Commercials and Things

Okay, another post about TV, largely because it's still new to me. Also otherwise I will just end up ranting about work which will just set me off again and make me feel bad.

I watch a lot of the various flavors of the discover channel and it's clones. I notice now we have a Discover Investigation channel and there is a also a True TV which seem to show mainly true crime type programming. There is also a Crime and Investigation network which seems to mix true crime programs with cop shows and the like. Sort of like if Discovery Investigation mated with the Sleuth Channel. The CI network apparently need some feeler which means they run short clips of their shows or rather of Nash Bridges and Crossing Jordan. I hate Crossing Jordan. That was probably the most annoying non-sitcom character ever created for television. I change the channel everytime one of those clips come on.

Anyway, since I have recently come under commercial bombardment a few things stand out. First, enough with the damn caveman Geico. You pretty much milked the funny out of them. The lizard is still cute, go with him. The vacuum tube, the dollar bill, the accent, those commercial are funny enough to remember. Progressive, your spokes woman should by all rights annoy the hell out of me, yet I find her strangely appeal and scarily attractive. I worry for my sanity, good job. The Capital One Viking commercial are hit or miss. The ski vacation one I love, I think mainly for the goat on ski's and later with the broken leg. "One adult, one goat please," it's comedy gold. Not so much the tropical vacation one though, maybe not enough goat. Billy Mayes died. Why is he still screaming at me? The best ads though are the Dos Equis ads with the most interesting man alive. Love those ads. When the Guiness is gone, I'm going to give Dos Equis a shot.

I saw what might well be the worst possible commercial for the stupidest thing ever. It was so stupid it went through stupid, beyond so-stupid-it-is-funny, and into unbelievably idiotic. It was a product for women. Basically it was underwear padded so that it would make your butt look bigger and stick up higher. First, most women I know are worried about the size of their butts, but as a general rule, they don't want to increase said size. Second, much like a padded bra, isn't this false advertising?

The basic add consisted of before and after shots, showing about 10 different women wearing mini's and shorts and tight pants. The gyrate around then, it shows them supposedly wearing the product doing the same. At least one of the women was apparently considered talented in wiggling her hips, so she was dolled up like she was in a nightclub. She would dance a bit, then they would do the after shot. The provocative little ass wiggle, when coupled with the padded panties making her ass stick out and up, looked unbelievably silly. I about fell out of my chair laughing each time they showed it, and it came on about 6 times in the commercial. Out of the 10 or so women showed, all had what I thought were nice asses, and only 1 of the lot actually, in my opinion looked better with the fake ass cheeks applied. The rest just looked like they suddenly needed a step machine. Strangely enough it reminded me of that old rap video about big butts.

Lastly, a word to advertisers. If you are advertising a product, maybe you should show the product. Make sure we know what you are selling. I read several blogs regularly and one that I keep up with recently posted a link to an ad for Reebok Easy Tones. The only online version she could find was in russian, but it only affects the end. Basically, you only saw quick glances of shoes a few times in the video. Mostly you saw asses. Lots, and lots of really nice female asses, which I am all for, but unless you saw the last 4 seconds of the 30 second spot, you probably though the add was for a fitness center or escort service or something. It's an entertaining ad, if your into young, toned, swimsuit model butts, but I don't think it does a good job displaying the product. Hmm, what if we combined the butt enhancing panties with the butt focused shoes? The ultimate ass ad?

They Put it into the Wrong Hole

Well, earlier I explained how I cannot get cable television from the cable company so I ordered it from my telephone and internet provider. This turned into a hassle because my home network went nuts. Welllllllll, I fixed it with the help of a customer service rep and it only took about 2 weeks. After concentrating on my end of things, we finally looked at there end and guess what? Originally I had a speed stream dsl modem with a netgear router. I started having some issues with dropped internet and resetting the netgear fixed it, but it was happening a lot more often, and the netgear had some age on it, so I bought a linksys. The linksys didn't resolve things, it turned out to be a software issue with one program, but my wife stuck the netgear in a box and put it into a storage shed and my in-laws managed to toss it, so spare router went bye-bye. Anywho recently I upgraded to a linksys wireless n router with 4 hard ports and everything was nice/nice. Then they came in and switched my speed stream modem for a comptrend broadband adsl modem/router, 4 port and wireless g. Sounds cool, and looking up the exact model, which I don't remember and I am not home so can't look up, it's got a reputation as a good, heavy duty router. They hooked my main pc into this router along with both cable boxes and my linksys. My main pc was the only one with internet access. Well, after about 30 minutes of ip changing, resetting ect. with me on my cordless phone, the phone company sets those routers up so they have 3 video ports and only one internet port. My pc was in the internet port but my router was in a video port. All I needed to do was set my linksys to a static ip outside the comtrends range and plug the wan into the internet port of the comtrend. That's right, I didn't even lose a lan port on my linksys. I even left it a dhcp server. Then just set up wireless security and William's your mother's brother.