j reacts to the corrosive effects of advertising on human individuality

it's really funny how people define things in terms of advertisements, rather in terms of what they actually are. remember: i haven't had meaningful access to a tv in nearly twenty years, and i use ad blocking software online. so, i don't have to suppress ads for things like soda: i've honestly never seen them.

the last time i saw an ad for pepsi, the spokesperson was britney spears. i have literally not seen an ad for pepsi since then. i don't know when that was. 1998? 1999? this was a period when ads for soft drinks like dr. pepper and mountain dew were virtually non-existent. i don't think i've ever even seen an ad for either of them.

well, unless you count whatever website i went to (wiki?) to determine which soft drinks had the highest caffeine contents. that's why i settled on those two, specifically.

i've had conversations with people, though, that want to interpret you that way - that think that the soft drink that you choose must reduce to branding. and, i've noticed glances, too, that i understand in those terms. it's kind of sad, really.

http://www.math.utah.edu/~yplee/fun/caffeine.html

i stayed with my parents for about a year in the mid 00s and found myself with their backup tv parked in front of my bed. i actually didn't want it in there, but they claimed there was nowhere else to put it.

i wasn't home often: for the first six months, i was finishing my first degree and spent most of my time at school and for the second six months i was doing the night shift at microsoft and transiting two hours a day by bicycle. further, i had internet access and much preferred it over television.

i mean, you put a tv and a computer in the same room and give me a choice and i'm going to basically always pick the computer.

about the only thing i ever watched was the odd stewart/colbert run and sporadic re-runs of south park.

besides that, i really have not turned on a tv since the 90s.

even in the 90s, the only things i ever really watched were the x-files, seinfeld and the simpsons. well, and the news. i initially picked up my habit of eating & watching some time in the 90s by watching cnn while eating. and, the exact reason was that i was told not to eat in the basement, where my room and computer were - i had to eat upstairs. i would have rather eaten & usenetted.

and, fwiw - i do not recall ever seeing any sort of tv show that featured donald trump in any kind of capacity.