False Advertising!
Bitching about dumb ads today.
1) "True." Dating service. "Full to the seams with single women" the ads say. Images of closeups of just boobs. Or the latest one: blond in bikini with a heart shaped pillow grinning lewdly at the camera. (I'm getting this because they're all over the Dilbert website.) Are you seriously telling me that single women actually looking for a relationship would flock to a website that sells itself using sex? Weird, huh?
2)Election season stuff for student government. The candidates are getting really in-your-face this semester. Aside from the fact that I've lately come to realise how horribly shallow student officials are (read: most are doing this for their CVs, not for the community. Our "student president" 2 years ago was a B, C average student but got into MIT from his position. I know a prominent senator who never comes to class and gets near failing grades. Reading the stuff these guys spew in the school newspaper really pisses me off - mostly high sounding but empty words, lots of buzz-words but very little action. But I digress...)
OK. where was I? Yes. Student government. So they're running for government, and they &^(&@# put up 100s of flyers on noticeboards all over campus, covering up everyone else's stuff. Talk about egotism. (Add the campaign ads chalked all over the floor around campus and in the city, and its a hell of a mess. They're just vandalising the school with their ads because they never bother to clean up afterwards... )
But I digress again. My main problem is that those very same boards with 20-30 election flyers (from the same 5 people) have a sign above them saying "Do not use staples. Do not put up more than 2 of the same flyer." And these dickheads put up 10 or more flyers and staple them all. Talk about anti-social. Now, why should I vote for someone who is a) a criminal (in the sense that they're vandalising school property - stapled flyers are very hard to remove ) and b) completely selfish (dammit, I want to read the OTHER notices on the board, about seminars and stuff, not 10 copies of the same stupid slogan)?
I'm casting protest votes this year.
PS: annoying fact about our school's student politicians - they're all about special interest groups. So annoying because I'm not in the greek system. Also annoying because the best way to get anything from student government, is guess what? Being friends with an official. School politics - your first introduction to cronyism and other forms of official corruption.
Bitching about dumb ads today.
1) "True." Dating service. "Full to the seams with single women" the ads say. Images of closeups of just boobs. Or the latest one: blond in bikini with a heart shaped pillow grinning lewdly at the camera. (I'm getting this because they're all over the Dilbert website.) Are you seriously telling me that single women actually looking for a relationship would flock to a website that sells itself using sex? Weird, huh?
2)Election season stuff for student government. The candidates are getting really in-your-face this semester. Aside from the fact that I've lately come to realise how horribly shallow student officials are (read: most are doing this for their CVs, not for the community. Our "student president" 2 years ago was a B, C average student but got into MIT from his position. I know a prominent senator who never comes to class and gets near failing grades. Reading the stuff these guys spew in the school newspaper really pisses me off - mostly high sounding but empty words, lots of buzz-words but very little action. But I digress...)
OK. where was I? Yes. Student government. So they're running for government, and they &^(&@# put up 100s of flyers on noticeboards all over campus, covering up everyone else's stuff. Talk about egotism. (Add the campaign ads chalked all over the floor around campus and in the city, and its a hell of a mess. They're just vandalising the school with their ads because they never bother to clean up afterwards... )
But I digress again. My main problem is that those very same boards with 20-30 election flyers (from the same 5 people) have a sign above them saying "Do not use staples. Do not put up more than 2 of the same flyer." And these dickheads put up 10 or more flyers and staple them all. Talk about anti-social. Now, why should I vote for someone who is a) a criminal (in the sense that they're vandalising school property - stapled flyers are very hard to remove ) and b) completely selfish (dammit, I want to read the OTHER notices on the board, about seminars and stuff, not 10 copies of the same stupid slogan)?
I'm casting protest votes this year.
PS: annoying fact about our school's student politicians - they're all about special interest groups. So annoying because I'm not in the greek system. Also annoying because the best way to get anything from student government, is guess what? Being friends with an official. School politics - your first introduction to cronyism and other forms of official corruption.
posted by Enforced Equanimity at 9:44 PM
1 Comments:
1. Don't know site you're talking about so I can't comment about its "authenticity". But. Think of webcam girls. Think of trophy wives and the people who choose to be them. Think of the possibility of intentional misrepresentation. Think of supply and demand, and the value each party assigns to the respective goods being traded. Lastly, think of confidence, or more precisely, the lack thereof, which at least is a problem, a very real one.
2. What can I say? At least you're getting an education in real world politics. Why get fed lofty ideals if they're going to be shattered sooner or later? Might as well face facts, fast.
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