Product Placement is Demeaning
Jake Farr-Wharton 14 comments
Do you Schweppe-rvescence get the “Oh What a Feeling – Toyota” that the Millions (you could win with Gold Lotto every week) of adverts forced into your retina – By Kodak and Laser Eye Surgery – pounded into your ear drums – By Sony – and inserted rectally for comfort, are actually doing you harm?
If your answer is “yes… oh god yes!” you need Crimsafe… or at least a sensory deprivation chamber in your basement.
If your answer is “no… product placement doesn’t effect me, nor my Trident, Rasberry Flavoured Condoms”, then chances are, you are literally one of one hundred Yak farmers in deepest darkest Tibet… or you’re lying (on a Seally Posture Peadic Bed – for your comfort, and ours).
But seriously, as one drives, rides public transport, or indeed, drinks RedBull to give them the wings they need to fly to work of a morning, we human looking Pepsi-Hybrids, evolved beings as we are, are bombarded by everything from tasty breakfast beverages to the laxatives required to get our last McDonnald’s or KFC ‘meal’ out of our bodies.
Commercialism is an unquestioned but integral part of our lives, and yet, it serves no other purpose but to enforce said consumerism.
While driving down the freeway, one can’t help but want to strangle the people behind the nasal delivery technology helping apparently thousands “do ‘it’ longer”. In reality though, someone must have called their number; someone must have squirted the gunk up their nose in order to give Advanced Medical Institute the idea to advertise their crap all over billboards and radio. It is just poor taste.
It does leave one to ponder though, what is next? Will they, like in Futurama, be broadcasting product advertisements directly into our tiny little minds? Will we dream of having wild passionate animal sex with the cast of Grey’s Anatomy, whilst eating Cadbury Chocolate in a bathtub filled with Coca Cola, or will they just beam the latest Victoria’s Secret catalogue into our mind’s eye?
Mind you, as I listen to the soothing sounds of waves crashing spliced with Beethoven’s subliminally sublime 5th, I can’t help but feel as though I should be having lunch with Jarrod at Subway, so perhaps it isn’t all bad.
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 17th September 2009 | 01:44 PM...in response to this comment by aries. Or how about broadcasting it towards their target market, i.e. those too coked off their brains to get a rise out of themselves at 3am in the morning...
Cactus
Wednesday 23rd September 2009 | 07:10 PM
Jake pretending to be No Need for crutches is demeaning and that "Observer" thing was demeaning for somebody as well
Crikey, demeaning has a lot of meaning down unda
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 24th September 2009 | 06:51 AM
...in response to this comment
by Cactus.
I love you cactus!
I have no need to hide behind pseudo-names, alias's or avitars... "Cactus..."
I'm sure that Mikey could verify that NNFC and I, and indeed observer have vastly different IP addresses.
While I am indeed an observer of many things, and have absolutely no need for crutches, I am plain old (and yet surprisingly handsome) Jake Farr-Wharton; a real person with really big balls.
Cactus
Thursday 24th September 2009 | 10:53 PM
...in response to this comment
by Jake Farr-Wharton.
Quote NNFC
I love you caccy.
End
Quote Jake
I love you cactus!
End
Either you two should hook up and start a fan club for me, or just break out the KY and mutually enjoy my comments (know what I mean) or just stop the lies.
Jake Farr-Wharton
Friday 25th September 2009 | 06:21 AM
...in response to this comment
by Cactus.
Good onya Cactus.
I can't speak for NNFC or Observer, but when I make the comment "i love you", I am being purposely patronising.
Either it is the distinct lack of caffine in my bloodstream or perhaps your inability to add anything but criticism to any argument you've made thus far, but I'm seriously starting to question whether you are human or some sort of self aware gelatinous blob that became self aware after lightning struck a dead drug adict's infected knee pus.
I could be wrong, but your fundamentalist approach to conversation (criticize, not contribute) makes me question your very existence.
Cactus
Friday 25th September 2009 | 08:20 AM
Jake loves Cactus
Jake loves Cactus
Jake loves Cactus
Jake loves Cactus
Jake loves Cactus
(criticize, not contribute) Did YOU say that?
