Dish Network

I've never had Dish Network so I can't comment on their service, but they really annoy me. See, I don't look to ever have Dish and I'm super tired of all their stupid little commercials about how they're "so much better than any other network out there" because it's inaccurate and subjective.

The last commercial that I saw really annoys me. "Tired of paying for channels you don't use? Like children's channels but you don't have any kids? Or shopping channels and you're a guy?"

Um, excuse me? When did being a guy make it impossible for someone to shop through an 800 number put on their television? And what about being a woman made it automatic that you would want a shopping channel even if you never used it? So sexist.

It'd be a better angle if they went on that whole, "kid's channels when you don't have kids" thing and did other things. Like:

-Satellite radio channels when you hate music
-Home/Gardening Channels when you hate designing/gardening
-Fox News Channel when you're not a right wing conservative

Marketing campaigns need to go to lowest common denominator, I understand that. That's how they make their money. However, aiming for the lowest rung in such a way is still not an excuse to just state blatantly stupid and bigoted things.

Speech Impediments

Speech Impediments

I read actual newspapers. I know I can get news online faster and all that, but I like the physicality of them and pay more attention to print. If it was up to me, the newspapers would never go out of business [which I don't think they will anyway because much I like to think of papers like phones. Mobile phones were thought to entirely replace land lines, but there are people who have and use both, and even those who just have land lines. I think this example is relevant to newspapers and even ebooks].

I digress.

This wasn't supposed to be about my love of all things physically readable. This was supposed to be about one of the things I read there. It was an opinion piece, one of those write ins I think. Anyway. Point, I have one.

This person was writing about the founder/president/whatever of BET making fun of some political official/person for stuttering. The BET person was trying to say that it was a sign of ineffectual communication on the politician's part, but instead of saying that he mocked the fact tat they stuttered.

Now, excuse the language, but I have to agree with the writer that that person is a complete and total ignorant bitch. They're mean and really stupid, because everyone knows that if you want to make fun of a politician for not be a good communicator you don't even have to go after their personal flaws/weaknesses. Honestly. Besides, it's not like most of them write their own speeches, so you could go off of that.

My problem with the write in was how the writer compared speech impediments to disabilities such as paralysis and blindness. Now, while in some cases it can be severe a lot of the times it's not and can be cured through various processes or at the very least manageable. I still think that founder person was terribly wrong, but I think that the writer exaggerated to get a point across.

I mean, they said that Porky Pig wasn't funny because he made fun of people who stammer.

Really?

Come on. I'm tired of everything that is perfectly fine being called some kind of prejudice and for every little thing being turned into a disability. I've a stammer and I've a lisp as well. Neither of them is as prominent as they used to be, and most of my friends don't even notice (unless I get really excited and try to talk about something so much faster than I usually talk).

So...yeah, I said I had a point.

Bottom Line: people need to think about what they say before they say it, stop being unnecessarily mean, stop turning every little thing into a disability, and realize that Porky Pig is funny, even if he does make fun of people who stammer--which I don't think he does (I think it's just a character trait).