Good morning, everyone. Hope all had a wonderful Easter weekend. I sure did, especially Saturday. But I want to talk about something I think is disturbing if you've ever used one of those apps where you can make money by taking surveys or playing games or even scanning receipts. I use a couple of them, but not the ones I'm talking about (except one that I deleted).
more on this later...
Yesterday as I was on Facebook, I noticed that my news feed started showing advertisements for Playwell, which is one of those aforementioned apps. Thinking back for the advertisements I've seen for that app over the past couple of years, and I had to take the opportunity to go somewhat scorched earth on them.
Yeah, I went there. Seriously, their commercials have the same cast of miscreants on there. The guy in a do-rag that might be that Nigerian prince for all I know. A casting call reject from "My 600-lb Life." Not one but TWO Russian double agents. A cute librarian type who obviously speaks English as a second language. And somebody who has someone else's balls stuck in his mouth. I'm sure that the Trump administration would love to have this banned for "DEI," but 1) the world doesn't work like that and 2) I'll let Peter Griffin explain it:
I just find it annoying that they're using an app to potentially scam customers whether legit or not by using a cast of characters that let's just say doesn't instill very much confidence in what they're promoting. I mean would you fully trust a person with an obvious Russian accent this day and age? Perhaps (especially if they're an NHL player), but given the current geopolitical climate of the past three years? I doubt it.
Another potential scam I've noticed are all those Solitaire games that promise you real cash. You have Solitaire Cash, Solitaire Clash, and possible others like Solitaire Gash, Mash, Crash, Gnash, Flash, and Bash. Yeah, there's a pattern there. Well, this one is called Solitaire Smash. What upsets me isn't the content of their advertisement, but it's TOO DAMN LONG! You know when you're playing a game, and you have to watch some stupid advertisement to get a necessary power-up? The ads used to last thirty seconds max. This one lasted TWO F***ING MINUTES!! Now that's something I WISH the Trump administration would do (curtail the length), but they'd rather not tell you about the latest food recall or have A1 steak sauce in classrooms.
I don't know if it's the phone that I'm using (when I had an LG phone, those ads were shorter, now I have a Samsung), or just the advertiser deciding to waste our time. But gosh almighty you don't need a fricking informercial about how your app works! Infomercials were wack to begin with, and unfortunately, they're still around (talking to YOU Bonani Spine Institute). Who knows? They're probably like every other app that's like "congratulations on your win, here's a credit for $0.01." Speaking of which the app I said earlier that I deleted was called MoneyTime, you know who long it took me to make $2? Three weeks! Sorry, I'm Audi 5000, and your unhinged commercial that makes little sense won't bring me back either. I should have stuck with JustPlay...
Some Loose Ends...
About the first picture posted above, that was of course John Cena moments before he turned heel at the Elimination Chamber WWE event back in February. Well Sunday's WrestleMania main event indeed see John Cena win his 17th WWE title in defeating Cody Rhodes. I went 5-2 on Saturday, and I went 5-2 on Sunday as well. However, I completely whiffed on Randy Orton's mystery opponent...Joe Hendry??? As well as Lyra Valkira's partner for her tag match, which happened to be Becky Lynch. As for the Raw after Mania, I didn't watch it live, but I saw highlights. Orton RKO-ing Cena out of nowhere? Loved it. Gunther choking out Pat McAfee? Loved it, although I saw where this might lead to a particular former wrestler to come out of retirement, who's just as annoying as Bruno Mars singing.
And apparently CM Punk and Roman Reigns are no longer Paul Heyman guys, but guess who is? Bron Breaker.
Stanley Cup Playoffs Tonight
And tonight, the Tampa Bay Lightning begin their quest for a hopeful fourth Stanley Cup at Amalie Arena against the dreaded Broward County Pussycats and the evenly more dreaded Brad Marchand. Like I said the last week here, Lightning in Five. Magic don't play until tomorrow, where they'll lose again, and the Rays? They're rather irrelevant, but they are in Arizona fwiw.
I might have more later in the week. Stay tuned.
BonyScribe
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