I love it when there are companies competing in industries that nobody actually cares about. For example, Duracell and Energizer* spend ridiculous amounts of money on advertising, mostly involving commercials in which they trash the hell out of each other. And yet, do you really care about which batteries you buy? Do you have some sort of corporate allegiance to either one of them? Do you consider yourself a big fan of Duracell? Of course not, you raving lunatic. You'd get decked repeatedly, ever day for saying something like that.** But corporations apparently think that's how people act.
It's the same thing with the insane amounts of commercials for cleaning products. Doesn't that just annoy the hell out of you? It seems like there are more commercials for spray cleaner and mops*** and whatever the hell else they're coming up with these days. It takes a very special type of insanity to be that obsessive about how you clean your house that you have to compare different brands with statistics and performance reviews.
Other products this applies to:
-Paper towels
-Toilet paper
-Water
-Tooth paste
-Shampoo (only applies to stereotypical men, not stereotypical women)
-Shaving cream
-Razors
-Pretty much any personal hygiene product
-Socks (I swear to God I've seen this)
*Firefox's spell-check recognizes both of these as real words. Either we have officially reached the corporation singularity, or they both have company names that are also words. A quick Google search could easily answer this question, but I feel that basic fact-checking destroys the mystery of life.
**And I mean more than you do already!
***Seriously, those mop commercials are just...ugh. It's a mop. We get it. It cleans floors. Shut up now.
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