Jake loves Cactus
Jake loves Cactus
I bet you pull girls pony tails to get there attention
Jake Farr-Wharton
Friday 25th September 2009 | 08:41 AM...in response to this comment by Cactus. Indeed. Wow, you really caught me out there Cactus. While I do take time out to rap with trolls such as yourself from time to time Cactus, I both write the original content then contribute to the continuing discussion. Feel free to do the same.
Cactus
Friday 25th September 2009 | 12:27 PM
Have I upset you
Offended you
Do I detect a little animosity
Goodness me Jake, I figured you for thicker skin than that
Guess I will go crawl under my bridge and scare little kids
Jake Farr-Wharton
Friday 25th September 2009 | 01:34 PM
...in response to this comment
by Cactus.
Perhaps you found the kink in my armour. Or perhaps not... who cares!
Please feel free to detect all the animosity you wish, none was particularly intended. The problem is, my dear cactus, that you simply do not contribute, you just troll.
Please, don't let this stop you from contributing in the future though.
cactus
Sunday 27th September 2009 | 01:58 PM
I care
I am that caring sensitive kind of guy Jake
So tell me Jake. I am a Troll? because I disagree with you?
and you are not a
A)Hypocrit
B)Wanker
C)Arrogant
D)Self righteous
E) Arrogant self righteous hypocritical wanker
F) All of the above but; also doesnt like those who disagrees with him, so try's to patronise them and intimidate them with name calling
You know Jake I think you are a troll. I have read your threads and you add nothing, you recycle the same old hate mongering rhetoric time and time again. You add nothing new, cept the No need for crutches character, obviously cos people are bored of you, and you know it.
Jake = TROLL
Jake = No need for crutches
Jake now equals boredom
Jake Farr-Wharton
Tuesday 29th September 2009 | 09:51 AM
...in response to this comment
by cactus.
I assume you're calling me NNFC cause you know it irks me. I'm not him/her or anyone else, just me; why on earth would I want to be anyone else.
Let me me frank Cactus; I refer to you as a troll WHEN you act like a blog troll. I.e. you come in, you say that everything that anyone else has suggested is wrong but don't back up your arguments. You're like the disenfranchised teenager that calls everything 'gay'. You have nothing to add but criticism, which in and of its self is the voice of a bug that has rolled onto it's back and can't get up.
You haven't read my articles mate, you haven't read the comments. How do I know this? Quite simple. If you had read either in their entirety you would see that quite often, I will change my opinion based on the comments that people make.
All of my opinions, voiced or not, are based on the best evidence available to me at the particular point in time that I form them. If, after I voice an opinion, someone provides better information, I thank them and my opinion often changes. I do this all the time. While I am most assuredy arrogant, I'm not so arrogant that I assume that my answer is the only answer, let alone that it is correct. Everything is open to interpretation, everything is an open forum and everything is open for discussion.
I may well be all of those things that you attribute to me, especailly arrogant, and I may indeed recycle old arguments, but you are under absolutely no obligation to comment. If you do decide to though, and please feel more than welcome to do so, try to add some substance, back up your argument, make some sense, use some logic.
Otherwise you're just being a blog troll, and I'm more than happy to refer to you thus.
Cactus the Troll
Wednesday 30th September 2009 | 06:18 PMJake- you are so freaking GAY
Jake Farr-Wharton
Thursday 1st October 2009 | 07:05 AM...in response to this comment by Cactus the Troll. Good to know. I'll tell my wife... she may not be happy.
aries
Thursday 17th September 2009 | 11:34 AMThe AMI nasal delivery ads are definitely my favoutite, especially when I'm driving with a car load of 11 year old girls and that slutty voice comes booming over the car stereo, "Hi guys, do you suffer from premature ejaculation? Do you wanna be a longer stronger lover in the bedroom?"
I have nearly crashed my car umpteen times reaching for the volume dial at lightspeed to turn that shit off.
Surely they can advertise that crap say after 9.30 when kids are asleep???