Xmas Review
Dec. 21st, 2007 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shakatanyI've mailed off packages, wrapped presents and all I've left to do is the few Xmas cards I send out (well it's still before Xmas). It generally went well as I tend to do my shopping throughout the year especially as I can find such wonderful things at street fairs. Now about 90% of stuff sold there is drek but the remaining 10% can be unbelievably nice.
My favorite TV ad is the one for Macy's where famous people like Jessica Simpson, Martha Stewart, Tommy Hilfiger, The Donald and others gather to decorate the store. All of a sudden it goes dark and Martha says (in that voice) "Jessica? Darling?" and Jessica goes "Oops my bad" and puts the plug back into the outlet. There's just something about that ad that tickles my funnybone. My second favorite is the one for Apple with the PC/Mac duo are animated and, along with Santa, sing a carol that the PC guy turns into a PC sales pitch.
The worst Xmas ad on TV is one for Lowe's as a clueless husband drafts a female sales clerk into helping him find a present for his wife. After deciding she wouldn't want power tools or a tractor lawn mower he buys her a gift card. Now if this man has reached the age of maturity and actually found a woman who would marry him, wouldn't you think he would know that Lowe's is not exactly the place one goes for buying something for a woman? Now the ad makers could have had a really neat ad if the sales clerk tries to talk him out of buying power tools and he refused and later we see the wife unwrap it and squeal with glee and proceed to make bookcases and other things meaning he did know what she wanted (in my family, my mother was the handy one building bookcases and storage units). This would be an unexpected twist to the stereotypes - that men are clueless and women don't use power tools. Most other commercials were just blah and I felt the Nutcracker was used much too often in ads this season.
The prize for the most obscene present offered this season goes to The New Museum Store which offers Gold Pills, that's right gold pills which are edible!!! You get 3 for $275 (plus tax and shipping, less if you are a member) and as the blurb states, Pure gold passes straight through the body and ends up in your stool resulting in sparkly shit! There are people starving in the world and they want to make a profit selling rich idiots the idea of having sparkly shit? WTF?
My favorite TV ad is the one for Macy's where famous people like Jessica Simpson, Martha Stewart, Tommy Hilfiger, The Donald and others gather to decorate the store. All of a sudden it goes dark and Martha says (in that voice) "Jessica? Darling?" and Jessica goes "Oops my bad" and puts the plug back into the outlet. There's just something about that ad that tickles my funnybone. My second favorite is the one for Apple with the PC/Mac duo are animated and, along with Santa, sing a carol that the PC guy turns into a PC sales pitch.
The worst Xmas ad on TV is one for Lowe's as a clueless husband drafts a female sales clerk into helping him find a present for his wife. After deciding she wouldn't want power tools or a tractor lawn mower he buys her a gift card. Now if this man has reached the age of maturity and actually found a woman who would marry him, wouldn't you think he would know that Lowe's is not exactly the place one goes for buying something for a woman? Now the ad makers could have had a really neat ad if the sales clerk tries to talk him out of buying power tools and he refused and later we see the wife unwrap it and squeal with glee and proceed to make bookcases and other things meaning he did know what she wanted (in my family, my mother was the handy one building bookcases and storage units). This would be an unexpected twist to the stereotypes - that men are clueless and women don't use power tools. Most other commercials were just blah and I felt the Nutcracker was used much too often in ads this season.
The prize for the most obscene present offered this season goes to The New Museum Store which offers Gold Pills, that's right gold pills which are edible!!! You get 3 for $275 (plus tax and shipping, less if you are a member) and as the blurb states, Pure gold passes straight through the body and ends up in your stool resulting in sparkly shit! There are people starving in the world and they want to make a profit selling rich idiots the idea of having sparkly shit? WTF?
