Nobody thinks
Yet more stupidity. Has anyone read a label, listened to an ad, or read a slogan and actually thought about what it said? Obviously the people that write them don't, or they figure that in a country that cares more about the foibles of people on 'American Idol' than the fact that they don't have a damn job it doesn't really matter.
Case in point. On a can of Del Monte fruit: "Same Nutrients as Fresh!" Why the hell wouldn't it have the 'same nutrients as fresh'? It's goddamn fruit.
I saw a semi the other day and the slogan of the trucking company was: 'We Do It Right the First Time'. Let's think about this for a second. The truck goes to point A and the people load goods onto the truck to take to point B. The truck drives to point B and the people there offload the goods. It seems to me that this is a job you either do or you don't do - there is no doing it "right". There is no scale of quality in taking stuff from one place to another. If you go to the wrong place then you haven't done the job...there's no "right" or "wrong" about it. If they do it "right", how in the heck do you do it "wrong"? Drive in reverse while smoking crack the whole way?
I heard a radio ad for some program which purports to be a method for curing alcoholism at home. That's interesting in itself. But what I really found intriguing is that they said "If this isn't the most effective at-home program to stop drinking you've tried we'll refund your money!" I wondered if there are any other ones to compare it with, yes, but I got to thinking...how would you get your money back anyway?
You would have to pay for and do their entire lengthy program and have it fail. Then you would have to pay for and do the entire program from a competitor and have it work. Then you would have to go back to the people from the first program and show that you followed both to the letter, you are no longer a drunk, and that it was the second program that did it so you can get your money back in the unlikely event that that company even exists any more. Gimme a break.
Case in point. On a can of Del Monte fruit: "Same Nutrients as Fresh!" Why the hell wouldn't it have the 'same nutrients as fresh'? It's goddamn fruit.
I saw a semi the other day and the slogan of the trucking company was: 'We Do It Right the First Time'. Let's think about this for a second. The truck goes to point A and the people load goods onto the truck to take to point B. The truck drives to point B and the people there offload the goods. It seems to me that this is a job you either do or you don't do - there is no doing it "right". There is no scale of quality in taking stuff from one place to another. If you go to the wrong place then you haven't done the job...there's no "right" or "wrong" about it. If they do it "right", how in the heck do you do it "wrong"? Drive in reverse while smoking crack the whole way?
I heard a radio ad for some program which purports to be a method for curing alcoholism at home. That's interesting in itself. But what I really found intriguing is that they said "If this isn't the most effective at-home program to stop drinking you've tried we'll refund your money!" I wondered if there are any other ones to compare it with, yes, but I got to thinking...how would you get your money back anyway?
You would have to pay for and do their entire lengthy program and have it fail. Then you would have to pay for and do the entire program from a competitor and have it work. Then you would have to go back to the people from the first program and show that you followed both to the letter, you are no longer a drunk, and that it was the second program that did it so you can get your money back in the unlikely event that that company even exists any more. Gimme a break.
posted by Soulend at 7:58 AM
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