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A nice co-worker sent me this link. She knows I'm not a TV viewer. Will & Grace's wardrobe shop. I'm absolutely blown away by that.

BE GOOD SHEEP. Look like your favourite fictional TV characters. Do not think for yourself. TV people are your friends. Living cheque to cheque? You need to buy more products so you can look better off than you really are.

I'm not sure what disgusts me more; the site or the robots that flock to it credit card in hand.
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  • Hey! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by M.C. Hampster ( 541262 ) <M@C@TheHampster.gmail@com> on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @10:43AM (#11942981) Journal

    Where's the one for Star Trek Enterprise!?!?

  • Whoa! (Score:3, Informative)

    by Ethelred Unraed ( 32954 ) * on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @10:47AM (#11943010) Journal
    Thanks for the link! I've been looking for stuff like th...

    Oh, er, uhhhhh, I condemn this shameful display of mindless consumerism. Give me a harrumph, gentlemen!

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

  • Truly Sad... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by eno2001 ( 527078 ) on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @10:51AM (#11943034) Homepage Journal
    ...but, can I buy Debra Messing? ;P

    Actually my wife is reading a book right now called "Born to Buy" (I think that's the title). It's all about how marketing is heavily geared towards children and is creeping up in all sorts of insidious ways. The main emphasis on most of the advertising is to try and make affluent lifestyles appear to be the norm. Ads and television programs try to make the lifestyle of six figure folks seem like average lifestyles thereby creating the desire for more consumer goods than one can afford. Combine that with the constant message that adults are, at best, fools and kids "know the score" and you have a recipe for a whole new generation of uber-consumers. We're already there and I think the website you posted points this out. People want to live like what they see on TV, even if they can't afford to. That's because what they see on TV is being pushed as "normal". I don't know how you wake people up out of the haze that television has set upon them. Not that I'm opposed to TV. I love to watch more than I should myself, but I know that what I watch and how I live are completely different. My sub $40,000 a year can't support the kind of living I see on TV.

    • It's all about how marketing is heavily geared towards children

      I'm studying in a university where I don't have all this and I guess it's a mix of education (from the parents) and intelligence. As far as I can remember, advertisment never influenced me.

      I stopped caring about all this consumerism a long time ago and now, I only pity (the fools ;) those who buy all this kind of shit. The geeks (0.1% of the population) live in their closed computer world but uber-consumers (more than 95% of the population)

      • You might enjoy:

        http://reciprocality.org/
        http://www.reciprocal ity.org/Reciprocality/index.h tml

        The first few articles are great, but the ones at the end are just weird.

        Of course, the other thing to worry about is, what are they doing to keep the geeks happy? We feel superior because we the intelligensia of Slashdot ( :) ) are clearly better than the average person. But what are we doing to stop it? (This includes me).

    • The main emphasis on most of the advertising is to try and make affluent lifestyles appear to be the norm. Ads and television programs try to make the lifestyle of six figure folks seem like average lifestyles thereby

      Your post reminds me of the quote from Fight Club:

      "We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't, and we're slowly learning that fact, and we're very very pissed off."

      Anyway, I'm glad I didn't get cable

  • Awhile back, in relation to the idiocy that is "Choicepoint" (tag line: "We steal your info, so they don't have to... oh... wait"), I said the Internet needs a good enema to flush this sort of shit out.

    I would like to retract that statement and point out that our whole society needs a good enema. The problem here is that we haven't had a good old fashioned slap in the face to make us re-evaluate our priorities in too long. A good old fashioned World War could do the trick...

    Of course, the next step is the

    • Re:You Work With Imbeciles (Score:2, Interesting)

      by grub ( 11606 )

      Actually she's not an imbecile, she was disturbed by it as well. The "Bread and Circuses" control of modern civilization is complete. Most people in western culture are well fed and kept under control with TV. It's a disgusting state we're in yet most people think I'm the one that's screwed up when I voice my opinion on most TV and entertainment.
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        • What a wanker you are! People who watch TV and/or buy clothes, are of course, mindless robots that are controlled by TV. They are credit card wielding morons with no money. They are disgusting.

