the one's i hate are "i'm with the brand".... even when i was IN school i adamantly refused to wear the fucking brand of choice for that season. i didn't see why i had to pay up to two hundred dollars more for a shirt just because it's got some logo on it. never understood why THEY weren't paying ME to advertise their fucking line! gaah!!
i saw the first one of the Telus ad's a little while ago. cute lizards. "Caught sneaking out?" "grounded again?" "cool phones at great rates. who's in?" (i work accross from a store that sells telus) but, and here comes to other half, i have a Telus phone, and i LOVE it!
i've been with the company for years (Way back when it was another company, i can't remember what it was.) and i have had no problems. only thing that came UP as a problem was they gave me free caller ID, then took it away, since it was a computer error. they didn't back charge me for it though!
i was a member of that "brand" before they had all those ads, before they were fighting for the top, before they were such a "must have name" so i'm okay owning one, and using it. it suits my needs, and no other phone does. unless i want to pay an insane amount more, which i don't want.
the sleep country add, personally, i think it's just damned funny. "buy from us, we have more mattresses then you could believe! so obviously our service rocks, or why would they sell to us?" bagh. i need a new bed, but i'm going to shop around. ads (to me, more often then not) just inform me what's out there. then i make my own decision. i know what i need, what i don't need, and that's it. i don't HAVE the extra three hundred for the special brand names, and in all honesty, why the frikkin' hell would i want to belong to the group that thinks that unless you have their brand you are scum? i look inside the person, and decide from there. outside never mattered to me. must be in defiance against my parents.
i don't want to belong to the group that tells me what i should wear, how i should talk, who i can talk to. i don't want to be forced to think "only those that wear this logo can be my friends". i don't want any of that. so i lived a lot of my childhood as a loner, who cares. i prefer who i am now, to who THOSE people turned into 9 times outta ten.
Well, it's sad when they have bad ads for good products, but I don't mind when they have good ads for things I would never buy - like the beer ads, "out of the blue."
I guess it's okay if you didn't buy it for the ads! ;-)
If everyone was that smart - looking for the truth about products as well as people! - I bet we could solve a lot of the world's problems.
Good ads don't annoy me because they are a little like public art, or poetry of the kind that used to be sponsored by wealthy patrons (who insisted that they illustrious families or gardens be the ones described in the paeans and elegies). Like poetry, advertisements try to appeal to our emotions by using association, simile, metaphor, word play. It's sad that so many creative young artists cannot make a living any other way than by flogging a product, but I am happy for them when their industrial lord lets them get away with something clever. It's also sad that so much money is spent on advertising lousy crap instead on worthier causes, or even R&D. But over all, intelligent, media-savvy people can appreciate a good ad and the fact that ad money goes to support things like web-sites, public transport, newspapers etc., without actually being affected by them. The easily-led are affected, some to the point of brain-washing, but the easily-led always were.
That's for good ads. Bad ads, of course, are a scourge, because of the high visibility they have. I'm all for destroying and defacing and cleverly manipulating such ads.
Speaking of the easily-led, have you heard of the new advertising trend that sees makers of gadgets and clothing using head-hunters to single out "popular school kids" and giving them hundreds of $ worth of stuff for free? The idea being, of course, that the peers of the trendy popular kids want to be just like them, and will run out and buy the same stuff they see the trend-setters wearing and using... That's just so manipulative. "Oh, hey kid, you're bright, popular and good-looking, why don't we shower you in brand-name gifts as well!" Grrr.
Makes me want to subscribe to Ad-Busters. (Great Canadian product! *free advertisment*, heh heh)
i saw the first one of the Telus ad's a little while ago. cute lizards. "Caught sneaking out?" "grounded again?" "cool phones at great rates. who's in?" (i work accross from a store that sells telus) but, and here comes to other half, i have a Telus phone, and i LOVE it!
i've been with the company for years (Way back when it was another company, i can't remember what it was.) and i have had no problems. only thing that came UP as a problem was they gave me free caller ID, then took it away, since it was a computer error. they didn't back charge me for it though!
i was a member of that "brand" before they had all those ads, before they were fighting for the top, before they were such a "must have name" so i'm okay owning one, and using it. it suits my needs, and no other phone does. unless i want to pay an insane amount more, which i don't want.
the sleep country add, personally, i think it's just damned funny. "buy from us, we have more mattresses then you could believe! so obviously our service rocks, or why would they sell to us?" bagh. i need a new bed, but i'm going to shop around. ads (to me, more often then not) just inform me what's out there. then i make my own decision. i know what i need, what i don't need, and that's it. i don't HAVE the extra three hundred for the special brand names, and in all honesty, why the frikkin' hell would i want to belong to the group that thinks that unless you have their brand you are scum? i look inside the person, and decide from there. outside never mattered to me. must be in defiance against my parents.
i don't want to belong to the group that tells me what i should wear, how i should talk, who i can talk to. i don't want to be forced to think "only those that wear this logo can be my friends". i don't want any of that. so i lived a lot of my childhood as a loner, who cares. i prefer who i am now, to who THOSE people turned into 9 times outta ten.
okay, my rant over
miss you hunnie!!!
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I guess it's okay if you didn't buy it for the ads! ;-)
If everyone was that smart - looking for the truth about products as well as people! - I bet we could solve a lot of the world's problems.
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That's for good ads. Bad ads, of course, are a scourge, because of the high visibility they have. I'm all for destroying and defacing and cleverly manipulating such ads.
Speaking of the easily-led, have you heard of the new advertising trend that sees makers of gadgets and clothing using head-hunters to single out "popular school kids" and giving them hundreds of $ worth of stuff for free? The idea being, of course, that the peers of the trendy popular kids want to be just like them, and will run out and buy the same stuff they see the trend-setters wearing and using... That's just so manipulative. "Oh, hey kid, you're bright, popular and good-looking, why don't we shower you in brand-name gifts as well!" Grrr.
Makes me want to subscribe to Ad-Busters. (Great Canadian product! *free advertisment*, heh heh)
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