And Now For Today's Rant, Starring Me

And not starring Nanette Manoir. If you know what that's from, you get a point.

Anyway, I've gotten sick at advertisements. Not all, some of them are really funny, but some of them are... just dumb.

Example #1: The new Mentos gum. That's the one with the man sitting next to the water bubbler, and he puts a piece of gum in his mouth. A woman walks by, lifts his nose and starts kissing him. When she's done, she wipes her mouth, puts his nose down, and the cooler next to him bubbles as he smiles. When it first aired, they played a sound effect as she was kissing him of a sort of slurping noise, which just made the whole kiss repulsive to me... I mean who wants a kiss that sounds like slurping? Then, they took the sound effect out, so now it just looks awkward. It sure doesn't make me want to buy Mentos gum.

Example #2: The Coke Zero commercials. It was bad enough when they had the whole lawyer situation where they wanted to sue themselves for taste infringement or whatever... that was just dumb. But who, and I mean WHO wants to see tongues? Really? It's such a disgusting part of the human body when you really think about it, and when it's shown outside of the mouth they just look so weird and gross. And I like eyes, but not ones that walk and have an annoying accent. It's just way too weird, and yeah I don't like the idea of trying Coke Zero after watching those advertisements.

Example #3: Well, I guess this is the reason why I started this blog. I saw a commercial that was for some sort of Athlete's Foot cream, and the guy talking about it said "I don't need to tell you about Athlete's Foot. It's annoying" or something like that. The point of telling someone that you don't need to tell them about something implies that you will not tell them about it. Honestly, he didn't even put a pause between the two statements. To me, it just made him sound like he didn't really know what he was talking about. Oh well.

There are more that bother me, but those stick out