Thank God for the Mute Button

I am finding that the most valuable function of the new high tech DVR laden, digital HD, large screen, 1080i, HDMI TV's is the old pedestrian mute button. Some of the junk that these channels and advertisers are putting out are audibly painful.



Note the following examples:

The GEICO ad featuring the pig squealing wee,wee, wee all the way home. Well guess what, that little open pit SOB doesn't get squeal one out of his Rosey O'Donnell looking little mouth before my mute button leaps in to save the day.



Then there is a new ad, probably only seen on the Golf Channel, for Slazenger golf balls. This features an over-the-top stereotype of a guy screaming all of these sayings exulting the big drive which his partner has just hit. Well my old buddy the mute button silences this loser before his partner starts his backswing - voila, instant asshole remediation. If only real life was that simple.



Of course these are only a few commercials that come to mind, but the ever useful button is also available for immediate intervention in the following circumstances as a failsafe: any commentary by the Donald, hip-hop music, Jimmy Carter, and of course, the shrieking Nancy Grace.



The list is much larger than this but you get the picture. Keep it handy and use it liberally. That little pig will be on again before you know it.



BBFN - Fanatticman