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03-07-2015, 07:47 PM
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Commercials You Hate
So, this is a thread to share the commercials that annoy the crap out of you. You can explain why, or if it's obvious - like that damned Narwhal commercial - leave it blank. Here is the one that's been annoying me enough to make me start a thread to bitch about it.
It may not be obvious why this is annoying. I didn't even notice what was happening until I looked up from my tablet long enough to see what the woman at the counter is doing. I want you to watch her closely.
She is slicing an unpeeled, uncored, and to my eyes unripe, pear in cross sections. Then she is throwing these round slices, with pit and skin intact, into an empty pie plate. THAT IS NOT HOW YOU MAKE PIE, XFINITY!
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Artemis Entreri (03-09-2015), BrotherMan (03-07-2015), ceptimus (03-09-2015), Dingfod (03-07-2015), Ensign Steve (03-09-2015), JoeP (03-08-2015), lisarea (03-07-2015), livius drusus (03-09-2015), Sock Puppet (03-09-2015), SR71 (03-07-2015), Stormlight (03-09-2015), ZEZOZE (03-08-2015)
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03-07-2015, 08:26 PM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Re: Commercials You Hate
FUCK YOU SPRINT AND YOUR DAMN SHOUTY NARWHAL SONG.
My roommate, bless his heart, somehow doesn't believe that a) narwhals are real and b) that's really what they're called. So, despite hating that commercial, I get some little bit of joy at his slight consternation.
The commercials I hate right now? The ones that have adapted screaming goats into them. I think there's just two national campaigns but I'm not sure. Now, I love me the youtubes of the screaming goats and all the video mashups people have made using them. BUT FUCK YOU BUSINESS FOR ADOPTING THEM.
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03-08-2015, 03:12 AM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
ALL FEBREZE COMMERCIALS.
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03-08-2015, 03:19 AM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
Any medical commercial that spends 10 seconds on the product and benefit and 50 seconds on the side effects and cautions.
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03-08-2015, 06:57 PM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
Bort, one of those screaming goats commercials is part of the same Sprint campaign. So you can feel your hate is confirmed, or hate them double.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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03-09-2015, 07:25 AM
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Quality Contributor
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Re: Commercials You Hate
All luxembourgish commercials. Every single one. Because our marketing geniuses still think that singing the commercials to some 60s "evergreen" is awesome. You know it's 2015, assholes? Do you also know that's it's because of you that I switched from commercial to public radio that has no commercials?
On the other hand, the public radio station is infinitely better so you actually helped me out.
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03-09-2015, 08:17 AM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
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Originally Posted by ZEZOZE
ALL FEBREZE COMMERCIALS.
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This, so much. I already hate commercials where they trick and humiliate the person, like Folgers or Dominoes or whatever. (And yeah I don't care if they're actors and nobody was actually tricked, I am highly suggestible and it still gives me hives.) But when the humilation is no longer "haha you thought you were eating/drinking different pizza/coffee than you were" and turns into "SURPRISE! You're surrounded by fucking garbage and filth, geddit?" I'm like no! Fuck you just no! I will kill a motherfucker that blindfolds me and leads me into garbage. I trusted you, man!
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03-09-2015, 02:40 PM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
One of the down sides of using the Roku for streaming is that Hulu and other services that have ads (crackle, network aps, ect) tend to show the same ads over and over and over... Sometimes back to back.
One that really got under my skin is an ad featuring a family who seem to eat store bought rotisserie chicken every night of the week. They have repurposed chicken containers all over the house and everyone looks super bummed as the parents are serving up yet another roasted chicken. The solution? KFC!
Hell yeah! Cause the only thing that can cure you from the monotony of chicken every night is some deep fried chicken.
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03-09-2015, 04:19 PM
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A Very Gentle Bort
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Re: Commercials You Hate
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Originally Posted by Artemis Entreri
Hell yeah! Cause the only thing that can cure you from the monotony of chicken every night is some deep fried chicken.
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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! That was the exact same observation I made the first time I saw it. My roommate laughed at the absurd number of containers - which I guess is the point. But the solution to the chicken doldrums is NOT more chicken.
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03-09-2015, 06:22 PM
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Just keep m'nose clean, egg, chips & beans, I'm always full of steam
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Re: Commercials You Hate
Our fambly has gone the rotisserie chicken route far too often, but it never occurred to me to substitute KFC because I don't hate myself.
