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msongs

(74,206 posts) Wed Nov 14, 2012, 09:00 PM Nov 2012

have you noticed that people/families in commercials are usually extremely well off?.. [View all]

been watching msnbc lately on the internet mirror site and noticing all these commercials are full of well dressed and healthy looking people who are all living in fabulous houses and places. Nobody living in a FEMA trailer, punky little tract home, or anything looking like the homes of people I actually know.

If I take their pills can I go to New Zealand or Paris (France) too? Or get a babe on my arm?

And in all the pill ads nobody actually looks like they are sick enough to need the pills.

depressing really lol

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have you noticed that people/families in commercials are usually extremely well off?.. [View all] msongs Nov 2012 OP

Why don't I look that good and play that well when I drink beer? zbdent Nov 2012 #1

Because that is the impossible ideal to which we should all aspire. antigone382 Nov 2012 #2

Yep. woo me with science Nov 2012 #3

Nah, I get back on my 45' yacht and feel good alllll day! There's magic, I tell you, RKP5637 Nov 2012 #7

hey, I have two cast-iron bathtubs with a view of the sunset. grasswire Nov 2012 #15

Yeah, just casually relaxing in the tub(s) with a stunning sunset. ... then I might drift into my RKP5637 Nov 2012 #16

Never mind that the psoriasis medication has woo me with science Nov 2012 #25

It is sickening... frostfern Nov 2012 #26

I think so many of these ads are targeted to the upper middle class who still have SOME CTyankee Nov 2012 #4

Yeah..kinda like when I go to buy weed--- jaysunb Nov 2012 #5

I'd like to get in that weed line too. Here, they'd lock me up for life. ... but it's RKP5637 Nov 2012 #8

Yep, I notice that a lot ... most look like they have an extra $500k in their wallet. I NEVER see, RKP5637 Nov 2012 #6

I guess if we want to upgrade our digs we can rent them out for commercials lol nt msongs Nov 2012 #9

Unattractive down on their luck people probably won't entice anyone to want the product. nt Raine Nov 2012 #10

People in commercials have way more fun than I do, too. Shrike47 Nov 2012 #11

Often I ask myself WTF did I do wrong, must've gotten in the wrong line. The wealth by RKP5637 Nov 2012 #17

That's their target. They wouldn't be reaching out to people who Cleita Nov 2012 #12

I'm not sure that is their target Whisp Nov 2012 #22

the guy with Atrial Fibrillation who goes to New Zealand riverwalker Nov 2012 #13

When I was diagnosed with A-fib the doctor took one look at me and prescribed aspirin. bluedigger Nov 2012 #19

Boy walks into a drugstore and asks for tampons jberryhill Nov 2012 #14

speaking of well off brokechris Nov 2012 #18

sorry brokechris Nov 2012 #21

Northern California is a big area but I know that the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics ScreamingMeemie Nov 2012 #23

clinic brokechris Nov 2012 #27

There's one in Haight-Asbury. Not sure if that's doable for you or not. gkhouston Nov 2012 #24

thanks brokechris Nov 2012 #28

same as tv in general. how about all those 20-somethings who live in spacious digs in some HiPointDem Nov 2012 #20