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[bubosquared]

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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[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

I am so enjoying that 3 of the 4 shows I follow at the moment I'm following via illegal, and so ad-free, download. Adverts: oh, the rage. To be quite honest, the reason the TV never goes on on my at-home-mothering days isn't so much my "my child is pure and NEVER SEES TV" vibe as my inability to smother my rage at the ceaseless "Get further into debt! Buy disposable nappies! More debt! More pink baby bums to swaddle with dangerous chemicals which you then throw away and take a hundred years to finish polluting! Oh, and cheap cars - buy them with your new unaffordable loan!"

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.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

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.

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.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Yeah, mostly so little of it applies to me - I can just let it bounce in a "Can't drive! Cloth nappies! Mooncup! Thin enough already!" sort of way - but every so often I just look at it and think: it's probably the majority of people who think the lifestyle that the adverts, when all glued together, sell is normal or aspirational. And I just hate the world hugely. And I do understand the sort of vulnerability that there is in being a daytime-at-home person - lonely, aware you're not earning, feeling on the edges of "normal" life - that makes the "debt consolidation" ones particularly vile.

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.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

The debt consolidation thing, and all the "Loans for everyone, even if you have bad credit!" ones scare the crap out of me. Those are the only oneswhere i'm really sort of part of the target demographic, and yeah. Scary.