I wish I hadn't just reoranized the kitchen before watching this video

[trinityvixen]

Awesome.

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Kitty fountain is in and working. So far. Kitties are having too much fun playing with it to drink much from it. But Wally's gotten a hang on this eating food thing! I think! Maybe!

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[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

OMG I WANT TO HAVE MOP SEX WITH HER

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

She's fabulous. The whole show she's on is fun, but I love her best of all, easily.

Okay, well, I like the guy who does the "White Hot Top Five," but she's like tied with him and often funnier.

[shell524.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw this yesterday. I've often thought some of the same things about cleaning commercials. The whole dressed up thing bothers me. And I've seen the "end your relationship(WTF!) with old cleaning implements" commercials before, but I've never put the sexual overtones with it before. Now I'm kind of scared.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The "product abandonment" thing is because people are lazy and repetitive when it comes to just going through the same routines. We're creatures of habit, so we get the same types of food, same clothes, same scrub brushes, whatever. It's like we're faithful to these things when we're really just loathe to try and make new things work when we get by with the old.

So, in that sense, these commercials are riffing on bad relationships that we don't really have because emotional investment isn't there. Hence, weirdness. When you think you MIGHT have an emotional connection (maybe you really, really like some pairs of shoes), the commercials get downright creepy because your relationship is shown to be dead-end or just abusive and/or stalkery in these ads.

The dressing up thing is just hilarious. No doubt, there are women who scrub in cardigans and pearls. They also, more than likely "scrub" by paying someone else to do it. I watched this segment while still in my workout clothes after cleaning my kitchen. That's a real cleaning outfit.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

And people wonder why I say I want to be a 1950's house wife...with a sponge like that who needs a boyfriend....*Dear Ed, I am leaving you for my sponge Javier....he likes my hands...."

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Seriously, if they want cleaning porn, why don't ad guys just make cleaning porn?

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

Because if you made a commercial showing a man dusting, sweeping, running a vacuum, or even doing the dishes it would go from being porn to just being pure fantasy.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

See now I know what to get you for christmas:

Cardigan
Pearls
Heels
Full skirt that billows out as you swirl with your mop
possibly large yellow rubber gloves.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think they did have that as a commercial...

Oh yeah, they did. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZEVsB_0PkE)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd be happy to wear it on Halloween when I go as Donna Reed, but no thanks. Anything that requires dry-cleaning shouldn't be getting wet in the first place while I scrub my shower.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

I honestly just want to know how all those fantastically put together women never manage to get bleach on their clothes....

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

They must have force fields. That's my conclusion. That's the only way you'd catch me in one of my very, very few professional outfits dusting, scrubbing, or otherwise bending at all. WRINKLES! MY GOD THE WRINKLES!

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

Yeah...lesson learned recently when I quickly tried to clean a sink with soft scrub wearing my new Oakley tank top...it was olive green, now has this strange bleachy pink stripe oddly at the level my sink is /cry