JIffy Lube Commercial

I've see a couple different versions of these. Some car is driving down the street. Old man gets on a little wheeled cart for checking under cars (don't know what it's called!), or some young guys on some kind of tower with wheels... they push themselves out into the street and go chasing after the car. Is this stupid or what, not to say dangerous. How many kids have actually tied such a thing to a car and been dragged along, thinking its fun, until the car stops and their little wheeled contraption keeps on going, or turns over breaking arms and legs, etc. Do we really need to give kids ideas for yet more "jackass" stunts?

Toshiba Ultrabook

Just saw this commercial. Some wimpy white young adult is being experimented on, while talking about Toshiba.

Supposed to be funny. But a little subtle dig at Big Pharma, I suppose. Those folks that conduct tests on people with medicine to help people.

KFC - Extra sides commercial

It just showed a few seconds ago, on AMC?

Anyway, teenage boy and an old man are glaring at each other, snapping "Macaroni and cheese" and "Mashed potatoes" at each other.

Turns out its a commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken - order a bucket and you can get two extra side dishes, so no need to argue.

But in the wake of the recent adult bullying case - some 68-year old woman bus monitor on a bus verbally abused by middle schoolers - kids who were 10, 11, and 12, do we really need a commercial that shows kids it's perfectly all right to look at your grandfather - or father - in defiance and argue about whether you get mac and cheese or potatoes.

Just teaching kids that they have no reason to show respect or deference for their elders. 

Have TV Shows Contributed to Children Bullying Adults?

The news lately has been full of a group of middle schoolers (by which I assume they mean kids of 10, 11, and 12) who viciously mocked, bullied and verbally abused some 68 year old bus monitor on their bus.

And there's a lot of angst out there - how could those kids do that? Don't their parents teach them any manners?

Of course not.

But what do kids watch these days? TV shows that mock parents and glorify the "Cuteness" of know-it-all kids.

The shows where kids were shown to respect their elders - the Brady Bunch, the Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, are long gone, and shows like Roseanne - where I think each of the two daughters had illegitimate children, Married With Children, where the girl is a slut and the boy is ...well,...whatever he was...

Kids are surrounded by this stuff.

And then we wonder why they have no respect for anyone. And since t hey can't be spanked - they certainly don't have respect for t heir elders.

Adults who think it's okay for kids to masturbate in school

In an all=boy's school in California, a couple of days ago, 9 "middle-schoolers" - i.e. kids who were 12 or 13 - masturbated themselves in the class room while watching pornography on their cell phones. While the male teacher was in the room and did nothing about it.


There was an op ed at Cafe Mom about this...the author said that it was natural for boys to play with themselves, it was no big deal, and they certainly shouldn't be banned from school.


And I'm thinking, Jesus Christ.


Yes, it is natural for boys to play with themselves, in the privacy of their own homes and just because they enjoy the pleasurable feelings masturbation gives them.




But to do it in public... while watching pornography?


That's 9 boys who are going to start producing dozens of baby mommas real quick. More babies born that neither they nor their baby mommas will ever be able to care for.

Pitch Perfect - movie

I haven't seen any trailers for this thing, but I thought the poster was instructive.

Look at the poses of the girl in white and the girl in purple.

Self confident poses of self-confident women, or "Guys, Look at my butt/boobs and salivate so I can feel more like a woman. Grab a feel too, if you want, I'm just a sex object and I only feel good when I'm treated like one..."

Ted - movie

A little kid has a teddy bear that comes to life. He grows up, the teddy bear stays alive.

And of course there's the obligatory sex jokes... the bear sitting between several scantily clad women, ya da ya da.

I hope it tanks!

Conan O'Brien needs to be thrown off the air

His show is filmed in front of a live audience. And everyone in the audience appeared to love the humor... I thankfully only saw it as I was channel surfing... He had on a masturbating bear - a bear wearing a diaper, and a masturbating bear - a guy dressed in a Bears football uniform... And they were actually pretending to masturbate themselves! One of the most disgusting things I've ever seen. Who in the world would find this funny?

Lots of Devolution Media Out There

I've seen lots of Devolution Media out there in the last week..I just haven't had time to post about it.

I see the "buddy cop show" is being trotted out in full force - the twist of course being that the buddies don't like each other. And they're always male. We've got Rizzoli and Isles, which are two women... and that's it. All the rest feature male partners. Not that that's devolution media - just dull and boring stereotypical programming. Nothing new under the sun.

MTV, which apparently has not been a music video station for decades, is showing Teen Mom (I've got my TV Guide scrolling up right now on my computer.

Title for the episode showing now: Trials and Tribulations
And the one at 10 am: Trick or Treat (Must be Halloween Themed

It's not so much that MTV would produce such a show, the frightening thing is that there are apparently people who watch it.

Sorry not to have posted in so long

Will get caught up tomorrow!