Super Bowl Commercial Skewer-a-thon

tunabomber writes: "Those planning on tuning in to America's Patriotic Sports TV Event of the Year to catch the new commercials will no longer have to sit through all that football filler. PBS, of all networks, is airing a postgame show in which the subject of discussion is not the game, but the commercials. Super Commercials: A Mental Engineering Special is a beefed-up episode of the cultish Mental Engineering series where a panel of experts, including former Daily Show host Lizz Winstead and a Silicon Valley computer scientist, critique (read: eviscerate) Super Bowl commercials. There are also blurbs about this at The Kansas City Star and The St. Paul Star Tribune." One thing you'll be able to look forward to: fewer sock puppet commercials, more anti-terror commercials.

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Re:Fantastic

[Guppy06]

"In reality, the only actual drug/terror link would be in opium-related narcotics (ie heroin), but I don't expect the super bowl ads will mention that."

And how do you think FARC in Colombia make their money? Selling cookies at bake sales? They're only the most prominent example, but they aren't the only group of people making their money by growing drugs or "taxing" their export.

"Personally, I'm 100% certain that when I buy MY drugs, they're locally grown and I'm in no way supporting terrorism."

And we all know how reputable dealers are... assuming they're high enough in the supply chain to even know where it came from...

"And it makes me awfully bitter that my taxes are being spent on a pair of superbowl ads that do nothing but slander me and the millions of other innocent americans who happen to enjoy smoking pot."

And you're suposed to be some kind of "victim" in all this? What you "happened" to do was make a conscious decision to do something that's been illegal for the better part of a century. You really have no idea if what you smoke came from a hydroponics lab in someone's attic or from a Abu Sayef field. And when it comes right down to it, you really don't care. If you did, the ramifications of supporting the domestic drug trade would have stopped you long before now. But if the potential of joining those 3/4 million people you mention elsewhere in your post didn't give you pause, what will?

So quit your damned bitching and take your lumps. You made your choice, deal with it. Better yet, go distract yourself by smoking a joint instead. So long as MY tax dollars have to go towards funding methodone clinics, USCG interdictions, and training foreign police and military forces, they'll go towards these commercials as well.

"There are real threats to this country right now."

Ignore the old man behind the curtain!

Britney.... validator of homoerotic desire.....

[simetra]

I didn't watch Homoerotic Festival, er, I mean the Super Bowl last year... but, I did see clips from the half time show, in which

Britney Spears wore football player clothing

What is remarkable about this? It doubles the excitement for the Fan of All Things Homoerotic (ie., football enthousiast) in this way:

1. Fan is subconsciously turned on by Britney-As-A-Ball-Player(man).

2. Fan's turn-on is legitimatized by the masquerade of this Homoerotic element in the form of the socially accepted object-of-desire, Britney. Fan can thereby consciously acknowledge the desire.

Personally, I'd rather see her in a dress, but hey, I'm not into Homoeroticism! :)