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Joe
Citizen
Username: Gonets
Post Number: 1320
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 10:18 am: | 
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Has anyone seen the latest Hummer commercials?
One has a guy at a checkout counter buying salad and tofu type food, while the guy in front of him has enough meat to bbq for 50 plus. Anway, the salad guy's expression betrays the fact that he's going through a profound sexual identity crisis the only thing to decidely push him into the man camp is buying a Hummer, which he does without hesitation.
The other commercial has an overly protective mother alongside her boy who's waiting his turn to get on a slide. Out of nowhere comes a kid who cuts him in line. His mom's right there. The overly protective mom says, "Johnny was ahead of him." To which the pushy kid's mom responds, "Well, now Johnny's behind him."
Cut to a shot of this lady behind the wheel wearing a psychotic grin that conveys she's relishing the thought of all the people she's going to run off the road on the way home.
Basically, they're saying if you're an a-hole do we have a car for you.
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sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 2532
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 10:29 am: |
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Joe - I hate those commercials. Your last line says it all and the fact that their proud of it says it all. As if a Hummer makes you more assertive. If anything it just allows you to wrap up and hide your own insecurities in two tons of sheet metal.
The ad people who came up with that campaign should be fired - hopefully it will increase the already strong stigma attached to those things. |
Ligeti Man Meat
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 755
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 10:47 am: |
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According to my research, Hummers are driven by short, balding men wearing backwards baseball caps. It's the perfect vehicle for an insecure man.
Women drive them only because their husbands or boyfriends make them do it.
For the rest of us: Hummers are big, powerful and stupid.
I love to flip birds at Hummer drivers. Reject them any way you can.
Guns, too.
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cmontyburns
Citizen
Username: Cmontyburns
Post Number: 1926
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 10:51 am: |
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Interesting that a Hummer or Land Rover is somehow over the top and a sign of insecurity, but an overpriced BMW, Mercedes or Lexus is pretty much standard issue for any self-respecting suburbanite with granite countertops.
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Rastro
Citizen
Username: Rastro
Post Number: 3691
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 11:10 am: |
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cmonty, while I don't agree with it, the point that Ligeti tries to make is that it's the size of the vehicle, not the expense, that make it outrageous. A Beemer as a penis substitute is one thing. A hulking three ton monster is another. |
cmontyburns
Citizen
Username: Cmontyburns
Post Number: 1928
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 12:00 pm: |
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So where's the outrage over pickup trucks or cargo vans?
Just strikes me as a bit hypocritical that everyone with a Hummer is obviously trying to prove something, while everyone else who drives an overpriced piece of metal is just being stylish.
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Ligeti Man Meat
Citizen
Username: Ligeti
Post Number: 756
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 12:15 pm: |
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Don't most trucks and cargo vans haul business-related stuff?
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daylaborer
Citizen
Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 856
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 1:11 pm: |
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Checkout all the commercials here: http://www.hummer.com/hummerjsp/home.jsp
Mouse over Hummer World. |
mlj
Citizen
Username: Mlj
Post Number: 361
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 2:44 pm: |
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Joe, et al, very funny. I was incredulous when I saw the commercial about the mom in the playground (didn't see the other one about the tofu guy).
Maybe they should borrow the gekko and put him behind the wheel of the hummer? |
sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 2534
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 2:54 pm: |
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cmonty about as hypocritical than those who decry poverty in our country then plunk down $500K plus to live in SOM. |
themp
Supporter
Username: Themp
Post Number: 3136
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 3:08 pm: |
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Joe, with the election of Dubya, the final element was in place for an extended experiment in how to decivilize our country. Expansive self-assertion and pigginess is celebrated from coast to coast.
Be big. Be meaty. Be frank.
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Marge N Averra
Citizen
Username: Marge_n_averra
Post Number: 51
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 3:14 pm: |
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"Just strikes me as a bit hypocritical that everyone with a Hummer is obviously trying to prove something, while everyone else who drives an overpriced piece of metal is just being stylish."
I agree. I think any kind of conspicuous consumption is tacky, and always have. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 2298
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 3:16 pm: |
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there is a difference between driving a sports car and a repurposed military vehicle. you may think both are obnoxious, but they're different kinds of obnoxiousness. |
Innisowen
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Username: Innisowen
Post Number: 2192
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 5:14 pm: |
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Marge:
How true. That's why the French, of all people, were spot on when they coined the phrases "parvenu" and "nouveau riche."
You can tell "new money" all the time, but you can't tell it much. |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1666
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 6:18 pm: |
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I agree with cmonty...work at the short hills mall...analyze the people...its amazing.
It's so easy to tell that a large chunk of the people that shop there serve no real purpose. Basically, they try to compensate for their meaningless existances by filling their lives with material goods. It's sad, really.
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The3ofUs
Citizen
Username: The3ofus
Post Number: 80
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 6:57 pm: |
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What real purpose do the people that work at the Short Hills mall serve? Anyone that judges people based on superficialities has a lot of work to do. What's the saying, judge not lest you be judged? |
Glock 17
Citizen
Username: Glock17
Post Number: 1671
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 7:27 pm: |
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Go ahead, start the judging process!
The difference is that I really don't care. That's what matters. |
John Caffrey
Citizen
Username: Jerseyjack
Post Number: 436
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, August 3, 2006 - 8:55 pm: |
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Kinda reminds me of the time Mr Mouse was walking throught the jungle and fell into one of those large holes the natives dig to catch animals. Mr. Mouse squealed and squealed to no avail. Then along came Mr. Elephant who saw the mouse's predicament and offered to help by lowering his p---s into the pit whereupon Mr. Mouse jumped on. Mr. Elephant raised up his instrument of rescue out of the pit to place Mr. Mouse on the ground.
Mr. Mouse was grateful and offered help to Mr. Elephant if it ever should be needed.
Not a week went by and sure enough, Mr. Elephant, this time, fell into a similar large pit. His trumpeting was heard by Mr. Mouse who came to the pit to determine the cause of his friend's distress.
"Don't worry, I'll help you Mr. Elephant." Then Mr. Mouse went home, took his BMW out of the garage and drove back to the pit. He tied a rope to the BMW's bumper, and lowered the other end into the pit. Mr. Elephant tied the rope around his waist. Mr. Mouse put the BMW in first and Mr. Elephant was raised out of the pit.
Again, the pair shook hands (paws - hoofs or whatever) and went on their ways.
Now that is a powerful story about cooperation amongst species. I wish we had much more good will towards each other on this bulletin board and maybe that will happen some day.
--Oh, the moral of the story. "If you have a big ---- you don't need a BMW (or a Hummer). |
crabby
Citizen
Username: Crabbyappleton
Post Number: 751
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 4, 2006 - 9:09 am: |
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