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[austin_tycho]

I am so freaking sick of advertisements. When I listen to the radio it seems like I'm listening to ads half the time. When I watch TV I seem to be watching commercials half the time. I switch to other channels to escape them, and the other channel has commercials on at the same time. Coincidence? It is to laugh. As I was typing this, I was put on hold at my doctor's office and do I even hear muzak? No, I hear fucking commercials. Billboards, junk mail, email, everywhere, I am sick to death of them.

And if that didn't suck, my doctor is not willing to check a box on a form so that I can continue this allergy study. They want some indication that I have a history of allergies, and even though at practically every visit he looked in my nose and remarked that I was having allergies, he apparently never made note of it in the chart and thus is unwilling to verify that I had them. So I will get booted out, and loose $400 that we really need because of that bastard. I have been arguing on the phone with the medical records guy or the assistant (never him, of course) for too fucking long. I am getting ready to switch doctors. I'm tired of this shit.

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[austingoddess.livejournal.com]

At Cedra, they just asked us when we started having allergies. No doctor's note required.

As for commercials, if it was only that one thing that made TV a life-sucking, brain-dumbing, annoying thing, I could live with it. But it ain't, so I generally avoid TV altogether. Radio: that's why God made different channels - to skip around during commercials. :)

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[mielikki.livejournal.com]

This is with Cedra- different studies have different protocols, depending on the company running that particular study. Bleh. I tried to get into the one you're in, and found out I was no longer allergic to cedar. Which is nice in a way, but I really could use the money!

TV is mostly a wasteland, but there are a few redeeming qualities- Simpons, Star Trek, Futurama, and the like. We had a nice break recently and watched a very cool PBS show on octopi.

I know about different radio channels, but it seems that they all air commercials at the same time. A few days ago I went switching between 6 different channels that I had pre-set in my radio looking for music, and they were all doing commercials at once! Blar!

It usually doesn't bother me so much, but last night it just got to me. I was flipping back between two movies on TV, and the commercials annoyed me so much, I decided to listen to a radio program instead. When I flipped on the radio- more commercials. Double blar! Coincidentally there was a bit in Futurama (set in the year 3000 if you haven't seen it) where Fry was alarmed that they were able to put commercials in your dreams. He said 'back in my day, there were ads on TV, newspapers, magazines, billboards, baseball stadiums, and written in the sky, but there weren't any in your dreams!'

[jait.livejournal.com]

Ever sinceI first read this post, I've been noticing the abundance of advertisements on the radio too.

I've got three stations I switch back and forth between with increasing impatience.

Blech. probably should upgrade to a real sound-system in my car.

Of course, then it would become theft-bait.