I Have Seen the Future and It Creeps Me the F&%$ Out

[snurri]

I don't know if I'm squeamish or what, but there are two recent commercials in heavy rotation that I can't watch; I mean that I literally have to look away until they are over, or change the channel. The first is that AT&T commercial where the texting thumbs have FACES on them. Right, because the world would be better if our fingers were able to carry on conversations that our mouths are too busy to have. AGH! It makes my thumbnails itch, it is so damn wrong.

The other commercials are the XBox 360 commercials where they pan around the people's heads to show that the back of them have been blown open to become a stage, etc. Man, I'm sure glad that special effects have progressed this far, but if the future means that I'll be watching movies on the inside of the guy's skull in front of me on the bus, I'm heading back to the fourteenth century. In the fetal position.

Comments

[lagringa.livejournal.com]

I don't like the texting thumbs either but the ads that gross me out even more are the ones on TV in New York State about lung cancer and quitting smoking. There's one where a guy squeezes what looks like a pound of pus out of a dead guy's artery. I saw that ad and actually ran to the bathroom and lost my dinner.

I mean, I DON'T SMOKE! Don't do that to me! Gah!!!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I can't believe they can even put that on TV. When are you watching, like 3 AM?