Watching “Engaged & Underage,” a scary show in itself. The guy and girl met in 9th grade and are getting married before they’re even 21. While discussing religion (5 days before the wedding) the following conversation happens:
So, I’ve already expressed my dislike for many company attempts to leverage user generated content to feed their commercials. Some are great, like what Fox did for “Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and their superfan contest (with MySpace). Then there are attempts like what Secret did (this is a link to my old post about it) and the newest painful one is the Oreo Cookie “send us a video of you singing the original theme song”… please make it stop.
Wow… we have an amazing capacity to focus on the silly. Listen, I’m not a fan of the saggy pants look but does this stuff really need to be managed by law?
Maybe they could make this a dress code and issue uniforms for the town. You know, then they could fine people with pants that are to high as well as to low! We’ll teach those elderly and young to be in the middle of the road gosh darn it!
Seriously, who has this much free time? I bet these people get pissed off when stories of women wearing veils for religious reasons in Europe come on the evening news and I bet they talk about freedoms without an eye to how this legislation is purely about legislating taste.
Yes, they say it is a precursor to the hip hop, gangster culture that brings with it violence. Seems to me like they’re treating the symptom and not the cause. Maybe if they banned red and blue bandanas then gang violence would stop.
I don’t know… this stuff just annoys me. Treat the root cause of a problem and I think we’d all be happier long term.