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I have two TV commercials that really torque me off.

1 - There's a commercial about a sharpie with a 'clicky' button. You see, the "mom" can't put the baby down or it will cry. So the so-called "mom" carries the spoiled runt around and has to do everything with one hand. PUT THE BABY DOWN lady. Let the muncher cry for once in your soccor mom, self denial, idiotic kid rearing mistaken suburban fake dream life - it'll be good for it. You, and your ilk, are the reason kids are so spoiled. PUT THE BABY DOWN. It's really aggravating to know that there are so-called "moms" out there that relate to that commercial. PUT THE BABY DOWN. We have to change the channel for this one or my wife gets angry at the "mom" in the commercial.

2 - Home Depot wants to sell lawn mowers. Not regular lawn mowers, but big honking tractor mowers. So the ad has a bunch of overweight suburbanites driving these monsters around on their teeny little lawns. 4 passes, and he's done. NUTS. Stupid city men have no clue. I drove a rider as a kid. It took 6 hours to do the entire farm. In town, it's embarrassing enough to have a "push" mower that's self propelled. But some of the neighbors have riders on their fraction-of-an-acre lawns. If they got rid of the rider, they wouldn't need the 4th garage stall, and then they'd double the size of their crappy lawns.

It's best to not watch TV.

so there :P

edit: "soccor mom, self denial, idiotic kid rearing mistaken suburban fake dream life"

I'd like to revise that to "Suburban housewife/soccor mom in your McMansion with your loveless marriage and false self image that all is well and everything is fine identity"

if that's ok with you guys - you really need to insert the word "McMansion" in where ever it's available

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Commercials? What are those?
Man oh man, do I love the DVR. I can't even remember the last time that I watched live tv.
Television can make you stooopid enough without having to deal with commercials. But thanks for the heads up on the Home Depot ad. Good to know that my investment in a company which makes diabetes monitoring devices has a strong future.

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he "mom" can't put the baby down or it will cry. So the so-called "mom" carries the spoiled runt around and has to do everything with one hand. PUT THE BABY DOWN lady.



Sir, I reckon that you do not have children of your own. Or, at the very least, have not had the opportunity to frequently see a mother who does such things.

With many new mothers - most that I have seen, in fact - the crying baby creates an irresistable hormonal force that REQUIRES that the mother stop the crying in whatever way possible.

From experience, woe be to he that recommends a different course of action to that mother.


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From experience, woe be to he that recommends a different course of action to that mother.



deal with the mom now, or the kid for the next 18 years - dad and mom's choice

mom has to do what's right, not what's easy.....



From experience. I have children of my own and are around many families with kids.

FWIW - Ask any daycare provider in a good infant room about it. You will get a universal answer.

Yuppie mom comes in holding baby (usually needing the first diaper change still - leave it for the hired help) - physically hands the baby to the day care provider. Provider puts the baby down. mom picks up the baby and hands to the provider. Provider puts the baby down. mom picks up the baby and hands to the provider. Provider puts the baby down. mom picks up the baby and hands to the provider.

Provider gives up and holds the baby until mom leaves. puts the baby down.

Baby is a brat for 3 weeks until it learns to deal with it.

Mom is confused at little joey's absolute turnaround and how good a baby he's become at home.

Mom gets jealous of day care provider

etc
etc
etc

Edit: Yuppie new parents are cute.

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There's a commercial about a sharpie with a 'clicky' button. You see, the "mom" can't put the baby down or it will cry. So the so-called "mom" carries the spoiled runt around and has to do everything with one hand. PUT THE BABY DOWN lady. Let the muncher cry for once in your soccor mom, self denial, idiotic kid rearing mistaken suburban fake dream life - it'll be good for it. You, and your ilk, are the reason kids are so spoiled. PUT THE BABY DOWN. It's really aggravating to know that there are so-called "moms" out there that relate to that commercial. PUT THE BABY DOWN. We have to change the channel for this one or my wife gets angry at the "mom" in the commercial.

you are describing my brother & his wife. Before their baby started to walk, they could never seem to just put the baby down ever. Had trouble ever getting anything done, of course.:S
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But... but... how can you possibly know what to buy if you don't watch the adverts? Surely you're not actually thinking for your self... that's unpatriotic:P



My life is simple. When I get hungry, I go to the store and buy something that looks good. When I feel the ground through my shoes I go to the sale rack at the Vans store. I even bought a pair that matched my freefly pants. Dumb luck yet fashionable!
But when I REALLY need to know what to buy, I go to the photo/video forum and see what DSE is drooling over. Then I buy last years model because buying the new stuff cuts too deeply into my jump ticket fund.
Oh yea, I buy stuff for the kids too. Fortunately they don't watch commercials either. Actually it's pretty funny. My three and a half year old will scream bloody murder if a commercial comes on and he can't find the remote so he can fast forward to the rest of the program.:D

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But... but... how can you possibly know what to buy if you don't watch the adverts? Surely you're not actually thinking for your self... that's unpatriotic:P



I'm enjoying a commercial (and election ad) free life until too many people also adopt it, at which point TV will find a new way to extract money to pay for itself.

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It's best to not watch TV.

so there :P



Glad to know that I do what's "best".


