# Advertising that has the reverse effect and actively discourages you. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360 "2006-04-12T13:48:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/141 "2006-04-14T19:29:04Z")
> [@YaWanna](#): > > No, Tom Shane is **everywhere**! In Denver, too. I had no idea that this was a national problem! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![N.Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@N.Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N.Sane)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/142 "2006-04-14T23:35:16Z")
There’s a Skittles commercial here that makes me want to vomit every time I see it, and I have sworn never to eat Skittles again!!! It’s a job-interview type situation, and the interviewer is a woman. She makes a little small take with the guy being interviewed. He has a huge long grey beard that looks like mouse fur, and he’s feeding himself Skittles from an open bag on her desk WITH THE BEARD! She then says that they’re really looking for someone with more experience, and he says, “Experience” in a weird tone of voice as his beard puts a Skittle in her mouth. Barf! Barf! Barf! :\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\< ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/143 "2006-04-15T00:11:46Z")
> [@winterhawk11](#): > > This one’s definitely regional, but the Warriors NBA team has a series of ads telling people that they should get on “Warriors time,” which apparently means finishing things before the shot clock expires. The ads feature people doing normal jobs (the three I’ve seen have been a barber shaving a guy with a straight razor, some window washers on a scaffold washing skyscraper windows, and some movers) in an incredibly fast and slipshod way (for example, the movers shove a piano out of their truck and let it crash to the street, toss boxes of breakables into the yard, etc., while the barber is literally cutting his customer because he’s working so fast). Not that I like basketball in the first place, but this campaign is a serious turnoff. > > They’ve got a similar one for baseball now too (I forget which team–I actively avoid baseball whenever possible) where people fling things at high speed into windows, mirrors, etc, and one for the San Jose Sharks where people are frightened of a guy wearing a Sharks jersey (who has no idea why people are reacting to him in this way). This one doesn’t bother me quite so much–maybe because I play hockey and actually follow the Sharks, or maybe because it doesn’t have any actual stupid violent stuff in it, just the anticipation of it. > > I guess I’m not the right demographic, but the Warriors and baseball ones are some of the few commercials I will actually change the channel to avoid. > > Oh–and while I’m on the subject–there’s also a commercial for some digestive remedy that features puppets representing various body parts…including, at the beginning of the commercial, a digestive system on a stick. Eww. 😛 These are all FOX Sports commercials. The same themes are used here in Detroit for the Pistons, Tigers, and Wings. The difference is, of course, that two of those three teams are definately worth watching, and the Tigers are climbing toward respectability, too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/144 "2006-04-15T00:38:08Z")
Back on the tampon tangent: That commerical where “Its an Ordinary Day”. It shows women doing regular activities, reading, jogging, working on easel, jackhammering… WTF? How many women operate jackhammers that this qualifies for a target audience? Which makes me wonder: If I used that tampon, could I operate a jackhammer? On a regular basis, or just when on my period? What would I do the rest of the time? Would I just be oily and sweaty like that woman? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/145 "2006-04-15T00:41:58Z")
> [@N. Sane](#): > > There’s a Skittles commercial here that makes me want to vomit every time I see it, and I have sworn never to eat Skittles again!!! It’s a job-interview type situation, and the interviewer is a woman. She makes a little small take with the guy being interviewed. He has a huge long grey beard that looks like mouse fur, and he’s feeding himself Skittles from an open bag on her desk WITH THE BEARD! She then says that they’re really looking for someone with more experience, and he says, “Experience” in a weird tone of voice as his beard puts a Skittle in her mouth. > > Barf! Barf! Barf! :\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\<\< That is bizarre. I can’t imagine who thought that would sell more skittles. Makes me wonder if it is the same ad agency who thought up the Quiznos raise-by-wolves commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/146 "2006-04-15T00:57:29Z")
Mentos commercials: WTF? As with previous poster, I hate, hate, hate (with the intensity of a hundred thousand million suns) the $150 weight loss pills. Especially when that snotty woman says “these are so powerful, they are not for the casual dieter!” Now they have a generic knock-off of the original (Leptopril?) and play the original ad within the new ad. I change the channel every time. Gah! Makes me angry and tense just to think about these ads :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/147 "2006-04-15T01:08:19Z")
> [@Jennshark](#): > > Mentos commercials: WTF? > > As with previous poster, I hate, hate, hate (with the intensity of a hundred thousand million suns) the $150 weight loss pills. Especially when that snotty woman says “these are so powerful, they are not for the casual dieter!” Now they have a generic knock-off of the original (Leptopril?) and play the original ad within the new ad. I change the channel every time. > > Gah! Makes me angry and tense just to think about these ads :mad: That one’s actually sheer genius. You have to admire their balls for that one. Obviously, the company selling the “generic” is exactly the same company that’s selling the “original.” I’m sure they’re exactly the same product, too. But damn me if they didn’t come up with a fairly clever way to drum up interest and then cash in on it. They’re reprehensible slimeballs, of course, but crafty reprehensible slimeballs. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/148 "2006-04-15T01:20:06Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > That one’s actually sheer genius. You have to admire their balls for that one. Obviously, the company selling the “generic” is exactly the same company that’s selling the “original.” I’m sure they’re exactly the same product, too. But damn me if they didn’t come up with a fairly clever way to drum up interest and then cash in on it. > > They’re reprehensible slimeballs, of course, but crafty reprehensible slimeballs. It sure is the same company . . . which brings up the whole question of how they can sell a “generic” of a drug that isn’t FDA-approved and therefore isn’t really a name-brand drug anyway. Balls, indeed! ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/149 "2006-04-15T02:23:48Z")
