Flashback Friday -- Sparks

Bad Ads -- Consumer Cellular

What were they thinking?




First of all, they lead off with "The McCann Twins for Consumer Cellular," as if we're supposed to know who they are. (or who he is, I suspect both parts are played by the same master thespian)
As if they were the Yin-Yang Twins or the del Rubio Triplets, or the Dion Quintuplets. It doesn't make any sense since no one knows who they are, I don't think they're even real people.
They sure don't seem like real people. Could they have found a creepier actor(s)? If you saw one of these guys walking toward you, you'd cross the street. Then you'd pull out your smart phone and look him up on Megan's List.

Then there's the actual ad. An ad apparently designed by your great aunt Tillie, because it assumes that most people watching are completely overwhelmed by the complex intricacies of the cellular telephone.  And the ad seems not to realize that no one has made the "hey, guess where I'm calling from? Out on the Street!" call since about 1993.
Oh, they're complicated, oh they're expensive, oh the long-term contracts! Um, no. Have you been to Target lately? You can buy a phone for like thirty bucks and pay for. . . well why am I telling you? You're not a creepy white-haired freak with a rigor-mortis grimace where your smile should be. Of course, you're also not the sort of person who accepts "hey, ugly" as a substitute for witty banter either, so you're probably not in their target market.

Who Sarah Palin Boinks Is None of our Business.

Report: Palin, hoops star had 1-night tryst in 1987

MIAMI — A new book about “tea party” darling Sarah Palin has a salacious revelation about her sex life involving a well-known Miami sports star. 

 There are plenty of aspects of Sarah Palin's existence that can be criticized, mocked, or condemned. But who she may or may not have had sex with is not one of them. Even a person as awful as Sarah Palin is entitled to a private life. Whether or not she slept with a basketball player has nothing to do with any of the things that make her just awful. It's not relevant if she was a blushing virgin bride or whether she bedded the entire NBA.  Neither scenario makes her any more or less of an intellectually lazy, dimwitted, theocratic grifting quitter. No matter how many of her grandkids were conceived out of wedlock (two so far!) she is still the same amount of terrible.  There is no number of men she might have fucked that would make her any less monstrously unqualified to hold public office, or any more likely to ever hold one again. So let's not even discuss this.

Well, it's about time!

Tue Sep 13 03:28pm EDT

Principal makes cheerleaders don sweats under risque skirts

Okay, so maybe I'm a prude. But I find it very disturbing to see the overt sexualization of young cheerleaders. Many many years ago, when i was attending Cal State, there was some sort of cheerleader camp being held on campus. A bunch of young girls who looked to be in high school or maybe junior high, were being led by a male coach in an exercise that reveolved around the word "gigolo" being used as a verb. It went something like this:



I couldn't believe that no parents were complaining about their daughters being taught this sort of thing. Then a few years later, I joined a softball team that played on a field also used for pop warner football practice. And before our games would start, we would see the little boys practicing blocking and tackling and the little girls  practicing cheerleading. Why the little girls couldn't play a sport of their own instead of having to cheer for the boys is a whole other problem, but the mothers of these little girls seemed only to happy to teach them how to dance like Vegas Showgirls. I don't get it. Why anyone would teach their daughters that the highest level of achievement to which they can aspire is to be eye candy for the boys is just beyond me.
And am I the only one who finds the uniforms these girls have to wedge into disturbing?

 

I know I'm probably being a big old prude, but that is just wrong.


What is this girl, like 10, 12 years old? she's too young to even understand what's wrong with this outfit.

If the point of cheerleading is to lead cheers, as the name implies, why should the uniforms have to be all about T&A? You shouldn't have to be a half-naked girl to shout "Give me an A!" You don't even need to be a girl at all.

Yeah, I should NOT have done an image search for "Cheerleader + Bush!"

So anyway. . . .

As first reported by the San Jose Mercury News, the move to make cheerleaders wear sweats under their uniforms was enforced so they could fall in line with a dress code that requires all skirts or shorts to
stretch lower than mid-thigh. 

Sounds reasonable.

"This is really unfair to us," Piedmont Hills senior cheerleader Antonia Bavilacqua told the Mercury News. The skirts are still OK for games, just not during school.

Oh come on! Games are when these girls are going to be turning cartwheels and high-kicking, that's the worst time to be wearing these miniskirts!

Now Bavilacqua is leading a charge to try and get Williams to ease up on her enforcement of the rule, citing both a prior case in Florida, common sense (another cheerleader cited the weather concerns, saying "It's 95 degrees outside"), and fashion sense as reasons to allow the cheerleaders to wear their uniforms in school one day a week.

After all, as one of the squad's other senior cheerleaders said, wearing sweatpants under a miniskirt is, "dorky."

You know what isn't "dorky," young lady? Wearing proper clothing.
Okay, I'm officially a prude.

Pat Robertson Continues to be Disgusting

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