These are a bunch of grown-ass women screaming like teenyboppers who just saw the Beatles, and they're screaming about a phone that literally anyone can obtain? Nobody got this excited when the first mobile phone was invented, and that was a way bigger deal than a new, slightly different version of an existing phone.
How do they expect anyone to sit through this ad to the end? It's ear-shattering. It actually hurts to watch this ad. I have no idea what the deal is being offered because I've never seen the entire thing. How can this possibly be an effective ad?
Although at least it isn't as depressing as this one:
I don't get how this is supposed to encourage anyone to trade in their old phone. Because , is it just me, or do you feel really sorry for the old phone? My God, the desperation in that phone's mechanical voice is just palpable. The poor thing just seems terrified at the prospect of being deserted, yet the desertion process just grinds steadily along. This is more heartbreaking than the end of Shane.
How could anyone watch this ad and not pick up their phone, cradle it to their bosom and gently whisper, "don't worry Siri, I'd never trade you in?"
Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy
Are they, though? Are the really cheap? Or are they just not blind? They can see the world we've left them. They can see that the odds are stacked against them.
First of all, who can afford to buy a house anymore? Let alone anyone under 30?
Exception noted.
Prices of houses and cars have both outpaced inflation by a wide margin. And wages have absolutely not kept up. And that's if these young people can find jobs at all.
And even those young people who do have decent jobs are saddled with student loans that they may never pay off. How could we expect them to save up to buy a house under that onus?
And all they have to do is look around at what working in America has become. If you work for any decent-sized company, there is, right now, as we speak, someone in the home office getting paid to figure out ways to eliminate your job.
Have you considered enslaving children?
You have a job in a factory? They'll shut it down and move it to China or someplace with even worse labor laws like Mississippi. You have a tech job? They'll send it to India. You work with numbers? It's only a matter of time until they get a computer program that does what you do.
Why would you buy a house under those conditions? Why would you make that kind of investment knowing that the whole concept of a life-long job is obsolete. You may be doing well today, tomorrow you might be moving out-of-state to find work. And when you do find it, that job will likely disappear at some point and the whole cycle starts again.
The millenials are not stupid, even though they were raised on the Disney Channel believing that the Jonas Brothers were a rock and roll band and that High School Musical was a legitimate form of entertainment. They know perfectly well what happened to the last generation when they invested in houses.
Let's see. . . people did what they thought was the prudent thing and invested their money in houses. Then the banks fucked up the economy, those people lost their houses, the bank took them back and auctioned them off, leaving the previous owners with nothing to show for all the hard-earned money they'd sunk into these homes. And we wonder why their kids aren't anxious to follow that same path?
Recently, a fraternity on the Georgia Tech campus got itself into a bit of bother over the occasional rapes taking place in its house and the frat's explicit encouragement of such behavior.
'Rapebait' Frat Encouraged Sexual Violence, Lawsuits Claim
Posted:
A member of a Georgia Tech fraternity sexually assaulted two women using the playbook described in a "luring your rapebait" email, two lawsuits filed this week against Phi Kappa Tau claim.
The Alpha Rho chapter of PKT turned a blind eye to red flags that
brothers were encouraging each other to sexually assault women, the
suits allege, including the "rapebait" email, songs joking about sexual
violence, and chapter meeting minutes declaring "rape is good." The two
suits contain nearly identical allegations but each is filed on behalf
of a different plaintiff.
The fraternity chapter has been disbanded, and apparently that has completely solved the problem of on-campus rape culture. At least according to this guy:
Sarasota speaker: There is no campus 'culture of rape'
And who is this speaker with such expert knowledge of collegiate culture? Why, no less an authority than Dennis Prager of course!
Because who would know better what goes on in today's universities than this guy?
To be fair, his wife may actually be an undergrad.
So here's what he had to say about rape culture on college campuses:
“It’s a gargantuan lie to get votes. It’s as big a lie as the culture
of rape on your campuses. What nonsense. There is a culture of rape on
campuses run by the feminist left? What do you cite to sell me this nonsense?
