Christmas cynacism
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  • Posted On: Dec 14 2005 5:27am
I found this on netscape. They echo in my soul, he he he...
Ad #1: Lexus. In this jackass ad, one upper class spouse gives another upper-class spouse a $35,000+ car for Christmas by giving them a key in oh-so-creative ways (like using the key for a nose on a snowman, or delivering it via a Christmas train set). The giving spouse watches with a look of "Man, I'm getting some tonight" on their face while the recipient gushes over how much they must love them to give them such an expensive gift. Meanwhile, the kids down at the orphanage weep because they didn't receive a donation from Mr. and Mrs. Moneybags this year, again.

Ad #2: Kay Jewelers. Every kiss begins with Kay! Man I hate that tagline. In this ad, a couple is walking along a city street as a romantic snow falls around them. The man pulls out a small box and hands it to his girlfriend/fiancée/wife/hoochie mama. She opens it and over-mouths, "Oh, it's be-YOU-tiful!" Then they ride off into the night in the back of a cab driven by, oooooh-it's-so-creative-it-gives-me-chills, SANTA CLAUS. It's funny because it's Santa driving a taxi! Groan. As they pull away, they run over a homeless man as he's leaning over to pick up the receipt on the ground that reads "Kay Jewelers."

These two commercials evoke a Pavlovian response in me, where I start foaming at the mouth the instant I hear the background music. I start twitching violently when the key or the jewelry makes an appearance and then black out by the time the final Lexus or Kay logo is on the screen.
Posts: 1142
  • Posted On: Dec 14 2005 2:27pm
When I see commercials where the man buys his wife a car I always wonder why she never noticed the $30,000 missing from the bank account. Unless little wifey doesn't bother with that money stuff, being too busy in the kitchen baking pie.
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  • Posted On: Dec 14 2005 7:26pm
There's this one for some steak house where the husband see's his wife having dinner, and he walks up to her pissed off and says "who's watching the kids?!" You should be, bitch! (and the bitch being the husband). Plus, that commercial where the father "gives" his daughter a plasma screen TV from "Santa", he tears off the paper "for her", she starts crying.
Fuckin' bastards in advertising can't make something nice...
Posts: 1142
  • Posted On: Dec 14 2005 8:01pm
Yeah I've seen that restaurant commercial too. It seems that they all wanted to go out and have a nice evening... but not together as a family.
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  • Posted On: Dec 15 2005 4:33am
When I see commercials where the man buys his wife a car I always wonder why she never noticed the $30,000 missing from the bank account. Unless little wifey doesn't bother with that money stuff, being too busy in the kitchen baking pie.


Ha!
Posts: 414
  • Posted On: Dec 15 2005 4:10pm
if you hate poverty so much, go downtown and work in a homeless shelter instead of posting threads like this on trf for other adolescents with no money to read.
Posts: 691
  • Posted On: Dec 15 2005 7:27pm
I don't hate poverty (because I'm too poor to donate money, and too busy to donate time), I just hate rich sons of bitches, ignorant sons of bitches, and just plain stupid sons of bitches.
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  • Posted On: Dec 17 2005 10:33pm
yeah, i can see you're really busy from how you're angsting on a star wars message board about what kind of sons of bitches you hate, probably on the broadband internet connection your parents pay for. look, nobody gives a shit about how badly christmas television commercials offend the liberal conscience of a fifteen year old. until you're ready to auction off all of your wordly possessions like fucking gautama and buy a sandwich for every homeless person in the part of town you're too afraid to drive through with the doors unlocked, don't start telling other people how to spend their money. cuz it makes you look like a fucking hypocrite.
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  • Posted On: Dec 18 2005 1:00am
merry christmas.
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  • Posted On: Dec 18 2005 3:12am
and a happy new year.