Monday Musings

I noticed this commercial on TV a couple weeks ago and keep forgetting to mention it here (read I Need A System post). Like so many important things this keeps slipping my mind. The scene opens up with some sort of animal looking- men laughing and looking out the window at something. Further inspection shows they are pig men (I know all men are pigs but these are pigmen). They are apparently laughing at a wolf-man (who resembles more of Wolverine from Xmen without the retractable adamantium claws), who is outside suffering from a cough.

Now the problem with this poorly made commercial aside from man-pigs, is the fact the house they are in is made of BRICK! Hello???

Not surprising, the wolf-man eats a Halls cough drop and inhales giving the impression that he blows the house down. Which of course every grade schooler is well aware that he couldn't be cause the big bad wolf couldn't blow down the house made of brick. Straw--yes. Wood, oh yeah, he could blow that down. Don't advertisers read fairy tales?

I just don't understand any child knows it would never work.

Another stupid commercial that really grates on my nerves are the insurance (Allstate, State Farm one of those companies) commercials with the alleged husband and wife that rolls over her husband's foot. What kind of fucking idiots wonder if it's going to be a homeowners or auto insurance claim? Let me explain something to all the idiot deadbeat and completely stupid individuals. Someone HITS your car, or home, or rolls over your foot that is NO way related to you is an accident, insurance should be notified and rates will increase. IF you did it, you're just incompetent, don't expect insurance to pay for your mistake--I don't care if you feel just because you pay a premium you're entitled to. In fact, if I was their agent, I wouldn't be on TV with them, I'd be sending a letter of cancellation because they are obviously too dull-witted to be insured. Or at the very least raise their premiums so fucking high they'd be shamed into going with another company so I wouldn't have to deal with them. I guess if some government yahoo isn't around to protect them from themselves, or a fucking Attorney to sue the tire companies for not putting warning labels on tires, some people just won't survive. Its more than advertisers, it's the dumbing down of America.

AAA, learned that lesson the hard way, years ago they ran adds reminding people if they backed into a pole, they could still file a claim. Yeah, thousands did, they pulled the ad and raised the rates for everyone.

Of course, those are likely the same people that believe evolution is just a theory and would rather believe mythology and promote the latest laughing stock, pop pseudo-science, like the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or the eternally vague concept of "intelligent design."