Well, I guess I might cite the fact that a large number of women get sexually assaulted on campus?
One in 5 women are sexually assaulted on campuses. Do you know what
sexual assault means? Did you ever look at what counts? An unwanted kiss
is considered sexual assault.
Well, yes. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be. Well, I guess I'll let the expert explain why not.
An unwanted kiss is considered sexual assault. I’m stunned it's only
1 in 5. Four out of five women have not gotten an unwanted kiss? My
wife gets unwanted kisses every so often. (laughter)
Oh, now I get it! If I kiss my wife at a time when she doesn't feel like smooching, maybe she's annoyed with me or feeling unattracted to me because I look like a potato in a Bobby Cremins wig,
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Anyway, that's obviously the same thing as a stranger trying to shove his tongue down a woman's throat like he's Fitzgerald Grant and she's Olivia Pope. That wouldn't be horrifying at all!
They make light of rape because they redefine these terms. We don’t make
light of it. We think it is the worst thing possible short of murder.
But they make light of it by trivializing it. Culture of Rape? No. I’ll
tell you why it exists on the campus, and that is: a rape of the
culture.”
So there you have it. Problem solved! feel free to send your daughters off to college secure in the knowledge that rape culture doesn't exist, it was all just a problem with mis-defining the terms. What a relief!
There is really a special place in hell for people like Prager. I don't understand why these people always feel the need to stand up for the assholes. Or maybe it's just that they feel some need to stand up for the powerful against the less powerful. Whether it's taking selfies in line at Chic-Fil-A or "standing with" the Duck Dynasty creep, these people will always rush to the defense of those who neither need or deserve defending. So of course these scumbags are going to side with fratboy rapists over their victims. It's some kind of sick pathology with people like this.
Okay, Phil is a millionaire with his own television show who is regularly given a platform to air his twisted views by various magazines and radio shows. He doesn't need you to stand with him.
Um, Israel has the strongest military in the region because of millions of dollars in US support. Support for Israel is the sine qua non of American foreign policy. Even criticizing Israel can make you a pariah amongst the conventional-wisdom-mainstream pundit class, just ask Jimmy Carter. Israel doesn't need some teenybopper in a T-shirt to stand with it.
Chic-fil-A is an extremely successful company with over 1,800 locations. They are hugely profitable, thanks to using almost no actual chicken in their chicken sandwiches. They are not some poor little mom-and-pop restaurant being bullied by the all-powerful gay lobby or whatever you think they are being bullied by. They don't need your help.
But any time the powerful are in any way challenged by the less powerful, right-wing scumbags will rise to their defense and call it courage. Pathetic!
If you live in the greater Atlanta area, or if you can get to Atlanta easily, this weekend would be the time to come! This Saturday, Nov. 1st is CHOMP AND STOMP!
What is Chomp and Stomp, you ask? It's so funny that you should ask that, because I was just about to tell you what Chomp and Stomp is. It is the world's largest (I assume) Bluegrass festival and chili cook-off.
Apostles of Bluegrass, Chomp&Stomp 2013
The festival is free. If you want chili, buy a spoon for $5 and sample all you can handle. (get there early, chili will run out)
Music starts at 11:00am sharp. Our personal favorite, the High Strung String Band plays at 3:30, if you like to sleep in.
We also highly recommend Slim Chance & the Convicts at 1:00 pm
(yeah, not all the bands ar e strictly bluegrass.)
And I see "Farmland Band" listed at 5:00pm. If this is "Smokey's Farmland Band" which I assume it is, we highly recommend them as well.
But really, you can't go wrong at Chomp & Stomp.
Also, there's beer, cabbage games, an artists' market and some other fun stuff. And the Autumn weather in Atlanta is usually perfect.
Okay, Phil is a millionaire with his own television show who is regularly given a platform to air his twisted views by various magazines and radio shows. He doesn't need you to stand with him.
