I practically have to beg Mr Rebo to throw out his old T-shirts. He actually wears them out in public! I’ve been known to “disappear” a few myself.
Glad to hear I’m not the only one!
Using this as a starting point…
Back when Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer were the hot LA producing team, I read that Simpson never washed his black jeans. When they were dirty, gone! Open up a new pair. They never look as good as before that first wash.
I agree, but I don’t have his money to be that fashionable.
Actually, it’s more finessed than that. Their claim is that rinsing your dishes wastes water, but people rinse their dishes so they don’t dry and cake up before they run the dishwasher.
Cascade is trying to say “don’t rinse your dishes, run the dishwasher. It will still save water.”
Also the Jack Reacher method… 
I have lots of old T-shirts; and yeah, I wear them in public. I only discard them if they get really worn-out, or if the armpits tear.
I have aloha shirts that I still wear, that I bought in the '90s.
I don’t usually either. But I have moved them from from “wear to work” or “wear outside the house” to “wear around the house” when they start to fade or get pills. Which means I had to buy new clothes for work or to wear outside the house.
I wear a Puma t-shirt from the early '90s a couple of times a year.
Hey, if they still look good, why not?
Even if Reacher shopped for clothes at thrift stores (he seemed to prefer Army-Navy outlets), his annual clothing bill must’ve been phenomenal.
When my nominal boss asked me when I was going to throw out a ragged shirt I was fond of I said, “when it stops being comfortable”.
I think that’s a different ad from the one I’m thinking of. I am familiar with the one you mentioned, but the one I’m thinking of has a guy saying something of “I used to wait until my dishwasher was super full before I ran it, but now I dish differently. Now I run it every day, and I’m actually saving water, because even half loads use less water than hand washing.”
I actually have 3 tiers of t-shirts: top tier is my ‘Sunday Best’ t-shirts, brand new and unstained. Suitable for most casual public wearing. Bottom tier are my torn, stained shirts worn when doing messy chores like painting, staining the deck, etc.
Then there’s a middle tier- kayaking t-shirts. I’ve tried wearing the low-tier shirts, torn, paint-splattered shirts for that, but Mrs. solost is like, “nah. I’m still being seen with you in public, even if it’s only a river”. But kayaking shirts are liable to get muddy, torn by branches, or indelibly stained by sunscreen, so I don’t want to wear my best, I need an in-between T: slightly frayed collar, maybe a small discreet hole or two (no more than 2, less than a dime in diameter). But overall presentable.
No problem for him-- whenever he’s short on cash, he just finds a drug dealer in a back alley, beats him up and robs him. Then he gets some brand new Army-Navy duds and finds a diner to drink lots of black coffee.
Back to annoying commercials: How about Burt Ward and his 27-year-old dog?
Ward is especially annoying to me because in the 1990s, he wrote a book about his sexual exploits back in his “Batman and Robin” days, most of them involving underaged girls.
Heh, I’ve always had dachshunds, and as a result I’ve always had little holes in my t-shirts from the dog’s toe nails as he dug them in when I picked him up. Confused me for a while until I realized where the holes were coming from.
What with cats, my Carhartt T shirts do get holey. So, they then either get put in the garage as work shirts, or now mostly given to my buddy who is a contractor and loves them- holes and all.
Yeah, thats me, but two tiers.
I had a boss who liked designer jeans and had them dry cleaned for just that reason.
The latest round of “Balance of Nature” commercials actually has a “September is National Fruits & Veggies Month” line at the end. Yeah, let’s celebrate “National Fruits & Veggies Month” by hawking fake fruits and veggies pills…
Do in video paid sponsors count as commercials? Let’s ask the OP. –scroll, scroll, scroll– Holy shit, that was me five fucking years ago!!! So, they count then.
How old finding out how long ago I started this thread makes me feel notwithstanding, I must watch a lot of YouTube geared towards younguns because I get a lot of AG1 ads. Them there influencers say it’s delicious but it looks like the stuff I had to clear out of my aquarium. But what really gets me is that they really bang on about their “activated mushrooms” and rhodiola. I bet you didn’t even know you needed rhodiola or to activate your mushrooms! It’s also super! Not regular food at all but liquid SuperFood!
It is targeted to much, MUCH younger people who, apparently, do not have enough diarrhea in their lives.
They had one of those “jesus gets us” commercials. They said He didn’t get a college education. The rest of the things “he” did were fine, but I don’t think Jesus needs a college education. His wisdom is infinite. It helps when you designed the universe.
If we’re counting ads on streaming services, I really dislike the new trend of interactive ads I’ve been seeing lately. I have the ad supported Hulu tier, and some of the ads now want me to select exactly which ad I want to watch, for example one I got last night presented a screen that said “Select a video to see how people are using the Metaverse.” Sure, if I don’t pick one it will just automatically play one of them after about 10 seconds, but that means I either have to spend an additional 10 seconds waiting to get back to my show, or I have to expend the effort to reach for the remote and pick a video. I just want to be a couch potato, darn it.
There’s a candy commercial with little trick-or-treaters getting either a Kit-Kay or a Reeces Cup (the little girl dress up like both gets both). For the life of me, it sounds like that one kid says, “Kick ass!” when he sees the candy bowl.
There’s an ad for some variety of snack chips (I think) where the host’s Alexa (I think) keeps reading texts from his mother which are incredibly embarrassing, commenting on his girlfriend’s appearance and including things like “bride emoji”, “groom emoji”, and “baby emoji”.
First of all, does his mother have a spycam in the guy’s living room? And who would have something programmed to read out texts like that?