"When asked if he considers people who go to the bathroom during a commercial to be thieves, he responded: 'I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom. But if you formalize it and you create a device that skips certain second increments, you've got that only for one reason, unless you go to the bathroom for 30 seconds. They've done that just to make it easy for someone to skip a commercial.' Heaven forbid"LOL...mighty white of him to "allow" me to go to the bathroom during the commercial break.
Now: when they can create and enforce a law which will prevent me from jumping up and checking on supper, checking/filling the woodstove, or continuing with reading whatever book I'm reading (the only way to watch TV, as far as I'm concerned, is with a good book) THEN they might also be able to prevent me from not watching hundreds of simpleminded commercials for Viagra, hemorrhoid preperations, yeast infection cures and tampon commercials a day.
Not bloody likely, though.
This post at least deserves a wry humor BUMP
Like you, I can not stand drug commercials. Am TOTALLY against the biggest drug dealers in the world cramming their products down my throat. Besides, time IS money, and when they start paying me to watch TV, I'll start watching their commercials. My rate, $50.00 per half hour. The meter is on.