You get used to it when it’s been like that for your whole life, but it’s annoying when I’m watching something really engrossing, and yank I’m dragged completely out of my suspension of belief. Oh, that’s where my older sister lived before she and BiL got married…
I certainly intend to. No demonstration needed,
I remember reading about that. I also remember reading that someone (but I’m not sure who) gave him shit about it, saying that “normality” was a perfectly cromulent word.
Disclaimer: Pretty sure they didn’t actually use the word “cromulent,” though.
I don’t know about “annoying,” but one of the latest Ring commercials shows a couple of what I assume are high school seniors celebrating the fact that one of them got into UC-Davis. When did Davis become a school that became that hard to get into? At least in my day, it tended to be the “backup school” if you couldn’t get into UC-Berkeley. (I assume one or more of Irvine / Riverside / Santa Barbara / San Diego played a similar role for UCLA?)
All of the UC schools are impacted, except for UC Merced, so getting into any of them at this point is an achievement. She was probably happy and relieved she was going to Davis instead of settling for Merced, or maybe she wants to be a vet.
I used to live a block from where Buffy the Vampire Slayer went to high school. (In Torrance, which is next to the earlier-mentioned Carson.)
It’s fun! I loved it. And you often get to see things being filmed, too–sometimes commercials (to get back to the thread).
Yeah, they seem to think NO prospective customer will ever glom on to the fact that the claims of BUY NOW IT’S LIMITED are hooey. (And sadly, the Bulb Head may be right about all too many of those viewers.)
I found it weird, but in a different way. Either I’d see something and say “wait! that’s not San Francisco” (most McMillan and Wife locations) or “hey! They’re going the wrong way to get where they are going!”, “Those two places are no where near each other!” “They’re making that place look way bigger than it is in real life!”
Ah, the magic of filming.
The advantage of growing up somewhere boring is never recognizing any filming locations.
Yes, commercials! This is a really old one because they made in when I was in high school, so I don’t know how many people will remember it. IIRC it was for V8 juice, and the theme was “get out of your rut.” There was a little pocket neighborhood park a block from my high school, and one morning there was a deep rectangular ditch – almost like a grave – dug in the grass. It was for this commercial which showed someone walking up out of this hole in the ground. Getting out of his rut, get it? So clever. 
That’s nothing I currently live in the very same unit that was last occupied by John Boy Walton’s girlfriend.
No idea if she left under her own steam.
Even easier for me - call the guy, write a check. Done.
I’ve often wondered about the walk-in tubs. I know it takes a while for our bathtub to drain and unless installation of a walk-in includes a bigger drain, I just imagine sitting there, cold and wet, waiting till it’s safe to open the door. Am I missing something?
You have to sit there cold while it fills, too.
I wonder if people buy them because they look like a good idea, and hate them after the first day.
I imagine hundreds of old folks dying from impatiently climbing out and slipping.
They don’t tell you about that part, do they?
About 10 years ago the clerk at our local Asian food market motioned to me. "Hey buddy, you like these pills? It was a Chinese male enhancement product called “Hard 5 Days”, I think. He gave me the hard fist gesture. I immediately bought a pack. Note: I had been on Viagra for about 5 years at that point and it was starting to drop off in effectiveness. I gave Hard 5 Days a try and although it did seem to work somewhat it also gave me a headache. I did an Internet search for it and it was on the FDA’s banned list. You wanna know why? Because it did contain sildenafil but it was sold without a prescription and the amount was not identified. So banned because it was the real thing.
I can imagine it was fun to recognize that local spot in the commercial.
I hope they filled the rut back in. In broad daylight, of course, so that there wasn’t any question of it being used to…
Oh, I didn’t just see it in the commercial. I walked right next to the hole on my way to school. It wasn’t until I saw the commerical probably months later that I understood what it was for.
And, yes, it was quickly filled back in and re-sodded.
I just saw a commercial for something called Mighty Mendit. It features the died-years-ago pitchman Billy Mays.
It just seems very wrong to me that they’re using him to sell their product. I find it disrespectful, somehow.
My husband hates the Jimmy Dean breakfast food commercial for this very reason. There is a newer one that has Jimmy saying, “Do you need an extra boost to wake up in the morning” or some such. Hubby always answers the TV back, “Sending Jimmy Dean’s fucking corpse to my bed to talk to me will do it!”
Not gonna buy Ellipse the foot exerciser. I know that awful piece of a torture device. They tried to make me use a less fancy more torturous thing like that at PT.
I was strapped in it. The only thing missing was a gag and handcuffs.
You can’t possibly get any exercise from it. Just pain. And when you can’t pull your feet out because the lady therapist decided to step out for a vape you may have to scream for help.
Ellipse this.