My current Rant
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:33 pm
OK, I've watched the early weeks of football season, and thus, a LOT of beer advertising. Two sets of ads have me bugged, and here's my rant:
The Bud Light commercials--WTF is up with a series suggesting that it is un-manly for some guy in the group NOT to bring/consume Bud Light, risking his 'man-card'? Seriously, folks, when has it not been an automatic,
permanent revokation of one's man-card to consume ANY Light Beer? Really, the stuff is all watery piss, and unless you have the Body Mass Index of a walrus or a sumo wrestler there is NO excuse for a real man to consume a Light Beer.
Speaking of Light Beers, the topper might be the Coors Light commercial, you know, the one with the 'Bar Exam'. Let's examine this one. First, the guy gets a call from a very attractive young woman, interested in spending the evening. He tells her, 'Sorry, I'm studying for the Bar Exam'. Said exam consists of this nitwit trying to figure out what the temperature-coded bars on the beer bottle mean. Then, to show his true lack of interest in the opposite sex, the ad shows him walking through the bar, where two women inquire, "are you a lawyer?". Here, given the opportunity to do as any red-blooded male would do, and lie like a rug in order to get laid, he laughs and says No. Really? Does anyone wish to emulate this putz? Not to even get into the fact that the beer in question sells itself on it's ability to get cold. Isn't that the refrigerator's job?
Rant off, feel free to discuss. I am off to Virginia for several days in hope of landing an enormous Red Drum, or at least some bluefish and sharks.
The Bud Light commercials--WTF is up with a series suggesting that it is un-manly for some guy in the group NOT to bring/consume Bud Light, risking his 'man-card'? Seriously, folks, when has it not been an automatic,
permanent revokation of one's man-card to consume ANY Light Beer? Really, the stuff is all watery piss, and unless you have the Body Mass Index of a walrus or a sumo wrestler there is NO excuse for a real man to consume a Light Beer.
Speaking of Light Beers, the topper might be the Coors Light commercial, you know, the one with the 'Bar Exam'. Let's examine this one. First, the guy gets a call from a very attractive young woman, interested in spending the evening. He tells her, 'Sorry, I'm studying for the Bar Exam'. Said exam consists of this nitwit trying to figure out what the temperature-coded bars on the beer bottle mean. Then, to show his true lack of interest in the opposite sex, the ad shows him walking through the bar, where two women inquire, "are you a lawyer?". Here, given the opportunity to do as any red-blooded male would do, and lie like a rug in order to get laid, he laughs and says No. Really? Does anyone wish to emulate this putz? Not to even get into the fact that the beer in question sells itself on it's ability to get cold. Isn't that the refrigerator's job?
Rant off, feel free to discuss. I am off to Virginia for several days in hope of landing an enormous Red Drum, or at least some bluefish and sharks.
