Are we agreed? Don’t we all hate commercials on TV? Maybe not all commercials. The techno kid for e-Trade still cracks me up. But for the most part, AAARGGGHHHH! For the record, I did the research for you and used my stop watch to time the number of minutes per hour of commercials and program content. On the average, 20 minutes, one third of every hour long program, is devoted to boring, loud, obnoxious, aggravating, frustrating, annoying, maddening infuriating, mind-numbing commercials.
And that’s not counting those cursed little pop-up promos that race across your screen during the actual show.
Wasn’t there something in the news recently about volume limitations on commercials? Have you noticed any difference? How about that all time favorite Keystone Chevrolet?
THIS WEEKEND ONLY! WHILE THEY LAST. WE’LL SAVE YOU THOUSANDS, MAYBE MORE. JUST SIGN HERE.
Now, commercials precede anything you want to look at the Internet. Click on a story line on the MSN homepage and watch a 30 second spot for whatever before you’re allowed to see the item. Outrageous. This is our lives they’re stealing from us people, our time on earth, minute by minute, wasted.
Yeah, yeah, the money on ads pays for the programming, I know. It’s just that I don’t want to deal with it. Better to go outside and watch a sunset I think, free too.
who are we if we are not the purchasers of other peoples crap?
ReplyDeleteI hear you on the volume thing! Only problem is all the commercials are recorded at different studios. So even if a station sets a specific volume for everything depending on how the studio recorded it or what programs were used it still will come out different levels.
ReplyDeleteDoes Mute work on your remote? That's why it's there. The only commercials I don't mute are the E-trade kid and those cute little chipmunks joyriding in their Kia.
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