Is it me, or do you, when you watch commercials...

[WCGreen]

Feel like there is another America out there that you just aren't a part of...

I mean, all the luxury and all the comfort....

Do you ever get the idea that you are so far under the radar, that your life style could be considered stealth....

[graywarrior]

1. Oh yeah.

[Sugar Smack]

2. I find I don't smile nearly as much as those people.

My life is not as filled with ease. Also, wiping a cloth across a table to watch it gleam doesn't put a smug grin on my face. :wtf:

[WCGreen]

3. It doesn't.....

Why do you hate america......

[Sugar Smack]

21. Well, I must say I have it better than those in the low-budget

commercials...the ones who start to slice a tomato with a "typical" knife, mess it up, can't cope, then throw everything down with agony written on their faces. This, of course, is the bleak life before the Magic Bullet!

[WCGreen]

26. A very Bleak Life indeed....

So bleak, you can't even get a folding table to work....

[asthmaticeog]

7. Have you tried switching brands of furniture polish?

The better ones contain a mild aerosol euphoriant, which, when inhaled, cause the happy-cleaning reaction you see in the ads.

[Sugar Smack]

12. I must try that! I don't show enough hearty satisfaction

while doing housework, so this may just be the ticket.

[asthmaticeog]

14. If that doesn't help,

try the Hoover "Mother's Little Helper" vacuum cleaner opium atomizer attachment.

[WCGreen]

16. That puff of air at the end......

There is something wierd about that....

[asthmaticeog]

28. Ever huff that Swiffer fluid?

WHEW! Now THAT'S domestic bliss, right there.

[WCGreen]

29. Ahhh.... Yes....

I learned about it from watching Action 19 news.....

[arwalden]

15. You Silly Goose... New TOOTHPASTE Is The Solution To All Life's Woes!!

[WCGreen]

17. You have to have the whitest theeth, doncha know....

or no one will love you.....

[asthmaticeog]

30. Ah yes - toothpaste, the gateway to joy...

[miss_kitty]

4. Not only luxury and comfort, but clueless use and consumption

Cleaning supplies, pesticides, air 'fresheners', deoderant, makeup, hairdye, ultra processed foods, plastic shoes, clothing made by slave labour, 2000 Flushes, local Indian casinos, more bad TV, prescription drugs that may make you have greasy anal discharge or die, shitty movies...I could go on.


I guess TV is one craptacular crapfest after another.

[deutsey]

5. I briefly worked in a homeless shelter and, as the residents watched

the community TV on evenings I worked, I remember thinking it was as if the images were being beamed into them from Jupiter. The "reality" on TV in no way resembled the reality they lived every day.

[WCGreen]

20. The gleaming towers of opulence that the rich

live in are so far removed from our daily lives, I sometimes wonder how the social fabric keeps from unraveling...

[deutsey]

27. I think it is unraveling, it's just not being televised

And television is what defines and controls or perception of reality.

[jane_pippin]

6. Yes. The results of focus groups crack me up to no end...

I like to play a fun game called "Who do they think we are" when I watch tv.

For instance, during daytime Tv, I am clearly a mother of young kids who stays home to care for them, cook, and clean. Depending on the channel I am also a young person looking for the right technical college to attend and/or looking to get my checks cashed, or possibly a home loan.

On CNN and Sunday morning talk shows, I'm someone who has a stock portfolio that I care about a great deal as well as a luxury car.

As far as Comedy Central and Adult Swim know, I'm a male aged 18-34 and I love mountain dew, snack foods, burger king, and that Scion car.

Frankly, I'm glad these marketing jocks don't have me pegged. Fuck 'em.

[spinbaby]

8. Daytime TV is another world...

...and I don't mean the soap opera. I rarely watch daytime TV but when I do, I'm struck by the ads for lawyers who want to get you a ton of money for your accident, companies who want you to refinance, and hygiene products.

The news is always brought to you by drugs that keep you from peeing too often.

[Sugar Smack]

9. "drugs that keep you from peeing too often"

That is the funniest commercial! And at the end, the formerly-inflicted woman is free to walk around the park with her man, and point at the fountains and laugh.

