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jimmy the one

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10. Never watch super bowl halftime shows
Tue Feb 10, 2026, 01:20 PM
Feb 10

Not to disparage the halftime entertainers, but I tuned in to watch a football game. I did/do not want to watch a variety show for a half hour waiting for the second half. Not singing, dancing or stupid idiotic commercials which I hate almost all with a passion all 365 days of the year.
As soon as second quarter ends I switch channel to something else. When a commercial comes on I generally mute it or do a quick channel check.
I am not alone on this but I have yet to have heard this opposing view on tv, especially not on sports shows talking about the super bowl. Duh, I guess.
There are a relatively few commercials which are admirable, such as elephants walking about to the tune 'what a wonderful world', but they are overshadowed by the other 95% of lawyer and ambulance chasers, auto, home and health insurances, Medicare scams, health scams, ad nauseum.
My vote for utterly stupidest tv commercial for 2025 was to Geico. There is a guy dining at a table and a waiter comes along with a grater and a cheese ball and starts to grate cheese with the request for the diner to 'Say When'. The cut scene appears with the diner covered to the neck with grated cheese while the waiter is still flopping it onto him.
Asinine, an insult to our intelligence, as if a waiter would grate $50 worth of cheese onto a customer and as if the guy would sit there and allow it.
A counterproductive commercial for any intelligent being, tho I long ago vowed never ever to sign up for anything geico. Talking animal to boot.

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