# Again with the annoying commercials! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [June 28, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089 "2017-06-28T22:06:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 273
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5446 "2024-05-29T12:49:05Z")
I’ve seen that one and my impression was that they were small CGI replicas of the man they were standing in front of. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5447 "2024-05-29T13:48:10Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Everyone feeling called out: I refuse to take back how this commercial makes me feel. I don’t expect you to. I’m just trying to understand in my feeble way. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > The ad shows a wedding party. All the groomsmen standing in line > 2 hairy, bearded kids in front of each. > All the maids of honor giving them stink eye. Maybe the sink eye isn’t because his balls are hairy, but because he’s wearing a tuxedo with his balls hanging out. 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5448 "2024-05-29T14:14:42Z")
Wait! Are we supposed to shave our balls these days, in order to :“get the chicks”? Geeze, I’m glad I’m not young. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5449 "2024-05-29T14:28:03Z")
Shave my balls? I’m almost sixty! I can’t reach that far down. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5450 "2024-05-29T14:43:43Z")
Yeah, I’m not likely to shave my face unless I really feel like it. Down there, it’s the 70s forever. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5451 "2024-05-29T16:12:41Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Get some Lume! Butt crack, underboob and trump. > [@Wheelz](#): > > I can believe that Lume works on butt crack and underboob, but not the third thing. You need bleach for that. Didn’t you hear him explain at the press conference? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5452 "2024-05-29T16:48:46Z")
Probably exactly what the images are. But they look creepily like children. To me. My experience with mens hangy down things(which ain’t much, folks) I haven’t noticed there was all that much hair in that exact place. Why does the world want every humans whole body hairless anyway? But…the head should have a full mane of thick, luxurious shiny, flowing hair. Strange. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5453 "2024-05-29T17:20:25Z")
New irksome commercial is for some kind of pet service called Rover in which a small child sings gibberish. It took a few times before I realized the gibberish was captioned on the screen. Reading it only makes it slightly less gibber. It took me even longer to realize the childish gibberish singing is supposed to be the dog. Sorry child singing, you are terrible. Please stop. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5454 "2024-05-29T17:20:31Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > My experience with mens hangy down things(which ain’t much, folks) I haven’t noticed there was all that much hair in that exact place. My thoughts also. How do I (innocently) ask if men have hairy balls without actually asking it. ---
**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:** [May 29, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5455 "2024-05-29T17:27:29Z")
My husband clips his with scissors, not shaves. He has enough down there that it catches in underwear and he HATES that. Also, it does get swampy there in the warm weather. Target audience for that male Lume they hawk. Only he likes taking daily showers, so. . … Now that I think on it, it isn’t his balls. He ain’t got hair on the actual sacks. And now you all know more about my husband than he’d like. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5456 "2024-05-29T17:46:10Z")
This thread is going nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5457 "2024-05-29T17:48:35Z")
I love the _Rover_ ads. They are adorable. Now the thread is going to the dogs. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5458 "2024-05-30T20:07:33Z")
In my limited experience of porn viewing, not only are the women denuded (and some look like someone took a pair of scissors to their labia), the men are smooth as can be for those big closeups. Nobody wants an obscured view, or to see or experience a big old mouthful of hair on either party. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5459 "2024-05-30T20:36:57Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > And now you all know more about my husband than he’d like. More than I’d like, too! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5460 "2024-05-30T20:44:40Z")
I have a bunch of women folk here in this house. I assure you “porn stars” aren’t the only ones removing hair from nether regions. Waxing or shaving. They get it off. Been going on for years. The men doing the manscaping, on the body proper kinda alarmed me, shown so oddly in TV ads. Just new to me, it seems. My daughters, in 3 point harmony said “oh, Mot…her!” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5461 "2024-05-30T21:02:02Z")
Yes, I know. Women have been doing it for a long time, yes. I mentioned it because the notion of men ‘manscaping’ themselves at all had once been nigh unheard of in the straight world. (seen as ‘gay gay gay’)…but now seeing the old twig and berries shaved (in any kind of porn, a nice smooth package), is something men and women have noticed, admired and are now doing more. Manscaping. Back in the 70’s men looked like Chewbacca from head to toe. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5462 "2024-05-30T21:03:27Z")
Can’t seem to find any of their commercials online to link to videos… A-Temp, a local Portland heating & cooling company, has TV commercials out featuring “Tux”, their penguin mascot, where he extols the virtues of some of their employees. They are truly creepy. Reading a testimonial letter for one employee, “He was knowledgable, efficient, & clean” (paraphrased), & the mascot adds “And you smell good, too!” Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5463 "2024-05-30T21:05:46Z")
> [@salinqmind1](#): > > Back in the 70’s men looked like Chewbacca from head to toe. Are guys shaving their legs and arms (and backs!) too these days? ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5464 "2024-05-30T21:40:14Z")
Lots of guys shave down there because it makes the penal complex seem larger. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5465 "2024-05-31T16:49:55Z")
Waxing, maybe. Don’t some athletes shave their legs so they can go faster? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=272) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=274)