Short rant. I keep seeing commercials that show people fishing and it's profusely obvious that no one involved in the commercial knows the difference between a fishing pole and a polish sausage! There's a Centurylink commercial that runs during Rockies games on Root Sports that shows a guy fly fishing, sorta. He's got a fly rod and reel, but right next to his the reel is a very large mass of memory-ravaged monofilament. The rod isn't loading at all.
There's another one that I see all of the time that is a for a prescription drug of some sort. The main guy (grandpa) has a fishing vest and hat. The hat has flies and lures in it, but the vest looks like it should still have the store hanger in it. It's totally empty. They're using what look like a mooching or 1:1 trolling reel on a spinning rod. The cast involves throwing the bobber/bait and following it with the rod. Maybe that's what mooching is, but I don't know.
Another one that (thankfully) seems to have disappeared from the airwaves has a guy fly-fishing, but he looks like he's trying to beat the water both in front and behind him violently into submission. The rod tip goes underwater on both ends of the cast.
I don't think it would cost that much to have someone who knows you don't hang on the pointy end of the rod show up at the shoot to tell you "Dude, it ain't done that way."
Anyway. Enough of my ranting.
Yes, my wife hates watching movies or TV shows with me, especially if they have anything computer, fishing, gun, or electronic related in them with me.
Matt
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I remember one where the guy is trying to fly fish with a spinning rod.
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remind me never to watch a Sci Fi movie with you. Sounds like you'd expect realism, and scientific fact along with your fiction!
PS: I always crack up at Star Trek when they start talking about how the "DNA is mutating".
isent the old guy one like a lipitor commercial? my wife laughs atr that one also
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[quote kochanut]isent the old guy one like a lipitor commercial? my wife laughs atr that one also[/quote]
I think there's a lipitor one, but the one I'm thinking of is for Symbicort. I watched it again and it almost looks like a spey fly rod:
http://www.mysymbicort.com/symb_pat_ed/
The video is embedded on that page.
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remind me never to watch a Sci Fi movie with you. Sounds like you'd expect realism, and scientific fact along with your fiction! [/quote]
There's a huge difference between willing suspension of disbelief and having to willingly not pummel an ad executive with an Asian Carp because they're to dumb to breathe without committee approval. That, and I'm not a huge movie person anyway. And science fiction stuff is really cool to watch. And fantasy. Except for when they add a stupid romance betwixt an Elf and a Man when they turn it into a movie. And they forget to put Tom Bombadil in the friggin' movie. [
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I did a search, and apparently the symbicort commercial gets discussed quite often on fishing forums.
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It does look like a Spey rod - the first line guide doesn't look like one for a spinning rod. But they are wearing empty vests (he and the kid) and they're fishing with the rod as if it were a cane pole, complete with red/white bobber.
Clearly, not one person associated with that ad knows a damn thing about fishing. Probably never been more than a mile from Madison Avenue in their lives.
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[#0000FF]You and I must have gone to different schools together. I am the same way when I watch TV...always looking to catch the unintentional blunders...and there are plenty. My long suffering spouse just rolls her eyes. But I get more enjoys out of finding what's wrong with some programs than the content on the screen. And I cain't abide any program with a laugh track. Another issue.
Those aforementioned commercials are bad enough. But what about all of the stupid fishing programs in which the host is supposed to know something beyond the basics. Can't remember the number of spastic fly casting demos I have watched...or the guy with a spinning rod that holds on to the end of the rod and extends his arm at the end of the cast to increase casting distance. I have even watched a guy who should know better reeling with the spinning reel on top of the rod and reeling backwards.
All time worst...for this float tuber...is watching fishing show hosts try to show people how to fish from a tube. The funniest part is watching them launch an underinflated craft...and/or walking forward for several yards to the water while wearing their fins. Quack quack. Easy to spot someone trying to pretend knowledge of something they know nothing about.
I really chortle and guffaw at the cartoonists' efforts to draw fishing tackle or guns in newspaper cartoons. Again, very evident they have never fished...or even held a fishing rod in their hands.
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Fishing errors don't drive me nearly as crazy as the firearms malarky which I see in the movies or on TV. It drives me crazy, mainly because 90% of people who watch the movies (including the politicians) believe it's actually real. Nothing like forming an iron clad opinion from Lethal Weapon or CSI ha ha.
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[quote submoa]Fishing errors don't drive me nearly as crazy as the firearms malarky which I see in the movies or on TV. It drives me crazy, mainly because 90% of people who watch the movies (including the politicians) believe it's actually real. Nothing like forming an iron clad opinion from Lethal Weapon or CSI ha ha.[/quote]
I didn't go there simply because this is a fishing forum. I'm an NRA Certified Instructor in multiple disciplines, so I notice lots of those also. What's even worse is the [#800000]"everything I learned about firearms is from Call-Of-Duty and I don't let the fact that I've never picked up a gun get in the way of my opinion"[/#800000] crowd.
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It wouldn't surprise me if there isn't a BIG bunch of old curmudgeons like myself who will avoid buying those products if they can because of those stupid commercials.
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[#0000FF]I used to never even know how to say or spell kurmudjeon...and now I are one.
Count me among those to first try to avoid even watching an infomercial...but (like a train wreck) it is sometimes hard to look away or change channels. Ya just gotta see how really bad they are. Especially all of the "top secret", "scienteriffic development" or "never fail" fishing lures and gadgets on those programs. And I can truthfully claim that I deliberately avoid ordering any of that nonsense. My theory is that the quality and value of any item thus advertised is in inverse proportion to the amount of advertising done to sell it.
But to me, it is almost as bad to watch some of the exotic fishing shows...put on by "world renowned experts". Jeremy Wade is one of them. Yakub is another. They get paid to travel to exotic places and fish for monster fish. Why? Their choices of tackle and techniques is often laughable...as is their moronic drama-building narrative. They often cast and retrieve no better than the kids in the DWR youth fishing program. And they get paid for that?
Also, the way they battle big fish is hilarious. It is no wonder they so frequently break rods or line on fish...to increase the drama. You'd think that these "experts" would know how to choose the right tackle, tie good knots and set the drag properly for the line they were using...and to use the rod to fight the fish rather than trying to overpower it.
I also find it absolutely amazing that they can never go to their chosen venue and catch a monster fish on the first cast of the first day. There is always some kind of limiting time frame and the frustration of battling local conditions and small fish until that magic last hour before they have to catch the plane home. Then the monster fish bites...on cue...and there is much yelling...of the same thing over and over and over...until the stupid fish gets an insane desire to come in and pose for the camera.
Any of those programs I still torture myself into watching gets the same treatment. I watch the first few minutes to get the setup...and to guess what species they will be pursuing. Then I fast forward through the recorded program to the last five minutes. That allows me to see everything I want to see...without enduring the mind-numbing drama buildup.
But that's just me.
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Oh come now Morcey - pointy ears - whether Elf or Vulcan paired with Tyler lips - can't tell me you'd really pass THAT up now!
But agreed, skipping Bombadill was a blow.
TD - ever seen the British fishing vids - Bod Nudd Dave Harrell and Darren Cox. Whole different kind of fishing than us Yanks employ. Chumming for Bream, different styles alltogether.
Agreed though the Wade drama is, well - worked up. Akin to Swamp Hunters and the moment of the "kill shot". Sorry - so setup! And always RIGHT before a commercial break, how convenient!
But - that's entertainment. Sure folks don't believe all my fish stories either! I did nab a 50 lb 40 inch carp yesterday! Ok, so that's what it felt like. Didn't have my camera, or would have been a new entry for me. Easy over 30. Guess I did have my scale... oh well. They're still out there.