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Posted: 3/21/2006 10:03:13 AM EDT
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glad to know someone else noticed. it sends the wrong message in so many ways.
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Posted: 3/21/2006 10:03:13 AM EDT
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You guys still watch commercials?
Get intot he 21st century! Buy a damn TIVO already! 
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Posted: 3/21/2006 10:11:54 AM EDT
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I saw that ADT commercial one day and was fuming.
If some dumbass tried that while I wasn't home, the dog would be eating his nuts after my wife roundhouse kicked the guy. |
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Posted: 3/21/2006 10:19:36 AM EDT
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There was a comment made to a friend of mine about him buying "another gun" and the wife wanted new furniture. When he told me that she went ahead and charged the furniture, comparing his buying a $400.00 handgun to a $2,000++++ living room set, I told him he got screwed and needed another gun, or three or four!  His wife didn't laugh! Now he's not allowed to play with the bad kids anymore.
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Posted: 3/21/2006 10:19:36 AM EDT
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+1
To everything in this thread. |
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Posted: 3/21/2006 10:44:41 AM EDT
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I'm late to this topic but I knew exactly which commercial you were referring to.
The part that raises my hackles every time is when the wife says 'What?!' and then gives that little head movement normally associated with agression or confrontation. If my wife tried that I would have done the same thing another poster suggested. "Ma'm, we'll have to call you back later after I talk with my wife." *click* then... "Honey, don't ever put me on the spot like that again." |
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Posted: 3/21/2006 10:46:18 AM EDT
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Here's a link to the Kim du Toit essay, The Pussification of the Western Male. This is literally the best thing you will ever read on the internet. www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php/essays/41/ |
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Posted: 3/21/2006 10:52:00 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/21/2006 11:03:32 AM EDT
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That was in serious need of fixing. But seriously folks, that's the reason remotes were invented. I just don't watch the comercials. I have noticed the same trend. It's the same things on many sitcoms...guy is an idiot, wife is smart and runs the show. "According to Jim" and "The War at Home" spring to mind. |
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Posted: 3/21/2006 11:13:24 AM EDT
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Anyone got a link for us non tv watchers?
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Posted: 3/21/2006 11:17:23 AM EDT
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That we'd admit to? 
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Posted: 3/21/2006 11:31:55 AM EDT
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I hate that commercial. Using kids as leverage is bullshit. If you cant afford your life, DONT HAVE KIDS.
 I swear. Some couples think just because they CAN breed, they SHOULD. |
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Posted: 3/21/2006 12:04:55 PM EDT
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Did you revoke his man card on the spot? That is just unbelievable 
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Posted: 3/21/2006 4:00:46 PM EDT
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+1000, that was the first thing I thought of when I started reading this thread and I was going to post about it, but it looks like you beat me to it. It just goes to show the entitlement attitude people have these days. I never asked my parents for money, even though I probably could have, mainly because doing so feels wrong to me. I get the same feeling about it as I do about stealing. |
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Posted: 3/21/2006 6:51:45 PM EDT
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AMEN. I can't stand that shit - when I see these commercials, I imagine the holy bloody fucking uproar that would result if the woman were portrayed as the beat-down dumbass. Fucking crazy.  Oh well, lucky for me, my wife is at least as much a male chauvinist as I. 
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Posted: 3/21/2006 6:53:54 PM EDT
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Yep, I've seen that one too. |
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Posted: 3/21/2006 8:20:42 PM EDT
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I find it just as disgusting as the rest of you but you know what? The advertisers don't care. They know that the women control 100% of the sex and most of the money. When I was in the biz, the most coveted viewers were the 18-35 females.
Watch tv news. What is the percentage of infobabes to infodudes? I watched a local station and didn't see a male reporter on camera for over 10 minutes. I could tell you more about what I saw, but it would violate the COC. Over the air TV and the ads are just a subset of Hollywierd. |
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Posted: 3/21/2006 8:46:26 PM EDT
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Uh i prefer infobabes too 
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Posted: 3/25/2006 7:06:40 PM EDT
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How about the Hotels.com commerical with the bitchy wife viewing the websites talking about "forty hotels with gorgeous oceanside views... and we get this one..."
<Cut to the dopey looking guy and the window full of constructions and buildings> "thanks, Frank" <cue dopey shrug> As opposed to "I got you your vacation in hawaii, bitch, after working my ass off while you stayed home and bitched. You want a view? Walk to the fucking beach. I'm going to the bar to get a drink, and a hooker." 
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Posted: 3/25/2006 7:13:05 PM EDT
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I saw something different last night during basketball. Home Depot, I think...
Man working in driveway, wife runs over all his tools which were left directly behind her SUV. Here we go again, I think, man portrayed as idiot on TV. Turns out it was all a ploy to get new tools at HD. I had to laugh a bit at that one. |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 7:16:57 PM EDT
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The first time I saw that commercial I about fucking popped. That spineless pussy. I bet that's how the wife got the poor guy to marry her too.
The second time I saw the commercial I let loose a string of obscenities and changed the channel. Obviously they're stupid fucking liberals. Those are the sort of tactics used by a child to get a new pet into the house, not the tactics used by a wife to prod her husband into buying a new house. Bullshit. |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 7:17:27 PM EDT
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fuckin' A. Ever seen kim du toits rant about this?[/quote] A piece of brilliance, it is... |
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Posted: 3/25/2006 7:29:54 PM EDT
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That's a damned battle cry if I ever heard one. |
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