DUmp LinkThomWV (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-28-10 03:24 PM
Original message
I want to say something about a Volkswagen commercial
Edited on Wed Apr-28-10 03:25 PM by ThomWV
There is a commercial playing on television which advertises some model of Volkswagen. In the commercial a number of pairs of actors and actresses are set indifferent scenes and as automobile traffic passes by one of them hauls off and knocks the living shit out the other while saying something perfectly inane, like "black one". This is done to mark the event of a volkswagen passing by.
Do the people of Germany think we are such imbecilic juveniles that we go around hitting each other like a bunch of ****ing two-year-olds? Is this the image the germans have of us, that we are such a bunch of barbaric bastards that beating on each other is as normal as a breath of fresh air.
I find the commercial offensive as a son of a bitch, it makes me made as hell every time I see it. Just wanted to share that with you.
On Edit: I also wanted to say, that just because of this commercial I will never, and I mean absolutely never, buy any vehicle Volkswagen makes again - and I have in the past, several times. This just really fried my ass.
Skid-marked Underwear felt the same way!
First reply was actually kind of funny:
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-28-10 03:25 PM
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1. Christ. followed by a picture of a guy sitting at a PC doing a face palm.
Then comes a huge onslaught of posts by the DUmmies recalling their childhood. Everybody played the game, but each and every DUmmie has to tell their same tale of brothers, sisters, etc. etc. blah blah blah.
Then:
librechik (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-28-10 03:30 PM
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12. I have always hated slug-a-bug, for at least 20 years. And i hate that commercial.
my husband and i are both tired of seeing TORTURE of some kind being presented as humor in commercials.
Not to mention series television.
HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-28-10 03:31 PM
Original message
Are you one of those people who protest dodge ball?
Just curious.
librechik (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-28-10 03:36 PM
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27. Absolutely.
frylock (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-28-10 04:03 PM
Response to Reply #29
38. reading your post was torturous..
serial wtf?!
Atman (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-28-10 06:09 PM
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80. When the OP doesn't even chime in to his own thread, it smells like flamethrowing.
Just sayin. No response from ThomWV since he lobbed the grenade. Methinks he was just farting in the elevator.
ThomWV (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-28-10 07:18 PM
Response to Reply #80
102. Not at all, I am just stunned by the results and how many people here accept violence as fun
What a *****.
"Violence."
ThomWV (1000+ posts) Wed Apr-28-10 07:28 PM
Response to Reply #90
105. Nope, if someone slaps me I'm not waiting for a Cadillac, I'm gona drop that asshat in his tracks
Someone slaps me like that I'm gonna knock that ****ing idiot out, right there and then,
Priceless.
And sometimes the hypocrisy is sooo bad, even the DUmmies can see it, and so they piled on.
It's an enormous thread, and everybody's calling it a classic. The most annoying thing is everybody repeating exactly the same thing another poster says. 185 replies, and 150 versions of the same childhood story. Cripes.
