Something about commercials
Full disclosure: I hold advertisements up to an unfairly high standard of quality and usually only get irritated by them when I am feeling irritable and want to pick something apart.
Two guys in a commercial are watching another guy running around in a bullpen being attacked by a bull.
Guy 1: What's he doing?
Guy 2: He said something about not driving through Texas without getting a shot of a bull.
Guy 1: Oh really? He said something about that? He didn't just say that he wasn't going to drive through Texas without getting a shot of a bull? No, he must not have, because since you clearly prefaced your statement with "he said something about..." you weren't quite clear on the details or he mumbled his intentions and you only heard part of it. Funny, cause it sounds to me like you are probably repeating verbatim what he said; it's a full statement, with strangely specific and unusual details, and it's apparently correct because here we are, leaning on this fence, watching him being chased by a bull. Nevermind that there's no possible way we all three would have taken a detour from our road trip, driven up to this bull pen, and then we two would have followed him up to the fence and watched him climb over and start taunting the bull inside without asking for any explanation other than just now, me asking you what was going on, and you being unclear enough on the details because apparently when the other guy voiced his intentions you missed a number of details and only understood "something about" not driving through Texas without getting a shot of a bull. You didn't bother to ask any follow-up questions? That was good enough for you? Are you so self-absorbed that you care nothing about what your friend is passionate about or that he being maimed by a bull right in front of us, while you stand here musing half-heartedly about why he put himself in the situation? DRINK REDBULL!
Guy 2: HELL YEAH!
This is my own version of how the commercial would go, of course. I only remember up to the second statement because I got so pissed over the use of the cliche "said something about..." when it makes absolutely no sense in context. LET'S JUST THROW IN WORDS TO BETTER RELATE TO OUR TARGET SOFT DRINK DEMOGRAPHIC fuck advertisers.
Edit: The commercial is actually for Taco Bell.
Two guys in a commercial are watching another guy running around in a bullpen being attacked by a bull.
Guy 1: What's he doing?
Guy 2: He said something about not driving through Texas without getting a shot of a bull.
Guy 1: Oh really? He said something about that? He didn't just say that he wasn't going to drive through Texas without getting a shot of a bull? No, he must not have, because since you clearly prefaced your statement with "he said something about..." you weren't quite clear on the details or he mumbled his intentions and you only heard part of it. Funny, cause it sounds to me like you are probably repeating verbatim what he said; it's a full statement, with strangely specific and unusual details, and it's apparently correct because here we are, leaning on this fence, watching him being chased by a bull. Nevermind that there's no possible way we all three would have taken a detour from our road trip, driven up to this bull pen, and then we two would have followed him up to the fence and watched him climb over and start taunting the bull inside without asking for any explanation other than just now, me asking you what was going on, and you being unclear enough on the details because apparently when the other guy voiced his intentions you missed a number of details and only understood "something about" not driving through Texas without getting a shot of a bull. You didn't bother to ask any follow-up questions? That was good enough for you? Are you so self-absorbed that you care nothing about what your friend is passionate about or that he being maimed by a bull right in front of us, while you stand here musing half-heartedly about why he put himself in the situation? DRINK REDBULL!
Guy 2: HELL YEAH!
This is my own version of how the commercial would go, of course. I only remember up to the second statement because I got so pissed over the use of the cliche "said something about..." when it makes absolutely no sense in context. LET'S JUST THROW IN WORDS TO BETTER RELATE TO OUR TARGET SOFT DRINK DEMOGRAPHIC fuck advertisers.
Edit: The commercial is actually for Taco Bell.