# 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:** 283
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5646 "2024-06-25T13:58:00Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > It’s the attempt to re-cast something quite sad–being so hard up for cash that you have to sell your clothes–into something Hip and Cool, that irritates. Hate to break it to you, but that trend has long started. It’s the age of excess, where many people try to keep up with hip, cool trends in clothing and accessories, so they but a lot of stuff that they only wear a few times, then did their closets are full of things they no longer wear. It’s a first world problem to be sure. > [@](#): > > (And yes, it’s also stoooopid: spending a ton on designer clothes and then selling them for a fraction of what you spent, is _not_ a way to get ahead financially.) Quite true. But if you are already buying all that stuff anyway, then selling the stuff you no longer want is at least a way to recoup some of the cost. It’s not a money- making venture, but more of a sensible way to deal with the insensible problem you created. Of course a more sensible way is to address the problem creation side, but hey, people _have_ to buy all that stuff. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5647 "2024-06-25T15:15:27Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > It’s not a money- making venture, but more of a sensible way to deal with the insensible problem you created. So, _not_ a perfect side hustle? 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5648 "2024-06-25T16:54:15Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > So, _not_ a perfect side hustle? Exactly. It’s the attempt to re-frame ‘selling off stuff for extra cash’ as a side hustle that’s so stooopid and annoying. A side hustle implies a creative or entrepreneurial activity that earns you money. A mere recouping of a fraction of your spending doesn’t fit that definition. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5649 "2024-06-25T19:09:32Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Exactly. It’s the attempt to re-frame ‘selling off stuff for extra cash’ as a side hustle that’s so stooopid and annoying. Oh yes, I agree. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5650 "2024-06-25T19:49:14Z")
Thank you. Hate that ad. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5651 "2024-06-25T20:00:04Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > The latest push by Coca-Cola to get people to drink poison, Poison??? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5652 "2024-06-25T20:18:11Z")
I recently saw the tail end of an ad for something called Dude Wipes and thought WTF? It’s apparently a flushable wipe but it’s for MEN, GODDAMIT! Well, we can’t be flushing too much crap into our sewer systems. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5653 "2024-06-26T12:08:12Z")
No such thing as a flushable wipe. Just ask a plumber! That commercial where the “dudes” lower their pants to show their streakless tighty-whities? Disgusting, not funny, ad people. I posted about it upthread, but it doesn’t hurt to mention it again! ---
**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 26, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5654 "2024-06-26T15:55:37Z")
Lume keeps making commercials that I hate, hate, HATE. The latest one shows the gynecologists cum chemical engineer (with her hair did) in which she says, “And before you ask about soap and water-- shut up, that’s why!” OK, she doesn’t say exactly that. She DOES say the first half of that quote AND that Lume has been scientifically proven to be better than taking a shower. They are actively advocating NOT BATHING. Because, of course rubbing a pea-sized amount of cream in your crevasses will remove all the dirt and grime and built up oils. **IT HAS BEEN PROVEN!!!** ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5655 "2024-06-26T17:09:55Z")
I hate this commercial for several reasons. First of all, who decides that they want to sell their car, but then instead of just selling it starts constantly monitoring what they might be able to get for it in order to get the best price. Secondly, is there actually a site that lets you check the resale of your vehicle on a day-to-day (hour-to-hour?) basis? Finally, the woman in the commercial grates on me. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5656 "2024-06-26T17:30:39Z")
It’s the ad agencies fault for over using commercials. Some like Lume are irritating from the beginning. I didn’t mind the Carvana ads at first. But they chop them up to fit different time slots. Making the ad even more chaotic. I’ve seen it chopped so we just see the woman on the lawn tractor yelling hold. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5657 "2024-06-26T20:09:22Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > I hate this commercial for several reasons. First of all, who decides that they want to sell their car, but then instead of just selling it starts constantly monitoring what they might be able to get for it in order to get the best price. Yep, very stupid. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5658 "2024-06-27T02:41:26Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Finally, the woman in the commercial grates on me. I’ve hated the both of them for years, going back to their Christmas lights commercial. Even though I now know their names, I still don’t know “who they are”, or why I should care. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5659 "2024-06-27T13:04:11Z")
Lotta justifiable hate for the Lume ads, but how about the advertising onslaught that Lume hath wrought? Suddenly every deodorant brand has leaped on board the bandwagon and released commercials with women talking about how much they stink, and in how many places. “Wanna know a secret? It’s not just my pits that stink!”. And of course, it’s always women. Don’t men ever stink?!? Well, of course they do, they just don’t worry about it nearly as much as women do. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5660 "2024-06-27T13:24:47Z")
> [@Dogginit](#): > > Not really a commercial, just a promo. On Grit (from which my TV in the bedroom never strays) a promo for Jeremiah Johnson, which features the same headshot of Robert Redford smiling and nodding at least 4 or 5 times. Just creepy. I’ve been watching `Comedy.TV` quite a bit lately; they run promos for their sister channels, such as `Justice Central.TV.` Which keeps rotating through the same clips of the “In the Heat of the Night” series but then talks about “courtroom drama”. They have actual courtroom dramas, like “Matlock”, “Perry Mason”, and assorted judges; why can’t they show a clip of those once in a while? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5661 "2024-06-27T13:31:47Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I think it’s for “spiced” Coke I actually tried that a couple of months ago. Coke Zero Spiced Raspberry isn’t something I’d go out of my way to find but it’s not bad, either. NB: I don’t recall ever seeing the referenced commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5662 "2024-06-27T13:34:26Z")
> [@Dogginit](#): > > Have only just seen the [T-Mobile ad](https://youtu.be/O0awWrzhC2k) with Jason Momoa and two dweebs my wife assures me are from Scrubs. Absolutely irritating. > [@dirtball](#): > > I’ve been fortunate enough not to see that one until just now. Good lord. I linked a video upthread somewhere, in which I describe them as worse than those two Sonic morons. ETA: Discourse tells me it’s [post #5414.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5414) ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5663 "2024-06-27T16:19:16Z")
The latest Safelite ad cranks up the annoyance factor by having the characters in the commercial yammer out the Safelite jingle. That might be tolerable if this rendition appeared _instead of_ the usual chirpy voiceover used at the end of the commercial – no such luck. ---
**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:** [June 27, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5664 "2024-06-27T16:23:38Z")
There’s a commercial for something that has a tag line along the lines of: “when you realize the music your band plays is something you’d listen to,” which makes absolutely no sense to me. Isn’t that like saying, “when you’re a chef and you realize the food you cook is something you’d eat”? All I’m saying is that if you’ve started a band and you’re performing songs you’ve written and you hate them … go work as a chef. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5665 "2024-06-27T16:55:59Z")
The one with Jennifer Garner, I think she is hawking CapitalOne credit card or somesuch. At the end she’s sitting in an airport lounge telling us having that card gets you access to perks like an airport lounge - she smirks “I can get used to this!” - as if someone like her, a successful movie star and entrepreneur, has never been in an airport lounge before. Riiight! So we now say at the end of that commercial “Shut-up, Jennifer Garner!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=282) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089.md?page=284)