I fucking hate them!
Not only that but the commercials suck too!
HAHAHAHAHA!!
BLAH!
sorry for the short post but my car just hit a water buffalo. can i borrow your towel?
I like em. What’s so bad about the commercial?
Me too.
Whoops! Are we allowed to still say that?
Gahhh. Even a simple thing like this I need to clarify.
I like 'em.
The only one I hate is the one when the guy skips his pager into the water like a rock. I always say “Look! An idiot on vacation! I’m sure the local marine life will enjoy that corrosive battery in their ecosystem.”
I hate that one because the pager both beeps and vibrates at the same time. They don’t really do that, do they? Or am I too anal? After all, it is just a commercial.
USA! USA! USA!
Actually, I was being serious apotheosis.
I like 'em.
They have sheer simplicity, beauty, and a calmness to them, that the twist that inevitably comes out at the end of it, is kinda cool.
I particularly like the one with the umbrella and the sound of rain. As the camera moves away, you see it isn’t rain, but mist from a waterfall on a perfectly sunny day. And the umbrella isn’t a normal umbrella, but a beach umbrella protecting a foxy couple enjoying the scenery.
Brilliant, if you ask me.
It’s not unlike my other favorite ads, from the ruthless bastards at DeBeer’s, with the silhouettes on the walls.
I like 'em.
And I wasn’t.
As much as I loathe commercials in general, there’s a few recently that I rather like.
I agree with you about the DeBeers commercials. Jenkins’ “Palladio” makes a powerful soundtrack for a 30-second scene.
Current fave: the VW spot where the guy busts in on the wedding. The eye contact at the end damned near had even a cynical bastard like ME believing it.
Idiot my red haired ass! He’s just someone who is sick of that God damn pager. Let me tell you something: Between my cell phone and my pager my boss and my clients drive me nuts. If that fucking phone isn’t ringing, that fucking pager is beeping with it’s annoying shrill: Brap, Brap, Brap! I know some of you hamburger flippers are saying “Just turn them off”. Yeah, right!:rolleyes: Professionals who have to have these evil toys as part of their trade eventually get damn sick of them! Vacation is the perfect time to say “fuck you” and toss them. Let the insurance replace them when you get back to work!
True facts: In the last 10 years I have destroyed 6 pagers, all while on vacation! I put 2 of them on rail road tracks and watched in almost orgasmic delight as the train squashed it, I threw one off a bridge in Michigan, and I threw 2 of them in toilets,while I was pissing, and one I shot with a .22 rifle, though to be honest I wasn’t really on vacation for that one.I had just taken a mental health day off. I love that commercial!
You’re looking for opinions?
I agree with C.
The commercials aim right at the audience they’re ment for.
My objection is that they’re pushing horse urine.
But that’s already been another thread.
So THAT’S why everyone I know adds limes to Coronas. It all makes perfect sense to me now!
pkbites: One of the best days of my life was when I started a new job that didn’t require a pager. Bliss.
My brother, between his pager, cell, phone fax and all that other crap, now has 7 or 8 phone numbers. (Of course, he also makes a lot more money than I do.)
So you can throw them off bridges and shoot them with .22 rifles, but can’t simply turn them off for the duration of your vacation and then claim they were lost or destroyed? Huh.
There you go again, trying to be our moral compass. I’m just wondering why he didn’t leave it in his suitcase, set on vibrate (and vibrate only). Ignoring it becomes simplicity itself.
And guys, the correct response to anybody who says, “Hey, I paged you and you didn’t call back,” is, “Fuck you. I was on vacation and you knew it.”