January 2
Posted by barabbas9 on January 2, 2009
OK, so, I haven’t watched television for about 7 months now so I’m not “hip” to what’s cool I guess. Honestly, I don’t even miss it. When we watch TV there’s always a raft of crap that winds up getting stuck in your head and changing your outlook on life and I just don’t care to have the morals of society shoved down my throat. I think that we become so immersed in the popular culture of the world that we loose site of what’s really important. I don’t want to be conformed to the world, I want to be transformed by the renewing of my mind. However, some of the commercials are just downright hilarious! And they’re not vulgar.
Case in point: I was online (comcast.net) the other day and clicked on an ad for their new superdooper, warpspeed, internet connection out of curiosity. What came up was so funny, I couldn’t stop laughing for about 5 minutes. I actually watched it about 4 or 5 times in a row. It was so cool that I e-mailed some of my friends saying, “ho ho ho ha ha ha this is so funny, you’ve got to watch it.” A little later, one of my friends writes back to me and says, “This has been on TV for a while… it’s Comast’s latest commercial.” I’m so thankful she sent that to me when she did because I was literally about 2 seconds from hitting “send” on an e-mail to about 30 people telling them, “ho ho ho ha ha ha this is so funny, you’ve got to watch it.”
At first I felt like a third grader hearing the joke about the chicken crossing the road to get to the other side. Then I realized that it was pretty cool that I haven’t seen it yet. There’s blessings in being naive about some things I guess. Anyway, please bear with me and watch this video. Ho ho ho ha ha ha it’s so funny, you’ve got to watch it. Again.
David
http://www.comcast.com/fastestfast/
Angie said
Well, it may be the latest commercial over there but Jack and I have never seen it. He laughed so hard he snorted and then asked if he could watch it again. It’s a winner!
Angie said
I have more-or-less stopped watching t.v. because, like you, I don’t want to be conformed to society and I just don’t have the time. I recently discovered this is hard for some people to believe when I was in line at the post office. Paul asked me to ship three boxes he had packed with personal belongings that he couldn’t fit into his suitcases when he left Germany. These items were packed in boxes we had been collecting from various shipments we had received over the previous months. So, of course, there were priority mail labels and other markings on the boxes.
I followed Paul’s instructions and went to the post office during the Christmas rush – not something I wanted to do. After I was waited on by the clerk, she said to me “Ma’am you’re going to have to cover up the priority mail stickers with brown tape.” and handed me a roll. I looked at the amount of priority mail stickers on each package and realizing I didn’t have a pair of scissors on me, let out a sigh. The guy in line behind me snorted and said “Obviously you don’t watch the AFN (Armed Forces Network) Commercials.” I smiled and replied “Actually, I don’t watch television” – his eyes widened and his expression became a mixture of horror and surprise at the same time. Who knows what he thought as he hurried away from me as though I was a leper…