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?
“If your holiday ad runs for more than 18 months, please consult a marketing professional.”
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
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?
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.
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?
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.
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!!!
I’ve seen this once, and I already hate hate hate it.
Latisse: 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???
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”.
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.
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, all of them. They make me want to vomit out of my ears and smash things.
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.
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”).
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.
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?
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!”
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…
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? 
related searches:kim possible
Google sure knows their markets.