Okay I gotta rant. Certain ads really p--- me off.
First and foremost I HATE this #### #### ad.
What in flying duckpoop makes you think I identify with three guys in balaclavas wearing fake uniforms carrying fake guns posing like they were members of some fake agency?
For the love of God if you're going to try to show your products in the hands of somebody whose opinion would persuade me to buy your product, get a real soldier or a real law enforcer and give me their name, rank, service agency or branch, etc.
If you want a badass in your ad get a real badass. Or at least get someone cool. Old Gunny as a spokesman for Glock - see that's cool. That's a good ad. Namless faceless fake "operators..." Bleh!
Oh and here is a thought... Maybe I'd like to see some Joe Blow civilian in the ad instead? You know someone I can empathize with perhaps? I don't throw on kevlar and go bust crackhouses on a daily basis. Of course not even a member of a SWAT team does that either but I digress.
I want a gun that'll never wear out, that'll be easy to own and operate, and that'll be there when a meth junkie tries to shove a sharpened piece of rebar into my throat so he can steal my wallet and buy another hit. I don't give a flying crap if it's in law enforcement or military use. Many of our favorite guns aren't!
For the love of Pete if this is your idea of modeling the product and you're just going to be tacky about it, at least get some girls. I'll at least look at the ad a little longer that way.
Now here's another ad that gets my goat. I forget who it was for but it was a major name brand... I've forgotten who but it was somebody who I really expected to know better! The ad was for some kind of 1911 IIRC and it said "You may not have been there but your gun has" and it showed a SWAT team in action.
Bull hockey and horse feathers! My gun ain't never been there and even if it had, that don't help me none! I wanna know what you're gonna do to make sure my particular individual gun is just as reliable as the ones you purpot to make for your model, who's of course once again wearing a balaclava and a fake uniform carrying a fake gun posing like he was a member of some fake agency... AAAARGH!!!
But the booby prize, I am glad to say, actually does not go to any firearm related product. It goes to this sorry outfit.
http://www.darkopsknives.com/
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Arrrrrgh... the level of stupidity and outright lies is just killing me...
GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS... 99% OF US ARE NOT DELTA COMMANDOS!
AND WE DON'T WANT TO BE EITHER!!!
Arrrrrrrrgh it makes my head hurt... I swear I will never buy crap from any company that insults me like this. Honestly who the heck do these people think the armed citizen is!?