The toilet paper commmercial where there’s a bear family, all shaking their asses in our face and having orgasms about the softness of the damned stuff. There used to be another toilet paper commercial, featuring real people who also shook their booties and the over voice was about how clean their cracks were. vomit city. The laundry detergent ads that talk about protein stains–we make a point of yelling at the TV–yo! you’re talking about _blood_ --say it! Charmin (can you tell I dislike the way tp is marketed?) Orange juice–if I had to reach thru the display case that far and then someone’s hand gave me a container, I’d freak out–or at least tell the manager. Magazine ads–every last nail polish and make up ad. Yes, I’m on to you make up peole–you change the names of the blush/eyeshadow/polish/lipstick–it’s the same damned colors, year after year–there is NOTHING new about them… :rolleyes: Car ads–the one where the woman drives and lightpoles fall down, guard rails smash and yet, oddly enough, her car is unscathed. What is that? Driving in the Twilight Zone? And (dregging back into memory banks)–the TV ad about TVs with the spokeswoman who said, “I’m Rula Lenska” and who the f\*ck are you at home? 😕 Oh-and the other one who said, “don’t hate me because I’m beautiful”–ok, I’ll hate you because you’re a conceited ass? ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/150 "2006-04-15T07:19:12Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > QANTAS: I don’t care how extravagant and expensive the TV ads were to make, the syrupy patriotism gets a bit much. Makes me want to fly Emirates or something. Or **gasp** Air New Zealand. You know why the Air New Zealand campaigns don’t have a song called “I Still Call New Zealand Home”? Because they couldn’t find anyone to sing it with a straight face… 😃 I’ll get my coat… > [@](#): > > ANYTHING THAT HAS THAT VOICE-OVER WITH THE WHIMSICAL VOICE™: Aussies, you must know who I mean. Actually, I don’t- but I don’t watch much telly to begin with, since it’s largely crap here anyway… ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/151 "2006-04-15T15:49:08Z")
> [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > QANTAS: I don’t care how extravagant and expensive the TV ads were to make, the syrupy patriotism gets a bit much. Makes me want to fly Emirates or something. Or **gasp** Air New Zealand. > > BUNDABERG RUM: Or any of the new breed of alcohol ads which feature onboxious, beautiful white twenty year-olds with too much cash, and that hint ‘for all your date rape needs’. > > XTREME _ANYTHING_: C’mon guys, we’ve had fifteen years of this crap. Eating Xtreme crisps is not going to turn me into a c.1992 Gen X skateboarder. It’s just going to raise my cholesterol. > > The wonderful Maddox has a great rant on [Xtreme Marketing](http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=xtreme_bullshit) > > GUILT MARKETING: I’m not going to buy your brand of tyres just because you stoop to images of babies in the car. > > ANYTHING THAT USES FAKE ENGLISH ACCENTS to sound posh. > > ANYTHING THAT HAS THAT VOICE-OVER WITH THE WHIMSICAL VOICE™: Aussies, you must know who I mean. [I Hate Qantas!](http://www.tvacres.com/adanimals_qantasbear.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Tazmanian\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@Tazmanian\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tazmanian_Devil)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/152 "2006-04-15T15:52:26Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] QANTAS: I don’t care how extravagant and expensive the TV ads were to make, the syrupy patriotism gets a bit much. Makes me want to fly Emirates or something. Or **gasp** Air New Zealand. [I Hate Qantas!](http://www.tvacres.com/adanimals_qantasbear.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/153 "2006-04-15T16:04:27Z")
Everytime I see that creture lift that big toenail, I hear Loudon Wainwright singing “Chop off a toe, a foot, or take a whole leg.” While I would do before using that product to treat any toe fungus. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Yuppie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Accidental\_Yuppie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Yuppie)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/154 "2006-04-15T17:05:22Z")
2 local anti-smoking commercials …one featuring an 9 year old girl and her dying mother that starts " I can’t say that I want to be like my Mom because then everyone would think I want to start smoking when I’m 10"…just rubs me the wrong way, like there is nothing more to Mom’s indentity than “smoker” and that negates all her other qualities…the other is scare commercial with some guy “that is dying from cigarettes” going about how horrible and scary and painful chemo and radiation treatments are. This one really pisses me off because these treatments can be difficult and lots of people have to take them and for the most part it’s not their fault and the last thing they and theiramilies need is some commercial deliberately making this stuff seem really horrific. I’m tempted to buy a pack and light up in front of Bloomberg’shouse even though I don’t smoke. The other is a local commercial for some upscale titty bar, it starts with pictires of the Venus De Milo and other artworks while the narrator natters on about how much canvas and stone has been dedicated to the age old pursuit of glorifying the female form and how the tradition comtinues on the West Side of Manhattan…cut from art works to hard looking siliconed striippers with more blather about fine dining, fine women, find art and,in case anyone is really tricked into thinking this is some classy place, they close with the tag line " in the LAP of luxury". ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_O_Malley_s_Cow)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/155 "2006-04-15T17:26:56Z")
