Ever Watch The TV Commercials?

[Dee]

I've been full time retired since the last Saturday of February,  and until the Texas heat and humidity ran me into the house, I kept pretty busy.

However, in the last month or two, I've stayed in the house, and watched more TV than ever in my life.

The "things" they advertise, and the pure carnal ways used in advertising these days,  are a stark demonstration of how morally decaying we are as a nation.
Seeing what humans did to themselves, and each other,  cleaning up the mess, and locking up the trash was what I did for over 20 years.

Now, they don't even try to hide it. In fact, they encourage it, and my chosen profession it seems, has become the enemy.

If we loose this election, America has turned the corner toward 3rd world status, and immoral heathenism.

[darkgael]

Dee: Enjoy your retirement. Stay away from TV.....it will rot your soul..

Pete

[Dee]

My imagination has been gone for many years, and I set the bar for humanity very low many years ago. They seldom surprise me, or disappoint me, because I don't expect much.
It does however, amaze me at how fast it's all manifesting itself.

God called this one right on the money.

[ironglows]

  Yes; the culture has deteriorated greatly. Things in commercials on TV, which caused one to blush deeply..just a few years ago.
    Some public figures on the right disgust me with their language and attitude. They can't even say they are either disturbed or angry...  no, they have to be  p_ _ _ _d!

It seems a great many on the left cannot complete a sentence without the "F" word being involved.  In fact a female congress woman recently referred to our president as a "M F" !

  Recently a past president was quoted when speaking of his own vice president, when he said some people underestimate Joe's ability to "F" things up "!

  Things don't look good for the US morally, for the immediate future..

[Graybeard]

No I rarely ever watch commercials. I record almost 100% of what I watch other than the weather report daily. I then fast forward thru commercials so they whiz by so fast I barely realize what is showing.

[ironglows]

No I rarely ever watch commercials. I record almost 100% of what I watch other than the weather report daily. I then fast forward thru commercials so they whiz by so fast I barely realize what is showing.

  Probably better for your nerves, Bill.  I watch very little news, for the same reason. In fact, I watch very little of other TV for that matter!

  Somebody once coined a phrase about TV way back in the 70s.  They claimed ity w as a "vast wasteland" then, and I doubt it has gotten much better.

  I do watch some news live, but most often I get my news from the net. I have MSNBC as my home page, then have a Fox icon.  I catch the MSNBC doom and gloom..then click onto Fox to get the real news.
  There really is a contrast! 

[oldandslow]

I have learned to just tune out the commercials in any program that I watch that has them. It's gotten easier as I age. Probably has something to do with attention span.  I DO NOT watch national news as it's become just liberal lies. I do watch the not so local news to see what our little Hitler is up to now and then. To get local news I read the ocal paper but to be truthful the wife finds more of what is going on locally on facebook than I do in the paper.

I do like Graybeard about recording the networks shows that I watch.

I can't see a thing in either of Dee's posts to argue with. The country is going to hell in a handcar and gaining speed every day.

[Argent 88]

Geico used to make funny and entertaining commercials, the ones without the lizard. But not anymore.
The guy who wrote the funny ones got crossways with the company and left.

[ironglows]

O & S mentioned that he just "tunes out" the commercials.  I think there must be many of us doing that.. Have you detected the barely audible telephone ring sounds that often
 happen when the commercial comes on ?  A little 'attention grabber' !

  Of course, PC has taken over much of TV, especially the commercials.  They have long claimed that commercials are aimed at the bulk of the buying audience..

  If that is true, must be white folks aren't buying anything anymore !   

[Ranger99]

At least they cut down on the
tampon and menstrual spray
commercials somewhat.
I don't miss the hemorrhoid
product commercials either.

If they'd cut back on the
lawsuit commercials a bit,
I think I could probably watch
a little bit of television every
now and then

[Ranger99]

O & S mentioned that he just "tunes out" the commercials.  I think there must be many of us doing that.. Have you detected the barely audible telephone ring sounds that often
 happen when the commercial comes on ?  A little 'attention grabber' !

  Of course, PC has taken over much of TV, especially the commercials.  They have long claimed that commercials are aimed at the bulk of the buying audience..

  If that is true, must be white folks aren't buying anything anymore !   

That's funny to mention that.
I seldom see other than mixed
race couples on commercials
in this area.  I don't watch a lot
of television anyway, maybe I
just missed something

[ironglows]

O & S mentioned that he just "tunes out" the commercials.  I think there must be many of us doing that.. Have you detected the barely audible telephone ring sounds that often
 happen when the commercial comes on ?  A little 'attention grabber' !

  Of course, PC has taken over much of TV, especially the commercials.  They have long claimed that commercials are aimed at the bulk of the buying audience..

  If that is true, must be white folks aren't buying anything anymore !   

That's funny to mention that.
I seldom see other than mixed
race couples on commercials
in this area.  I don't watch a lot
of television anyway, maybe I
just missed something

  Yes, it looks like they are determined to follow the PC trail..

[Bob Riebe]

I enjoy greatly many of the Progressive commercials, they actually often commented on how moronic today's society is or poked fun at some other -- in thing -- at the time.

