Another Lume annoying commercial. This one annoys me because it seems to imply things that are not true. First the “owner” claims that mothers smell worse than teenagers and young adult women. That is a flat out lie. Nobody smells worse than teenagers. It’s a scientific fact.
Then she intimates that women with children are ‘shamed’ into not discussing how much they stink and suffer quietly in their own stench. Suuure Jan, we women do not discuss this amongst ourselves and I sure have never discussed putting deodorant under my boobs in the summer with other women ever and how cotton socks are better because they don’t get slippery if you dab a little anti-smell cream between your toes. Nooooo. Women do not talk like this amongst themselves at all.
And then she casts all other deodorants with doubt, especially the --lower voice dramatically-- aluminium free ones. Well, deodorants do not have aluminum. Antiperspirants do. And, if you do not have skin and/or kidney problems, aluminum isn’t going to harm you. I know this because I do have skin problems, so antiperspirants have been right out the door for me for a long while. The negative slant this commercial tries to put on “aluminum free” really, REALLY annoys me.
I do like that Corona Extra commercial that’s been going for several years at Christmas. “O Tannenbaum” is being whistled, and you see the silhouettes of palm trees, one with Christmas lights.
So mixdenny I looked up the lyrics for that Amazon ad with the Christmas song ‘Mamacita donde esta Santa Claus.’ The melody’s catchy with the falsetto voice. I think someone said it might have been popular in Puerto Rico among some people. I must be misinformed and they probably have llamas in Puerto Rico.
Though I like the song I’ve had to choose to avoid the commercial. I can’t let my young nephews see an old white guy like me sing that song.
Couldn’t share? I looked them up as well. I’ll post a YT video below that includes the whole song with superimposed lyrics, Karaoke style, so Eric1, you can sing along when his nephews aren’t around
Fun fact: apparently in Spnish-speaking countries (at least according to these lyrics) some, but not all, of Santa’s reindeer are renamed:
Every time I saw that commercial I wondered about the parts they cut with 2 or 3 people helping them to sit and then helping them up again. I’ll be 60 my next birthday and I already curse the person who put the floor aaaaallll they way down there.
Biggirl, I so agree with you. I’m coming up on 69 this New Years Eve. Not quite three years ago I broke my hip, and just short of a year ago I cracked a kneecap. Sometimes I’m nervous about walking, especially on uneven surfaces.
I love watching TV sports, but I am getting tired of commercial breaks that are nothing but commercials for betting apps. I get it; gambling on sports is popular, and as a legal product, there’s nothing wrong with advertising betting sites and apps.
But read the fine print. If you’re in Canada, as I am, the vast majority of such apps can only be played in Ontario. The networks must be making money hand over fist selling national advertising, when only one province allows the use of those apps.
I shouldn’t care, as the only sport I bet on is horse racing. But their frequency during football, baseball, hockey, and others! There was a time when commercials during a sports broadcast were for cars, beer, shaving stuff, gasoline, and other items that had nothing to do with betting. Now, commercials during sports broadcasts seem to be nothing but advertisements for betting apps.
And, I’ve noticed lately, commercials for betting addiction! (How to stop it, not how to get it. That’s the other commercials).
And the betting commercials! “Bet on every play! Bet parlays. You can’t enjoy games unless you bet, They’re BORING!” I don’t know if that’s the message to send.
There’s a particularly obnoxious betting app commercial that shows a woman singing about all the different scenarios in which one can squeeze in some betting action.
For example, she appears in a women’s restroom, singing something like (not the exact words)
When you’re sitting on the throne
Get out your phone
And do some bettin’
…and the camera pans to the bottom of a stall, where a woman’s feet can be seen doing a little dance in place while (not actually seen but we’re forced to imagine) betting on her camera while doing her biological business at the same time.
Then the singer appears in a movie theater and sings about betting on your phone there, while showing a woman in a seat doing exactly that. Yeah, great message! Not into the movie? Disregard the theater asking you to silence your phone and not use it so as not to disturb the other theater viewers-- go ahead and bet away!
I think this is a bit of a whoosh, but to be clear in case I wasn’t the first time, the commercial is depicting a woman in a movie theater ignoring the movie entirely, in order to play a completely unrelated betting app on her phone, such as Blackjack or whatever. Granted, it may be meant that she’s killing time before the movie actually starts, but it’s still an obnoxious thing to suggest people do in a movie theater. What’s next, encouraging people to play betting apps while they’re in line to check out at the store? Is it your turn to pay, but your Texas Hold 'em hand isn’t finished? The cashier can wait!
