TV is basically intolerable without a DVR these days because there is a commercial every nine seconds, and the majority of commercials are virtually intolerable, minus the ETrade ones with the talking babies. The most odious of all, however, are the commercials advertising "Get your Degree online!!" with the people singing in tacky caps ands gowns. Every time I see that commercial, I seethe with anger. No one is that happy or successful that gets an online degree from a for profit institution. DeVry University, College America, or whatever they call those schools these days, should really try to appeal to people by other means than having people acting like they are on LSD. Even people who are unemployed sitting on the couch, watching Judge Judy in the mid morning hours would find such nonsense unappealing. At least the ads for the University of Phoenix and the Bel Rea Institute make the people that go there look half normal, happy, and not like child molesters straight out of the Reading Rainbow.
It is difficult enough for people with degrees from real, accredited universities to get jobs these days, so much as people that get degrees from Rent-a-Degree schools. I wish that they would stop making those people on those commercials look so damn happy. They will not be happy when they get their online degree. They will still be unemployed, watching judge judy, in their pajamas, only with a pile of student debts.
The only thing that would make these commercials for online educations any better was if they edited that commercial to have some real unemployed person in this terrible job market come out with their ears bleeding, punch that girl in her stupid slippers in the face, and scream "psych!!!"
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