Posted on 02/23/2008 6:52:06 PM PST by discipler
Is anyone else bothered by this? Geico and OnStar commercials depict car accidents caused by animals. Why are the marketers so dag blasted afraid to show the truth. Anybody with any smarts knows you hit the stupid squirrel and save a life. Years ago, a man gave me driving instructions. "Don't dodge the turtle to hit a car." The animals rights people have everyone whipped. Smart people mock the Catholic Church for hindering the search for truth in the Dark Ages. The Animal Rights and Earth First people are just as oppressive and stupid. Hey, has anyone heard when Ben Stein's move "Expelled" is coming out? I can't wait. Darwin's theory is just as oppressive.
Anyone influenced by a faggoty commercial is goofy to begin with. The Geico cavemen have homosexual overtones. We turn the channel when it comes on.
People are stupid, what can you say?
AFAIK, driving teachers tell students not to risk their lives to avoid hitting an animal. Except for maybe a cow or horse. Oh, and here in Kentucky we have to contend with deer.
I got a squirrel the other day. There was no way I could avoid it without crashing into other vehicles.
Especially in a good gravy!
Quote from the article: “Smart people mock the Catholic Church for hindering the search for truth in the Dark Ages.”
Dumb people claim the Catholic Church hindered the search for truth in the ‘Dark Ages’.
It’s like my driving instructor told us. “If you’re driving down the street and little Fluffy darts in front of you, you don’t swerve, you smoke Fluffy.”
I've seen this. They choke each others' geckos.
I have swerved and braked to miss animals many times, but always only when I had the room to do it safely. I have also pancaked a few squirrels and cats when the choice was animal vs approaching traffic or being rearended.
What do you expect.
Our society is dying. We are raising pets instead of children.
I know that revisionism happens, but it’s hard to get rid of that little trial of Galileo. He was such a heretic.
I find the cavemen to be disgusting.
The insurance guy apparently told him, "Look, if you hit a deer, it's like an act of God. Your car is damaged, it's not your fault, and we pay you. BUT, if you take it upon yourself to drive into a tree ... well, that's a different story."
Can you fit the name Galileo Galilei into that statement somehow?
It depends upon the size of the animal and the tree !!!
If the animal is an Elephant and the tree is a sapling...
I AM HEADING FOR THE TREE.
WARNING: I SPEED UP FOR GROUNDHOGS!!
The only creature I would swerve for is a moose. Usually fatal if struck (driver and moose.)
homo erectus
I hope I don’t get into trouble on this.
Wait just a damn minute! The Catholic Church is oppressive and stupid? Your drawing of parallels between my Church and the animal rights activists is both oppressive and stupid on your part and discloses deep-rooted anti-Catholicism which you obviously can’t wait to flaunt given any excuse at all. Crawl back into the woodwork and take your illiterate comments with you.
The Geico commercial, where the squirrels high-five and bump fists after the one causes an accident, is actually cute and kind of funny. The Bridgestone Tires commercial from this year’s Super Bowl, where the driver swerves around the deer, then Alice Cooper and his pet snake, and then Richard Simmons (although he makes like he’s seriously thinking about pasting Simmons) was hilarious.
The first Geico caveman spot, on the other hand, was mildly funny. The others, not so much. And whoever thought the sitcom was a good idea should have been run over for real.
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