings.
I am continually astounded at the ability of people to be offended by how another person chooses to use technology.
I’m with you on this one - I don’t find this commercial “incesty” at all. Some younger sisters do behave like this with their brothers, especially after a long separation. Watch some “soldier surprises sister” videos on YouTube, and you’ll see what I mean. There are a number of videos of servicemen returning unexpectedly from Iraq or Afghanistan and surprising their sisters. The sister invariably throws herself into his arms and hugs him tightly, in a way that would be described as “passionate” if they were lovers rather than siblings, and usually bursts into tears. Hell, I saw one where the sister just about wrestled her Marine brother to the ground, she was so happy to see him.
What I find odd about that commercial is the idea that the brother hadn’t had coffee all the time he was away. Really? You couldn’t find coffee? In Africa?
A seven-year-old!? That is the voice of the great character actor Stephen Tobolowsky.
Here’s one I find annoying:
The older firefighter that ended up with shingles. He explains that it “Felt like a bag of hot burning coals on my neck”.
What exactly is a bag of hot burning coals used for?
I dunno. Could be an Uncanny Valley-type response. Like being in a simulacrum of a forest, but there are no background odors or sounds that would make you feel like you were actually IN the forest. So it strikes the hind-brain as WRONG.
Very possible, I don’t look for a flowery smell unless there are flowers in a vase, nor food smells [cinnamon, apples, ginger] unless they are around a kitchen. I found it horrible when I was still working to walk into a bathroom and get hit with a facefull of false rose scent covering the smell of shit. Horrible and nauseating to me at least. [I would rather have an honest shit smell without the extra overlay of artificial scented whatever.]
I do somewhat like the smell of fresh laundry on laundry days. I suppose the least offensive smell emitter would have that scent.
Again, I would still rather have my house smelling of what I am cooking [today it is a variant of a white bean and bacon soup, and soon freshly baking bread and I think I will make molasses cookies]
The guy driving the Camaro in the Viagra ad needs to have his muscle car privileges revoked. His car is overheating, so he pulls into a gas station, buys a bottle of water, pours it in, and continues on his merry way to bone the missus.
I think he might be overlooking the tiny matter that he has done nothing to resolve whatever problem is causing the overheating. Is there a leak? A thermostat issue? Just adding water isn’t going to help, at least not for long, and in fact adding water when the engine is hot can damage the engine. But even putting that aside for a minute, if you are going to add water, why pick the most expensive water you can find? The gas station probably has gallon jugs of water for sale. Or, if you ask very nicely and maybe make a purchase of some kind, the owner might just let you use a hose attached to the faucet out back. Nope! You’re using bottled water. Good thinkin’.
I do have to admit that I was wrong about one thing. I assumed that the guy would also have been scalded beyond recognition by the water and steam coming out of the hot radiator when he took the cap off, but Tom and Ray Magliozzi point out that the 69* Camaro had a coolant recovery bottle, which you can open without having to take the cap off the radiator. So, the guy at least escaped permanent disfigurement.
*A 69 Camaro. In the Viagra ad. Yes.
I’ve heard there’s no snow either. And they don’t even know it’s Christmas time at all.
There’s one on the radio that’s been bugging me lately:
A woman is going on about how she likes her pets and her friends, but she really adores her family. Because, you see, family are the ones who are really there for you when the chips are down. Like just recently when they were going through a rough patch and her sister
Told her to go to the local loan shark. Sorry, I mean payday loan shop.