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Toyota car commercial: What would it be like...if the air were cleaner?

Rashaka: I'd stop wishing I still lived in Northern California every time I looked at the horizon.

Toyota car commercial: Would the grass... be greener?

Rashaka: NO YOU STUPID FUCKS IT WOULDN'T. CARBON FUCKING DIOXIDE MAKES THE GRASS GREENER. I WEEP FOR YOUR BRAINS. PHOTOSYNTHESIS IS LIKE SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE HOUR. TWELVE-YEAR-OLDS KNOW MORE THAN YOU, AND YOU BUILD CARS.

Rashaka: p.s. go call your mothers and apologize to them for being stupid on television.

Comments

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Um ... OT, but I watched some more FB. ::points to recent post in Journal:: If you're interested what I think thusfar.

[rainjewel.livejournal.com]

*giggles* You just made my day.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

If you think of it when you see the commercial next time, then my work is done.

You know, I hate that commercial so much that I actually went and looked photosynthesis just to be sure I was absolutely right before I ranted about it here. Somehow it was almost worse after that, though. Like, before I knew it was stupid based on my memory of every science natural or bio class I've taken since middle school, but looking up and confirming it made the stupidity that much more real and inescapable.

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

I think all they meant was that you could see clearer, and therefore all colors would be brighter. I still don't like that commercial. Sadly I got to watch the air quality go down the toilet. In my lifetime. I remember when the air was cleaner.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I think all they meant was that you could see clearer, and therefore all colors would be brighter.

You might be right.

Blegh... Bad commercial-writing depresses me, be it stupidity or lack of clarity.

I'm deperessed about the state of our air too.

[sunlit5.livejournal.com]

I adore you.


Sun

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Love you too. And I expect you to yell at the tv next time you see the commercial. Don't let your friends and family passively sit by and accept it without defiance.

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

I totally failed to notice that. Possibly because I usually mute commercials. But I'm just glad that hybrids and fuel efficiency are suddenly in, even if it is because gas is about $3/gallon. And I vastly prefer this commercial to those commercials for regular cars that spout off about being 30+ mpg highway, etc., and then say, Such-such-SUV has the highest fuel economy in its class. Because SUVs could have been made more fuel efficient, without getting smaller, years ago, but the companies didn't do it because it would cost up to $800 per vehicle and cut into their profits. And then they say, "At ____, fuel economy is as important to us as it is to you." And I'm like, "You mean, not important at all until two weeks ago?"

I hate SUV culture. As the New Yorker's Ethicist wrote, roughly, "SUVs make it very slightly more likely that you will survive in a car crash, while making it much more likely that anybody who gets in a crash with you will die. If you're comfortable with that math..." And people are. And then gas prices go up, and they have articles in the paper about the poor SUV owners who are feeling the pinch, and they STILL say, "It's worth driving a vehicle that gets 15 mpg, for the safety of my kids," and I'm like, they won't feel very safe when they get drafted to go fight oil wars, will they? They won't feel so safe when they're thirty and can't take a deep breath, or when the world economy goes to shit after peak oil. I want them to do articles on people who are paying $30-40 a tank to fill their small cars, their old cars, etc., because they haven't already proven they're self-involved and stupid.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I used to mute commercials, but we don't have a tv remote control where I'm living now. Kinda sucky.

I don't really see the point in buying an SUV for the sake of owning one... I think it's a pointless waste of money. I don't have a problem with people buying it for a purpose, but I expect it to be a practical one. My parents bought a Yukon because we own a trailorable boat and we need something to pull it with-- frankly the Yukon was a lot better than the horrible old van we were using before, smog-wise. But I count that as practical use... not just because "it keeps my family safer". That's an illusion of safety I think, in an overall sense. For myself, I'm a poor college student, but even if I could afford one, I wouldn't buy an SUV or a pick-up right now. Cause it'd serve absolutely no purpose and not be worth the money. Not to mention pollution.

[sunlit5.livejournal.com]

Ok doke!


;)


Sun

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And of course it makes sense in some instances – for boats, for some businesses - but as Dave Barry pointed out, many people routinely by enormous SUVs that are never hauling anything bigger than a bagel. The people interviewed in my paper all got their SUVs to transport kids. And the crazy part? Our old 1987 Grand Caravan – which my dad sold, but which may still be on the road – got better gas mileage than half the SUVs being sold today, because it was classified as a car, not a "light truck". Over 20mpg, at least. It's not that the car companies can't make SUVs more efficient, it's that they don't want to. And buyers haven't put any pressure on them to, until now. Which is why the vapid, "Oh, my kids are safer" reasoning, which is barely true and ignores everybody else's kids, makes me batty.

[zebeckras.livejournal.com]

I'm just nodding my head here on all of what you said. Just so's you know.

[zebeckras.livejournal.com]

There are so many commercials out there that piss me off/annoy the bejesus out of me, it's amazing.

Like the one that uses "We Will Become Silhouettes" (which btw is a song I adore) and has all that imagery of the world "coming alive", butterflies coming out of their cocoons and spider babies clambering everywhere, showing us how everything is new and beautiful, all the while lovingly ignoring the irony of the fact that that song is about, you know, the total destruction of life via atomic bombs? Heh heh.

I don't recall if I've seen the commercial you're referring to, but if I do see it, I'm gonna point it out to Dan and laugh about it.

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

Waitasecond... isn't the pollution that cars put out partially carbon monoxide? Which increases tropospheric ozone, which is... bad? I don't know if it's bad for grass particularly, but since it's a pollutant at lower levels of the atmosphere, I doubt it can be good for it...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I actually don't know what carbon monoxide in particular does to grass, but I did look some of this up just before posting (because I like to be sure before I rant), and according to this science journal article from September there's been an increase in plant growth due to the increase in smog [smog is my word, can't remember exactly what word they used] and resulting greenhouse effect on the ozone layer. So yeah, the grass is getting greener while we're getting cancer faster. Except we keep cutting down the rainforests, which means there's less [grass] to do the job.

[thisficklemob.livejournal.com]

I see. I was just trying to wangle a way that they might not be delusional. *g*

Speaking of gases and plants... Scientists: we're fucked.

[rainjewel.livejournal.com]

*pets* *gives you cookie*

Nah, aside from being really fucking stupid I don't appreciate the pompous, condescending tone either. However I'm lazy so I'll settle for your rants and throwing leftover Diet Coke cans at the television screen instead of writing letters.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

::munches on cookie::

Dude, I gotta make rants more often if this is what I get.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

::reads::

Christ.