5 Outrageous Lies Companies Are Legally Allowed to Tell You
5 Outrageous Lies Companies Are Legally Allowed to Tell You
By J.F.Sargent for cracked.com, July 30, 2013
If you tell people that advertisers lie, they'll roll their eyes and say, "DUH! That's what advertising is , you naive buffoon!" But then those same people will walk out the door and buy a phone based on a "coverage map" they just saw in an ad.
That's because advertisers use our cool cynicism against us -- we think we're being savvy by assuming that all ads exaggerate, but we still assume that's as far as it can go -- exaggeration. It's not like these people can just go out and lie right to our faces, right?
They sure can! In fact .. .
#5. Companies Have Gone to Court for the Right to Lie
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This is more than a fluff situation. When companies are legally able to lie to us, what kind of an example is that for our children? In fact our whole culture is being twisted so that the whole moral aspect of telling the truth is going down the drain.
Yeah, I have been teaching my kids and grandkids about advert since they were little. They just don't believe any of them and skepticism is the key. They don't believe in UFO's or psychics, either.
I make up a little song when the grandsons were small and we would sing it together when a goofy advert came on radio as we drove down the street:
We want your money,
Give us your money,
We want your money NOW.
Buzz, ol' boy. To expect that any company, government, social organization who wants your money is going to tell you the truth is just silly. Some of the adverts are bald faced lies? Well, yeah. But the public is outrageously stupid and they get what they get.
"In a democracy, people get the government they deserve." ~~ often attributed to Alexis de Toqueville
I suspect the same holds true here, too, if we work the meaning around a bit. We want it, we buy it. Truth be damned. It's the American Way.
That's probably the best description of Coke that I've ever read. I hate advertising more than just about anything. Unless your commercial is truly funny, like e*trade funny, you are only annoying the shit out of me, and that will only make me hate your product that much more. I don't even buy shit advertised in funny commercials, for that matter.
The best way to understand how advertisers view consumers, is to view the slap chop commercial with that skeevy infomercial guy who got arrested for beating up a hooker . This one line says it all - You're gonna love my nuts.
Coca cola killed my best friend at the age of 48. He was so addicted that when they brought out the "new coke" he drove around to every store he could and bought up their cases of the original - filled his basement with them. He would drink the big bottles at a sitting.
I once had a girlfriend who was that way. She would only drink it from a can, and she felt it was only good for a few minutes after opening - soshe would end up leaving half-full cans of Coke lying around all over my house ... and it made her breath stink so I dumped her. Well, that was part of the reason ... the other part was that I discovered she wasquite awhore. I don't miss that skank or her nasty Coke addiction.