Stinky The Clown
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:47 PM
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You know they think we're fucking morons, right? |
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The GE commercials about bringing modern medicine to impoverished parts of India and rural China.
The Chevron, Shell, and BP commercials telling us how they're turninging environmental miracles while working on our behalf to bring us more energy.
Ecomagination
All the wonderful imagery.
A flirtatious lady doctor and a klutzy patient.
Moms holding children.
Lush, green forests.
Bullshit.
Save the fucking money you spend on commercials and lower energy costs, you predatory, enslaving motherfuckers.
Who's next ...... will Big Pharma be back pushing boner pills again?
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:49 PM
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1. Yeah, they are "shaping our perceptions." |
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Otherwise known as putting lipstick on a pig.
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Wed Apr-02-08 08:27 AM
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27. Amazing how so many are in denial over the frequency and ease with which this is done |
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:52 PM
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2. err, they are still pushing Big Boner pills on my TV |
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But I'm in a very red republican area. Considering how badly their party is doing, and the prez getting boooed so well, these repukes around here probably NEED the boner pills. :evilgrin:
Every time I see those FAKE "We've gone GREEN" ads I throw things at the set. LIARS. :grr:
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Stinky The Clown
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:55 PM
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3. Are they using Dob Bole as their shill? |
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Or have they simply stopped working for his sorry, smelly, shriveled old ass?
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Wed Apr-02-08 08:17 AM
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22. haven't seen (or smelled) the mummified shriveled arse in years |
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They are using men who look rather healthy in the ads. Now if we had real truth in advertising they wouldn't be using male models in them, would they? :evilgrin:
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Wed Apr-02-08 02:22 AM
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18. This is an enlightened town, but Viva Viagra! is enthusiastically playing on the tube |
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:eyes:
Have you noticed how much younger the guys in the commercials are now? I guess old Hugh Hefner got it right in one when he identified Viagra as the first legal sex pill and a boon to all mankind.
Hekate
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Wed Apr-02-08 08:19 AM
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23. I did notice that -- and if the stats on useage is correct |
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the 50% useage as a *party pill* is probably correct. :eyes:
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Wed Apr-02-08 06:42 AM
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20. You can 'go green' yourself, by turning it off. |
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my house is much more peaceful without obnoxious push ads. (I block flash on my browser too)
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Wed Apr-02-08 08:22 AM
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25. TV only goes on when others are home |
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I'm quite happy with NPR and classical music for my daytime noise. I tried watching TV during the day last week and decided it was such a waste of time.
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Wed Apr-02-08 05:31 PM
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31. You should make your kids watch the 80s action movies overdubbed in spanish |
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you'll know the plot and they'll learn something. My husband just *suffers* through my Chinese soap operas. But they have swordfights! And the American soaps can only hint at that.
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Wed Apr-02-08 06:02 PM
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34. kid already is pretty fluent in 2 languages, 3 counting English |
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He wants to try Chinese and/or German next. We BOTH would love to see Chinese soaps! :bounce:
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:57 PM
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They don't think you're a moron, they think 90% of Americans are morons.
And they're right.
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Tue Apr-01-08 10:58 PM
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5. I just had a realization that not owning a TV is like a giant ignore button in my life |
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I have no idea what kind of crap I'm missing. I like it that way.
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Tue Apr-01-08 11:08 PM
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8. Yep, although we actually do have one. |
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It has been turned on once in the last 4 months cause some friends of our brought over a console to play burn-out 3.
Downside is that I only understand about half of what most people talk about.:shrug:
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Tue Apr-01-08 11:25 PM
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9. I get just enough of a dose a few days a year... |
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when I travel for work and am stuck in a hotel (I have a hard time sleeping in hotels) and when I visit some family members. So I got to see Survivor and see what that was, etc.
I don't know how people have time to watch TV. I guess I waste time on the internet, but it uses my brain more. My greatest regret in life in always wanting more time. Can't imagine being on my deathbed and saying, damn, I shoulda watched the tube more.
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Tue Apr-01-08 11:40 PM
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12. ...or spent more time at the office... |
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Wed Apr-02-08 06:43 AM
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21. Oh, you get to hear about it here and on youtube |
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Tue Apr-01-08 11:04 PM
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6. Right. They know that their propaganda will influence enough morons |
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into doing whatever they want, and that will be enough of the population to prevent the rest of us from getting anything productive done.
I'd like to see Democrats conduct a mass slaughter of televisions. TV is a major player in the destruction of our country.
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Tue Apr-01-08 11:07 PM
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7. If they think we're stupid, it's probably because we let them rape us like a bunch of dumbasses. |
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They fill us up with corporate propaganda, and we go and vote them into office.
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Tue Apr-01-08 11:27 PM
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10. I feel that way about so much corporate charity |
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I'm cynical enough (or realistic enough?) to think it's about (a) tax breaks (b) PR.
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Tue Apr-01-08 11:28 PM
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11. They HOPE we are,...and HATE that we aren't. eom |
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Wed Apr-02-08 12:07 AM
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Wed Apr-02-08 12:11 AM
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14. kicked and recommended....it's all a con. |
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Wed Apr-02-08 12:20 AM
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15. Just say NO to TV. n/t |
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Wed Apr-02-08 12:48 AM
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16. "Chemicals are essential to life." |
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So only dirty hippies complain against chemical companies!
"Oil companies are investing in solutions, while others (liberals, hippies, blame-America-firsters) only complain."
Who owns the idea of "carbon footprints"? The mega-polluters who spend the most on chummy TV commercials about it.
Next:
"Soylent Green: it's People Food."
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Wed Apr-02-08 12:51 AM
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17. You know what? They're right. |
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This country is full of ignorant, apathetic morons. Most people here prefer comfortable illusions to uncomfortable facts. It's taken me 8 years to accept it, but there you go.
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Wed Apr-02-08 03:20 AM
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I really have next to no idea what you're talking about. I killed my TV many years ago, and for all its drawbacks, the internets do have the slight advantage that I can pick and choose what advertisements I choose to see.
And yes, they do think we're morons and they believe they made us that way. I'm not sure that isn't something they're right about.
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Wed Apr-02-08 08:21 AM
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24. Yep. Did you see those smug assholes before Congress yesterday? |
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they were taunting us. We ARE fools because we continually feed these beasts, and they continually screw us.
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Wed Apr-02-08 08:25 AM
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26. One thing I will never believe |
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Snoopy would not lie on top of a doghouse that said FUCKIT unless you forced him to.
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Wed Apr-02-08 12:19 PM
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30. Trust me ..... you only know the dog's stage personna |
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Wed Apr-02-08 10:24 AM
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28. Anything worth watching will find its way to the Internet. Turn off the TV. |
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Wed Apr-02-08 11:20 AM
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29. They have boner pills? |
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I've had one for months now that I can't get rid of. :rofl:
-Hoot
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Wed Apr-02-08 05:54 PM
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32. Maybe this will help............ |
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Wed Apr-02-08 05:59 PM
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I can't stand commercials.....
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Wed Apr-02-08 06:05 PM
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35. They do think we are fucking morons! And more than that, they don't care. |
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Because our government lets them get away with it all and even bails them out via our tax dollars. Of course they think we are moron and they laugh at us. And ya know what, we ARE morons!
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Wed Apr-02-08 06:07 PM
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36. Wouldn't boner pills be more appropriate for |
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