Commentary by the Crazy Good Ol' Boy

Maybe it's me getting older. Maybe it's the world. Maybe I'm imagining the whole thing. Any way you look at it though, the hard facts remain. I'm yelling at the TV a lot more these days, muting the TV constantly, listening to music less, and basking in the silence when it actually comes. Either I'm the world's only 22 year old crotchety old man, or the world is getting a hell of a lot more annoying these days.

I don't know how many times I'm watching TV, and I end up yelling at the stupid commercials, or just losing it entirely when I'm doing something else, and I scream shut up and jam the mute button twice (damn soft mute, makes me work harder). It seems to me that a lot of this is because advertising across the board has completely lost its way. Remember when an ad would tell you why you should get a product, and then leave you the hell alone? I vaguely do. Now, it seems that advertisers think that if you hear or see their product's name in any context, that you'll immediately buy it. Does annoyance really sell? What are the real sales results from spam emails? How insanely stupid do they really think people are? How close to right are they? "Hey everybody, fgjhgjfhgjfhg@bizmailtv.ru says he can make my penis bigger!" Come on!

It doesn't end with advertising either. For the love of god, can someone please outlaw the automotive horn? I speak especially of the higher pitched, insanely loud horns on little foreign cars. The people that drive these go carts can't resist but to stop out front of someone's house to pick them up at the ass crack of dawn and lay on the horn like there's no tomorrow! The sound of someone who simply sits and bangs on the horn is the sound of their last brain cells saying "All right, I'm outta here!" At least musical horns are bearable. I just can't be mad hearing "La Cucaracha" coming from a 66 Impala.

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