This Christmas- give the gift of thoughtlessness
17 Dec 2008 4 Comments
in angry megan
Last night I was watching TV with my friends and we couldn’t help but get frustrated with the copious amount of nauseating jewelry commercials!! It was starting to make me angry and then what pushed me over the top was THE WORST JEWELRY AD I’VE SEEN YET:
Basically what that just said to me is this: “Because you don’t really give a shit about doing something nice for your girlfriend — give her jewelry.” Wow. It prompted me and my friends (guys and girls) to get into a discussion about jewelry commercials and how ridiculous and often offensive they are. And then I saw this video this morning…
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So here’s my questions to you guy out there: Do you even notice the increased amount of jewelry commercials around the holidays? And if so, does it make you think you should be buying your lady a “Diamond Journey Pendant” from Zales? And if you actually did, did she chuck it at your thoughtless head? (Okay, maybe not that last question, but I am seriously curious about the first two.)
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Dec 18, 2008 @ 06:29:00
have you seen the dolce & gabanna jewelry ads?i REALLY dont get those!
Dec 18, 2008 @ 06:48:00
obviously they’re young, hot, kleptomaniacs who really love watches and don’t understand the concept of metal detectors.
Dec 18, 2008 @ 14:04:00
Around here it’s “He went to Jared!”…enough so that last Christmas, before he knew how to read, Ethan read the Jared sign on a store and said ‘Look, Dad, we should go to Jared!”
Dec 18, 2008 @ 16:52:00
ah! well, apparently it works on the young ones. Aaron told me last night that those commercials make him NEVER want to buy me jewelry ever again!