And you know, it wouldn't be so bad if radio ads weren't so incredibly annoying. There are ads that have made me swear to never buy their product just to spite them for their horrible ad.
DITTO! DITTO!!
In fact... every time I hear that insipid "Carol From Lifequotes", I find myself spontaneously envisioning my hands closing around her throat - not to mention the two smarmy yuppies from Centerpoint Mortgage. What I have in mind for those two, would make an al-Zarquawi envious of my savagery.
I don't watch TV at all, and the only radio I listen to is Right Wing Extremist Hate Radio (Praying someone from DU is reading this and soiling their drawers, right now). I've got a stopwatch next to the radio and I've doped out the format for Rush's show so that I can turn off the radio precisely as necessary to eliminate all the commercial breaks during his show. (And even with all that, I still want to brutally murder the announcer on the local station who *insists* on talking over Rush's intro music... If I wanted to hear from a toilet, I'd FLUSH one, you jerk!) If I'm not mistaken, I think even Rush sacrificed another minute at the beginning of the hour to commercial yammering, sometime in the past few months.
Additionally - any of you snake-oil salesthings out there (and in particular, the phony "Doctor Doctors" advertising hair goo and fat pills) (and it's not lost on me that Rush dragged that insufferable phony Phil Hendry in to do the "Corti-Slim" commercials; there are still some things to which some people will not stoop): Pay close attention to the next sentence, because I have a heads up for you:::
When you get to Hell, I will be waiting there for you. Your punishment, for eternity, will be to eat bottle after bottle of whatever it is that you're advertising - and I'll be there with a lighted blowtorch, and if you don't keep swallowing, you'll get the blowtorch. (Yes, that includes YOU, Doctor Doctor Doctor Greg Sinemoan and Doctor Doctor Doctor Talbott and Doctor Doctor Doctor Etc... You WILL have to drink the hair goop. Bottle after bottle of it.)
Furthermoreover... my febrile imagination runs toward designing an electronic device which *at least* turns off the radio via remote control in 1 minute increments, programmably. Actually, I think something like that already exists, but there are other items (such as laser and GPS jamming) that are higher up on my list of priorities for electronic countermeasure expenditures right now...
I think Rush used to be on shortwave - and with no commercials; you just got the EIB filler during the time for local commercials (which would be just fine with me, Rush's commercials - with the exception of the fat-pill one done by that rodent Hendry - are at least tolerable). But I haven't been able to find it recently - is it still on?