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Wow... Chester's undergone some rather dramatic changes since last I remember.
So these commercials are telling me that if I eat Cheetos I'll start seeing a creepy orange cheetah with a weird british accent telling me to do extraordinarily evil things?
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See, I really like Cheetos. But those commercials make me almost want to stop buying them.
I can understand the "stick it to the man" mentality-- but co-workers, people at the laundromat (no matter how rude), the guy next to you on the plane-- these are not "the man." And none of these people had done anything worth being assaulted or having their property destroyed. They may be rude or thoughtless-- or in the case of the neat freak, just obsessive-compulsive, and not harming anyone-- I could even say the snoring guy might have sleep apnea-- but that does not give anyone the right to harm them or their property and I think it's extremely not cool to portray doing so as cool.
Or as I would tell my toddler or preschooler, "That is Not Okay."
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What's the problem? With the snoring guy, she was just fixing the problem. At the laundromat, that lady was a douche bag who deserved it. The only one that was mean was the coworker.
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In real life I wouldn't condone those things - when an imaginary, talking, anthropomorphic cheetah suggests that someone do them, it's comedy genius.
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quote:Originally posted by Elmer's Glue: What's the problem? With the snoring guy, she was just fixing the problem. At the laundromat, that lady was a douche bag who deserved it. The only one that was mean was the coworker.
The problem is, as I said before, that she assaulted the first guy and destroyed the second lady's stuff.
Not liking the way someone treats you (or in the one guy's case, breathes) does not give you the right to assault someone or willfully destroy their stuff.
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Yeah... I'm thinking no more Cheetos for me. I have no idea who these commercials are meant to appeal to. They're advertising Cheetos as a handy way to ruin things, rather than as a tasty snack. It's a bold statement: Cheetos, not for everybody anymore. Cheetos, the exclusive snackstuff of petty, immature-for-their-age, willfully destructive 11-13 year olds.
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So, the message here is that eating Cheetos causes you to hallucinate an animated cheetah who tells you to do things? Does he tell you to start fires?
I don't understand commercials that work to make their products (or spokesbeings) creepy. I refuse to eat at Burger King for fear that the big-headed king will leap out and be creepy at me.
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I feel this way about the commercial where the girl and the grandmother talk to the mother in text language (my BFF Rose). This is an argument for not letting my kids have cell phones, and particularly for not getting phone service from AT&T.
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