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Paddy O'Flanigan
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Been to Cumberland Farms Lately?

09/10/2012 2:52 PM

Last night when I has getting gas at Cumberland Farms, I noticed these ads above every pump. Huh?
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Re: Been to Cumberland Farms Lately?

09/10/2012 3:40 PM

Is Cumberland Farms anywhere near the Bunny Ranch?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178430/Shandong-Province-Discarded-sex-doll-rescued-drowning-18-Chinese-police-officers.html

Cumberland...niiiccccce

I hold myself in contempt!!!

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09/10/2012 4:04 PM

Funny, 'she' was in perfect condition when they found her.
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Re: Been to Cumberland Farms Lately?

09/10/2012 4:00 PM

Who knew Cumberland Farms was a "full" service station.

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09/10/2012 4:29 PM

How they see their customers? As mindless plastic drones seeking oral gratification?

Adverts say a lot I think about how corporations view their customers. What really gripes me are the very widespread, not-the-least-bit-funny-or-cute adverts which portray fathers as bumbling, inept, naive, juvenile, stupid, incompetent, infantile idiots who are treated by their haughty, disapproving wives AND kids as nothing more than errant, foolish children. You see this over and over and over.

From adverts for Honey Nut Cheerios - the father has to furtively sneak outside to enjoy a bowl only to be discovered by his tsk-tsking wife, to the hapless idiot father who takes the family on a camping trip only to screw everything up and get chased by a bear in the end (and one who also thinks he's an idiot), to the husband who need only touch the family car and it falls to pieces with him standing there, screwdriver in hand, looking like a complete idiot, and so forth, ad nauseum.

What is the message here? Pretty obvious, and it is this: "Families, don't respect your father/husband, he's an idiot by definition."

I make a point of NOT buying these companies' products and I urge every father/husband reading this to do the same. Better yet, do that AND write these sorry bastards and tell them so. Money not only talks, it can walk - right out those lobby doors.

Fathers and husbands, are you idiots? These corporations think you are and they are telling your families this every single day.
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09/11/2012 8:15 AM

Great discourse Euro! GA from me as well!

I'm entirely in agreement with you. These adds are multiplying and it makes me sick to my stomach. Portraying men and fathers as complete idiots has to stop.

The result of all these crappy commercials is that a lot of the women and kids are starting to believe them!

Yet, when it comes time to plunge the toilet, fix a curtain rod, or fix something around the house or the car, who is the first one to be asked? Not the father or husband, but rather one of their women friends on Facebook or in the workplace, or a Contractor friend!

Give me a freaking break! I have more tools and DIY skills then most Contractors....and get it right the FIRST TIME and at little or no cost!

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09/11/2012 11:50 AM

As a joke it was cute the first time - but only once. Like some tired joke that someone keeps telling over and over, it stopped being funny/original on the second telling, yet they're still at it. Sooner or later even profligate morons 'get it' but these corporations are still at it.

It has gone on for so long now that it makes one wonder if these companies have an agenda beyond merely selling their product. Tear down the family? Discredit men? These companies are paying big bucks to make and place these adverts, and so my question is: "What to gain? What's the payback? Why are you using your adverts as a vehicle to send this message in particular?"

Let's look at this from a different angle: How well would these adverts go over if some other group were targeted? Instead of making fathers and husbands look like bumbling fools, what would happen if they picked some other group, say Jews or Blacks? How well would that go over? Like a lead balloon, maybe? Would these companies find themselves in court in short order? Is the Pope Catholic? So why are we taking this sh!t? As a group, are husbands and fathers the bumbling fools these corporations would have our families believe we are? Are you a fool, dear reader? I'm not, and I strongly object to being portrayed this way.

Can you say "Class Action Lawsuit?"
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09/11/2012 11:35 PM

Yeah, well, after 43 years of Polack jokes...I know where you are coming from.
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Re: Been to Cumberland Farms Lately?

09/11/2012 11:22 PM

Since when did Bill have a mustache and glasses?

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