Naaah, he wasn’t teaching, this was at his home and he was just mini-ranting.
He sounded like a Doper curmudgeon, actually (he mentioned his neighbor who’d come over every week and measure the shrubbery, and if it was one cm over the Swiss suggested standard, he’d throw a fit).
I’m almost to the point where I’m going to start recording the morning and evening news so I don’t have to deal with the stupid political ads.
One of them is actually comically bad…it’s attacking a man running for a seat in a new Congressional district because of his background as a criminal defence attorney!!! It uses a hokey rhyming scheme to attack this guy for having the nerve to defend various “bad” people in court, including one bit that indicates he helped someone with their hash in exchange for cash.
This Coca Cola Ad is really annoying me right now. Not because of the people or anything, but the soda itself looks like it’s watered down. It’s really light and see-through when real cola is dark black. It’s all I can think about when it comes on.
The travel service (Expedia? Travelocity?) with the woman checking out of the hotel and happy at getting charged $125 or whatever, and then going ballistic because another woman comes up beside her and gets charged $99. “Wait…what?”
Lady, how do you know what kind of room this other woman had? Maybe she had a single with no breakfast. MYOB.
Saw an ad for something with a Zombie who was losing parts of his body. Sorry, not gonna think about using your whatever after watching an eyeball plop on the table.
Honey we won the lottery and I got so excited that I spilled my drink and now it’s perilously close to ruining the lottery ticket. Oh no, we don’t have adequate paper towels.
It’s for Trivago. The same commercial plays on the Canadian channels that I get, just as it does on the American channels that I get. Same hotel guests, same names, same hotel desk clerks.
However. While on American channels, the prices are as you describe ($129/$99), they are curiously more expensive on Canadian channels ($200/$159). I have no idea why. Having done a lot of road-tripping through the US and Canada, I haven’t noticed that there is much difference in the cost of a night at a Comfort Inn, a Best Western, a Hampton Inn, or other similar “just off the highway, made for one-night travellers” places in both countries.
If I can get a Comfort Inn room for one night in Regina, Saskatchewan for CA$129, I’d suggest that I can get the same room in Des Moines, Iowa for US$129 a night. Or at least within $10 of each other, anyway–it’s been a while since I’ve driven through Des Moines. Still, I have no idea why the difference in pricing in the Canadian and American Trivago commercials. Like I said, it’s curious.
That one bugs me for a different reason. They spin the monitor around and show the guest the total, which is creepy in itself. But the numbers are very strange! Where’s the tax? Why are they announcing it like that? The guests shouldn’t see other people’s totals.
I think complained about these Bounty commercials earlier in this thread. Not only do they not move the endangered object out of the way of the liquid stream, but when they wipe up the liquid they push it toward the endangered object.