Daniel Keep wrote:
Then, to really bugger 'em up, I'd make it law that if there's anything
in an ad that you can't support with concrete evidence, you get hanged.
Enough of this "five out of six fluffy ducks love our toilet paper
best" or "Australia's favourite" or any of the other bullshit they use.
Let's see how eager they are to make stuff up when it's their neck on
the line...
Oh yes!! Today, I'm having a hard time telling my kids not to lie, while
all the TV ads do is blatant lying.
They can keep the cannes ad awards, though; if only as a hobby.
Check out any movie from the fifties, and all of a sudden you aren't old
anymore: you can actually hear what they say. Without burning the amp or
your nerves!
Probably because it was when they still gave a rats about quality and
not annoying the crap out of the viewer.
I guess this is all endemic of the media industry these days. I mean, I
got so furious with all the bullshit going on that I just completely
stopped buying/renting movies and music.
I've actually thought of buying a 5.1 sound system, for the sole purpose
of turning everything else down, except the dialog speaker. (The one on
top of the TV.) But I've been too lazy to go to a store and test if it
actually would work. Does anybody know?
See, I just turn on subtitles. I guess I got used to them from watching
Anime with Japanese language and English subs, so it really doesn't
bother me.
Well, I learnt all my English from watching and listening while reading
local subtitles. I'd hate to turn off the volume.
Sometimes, I wonder how far above my own the general public's tolerance
for being treated like cattle is. Just how far do the media and TV
companies have to push people before society at large turns around and
hacks their hands off with a blunt spoon...
Well, if folks download movies and music, the industry sure makes them
have less of a bad conscience. And soon more people will do it, just to
get even with the industry.
Most of my TV watching is either recordings, or time-shift, where I can
skip commercials even when I watch "live".
