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I really wish TiVos would come out over here already, because I would snap that up in a heartbeat. I really think I ought to be able to watch Law & Order: The Munch and Finn Show Stabler Goes Postal Yet Again Special Victim Unit without being told my job is a waste of money and I'm a chicken (some internet-only bank--FirstDirect?), that my girlparts smell and sticking Yeast Infection In A Quiet Wrapper So You Can Pretend You Don't Bleed From The Crotch Like Almost Every Other Woman up there is a splendid idea, oh and by the way, you should eat breakfast not because you're hungry or you want to or because it's fucking healthy for you, but, obviously, because it makes you thinner--but hey, everyone knows thin = healthy, right?
(Yes, I get twitchy about commercials a lot. Help me feel like less of a freak by sharing your own peeves re: commercials/advertising?)
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ARG! Now I have RAGE and I haven't even had the TV on this morning!
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The call center one I mentioned is my all-time "favourite", because it's just insulting for call center workers in general, and especially earlier ones in this line were also really sexist, and HATE.
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Hnmph. Once or twice I've put on daytime TV since Gnome's been talking, and she pretty much immediately started wandering about saying "carcinogenic shit" in a baby lisp.
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Cutest. Thing. Ever. Heeee!
I feel lucky sometimes that despite being a consumer whore, I manage to avoid a lot of the big ones by dint of being a childfree, non-driving, bohemian geek. But oh my god, the amount of shit being marketed in incredibly obnoxious ways! Call center workers are all chickens! People who don't eat braekfast are stupid because breakfast makes you thin! Sugary cereals make you healthy and energetic! This will make you look younger! That will make your hair shine! Who cares! Gaaaaah.
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Plus, I read about some research that showed that a significant number of babies under the age of one know how adverts work - if you show them one that ends with the product being shown in a bad light, they act surprised. The only rational way to react to that is OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL DOOMED.
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I have no idea what you're talking about. Please elaborate.
There are lots of things that bother me in ads, but I rarely watch TV any more and so I don't get exposed to it quite as much. Still, I'm going to second the hatred for the antibacterial!!! craze because I keep having to doublecheck that the things I buy aren't antibacterial. And it's not even just cleaning stuff. I mean, tissues? Gah.
(In the same vein, probiotic yoghurt. Is it even possible to just get regular, plain yoghurt without dozens of added bacterial cultures any more?)
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I may have to look more closely, though. The sales pitch idea hadn't occurred to me, I've just sort of been trying to avoid everything that mentioned "active cultures" because I assumed that meant "added active cultures". So, thank you.
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Tampons apparently now come in scented(!!!) versions, and also in quiet wrappers, because god forbid anyone should find out you're on the rag. So much hate!
And yes on the antibacterial thing! I buy handsoap in antibacterial sometimes, and I have antibacterial wipes to clean kitchen surfaces, but antibacterial toilet brushes? The hell? it's a toilet brush!
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I will never, ever understand why people go for these things. It's the same with scented panty liners, although at least you're not putting these inside your body. Or douching! I can't imagine the kind of body image you have to have to want to do that to yourself. It actually makes me quite sad.
And seriously, fake rose/vanilla/lavender smell mixed with blood? Can't possibly be pleasant. UGH.
What's a quiet wrapper? Is that like ... a wrapper that doesn't make a sound when you open it? *boggles*
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See, this is what I'm saying, but apparently girly bits smell and it's better to stuff all sorts of chemical crap up your vagina rather than just deal with the fact that you're bleeding, it kinda smells, and no one else actually notices. Gah. This whole "Periods are EVIL and ICKY and SHAMEFUL and WRONG!!!!eleventy1!" thing bothers me so much.
What's a quiet wrapper? Is that like ... a wrapper that doesn't make a sound when you open it? *boggles*
Yes. And, exactly. All part of the "periods BAD!" thing, and just. Why would it even matter unless you were in a public restroom, in which case you're surrounded by women, who in all probability also get/used to get/will get their periods just like every other woman. It just .... confuses, and scares, and baffles me that there's so much shame about something that more than half of the human population goes/has gone/will go through on a regular basis for a large part of their lives.
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Obviously, the advert removing/skipping only works on recorded or 'paused' stuff, though.
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I think the cheapest I've seen was ~£150, but I might be misremembering.
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Women are supposed to be feminine and domestic, but not TOO feminine and domestic, there is ALWAYS a product to make you prettier, a food or "system" to make you thinner because god forbid you carry a few extra pounds around, don't you KNOW that makes you unattractive, racial stereotypes are okay if you can't see the colour of the person's skin [there've been some [annoying and exaggerated] Spanish [I think it's Mexican, actually, though I'm not 100% sure] accents in a line of commercials on the radio when Russ listens sometimes - not only are they annoying, but it's REALLY OBVIOUS that she's a little Spanish woman who's being oh-so-silly; there've also been some somewhat annoying commercials where they've had heavy cockney/newfie accents for a phone company so that you can 'talk all night . . . even if you can't understand what they're saying' which just made me so angry and I can't even really explain why coherently].
Plus adverts for local events make me suspect that my community thinks I'm just as right-winged as they are. Or just as stupid.
Um. Yeah. Heh. Any of that make sense? I HATE advertising.
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Dads who never ever cook because they can't so they order takeout and get praised so that the working mum doesn't need to cook . . .
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I never understood why they show how absorbant your sanitary towel is by using blue fluid. Blue?! And why it's always a male expert showing us girls what products to use to clean our house and clothes.
Oh, and scented period things. WTF?!
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The reason they use blue is for censorship type reasons.
According to the regulatory body for such things:
Red is bad cause it looks like blood (Cause your period is made of rose petals or something...)
Yellow is too much like urine.
Brown is too much like shit.
Green apparently has connotations of illness.
Whereas blue is 'sanitary'. And thus allowed.
You're gonna have a whole generation of girl getting their first periods and going 'Holy fuck! It's not blue!'
The universe is stupid.
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I knew they'd have studies about this kind of silliness! :-)
Still am peeved they didn't go for orange or pink or purple or dark green.
Blue makes me think of toilet freshener.
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You know which one I really really really really REALLY hate with the firey hate of OMG HATE?
The 'Sheila's Wheels' one. It's stupid, cheesy, SEXIST, stereotypes women, stereotypes men too, loud, arrogant, badly sung, full of poor taste, and the girls aren't even pretty. Want to KILL.
Also hate all L'Oreal adverts on principle, especially the one about the wrinkle cream with Claudia whatshername where she's all "my wrinkles look filled" -- grabs her kid -- "and my life is too." OMG NO. First of all, BAD grammar. I can understand why they did it -- you can't exactly be saying "my wrinkles ARE filled", but still, bad grammar. Also OMG BITCH you do NOT get to say that your, or anyone else's, life is only truly fulfilled if they've sprogged. HATE.
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Usually you can find an equally good product from a company that doesn't advertise so aggressively for a far letter price, I usually call it: "Buying the ads and getting the product for free".
So please no, if you want me to buy your product, please don't advertise it. If I need it, I'll come looking for it myself.