Focus Group Schmocus Group

[littlebitca]

Reasons why I will never be in a focus group:

TV ad:

It's not your clothes...
it's not your neighborhood...
it's not your car.

It's your watch that tells the most about who you are.

So, if you've met me in RL, and you can't remember what kind of watch I was wearing, does that mean about what you know about me? And if I was wearing the 'wrong' watch, do you have to defriend me now? What if I wasn't wearing any watch at all?

Oh, and if you wear the advertised watch? Does that mean you're some loser who thinks your character is best expressed by wearing some stupid watch? What if you bought it before the commercial aired?

Buy the watch? Why? Is it a good watch?

Comments

[delle.livejournal.com]

were you wearing a watch? I was much more interested in talking to you, finding out about you, as opposed to judging you by some silly fashion accessory you may or may not have been wearing.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

Hee! I most likely was wearing one since I was out. It's good to know that not wearing the 'right' watch doesn't automatically make me unmemorable.

I almost always find myself going off on tangents that the advertisers never intended.

[bhadrasvapna.livejournal.com]

I was much more interested in the perfect people who aren't shallow enough to realize it's their good looks.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

Dang. And here I thought you were interested in my mind. ;-)

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I haven't worn a watch in my entire adult life. They chafe. Plus, clocks? A totally fascist concept that attempts to regiment, and by doing so, control *time*, which is just a doomed idea before it begins. Time passes, we grow old, we die. Watches aren't going to change that.

So why bother?

Hey! Where's that focus group? I want to torment them with philosophy.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I almost always wear a watch when I'm out and I don't mind them. Perhaps because my natural sense of time would have me doing things at the 'normal' time if I lived in France, or maybe England, so that little reminder of the 'real' time where I am comes in handy occasionally.

I wish I knew where these groups are. Because I'd really like to torment them by interrogating their text from the wrong perspective. *g*

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Oh, you and I could do *serious* mental damage in a focus group.


Mwah ha ha!

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

They'd never know what hit them.

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

Heh. The only time I ever take off my watch is when I shower. And back in high school, when I wore a cheap waterproof digital watch, I often didn't even do that. What does that say about me? Especially since it doesn't seem to have much effect on my punctuality?

So I don't think it's what kind of watch you're wearing that matters, but how you wear your watch and how you deal with time. *shrugs* Probably put more thought put into that than the TV ad deserved. Heh.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I have a whole slew of watches that I used to rotate depending on what I was wearing when I was working. Now I never wear one at home, and I have a couple favorites for when I go out somewhere.

What I want to know is who sees this ad and thinks "OMG! I must have that watch because then the cool people will want to know me!!" Because that response is never, ever the first thing I think.

[ladystarlightsj.livejournal.com]

I totally have to defriend you now because not only can I not remember what watch/if you were wearing a watch, but I don't wear a watch.

Which clearly says that somewhere there's a watch with my name on it in a bar, slamming back rum&cokes and saying 'Hey, listen to this, willya??".

Yis.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I was afraid of this. I can only hope that my car or my clothes will carry some message to offset the wearing of the wrong watch.

You don't wear a watch? Who are you? Do I know you? Have we met before?

[ladystarlightsj.livejournal.com]

(pokes you and runs away)

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

I too don't remember what sort of, if any, watch you were wearing, but I do suspect that there's some sort of clock gizmo on the laptop you constantly hide behind.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

Great. Now I have to find out if I have the right brand of laptop to be one of the cool kids. ;-)

[ashenmote.livejournal.com]

One of my childhood heroes was a cartoon baboon that had _several_ wristwatches. And that's pretty much all I can remember about him. Clearly, that proves them right and makes me part of their focus group.
Some day I might even spend money on a watch. Maybe. One never knows.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

LOL! But until you get your own watch, I don't know what I'm supposed to think about you. It is a puzzlement.

[hebrokeaway.livejournal.com]

I would probably sleep with someone with a nice watch, but not that brand.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

Heh. What brand was it, anyway? My mind wandered off on its tangent before they got around to saying.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Can a watch be good? Is there an evil watch? Ah, the puzzle of the watch world...
I wear a watch, but only because people seem to expect me to get places on time. Doesn't always work, I'm afraid.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

But is it the right watch? Will it get you good tables in all the right restaurants? Box seats at the theater? Your very own pony? ...Hold on. You kinda have that already. You're wearing The Watch, aren't you?!?!

[anomster.livejournal.com]

That was on TV? Gee, it sounds like a lot of emails I've been getting lately. Well, I don't remember what kind of watch you wore when I met you, so that must mean I have no idea who you are!...yeh, that makes sense.

"Is it a good watch?"?? Silly 'Bit--what does that have to do w/anything? @>) And on focus groups, I think I might like to be in one sometime, just to skew their results.

BTW, that's a cool icon. Oui, vraiment fou. And quite a diff't. take on coke-bottle glasses....

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I am a wrong-watch-wearing non-entity. I shall try my best to deal with this blow.

I see the majority of ads (usually on TV) and my immediate response usually leads to my tag line: "I'll never be in a focus group" because if I was in one they'd never get the ad out.

[ann1962]

You were not wearing a watch in NYC. And I have the most vague recollection we once talked about wearing watches, maybe in NY. Is that right?

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

I wasn't wearing one in the hotel, but I did have it when we were out and about. And I think you're right, but I'm not entirely sure when it was. I'm just happy to know that meeting me when I was wearing either no watch or the wrong watch hasn't rendered me unknowable. Whew.

[cosmorific.livejournal.com]

What if I forgot my watch that day? Does that mean I don't exist?

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

Yes! Exactly! So much existential ansgt!!

[cosmorific.livejournal.com]

Wow. This goes way beyond knowing where your towel is, knaamean?