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Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-life balance more. (lemmy.world)
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I've seen others recently, but the two I saw today are a Capital One commercial and a Progressive commercial.

In the first, the Capital One guy is talking to a couple of people. He is asked what he does for fun, and he does not know what to say. Then, they cut to him getting ready to sleep at the bank.

Another is the Progressive commercial where Flo talks with another woman about vacations. The other woman doesn't seem to know what a vacation is. Flo begins describing what one is. In the end, she says she doesn't really know, gives up, and says she's never been on one either.

I was thinking about them while driving and came to the title thought.

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[–] 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I cut the cable TV cord in 1999. For whatever movies/TV we've wanted to watch, we've just gone to our public library to get DVDs and later on, streamed stuff.

uBO in all the browsers as well.

If you make a concerted effort, you can de-TV the household and it takes little time to find ways pick up on watching the things you like - w/o commercial interruption.. I could not imagine watching an evening of broadcast TV.

Given that the average show is now 40 minutes long - thats an hour of commercials between the 3 primetime hours of 8 and 11 pm.

I'm not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.

Fuck that shit.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’m not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.

    WHY WON'T YOU LOOK AT ME??? I LEFT YOU A BANANA IN THE MICROWAVE!!!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    YOU! YOU are the one that left the frigging banana in the microwave w/o telling me?

    The fucking thing rotted and became a fruit fly farm.. When I went to heat my leftovers, last Friday.. I released the swarm o'doom!

    BASTARD! I curse theeeEeeEe for eternity!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    wait they're 40 now? i could have sworn we has 22s and 52s. fuck.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yup! Pull down a torrent of a current season broadcast TV show and check out how long it isn't.

    52 minutes was the length of shows in the 60s and 70's. This is why it's almost impossible to see uncut episodes of the original Star Trek on a cable channel, let alone a broadcast one..

    It was already all but impossible to find when I cut the cord in '99.

    Looking at the commercial TV cable channels - I have the first 8 seasons of The Walking Dead.. they run from 43 to 51 minutes in length (though the longer ones appeared in the 8th season (?) - was that when the channels started overlaying ads during the credit rolls? I know that's a thing.)

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