Is anyone else sick and tired of all these stupid my-vacuum-is-better-than-your-vacuum commercials on TV? That Dyson clown makes me sick. It’s a damn vacuum for chrissake. And then I think, how many engineers that sit around thinking about better vacuums or tampons or coffee pots could be better utilized to help people who have actual problems. It must be capitalism huh?
Vacuum commercials? Hell, I’m sick of commercials in general. More and more we see commercials piled onto each other, shoving out the sit-cons, dramas, documentaries, news (such as it is) IOW. the very reason we turn on the tele. in the first place. I haven’t timed them yet but intend to soon just to see how much of a program is actually left. I know this sounds curmudgeonly but it is a continued annoyance, for me at least, especially the food ads timed appropriately for the dinner hour. And the incessant car commercials! OMG.
Cap’t Jack
Yeah those Vacuum commercials really suck don’t they ? :lol:
Sorry I couldn’t resist. Feel free to throw rotten fruit this way
Yeah those Vacuum commercials really suck don't they ? :lol: Sorry I couldn't resist. Feel free to throw rotten fruit this wayGood one, Mac. Lois
Oh and for Mattresses too. Now I just saw one where, pardon my French, the effin mattress has sleep IQ and can analyse how your sleep went. To me that indicates we are still all in all a very primitive civilization.
Oh and for Mattresses too. Now I just saw one where, pardon my French, the effin mattress has sleep IQ and can analyse how your sleep went. To me that indicates we are still all in all a very primitive civilization.I have long thought that mattresses are biggest rip off of all. The marketing is horrific. Imagine spending $1000 and more for a mattress! Then they say you should get a new one every ten years or horrible things will happen to your spine. The most comfortable mattress I've ever slept on was an inexpensive futon mattress, wih no box spring. Box springs ar another ripoff. At one time it was almost impossible to buy a mattress without a box spring. Many stores used to force you to buy both. Lois
Buy, or rent from your cable company, one of those black boxes that sits on top of your TV set and can be programmed to record the programs you want to watch, so you can watch them at any time - and FAST FORWARD THROUGH ALL THE COMMERCIALS!
- or in other words - quichabitchin and do something about it.
TFS
Yeah those Vacuum commercials really suck don't they ? :lol: ...Somebody had to go for the obvious pun. Way to step up to the plate.
Buy, or rent from your cable company, one of those black boxes that sits on top of your TV set and can be programmed to record the programs you want to watch, so you can watch them at any time - and FAST FORWARD THROUGH ALL THE COMMERCIALS!Wow! Whoever came up with this idea is an absolute genius! Those of us who want to watch something commercial free now have to spend money NOT to watch commercials. Way to go cable company marketing dep't! Cap't Jack
Vacuum commercials? Hell, I'm sick of commercials in general. More and more we see commercials piled onto each other, shoving out the sit-cons, dramas, documentaries, news (such as it is) IOW. the very reason we turn on the tele. in the first place. I haven't timed them yet but intend to soon just to see how much of a program is actually left. I know this sounds curmudgeonly but it is a continued annoyance, for me at least, especially the food ads timed appropriately for the dinner hour. And the incessant car commercials! OMG. Cap't JackThe last time I recorded something, and paused for the commercials, I got 43-45 minutes of program for an hour show. The food commercials are only annoying when they advertise something that you are not supposed to eat. The ones that really annoy, are the medical commercials that spend most of the time listing side effects and restrictions.
Vacuum commercials? Hell, I'm sick of commercials in general. More and more we see commercials piled onto each other, shoving out the sit-cons, dramas, documentaries, news (such as it is) IOW. the very reason we turn on the tele. in the first place. I haven't timed them yet but intend to soon just to see how much of a program is actually left. I know this sounds curmudgeonly but it is a continued annoyance, for me at least, especially the food ads timed appropriately for the dinner hour. And the incessant car commercials! OMG. Cap't JackThe last time I recorded something, and paused for the commercials, I got 43-45 minutes of program for an hour show. The food commercials are only annoying when they advertise something that you are not supposed to eat. The ones that really annoy, are the medical commercials that spend most of the time listing side effects and restrictions. It's even worse on the radio. An hour program without the interruptios can be heard in half an hour on a podcast. That's the way I listen to radio programs now. I tune in occasionally in my car but I'm driven to constantly switch stations or turn it off altogether. Commercial broadcast radio has been completely ruined by ads and other useless interruptions. I also watch television programs only if I can zip through the crap. Los
Is anyone else sick and tired of all these stupid my-vacuum-is-better-than-your-vacuum commercials on TV? It must be capitalism huh?
Vacuum commercials? Hell, I'm sick of commercials in general.I think Capitalism ended after World War I. That is when Freudian psychology began being used by the advertising industry. Then we got television after WWII. VCRs were great. I bought 2. I mostly used them to skip commercials. Another thing is that commercial time is longer than it was in the 1960s. It was 10 minutes per hour in the 60s. Now it is more like 18 minutes per hour. Do economists count that as inflation? psik