Dating Site Commercial (And a bit of Time Warner, too)

So I heard a rather annoy­ing radio com­mer­cial the other day (and the fol­low­ing day, and the day after that…) for a local dat­ing web­site. So what made it annoying?

The main adver­tis­ing point of this com­mer­cial is that other web­sites ELIMINATE pos­si­bil­i­ties using, gasp, SCIENCE. Where’s the love? Where’s the per­sonal touch? This web­site doesn’t use SCIENCE or ELIMINATE any pos­si­bil­i­ties, what it does is GIVE YOU pos­si­bil­i­ties based on your totally non-science DATING PROFILE.

Per­haps I’m just dense or stu­pid or some­thing, but aren’t they basi­cally say­ing, “We don’t do it like every­body else: We do it like every­body else”? Freak­ing morons. Egh. I hate adver­tis­ers that bla­tantly lie or twist the truth and don’t even do a good job of cov­er­ing it up.

Kind of like those anti-satellite com­mer­cials ran by Time Warner cable. They show peo­ple on their roofs adjust­ing their dish, or peo­ple get­ting crappy recep­tion because of a light driz­zle. What a bunch of crap! I had a satel­lite dish for YEARS and NEVER had to go any­where near the roof. The satel­lite peo­ple install it, and then it sits there. Unless a mete­orite flies out of the sky and hits your dish to knock off its align­ment, then you don’t have any rea­son to go on the roof. Not to men­tion it takes a bit more than a lit­tle rain storm to knock out your satel­lite TV. And where do you think the cable peo­ple get THEIR tele­vi­sion? From a freak­ing satel­lite dish! They are adver­tis­ing against them­selves! Some­one should run a com­mer­cial about the cable com­pany on their roof try­ing to adjust THEIR satel­lite dish.

I don’t like the Road­Run­ner cable com­mer­cials either. They have one that shows two beakers, one get­ting filled with “inter­net” using a DSL line, and the other being filled with “inter­net” using a cable line. DSL isn’t that much slower than cable, espe­cially the way Road­Run­ner has been lately. Blaz­ing fast one minute, freak­ing slow the next. And its not just mine, I’ve asked around. Its a wide spread prob­lem. How does Time Warner make any money any­way? Half of the com­mer­cials are adver­tis­ing them­selves. I thought TV was sup­posed to be sup­ported by ads for other com­pa­nies, not ads for yourself.

Any­ways, thats my rant.