Chon Connery

One of the many things that's different here is how TV commercials are played. In the US every ten minutes or so you are subjected to two minutes of commercials. That is not the case here (at least on our English channels). The show you are watching plays halfway through at which point you will see about 3 commercials. The show will then play through with no more commercials and end about 12-15 minutes before the hour and you will see various commercials until the next hour starts. Most of the commercials are for proactiv, some aging/beauty products, whitening (your skin) products, and auto insurance. My least favorite has to be a commercial which is about 2 minutes long and is basically Japanese people saying the English word "blueberry" about 50 times. This is made worse as most women in commercials show their interest by raising their already high voices (by tradition women are to use high pitch voices to communicate to customers) to irritatingly high voices. We have yet to determine exactly what it is for, but it appears to slow some aging effect. About half the time, instead of commercials you get to see a 10 minute infomercial selling cameras, GPS, or in the case of my picture, a vacuum. The infomercials usually has a salesman who explains the product to two celebrities (I am assuming they are celebrities based on their clothes). It is usually an older man (in his 50-60s) and a women in her 40s. Half of the infomercials star a man we have come to know as Chon Connery as (at least in our minds) he resembles an Asian Sean Connery (in his later years). It is always a pleasure to see his fine crafted eyebrow-raises or blank looks of astonishment when he hears a deal too good to be true.