Hey Ladies!!! Really? Why?

Why the heck would I want to buy a cereal that calls out to me just so I can watch animated swirled squares snack on one another? There is nothing cute, sexy, tempting, or even sweet about this commercial.

It makes me bite my tongue every time it comes on, as my significant other is so tired of me complaining about this commercial. It isn’t funny either and I have a real problem with a cereal that we know is really being marketed to kids with the level of violence in this commercial and yet we wonder why our kids have no moral compasses anymore.

One thing is for sure I would have never bought this cereal for my son when he was little if this had been the advertising.

We badmouth a commercial because there is an interracial family being shown. Who cares! Interracial families are normal anymore. Now if this had been the 60’s or early 70’s then yeah I can see the stupidity coming out of people’s mouths.

We’ve nixed the “Mikey likes it” commercial because who knows why other than it was a plain and simple statement.

But it is okay to have someone yell out “Hey Ladies!” so we can watch said animated squares now race around an empty bowl to chomp on one another? What are these ad designers smoking? Because it sure has killed most of their collective brain cells if they think this type of ad is amusing.

I wonder how many little girls have woken up from nightmares of gigantic brown squares chasing them with those huge teeth.

How many kids think it is all right to bite someone because those squares do it all the time and they don’t get into trouble?

Maybe if enough of us write to the company that makes this cereal and tell them how offensive this ad is to us they will take another look at how they are marketing their sugar coated cardboard squares.

I know I won’t be buying this cereal anytime soon because of these cannibalistic little critters.

 

So what commercial do you find irritating?

Here’s the Windup and the Pitch!

Foul ball! Being a blogger I get many pitches. Most want to post on my other blog, which I will not affiliate with this one for common sense reasons. Most are on the mark and others don’t have a clue but the one I just received wasn’t a request to post but a sales letter for me to join their stable of bloggers.

While I blog about four footed critters I only have two so why would I waste my time waiting for an assignment that more than likely would not be of interests to me? What pissed me off was the last line of the letter:If you are looking to earn additional monthly revenue then I strongly urge you to sign up with us. (Copied directly from the letter)

Really? You strongly urge me to do what you want. Not going to happen buddy.  Curiosity isn’t limited to the cat so I decided to check out this stable for bloggers. What I found was an obnoxiously colored front page. Remember walking into kindergarten with all the primary colors on the wall, which is what their front page is like. Strike One!

While it was easy to maneuver around the site, it was the white lettering on the bright blue background that activated my motion sickness. Hadn’t anyone told them that this is a major no no? Strike Two!

The about us page was plain black and white and had pictures of the people running the site along with the claim: We’ve been named Best in Search by TopSEOs. Nice feather in your hat guys only problem that was last year according to the gif to your left. Ball One! How appropriate since it appears to be only men running the site.

The sign up page was simple and easy to read but wait that sales letter didn’t say anything about being an affiliate. 10% for referred advertisers and 5% for more fingers to fill your stable really? Ball Two!

Finally, I checked out the contact us page. Mainly to find out where they were located which was listed as Connecticut. They give you a phone number to call if you have any questions but it was this statement : You can also reach us during business hours that got me as it doesn’t say Eastern Standard Time.  The phone number is at the top of the page and the address is at the bottom. In the hustle and bustle of our time-constricted day, not many would scroll the few extra centimeters to see the address. Strike Three!

I guess I should say that my screen is attached to a notebook computer so maybe the address show on a bigger screen.