# Ads I Hate, As Of Late **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 31, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229 "2009-05-31T02:44:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/41 "2009-06-02T10:38:08Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Eff that, man. Erin Esurance is by far the hottest insurance spokes… chick. mmm, GoogleImage with safe search turned off seems to confirm this. Is no animated woman sacred? Whereas that Progressive Flo has crazy-eyes. Unfortunately, any ads I mention would be very SA-specific, but we can’t be the only country that has endless shitty cellphone ringtone ads, can we? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/42 "2009-06-02T12:35:02Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > It’s the gift that keeps on giving. _demented, creepy smile_ “If your holiday ad runs for more than 18 months, please consult a marketing professional.” ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/43 "2009-06-02T14:34:55Z")
Ads I Hate, As Of Late? Just sit back and let me relate A list of bad ads that never seem to abate: “Cold-Activated” cans make me irate Enzyte Bob and his dire need to mate Anything at all to do with Jon & Kate “Free Credit Report” has run past its due date Ads for dating sites where you find your “soulmate” The “Kars-4-Kidz” song is guaranteed to grate Banner ads for crap that will help you lose weight Take that Shamwow douche and pack him up in a crate Throw Billy Mays in too – address the box to Kuwait ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/44 "2009-06-02T19:21:46Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > “Bifidus Regularis,” yes! I freaking love that. > > While we’re here, what the fuck is Shea Butter? And what is the one flat stomach rule that I must OBEY? So, are you guys saying that they just relabelled their “active culture” yogurt and are now selling it as a way to promote digestive health? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/45 "2009-06-02T19:37:05Z")
> [@jasonh300](#): > > Speaking of deodorant ads, has anyone seen the new ad for AXE deodorant? > It shows guys holding up their arms and spraying their biohazard sweat all over everybody standing around them. > It pretty much finalized my decision to never buy any AXE product. AXE either has really bad ads or good ones. I hate this one also, and also the one where the couple rolled down the hill, flattening crops, and forcing a truck off the road. If they had gotten run over, that would have been excellent. I like the one with the guy who picked up chicks and horses one night, and woke up with the horse licking him, and the one with the guy counting girls giving him the eye, until he got beat by a dweeb whose counter had more hits. The average AXE ad quality is nosediving, though. The ad you mentioned would have been better if they hired the guy who played Pit Stain in **Pete & Pete**. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/46 "2009-06-02T19:39:57Z")
I know I’m going to hell for this, but for fuck’s sake, do we have to have a full-page ad of sad-looking cleft palate kids leap out of every damn magazine??? Here I am, enjoying a nice relaxing little break, leafing through the NY’er or Gourmet and YEAAAGGGHHH HOLY SHIT!!! MUTANTS!!! ANT PEOPLE!!! WTF!?! Maybe they could run a warning a few pages ahead or something. How do they expect me to make a donation when I can’t even look at the page? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/47 "2009-06-02T19:40:16Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > So, are you guys saying that they just relabelled their “active culture” yogurt and are now selling it as a way to promote digestive health? Yes. They want you to think their yogurt will make you regular, so they renamed their bacterium as “Bifidus regularis” when it’s real name is Bifidobacterium animalis. They also turn the camera toward a woman in the background who cheerfully pipes in with “I took it, and I’m lovin’ life!” Get it? “She _took_ it”…like medicine. :rolleyes: Don’t most people eat yogurt, rather than “take” it? The whole damn ad is a pisser from start to finish. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/48 "2009-06-02T20:00:50Z")
> [@orderfire](#): > > I know I’m going to hell for this, but for fuck’s sake, do we have to have a full-page ad of sad-looking cleft palate kids leap out of every damn magazine??? > Here I am, enjoying a nice relaxing little break, leafing through the NY’er or Gourmet and YEAAAGGGHHH HOLY SHIT!!! MUTANTS!!! ANT PEOPLE!!! WTF!?! > Maybe they could run a warning a few pages ahead or something. > How do they expect me to make a donation when I can’t even look at the page? If you’re going to Hell, I’ll be right behind you… Rather, in front of you, probably. They run these in the Chicago Tribune. When I spot one in the corner of my eye, I actually cover it up with my free hand and get to the next page ASAP. _I’m just looking for the comics!! Jeez!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/49 "2009-06-02T20:03:30Z")
