AFC radio commercial ... I kid you not

[WestCoaster]

When I get back from work I like to listen to a local sports radio show as I cook dinner. Anyway, they have some lame commericals, but tonight was the lamest.

Here it was in a nutshell, and trust me, I am NOT making this up. This is how men get AFCness shoved down their throat by the media.

It's for a store called Lee Reed Jewelers

"Are you a Lee Reed man?"

"Do you put your wife up on the highest pedestal?"

"When you are without her do you feel incomplete?"

"When she gets excited over little things, does that make you feel good inside?"

"If so, you're a Lee Reed man. If not, let us help you become one."

MY FREAKING GOD!! When he said the highest pedestal thing I about fell over in the kitchen. The brainwashing of the American male has got to stop. Feeling incomplete?!! Holy sh-t!!!

Now I know the jewelry industry preys on AFCs and if there were no AFCs, there would be no jewelry business. But this is freaking insane!!

Thanks for letting me vent!

 

[Bible_Belt]

AFCs are good consumers. They buy all kinds of overpriced crap.

 

[Lost In Translation]

i no longer watch tv or listen to the radio

i listen to cds in my car

i watch alot of dvd's usually action movies


my vent :

everytime i go to the supermarket i hear the music playing

chick music and a certain kind of chick music

i many many times as i shop late at night see and hear chicks singing almost in a trance while they shop

it makes me laugh because they look nuts but i get angry because i know that the supermarket radio station is 100% choosing what songs it plays for a reason

and women who HAVE TO HAVE I JUST GOTTA HAVE MUSIC PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND CANT GO A SECOND WITHOUT BEING SUBCONCIOUSLY PROGRAMMED

pisses me off so many of the women these days are walking robots that with commands from their masters to tell them what mood to be in through music are lost

THE MATRIX HAS THEM

end rant


Lost In Translation

**AUSTRALIAN STREET PIMP**

" stop being insecure " i hate that saying. it's a cop out for not having enough balls to confront a woman about what she is doing THAT IS WRONG or potentially damaging to a long term relationship. – Lost In Translation

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

Heh,..lets do a little jewelry store math here shall we?

According to Zales and Kay Jewelers (and conveniently enough, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire magazines) the price of a "standard" wedding ring should be the equivalent of 3 months of a man's annual salary. If you earn the U.S. national average income of $36K per year (after taxes) this means you should spend no less than $9,000 on a wedding ring (no such info on engagement rings unfortunately). If you earn $45K your "starting price" will be $11,250. If you earn $65K you can get into a ring for $16,250. Essentially your devotion to your wife can be quantified in exactly one quarter of your annual income for the year you decide to marry. For about $15K in one year, that had better be the best piece of ass you've ever had.

Am I being faceitious? Yes I am, but these commercial standardizations are rooted in a 'tradtition' that is antiquated. I've been an Art Director for various companies and agency for gong on 10 years now, I've worked with copy writers and PR people on radio and TV spots more times than I can remember, trust me, they know how to target their demographics. The problem isn't that AFCs will immediately rush out to buy a diamond tennis bracelet on their VISA cards, the problem is that highly educated people in the advertising and marketing world still think the best approach to influencing men to buy jewelery is through agrandizing the status of women and pandering to their insecurities.

No advertiser in history does this better than eHarmony. I can't begin to describe my complete abhorance of this company's advertising and marketing tactics. It's as if they want the entire population of men in this nation to be crying, sympering boys completely dependent on a romanticized, feminine-centric model of intersexual relationships. Aghhh! It drives me friggin' insane to hear that focus on the family pseudo-psycologist turning a buck off of fat professional women and AFC guys by marketing the ONEitis and soul-mate, romantic comedy garbage as an idealized marriage state. Wretch!!

It's no secret that TV is for women, they're the primary consumers in western culture. And while advertising has catered itself to this 'Women's Studies' model very cleverly to maximize identity potential, it simultaneously portrays men as problems that need to be fixed by the women who have the independence and intelligence to do so - so long as you buy the product they're selling to help you do it.

 

[speedo_meme]

hahahahahaha that e harmony guy makes me sick too. Dr. Neil Clark Warren? maybe it's just him, but I want to shoot that guy every time that commercial comes on.

29 different levels of compat.....SHUT THE F*CK UP

EEEEEEEEEEE harmon........SHUT THE F*CK UP

if you're looking for the love of you.......AAAAHHHH BAM BAM BAM BAM

 

[legolas]

Like Rollo said, companies have to market on fears and insecurities because let's face it, fear sells!! I have recently seen this comercial on ESPN who shows a hot woman dancing in a night club with her belly showing and her hips gyrating. Then the copy says "When she's hot, it's sexy. When you're hot, you stink" It's an ad for an anti-perspirant. Yes it is wretching, but we know better, and our response should be laughter and our attitude should be "Poor AFCs" But please, do not forget to put on your anti-perspirant, and remember, women stink too!

 

[Rollo Tomassi]

:crackup: ROTFLMFAO!!

Oh, sh!t that's fvcken funny,...*wiping tears outta my eyes*

It is like a slave market.

 

[DJDamage]

I remember reading a pretty good post written by Pook, of how love is being branded as the new religion.

When ever a corporation wants people to use/buy their product they associate love with it.

We are so brainwashed to the idea of love that we are doing everything possible to achieve that.

