Comments on: This One Is Strictly For The Ladies http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/ Random Comments About Gaming And Tractors Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Tet http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15167 Tet Wed, 14 May 2008 19:40:59 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15167 They don't refer directly for the male enhancement ones because that way you can't sue when it doesn't do shit. They don’t refer directly for the male enhancement ones because that way you can’t sue when it doesn’t do shit.

]]> By: wowpanda http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15168 wowpanda Wed, 14 May 2008 16:55:09 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15168 Well, this mtv is soso, but I do like their site, current.com. Well, this mtv is soso, but I do like their site, current.com.

]]> By: -insert name here- http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15169 -insert name here- Wed, 14 May 2008 11:30:50 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15169 I love advertisements, as illistrated by Lums link, they offer humor. Some of them are crap, but I enjoy the thirty second blips designed to attract my attention. Sometimes when I'm fastforwarding through comercials on a show I recorded, I'll stop and rewind to watch a comercial I like. I also hate watching TV with one of my friends because he Tivos everything, and skips all the comercials. I love advertisements, as illistrated by Lums link, they offer humor. Some of them are crap, but I enjoy the thirty second blips designed to attract my attention.

Sometimes when I’m fastforwarding through comercials on a show I recorded, I’ll stop and rewind to watch a comercial I like. I also hate watching TV with one of my friends because he Tivos everything, and skips all the comercials.

]]> By: moo http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15170 moo Tue, 13 May 2008 23:16:06 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15170 Let me ask you this: Why do you watch TV at all? 25% or more of the minutes in an hour are commercials. The "regular" programming is as worthless as they can get away with and still have an audience to sell to their advertisers. I completely stopped watching television about 10 years ago, and I've never regretted it once. I avoid commercial advertising almost completely, and I'm constantly amazed that the people around me are so willing to be bombarded with such manipulative and degrading commercials whose entire purpose is to try and make you want to buy something you wouldn't otherwise want to buy. A nation of consumer sheeple. I just say no. ...I became an internet junkie instead. But at least I can block all the ads. Let me ask you this:

Why do you watch TV at all? 25% or more of the minutes in an hour are commercials. The “regular” programming is as worthless as they can get away with and still have an audience to sell to their advertisers.

I completely stopped watching television about 10 years ago, and I’ve never regretted it once. I avoid commercial advertising almost completely, and I’m constantly amazed that the people around me are so willing to be bombarded with such manipulative and degrading commercials whose entire purpose is to try and make you want to buy something you wouldn’t otherwise want to buy. A nation of consumer sheeple. I just say no.

…I became an internet junkie instead. But at least I can block all the ads.

]]> By: Oz http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15171 Oz Tue, 13 May 2008 12:59:49 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15171 The ones that say over and over "we make that SPECIAL (wink) part of the male body..."? That drives me semi insane. Suck it up and use the word! What happens if that guy feels his pinky finger is his special part? The ones that say over and over “we make that SPECIAL (wink) part of the male body…”? That drives me semi insane. Suck it up and use the word! What happens if that guy feels his pinky finger is his special part?

]]> By: pharniel http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15172 pharniel Tue, 13 May 2008 12:31:16 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15172 current advertising bane of my existance is g-4's random 'male enhancement' commercials. they're just...oh gods...undescribable. current advertising bane of my existance is g-4′s random ‘male enhancement’ commercials.
they’re just…oh gods…undescribable.

]]> By: Todd Ogrin http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15173 Todd Ogrin Mon, 12 May 2008 20:27:19 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15173 I don't know...I think yogurt companies might be equal opportunity targeters: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_texas_style_yogurt_to_feed_man I don’t know…I think yogurt companies might be equal opportunity targeters:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_texas_style_yogurt_to_feed_man

]]> By: Dren http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15174 Dren Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30:23 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15174 You know, at first I thought, "Boy, this lady sure if funny to find these nuggest of commercials and point out how stupid they are." Then I realized that if I just watch a commercial and then ask myself, "What did I really just see and hear?" I'd be laughing just as hard. Or crying. I should be crying. You know, at first I thought, “Boy, this lady sure if funny to find these nuggest of commercials and point out how stupid they are.”

Then I realized that if I just watch a commercial and then ask myself, “What did I really just see and hear?” I’d be laughing just as hard.

Or crying. I should be crying.

]]> By: Ant ButterNut http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15175 Ant ButterNut Mon, 12 May 2008 11:32:59 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15175 There is nothing sexier than a woman in a grey hoody. (per me) Unless it's a man in boxer shorts lit by a 22 inch widescreen monitor. (per my wife) There is nothing sexier than a woman in a grey hoody. (per me)

Unless it’s a man in boxer shorts lit by a 22 inch widescreen monitor. (per my wife)

]]> By: Knurd http://www.brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/comment-page-1/#comment-15179 Knurd Mon, 12 May 2008 03:04:01 +0000 http://brokentoys.org/2008/05/09/this-one-is-strictly-for-the-ladies/#comment-15179 French Vanilla was the staple flavor of my youth; none of that preserved, pseudo-fruit at the bottom. All yogurt 'til the last scoop. As for gender-bias in advertising; meh, visual stimulus is the path of least resistance in subliminal messaging, that's why it's effective. If yogurt advertising is political, it should target the largest base: contemporary, health-conscious, sub/urbanite women fitting that demographic nicely. Beer commercials should be aimed towards making <i>me</i> laugh. French Vanilla was the staple flavor of my youth; none of that preserved, pseudo-fruit at the bottom. All yogurt ’til the last scoop.
As for gender-bias in advertising; meh, visual stimulus is the path of least resistance in subliminal messaging, that’s why it’s effective. If yogurt advertising is political, it should target the largest base: contemporary, health-conscious, sub/urbanite women fitting that demographic nicely. Beer commercials should be aimed towards making me laugh.

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