I’ve seen this _once_, and I already hate hate hate it. [Latisse](http://www.latisse.com/LatisseAdvertising.aspx?state=51): the new prescription drug to help your _eyelashes_ grow. First of all, if you’ve lost your eyelashes completely, that’s one thing. But only in America does a weird side effect of a glaucoma med get put out and marketed for the purely vain needs of the thinly, pale-ly eyelashed! Who in the fuck is so … so… traumatized by their eyelashes that they’d use a prescription medication to make them longer, thicker, darker in what is marketed for purely cosmetic reasons??? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/50 "2009-06-02T20:11:43Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Yes. They want you to think their yogurt will make you regular, so they renamed their bacterium as “Bifidus regularis” when it’s real name is Bifidobacterium animalis. > > They also turn the camera toward a woman in the background who cheerfully pipes in with “I took it, and I’m lovin’ life!” > > Get it? “She _took_ it”…like medicine. :rolleyes: Don’t most people eat yogurt, rather than “take” it? > > The whole damn ad is a pisser from start to finish. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot! Dannon (the maker of Activia) calls the bacterium different stuff in different countries, too. For example, in the UK it’s “Bifidus Digestivum”; in Brazil it’s “Danregularis”; and in Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Russia and Spain, it’s “Bifidus Actiregularis”. [Wiki link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifidobacterium_animalis) ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/51 "2009-06-02T20:19:57Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Rather, in front of you, probably. \* Oh, sure, so you don’t have to look at my fucked up face, or be forced to hold your hand over it. Yeah, fine, I see. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/52 "2009-06-02T20:43:55Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Eff that, man. Erin Esurance is by far the hottest insurance spokes… chick. This being the internet and all, it’s only a matter of time before someone mentions the geico cave men, or the geico gecko… I also dislike the Axe super-soaker-armpit ads. And the BK ads, all of them. The one that annoy me the most, though? The singing ads, all of them. $5 footlongs, [freecredit.com](http://freecredit.com), all of them. They make me want to vomit out of my ears and smash things. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/53 "2009-06-03T09:22:40Z")
What’s up with the Castrol commercials? _wwwpshh_ THINK WITH YER DIPSTICK JIMMAY And isn’t there a Doper with the username Banquet Bear? If not there should be. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/54 "2009-06-03T11:04:26Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > So, are you guys saying that they just relabelled their “active culture” yogurt and are now selling it as a way to promote digestive health? What’s more, in many countries it’s ILLEGAL to label yoghurt any that doesn’t have active cultures. Pascual got in trouble over that in several EU countries and had to relabel their pasteurized (i.e., not active any more) yoghurt “pasteurized milk derivative” or somesuch (in Spanish “producto lácteo pasteurizado”). ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/55 "2009-06-03T14:11:54Z")
One more, about those Coors ads. I don’t see them often, but when I do, it only reminds me that I have never seen a can of Coors. Nor have I ever seen it on tap. Coors light, sure, its my standard cheap-get-drunk-off-it beer, but real, full power Coors? Not in New England. Same thing with Sonic. ---
**Author:** ![outside\_artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@outside\_artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outside_artist)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/56 "2009-06-03T14:12:21Z")
That ad for the diet drug that says ‘It’s easy! Just take Lipozene’. Anyone who says its easy to lose weight is a big fat asshole. I am so glad taht Vonage has finally stopped using that revived rockabilly song that they don’t even sing correctly. Whoo hooo hooo-hooo-. I’m still not signing up for their product, do you realize that ad ran for six years? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/57 "2009-06-03T15:38:38Z")
The ad for some sort of intergrated telephone, text, email thingermabob. The mom tells everyone she’s making paella. “I don’t know what pie-ella is but I ain’t eating it!” says the son. So mom orders pizza. I’d like to pound paella up the son’s ass for being such a dick and shove pizza down the mom’s throat for being such a pussy. My daughter hates the Yaz commercials. “Who says you have to have a period every month?” to which she screams “Your body! Biology! God!” ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/58 "2009-06-03T16:21:06Z")
Are we supposed to know who the irritating Japanese guys in the new KFC grilled chicken ads are? Everyone in the ad is irritating, but for some reason those two guys bug the shit out of me. Maybe it’s because they remind me of Hiro and Ando on their stupid trip back in time… ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/59 "2009-06-03T22:50:17Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > I’ve seen this _once_, and I already hate hate hate it. > > [Latisse](http://www.latisse.com/LatisseAdvertising.aspx?state=51): the new prescription drug to help your _eyelashes_ grow. > > First of all, if you’ve lost your eyelashes completely, that’s one thing. But only in America does a weird side effect of a glaucoma med get put out and marketed for the purely vain needs of the thinly, pale-ly eyelashed! > > Who in the fuck is so … so… traumatized by their eyelashes that they’d use a prescription medication to make them longer, thicker, darker in what is marketed for purely cosmetic reasons??? But we dwell in a land where a guy can rub blood pressure medication into his scalp and pop angina pills to be ready for a big date with the woman who gets swept off her feet by his manly mane! Shouldn’t she have pretty lashes to bat at him? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229/60 "2009-06-04T01:40:58Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > mmm, GoogleImage with safe search turned off seems to confirm this. Is no animated woman sacred? related searches:kim possible Google sure knows their markets. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ads-i-hate-as-of-late/498229.md?page=4)