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[schmerica]

Everytime I see that new AOL commercial, I am once again creeped out by the fact that "the internet sanitized for your protection" is their idea of a rave review.

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[yay4pikas.livejournal.com]

That makes it sound like a menstrual pad. Or a toilet seat cover.

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

::nods:: Sounds like my idea of hell.

[ladyvyola.livejournal.com]

Yep, creepy creepy creepy. The whole MSN "butterfly" thing was creepy, too.

I hate the fact that these ads are promoting how "safe" and "sanitized" they are because it lets people buy into the idea that they aren't responsible for themselves or their children when they're on the Internet, that it's up to someone else to protect them.

I thought I was the only one

[kormantic.livejournal.com]

who thought it sounded freaky.

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

That commercial pissed me off too. BUT!

"suck, suck, suck. ooooh, alan cumming! suck, suck, suck."

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

(and that was *before* you wrote slash, my lewd princess)

[buggery.livejournal.com]

The very fact that they mistook an indictment for praise is so typical of AOL's moronic ignorance of the realities of the internet-using world.

Those spots drive me nuts because the voice-over actor is the same guy who does the promo trailers for Smallville and Angel, so I hear his voice and get all excited, then remember it's just AOL-showing-off-shiny-new-depths-of-stupidity, again.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I'm your lewd princess now? That sounds so decadent!

And to be fair, those were completely nonsexual sucks in that case.

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

. . . but we still read them as otherwise, upon pause.