My "favorite" part is at the beginning when the idiot can't solder his
item because the power cord is too short. I guess it never occurred to them
that a soldering iron is a PORTABLE device and can be moved! They should
call these things "idiot-mercails". Idiots wrote them, idiots play the part
of real people and only an idiot would believe them!
Joe
At 11:12 PM 1/12/05 -0600, you wrote:
My favorite part of the TV ad is where people are
gushing about how they
won't get burned by this soldering iron. You know, if you can't use a
freakin' soldering iron without burning your eye out or something, you
shouldn't be using it at all. I have soldered millions of joints and
can count the number of times I've burned myself on one hand. (Of
course, it's the hand I didn't burn off with my trusty "normal"
soldering iron...)
-Tom
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
The commercials on TV that I was seeing a few
weeks ago seemed to think
that ordinary people like housewives and weekend fix it up schlubs would
somehow find a use for a soldering iron. They showed the hands of a lady
soldering some piece of kitchen ware and some doofus doing some very light
repair (broken battery wire or something equally lame) on some gadget.
And I'm like, yeah right. Who fixes anything these days (I'm being
rhetorical, Tony) and what of anything that's made today is conducive to
being repaired in the home with a soldering iron?
--
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