Hate to break it to you, but that trend has long started. It’s the age of excess, where many people try to keep up with hip, cool trends in clothing and accessories, so they but a lot of stuff that they only wear a few times, then did their closets are full of things they no longer wear. It’s a first world problem to be sure.
Quite true. But if you are already buying all that stuff anyway, then selling the stuff you no longer want is at least a way to recoup some of the cost. It’s not a money- making venture, but more of a sensible way to deal with the insensible problem you created. Of course a more sensible way is to address the problem creation side, but hey, people have to buy all that stuff.
Exactly. It’s the attempt to re-frame ‘selling off stuff for extra cash’ as a side hustle that’s so stooopid and annoying.
A side hustle implies a creative or entrepreneurial activity that earns you money. A mere recouping of a fraction of your spending doesn’t fit that definition.
I recently saw the tail end of an ad for something called Dude Wipes and thought WTF? It’s apparently a flushable wipe but it’s for MEN, GODDAMIT! Well, we can’t be flushing too much crap into our sewer systems.
No such thing as a flushable wipe. Just ask a plumber!
That commercial where the “dudes” lower their pants to show their streakless tighty-whities? Disgusting, not funny, ad people. I posted about it upthread, but it doesn’t hurt to mention it again!
Lume keeps making commercials that I hate, hate, HATE.
The latest one shows the gynecologists cum chemical engineer (with her hair did) in which she says, “And before you ask about soap and water-- shut up, that’s why!”
OK, she doesn’t say exactly that. She DOES say the first half of that quote AND that Lume has been scientifically proven to be better than taking a shower. They are actively advocating NOT BATHING. Because, of course rubbing a pea-sized amount of cream in your crevasses will remove all the dirt and grime and built up oils. IT HAS BEEN PROVEN!!!
I hate this commercial for several reasons. First of all, who decides that they want to sell their car, but then instead of just selling it starts constantly monitoring what they might be able to get for it in order to get the best price. Secondly, is there actually a site that lets you check the resale of your vehicle on a day-to-day (hour-to-hour?) basis?
Finally, the woman in the commercial grates on me.
It’s the ad agencies fault for over using commercials.
Some like Lume are irritating from the beginning.
I didn’t mind the Carvana ads at first. But they chop them up to fit different time slots. Making the ad even more chaotic. I’ve seen it chopped so we just see the woman on the lawn tractor yelling hold.
I’ve hated the both of them for years, going back to their Christmas lights commercial. Even though I now know their names, I still don’t know “who they are”, or why I should care.
Lotta justifiable hate for the Lume ads, but how about the advertising onslaught that Lume hath wrought? Suddenly every deodorant brand has leaped on board the bandwagon and released commercials with women talking about how much they stink, and in how many places. “Wanna know a secret? It’s not just my pits that stink!”.
And of course, it’s always women. Don’t men ever stink?!? Well, of course they do, they just don’t worry about it nearly as much as women do.
I’ve been watching Comedy.TV quite a bit lately; they run promos for their sister channels, such as Justice Central.TV. Which keeps rotating through the same clips of the “In the Heat of the Night” series but then talks about “courtroom drama”. They have actual courtroom dramas, like “Matlock”, “Perry Mason”, and assorted judges; why can’t they show a clip of those once in a while?
The latest Safelite ad cranks up the annoyance factor by having the characters in the commercial yammer out the Safelite jingle. That might be tolerable if this rendition appeared instead of the usual chirpy voiceover used at the end of the commercial – no such luck.
There’s a commercial for something that has a tag line along the lines of: “when you realize the music your band plays is something you’d listen to,” which makes absolutely no sense to me. Isn’t that like saying, “when you’re a chef and you realize the food you cook is something you’d eat”?
All I’m saying is that if you’ve started a band and you’re performing songs you’ve written and you hate them … go work as a chef.
The one with Jennifer Garner, I think she is hawking CapitalOne credit card or somesuch. At the end she’s sitting in an airport lounge telling us having that card gets you access to perks like an airport lounge - she smirks “I can get used to this!” - as if someone like her, a successful movie star and entrepreneur, has never been in an airport lounge before. Riiight! So we now say at the end of that commercial “Shut-up, Jennifer Garner!”
