Bug in My Craw....

Or is it, bee in my bonnet, or rather crudely, a bug up my a$$, regarding television advertising these days...  I can't begin to share just how STUPID advertisers must think that we (as a group of people,)  thinking that their ads would make us run out and purchase their products!  I doubt I'll be able to cite just how many ads offend my intelligence and common sense, but here are a few examples - that is unless once I get on a roll, they just don't stop rolling into my brain!

First that comes to mind, is the TP commercial, where there are a number of younger bears in the "den/family room" chatting, and the one pipes up about their brand of TP, and states "it cleans so well, you could wear your underwear a second day...."  Have you ever seen ANY of these bears, young or old, wearing any clothing?  Let alone undies!  Besides, don't bears live and.... in the woods, rather than a suburban house?  Ok, it may be "cute," but still, makes me feel that the advertisers think I'm so gullable that I'll switch brands, because the bears are "cute."

Another for batteries names a guy who ALWAYS reaches for their batteries, because they last the longest lasting, and the most dependable.  If the frickin battery is dead, who cares what brand it is...  Either way, you're obiviously still in the dark!  Until a battery is made that lasts 70 years or longer, a dead battery is useless, and even then...  This also goes for other necessities like light bulbs, and toilet paper...  If you're left in the dark, or worse, on the pot with no paper, you're up the proverbial creek!

I'll make it a point to stop here, though I could carry on, but I think I've stated my gripe, and thanks for reading!  For now, I'll move on to another topic!

I had the pleasure of speaking to my sis this afternoon, which I always appreciate, but don't call her very often as her life is even more hectic than my "crazy" world!  She surprised me after we'd caught up on all of the family chit chat, when our conversation turned to the circus this year's election has become.  Now, I DETEST politics, as I just don't understand the system, and just "how" it's supposed to WORK for the many of us who are middle to lower class citizens, but that's another story, which I refuse to get into in any forum.

Anyway, what surprised me is though she and I have differing opinions regarding "left" and "right" wing advocates, that this time around we're mostly on the same page.  I stress, "mostly!"  Over the past months, I've wondered if could or should move to Canada - NO, it's too damn cold.  Mexico?  Well, they do have the cartels, but at least it's warmer there!  She laughed, and shared that just a few days ago she was talking to someone about moving to Belize, of all places - not that I haven't checked out property prices there, myself!

So, we had both agreed that that getting out of the large cities that we each live in, and moving out to the middle of "nowhere," and going mostly off the "grid" is sounding pretty good.  Were it not for my current health issues, and those of her hubby, I do believe that we all would jump at the chance to "get the hell out of Dodge!"   So, I will dutifully cast my vote, not that I believe that makes a damn bit of difference in the long run... cross my fingers, hope for the "best" and hope that I'm not living in a box under a freeway overpass any time soon!

Well, now I feel better!  Still terrified for "our" well being, but better - FOR NOW!  Seems that these days the world is on a self destruct mission... but that's simply my humble opinion!  (Now I'm sounding like my dad, when he was my current age, lol!)

Be well, and leave a comment if you wish!