[WCGreen]

23. That's a nice human touch to the tragedy of I pee freely disease

[skygazer]

10. And don't forget sports

I've become fascinated by the difference in the commercials depending on the sport. NASCAR and football are beer and truck commercials almost exclusively. Golf features many ads from investment companies as well as Viagra, Cialas and all the rest.

[jane_pippin]

18. Ooh, good call.

I'd love to see an ad for a big ol' truck with Toby Keith yodeling his little heart out right in the middle of some golf tournament just as I'd love to see one of those fancy Infinity commericals during a NASCAR race. Or to really ruffle some feathers, nothin' but Always with Wings commercials during every sporting event.

[WCGreen]

24. Now that would be a great moment in sports history....

[WCGreen]

31. What's my demographic......

[jane_pippin]

32. The answer to that is in your heart, grasshopper.

[WCGreen]

33. Whatc you talkin bout, Jane

[jane_pippin]

36. Oh. lol! I thought you were *asking* what yours was.

Have I mentioned I haven't been sleeping all that well lately? Comprehension skills are slowly slipping away.
Sorry 'bout that.

:spank:

I get it now.

[anarch]

11. I feel like that whenever I see people driving cars,

which is a lot of the time. Especially when it's some kid half my age, driving a car that costs more than everything I have ever owned in my entire life all added up together, plus my rent money.

But I am in the "I'll never buy whatever it is you're advertising b/c I am completely broke" demographic, so I'm pretty sure the advertisers are not looking at me.

[Lisa0825]

13. yep... Buy Owner commercials bug me....

All these people saving $15 to 20K selling their houses..... all I can think of is how expensive those houses had to be for them to have saved that much in commissions. And car commercials during the holidays... I can't imagine giving a car as a gift, like it's a $30 sweater or something.

And don't even get me started on Jewelers.... :mad:

[Tafiti]

35. Yeah!

Those Lexus commercials...

Surprise, honey! Here's the $55,000 Lexus I bought you for Christmas!

Oh, dear, you shouldn't have!

...or...

Come on kids, let's go show daddy the brand new Lexus we all chipped in to get him for Christmas!

:crazy:

[Fox Mulder]

19. All the time.

:(

Edit: I was watching WWE on Spike TV a couple of weeks ago, and there was a car commercial for a Jaguar. Who in the hell are they marketing to with a Jaguar commercial? Chances are, whoever is watching WWE on Spike TV, they're like me, below or at the poverty line, as well as middle class.

[underpants]

22. I rarely watch commercials-that is what the remote is for

I understand from others that some people only watch one TV show at a time. Me, I watch at least two usually 4 or 5 at a time.

[WCGreen]

25. Still, occasionally, a commercial will slip in while I

am changing a battery....

[underpants]

34. That's true

I have actually caught some fairly funny (if over played) commercials recently

The Tom Brady one
Any of the Vonage ones (for theat song- woohooo wooohooohoooooo)

Others

[ldf]

39. how do i do it?

why, i'm up to my eyeballs in debt! i can barely cover the monthly interest.

somebody please help me!

:-)

[underpants]

40. Like my car? ................It's new!

Puh- HOEnicks????

We don't get French benefits?

[Trigger Hippie]

37. I wonder who the hell these people are

in commercials. I don't know anyone who looks like that. So skinny and tall???

[Mutley]

38. I like the King in the Burger King commercials.

That cracks me up!

Is anyone else really sick of the McDonalds "I'm lovin it" theme song? I refuse to eat at McDonalds until they stop that. I still won't use AT&T for collect calls just because of that obnoxious CarrotTop dude.

[LostinVA]

41. I always wonder where the hell they find those Wal-Marts

Clean, orderly, full of smiling employees with $60 haircuts.

[MadHound]

42. No, but then again I watch commercials in an entirely differerent way

Than most people. I slice and dice them, take the ad apart and see what makes it work, what makes it flop, what kind of propaganda it is promoting, what it isn't. It really is fascinating to get down to the bare bones of an ad, and correlate the ad release with an upturn or downturn in that particular product's sales.

But then again, I'm an odd duck, so don't judge by me;)

[WCGreen]

44. I do the same..... I can see where a lot of commercials

started with a cool kids idea that fizzled badly upon implimentation......

[In_The_Wind]

43. I've decided that the world we see on commercials isn't real ...

*whew*

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. What you need is the Oreck 2000

Just plug it in and set it on "brain suck" mode. :beer: