Broken Wing

Truck commercials

I think commercials for pick-up trucks are consciously made to pander to those with 8th grade educations. You always hear something like this: "Ford F-150 has more <truck attribute 1> than Chevy and more <truck attribute 2> than Dodge." The two attributes are always different, and they are always something like: Payload, towing ability, horsepower, asskickery, bitchin curves. Only a total moron could hear something like this and think that the featured truck is the best. They are pretty much admitting that their truck beats the others in only one category of comparison. What is even more painful is that all of the categories they have to choose from are practically useless. I've never come close to exceeding the payload on my Ford Taurus, what could possibly cause me to do so on a pickup truck? Unless, like in the commercials, giant cranes are dropping tons of dirt and gravel into the bed. Is that even what payload means? Does anybody know, who isn't wearing a flannel right now? Most trucks are being sold to soccer dads who need the pickup to bring home their wives' treadmills from Sears, or hicks who get rashes at the very thought of being less than 3 feet above the road while driving.

In a completely unrelated note, I like rollerblading by infants. Especially when they're right at the age where they're smart enough to recognize that I'm a person, but naive enough to think that I'm a person with wheels. Posted by mill1991 at June 23, 2004 6:29 AM