Wherein I express my opinion that General Mills needs to get their act together
I was recently treated to a sort of epiphany. The things that kids nowadays do that are being blamed upon the so called "violent video games" are not soley responsible for the actions of these unruly youths.
As a child these kids were subjected to television commercials advertising breakfast cereals from a certain company. These commercials made things like petty larceny, arrest without just cause, and cannibalism (assumed, but still) look okay. If the parents are not around to instill a value system into the child that says "Hey, kid! Stealing things, standing idly around watching people get chased by cops for no reason, and eating people is wrong. Don't do it!!," than it is more the parent's falt than anything that the kid is screwed up to start with.
Now, on to what I am referring to.
The rabbit on the Trix commercials is a good place to start. I am torn between my desire to see the rabbit get the Trix, but on the other hand, I am tired of watching him try to steal them. Why doesn't he just go buy his own? I mean think about it, stealing the Trix is much the same as stealing candy from a baby. Granted, the kids he is always trying to get them from are stuck up little snot-nosed brats who may have it coming, but the kids' parents are the ones shelling out their hard earned cash for the cereal. The kids may deserve having the stuff stolen, but techincally that stupid rabbit is stealing the money from the parents. How is that a good infulence?
Also, Lucky the Leprechaun. He can not seem to eat or whatever he wants to do with his lucky charms in peace. He is always being hounded by the snot-nosed brats who are trying to steal his stuff. He seems unable to work any of his Leprechaun magic to deter those meddling kids. Honestly, the things that Leprechaun goes through just to eat breakfast everyday.
The parents actually miss these things that are scarring their kids from an early age?
You think the petty larceny is not enough?
Take the Cookie Crisp dog. Constantly being hounded by the cop. That Irish git is always after him. What is the dog's crime? Wanting to eat cookies for breakfast. How is that a crime? Answer me that. If anything, feeding kids cookies for breakfast makes a very happy kid. I speak from personal experience here. I can look back with fondness at the mornings I woke up only to find that dad had brought home a bag filled with cookies to have for breakfast. Those were decidedly much happier days for me.
Anyway, I think that stupid smeg-head of a cop needs to get his priorites straight. He needs to do something about that rabbit's kleptomania problem, and he needs to sit those kids who seem to discriminate against Leprechauns down and have a nice long talk with them, preferably involving the head breaker he tended to carry around.
Also, the cop needs to look into the disappearance of the other two Cinnamon Toast Crunch chefs. Years ago there were 3 of them. Two tall thin ones and a shortish fat git. The two thin ones were, one day, just gone, and the last one seems to have put on a few extra pounds, No explaination for either occurance that I remember.
So, yeah, in short, General Mills needs to re-evaluate their commercials, and that cop needs to stop being a lazy git and start taking care of the real crimes. The racism, larceny, and cannibalism.
If these things happen, then our kids won't be subjected to having their already fragile values systems shaken, so hard, possibly that it winds up being destroyed merely by a cereal advertisement.
Think about it people. That's all I ask.
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