Lying liars, pants afire..

McDonalds Dollar Menu Commercials. 
Sure it’s cute to pretend to talk to dollar bills, claiming they have value because they can purchase a drink, or a fry, or something else off the dollar menu..  BUT YOU CAN’T BUY ANYTHING OFF THE DOLLAR MENU FOR ONLY A BUCK!!!  There is tax, and the price plus the tax is MORE than a stinking dollar!!1!

Food what looks NOTHING like the pictures or ads.

I think I have lost track of the times I've drunkenly staggered into some fast-food joint, lured by the warm mouth-watering smells and drool-inducing pictures only to be served something that looks like it just came unstuck from the bottom of a crackho’s foot.

It's so common, there is a photo blog just to compare the advertising with reality, and the results are as depressing as they are expected.

Although corporations are legally obliged to use real food in their promotional pictures, there’s no law saying they can’t airbrush it, use pots of goo, motor oil, shoe polish, or any other crap they can find.  Anything they can do to make that crappy burger look appetizing, food photographers will do it, and companies will falsely claim it’s what you will get when you fork over your cash.





 

News.

And don’t get me started on politics or 'news' reports.  The lies will be repeated over and over again.  When finally exposed, the truth will never see the light of day, or will be softly spoken once, and only once.

 

If commercials were honest it would look like this

 

Not only do they lie, but they CRANK UP THE DAMN VOLUMNE when I forget to fast forward through the commercials!








When cable TV first began to be offered in my area (gads I am old eh?) in the very early 1980s, one of the benefits touted was that cable networks were going to be commercial-free, paid for completely by subscription fees. REMEMBER THAT, FOLKS?

 

Some things were just too good to be true.  Skechers 'Shape-Up' shoes.  The company agreed to pay $40 million to settle charges by the FTC and the attorneys general of 42 states.  One of the company’s misleading tactics involved a chiropractor who, in a TV ad, endorsed the shoes’ effectiveness based on a study. However, the company paid for the study and the chiropractor was married to a company’s marketing executive.

 

Unlimited Data.  Almost all phone companies (cable companies, phone companies) tout unlimited data plans in its ads.  What this means in reality is 2-5GB a month.  A California man won a small-claims suit last month that says AT&T’s plans are not exactly 'unlimited' since the ruling proves AT&T broke its promise by deliberately slowing the service when he became one of the company's most active users.

 

 

 

 

The list can go on and on and on..  But ranting about this makes me sad..  So I will stop now.. 

If its too good to be true, it is. 

Nothing is free. 

Vote for Pedro!