One Thing That Destroys All Else
What could this terrible thing be? What could destroy everything that it touches? What is the greatest evil ever set forth by mankind? The answer will not shock you.
For some odd reason, this log has been assaulted by advertisements. One using links to sell clothes, the other to sell someone else's web log. As Oscar said, someone mistook my blog for a billboard. Well, they can think again. I managed to remove the foul advertising taint, but there are other places still plagued by this foul creation of commercials.
***********Commander's Interjection****************
What next? Are you going to tell the world that topically applied flouride doesn't clean teeth, but does make teeth visible to spy satellites? We've heard it. Besides, everybody knows that commercials suck; that's why the American national passtime is channel surfing.
******End Interjection******
True as all that may be, most people aren't aware at how much commercials are eating away at the things they're attached to. In 1999, an hour long TV show had between 42 and 45 minutes of actual program, with the remainder being commercials. That rate is now down to 41 to 43 minutes of actual programming.
Go to a movie in the theater and it's worse. let's say you have a showtime of 7:20 PM. The first things you see are commercials. No less than three, guaranteed; usually 5 or more. And these commercials are longer than the ones on TV. So the commericals will end between 7:30 and 7:35. You'll then get about 15 minutes of movie previews, which aren't all bad (especially if you see previews for Serenity). So your movie won't actually start until 7:50, if you're lucky.
Ticket sales are down in theaters and I think commericals are a big part of that. Most people don't want to deal with them. And with ticket prices being high in most places, well, it's just good sense to rent a DVD instead.
For some odd reason, this log has been assaulted by advertisements. One using links to sell clothes, the other to sell someone else's web log. As Oscar said, someone mistook my blog for a billboard. Well, they can think again. I managed to remove the foul advertising taint, but there are other places still plagued by this foul creation of commercials.
***********Commander's Interjection****************
What next? Are you going to tell the world that topically applied flouride doesn't clean teeth, but does make teeth visible to spy satellites? We've heard it. Besides, everybody knows that commercials suck; that's why the American national passtime is channel surfing.
******End Interjection******
True as all that may be, most people aren't aware at how much commercials are eating away at the things they're attached to. In 1999, an hour long TV show had between 42 and 45 minutes of actual program, with the remainder being commercials. That rate is now down to 41 to 43 minutes of actual programming.
Go to a movie in the theater and it's worse. let's say you have a showtime of 7:20 PM. The first things you see are commercials. No less than three, guaranteed; usually 5 or more. And these commercials are longer than the ones on TV. So the commericals will end between 7:30 and 7:35. You'll then get about 15 minutes of movie previews, which aren't all bad (especially if you see previews for Serenity). So your movie won't actually start until 7:50, if you're lucky.
Ticket sales are down in theaters and I think commericals are a big part of that. Most people don't want to deal with them. And with ticket prices being high in most places, well, it's just good sense to rent a DVD instead.
posted by LEN! at 12:49 AM
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Good lord. The irony falls thick upon the page--a post bemoaning all the ads we're subjected to, is afflicted by an ad itself. I think I'm gonna die from the irony.
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Wow, the timber industry. I don't give a shit.
Attactive Russian women? There's a reason why the female roles in Goldeneye are played by a woman from Sweden and a woman from the Netherlands. (Famke Janssen is smoking by the way.) Russian women have the same amount of hair as Russian men; it just got redistributed throughout the body, including the face.
Of course that's nothing compared to car title loans, PDF creators, and refinancing homes. Those all suck more.
For the most part, I'm going to keep these "comments" up, just to prove Jonathan's point. A post blasting advertisements gets blasted with them. I would comment further, but actions always speak louder than words.
Behold the actions of the supreme idiots, all of whice are named "Anonymous."
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