Versus and the Commercials they Run

I am fortunate enough to watch the Tour in the morning, but unfortunately I am watching it live and can't forward through the ridiculous amounts of commercials and the quality of the adds.

The silver dollar coin type thing that commemorates 9/11 is terrible

I know a few roadies that collect coins as a result of watching 6 hours a day of the Tour De France. Probably because they lack the social reasoning skills to see that its all bull Shit. Or their mental awareness is so dim witted due to long hours of exposure to other road geeks. not to rip on all roadies, but after a recent ride with a large group of them I am convinced the lack certain social skills along with their ability to handle the bike. The image bikers have in KC is bad enough with out these very experienced riders running lights, stop signs, crossing medians and being flat out rude. I am fortunate that I have a choice of never riding with them again.

A Few comments about the commercial:

"Many, many things bug me about this ad. From the sheer irrelevance of it being larger than a US bill, to the innate stupidity of 9+11=20 (if you add the numbers on the other side, they equal forty, so how can this method of marking the denomination make any sense whatsoever), to the poor quality rendition, to the requisite price slash from $39.99, and on.

But the most irritating part to me is that it says something about it being unofficial Liberian nonlegal tender or whatever. I can't even begin to get my mind around this aspect of it. What the hell does Liberia have to do with anything?

Liberia was where the United States government was going to ship all the freed slaves after the Civil War. Well at least until they realized that doing so would be a vast and expensive logistical undertaking. Liberia also realized there's a huge market for American yahoos who want coins to commemorate everything from Brooke Shields' First pussyfart to the Armageddon so they said "We want a piece of the action" and agreed to let these worthless trinkets be pretend currency in their country."