More than don’t.
Incoming rant.
Body care products are among the most horrible. So much pseudoscience.
For example, who dreamed up that there’s any point in putting vitamins in shampoo? It just goes down the drain. It doesn’t enter your system. There could be arsenic in your shampoo and it wouldn’t matter.
And if you put an ointment with silk extract on your skin, it will become as soft as silk? That sort of reasoning stopped making sense centuries ago.
Lottery advertisements are even worse. Some of those are just vile, deliberately giving gullible people false hope that all their dreams can come true and they can get out of all their troubles instantly. For every single person for whom that works out, there are a few million who only get deeper in trouble by looking for such a quick and easy way out instead of holding on to their money and facing their problems.
Money loaning advertisements are much like that, telling us we don’t have to worry about being able to afford what we want, we can just loan some money. It’s okay, because everybody does it.
But falling for those is more expensive and usually the first step into financial trouble instead of just part of a self-sustaining vicious cycle.
Then there are advertisements that pretend to be spontaneous conversations between normal people. That’s just an insult to your intelligence. Who do they think they’re fooling? We all know those are actors reading a scripted dialogue aloud.
And have you noticed how commercials for cars are hardly ever actually about the car any more? Usually they’re just a cool animation about a dancing robot that turns into a car, or a running man “evolving” into a speeding car, or a single coloured car driving around a city in black and white where nobody else moves, or whatever.
It’s neat, of course, but that only says something about whoever designed the animation. The message it conveys to me is that all cars are all the same by now and the producers’ only hope of supremacy is just to catch your attention with something irrelevant.
At least that’s what they’re like here, anyway. But car companies are international, so I presume everyone gets the same commercials too.
Yeah, advertisements annoy me too.