A Mindsticker? WTF?

Friends and passersby, I give you what is quite possibly the stupidest (and most sexist) ad EVER made. And the soundtrack? OMG. It’s bad.

Seriously, you HAVE to watch this 1970’s TV commercial for Tab, if only to hear them say “be a mindsticker.”

In fact, I should have saved this one for WTF Wednesday because I can’t even believe women were ever marketed to like this. Ughhhh!

Behold…

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I Heart the Duggars

I must confess… I dig the Duggar family. When they’re on Discovery, I have to watch.

What? You don’t know who they are?

Omigod! The Duggars are a family from Arkansas with 16 kids and they have been featured on their own shows on the Discovery Channel. I think they’ve done 3 or 4 now. Apparently I’m not the only one who can’t get enough of the freakishly ultra-wholesome Duggar family.

Despite the odd clothing choices for the girls (very dorky dresses ONLY) and the fact that Mom Duggar’s hair is just plain bizarre and I want to jump through the TV and unpouf it, I can’t help but find the Duggars completely endearing. When I first watched them about a year ago, they only had 14 children but by the end of the first or second show, they’d given birth to baby #15 and within months were pregnant again with baby #16, who has since been born. I just couldn’t imagine being pregnant that many times but they seem inexplicably happy about each new addition.

Their family functions like a well-oiled machine and I find their ability to feed, clothe, house (they built, with their own hands, a 7000 sf house) and enjoy so many children endlessly fascinating. Their most recent adventure involved reconfiguring an RV to fit everyone and their stuff and driving it to California to go to Disneyland (wouldn’t Disney World in Orlando have been closer???)

Sadly, I fell asleep halfway through the Disneyland show (because earlier I had been out having drinks with Sarah, Wendy, Bridgette and Becky. FUN!!!!) but I plan to catch it when they air it again because seriously, I have to see how they manage sixteen kids at a theme park when most people can barely handle two.

And yes, the Duggars are religious but they don’t delve into that too much on the show, which is fine with me. I prefer not to concern myself with any of that. They seem happy and well-adjusted and and really, for me, it’s entertainment.