"Tis the season....to grab as much as you can!

Well its that time of year folks and I need to vent, as we count down the day to celebrate the big event....BOXING DAY SALE!!
You'd think that was the holiday as the TV ads keep on plugging their spend-spend-spend message totally losing the message of why we have Dec 25 off in this country. Dec 26 is a day I stay in and refuse to get sucked into the "Buy the crap we couldn't sell you before sale". Its a scam. Every January there are sales as good or better and no line ups...trust me.

Now I am not a religous guy but I miss the feeling of Christmas that used to exist. Back in a time when Rememberance day would pass BEFORE the Christmas stuff showed up in the malls. Note: If you celebrate another holiday insert it where you see "Christmas". I am speaking from my POV here, also there is no such thing as "Seasons Greetings". Let it go. How can a season greet you especially this one! Greetings...here is snow and cold!!

The ads on TV are mostly annoying, void of any entertainment and their attempts at humor leave me with a sense of job security, albeit while wretching and fumbling for the remote to make it all end.
Telus is one of the worst. With so many actors looking for work they are kind enough to give it all to ...animals!?!? I am not sure what a monkey has to do with cell phones. Perhaps it is the same ones that work their (lack of) support phone line? If you have ever been on hold with Telus for any of their services you know what I mean. Monkeys.

There are countless other commercials, too many to list, that insult our intelligence but the big ad agencies, full of over-educated marketing "experts" (that don't live in the real world) continue to pound out one steaming turd of an ad after another. Has anyone seen the Tim Horton's one where full grown men act like little giddy kids in a snow fort with their Timmy gifts? Isn't that like real life? Then again, Tim Hortons is one place that continues to lower the bar on intelligence. If you've seen my show you know what I am talking about. I do like their coffee but I have been buying it because it tastes good and is easy to find. Not one cup has been purchased due to their commercials.
The only commercials that are enjoyable seem to be beer ads. While I am not a fan of Molson Canadian beer they do seem to put out funny entertaining ads. I just can't see myself buying their stuff to put under the tree.

What's really annoying about TV is how certain things need to be portrayed lest we actually see a bit of reality. Corporate America seems to censor the commercial content, even TV show content so as not to alarm the sheeple populace.
This is the same country that will go to war over oil, send 18-19 year olds into battle to die (but won't let them drink booze til 21) and refuse to acknowledge that sex exists and we all are here because sex exists. Did you know that the first couple to share a bed (not have sex but share a bed) on prime time was Fred and Wilma Flinstone? They had to ease the public into it with a cartoon?!?!? If you want to put sex in a commercial in N America it has to be very subtle.
No wonder European ads kick ass over some of the lame ones we see here. They are less uptight then us over in the new world.
I went to a screening of the best ads from around the world once and there was very little from N America that was shown and what did, paled by comparision to what the Europeans and South Americans put out. I found myself saying "Can they do that?" Then I thought yeah, why not!!

Can I change it over here? Probably not. I just needed to unload as the TV is on and another ad turd hit the screen.
Then I get an email from a fan showing me an IKEA ad that we will never see over here. If you find it offensive please....get therapy!
Daryl Makk
Mattress Commercial NOT seen in America

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