The Buckets by Greg Cravens for August 29, 2013

Artificial natureArtificial ingredients Artificial living

You’re on to ’em!

Why does “Lemon Juice” have artificial flavours, yet, Sunlight Dishsoap has “natural scents”?

Don’t trust the system, man

Oh, so you’d rather we all lived naked and without any tools or possessions? Everything man has created is “artificial.” Killing an animal and wearing its pelt? “Artificial” fur. Picking up a rock or a stick and using it to kill an animal to eat? “Artificial” teeth and claws. Build a shelter to sleep in? “Artificial” cave.

That is not artificial.Lemon juice without a hint of lemon is…

Yes, you wonder if it is an inside joke when they put on an ice cream commercial followed by a diet supplement commercial.

Agreed Frank!

Whenever I’m watching something and the adverts come on… I switch the sound off until the programme I’m watching comes back on.xxx

It’s been said for a while that the Nielson rating system will be replaced when the cable companies just track moment-by-moment what we’re tuning into (Insert NSA joke here) Advertisers already suspect that we’re changing channels during commercials or using Tivo, NetFlix, Hulu, etc to circumvent advertising as much as possible. Looks like Newspapers aren’t the only industry frightened of where the ad dollars will come from soon.

That being said, when the cable company tracks my viewing habits, they’ll discover a few short bursts of channel changing followed by a minute or two of watching a program til the next commercial, then repeat. Some computer somewhere will shake its digital head and say, “This igmo has the attention span of something small and furry that burrows in its own filth.”

The networks are on to us. Used to be if you switched channels at the start of the commercials you could watch a couple minutes of another show. Then flip back. Can’t do that now. The darn networks have lined up all the commercials to start & end at the same time.