Many of the funny ones make watching them , some times more entertaining than programs available, but so many of them now preach me, me , me , me.

As an odd aside 40 o4 50 years ago, when the Coca Cola commercial with the song "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" which was changed with Coke left out when it became a pop song was in direct, deliberate contrast to Pepsi's -- ME generation -- commercial generation adds at the time.
Coke sale totally buried Pepsi to the point Pepsi canned all there commercials.

We are now back with the Pepsi me, myself and I think and no one challenging while Democrat liberals are pushing divide and separate.

I do like greatly the new Geico commercial with Rocky and Bullwinkel as it does not make any sense which the Geco actually says in the commercial.

[ironglows]

Speaking of Coke..  Remember they tried to launch the "New Coke" ..which IMO tasted much like Pepsi?  I often hear that launch being pointed out as a great boondoggle, which it likely was.
   ..But for some reason, the same people seem to forget the attempted launch of "Clear Pepsi".  Frankly, I thought that clear stuff was at least as bad the new Coke..

[Mule 11]

No...

[Bob Riebe]

Speaking of Coke..  Remember they tried to launch the "New Coke" ..which IMO tasted much like Pepsi?  I often hear that launch being pointed out as a great boondoggle, which it likely was.
   ..But for some reason, the same people seem to forget the attempted launch of "Clear Pepsi".  Frankly, I thought that clear stuff was at least as bad the new Coke..

Very well indeed.

Coke brought out another low calorie product probably eight or so years ago; tried it and it was not bad at all.
Tried to get some more and was told they stopped making it.
Fresca, the ONLY diet drink I like, try finding now, near impossible.
It has been reclassified from soda to some foo-foo category so it is not in the soda section or any other for that matter.

[Land_Owner]

Network Television - Bah Humbug!

TV is mind numbing control of the masses.  It started with promiscuity and titillation in the '60 through '90's Soaps (some still running), pushed the boundaries of social taboos in weekly Sitcoms (too many to list), and now depicts every level of amoral debauchery in long running Series.  What used to be decent has become uncensored and perverted.  A steady diet of murder and mayhem is included in this callousness and demeaning of the human condition.

IMO, in '08, with the "first black President", the networks began an overt and concerted effort to include as many "racial equality" overtones as possible, especially in commercials.  Money, powerful money, advertising money, taxpayer money for certain, was directed from white to black - positive to negative - part of the administration and media's "fundamental transformation of America".

If this is any comparison, that '08 shift on TV was not unlike the pointed and concerted effort used by gun manufacturers and writers to advanced the cause of tactical "Black Rifles" into America's consciousness since about '01 after 9-11.  Before these, there was a different "branding" being done in America. 

I find it subtle and difficult to comprehend in today's "woke" public consciousness, to understand why blacks let themselves "bare all" (practically) and be USED on TV to promote and display personal products (for example: diapers and bras) whereas whites are not, don't, or are (if you will pardon my stab in the dark) "to decent" to be so exposed.  There remains a disparity in America that runs deep, wide, and continuous.  I don't advocate for any MORE of this "pressing the flesh", just pointing to what looks to me like an example.

Oh yes, we can watch all races as multi-millionaire, anorexic, Victoria's Secret models barring nearly everything they've got left in a "fashion show" display of wings, panties, and bras for the titillation of viewers.  It is Snake Oil salesmanship, a hook, and certainly a bursting of the decency "bubble" that had existed since TV's inception.  Might just as well take a live camera into the house of Hugh Heffner's Playboy Mansion and perhaps, as Pay per View, that is already possible.  I wouldn't know.

I have not cut the cord on my TV yet though.  As I get older, and less mobile, there remain a few "redeeming values" in its use - weather at all hours and DVD movie display to name two.  YouTube videos have received a lot of my attention of late.  Small and large engine repair.  Gunsmithing.  LED lighting.  There is a lot one can learn from the trials of others on YouTube.  A lot of it is extremely instructive.  You can vicariously go to Africa for a hunting Safari, to Texas for whitetails, western USA for elk, north for caribou, varmint hunt on practically every continent in the world, and some is pretty funny too.  Still, the TV is absolutely NO SUBSTITUTE for a day outdoors.

[Dee]

Network Television - Bah Humbug!

TV is mind numbing control of the masses.  It started with promiscuity and titillation in the '60 through '90's Soaps (some still running), pushed the boundaries of social taboos in weekly Sitcoms (too many to list), and now depicts every level of amoral debauchery in long running Series.  What used to be decent has become uncensored and perverted.  A steady diet of murder and mayhem is included in this callousness and demeaning of the human condition.

IMO, in '08, with the "first black President", the networks began an overt and concerted effort to include as many "racial equality" overtones as possible, especially in commercials.  Money, powerful money, advertising money, taxpayer money for certain, was directed from white to black - positive to negative - part of the administration and media's "fundamental transformation of America".

If this is any comparison, that '08 shift on TV was not unlike the pointed and concerted effort used by gun manufacturers and writers to advanced the cause of tactical "Black Rifles" into America's consciousness since about '01 after 9-11.  Before these, there was a different "branding" being done in America. 

