Well…having been sitting here bored for the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched much more tv than I usually do and a thought struck me as I saw the stupid flashlight commercial for the hundredth time…how much profit is there in a stupid flashlight that you get 2 for 20 bucks? Maybe that question should be how much does it cost to air a commercial that many times? I counted the other day and in just the few hours that I watched, there were over twenty times that the commercial aired…and that doesn’t count the other flashlight that they run over with the military truck…which looks identical to the other one. This whole idea started with the commercials for The Addiction Network…whose commercials appear to be about half of all of them on tv these days and that same thought came to mind…how much profit is there in addiction? And how many people are really addicted to things…it has gotten so bad that they are making fun of themselves in a new commercial….just a few thoughts that I wanted to get down before I forget them….
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Does anyone else find this disturbing?
Well…I just had to comment on the new Mercedes commercial that tries to sell their cars by pointing out that they will keep you safe in an emergency….but then they go one to have the people say that they fell asleep, wasn’t paying attention and other ridiculous anecdotes. All of this put a question in my head….”do only stupid people buy Mercedes?” Since when it is a selling point that your customers are so stupid or inept that they need the car to think for them? I find it disturbing that the skill and responsibility level of the American driver has sunk so low that they can’t even stay in their lane or keep from running up the back of a truck that stops in front of them….in all my years of driving, I’ve never found the need to have my car pay attention for me, or wake me up, or stay in the right lane for me….geez….