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Wednesday 15 December 2010
When you get a Facebook status update like...
...it's time to cull the herd. You are the weakest link...goodbye!
Hint: By all means inform us of your new baby, new job or colon cancer, but for the love of God, keep your sniffles to yourselves. 400 updates a day is enough to make someone sick.
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Friday 2 April 2010
What is the world coming to?
I happened to catch the following promo for a show on a specialty channel called Slice. I guess it's the channel formerly known as The Life Network (slice of life?) Anyway, the show is called Shear Genius and is about hair stylists competing for who knows what--perhaps a shot at fame an fortune like most of the other "reality" shows.
I'm no prude--I've been around the block more times than most people, but something in the commercial took me by surprise--so much so, that I wasn't sure I heard it right. I jumped up and went to YouTube to see if I could find it.
As it turns out, my hearing seems to be fine, but I take little pleasure in learning this. I find the spot in the ad disgusting and in my opinion, not appropriate for general consumption. Civility is dead, it would seem. I would have liked to have attended the funeral--I was a big fan of it for a very long time. Listen to the commercial and tell me what you think about the bit at about 24 seconds in.
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I'm no prude--I've been around the block more times than most people, but something in the commercial took me by surprise--so much so, that I wasn't sure I heard it right. I jumped up and went to YouTube to see if I could find it.
As it turns out, my hearing seems to be fine, but I take little pleasure in learning this. I find the spot in the ad disgusting and in my opinion, not appropriate for general consumption. Civility is dead, it would seem. I would have liked to have attended the funeral--I was a big fan of it for a very long time. Listen to the commercial and tell me what you think about the bit at about 24 seconds in.
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Wednesday 23 September 2009
The wheels of justice
Recently, I noticed a deposit made into my RRSP (401-K for American readers) account. There was a notation that this was the proceeds of the class-action law suit against Nortel Networks. For those of you not familiar with the case, senior executives at the (former) behemoth communications company conspired to perpetrate accounting fraud that resulted in perhaps millions of investors losing almost one third of a trillion dollars. Criminal charges against those principles are still in the courts.
Hundreds of thousands of people, myself included, had their life savings wiped out. Right now, you might be thinking "Good for you--you got your money back". Let me give you a clue as to how much of my money I actually got back--I did not break out the champagne when I saw the amount of the deposit. In fact, I'm not sure that it could buy a bottle of Dom Perignon. I chuckled--it was so laughable. I lost almost $400,000 and a successful law suit netted me $199. That's right. There's no missing zeros--one hundred and ninety nine dollars. What I would really like to know is how many tens of millions of dollars the lawyers got for getting me my $199.
The kicker to all this is how much more money lawyers stand to make by defending the thieves and cheats behind all this misery. I'd be willing to bet my $199 that most if not all the guilty will get off with a slap on the wrist if not outright. It's no wonder that things never change. There is no justice.
Hundreds of thousands of people, myself included, had their life savings wiped out. Right now, you might be thinking "Good for you--you got your money back". Let me give you a clue as to how much of my money I actually got back--I did not break out the champagne when I saw the amount of the deposit. In fact, I'm not sure that it could buy a bottle of Dom Perignon. I chuckled--it was so laughable. I lost almost $400,000 and a successful law suit netted me $199. That's right. There's no missing zeros--one hundred and ninety nine dollars. What I would really like to know is how many tens of millions of dollars the lawyers got for getting me my $199.
The kicker to all this is how much more money lawyers stand to make by defending the thieves and cheats behind all this misery. I'd be willing to bet my $199 that most if not all the guilty will get off with a slap on the wrist if not outright. It's no wonder that things never change. There is no justice.
Thursday 2 April 2009
Here come da judge...
I hate to admit it, but I am a big fan of the Fox Network court TV shows. Judge Mathis, in particular, is one very cool dude. If he hadn't decided to go into law, he could have made a pretty good living as a comic. But this post is not about him.
If any of you watch/have watched any of these shows, I think you'll identify with this. I am sooo tired of muting or switching channels just before it's time for another set of commercials. They have this annoying habit of playing excerpts from the segment that will follow the upcoming commercials. It would be bad enough if they just played 5-10 seconds of it, as it is usually the most interesting/unexpected/outrageous part, but they play as much as 30 seconds or more. Talk about spoiling the story.
If you forget/neglect to mute/switch channels, you may as well get up and clean the bathroom for the next five minutes because the only thing you'll be missing is commercials followed by a few minutes of crap that was too boring to put in the "preview".
If I were a (potential) sponsor, there's no way I'd advertise during those programs. Instead of giving the viewer incentive to stay glued to the TV, I believe it has the opposite effect. If one watches the preview, (s)he is likely to think "I'll run and (insert household chore here) and if I'm not back by the time the commercials are over, I probably won't miss much."
Tomorrow, I'll post about the banal subject of world hunger. Or not.
If any of you watch/have watched any of these shows, I think you'll identify with this. I am sooo tired of muting or switching channels just before it's time for another set of commercials. They have this annoying habit of playing excerpts from the segment that will follow the upcoming commercials. It would be bad enough if they just played 5-10 seconds of it, as it is usually the most interesting/unexpected/outrageous part, but they play as much as 30 seconds or more. Talk about spoiling the story.
If you forget/neglect to mute/switch channels, you may as well get up and clean the bathroom for the next five minutes because the only thing you'll be missing is commercials followed by a few minutes of crap that was too boring to put in the "preview".
If I were a (potential) sponsor, there's no way I'd advertise during those programs. Instead of giving the viewer incentive to stay glued to the TV, I believe it has the opposite effect. If one watches the preview, (s)he is likely to think "I'll run and (insert household chore here) and if I'm not back by the time the commercials are over, I probably won't miss much."
Tomorrow, I'll post about the banal subject of world hunger. Or not.
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