# 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:** 290
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5786 "2024-08-16T23:24:35Z")
The state of Ohio has started running an ad on my (Raleigh-based) local news channel…it starts out by telling you that “future-you” will thank you for moving to Ohio for the following reasons, then shows snippets of: - Young people talking about their jobs while dancing (“I’m an engineer!” “Oh, I have my dream job!”) - The young people getting married - The young people with a house expecting a baby In other words, stuff you can do in any state. ---
**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:** [August 16, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5787 "2024-08-16T23:54:13Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > Seeing the little guy doesn’t freak me out, but I don’t think I would want to find him bouncing around on my furniture. There is a local furniture place around here that has an add with **dogs** all over the beds and couches in the freakin’ showroom! Not cartoon dogs. Real, hairy, smelly, dirty dogs. ---
**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:** [August 17, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5788 "2024-08-17T01:00:27Z")
It could a been Grandma Ethel sitting there smoking her Marlboros or Uncle Freddy with his cigar. I’d rather have the dogs. A clean dog doesn’t have to stink. Of course if they’ve been out rolling in stuff or have muddy feet it’s aggravating. (Or a fish flopping around on my sofa, eh, I’d deal with it😀) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5789 "2024-08-17T19:23:57Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > The state of Ohio has started running an ad on my (Raleigh-based) local news channel…it starts out by telling you that “future-you” will thank you for moving to Ohio for the following reasons, then shows snippets of: Yeah, I know, other states like Virginia and Utah, have ads showing all the wonderful outdoor stuff you can do there- all of which you can also do in california- and usually better. > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > It could a been Grandma Ethel sitting there smoking her Marlboros or Uncle Freddy with his cigar. I concur. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5790 "2024-08-17T20:57:06Z")
I noticed, growing up, that while other states had exciting slogans on their license plates, Ohio had “Seat Belts Buckled?” Many of the states in the Midwest have those embarrassing ads, where NOTHING they show is unique to that state, let alone anything that an ordinary family would need to leave home to do. Missouri: Deliriously happy family, kayaking! On a river, yet! Picnicking, in a park! Can’t do that at home… Final shot of the montage is kids petting the nose on a bust of Mark Twain. What tween hasn’t dreamt of that? ---
**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:** [August 17, 2024, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5791 "2024-08-17T21:50:27Z")
Google is running an ad for the Pixel 9 and it’s AI software with the tagine “Remember when all phones did the same stuff… until they didn’t?” So… does that mean the fancy new phone with the fancy new software _doesn’t_ do stuff everybody expect phones to do? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5792 "2024-08-18T03:48:58Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Many of the states in the Midwest have those embarrassing ads, where NOTHING they show is unique to that state, let alone anything that an ordinary family would need to leave home to do. > > Missouri: Deliriously happy family, kayaking! On a river, yet! Picnicking, in a park! Can’t do that at home Yeah, those ads are nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5793 "2024-08-18T04:44:52Z")
Bank of America’s AI helper, Erica. Commercial has a dude looking at the crayola scribble his kid did in the wall, pondering the shape of his head in the drawing. That leads him to ask the AI, “Should we start saving for art school?” Wait, how does an IA banking app know if you _should_? Does it have the ability to measure the art talent of your 3 year old brat? I tried to ask Google’s new “Jemuhnuh” (as the commercial said it) how to find video coverage of a specific male gymnast after his event and the thing didn’t even know the Olympics had started yet. Then it kept telling me it was a text only AI and couldn’t find video for me. Even if Erica could view the art, it wouldn’t be able to give “should” advice. I suppose it could answer a should question by saying “spending analysis shows you currently can’t pay your regular bills, you have no surplus income to invest in anything,” but _should_ is a measure of desires, not ability. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5794 "2024-08-18T13:34:50Z")
Typical Indian casino ad: - All attractive, young people. - Triple 7s on the slot machine. - Fine dining with massive steak, or lobster, or crab legs, and gold leaf on the dessert. - Winning hand at the tables, surrounded by cheering crowd. - Sexy couple in plush room in bathrobes. - Concert venue with female entertainer. - Floating in the pool (always a woman). - Getting a massage or hot stones (also always a woman, showing a little skin). - Hitting golf ball from tee shot. - Coins flowing from video poker machine. Every one is the same. Just change-up the order. They dont, however, show the nasty cigarette smoke smell for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5795 "2024-08-18T15:54:33Z")
Showing depressed senior citizens in a dingy dim venue mindlessly throwing away a chunk of their social security, lining up at the buffet before getting back on the bus home doesn’t have the winning vibe, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![banjo\_scruggs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banjo_scruggs/32/17439_2.png) [@banjo\_scruggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjo_scruggs)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5796 "2024-08-18T16:39:29Z")
Why the use of the word “annoying” in the thread title? Isn’t that simply understood??? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5797 "2024-08-18T18:21:09Z")
If only you had warned me of this 7 years ago, you would have saved me the embarrassment. Oh the shame! ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5798 "2024-08-18T21:03:40Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I noticed, growing up, that while other states had exciting slogans on their license plates, Ohio had “Seat Belts Buckled?” Actually it read “Seat belts fastened?”. But that was back in the early 1970s when they were fairly new. Since then we have had “Ohio -the heart of it all”. We should have, “Ohio - our tires are now made in Mexico”. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5799 "2024-08-18T21:08:25Z")
What happened to “The Buckeye state”? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5800 "2024-08-18T21:51:59Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Typical Indian casino ad: > > - All attractive, young people. > [@snowthx](#): > > Every one is the same. Just change-up the order. They dont, however, show the nasty cigarette smoke smell for some reason. Yep. I consulted for a local Indian owned casino. The average client was an older overweight female who smoked. Many on Social Security. > [@salinqmind1](#): > > Showing depressed senior citizens in a dingy dim venue mindlessly throwing away a chunk of their social security, lining up at the buffet before getting back on the bus home doesn’t have the winning vibe, I guess. But it is correct. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5801 "2024-08-18T22:26:37Z")
Opal boycotted it. ---
**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:** [August 18, 2024, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5802 "2024-08-18T22:39:14Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > What happened to “The Buckeye state”? One lone person complained it made them think of dead deer, but that person was popular, so it was removed. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5803 "2024-08-18T23:43:40Z")
Well, that’s the only “buck eye” most people know about. And why would you name your state after a… seed? A nut? Whatever it is. If I were a proud Ohioan, I’d want more than people saying “Oh, you’re from Ohio. Ummm, so… you’re the guys with those _…things,_ right?” “And the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, dorkwiffle!” ---
**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:** [August 18, 2024, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5804 "2024-08-18T23:56:31Z")
> [@digs](#): > > “And the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, dorkwiffle!” WKRP! Jerry Springer! Goodyear! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/again-with-the-annoying-commercials/790089/5805 "2024-08-19T01:12:47Z")
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