OK two posts in a row again, but this weekend was a target rich environment for bad commercials, what with football AND Christmas.
Any of the commercials for the Alexa/Siri/Home devices show the future of humanity, and not in a good way. People asking their devices to do things they used to do on their own, or didn’t even need to do.
These things look like solutions in search of a problem anyway (ooh, I am sitting on my couch, and the TV remote is ALL THE WAY over on the other side of the couch! Three feet! Too far to travel. What am I going to do?? I think I’ll just curl up and die. Oh wait, I’ll have Alexa turn on the TV! Saved!), but the way everyone in these commercials just seem so helpless is worse.
“Siri, what time is it?” “I’m sitting on the table next to the clock - try looking.”
George Orwell predicted total government control via such methods as the government actively changing the language. Or that home monitoring telescreens would be forced by the government into every home. He never would have believed that people would just voluntarily invite them in, and ceding to the machines even the simplest tasks.
“Alexa, compose a letter to my congressman. I need to complain about this legislation!” “That’s hard - would you like to watch Mama June From Not to Hot instead?”
If you’re posting this then you’ve clearly never had this technology. We used to when we had Xfiniity and had their voice controlled remote. So, so, SO much easier just to say “Alexa, change the channel to NBCSN” than for me to try and remember a channel I barely go to, or to go to the sports channels and page up or down forever.
There’s an ad showing an older couple talking about how, since their kids are all grown and on their own they no longer need life insurance and should sell their policies.
Sure, stick your kids with the funeral, burial, etc. expenses.
Let me be the 87th person to agree with you about this terrible ad. (Actually, it’s not a bad ad at all, but that last snotty line completely ruins it.)
You owe your kids to raise them to adults. You don’t owe them a house to inherit.
We have friends who scrimp and save, and deny themselves anything you could regard as an “extra” or “just for fun” so that they can leave a bigger heap of money to their kids.
Said kids were raised with love and care, and completely supported through college and ‘helped’ after that, for decades in some cases. It’s finally time to put your own wishes first, before you can no longer enjoy anything.
I can’t stand that commercial with the woman on the phone talking to herself as customer service rep. “Give me my moneeeay!”. It’s probably a measure of my annoyance that I have no idea what company this is for – some kind of insurance or credit card company, I think.
:mad: Thanks for this one. I HATE that commercial, which indeed is for a credit card. Some of the ads in this series are mildly humorous, but this one is just annoying. The woman is annoying. She is loud. Why doesn’t anyone else nearby tell her to stop yelling in the office? The funny thing about this one is that the woman looks 15 pounds lighter as the customer than as the credit card service employee.
They are not the same person. They just look similar. The point to the commercial is that they CS reps are real people just like you and not a phone tree. That has gotten lost after a while.
Really? I thought all of the commercials in this series used the same person for the ‘customer’ and ‘service’ characters in each ad. I’m pretty sure they have up until now.
Discover gets lots of these questions on their Facebook page. Their answer is that they’ve always been different people and only one pair (“awesomesauce”) has been twins.
Agreed, I actually like the commercial until that last line.
What’s a computer?
So either A.) She’s a moron that thinks the thing she’s typing on is a magic device created by a wizard and never gave it a second thought. or B.) at quite a young age she’s already become a pedantic hipster asshole… “oh you mean my IPAD?”
the generic Pandora one , where one woman wants a ring and the other a necklace … there obnoxious… espically the one that wriggles her hand 3 times for the ring …but if I had someone as hot as her she wouldn’t have to ask more than once for anything …