Happy Day After Canada Day!
Feeling a bit off kilter today. Not sure why. Changing weather or something.
Anyway, time for some random rants and explanations of things that piss me off.
- Ads with little kids in them
What is it these days with people using little kids in their advertisement.
Sure it’s cute to see a bunch of 4 year olds screaming “Blah motors has the best
deal!” or some kid telling me how her dad has the best carpet deals in the lower
mainland, but man, it’s just as lame as anyone else trying to sell me their line
of BS. You might say that this method is employed to make you remember
because it’s so annoying… well, I don’t, I change the channel, and make a
concious effort to put it out of my mind.- Advertising methods in general
On that note, what is it with advertising these days! You can say pretty much
anything as true these days! Just stick one of the following phrases
after anything you say as true, and it seems you’ll be covered.- Based on labratory results
- Actual results may vary
- Compared to other vehicles in it’s class
- Not available in all areas
- Clients may incur some charges
- Results not typical
- … plus cost of food
- Results may vary
- Based on labratory results
- Sensationalism in the news
Wow, seems like everything is turned into a drama on channels like CNN, or
MSNBC to boost ratings. I must have seen hours* of footage on
how the US is on “yellow” alert, the reasoning behind the alert level, how
the july 4th blah blah blah…. gads, give us some good news straight one of
these days! Course, “news programs”, advertising, and tabloid programs are
pretty close to each other these days anyway. And as I’ve said before, all
programs gravitate towards being jerry springer.
* based on clinical studies- Computer games blamed for women’s low self image
This one really pissed me off. I was surfing and hit SexTV (yes, I did
surf to it, as it’s not worth the hype). They had a story on how computer
games featuring disproportionate, scantily clad females is affecting girls
and women’s self images. Excuse me????? Have these
geniuses passed by a magazine rack lately and seen the shit known as Cosmo,
Redbook, and the other magazines featuring women who resemeble anorexic 12
year olds? Good God, at least a computer game you know is fake, and the
characters don’t pretend to be real, or doing real things, but these
magazines display their airbrushed and bulimic models as people who exist out
in the real world. A lady being interviewed (a game programmer in Vancouver)
was saying how of course computer game characters are generally exaggerated,
as when you jump into the fantasy world of the computer game, it’s far more
fun to play as a muscle bound super hero, a brave and resilliant soldier, or
a sexy, long legged oriental teenager in a skirt with a slit up to your ass
than an out of work and overweight computer programmer, or a bored middleage
housewife.- Christian TV Shows on when I can’t change the channel
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have any problem with pretty much anything on TV.
If you want a show talking about how gophers are the best pets, or that intel
is in fact, the devil here on earth, and that all good worshippers of amd
should rise up and kill any intel user out there, or whatever crap they put
on, as long as I don’t have to watch it! Well, one of the
advantages of this new gym I joined is that they have a “cardio loft” with
all their bikes and treadmills, and they have TVs mounted on the ceiling to
watch. Twice when I’ve been in there doing a run I’ve been
stuck watching 100 huntely street (a christian tabloid show, pretty much like
other tabloid shows, but with less flashing of breasts and swearing at the
studio audience) and some world vision thing. The TV was right in front of
me, and without excersing hotties down below doing weights (there were none
at this time), there was really nowhere else to look. My one tiny shining
ray of amusement was the bad, bad, bad job that the text-on-screen (what the
heck is that called) was doing, giving all sorts of interesting modifications
of words spoken that it didn’t understand.- Speaking of World Vision…
Not sure if you’re familiar with them, they are like CARE or the peace corps,
and put out pleas for a dollar a day to feed a kid in a third world country,
and they let you write them, etc. The show basically consists of two parts.
Rich actors going to the most downtrodden parts of the world and showing us
the most horrible conditions that people are living in, and a couple of rich
white hosts with good teeth holding up pictures of kids and asking people to
call in and sponsor them. Don’t get me wrong, I sympathize, and wish I could
help (see unemployed programmer comment above). My parents worked for CARE long ago, and if I’m lucky someday I will
be able to contribute to lives in need like they did, and get the exposure to
the world they did. However, why the hell do they have to talk about how
every kid they try to get sponsors for is “cute”, “adorable”, or
“precious”? I see there being only a couple of answers. All little kids are
cute in some way, so don’t bother mentioning it, and let people see for
themselves that the kids are cute. Or all the kids they try to get sponsors for
are the cute ones, and they are a secret organization trying to weed out the
gene pool of the ugly gene. The latter is less plausible, so to the world
vision network, please stop saying how each and every kid is cute.
Enough ranting for now. I’m starting to feel better. Had a few people look
over my resume, and am in the process of modifying it to be more friendly, less
geeky, and more hirable. Course, this has been an ongoing process for the last
few months. Wish I could work at something
🙂