          The majority are. Look at personal debt levels in the industrialized world. They're sky high with little being saved for retirement. Everyone needs clothes, I don't make my own you know, but I don't waste money on corporate logos on my shirts or jeans :)

          Somehow, you find it acceptable to inorganically group millio

  • Ick (Score:2, Interesting)

    by http ( 589131 )
    That is crreeeepy.
    I was convinced to stop watching television (I'd already stopped owning one) many moons ago by a friend who challenged me, "Name three cast members or characters of the show "Friends". Now name three neighbours on your block."
    • Woohoo! I can't be doing that badly. I can't name anyone from Friends because I didn't like the show or watch it. But, I can name at least three of my neighbors. :)

    • Re:Ick (Score:1)

      by grub ( 11606 )
      That's a great challenge. I shall use it.
  • I've noticed the gulf between me and pop culture yawning ever wider. I'm hearing more and more mentions of shows I've never heard of, I think there's even now a few networks I've never seen. I can only imagine what the newsscape (perfectly cromulent word, get your finger off the 'reply' link) must be like for those glued to a TV as opposed to those of us in a primarily textual environment. I figure as time goes by I'll experience more and more separation from the rest of the culture, and it will probably st

    • A few weeks ago I was at my girlfriend's house when that show Simple Life came on. I've never seen it before (no cable or antenna) so I grudginly watched it with her. After it was done I said "That show epitomizes everything I hate about TV."

      Think: those two spoiled twats are making fun of "average folk" in the show. Now a viewer can watch that and feel superior to "average folk" because they may have a better outfit (from WalMart, of course) or a nicer lawn. The viewer feels comfort and a bit superior. I
      • It's all a ruse.

        And it's working beautifully :-) Don't believe me? Just look at the people who occupy the various capitol buildings around the country...and the white house, and tell me it aint so.
      • I can't agree more. It's all a colorful ruse to increase capital for those few who hold the strings of entertainment.

        I too saw "Simple Life" for the first time in much the same way. Hell I didn't know what CSI was until late last year. And though I'm exteremely liberal, I find myself discusted by the progressivly dark subject matter and topics these forensic & law/cop shows seem to air. Don't get me wrong, they should be free from censorship to write whatever they want into their shows. But it just s

  • D'oh (Score:2)

    by m50d ( 797211 )
    Link in the email notification I got of this was "Get a fucking". Quick edit there or what?

    • Re:D'oh (Score:1)

      by grub ( 11606 )
      You got me. :) I was going to say "Get a fucking life" then was sidetracked and editted the JE. Whoops. Changed it to just "Life"
  • Hey Grub... when I look in my messages, your JE shows up as "Get a Fucking". But when I actually go to this JE, it says, "Get a Life". Do you know something I don't?

  • Well... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Mmm coffee ( 679570 ) on Tuesday March 15, 2005 @07:01PM (#11947931) Journal
    I think this is just yet another example that we need to take our culture back into our own hands, now that we have:
    1. Near professional quality equiment for cheap
    2. Near professional quality editing software for damn near free (and in some cases free
    3. The ability to freely distribute on a global scale (The internet + bittorrent)
    I'm very surprised that a Free Soft^WMedia movement hasn't sprung up yet. Everything's crap. We can make "not crap".
    • And we have various ??AA groups trying to outlaw the third one. It doesn't take much thought to realize that this is why they're villifying P2P. There are lots of people doing their best to make sure that "not crap" never gets on the air...including the people we buy from and vote for.
    • This is actually brilliant... why hasn't someone smart done this yet?
  • Gah! now I feel all dirty. the thing I dont get is one of the front page items is "Medium wash jeans with yellow stitching by Citizens of Humanity"

    Which "Citizens of Humanity" is that? are they allowed to take bathroom breaks?

    I've had a mock-ad for "Bliss Shoes" [popealien.com] for the last six years or so, and I guess somebody recently started making a brand with that name, because people searching for that term on Google are finding my page. Makes me proud to do my tiny bit of subvertising.

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