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The slow and painful process of finding work has been taxing, but I think more so because of my current living arrangements. Along with a lack of job to go to, I have to go to the public library to leech their free wireless in order to plug into the internets.
Which makes time at home pretty boring. In the past, if I had an hour, playing a $5 Sit N Go on Pokerstars was a wonderfully entertaining way to use my time. Now, this is gone. And I realized without employment, I can't get myself relaxed enough to enjoy a good book.
All of this has meant I find myself surfing the satelite dish and watching way too much ESPN Classic. I'm ashamed to admit that I now have an insight in a set of commercials that I've seen far too many times:
eHarmony.com advertises on ESPN Classic alot. Its a good market (lonely 25-40 year old men) for them so I don't fault them for that. And yes that plastic faced CEO who gives you the creepy talk in all of their comercials is offputting. But for me, the guy that makes me squirm to no end is the guy who says "You can find the woman who wants to watch the game with you on Monday nights." He's got blond hair and a mundane sweater. My first thought was how sad is it that tops on his list for partners is her ability to watch sports. But hey, to each their own. What gets me, (and here is where the watching too many hours of ESPN shows), as after watching all the different versions of the eHarmony.com commercials (and there are quite a few), is that the Sport's guy's partner talks only once. He says quite a few things other than the "find a partner that wants to watch football" but she's always submissively quiet. And the one time she does say something? He prompts her! Its almost like in his application with eHarmony he checked the "wife must only speak when spoken to" box.
So this is my life. Worrying about the welfare of women on online dating services commercials.
Which makes time at home pretty boring. In the past, if I had an hour, playing a $5 Sit N Go on Pokerstars was a wonderfully entertaining way to use my time. Now, this is gone. And I realized without employment, I can't get myself relaxed enough to enjoy a good book.
All of this has meant I find myself surfing the satelite dish and watching way too much ESPN Classic. I'm ashamed to admit that I now have an insight in a set of commercials that I've seen far too many times:
eHarmony.com advertises on ESPN Classic alot. Its a good market (lonely 25-40 year old men) for them so I don't fault them for that. And yes that plastic faced CEO who gives you the creepy talk in all of their comercials is offputting. But for me, the guy that makes me squirm to no end is the guy who says "You can find the woman who wants to watch the game with you on Monday nights." He's got blond hair and a mundane sweater. My first thought was how sad is it that tops on his list for partners is her ability to watch sports. But hey, to each their own. What gets me, (and here is where the watching too many hours of ESPN shows), as after watching all the different versions of the eHarmony.com commercials (and there are quite a few), is that the Sport's guy's partner talks only once. He says quite a few things other than the "find a partner that wants to watch football" but she's always submissively quiet. And the one time she does say something? He prompts her! Its almost like in his application with eHarmony he checked the "wife must only speak when spoken to" box.
So this is my life. Worrying about the welfare of women on online dating services commercials.
posted by Roark_8 at 10:02 AM
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Don't know if you ever caught the show "Almost Live" which was a local Seattle comedy show (picked up by Comedy Central in the 90's)
http://www.king5.com/promotion/almostlive/
By chance I ran into "the Bald Guy" at a bar(caucasian sports) down town in Seattle. There was some sort of group eHarmony singles get together there (of which he was one).. I counted about 8 guys in their mid 40's and no women... It was quite painful to watch.
I also wanted to see him hit on a woman so he could use the "You may remember me from..." line. Not a single female, not one...
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