I can’t lie and say I haven’t had one or two myself. Aw heck, in college I ate a lot of 'em, when I was single I ate a lot of ‘em and even now I keep one in the freezer just in case…like when my wifes away and I don’t feel like cookin’. (Like now…that salisbury steak is seeming real good to me)
But the commercials sickened me because the message seemed to be that you weren’t a real guy unless you ate more food than you need to. They advocated gluttony.
Anyone in the military ever been in Europe? As I said earlier AFN doesn’t show commercials but they have these kind of “public service” spots in place instead. They’re usually bad and most of them are just propaganda spots for the military. I’m in the military and they make me nuts. They just rub me the wrong way, so much that I actually hate watching TV.
I was really thinking about starting a pit thread, but now its too late.
But does anybody else think it is just completely indecent for Budweiser and Spike Lee to use Jackie Robinson’s sacred image to hock beer? I mean, Babe Ruth maybe, and I don’t have a problem with Jack Buck so much, even though I’m a huge Cardinal’s fan… But Jackie Robinson? I’m toning down my anger here, but believe me, the people responsible for that comercial are all going straight to hell.
Just so you know, the Jeep in that commercial is the Compass, the sister vehicle to the Caliber. It’s…not a big assed SUV, but it is available with AWD. It’s about the same size as a Vibe or Matrix.
I don’t know if this will ease your pain, but dead celebrities have agents and lawyers now. Budweiser not only got permission to use Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth, but they paid the heirs for the privilege.
With the HeadOn commercial showing someone rubbing it on their forehead, I was afraid (VERY afraid) to look at the TV screen when it yelled, “FREEDhEM! The One Application Hemorrhoidal Cream” over and over again.
Erm, I think the Mac/digital camera commercial is attempting to dispel the fairly common notion that Macs are incompatible with everything else. Hence the PCs surprise that the Mac can do it, without 3rd-party software even.
And sure they make games for the Mac! We just wait to see which PC games are actually any good before we make Mac versions. That way, we don’t have to wade through crap. Yep, Windows gamers are our beta testers
Well, the way the presented it in the commercial, they strongly implied (well, more or less stated) that the PC guy had no idea what the Japanese camera was saying, hence that the PC wouldn’t work with the new digital cameras out of the box (which is pretty much not the case). They didn’t present it simply as suprise on the PC’s part that the Mac had gone to talking-to-digital-camera school like the PC had.
Basically, I can’t stand commercials for Macs because they reek of condescending elitism, assuming that their target market is made up of a bunch of morons.
Which, for the sake of police discourse, I’ll assume is not the case.
Actually, you know what Apple commercials I loved? The ones advertising the Volkswagon New Beetle as an iPod accessory.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of the new Mac commercials either. The digital camera one is just plain WRONG! Any recent PC can work with any recent (good quality) digital camera, and without the need for any added software or drivers.
Another one has the PCs in boxes, because they are brand new. The Mac gets up and says something like,
“OK, I’m going to go make a video, download some pictures from a camera, give oral sex to the owner, and then solve world hunger, right out of the box!”
The PC says something to the effect of,
“Oh, I have to download all sorts of updates and drivers, read lots of manuals, oh, and the rest of me is in some other boxes, cause apparantly I’m a big, steaming, pile of shit.”
Yeah, because no Mac in the history of anything has ever needed a driver or a OS update downloaded. Nope, never. :rolleyes: And the manuals? Yeah, cause somehow, no matter what, or who buys it, the owner of the PC will HAVE to read tons of manuals (even if he already knows Windows) and the Mac owner won’t (even if he has never used a Mac before.) The mulitple boxes pisses me off to, because what does that even mean? So…because the monitor is a seperate piece of hardware and has to be put in a different box, it’s an inferior product? I see that as a plus. If my monitor breaks, I need to replace the monitor, not the the whole damn thing, like on some of those new Macs I’ve seen where the monitor is attached right to the case of the Mac, and on a support arm that looks like after enough use, the hinges will get loose and the monitor will never be able to be out in a good position.
Dan Rather did it first. In his memoir “The Camera Never Blinks,” he mentions attending the Sam Houston Institute of Technology. They (according to him) changed the name after students produced T-shirts with the acronym.
Yes, that piece of trivia’s been moldering in my brain for decades. Now it’s all yours.
I’m currently hating the McD’s commercial that I hear on the radio several times on my way to work. Actually, more than one of them. First they play a commercial about a guy who has a blizzard over his head. I think it is selling ice coffee. Then immediately they play a commercial with a cab driver with a hokey accent complaining that his passenger brought in one of their breakfast sandwiches without offering him a bite. I hate 'em both.
I miss those AFN commercials! My favorite one was where they showed a soldier going to sleep out in the field and ending up in the path of a tank. I think the moral of the story was to make sure you pick a good spot to sleep in but what a weird commercial. I also remember warnings not to “flash cash” to avoid being mugged and for those who never lived in snowy areas to brush off more than a little port hole in the windshield when it snows so you can see.
I’ve heard the story about Sam Houston Institute of Technology too. Although it’s amusing, it isn’t true: the school now known as Sam Houston State University used to be a State College, a State Teachers’ College, and a Normal Institute, but never an Institute of Technology.