I find it subtle and difficult to comprehend in today's "woke" public consciousness, to understand why blacks let themselves "bare all" (practically) and be USED on TV to promote and display personal products (for example: diapers and bras) whereas whites are not, don't, or are (if you will pardon my stab in the dark) "to decent" to be so exposed.  There remains a disparity in America that runs deep, wide, and continuous.  I don't advocate for any MORE of this "pressing the flesh", just pointing to what looks to me like an example.

Oh yes, we can watch all races as multi-millionaire, anorexic, Victoria's Secret models barring nearly everything they've got left in a "fashion show" display of wings, panties, and bras for the titillation of viewers.  It is Snake Oil salesmanship, a hook, and certainly a bursting of the decency "bubble" that had existed since TV's inception.  Might just as well take a live camera into the house of Hugh Heffner's Playboy Mansion and perhaps, as Pay per View, that is already possible.  I wouldn't know.

I have not cut the cord on my TV yet though.  As I get older, and less mobile, there remain a few "redeeming values" in its use - weather at all hours and DVD movie display to name two.  YouTube videos have received a lot of my attention of late.  Small and large engine repair.  Gunsmithing.  LED lighting.  There is a lot one can learn from the trials of others on YouTube.  A lot of it is extremely instructive.  You can vicariously go to Africa for a hunting Safari, to Texas for whitetails, western USA for elk, north for caribou, varmint hunt on practically every continent in the world, and some is pretty funny too.  Still, the TV is absolutely NO SUBSTITUTE for a day outdoors.

In a more "long winded", but more "edicately descriptive" fashion, you have described my point.

America is perhaps entering its final stage before its fall, of "unmitigated decadence".

[pastorp]

It’s getting to where you can’t even watch the news anymore. More commercial time than news.

Marketing has changed in my lifetime. Used to be if you wanted to go shopping for something you checked the newspaper adds. But now days their marketing everything right in your face. You can’t watch a video without news. Or even read the text your friends send without wading through all the sales pitches & indoctrination attempts. Life on earth is getting burdensome and heaven is sounding sweeter all the time.

[Dee]

Most TV series nowadays have at least one queer in it, and the plot is rape, or child molestation, or both.

[ironglows]

Most TV series nowadays have at least one queer in it, and the plot is rape, or child molestation, or both.

  'Spose those shows reflect the lives of the people who make them?

[Dee]

They sure seem to have it on their minds a lot.

[JeffG]

I'm glad I am not the only one who feels this way. The last thing I want to see is two men kissing, or ANOTHER mixed race couple during a commercial for AIDS, or hepatitis C  preventative medication.

[Graybeard]

It has gotten to the point there are almost no shows in which there aren't at least one gay couple, often mixed race at that and at least one straight couple of mixed race. Shows that don't have gays and mixed race couples just don't happen any longer.

Commercials if ya actually count them most times have more blacks than whites in them and only a smattering of other races. They are represented in commercials at multiple times their representation in the population.

No show has portrayed gays as anything but positively in a bunch of years. It is shown as perfectly normal and acceptable even natural. More and more they are showing young kids coming out as gay also.

I've given up on a lot of shows I used to watch due to gay men rubbing all over each other and kissing as well as when the white women began going to bed with the black men. Wynonna Earp being an example. I liked the show until she started laying the black guy.

I don't believe I can think of a single show currently running that doesn't have a gay couple in it, not one. Darn few without mixed race straight couples either tho there are a few of those.

[Argent 88]

Yeah, gay cowboys.

[Dee]

I'm glad I am not the only one who feels this way. The last thing I want to see is two men kissing, or ANOTHER mixed race couple during a commercial for AIDS, or hepatitis C  preventative medication.

Know whatcha mean. Every now and then the latest queer drug "DESCOVY" runs a commercial with all kinds of male and female perverts, saying take DESCOVY, it prevents HIV, and then party with each other all you want.

[Ranger99]

Yeah gay cowboys.

No such thing 
There ARE many of the deviants
that like playing dress-up.
Watch prime time television.
You'll see it.

[Dee]

Ya know,  I went 1st through 12th grade with two girls that had the first name of "Gay".
Neither of those girls, who are now in their 70s were queer.

"Gay" is happy!

"Gay" is two girls I went to school with.

"Gay" does not mean queer, or sodomite, or lesbian, or that non-existent, mythical  creature known as "the transgender".

"Gay" does not describe that man or woman, boy or girl,  that claims Christianity while also claiming I was born biologically a man but, was supposed to be a girl, or vice versa.

God is not in era. They are. Jmho

[Argent 88]

Yeah gay cowboys.

No such thing 
There ARE many of the deviants
that like playing dress-up.
Watch prime time television.
You'll see it.

Oh , Ive seen them even portray gay black cowboys before. That's when I hit the off switch.

[oldandslow]

  If that is true, must be white folks aren't buying anything anymore !   
[/quote]

True dat.  Very few white folks in commercials anymore plus have you noticed that they are seldom the smart or in charge people in programming either.