Posts tagged “consumer culture”

Olay's "Regenerist Eye Derma-Pod Anti-Aging Triple Response System" is just a cream that fills wrinkles with tiny balls. Every claim in the ad is nonsense: skin cells can't be "regenerated," eyes don't "radiate," and you don't need cream to massage your face. All cosmetics ads are like this. Where are the regulations?

I spend a whirlwind Saturday mattress shopping and furnishing an entire San Francisco apartment from scratch, encountering a cast of memorable characters along the way. The experience crystallizes a real cultural difference: in America, money is an enabler and service is genuinely enthusiastic. By midnight, I'm home.

I dissect a passionate anti-Tesco rant point by point, revealing how each complaint about the supermarket giant is really just globalization working as intended: bigger stores, cheaper food, greater access, fewer arbitrary national boundaries. The real villain here is nostalgia, not progress.

Burberry sent me a catalog, probably because I subscribe to The Economist. Marketers assume that means I'm a wealthy executive type. I have no credit cards, no travel budget, and don't drink. Nice try.

America's obesity epidemic has a new solution: skip diet and exercise, just buy a $2,295 home defibrillator. It won't prevent the heart attack, just maybe save you from dying of one. Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery, so try not to have a cardiac event before then.