The first thing you lose when you get old...

Is your memory.

A couple of hours ago I saw a commercial that pandered to the lowest common denominator, now that I've got my computer and can blog about it...I can't remember what it was.

Of course most commercials these days do so, which is why if I were able to watch TV on a full time basis now, I could make more than 5 posts a day to this blog. As it is, the TV is upstairs and I'm downstairs...

I am watching TV shows I taped 5-10 years ago, as I convert my VHS tapes to DVD-R, and commercials were almost as bad then as they are now. The usual suspects - dumb husbands, understanding moms and know-it-all kids. The abject sexuality of today's commercials isn't quite as apparent - or at least they weren't shown during A&E's airing of Perry Mason, the tapes I'm currently working throug...

I suppose I could talk about the Beyonce commercial...I think she's advertising a Vizio, where she's performing a strip-tease type dance in front of a guy who would rather watch her on the TV screen...

Miller Light commercials

I've blogged about these Miller Light commercials before, but they just keep getting worse and worse.

The commercials are all the same. A female bartender ridicules a male customer, either because he's wearing a teeny bikini, or a nerdish outfit, or, as in the case of the commercial I saw, his voice is too hight.

The male customer accepts the ridicule and walks out of camera, looking embarrassed.

And this is supposed to sell light beer to men?

These commercials are just as bad as those that ridicule women.

World's Dumbest Criminals #23 on Tru TV

This tv show is offensive on so many levels.

First of all, you've got these stupid criminals trying to do their crimes, so they are being glorified.

Then you've got these loser entertainers - Danny Bonaduce, Todd Bridges, Tonya Harding, and a couple of people I didn't recognize, commenting on what they're seeing in really, really stupid ways.

The dumbing down of America.

And what's even sadder...my dad actually likes to watch it..though he says he also doesn't like the commentary by the career-dead 'celebrities' in between each clip.

Burger King commercial, 2 chicken sandwiches for the price of one

I've seen this a few times, most recently on Monday Night Football on ESPN, Texans vs Ravens.

A black guy is dancing with a black woman. Except, there's a black guy behind him, holding two chicken sandwiches, one in each hand.

The woman starts to protest, and the guy holds up his finger to her lips (how condescending!) and tells her to just go with the flow.

Coincidently, my dad is chanel surfing and we just saw a few seconds of the Sean Hannity show, where he was talking at Imogen Lloyd Webber, a British political commentator. We came in just as Hannity smirks at her and says, "Calm down. Take a breath." in a very condescending way.

They were talking about health insurance, and just like O'Reilly, Hannity doesn't seem to give his guests a chance to talk before he over-rides them to give his own opinions. Annoying.

Acura commercial

I've seen this a couple of times, most recently while watching the New York Jets vs New England Patriots game on ESPN.

It shows a bunch of snooty white people, spending gazillions of dollars on "foolish" things like doll houses, etc. "In a season marked by over-indulgence and over-spending, Acura gives good deals."

yet another attempt by the media to create class warfare...there's plenty of folks of all hues who have plenty of money and don't mind spending it on themselves, and why not - the money they spend goes to people who need jobs, doesn't it?

This is newsworthy???

UPI, like AP, is a news gathering resource.

Today I looked up an article on space exploration, put out by UPI. On the right hand side of the article was a columbn marked "most popular."

One of the items?

"Susan Boyle gets a frog in her throat on the View."

Why is this news worthy? A singer gets a frog in her throat, for God's sake! This is bad as "Yahoo news", where we're treated to the news that two skeletal actresses wore the same dress to the Emmys, or that actress had a wardrobe malfunction somewhere else.

This is the petty, invasive gossip that the public at large does not need to know. And should not know.

And UPI shouldn't lower itself to provide it.