Not even "Mythbusters"? C'mon man.......fess up.

Of course I'll admit that I was disappointed that they couldn't think their way out of the treadmill runway question. Looked like fun though.

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It's best to not watch TV.

so there :P



Glad to know that I do what's "best".


Not even "Mythbusters"? C'mon man.......fess up.

Of course I'll admit that I was disappointed that they couldn't think their way out of the treadmill runway question. Looked like fun though.


Nope. I used to watch The Weather Channel, but canceled my cable subscription some time ago.
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I have a push mower that is self propelled... I'm not lazy or anything its just that I bought it used from a guy in the local area that rebuilds lawn mowers (as a hobby). (it has a troybuilt chassy and craftsman engine...)

Like you when I was a kid I mowed my parents 4 acre apple orchard (it took from 4-6 hours to do the entire yard including around the house).

My dad has a nice John Deere that has run great for several years. They still live there and if I'm in the local area I'll still usually help take care of the yard when they are away on vacation.

I know the commercial you're referring to but like others have said I don't usually watch comercials as I too have DVRs...
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I have a push mower that is self propelled... I'm not lazy or anything ....



nonsense, a REAL MAN would disable the gearing, sharpen and then dull the blades using the callouses on his fingers (just show he can), tie 3 cinder blocks around his waist, and then go out into the lawn and chew the grass to the appropriate height

kids just don't know how easy they have it nowadays

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Not even "Mythbusters"? C'mon man.......fess up.

Of course I'll admit that I was disappointed that they couldn't think their way out of the treadmill runway question. Looked like fun though.



Nope. I used to watch The Weather Channel, but canceled my cable subscription some time ago.



I understand. Good for you.
This was a good one though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmJoyuUJj2Q

And, of course, the skydiving episode was fun.

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I have a push mower that is self propelled... I'm not lazy or anything ....



nonsense, a REAL MAN would disable the gearing, sharpen and then dull the blades using the callouses on his fingers (just show he can), tie 3 cinder blocks around his waist, and then go out into the lawn and chew the grass to the appropriate height

kids just don't know how easy they have it nowadays
:D:D:D Come on, I have to pull start it and everything...

and frankly... those middle aged overweight men in the comercials are doing that... as for me... I ride my bike to work to get some exercise... it's only a couple of miles unless I want to make it longer (which I do sometimes... :$)

besides... I'm an engineer... and a lazy engineer is a good engineer... because they're going to come up with all kinds of cool things to make their life easier... :P:D
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I have a push mower that is self propelled... I'm not lazy or anything ....



nonsense, a REAL MAN would disable the gearing, sharpen and then dull the blades using the callouses on his fingers (just show he can), tie 3 cinder blocks around his waist, and then go out into the lawn and chew the grass to the appropriate height

kids just don't know how easy they have it nowadays



Bill, didn't your family live in a cardboard box at the bottom of a lake? Used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash you to sleep with a broken bottle, if you were lucky!
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Stupid city men have no clue.



I found that (assuming you live in a dry climate like I do) your grass stops growing when you do not water it and then there is no need to buy a huge honking tractor mower. The again I don't own a McMansion, only a McHouse. :)


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I have a push mower that is self propelled... I'm not lazy or anything ....



nonsense, a REAL MAN would disable the gearing, sharpen and then dull the blades using the callouses on his fingers (just show he can), tie 3 cinder blocks around his waist, and then go out into the lawn and chew the grass to the appropriate height

kids just don't know how easy they have it nowadays



Bill, didn't your family live in a cardboard box at the bottom of a lake? Used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash you to sleep with a broken bottle, if you were lucky!

Only a broken bottle - oh the luxury!

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I have a push mower that is self propelled... I'm not lazy or anything ....



nonsense, a REAL MAN would disable the gearing, sharpen and then dull the blades using the callouses on his fingers (just show he can), tie 3 cinder blocks around his waist, and then go out into the lawn and chew the grass to the appropriate height

kids just don't know how easy they have it nowadays



Bill, didn't your family live in a cardboard box at the bottom of a lake? Used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash you to sleep with a broken bottle, if you were lucky!

Only a broken bottle - oh the luxury!



and "gravel"? what is this, Thanksgiving?

I wish we had a 20 hour work day, we used to work 26 hours a day and had to get up 2 hours before we went to sleep just to make it to work on time

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I have a push mower that is self propelled... I'm not lazy or anything ....



nonsense, a REAL MAN would disable the gearing, sharpen and then dull the blades using the callouses on his fingers (just show he can), tie 3 cinder blocks around his waist, and then go out into the lawn and chew the grass to the appropriate height

kids just don't know how easy they have it nowadays



Bill, didn't your family live in a cardboard box at the bottom of a lake? Used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash you to sleep with a broken bottle, if you were lucky!

Only a broken bottle - oh the luxury!



and "gravel"? what is this, Thanksgiving?

I wish we had a 20 hour work day, we used to work 26 hours a day and had to get up 2 hours before we went to sleep just to make it to work on time



Ah, the good old days.
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kids just don't know how easy they have it nowadays



Isn't that the truth.

When I was a kid we had to get up and walk all the way across the room to change the channel on the television.
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