Tuesday, October 31, 2006

commercials

I have a theory though it's more of an observation than a theory. Most commercials, through their content, imply that the people who need or use the product in question, are either incompetent or condescending jerks. Or they have poor hygiene. The next time you watch television, watch for what the commercials are really saying.

The current Mac campaign is a great example of this. These would be the commercials where Mac is represented by the young, hip-in-a-nerdy-sort-of-way guy who clearly works for a start-up with an open office layout and the PC is represented by the pudgy guy with glasses and looks like a stereotypical cube dweller. At least the Mac users I know aren't quite as condescending as the ads make it seem like they should be.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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This has nothing to do with the current Blog. Just testing the TINYURL to see if it works the way it should. The above "tinyurl" goes back to one of your several websites a couple weeks ago.

Anonymous said...

Forgot to mention that you just copy and paste the tinyurl to the web address and see what can happen.