How else are you going to make sure that they put new oil in after they drain the old stuff?
Semi-joking here…had an elderly relative who swore by one of those quick-change places, even though the techs forgot to properly replace the oil twice.
I’ve heard a few too many stories like this about the quickie cheapie places, so my car usually goes to PepBoys for oil changes. I trust them to do it right. (OK, last change was at the dealership when the car was in for repairs anyway.)
I dislike the newest Liberty Mutual commercial where they’re sing about “young people having fun buying insurance”. I think that’s stupid.
Yeah, that one is out there. My guess is they were thinking the stupidity is part of the charm, and would catch eyeballs.
I don’t hate it: LIke Limu (and Doug) which is a parody of 70s cop shows, the young people commercial is parodying stuff like (I think) 90210.
Whether they run it into the ground like Limu (and Doug) remains to be seen. But I suspect they will.
Yeah, that’s sort of a meta-joke, acknowledging that there’s nothing really fun about insurance, and that a commercial trying to make it fun is inherently ridiculous. It’s a clever idea as a one-off; I don’t think it would work as a series of ads.
Maybe if they add a nosy crabby neighbor lady why wears a white apron everywhere? 
The Babble one where the young woman walks into a cantina in a Spanish-speaking country and orders something to eat and the adorable little girl comes to her table and they talk about how the woman learned Spanish on Babble. All fine.
And then she boops the little girl on the nose. That sends me into a red-hot fury. I tell you if you came into my place and booped my kid on the nose you would be on the curb with your carnitas down your shirt.
Well clever ideas as a one (or few)-off that are then expanded into long series that quickly get annoying are a Liberty Mutual trademark, although insurance in general seems to like them (Flo from Progressive, for instance, and Peyton and Nationwide (with the country guy who I can’t remember)).
I’m getting goddamn tired of hearing about Camp Lejuene’s water.
My uncle spent most of his childhood on base at Camp Lejuene, and according to a recent post he’s tired of hearing about the water at Camp Lejuene.
heck, i still see ads about the asbestos lawsuits from what the 80s? they say the federal deadlines running out and they’ve expanded the settlement out to any surviving relative because there’s a ton of unclaimed money but there’s a deadline for any and all claims
Can you expound on this? I’ve never booped anyone (except my cats. Many, many times a day) but it seems to me on the level of ruffling a kids hair. Is it just the mere fact of a stranger touching your kid?
That, plus it seems so patronizing.
Well, she does not exactly “boop” the little girl on the nose…
However, point taken about touching a stranger like that - no bueno!
And what’s with all the class action lawsuit ads lately that start with “Non-attorney spokesperson.” That just seems like a weird sort of disclaimer, although I’m sure there’s a legal reason for it.
I would dispute that it is ‘lately’ - my memory is that that particular brand of ambulance chaser has been using that disclaimer for years. My assumption is CYA - that if they say ‘non-attorney’, then they can’t be sued for giving legal advice (which the commercials kind of sound like they are doing).
I was wondering about that phrase recently and it turns out the Dope has the dope:
Has to do with the not-quite-zero possibility that someone might think it’s a promise.
that and if somone sues for false advertisement its a “I’m just getting paid read lines off a sheet” way out
Sort of like now in a documentary about something controversial you’ll see sometimes " narrator x has not verified all claims and was not involved in the actual making of this documentary " because of the dan rather/CBS scandal in the 80s and 90s when CBS had a primetime documentary of the contras in Nicaragua and dan rather narrated it and it turned out that 10 years later it was discovered that a lot of the footage wasn’t what it was described as or exaggerated … and just plain faked … and rather was caught up in it having done the narration and didn’t fact check it or anything
It was sort of the beginning of the end of his CBS career
Hide my skin? Not me.
Okay, a fine concept to deliver the message, but what has left me wondering is do teenager really gather in fours under overpasses to put together dance routines for no one? I admit, I’m old, and I’m sure a similar question may have been asked of me at one point (do teenagers really gather in circles just to kick around a bean bag?) but that just seems weird to me. “Hey guys, let’s go practice dance moves in the wasteland!”