1. My son turned 18 five months ago. A rather belated birthday gift......
2. I belatedly filled out his selective service registry online, about a month ago, and very recently received confirmation in the mail...........
3. Hmmmm.......is the national government now selling names to Proctor & Gamble? WTF??????
4. Does Gillette really need to turn our 18 year olds into sex objects? This packaging is just ridiculous.
None of this is helping me in the transition of son from high school to college. None of it.
Is it any wonder recent generations have the wrong perceptions/ideas about dating and alla that?
ReplyDeleteWait, YOU filled out his selective service registry? You know that's fraud or something like that right? ;-)
He's never home. If I didn't do it, it wouldn't get done.
DeleteIt took them a MONTH to send it out?!?!
ReplyDelete"4. Does Gillette really need to turn our 18 year olds into sex objects? This packaging is just ridiculous."
OMG...if that packaging doesn't reek SEX OBJECT, what does? Love the hand on the cheek and the kiss marks - HA!
Yes, Proctor and Gamble have their hands in everything. I know this because they are the distributors for SO MANY of the fragrances and skincare products we sell in my store. They are a HUGE company.
Hope you had a super Memorial Day, my friend!
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I bet their sales have gone down, now that the shaggy look is so popular. Yes, P&G and Con Agra own just about everything. It's sad to think what few choices we actually have when it comes right down to it.
Deleteabout the only thing that caught my attention as anything unusual, is that you actually asked this as a question: "...is the national government now selling names to Proctor & Gamble?"
ReplyDeleteColor me cynical- but yeah, I've no doubt that whether or not it's being sold, it's being shared... intentionally or not. (Work in security a while, and you'll come to believe that *any* data is available, and usually sooner rather than later, despite the best well-intentioned efforts to keep it secure).
Yeah, dumb question, right? It really pisses me off. I found out the Girl Scouts sell names when my co leader misspelled my last name on a registration form. Suddenly, I was getting junk mail from all sorts of places with that misspelling! Still getting the crap, 14 years later.
DeleteYou get the most interesting things in the mail. ;)
ReplyDeleteHmm... I don't know for sure whether my son registered or not. He said they did it in school. He'll be 20 soon so I hope so. Not sure how we'd know either way. He votes and gets income tax stuff so his name/info is out there.
You can probably check online to see if he's registered, but they should have mailed something to the address given as confirmation. And where is his free razor? Haha!
DeleteAnd yes, we do get some interesting mail!
Companies would like to turn our 12-year-olds into sex objects. It's all about reeling the young ones in and keeping them customers for life. I kind of hope the government is not giving this kind of information out.
ReplyDeleteWhen my aunt's husband died several years ago, she started getting cards and letters from auction houses and art galleries that basically said, "sorry about your loss, but why don't you use the money your husband willed to you to buy some nice art?"
I guess they were reading the obit pages...
I just think it is too coincidental that he got this package five months after his birthday, but so close in time to the registration confirmation.
DeleteIsn't that awful about the art galleries? And bizarre, too! I could see mutual funds and the like trying to convince a widow to invest, but in art?? Unless her last name was Kennedy or Rockefeller!
Are there really men out there who would buy a razor on the basis that it guaranteed 44% more lipstick stains? They must be astonishingly gullible....
ReplyDeleteThe cheek stroking is what killed me. Double entendre?
DeleteI'd say yes, yes they are. Have you seen the ads for Axe, the fragrance products adored by middle school boys?. They suggest that if you spray the stuff from neck to crotch, you'll get oral sex. Unfrickingbelieveable.
ReplyDeleteI filled out my sons' selective service registration, too, because he turned 18 while he was away at college. Although it twisted my gut to do so.
Axe is the worst, isn't it?
DeleteYes, filling that out was a difficult thing to do, and probably why it slipped my mind for so long.
that the government would part with peoples personal information is just plain wrong...i'm thinkin you could ring your local politician and complain...but it sounds like you'd probably just end up on the mailing list of some anger management companies.
ReplyDeleteoh, and nick,...if it guaranteed it, well....
oh, and saw, i'm not sure we have axe here, but until it comes with a guarantee i'll personally steer clear of it
I now wonder what's being done with our tax info.
DeleteAxe is a teeny bopper fragrance and quite popular I guess. My son showers twice a day, so I guess he doesn't think he needs it!
this crap is what i have to look forward to , huh? mine will be 18 in the fall.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid so...
DeleteSheesh; I was practically threatened with getting dropped naked into the Vietnamese jungle for registering for the draft ONE DAY late. . .
ReplyDeleteKids these days, I tell ya. . .
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DeleteHi Bijoux,
ReplyDeleteThis is weird. Here is a big multinational behind the gift so that is not very memorable. The razor will be used, get tossed out eventually and end.
If like on the other hand, it was something more memorable for your town( Congrats; a small gift voucher for your efforts or something meaningful, that's different).
When I graduated from HS, I had our district politicians who set me each a letter... for the future voter! I still have them both; one a facsimile signature, another a real one.
Have a great day ;)
Thanks, Barb. It was a weird gift, for sure.
DeleteSheesh! What the heck!
ReplyDeleteNothing is "private" anymore. Little scary.
I was really kind of surprised. I put two and two together in an instant.
DeleteSorry, that was just so surprising to me. Me Mum woulda let me go to the pokey to learn my lesson before ever taking care of something i neglected .... ;-)
ReplyDeletebut then, our high school made sure to hold workshops for filling the forms out in our senior year to encourage compliance, so there was that.
Our age group knows about selective service because of Vietnam. It isn't on this generations radar. Mine had never heard if it and h reads the newspaper and is online 24/7. It's just not talked about.
DeleteIt's dumb anyway.......they have thes kids ssn, so why make us go through this?