> [@Accidental Yuppie](#): > > 2 local anti-smoking commercials …one featuring an 9 year old girl and her dying mother that starts " I can’t say that I want to be like my Mom because then everyone would think I want to start smoking when I’m 10"…just rubs me the wrong way, like there is nothing more to Mom’s indentity than “smoker” and that negates all her other qualities…the other is scare commercial with some guy “that is dying from cigarettes” going about how horrible and scary and painful chemo and radiation treatments are. This one really pisses me off because these treatments can be difficult and lots of people have to take them and for the most part it’s not their fault and the last thing they and theiramilies need is some commercial deliberately making this stuff seem really horrific. I’m tempted to buy a pack and light up in front of Bloomberg’shouse even though I don’t smoke. > > The other is a local commercial for some upscale titty bar, it starts with pictires of the Venus De Milo and other artworks while the narrator natters on about how much canvas and stone has been dedicated to the age old pursuit of glorifying the female form and how the tradition comtinues on the West Side of Manhattan…cut from art works to hard looking siliconed striippers with more blather about fine dining, fine women, find art and,in case anyone is really tricked into thinking this is some classy place, they close with the tag line " in the LAP of luxury". Yep, those smack of tacky. I don’t like scare tactics in commercials. I feel the same way about the Allstate commercials that show actual accidents happening (I have a post about it somewhere on here). Oh, and welcome to the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/156 "2006-04-15T17:49:12Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Canadian Tire, an institution in Canada, had a series of ads with the most annoying couple in the world recently. Unfortunately, they fired them after they realized that their annoyingness was starting to become legendary. It’s too bad, because making fun of them was starting to get really fun. Canadian Tire got rid of the world’s most clueless neighbor? I loved that guy. My vote for most annoying commercial is for a regional mattress chain called Shit and Sleep, no wait that’s Sit and Sleep. Anyway all of these commercials on radio go the same way, they have Larry the CEO and Irwin the CFO or CPA. Larry talks about how they are cutting prices and Irwin whines that they are going broke, and how he is going crazy from Larry’s price-cutting. The spot always ends with Irwin screaming, **"Cause your killing me LAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYY!!!"** I am guessing that these are the actual CEO and CFO, as nobody would hire two actors that have voices that are that horrible and annoying. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/157 "2006-04-15T19:14:32Z")
> [@OneCentStamp](#): > > ANY commercial (most common on radio, but you see them on TV as well) that features a jingle that’s just new words slapped onto a popular or classic song. > > “I’d like to buy the world a Coke…” :mad: I probably won’t be the first to comment, but… The coke song actually came first, but because it was so popular they re-released as a pop song. > **[Coca-Cola Global](https://www.coca-cola.com/)** This is the link here! I really have the Musinex commercials with the mucous creature living in your lungs. Bleh. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Yuppie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Accidental\_Yuppie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Yuppie)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/158 "2006-04-15T19:59:56Z")
> [@Mrs O'Malley's Cow](#): > > Yep, those smack of tacky. I don’t like scare tactics in commercials. I feel the same way about the Allstate commercials that show actual accidents happening (I have a post about it somewhere on here). > > Oh, and welcome to the SDMB. Glad to be here, I was a regular years ago on the AOL board. And I just wanted to add that my spelling is usually not that horrendous, when I was typing that last post I did something that put me into that annoying “overwrite” mode whcih made it impossible to correct errors without retyping everything and I couldn’t get out of it. Barbara ---
**Author:** ![merrily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@merrily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/merrily)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/159 "2006-04-15T20:42:40Z")
There were two car commercials that got to me. One was the guy who froze to death in his convertable, and the other was the one where the mother implied that the younger sister was conceived in the car. Both left me with the thought, I don’t want to sit on _those_ seats! ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Mrs\_O\_Malley\_s\_Cow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_O_Malley_s_Cow)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360/160 "2006-04-15T20:47:04Z")
> [@Accidental Yuppie](#): > > Glad to be here, I was a regular years ago on the AOL board. > > And I just wanted to add that my spelling is usually not that horrendous, when I was typing that last post I did something that put me into that annoying “overwrite” mode whcih made it impossible to correct errors without retyping everything and I couldn’t get out of it. > > Barbara Try hitting your insert button on your keyboard (should be next to the backspace key) and that should clear it up. sorry for the hijack. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advertising-that-has-the-reverse-effect-and-actively-discourages-you/352360.md?page=9)