Coz...Speechless!
Best Deal Breaker I’ve Heard
My PT’s assistant won’t date a girl that sleeps with their eyes open….this would have to be disclosed at a minimum on date 2. Something to the effect of, “Just so you know, I don’t close my eyes when I sleep. They stay wide open like an owl, ALL night long. Hope that doesn’t give you the creeps!”
I was laughing so hard I was going to die! Never heard that as a deal breaker before…but it would definitely be odd!
Disney Parks’ Craziest Corporate Rules: Beards OK, Tattoos Still Out
Memories! I had flashbacks of nail polish color cards and the many grooming items and clothing items you could buy in the vending machine at Costuming to make sure you could adhere to the dress code…even if you forgot something or tried to be rebellious and not follow the dress code!
People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as ‘parasites’ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host, one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.
Product Placement
Originally, this outlet was not intended for me to “write” on, hence the “speechless” in the site’s title. However, I just have to say something about how crazy and obvious the product placement has been in television lately. It’s almost like the companies that pay for it think the American public is so stupid that we won’t catch on to what they are doing. Car companies in particular have been pretty blatant about it this January, making certain scenes of popular prime time TV series look like car commercials.
I first noticed it in an episode of Fringe. I can’t remember the brand of the car…it was either Hyundai or Toyota. However, it was blatantly obvious when they started the scene out by checking out the interior of the car and guiding the dialogue of the characters where they would show off the prime bells and whistles of this 2012 car. Promptly, when the episode went to commercials…guess whose commercial was first? That car from the episode.
Another blatant portrayal, where the whole episode revolved around the product albeit cleverly done was on The Middle, with the episode “Hecking it up.” The whole episode was based on the neighbors’ brand new 2012 Volkswagen Jetta, it’s features and how the Hecks took advantage of “keeping an eye on it” while their neighbors were busy with football activities on the weekend. Every commercial break began with a Volkswagen commercial…no not obvious…not one bit!
Last night was just about the tip of the iceberg. I watched 90210, I know, don’t judge. The whole episode, they mentioned Karmageddon like this is something everyone knows about in LA. First time I have ever heard about it!! I lived in SoCal from the time I was born up until about 4 years ago…surely I would know about this…had it been such a big thing. But, no, I had never heard about it. Clearly, this event that everyone mentioned was a plug for this year or for awareness of it, as I’m sure it had people doing Google searches on it during the commercial breaks.
I don’t know about you, but I’m annoyed about it. It reminds me of The Truman Show when Truman’s wife would hold the product up to the invisible camera and say, “Truman, would you like a glass of Ovaltine?” Advertisers, we the American people are not so stupid and we are onto your blatantly obvious product placement.
Anyhow, just had to mention this somewhere.
