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I was in Target today buying some miscellaneous items. After filling my basket with the goods I came to get, I headed over to the cashier with the shortest line. The couple in front of me didn’t have too many items so I figured this wouldn’t take too long. Good job pickin’ the right line I told myself. I usually pick the worst lines to get in. It never fails, I can get in the shortest line, but I’ll end up right behind someone who’s arguing over a thirty cent coupon that’s not getting applied. This time was no different, although not due to a crappy coupon. The couple was paying for their stuff with a personal check.

It totally reminds me of those Visa check card commercials where everything comes to a grinding halt as someone tries to pay with cash instead of a checkcard. Paying with a check is even worse than that. Who pays for things in public with checks?! Sure, pay your bills with a check – if the whole online bill-pay thing is too much of a convenience for you – but WHY on earth would you pay for groceries or goods from a store with a personal check? You gotta wait for the total amount to be rung up, then fill out the date, the amount, then write out the amount, then sign the check (we all know how checks work). If you’re truly insane, you might even write something in the memo line so when you get the check back in the mail from your bank, you’ll be reminded of how you bought toilet paper and a three-pack of underwear from Target.

Friggin’ get a credit card or a debit/check card! The convenience won’t kill you. I promise.

Hollywood must be COMPLETELY out of ideas. I was flipping channels looking for something to watch, and came across a show called Parking Wars on A&E. It’s a reality show that follows meter maids, as they give parking tickets. Are you serious? WHO is watching this show?! Giving parking tickets is NOT exciting stuff. The craziest it got, was at one point, a guy who had just gotten a ticket, came out of the store he was in, and contested he shouldn’t have gotten a ticket since he was right there. He had the meter maid call his supervisor over, so she drove down and explained to him he’s an idiot.

Then, they switched gears a little and followed people whose job it is to boot cars. One guy ran out of his house while his car was being booted and claimed the license plate on the car was not his, that it was his sister’s. So his argument was that the parking tickets that were associated with that license plate were not his, and therefore his car shouldn’t be getting booted. Needless to say, the gentleman was quite irate, as I’m sure his story was the complete truth. I often have my brother’s license plates on my car. It’s just what you do, and the parking authorities should be more lenient. For realz.

This is ground breaking television people, although I can’t wait till the premiere of “Watch Paint Dry” airs next week! Now THAT show is gonna have some craziness!

Blech.

I LOVE watching HD content on my HD TV at home. I’ve become a bit of a snob about it, in that it annoys me greatly when a show I watch isn’t shown in HD. I love watching DVDs on my widescreen TV as well, but haven’t yet made the jump to hi-definition DVDs. Which way do I go? HD DVD? Blu-Ray? The latest format war has been waging for quite a while now, with no clear winner emerging. It’s been a head-to-head fight.

However, a recent exclusivity announcement by Warner Bros. may affect the outcome of this battle. WB recently announced that they would go exclusively with Blu-Ray. Up until now, they had been releasing movies in both hi-definition formats, and will continue to do so until May, after which they will only release videos in the Blu-Ray format. It is being speculated that New Line Cinema and HBO might follow suit (they are both subsidiaries of Warner) very soon.

This doesn’t mean HD DVD’s dead any time soon, though. This past summer, it was announced that both Paramount and Dreamworks were going exclusive with HD DVD.



Despite each camp having their own exclusive supporters, Blu-Ray has held the market share since the beginning as you can see by the above graphic. This is also intriguing because Blu-Ray players are more expensive than HD DVD players. Even after massive price cuts around the holiday season for HD DVD players, that camp is unable to break 40% for market share in any given week.

I anxiously await for one of these formats to emerge victoriously. I’m hesitant to buy a player one way or the other just yet, as I’m sure that purchase will ultimately lead to the demise of whatever format I chose. That’s the kind of luck I have. Hopefully one of the formats wins soon...

I noticed this tag on several of the burp/washcloths we have. Keep away from fire? Why is it necessary to put such a warning on a small piece of square fabric? They’re basically mini towels, so why don’t towels have these warnings? I mean, if you’re gonna put it on something like a washcloth, I would think you’d have to put it on most everything. I’m pretty sure my couch should be kept away from fire, yet there is no such warning on my couch.

What about my underwear? I sure as hell don’t want my undies in a fire, nor should they be... but again, no warning.

Socks, yogurts, garbage bags, purses, backpacks, articles of clothing, diapers, etc... All things I have around the house whose labels don’t warn you about keeping said item away from fires. Perhaps I should assume those things CAN be near fires... but our burpcloths should NOT be.

I’m gonna have to assume somewhere, someone incredibly stupid used a washcloth as kindling or something, and thus a new warning was born. Most “stupid” things in life, as far as laws/rules/warnings, are generally due to someone’s stupidity at some point. There’s no other explanation.

It really is mind boggling that this warning is on a stupid washcloth.

This commercial is incredibly stupid... well, more specifically, the daughter in this commercial is incredibly stupid. Apparently, this family lives near some uppity neighborhood (like San Francisco¹) where driving around in “non-hybrid” cars is incredibly uncool. The daughter tells her dad to drop her off a block away from her intended destination (the theater, ooooooh, wonder what movie she’s going to see... An Inconvenient Truth maybe?).

It becomes clear that their car is a hybrid (as indicated by the word “Hybrid” clearly emblazoned on the back of the car). Clearly, this guy’s daughter is an illiterate moron (I hope the movie she’s going to see doesn’t have subtitles). Her father has to tell her, “well, this is a Hybrid”. And she’s surprised, and asks why he never talks about it. Maybe because he’s not a snotty piece of crap, and doesn’t need to talk about it. Maybe because he assumed you could read, and would’ve realized at some point during ownership of this vehicle, that it SAYS Hybrid on the back (and who knows where else).

Given the writer’s strike going on right now, you’d think this commercial was written post-strike by some scabs. What a ridiculously retarded commercial. What pile of crap ad agency wrote this nonsense? And what morons at Ford thought to themselves after being pitched this garbage, “Yeah! This is totally how suburban families behave. I know I had this same exact conversation with MY daughter just last week! I love it! Let’s film it and get it on the air! We’ll be selling Escape Hybrids like hot cakes in NO time!”

To lose 35 seconds of your life forever and see this mess of a commercial, click play below...



¹ Anyone see that episode of South Park?

Oh... My... God...

You have GOT to be kidding me... Besides the fact that this “ad” is ludicrous, the idea of a Cherry Chocolate Diet Dr. Pepper sounds pretty gross.

I guess Tay Zonday’s 15 minutes aren’t quite up yet, although, they should be after this...