Sun 30 Jul 2006
Ads, That’s What I’m Talkin’ ’bout
Posted by Bill S-R under Modern culture
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99% of our lives today are dominated by advertising (source, my little brother). 5 year old kids are being sold like DVD rentals to advertising companies who parade them around places where five year olds hang out (Disney world, Mickey D’s, basements of forty year old men). TV shows have way too many sponsors. “Olympia Sports presents the Nike Burger King tournament of Odor Eaters Bank of America Championship at the Met Life Golf Course built by Goodyear. Closed Captioning by Walden Books.” I know people have to make money, like this site
Haynes.TV
for Example uses advetising for support
but I mean come on. We’re not hitting you with 50 pop ups per second (pups) trying to get you to buy anything from anti-wedgie cream to Japanese slaves. We’re just trying to make sure Mr. Haynes can pay off his Wal*Mart bill. But, these large corporations seem to be more interested in buying every second of our lives than on improving their product. Movie producers will spend more than half of their budget on advertising. I say they should more guns, bigger explosions, better stunt doubles, free popcorn for us all. But that will never happen, instead they will paint MI4 on some fat guy’s back for fifty bucks.
Despite the large, grotesque volume of advertising in the modern world, the most aggravating aspect the the evil world is suicidal advertising. Ads so annoying they can bring a depressed person to the edge of death, if they don’t bring the company there first. For example the head on commercials. Head-on apply directly to the forehead. Head-on apply directly to the forehead. Head-on apply directly to the, what was it, oh yeah forehead. This one commercial had brought hours of pain and agony to me and Mr. Haynes. I want to know who came up with that commercial. Do they teach in advertising school that if you say a product’s name repeatedly the consumer will either buy the product of donate their TV to a homeless person (I perfer the latter). I don’t even know what Head-on does, and since my doctor tells me I have a perfect forehead, I will never buy the item. And to take it a step further I want the ad pulled, fearing it will lead to a generation of americans that will associate their foreheads with emotional trauma (if you would like to join the noble fight leave a commment).
A reveiw of Head-On from EPinions.com
“I tried HeadOn headache relief for the first time. I used it according to the directions and within a few minutes the skin on my forehead began to become irritated. It was “cold” and “burning” at the same time! I tried to wash it off with soap and water but the irritation only got worse. After about 20 or 30 minutes the burning sensation stopped. It didn’t seem to do much for my headache either. I’m not at all impressed with this product.”
To conclude, the rich have money. The rest of us have to work hard. However, if you like the content provided here and would like to help make sure Mr. Haynes can pay off his Wal*Mart bill make a donation using paypal:
On anther note repeating something three times does seem to be very effective in drilling it into someones head, it has got us talking about there stupid product and giving them publicity, even though it is bad publicity. Just I feel strongly that beating something into peoples head like that should be reserved for something truly important, in fact the number 3 is a symbol of a triad or trinity. It is a symbol of the unity of body, mind and spirit. The symbol is of universal significance – it is found throughout history and all over the world.
“In this number we have quite a new set of phenomena. We come to the first geometrical figure. Two straight lines cannot possibly enclose any space, or form a plane figure; neither can two plan surfaces form a solid. Three lines are necessary to form a plan figure; and three dimensions of length, breadth, and height, are necessary to form a solid. Hence three is the symbol of the cube–the simplest form of solid figure. As two is the symbol of the square, or plane contents (x2), so three is the symbol of the cube, or solid contents (x3).
Three, therefore, stands for that which is solid, real, substantial, complete, and entire.
All things that are specially complete are stamped with this number three.
God’s attributes are three: omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence.
There are three great divisions completing time–past, present, and future.
Three persons, in grammar, express and include all the relationships of mankind.
Thought, word, and deed, complete the sum of human capability.
Three degrees of comparison complete our knowledge of qualities.
The simplest proposition requires three things to complete it; viz., the subject, the predicate, and the copula.
Three propositions are necessary to complete the simplest form of argument–the major premises, the minor, and the conclusion.
Three kingdoms embrace our ideas of matter–mineral, vegetable, and animal.
When we turn to the Scriptures, this completion becomes Divine, and marks Divine completeness or perfection.
Three is the first of four perfect numbers.
Three denotes divine perfection;
Seven denotes spiritual perfection;
Ten denotes ordinal perfection; and
Twelve denotes governmental perfection.”
(www.greatdreams.com)
In conclusion I feel very strongly that using such a important number of repetition for the purpose of selling stupid hemroid creme and head on headache cream is an abuse of it.
In addition, the fact that advertisers spend so much time studying these things and purposely trying to manipulate us just angers me so much. For another example I remeber discussing how when hearing a list we tend to remeber things at the beginning and end and tend to forget the things in the middle; at which point a girl mentioned that a her job they were instructed to say the most expensive wines at both the beginning and end when telling the customers what wines they have available. It would be nice if these advertiser could use there powers for good instead of trying to manipulate their customers.