It's been a while since I've been up here rambling at you guys and I have to tell you that quite a lot has come to my attention. So, after some urging from a person who is very near and dear to me, (we will be talking about her a little later) I've opened the lappy to start spewing again.
Over the summer we decided in my house to turn off the cable television and we live in an area that only gets three stations with an antenna. We subscribed to Netflix, so we had something to watch, and for the most part, we didn't really miss commercial television.
The only thing I really missed watching was racing and especially NHRA drag racing. My son and I go to The Finals every year in Pomona and I was feeling a little out of the loop when we went in November. As the start of the racing season drew closer, I decided to bite the bullet and sign up for cable again.
I've never been a fan of commercials, (I have satellite radio in one of my trucks and the other truck gets music from my ipod) but since we're watching cable television again, I'm being subjected to these abominations called commercials. And there's not a lot of things that piss me off more than some clown sitting in a big ol' office trying to sell me useless crap or inedible food.
One of the things I've realized during these last couple of months watching television, is that most big companies are lagging behind what people like, and they're trying to be cool and relevant again. And the example I want to throw out there, is that piss water that is known as Bud Light. Budweiser re-bottled their rice water in some fancy bottles and made some commercials with a bunch of hipster looking posers, dancing around to sell this crap. It's Bud Light, it will never be good, even though they got Justin Timberlake to sing in their commercial.
The other example, was a commercial I saw for Quiznos. They had some crap sandwich with what they were calling lobster and "other seafood" in it. It's been a while since I've been out on the ocean fishing, but we called that chum. Why would I want a chum sandwich from Quiznos?
The corporate world is taking advantage of us, and they are not really concerned with our health or well being. They are only concerned about moving large quantities of whatever crap they're making, at the best profit margin possible. Someone said that, if it has a commercial on television, you probably don't want to eat it. Sounds like good advice to me.
And while I'm squawking about how the big food corporations are taking advantage of us, take a look at the next five pound bag of sugar you purchase. More than likely it will be only four pounds, yet the price never changed. Four pounds of sugar for the price of five pounds, now that's a deal, for the big company, not you. Look around, they've done the same thing to cans of coffee and what use to be gallons of ice cream to name a couple of examples.
So keep your eyes open guys. You use to have to worry about con men, now those con men work for marketing companies, pushing worthless inedible products. And they're coming right into your house through that big glowing screen that takes up most of the wall.
So turn off your television and go get yourself some real food and do me a favour, get yourself some good beer. Go support your local farmers and your local brewer, they're great people and would really appreciate your support.
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