Aug 18, 2005 09:45
I had not done much wasteful thinking in a long time, or was probably doing so much of it that I did not realize it.
Am I the only person that hates the Mastercard commercials ? Let me put it to you this way.
It says, "blah :$5, blah-blah:$10, blah-blah-blah-blah.........:priceless". Then, this guy who has the voice of somebody under heavy medication, says, "There are somethings money can't buy, for everything else, there is Monstercard". Now, my question is, there are somethings money can't buy. So, "everything else" in the slogan refers to things that money can buy. They are hiding from plain view that you could use money to buy stuff. I think the reason behind this is, for things which money can buy, you can use monster-card, and you can save up the money to pay us interest. What imbecile is going to use a credit card to buy a gallon of milk ? or a pack of gum ? or ...the list is endless. I think I should write up a story with mangled names of credit cards and make a flash movie. Like, "Murder on the American Express" - some already know this story.
Then there was this ITT-Tech commercial. Now, this guy who sounded like Seth Green's brother on "Rat Race" (don't buy it, but it's worth renting), tells us that he didn't have a career, and he joined the said-institute, and then worked for a tech support group, and now he has his own business and career, which helped him to find the love of his life. Good so far. Then he talks about how he has a kid, and how he earns enough so that his wife can stay at home and raise their kids and that another baby is on the way out. Now, this is where I think, he got it wrong. I am not a feminist or any of those special designations we like to give ourselves, but, I think it should be a matter of choice, and looking at how people make such a hoopla about small things in this country, I think he made stupid comments in this commercial. ITT-Tech may have helped him get a career, but it definitely did not make him any smarter, not by a hair's breadth. That's when I thought, "there are things that money can't buy...."