So, I’ve not had one in a while. I’ve refrained from doing rants because a positive attitude keeps me healthy. However, my counterpoint sarcastic attitude still roars strong.
We watched the Super Bowl yesterday. The game was both boring and nail biting. Two very well matched teams played a good game. We would’ve been happy with whoever won since we like both teams but I am glad that the Giants won ’cause I like Eli Manning. And Pierre-Paul. The game itself was good and I’m already sad that there’s no football until, what, August? Sigh.
But the reason a lot of folk watch the game is to see the very expensive ads that go for about $3.5 million for a 30 second slot. That’s a lot of money being wasted when it could have been used for so much more useful things like housing and food.
The commercials during this Super Bowl were particularly stupid. Yes, there were some good ones. Like Eastwood’s 2 minute ad for Chrysler. And the Dorito ad with the Great Dane. The baby for ETrade had a new one and it was funny. But they were dwarfed by the others. GoDaddy did not let anyone down. Their commercial of two sexy women putting body paint on a naked Dankika Patrick was boring. They’d had so many commercials that hinted at it and were even more sex filled that it was not the shock I think they were going for. Then there was the Fiat ad. What the fu– was that about? What an ugly car. Whatever happened to aerodynamics? Why are car makers pushing cardboard box shaped cars on us? I liked the one of the horribly overweight dog who exercised so he could chase a car but then it went to Star Wars?? WTF?
I read the headlines via Google news. One said that the commercials were making the Super Bowl less and less of a family show. And that is true. Everyone freaked when we kinda sorta got a glimpse of Janet Jackson’s boob during the infamous “wardrobe malfunction”. Yawn. Everyone was going nuts over that one and saying all ‘kids are watching’ stuff. No, most kids don’t watch the half time show. That’s when you run to the bathroom and refill your snack plate. Heck, at least this year I knew who the entertainer was. Was it last year that it was Black Eyed Peas? Or the year before? Anyway, I had no clue who they were and thought their “music” stank. Oh, last year was The Who, wasn’t it? Whatever, that was bad, too.
And now everyone is all bonkers over one of the performers flipping a bird at the camera. I didn’t see it and I was actually watching. Madonna is a performer I actually know (and was disappointed she performed all very old stuff that even I knew. and she lip sync-ed). So, anyway, she had some other Big Name folk on the stage with her. I didn’t know who the two women were but the one who flipped the bird is someone named M.I.A. Might be a group name? I dunno. So she flipped a bird. So what. Did the censors not see the Fiat ad? Or the GoDaddy ad? Who cares that she flipped a bird during a very active performance with cameras switching view every two seconds? How many people actually noticed it as it happened? How come no one is freaking that the other one all but said the word ‘shit’?
Okay, anyway, I am wandering. I don’t understand people. I don’t understand the standards being forced on us. Especially when the standards don’t fit all and aren’t consistent. A finger in the air is bad for kids but boobs in the face of a guy with coffee isn’t? I don’t understand all I know about this.