My mom told me to take down my blog, so I'm ranting and raving here....feel free to join in
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The other day, I actually saw a commercial for the IRS telling people to use there e-file system, or otherwise just to pay taxes in general. Now, I ask...WHY IS THE IRS ADVERTISING!? Do people not know of the IRS? They SHOULD have said something like this:
"Hi. we're the IRS. This is a commercial paid for with your tax dollars so that you spend more money on taxes so we can remind you to pay your takes via a commercial which tells you that your money that went to taxes is being used in a commercial to tell you to pay your taxes. Thanks, Your friends at the IRS"
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Also, I noticied on HGTV (Don't ask me why I was watching HGTV, since I have no idea either), that they are the "Official Network of Spring". How did they pull that one off? Where do you go to become the official network of a season? :brick:
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Why does it cost so much to go to the movies nowadays? I mean, its like $8-10 to sit in a usually semi-comfy seat- PER PERSON, then another $15 for snacks or whatever. And i think that "snack" is the wrong term here, since a 3 gallon keg of Pepsi and a wheelbarrow of popcorn with enough butter on it to kill a dog is far from what I would call a "snack". Then when you get INSIDE, you're hit with a barrage (is that even a word?) of commercials. At first, when I saw the new digital-animated-ish commercials, i thought "ooh! wow!!"...but that quickly changed when I was focred to watch the IFC's 51 Years of Oscar's "special presentation", followed by the "NBC Must-See-TV Musical" and 40 Chrysler commercials with Celine Dion, and the same bloody advertising scheme over and over ...Best Products + Best Warantee = Best Values In America....BS. Its more of Worst PR Firm on Earth + Exorbitantly Rich Company = Horrific Commercials Everywhere You Go. I would appreiate Chrysler a lot more if they got creative like the rest of the advertising world. So after you're awoken by the thunderous clapping now that the pre-previews are done, you're in for...yeah, you guessed it, MORE PREVIEWS! Hurrah! And its previews for the DUMBEST THINGS! There's NO reason why I need to see a JuicyFruit commercial at the movie theatre. NONE! The whole ticket thing is rigged to break too. You know how you order with moviefone, and the moviefone thing just *happens* to not work, like every time you go to the movies? Yeah. They should put those machines in outside as you go into the parking lot, so you don't have to wait in the damn line, and so you still have some dignity as you leave afterwords...that is, assuming that the insane amounts of bubble gum left on the floor from the dolt who sat where you did at the last showing doesn't glue you to the floor.....
Phew. That took a while.
Anyone else want to rant and rave along?
Ian
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The other day, I actually saw a commercial for the IRS telling people to use there e-file system, or otherwise just to pay taxes in general. Now, I ask...WHY IS THE IRS ADVERTISING!? Do people not know of the IRS? They SHOULD have said something like this:
"Hi. we're the IRS. This is a commercial paid for with your tax dollars so that you spend more money on taxes so we can remind you to pay your takes via a commercial which tells you that your money that went to taxes is being used in a commercial to tell you to pay your taxes. Thanks, Your friends at the IRS"
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Also, I noticied on HGTV (Don't ask me why I was watching HGTV, since I have no idea either), that they are the "Official Network of Spring". How did they pull that one off? Where do you go to become the official network of a season? :brick:
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Why does it cost so much to go to the movies nowadays? I mean, its like $8-10 to sit in a usually semi-comfy seat- PER PERSON, then another $15 for snacks or whatever. And i think that "snack" is the wrong term here, since a 3 gallon keg of Pepsi and a wheelbarrow of popcorn with enough butter on it to kill a dog is far from what I would call a "snack". Then when you get INSIDE, you're hit with a barrage (is that even a word?) of commercials. At first, when I saw the new digital-animated-ish commercials, i thought "ooh! wow!!"...but that quickly changed when I was focred to watch the IFC's 51 Years of Oscar's "special presentation", followed by the "NBC Must-See-TV Musical" and 40 Chrysler commercials with Celine Dion, and the same bloody advertising scheme over and over ...Best Products + Best Warantee = Best Values In America....BS. Its more of Worst PR Firm on Earth + Exorbitantly Rich Company = Horrific Commercials Everywhere You Go. I would appreiate Chrysler a lot more if they got creative like the rest of the advertising world. So after you're awoken by the thunderous clapping now that the pre-previews are done, you're in for...yeah, you guessed it, MORE PREVIEWS! Hurrah! And its previews for the DUMBEST THINGS! There's NO reason why I need to see a JuicyFruit commercial at the movie theatre. NONE! The whole ticket thing is rigged to break too. You know how you order with moviefone, and the moviefone thing just *happens* to not work, like every time you go to the movies? Yeah. They should put those machines in outside as you go into the parking lot, so you don't have to wait in the damn line, and so you still have some dignity as you leave afterwords...that is, assuming that the insane amounts of bubble gum left on the floor from the dolt who sat where you did at the last showing doesn't glue you to the floor.....
Phew. That took a while.
Anyone else want to rant and rave along?
Ian
