The saga of KEVIN?!?!

[blackiestark]

No, I'm not watching the Gay Superbowl. Not this year. The nominees bore me to tears.

However, if I were watching TV (anymore), the chances are very good that I'd see my favorite commercial at least 19 or 20 times in the space of an hour. By "favorite," I mean that in the snarky, quoty, irony-y sense: something I hated for months, resisted in every

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[myrthrilmercury]

The local blogger in town did an entry recently about overly paranoid people. Someone called the cops because a man was taking pictures of kids at the park. How do we know that wasn't a parent, grandparent, or the photographer from the local paper? There was also another instance where someone called the cops because a kid was walking with an adult the caller had never seen before. It was the kid's grandfather.

Like the blog entry says, there is not a pervert behind every tree. If that van in the commercial you linked to had a big sign reading "FREE CANDY," or the kid is screaming and trying to get away, then yes, call the police.

[blackiestark]

*drives up in a van that says FREE HENTAI*

[bealsabubbette]

BWAHAHAHAHA!

[nsingman]

Ooh, ooh, it's Hentai Man! It's HENTAI MAN!!!

I want some Eiken, and some Stepmother's Sin, and do you have any stuff with really busty lesbians?

[alladinsane]

Caught some of the OScar stuff tonight and posted my usual stuff...

For the first time in eons had to leave the show in midstream due to uncle visiting and sleeping in the TV room...and the interesting part is I really dont care all that much...

Ah exploitation...of course as usual obscures the facts that the overwhelming majority of child snatching is done by someone the child knows(not knocking stranger danger by any means but the emphasis tends to go in the less needed direction)

[blackiestark]

Good point. I'd forgotten that little stat!

[bealsabubbette]

it's the same with rape. more likely to be someone you know than someone you don't.

[alpha_strike]

And murder, too! Your family is more likely to kill you than a stranger.

And kids just needs an RFID tag. The ads could say something like "You chip your pets to get them home safely. Don't you love your child as much as your dog you horrible person who should be wracked with guilt for even thinking that Little Kevin doesn't deserve a tag?"

And most kids are taken by non-custodial parents. But I think we should chip them anyway.

[crystalgee]

Hmm I've never noticed the van before.. guess I'm not maternal material..

*breathes sigh of relief...

[blackiestark]

*cackle*

[mfbob]

To follow-up on this clip, Kevin's mom recently enrolled him in the Little Angels children program. It's okay since Kevin's tagged like an endangered wolf.

[blackiestark]

[jeanerj]

How relieved we must all be that the manufacturers of essential consumer products have deflected their promotional skills, formerly involving large breasts, booty, and crotch shots, to the more alerting and personal, such as, 'Because you are lazy and, as a parent, an obvious abomination, we will now chainsaw your child into soup. Then, we come after the puppies.' Well, another milestone in the ever-desperate world of marketing: free-floating guilt and incipient paranoia. I'm thrilled, yes *thrilled*, that the Duracell folks think so highly of us.

[soundwave106]

Judging from some of the newspaper articles I've seen, at least among a certain sect of the population, Duracell is right on target.

As are the marketeers who use teh large boobies, for a completely different sect.

Marketers seem to have a cynical view of humanity; also a correct one, sadly.

[blackiestark]

More proof that the world is driven by greed and fear, and that's all it's driven by.

[blackiestark]

Stuff like this makes me yearn for a world full of the kind of advertising people used to get upset about, the kind from before I was born -- It's Ajax! Boom boom! The foaming cleanser! Foaming cleanser you say? Charming!