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03-09-2015, 07:29 PM
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California Sober
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Re: Commercials You Hate
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Originally Posted by Artemis Entreri
One of the down sides of using the Roku for streaming is that Hulu and other services that have ads (crackle, network aps, ect) tend to show the same ads over and over and over... Sometimes back to back.
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This is true in general, but this one time I binge-watched Comedians in Cars drinking Coffee or whatever on Crackle, and there was tons of Acura product placement in the show itself, as well as lots of Acura commercials throughout. However! They were super good. Like some of them were episodic, with cliffhangers and stuff, so you would get to see the story unfold over several commercial breaks. And somehow they got them in order and everything, which I don't know how they did that cuz that shit (keeping track of which user has seen which commercial during which session) is tough to do, trust me. They also showed totally cute vintage Honda ads that made me .
The point is, I was so thrilled by this ad experience that I tweeted about it, cuz I like to positively reinforce good behavior, especially when it was obvious that they put some thought into it. I agonized over putting the message into 140 characters, but I think I nailed it.
And then Acura tweeted me a coffee!
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03-10-2015, 09:05 PM
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Just keep m'nose clean, egg, chips & beans, I'm always full of steam
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Re: Commercials You Hate
Sort of related to my rant about lines: This commercial, so fucking much.
Old Navy has always seemed to hit my rage button with their athletically stupid commercials, and it's so consistent that it feels intentional. But this one, FUCK.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays yet another variation on her asshole Seinfeld character. Yet another self-absorbed idiot who thinks her time is more important than, not just another person's, but everyone else's time combined. I honestly don't get how this shit is funny. It's a minor annoyance, sure, but someone who behaves like an asshole constantly, and never learns the slightest bit of empathy, is not so much funny as enraging.
DAWK DREYFUS!
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03-10-2015, 09:22 PM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
Yeah, that one annoys me, too.
Oh, and while I'm nitpicking cooking in commercials, here's another. I don't remember who the ad was for as I've only seen it once and might have had it on mute. What I remember was a woman making a salad in her salad spinner. Not in the solid bowl with the strainer out or working on the lettuce, no she was putting either tomatoes or red pepper IN THE STRAINER on top of the lettuce, like you do. I mean, you don't need a cooking consultant for stuff like that, just basic common sense.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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03-11-2015, 05:20 AM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
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Originally Posted by Ensign Steve
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Originally Posted by ZEZOZE
ALL FEBREZE COMMERCIALS.
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This, so much. I already hate commercials where they trick and humiliate the person, like Folgers or Dominoes or whatever. (And yeah I don't care if they're actors and nobody was actually tricked, I am highly suggestible and it still gives me hives.) But when the humilation is no longer "haha you thought you were eating/drinking different pizza/coffee than you were" and turns into "SURPRISE! You're surrounded by fucking garbage and filth, geddit?" I'm like no! Fuck you just no! I will kill a motherfucker that blindfolds me and leads me into garbage. I trusted you, man!
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indeed.
but the thing that bugs me the most is how they refer to the participants as real people, to trick people into thinking they aren't actors because people are too stupid to realize that actors are real people too.
fuck you Febreze. you know what all Febreze smells like?
fear.
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03-11-2015, 04:28 PM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
The meta-trickery! Now I hate them even more.
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03-11-2015, 04:52 PM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
That commercial for Mr. Microphone. Guy pirates the girl's radio to harass her."I'll be back for you later!" Fuck you buddy.
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03-11-2015, 07:51 PM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
I think about that ad all the time. How, as a child, I had this ever-present television commercial normalizing street harassment for me. Looking back it just seems weird and horrific.
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"freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
- Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette
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03-11-2015, 07:57 PM
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Coffin Creep
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Re: Commercials You Hate
I was far too young and introverted to understand it from a gender aspect but harassment, I understood.
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03-11-2015, 08:02 PM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
Wasn't it "Hey, good looking! Be back to pick you up later"?*
That just kind of stuck with me as yet another example of "humans are strange and often terrifying."
* I was going to check, but YouTube just fucked off for me, because computers are strange and often terrifying.
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03-11-2015, 08:11 PM
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Coffin Creep
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Re: Commercials You Hate
That sounds right.
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03-11-2015, 08:23 PM
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Re: Commercials You Hate
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03-11-2015, 09:41 PM
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Phallic Philanthropist
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Re: Commercials You Hate
What ever happened to those commercials for Planet Fitness, who labels itself a "Judgement Free Zone" making fun of people, namely jocks, body builders, and skinny bimbos?
Those commercials actually kept me from joining Planet Fitness. They have really low prices but apparently can be real dicks.
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