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Why Are You Whining?!

April 14, 2009
rusty - downtown

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I've heard some pretty awful local commercials on the radio, and I've always had a distaste for PSAs, but what I just heard on 92.3 almost made me pull over and vomit.

 

Smokefreeindy.org made one of the most godawful commercials I've ever heard. Whatever the organization is doing, I don't really care, I'm pissed off that they wasted money and airtime on such an annoying piece of schlock. It starts with a grown man WHINING at his presumed date (yeah, it's his tone, not just his words) "looook at how much smoke is in heeere..." "yeah I can seeee it, it's blue..." "I thought eeevery place would be smoke freee by nooow..." "me toooo, they shoooould be..."

 

Then the two go into the usual scare-stats inherent to this type of propaganda, of course while still standing in the place complaining they should leave. Ya know what? Yeah, you should leave! Or better yet, you shouldn't have come there in the first place... IT'S A BAR! The only places in Indy that allow smoking are 21 and older... freaking BARS! Do you go to the same places and bitch about why people are drinking?! IT'S A BAR! Don't go if you don't like the atmosphere. I don't go to strip clubs because I don't care for the atmosphere... I don't go to one and then whine about naked skanks grinding me for dollars! Do you go to the butcher shop and bitch about them not having vegan options? Get the fuck out of my bar and off my radio.

 

I'm not even a smoker. But I know what I get when I go to a goddamn bar.

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