Radio ads are getting on my nerves lately. There are the "shave-aholic" woman and the "don't wait, consolidate" guy, plus hordes of other commercial-commercials. However, my two BIG annoyances at the moment are both non-commercial commercials.
The Wisconsin DNR has a radio spot in its CWD campaign that bugs the shit out of me. It is based on the "Turdy Point Buck" song that is a popular novelty song on certain radio stations this time of year. Two guys with overdone "Yooper" accents sing about hunting deer to help combat CWD, calling it the "crying whining disease". At one point they rhyme "fry 'em" (as in cook venison) and "prion". ("I ain't scared of no twisted little prion.") The whole thing is pretty moronic, though I'm sure someone finds it amusing...at least the person who made it. I think it comes off as pretty insulting and lame. <:shudder>
The other ad that has been getting to me is for the Potawatomi's media campaign against cyanide mining in northern Wisconsin. The thing that bugs me about these ads is that they make "environmentalist" seem derogatory. Lots of "I'm against these mining practices, but I'm not an environmentalist because I'm on the school board and run my own business, so don't even try to call me one." Whatever, people. The more people get shy away from and flinch at words like "liberal" and "environmentalist" (along with "feminist" etc.) and act as though they are negative, the more they become so. Stand up for yourselves, for cry-ai! Say, "Fuck-yeah I'm an environmentalist, wanna make something of it, punk?"
