Scott's Blog of Doom

Although it’s the season of sharing and giving for all, the following things can fall off the face of the earth and die a horrible death because they don’t deserve to exist:

- DVDs that are advertised as a “2-disc ultimate/super/definitive” edition, but then feature nothing on the second disc but a digital copy of the movie.  In fact, I got two such Blu-Ray sets at Christmas (The Hangover and Wolverine), each from a different studio, so at least we know that it’s not just one company dicking over the consumer.  The worst is Sony, because you’d think they’d at least give you a version of the movie that would work on the PSP, but apparently no one has thought of making life easier by doing that.  I’ve shared my hatred of Digital Copies before and everyone on the planet outside of people who run movie studios seems to think they’re the stupidest idea ever, and yet we still have them in our lives.

- Commercials featuring people “challenging” each other to use products.  I assure you, about the least challenging thing I can think of as a consumer is eating a bowl of Special K or using a new toothpaste that tastes vaguely like mouthwash.  FIND A NEW WORD.

- US commercials (because you can’t do this shit in Canada) for drugs where the side effects are suicide and/or death.  Really? For an anti-smoking drug?  I would think given that alternative that I’d just keep smoking if I was the person in the commercial.  What’s really sad is that during the same show, I saw two different ads for two totally different drugs (one anti-smoking and one anti-bipolar) where the side-effects were suicide and/or death!  God help you if you’re a smoker with bipolar disorder, I guess.  And on the same subject, are doctors down there really all that excited to have people coming in and asking them about drugs they saw on TV?  Isn’t it the job of the doctor to tell people what drugs they should be taking rather than the patient?  For instance, up here federal law says that drug commercials can either say the name of the drug, OR what the drug does, but not both at the same time.  This gives you some fucked up commercials, let me tell you, like “ask your doctor about Jenny’s story” (I’m sure doctors were thrilled to be asked) or reeling off some ridiculously long birth control drug name but being unable to actually say that it’s a birth control pill. 

Anyway, everyone else in the world can live for now.  It’s the holidays after all.