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	We need to boycott Viva towels, and stupidity!

webduck

4-24-2007 11:45 AM

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boycott, tv commercials, viva towels, pentimento

webduck says:

We need a nationwide (worldwide?) uprising against the increasingly stupid and degrading commercials we are forced to see on TV.

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