Advertisers are using women to brainwash them and lure men into the abyss as well. Women have become advertiser's secret agents, they associate love with the purschase of material things and thus the AFC is buying into the propoganda that love has a price. You are going to get what you pay for.

Trying to explain all that to a woman is a futile cause. Its like trying to convince them that God does not exist. If you even try to attempt to explain that to today's woman they will mock you, tell you that you are cheap and that you don't really love them.

The more a woman watches T.V the worse she will be.

 

[WestCoaster]

The 3 months salary thing is insane!

I have guy friends who say, "Yeah, when you get married you have to do the 3 months salary thing for the ring."

Says who? Some jack off on TV/radio? Then if that's not enough, "You'll marry her all over again" in some freaking European country with your family hiding behind newspapers and all these other people as witnesses. Give me a f-n break!

Brainwashing, my friends, brainwashing. And the media won't call anyone out on this because they're part of the problem.

More B.S. detectors needed in this country.

 

[TheTrimReaper]

When my ex broke up with me, she said she had nothing to show from our relationship. She said I had given her no necklaces or earrings. (like I should have)

She seems to have forgotten that I gave her a well-plowed glory hole!:rockon:

 

[Evan_M]

You guys are ranting

Instead of getting angry just laugh it off.
$9,000 on an engagement ring? Only if you're engaged to the wrong woman. When it comes to the proposal, men have complete control. If she judges you on the expense of a ring then she's a golddigger and you shouldn't be marrying her.

Enough with the bitter attitudes. Enjoy dating women however make sure to set the rules in the beginning. It's much easier to weed out the un-worthy ones that way.

 

[penkitten]

let me remind of you the advertising that is targeting men. "beer"

when you see the beer commercials, its a great bar, with dozens of beautiful half dressed women who cant wait to go home and have sex with him, music all pumped in the background.
so when you go to the store and you see a coors light, you think "oh i need some beer (FUN)"

i hate those lying beer commercials. they have so many chumps who dont even realise they are buying the beer because their minds were programed into thinking beer = sex with pretty women.

how come they dont target us women with beer commercials? how come beer doesnt = dozens of hot shirtless men?

stupid commercials!

then they came out with tivo :cheer:
now we fast forward thru all that crap.

 

[stevera004]

Originally posted by Rollo Tomassi

It's no secret that TV is for women, they're the primary consumers in western culture. And while advertising has catered itself to this 'Women's Studies' model very cleverly to maximize identity potential, it simultaneously portrays men as problems ....

This is EXACTLY why TV is a festering sore of AFCism. Women purchase 70% of the 'stuff' (look it up). TV is run by people selling 'stuff' (the advertisers). Hence, a case of piper calling tune, TV serves up what women (think) they want; AFCism.

Thus, fellow DJs, throw out your TVs. No whining about it. Just get rid of it. You will be glad you did. Fight the power.

 

[The_Next_Big_Thing]

Originally posted by stevera004
This is EXACTLY why TV is a festering sore of AFCism. Women purchase 70% of the 'stuff' (look it up). TV is run by people selling 'stuff' (the advertisers). Hence, a case of piper calling tune, TV serves up what women (think) they want; AFCism.

Thus, fellow DJs, throw out your TVs. No whining about it. Just get rid of it. You will be glad you did. Fight the power.

agreed, I just got rid of my tv by giving it to my grandmother who needed a new one. I don't need it.

I hate most commercials and it is funny how apparently we need new things such as "a new car" or "hot womem" or "a soul mate" or etc. to have fun. That is what makes me

I just can't stand all the commercials and such that put men as second class citizens. Look at most (if not all sitcoms they make me laugh at the audacity of some of the "men" trying to get girls.

The funny thing is that I was watching tv with my grandmother a couple nights ago (I had some free time) and what do I hear about a commercial that came on?

Commercial: A woman starts ripping out the telephone connection because apparently it sucks and the guy walks in with a "Not again look on his face." Next thing you see is the guy patching the wall while the woman is watching tv.

My grandmother say "Wow, men really are pathetic in these commercials and that woman should have got beat to a pulp for what she did to that house but the guy is just sitting there patching up her mess. If your pap was alive and I did that. I would be the one repatching the walls while he sat and drank a beer. Todays man is pathetic." I wish more people were like her.

Personally, I would have told her to get the hell out or fix the friggen wall. That woman sure had audacity to do that.

 

[The_Next_Big_Thing]

Even worst radio commercial westcoaster

When I didn't think that I could have heard a worst commercial come on the air. It got worse. So much worse.

McDonald's commercial (i can't remember but I think it was)
Guy: "Alright lets get heading home"
Girl: "Ooooo McDonalds"
Guy: "Alright" *orders the food with just enough money to get gas and food for himself if need be*
Girl: "mmmmmm... the food was great but how bout you get me this too."
Guy: "No, I need money for gas and my own food"
Girl: "I don't care. I'm hungry"
Guy: "No" *alright I would admit that this is good up to this point* "I can't do it"
Girl: "alright, whats your favorite food, drink, and your college jersey number?"
Guy: "Hmmm... #4 with Bacon and a coke. Why?"
Girl: "Now go up and repeat that to the server"
Guy: "Alright honey"
Me: *PUKE and changes the channel*

I think I will go vomit from that commercial.