I thought I could do nothing better for my 200th post than start a Pit rant. Therefore …
What in the hell is with these Goddam GAP commercials? Not only are they bugging me in my off-hours, they are now infiltrating my Dope time! I have noticed no fewer than 4 threads across the boards asking who the stupid fucking “musicians” are.
These bastards are ruining a good song by using a bunch of friggin’ people we can’t even identify by sight and what are they trying to sell??
SWEATERS!!! Just forget this stupid fucking commercial!!! Forget it! Nobody cares who they are and I’m fucking sick of hearing it. I sure as hell don’t want to hear about this shit when I’m here, trying to get away from the real world!
Who in the hell can afford to shop at the fucking GAP anyway!?!??!
Mods, I implore you to cut all these stupid threads about the GAP down to at least one, if not none!! (I know you won’t do that, but hell, this is a rant)
Slight correction: the Gap ads with singing and dancing, not the Gap ads with the horrible old woman in Elton John glasses. You know, the one who’s kind of like Madeleine Albright, but without the girlish charm?
Started to crawl out of his cave in the safe protective darkness of the deep earth, read this post and decided it was time to blow the entrance and hide from pop culture forever.
Even I have a better grasp of pop culture.
AND I"M A LAB TECHNICIAN!
got his gibco ‘cells in the media’ t-shirt today!!!
Yeah, see!!! And I just saw another one! With Seal, Alannis Morisette and that black chick with the pink hair! Gaaahhh! At Least the Canadian woman was nrespectable music-wise!!!
GAP is uberlame. It is particularly lame when you work there, which I did for about 2 weeks. They pay you jack, so they have plenty of money to pay for those ostensibly cool commercials.
They have clothes that don’t fall apart on me after six months, and if you wait till right after the season, they’re dirt-fucking-cheap. I bought five (5) pairs of heavy wool socks I will use for hiking the other day for 97 cents apiece. Hard to beat that. Then there was the “sea coat” (really a nice rain slicker) I bought last year for 12 bucks. The list goes on. A really good day pack (again, good enough for a 2-3 day hike) for $4.50. Two cable sweaters I bought last spring. $6 apiece.
That said, I’ve made long, loud fun of the schmucks who waltz in there to buy the latest stuff off the truck for 60 smackers.
But then, one of my best friends is a Gap manager, and she tells me when the cheap stuff comes out.
Well, shit, my main complaint was about the commercials anyway. They are just pissing me off, and though I haven’t checked all the boards yet, the number of threads about them may have risen to five. Get over it people!
Really? I’m a lab tech as well! I sequence DNA looking for SNPs, what do you do, viruses? Wearing his “Midwest Scientific- Home of the Lab Shark” shirt today!!!
Okay, I admit the new holiday ones are annoying, since I can only figure out who like half the people are, but I have to say that I used to look forward to the one where Juliette Lewis and those two robots did that cute little dance to Daft Punk’s “Digital Love”. I went out and bought the durned album 'cause of that, and it still makes me happy thinking about it. It’s such a cute song.
“Last night, I had a dream about you
In this dream, I’m dancing right beside you
And it looked, like everyone was having fun…”
They pulled them after Sept. 11, of course, and replace them with Carole King or Carly Simon (“I always get those two confused, but anyway…”)
I think we need to make a distinction bewteen the Old Navy commericals, which are crap now that Carrie Donovan is no longer flying around with that dog and has been replaced by a pusny anorexic blond chick (“Ya Gotta Get This Look!” “Actually, bitch, ya gotta shut up.”) even though the boys are cute in them, and “The Gap” ones, which are just overly sappy and a bit vague.
When it tells me I should “Give my gift” - does the gift need to be a Gap gift, or can I just sing a song to my mommy on Christmas morning and save myself $20?