Well here's a commercial I hate

[EstimatedProphet]

It's for the Visa Check Card. It is set in a fast-food-type place, with lines of people, cooks, register operators, etc, all moving in syncopated movement to the Warner Bros. "Mad Machine" music, all of them moving through the place like clockwork or like they are cogs in a machine. Then someone tries to pay with cash, and the entire machine of people comes to a screeching halt. The customer machine pays with the Visa Check Card instead, and the machine starts up and everyone becomes a cog again.

I'm sure Visa really doesn't care that much that the message of the commercial is that people should be more like machines.

[qnr]

1. Thank you. I hate that one too n/t

[Richard Steele]

2. Hate it as well.

[EstimatedProphet]

3. It's cute, but dehumanizing. n/t

[Richard Steele]

5. The "hive-society" depicted in THX-1138 is _NOT_ an ideal to aspire to.

[Redstone]

4. Thank you. Nice to know I'm not the only one who detests that commercial. And for

just the same reason as you detest it.

Redstone

[YankeyMCC]

6. Yeah, that one kinda shocked me

because the people who put that commercial together must think (perhaps for good reason depending on what research if any they did) that this is a message people are reciptive too.

[EstimatedProphet]

9. Exactly

Some adman thought that people would look at this idea and think "cool!"

[petronius]

7. I like it - it strikes me as more of a dance than cogs in a machine... (nt)

[Pithlet]

8. It's a stupid commercial.

Not only for the reason you mention, but cash does not take longer than debit cards. If there's any difference it's the opposite. You have to swipe in the card, sometimes more than once, punch in your pin and wait for the approval. How is that faster than handing over cash and receiving change?