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[strredwolf]

I've been blogging alot as of late, which may not be a bad thing... as long as I handle the seperation of church and state, or in my case, work and non-work.  There has been something backing up in my mind through, so I thought I'd drive the point home, regardless of me running over any previous mention.

A few months ago, Mom and I were driving in Annapolis, and we were stopped at an intersection of two major roads -- Rt. 2 and Rt. 450.  As we waited, this large truck made a left-hand turn infront of us.  Nothing major... except take a regular delivery truck, put it on a diet, and slap ads on the sides.  You now have a drive-by ad.  It's been in the news, aparently.  NPR reported on it two months ago.

I'd like to know how much they're paying that guy to drive that truck around.

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[kazriko.livejournal.com]

That would be an interesting question. There's one parked on the street I live on. Maybe I should ask sometime?

I actually saw one of them back in september in Las Vegas though. The people I was with didn't seem to think they were a big deal, so they've probably been around for a good long time there.

[griffinwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they had one of those driving around a few years ago at Open house... I can't remember what was being advertised (coulda just been a coupla kids trying to get people to goto the local community college there, "Cheaper!".

Of course, you can't get a degree at a community college.

Advertisers Can't Take A Damn Hint

[mozdoc.livejournal.com]

It's a long and biased comment.



You know, this bullshit really irks me because if there's one thing I hate about these stupid avertisers and their bullshit is that they can't take a damn hint that if people aren't interested in whatever shit they're selling, putting more shit in front of them is not going to make them more interested in buying it or paying anymore attention to it at all.

I've seen one of these stupid trucks too. A small box truck plastered with obnoxious fucking colors so you can't ignore it if you wanted to, with the sides turned into revolving slats so now you have three advertisements spinning around there, one on the ass end of the truck, and one on the front above the cab.

No doubt someones brilliant idea to just drive this truck aimlessly through the city with obviously no point and add to problems on freeways and whatnot. Semi-trucks aren't exempt either. Every once in a while I get behind one and there's some stupid advertisement in your damn face to distract you.

So where are we to go to excape this bullshit? Printing, radio and television were fucked up long ago by these people. Then it was probably stationary billboards, but you could ignore those too. Don't forget those flying airplanes towing banners behind them that annoy you from sporting events or concerts, the Internet is a joke, and now we've got to be told that we need to shop someplace while sitting in rush hour traffic because a truck who's soul purpose is to spam you on the freeways has come into existance.

Sometimes I wish I chould shoot people who come up with this stuff. As I said before, putting more of this in front of us is not going to make us pay anymore attention to it whatsoever.

Oh, and just as if this wasn't enough, Six Flags Magic Mountain, where I work, has gotten hit as well. No family or foreigner can set foot in there now but your being blasted with billboards to remind you that some company can give you the best amount of cash out of your home if you live in California, other ones scattered around telling you why your Minolta, Olympus, Kodak or other camera is a piece of shit because Pentax is the camera of choice at Six Flags and the camera of the Internet or whatever. And for a time, Six Flags employees were forced to read aloud the scripted advertisements of these places so not only are you assaulted with it visually but acousticly as well.

So this begs to ask the question, where can we possibly go to tell these fucking people to screw off and leave some part of our world advertisement free where we can actually enjoy ourselves, ignore them, and focus on something we truely want?



And now I'm putting this to rest for a time.

--Mozdoc

Re: Advertisers Can't Take A Damn Hint

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Advertisers are getting the hint. It's just not the hint that you want them to get. They're getting the hint by people actually doing what these signs tell them to do. They're realizing that the cost to profit ratio of these types of advertisements. It's the same reason people still do email spam marketing. There's enough stupid people in the world to make it profitable.

[miltjones.livejournal.com]

http://www.drivebyads.com/mobile-adjackets.html

They're "cool"! I "want" to be "cool" like them.

[miltjones.livejournal.com]

"Adjackets promotional staff are available as models, actors, clubbers, roller-bladers or just everyday people."

And if I saw a fellow roller wearing an adjacket, I'd trip him and shake my head sadly.