Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Across the street from a Catholic high school (Giggle)
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Irresponsible TV ads

I've noticed that I'm getting older. I don't view the world they way I once did. Things that I didn't notice or care acout before are starting to bother me. One of the biggest things that is crawling all over me is some of these damn commercials on TV. The worst one is the Lunchable ad. That little lunch pack that come with cheap bologna and some stale cheese and crackers. The damn thing cost almost $4. Twice as much as a whole pack of lunch meat and a loaf of bread. What kills me about it is the ad itself. It shows a small school age child repeatedly rejecting the lunches that his mother prepared for him and throwing mild fits until she gets him a lunchable. Then when he gets one he dances around and is sooooooo friggin happy you'd think it was packed in gold.
Now I know that some of you will think that I'm just bitchin to be bitchin, but I've seen first hand how it can affect children. A friend of mine has a little First grader and for months they couldn't get her to eat anything. No matter what meal it was, breakfast, lunch, dinner, she would throw a fit like the kid on TV. She would get all dramatic like she was going for the academy awards or something. It took awhile untill they figured out that she was acting like the kid on TV. Finally she had to be disciplined, because she refused to eat her meals. That nearly broke all of our hearts. I mean she's just a small child without the benefit of a developed sense of right and wrong, and here we were grown adults forced to punish her for mimicking behavoir she had seen on television.
To all the TV executives out there:
"I can take your dumb ass ads aimed at adults. Some of us have minds of our own and can decide for ourselves whether or not to buy your worthless shit. But leave our children out of it. It's hard enough to raise then happily and safely without you all trying to convince them that at six they have a need for your junk to be happy."

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: zanzibar
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or their parents could make them go outside and play occasionally and also teach them that you don't always get everything you want.

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Texas
Posts: 236

Remember these kinda commercials?

sorry, I'm a gamer, always have, always will be.



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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: London
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I'd beat the shit out of the little brat, and then force feed them with roughage and other fiberous foods, thent their colons would be capable of passing Elvis..

A damn good beating never hurts, I was beaten black and blue by my father, and it never damaged me and did me the world of good..

And when I get parole, I'm going on another shooting spree...



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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Richmond, VA
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have you ever tried a lunchable? it made tears oh joy run down my face like I had been touched by the virgin mary herself. $4 is a small price to pay for such an experience.

actually (with the exception of the lunchable commercial) I agree with you 100%. Once upon a time I had stopped watching television all together for about a year and a half (truth be told, I had no reception so I couldn't watch TV at all) and when I found myself in front of the tube again I was amazed at just how stupid consumers really are. it didn't take long though before I was mesmerized back into believing that if a woman doesn't wash her ass out with chemical fresh vinegar water at least three times a week that she will become horribly diseased and die of loneliness because no man will be able to stand the stench of her (I think this is where I put in the [/sarcasm] tag)


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Location: California
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Originally posted by Freelance:
Remember that thing that came with crackers, cheese-stuff, and a red stick to spread it with? That shit was gooooood!!

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Originally posted by Freelance:
Remember that thing that came with crackers, cheese-stuff, and a red stick to spread it with? That shit was gooooood!!

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Handi-Snacks.

Hmmmmmmm....

Mom always bought imitation ones, the cheap crap. But when I got the real thing, all my troubles seemed to slip away.



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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: NJ
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i think we should just learn to live with it.

oh...COME ON...

don't tell me you never imitated tv when you were younger. people can't recall a single episode of thundercats, but the know that mumm-ra is the bad guy. why? commercials tell us.

OR, because mum-ra looks like a DOG.

get it?

i sure don't.

oh, and i got repremanded by my calc teacher for screaming "I WIN!" when I realized that I was the first person in the class to finish the test.

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Originally posted by Spaceboy:
oh, and i got repremanded by my calc teacher for screaming "I WIN!" when I realized that I was the first person in the class to finish the test.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Shreveport, LA
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Here is a simple solution to persuede children to eat whatever the fuck is put in front of them. It was used on me as a child and believe me, it works.

Remember the old Morris the cat commercials? The finicky bitch wouldn't eat anything but Friskys or some such. Tell the child of the commercial and then tell them this little fable, "Morris was finicky. Morris won't eat. Lock morris in the closet for a week and when he gets out, he'll eat a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich. And so would you!"
Trust me, this worked like a charm! I found I could stomach brussel sprouts and liver after that was told to me.

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Originally posted by Timeenoughforlove:
I found I could stomach brussel sprouts and liver after that was told to me.

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Originally posted by Roshigoth:
Sorry, there is NOTHING that could get me to eat liver. NOTHING

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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Originally posted by BnB:
*locks Rosh in a closet*

We'll see about that

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No luck, man. I'll eat you first (everything but the liver).

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Originally posted by Roshigoth:
No luck, man. I'll eat you first (everything but the liver).

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Originally posted by Timeenoughforlove:
Does that include cock and balls? EWWWWWWWW!!!!

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Originally posted by Spaceboy:

oh, and i got repremanded by my calc teacher for screaming "I WIN!" when I realized that I was the first person in the class to finish the test.

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Hey porngod, you familiar with adbusters?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Nanaimo BC, Canada
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Remember that thing that came with crackers, cheese-stuff, and a red stick to spread it with? That shit was gooooood!!



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