why is everybody losing their mind over a stupid commercial?

[mark414]

all yer doing is giving snickers free press.

turn off your damn tv's and go help an old lady cross the street.

christ.

that is all i have to say.

[Dr.Phool]

1. I'll tell you why I hate it.

I'm on a fucking diet, and I think I'd kill for a fucking Snickers right now! And I'd steal it out of it pit bulls mouth, not to mention another guys.

[Parche]

2. Snickers

They are all NUTS!!!!

[tigereye]

3. and this astronaut thing...

doesn't anyone have anything else to do?

Hi Mark!

[mark414]

6. the internet puts all the world's information at our fingertips

with the ability to get at least a basic understanding of what is going on around us, and this is what people choose to unleash their righteous indignation on?

yikes, it boggles the mind.

but it's okay, because i'm sitting here enjoying a cup of coffee and a cigarette, i have the day off work, listening to some fucking jams, and am still going strong even though i didn't go to bed last night.

and a big big hi back at ya...

[tigereye]

10. glad you are doing well! Good to see you around here again.

I'm having an easy work day - with no apptmts. til later on.

[Lex]

4. The ad's been pulled.

Settle down.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. thanks for the lecture

:eyes:

[treestar]

7. And just making a bad impression on that vast group of MOR

voters, who really don't like that kind of whining. People can be offended if they must, but making a big deal out of it plays right into right wing hands.

[Mike Daniels]

22. From what I've read Snickers pissed off people on both sides

Pissed off the left by having the guys react the way they did

Pissed off the right by having the guys "kiss" in the first place.

Me, I simply saw a stupid commercial that didn't serve to promote the product effectively in any fashion.

But as a protest against all the people bitching out Mars Candy/Snickers for this offense or the other, I bought a bar and enjoyed every damn bite of it.

[Name removed]

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[mark414]

11. holy shit, he lives....!

what's the good fucking word bro?? i have not been around for awhile though i think you might have heard why, all my traveling and broken bones and other shit...but life's been good. let me know what's goin on, send me a PM or something...i have a job offer in boston that i might take for this fall, we can go out and wreck the town if it happens

but otherwise i'll be out there in the springtime...word

[sniffa]

14. word

what kind of job? either way, it'LL be good to see you again.

[mark414]

15. working for the City Year group

(have you heard of them?)

my old boss works for their national office (in boston) and is trying to get me to come out there to work for him...just a lot of non-profit type community organizing stuff, to be brief

either way i'll let you know once spring approaches what the deal is...good to see yer still around and take it easy til then

[JackBeck]

18. Small world.

I have a meeting with 20-25 volunteers next week to discuss opportunites with our organization in NYC.

[JackRiddler]

12. perhaps

with some debate about who's really the asshoLe

[sniffa]

13. shouLdn't you be out stopping nucLear war?

i mean, it's more important than this stupid commerciaL.

[JackRiddler]

17. no

i've decided that it's probably a good idea

[Carni]

9. Adding to the controversy...it insults mechanics

MORE than it insults gay men IMO

Yes, it disses gay men but additionally it makes mechanics in general look like homophobic, rednecked, ugly neanderthals.

I say this in the spirit of a joke in response to the OP, but honestly I find the ad additionally offensive due to the forementioned!

[Selatius]

16. It's more interesting than talking about the fucking war in Iraq or...

jobs, outsourcing, union smashing, poverty, crime, health care, public education, the environment, or any other of your choice.

[donco6]

19. Actually, it had died down . . . until now.

Sigh.

[mark414]

21. whoops

my apologies...i haven't been around for a couple days and was blown away that this has somehow become an issue

:shrug:

[donco6]

23. 's Okay. It was an ugly chapter better left closed, IMO.

But you should read the threads at least. They're pretty revealing.

[jonnyblitz]

26. just when you THOUGHT it died down...

*sigh*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=152870&mesg_id=152870

[ileus]

20. will this drive the price of a snickers bar down? if not who cares?

[gratuitous]

24. With all due respect

If this doesn't make a whit of difference to you, butt out. For some people, including a lot of people I care about, this is just another calculated insult to the very core of their being, holding up their identity to further ridicule and inviting some more abuse.

If the M&M/Mars company wants to sell candy bars, and wants to advertise to do it, more power to them. But do they have to injure a vulnerable segment of society to do so? Would you be more sensitive if the commercial portrayed unemployed persons in a negative light, and invited the public to sit in judgment of people who are out of work? Seems to me life is tough enough when you're looking for a job without some "stupid" commercial piling on like that.

[mark414]

25. so turn off the tv

and don't buy their products. you don't think i have people that i care about that this ad insults? i absolutely do.

but it's a stupid commercial. there are much bigger and more important things that do more real damage to the people insulted by this ad.

mountains out of molehills.

* and i am going to stop posting in this thread so it can sink to the bottom where it belongs

[gratuitous]

28. I don't know -- do you?

Because the people I care about run enough risks in their lives without a stupid commercial on broadcast television during the most-watched sporting event in the nation giving further ideas to a society that doesn't have their best interests in mind as it is.

It doesn't matter whether I or you or any individual turns off the television; it's the impression that's fostered in society at large. And if you now want to run away from the stink bomb you just threw out here, that's fine with me; but I have to say that it's really, really offensive to try to tell someone else that because you aren't personally affected by something that they shouldn't be, either.

[LostinVA]

30. Thank you for this post n/t

[jonnyblitz]

27. ok if you have read the bazillion threads explaining WHY

this might be a big deal to some of us silly homos and STILL ask this question then i just give the fuck up already. this place is becoming a clueless fucking cesspool. :eyes:

[Duncan Grant]

29. Because its emblematic of things like this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2722145&mesg_id=2722145

There is that "forest for the trees" thingy...