For example.
Posted on 09/11/2005 6:46:54 PM PDT by Jack Black
I have been watching NFL football today, one of my few TV viewing vices. The games were great, especially the Lions finally winning an opener in a convincing fashion. However throughout the games, on those channels as well as several others I watched are these totally vulgar ads.
For those of you who have not seen them the theme is that 'cable TV sucks'. The visuals involve various things being sucked onto the TV screen, shoes, one old mans clothes except for his underwear, etc.
Most parents I know have worked diligently to help our kids understand what words and phrases are not popular. Certainly in our house 'sucks' has always been a bad word. After all most of us know that 'sucks' is short for a description of a common sex act.
So this is where we are at. One of the largest TV providers thinks it's cleaver to use gutter slang for sex acts as the tag line for their saturation bombing ad campaign.
Well, I'm not sure about you, but I think I'll stick with my cable, thanks very much. Dish Network, no thanks.
Yes. They are vulgar and stupid.
I think the ads rock. Funniest on the tube right now.
Stand by for all the "chill out"; "you've led a sheltered life"; "get a life" etc etc etc --- and this is supposed to be the CONSERVATIVE group.
Morality, decency, and manners are in rare supply these days.
I think they are the best ads ever made. And danged accurate.
I saw the ad...
Not really offended...
In fact, I didn't find anything offensive about the ad at all..
For example.
I got in trouble when I was 3 for saying crud.
I think it's pretty low of them to broadcast that term all over the TV. Yet another example of us having to tell our kids that just because the rest of the culture has lowered their standards, we won't.
It happens more and more as time goes on. There's not much on TV that we can just let them watch without supervision.
But let them say it. I just won't ever buy a product from them. Ever.
Not as offensive as the "You bet your sweet aspercream" commercials.
I got in trouble for saying "snot".
Thought the ad was funny.
I guess I'm bothered by all the erectile dysfunction ads that I have to endure while watching with my kids.
There is a really odd one (I think it is for wireless service, I have only seen it twice)...but it has the same actor, portraying an old man, ayoung woman, middle aged man, etc. He/she is standing in front of a cookie cutter suburban tract house, with basically the same vehicle in front each time. His/her last line sums up the service plan as being very individual...and that 'anything the same would just be creepy.' It really is funny...
It's not exactly a sexual reference. Haven't you heard about somebody being as low as an egg-sucking dog?
Um...no. In fact I think they are funny.
I once knew a woman that was offended by the Keebler Elves commercials because to her the words "elfin magic" sounded too much like "f'in magic".
You need to get a life.
Sucks is a bad word now? Hell, in grade school "Go suck an egg" was a popular insult because you couldn't get in trouble for it.
Chill Out
You've led a sheltered life
Get a life
The Dish Network advertisements are cute. The Cox Cable advertisements are crass and vulgar, particularly the double entendres.
You got that right!! Manners and morals are difficult if not impossible to find. And it seems people don't believe in taking their trash home anymore either, if the sides of the roads are any indication! Moral decay is out of control!!
We have Dish, and their are some channels you cannot watch. Either because of the shows or because of the ads.
Vacuums Suck
Suction pumps Suck
The vacuum of Space Really Sucks
Baby mammals Suck
The MSM Also Really Sucks
The Dish Network adds Rock
Grow up.
So9
My vacuum cleaner really sucks.
ROTFL
No, have you hear about Rock & Roll yet?
They have billboards for gay hotlines around town now. Gross is right.
Not as much as mine sucks. Orecks, now, they really suck! And they're American made.
burn um
Couldn't say "geez" in our house. But we could say "damn".
Actually, what I DO find insulting are the Viagra/Cialis ads. Do they really need to mention that 'you should see a doctor if you have an erection for over four hours.' I think that would bring up waaay more discussion with the kiddies than a TV set sucking the dishes off the dining table.
If that's how you feel, you should go back to cable.
I've seen the ads, and they don't particularly bother me (as others have noted all the ED ads bother me more). I just did a comparison recently between Direct TV and Cable. Right now, Dish Network provides the best service for my needs, so I'll be staying with them for the time being.
Not as much as mine sucks.
Probably not. Mine is pretty old and it really 'bites' having to vacuum with it.
Which is why it sucks.
Unfortunately, I've seen much worse to get upset about. And now that Dish has given me back both my East and West coast network feeds (critical for football/sports junkies) I can't say that the ad offends me enough to cancel. Oh...and cable does suck.
Not sure if Dish Network blows or sucks but I'm pretty sure if you had Dish Network you wouldn't be watching NFL Football.
They still don't offer network channels...am I wrong on this??
LOL mine vac does too, which I think is the double meaning they are looking for, sucks all you money, like a vac.
Some of us have kids to raise.
And we don't want them growing up to be rude, selfish socialist parasites. It's not easy when you have to constantly fight the pop culture.
My solution is to never do business with companies that contribute to the vulgarity of the culture. Were you offended when Clinton caused millions of children to have to learn about oral sex?
There are some things that little kids don't need to be exposed to. Childhood is becoming shorter all the time.
My daughter first told me and I did not believe her. I thought there was no way they could make an ad that weird. It was like a joke commercial from Saturday Night Live.
I had heard of one. In Boston. Article 8 made them take it down, and were the homos mad!!!
It is a conservative group, but not a group of tightass'es.
I'm not offended by them at all. They are not the brightest ads on the tube - but they are accurate.
This thread sucks.
He would go over to the porno mags and begin flipping through them...all the while saying at the top of his lungs, "Oh..this is gross! Man..this is terrible! How can they do this!!!" Yet he would look through every single magazine on that rack (including Playgirl).
Sound familiar?
With Lord & Taylor selling t-shirts that say "FCUK" this is but another challenge in the culture war.
Slouching towards Gomorrah.
"Standards and practices" left the networks long ago. And yes, they can reject an ad they find inappropriate.
You got east and west coast feeds back. I guess I need to call them - I was so disappointed when when they took that away
If you had seen my last cable bill you would be sayig that about the cable company, not dish network's silly ads.
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