Sometimes ya just wake up… think about things… write about things… and this is what you get. A jolt of reality.
Television has more and more annoying issues… just think about it.
First there’s the commercials. Some make you laugh and smile, and then there are the one’s that just don’t make it… in fact, they’re annoying. The ones that show you a vehicle doing something incredibly stupid… something you know, no sane person would do… and you know the vehicle can’t do that… but they want to mentally implant the notion that their vehicle is so good it can ski down a snowy mountain and do barrel rolls… so you should buy this truck because you just saw it do something incredible that is only movie magic… but “don’t try this at home”. Or you could pull a mile long freight train with this truck… or help a jet airliner land when the nose landing gear fails and the truck comes to the rescue to help the plane land. Then there’s the car that has 400+ horse power…why??? Then there’s commercials showing stupid people doing stupid things and buying the advertised product… so why would I want to do what stupid people do, and buy their product? Are they trying to say that stupid people buy their product, so I need to get some… or do they really believe they can basically insult your intelligence knowing you can better identify with stupid people, so that buy their product… therefore you must be stupid… so you need to buy their product. Then there are those unbelievable incredible deals on tv where you get this $200 value for only $19.95… but wait… order now and get a second one free…. just pay additional shipping and handling. This one miracle item will do everything and it will last a lifetime… so why would I need two of them? These commercials play to the stupidity of the consumer… and they must work, because you see them all the time… so I guess there’s plenty of stupid tv consumers out there to make it all worth while.
Lets play it safe and say that for the last 100 years that people have collectively been sold a bill of goods, through advertising, in the name of looking better, feeling better, and loosing weight… all of which… have never worked… and never will… but people buy them with the grand illusion the they can look twenty years younger… feel like a twenty year old again… or get back down to the that magical weight that we all wish we could be. Stupid people doing stupid things… and you would think in today’s economy that there would be no money for frivolous spending… but there actually seems to be more of it. You’d think people would put more value to their spendable income than to waste it on “pie in the sky” products that they know won’t deliver on their promises… remember… “results are not typical - your results may vary”. “Results not typical”… wouldn’t the half way intelligent consumer want to know “typical results” of what they might possibly expect the results to be… so they could make an intelligent evaluation of how their product might benefit them? But if the selling company told you this… they’d be telling you that their product fails to deliver the intended results 99% of the time. Well… nuff said about that.
Then there’s “truth in advertising” … as mandated by federal regulations and legal notices. The Drug companies advertisements. They have this new miracle drug that will make your skin beautiful… wonderful. You look better, feel better, emotionally elevate your perception of yourself and you’ll be more socially acceptable and the envy of others with just everyday normal skin. Wonderful… great perfect skin! Disclaimer: Possible side effects may include in rare cases… redness or yellowing of the skin, trouble sleeping, hearing problems, problems with blurred vision, ability to heal properly, and in rarer cases… trouble breathing, convulsions, loss of motor skills, slurred speech, paralysis, and still even more rare cases , death. But … you’ll have great looking skin!
Just some other thoughts to ponder:
Why on police shows do the police always yell to the felon while he’s running away… “Stop… Police”… they never… ever… stop… never. Do police do this in real life? And why do tv police identify themselves 30 feet away from the person they are trying to arrest… gives them a 30 foot head start to RUN… and they always run… and they know that “Stop, Police” is not going to work. Why not get closer so they can grab them on the spot so they can’t even start to run? Suggestion: Stop all the running… change the law to enable police to shoot a fleeing criminal… so they can’t get away to harm bystanders, or get away completely… okay… how do we know that the fleeing person is a criminal? … if they are running away from the police… duh… they’re a criminal.
Why do movies and tv always… always do this… The situation is bad… something or someone is trying to get us… “lets split up” … COME ON! … “let’s split up”… does this really happen in real life? Why do they always portray people to be so stupid.
Okay… you are unarmed… running away from the guy with the gun… you hide behind the corner with a pipe in your hand… the man with the gun comes around the corner… you hit him with the pipe… he goes down to the ground… WHAT DO YOU DO? In tv land… once he’s down, you start running again… so he can get back up … pick up his gun… and come after you again… COME ON! … who would do this in real life? First I’d make sure he wasn’t going to get up again… preferably never … SECOND… I’M GOING TO TAKE HIS GUN!
