On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:33:17 -0700, wrote:

Typical Canadian/American family.


The operative word is "typical" There are millions of them out there
who buy as opposed to a few thousands of us who like to do things from
scratch and on the cheap.

My only criticism is if that family is so clueless how can they afford
all those useless thingies?

Typical Canadian/American family.


The operative word is "typical" There are millions of them out there
who buy as opposed to a few thousands of us who like to do things from
scratch and on the cheap.

My only criticism is if that family is so clueless how can they afford
all those useless thingies?

Maybe they know something we don't?

- Owen -

"Owen Lawrence" wrote in message
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Typical Canadian/American family.


The operative word is "typical" There are millions of them out there
who buy as opposed to a few thousands of us who like to do things from
scratch and on the cheap.

My only criticism is if that family is so clueless how can they afford
all those useless thingies?

Maybe they know something we don't?


C'mon. When's the last time you saw a male portrayed as anything _but_ a
buffoon in advertising or programming?

Here in the US the textbook publishers have a style sheet that forbids
portraying "mothers" performing the tasks the verb implies. They are also
never portrayed as nurses, but doctors, never secretaries, but executives
.....

Then there's advertising. If you can find, among the fifty-one percent
female with one each of cultivated minorities, a white-looking male, just
remember he's gay.

In article ,
wrote:

No communication.
The father is a hen pecked self centered goof.
The wife is a bossy know it all bitch.
Both buy endless crap no one needs without including their spouse in the
decision.
The kid is over weight and dumb.

Typical Canadian/American family.

Not to mention that free-loader neighbour who can't wait for Mr.
Dysfunctional to buy yet another piece of useless crap so he can use it
too!
Mr. Dysfunctional eats tofu, hugs trees, wears Birkenstocks and listens
to Celine Dijon, I bet. People like him make me puke.
I want to say to him:
"Listen, Mr. Socks-'n-sandals, Celine had her baby, okay??? We are all
very happy with her little miracle, okayyyy? Now let's get OVER it!!!"
And you know what else?? Brad and Jennifer broke up....how about that,
eh? Bet THAT made you drop a stitch, eh? What is that I hear? A wittle
bell ringing?? Is your quiche all nice and fluffy??"

"Instigator" wrote in message
Both buy endless crap no one needs without including their spouse in the
decision.

Makes me think of some of the shows on the Home and Garden show where an
expert comes into the home to help them clean of the piles of junk, usually
mounds and mounds of toys.

As usual, Upsqail has missed the point of this post. Cdn Tire is out to
represent the average canadian consumer as an idiotic dolt questing for
happiness via never ending consumerism.
How else can a mega corperation keep idiots buying the low quality made in
china garbage that overflows our landfills???? Of course all this is way
over upsnails head, he is one of the idiot consumers buying chinese pet
rocks at 30% off at crappy tire.

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"Upscale" wrote in message
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"Instigator" wrote in message
Both buy endless crap no one needs without including their spouse in
the
decision.

Makes me think of some of the shows on the Home and Garden show where an
expert comes into the home to help them clean of the piles of junk,
usually
mounds and mounds of toys.

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:59:04 -0400, "ConcreteFinishing&StuccoGuy"
wrote:

As usual, Upsqail has missed the point of this post. Cdn Tire is out to
represent the average canadian consumer as an idiotic dolt questing for
happiness via never ending consumerism.
How else can a mega corperation keep idiots buying the low quality made in
china garbage that overflows our landfills???? Of course all this is way
over upsnails head, he is one of the idiot consumers buying chinese pet
rocks at 30% off at crappy tire.

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Aw c'mon. Don't be too hard on the consumer or the tool
manufacturers. Those CT tools are actually quite useful and in fact
a lot better in quality and utility than much of the US made stuff I
bought just 10 years ago. And how can you be against anyone who
actually uses a tool to do something. The consumer who buys a power
operated gadget to open a can is in my mind an irresponsible consumer
as one can use a basic can opener to do the same job.

The criticism about the CT ads is the ridiculous assumptions they make
to attract the consumer to buy.

"ConcreteFinishing&StuccoGuy" wrote in
message
As usual, Upsqail has missed the point of this post. Cdn Tire is out to
represent the average canadian consumer as an idiotic dolt questing for
happiness via never ending consumerism.

Please, feel free to keep talking. As in the other newsgroups you infest,
people will soon see that you're ignorant about what you know, what you have
to say and how low class you really are. I'd call you trailer park trash but
that would be doing a disservice to people who live in trailer parks.