CSI’s… funny how they are extremely meticulous to photograph all evidence where it lays and wear rubber gloves to collect evidence…. and in the next location, walk right in and pick it up barehanded.
Then there’s the the more serious shows, showing real people, in real life situations, that gets so preposterous and unreal. Good example… “Private Practice”… the show was good in the beginning… but now the characters all have completely messed up “soap opera” lives. Professional people… doctors that are more messed up then any collection of bottom dwellers. Alcohol, drugs, ethical issues, relationship issues, legal issues, and psychiatrists that are so mentally unstable in their own lives that are helping others with emotional issues… please! Put a warning at the beginning of the show… “Soap Opera”… so we know not to watch it. Could ten professional people in real life… working together… be that screwed up? Hope not.
Slightly changing the topic. I like to watch tv and movies for the enjoyment. Just plain fun, action and adventure, drama, mystery, etc, etc. And while I like to figure things out… I find it very annoying that producers of the shows feel the need to overly burden this enjoyable process by introducing too many unannounced “flash backs… “flash forwards” … “flash some where’s”… repeatedly so that you have to hang on every word or scene and really concentrate on the happenings so you know where you are in the story. I enjoy figuring things out… but come on… I don’t want to work that hard at it.
Why do Tv ads have to go up several notches in volume every time they start. Even if it’s a funny commercial, or something I would buy… why do they want to… excuse the expression… piss me off right form the get go?
Reality talk shows! OMG… what’s worse then watching the brigs of society airing their pathetic lives on tv reality shows. Why are these shows still on Tv… sadly because the people that watch those shows need to see others portraying their pitiful miserable meaningless “waste of life” existence… why… so they can feel good about their own life… please.
Celebrity Reality shows… WHO CARES!
Political Bashing ads… Come on people… get smart… if one politician has to bash another to make himself look good… he must not be worth very much as a person… let alone a leader of the people. But then again… they all are accused of being morally bankrupt by the opposing candidate… and they’re all right… none of them from either party are worth a spit. Years of promises by both parties, telling you what you want to hear… preying on your fears… blaming the other person or party for the mess this country is in… and sadly… voting for a candidate or party has become nothing more then a sham. They offer up the candidates that we get to pick from… yes they are powerful enough to control that… they give you the choices for you to pick from… and as a whole… congress cares little for who you vote for… it will always be “business as usual” for them. Blaming the other party for all the shortcomings… checks and balances… they balance out the blame… assume no responsibility for anything… and go on with business as usual…snakes in a pit with all us mice.
Commercials where cars are given as Christmas Gifts! If this is the real world at large… I must have done something wrong in my life. I’m glad to get a $25 Walmart Gift card… delighted with $50… forever indebted for $100 Gift card. (well… maybe not forever, but for a while anyway).
Special financing of cars and furniture… hello… they’re not loosing money on this deal… you’re just paying the cost of financing or deferred payments hidden up front in the cost of what you are buying… come on! Or I love the one car ad… we’ll give you $5,000 trade in on anything you can push, pull, or drive into our dealership.
Stupid annoying “dumber then all get out” characters on Tv shows… no one can be that stupid.
Socially unacceptable themes to the extreme… like Charlie on 2 ½ men… or for that matter Charlie himself. Yes, he’s not on the show anymore, but the writers made the rest of the characters just a bad.
DVD's… hey… I like the movie… buy the DVD…with my hard earned money… and can’t even skip or fast forward past the previews or ads to get to the movie that I paid for… what’s up with that! It’s worse than going to the movie theater… have to watch 10 minutes of previews in my own house! Argggg!!! ( that’s the pirates expression of discontent, anger, and I’d slash the person responsible for this if I could only find him! )
I’m sure you have your own list… and I’m sure it’s longer this this. Just a little something to think about and be thankful for remote controls… “mute” and “channel”. The next Billionaire… the person that invents and markets a device that mute commercials automatically… or even better replaces them with happy carefree photos and music until the show your are watching returns. And thank god for DVR’s… we pretty much record all shows and watch after the fact… fast forwarding past the commercials. Guess this will be illegal someday too.
Closing remark: Argggg !!!
