The state of Ohio has started running an ad on my (Raleigh-based) local news channel…it starts out by telling you that “future-you” will thank you for moving to Ohio for the following reasons, then shows snippets of:
In other words, stuff you can do in any state.
There is a local furniture place around here that has an add with dogs all over the beds and couches in the freakin’ showroom! Not cartoon dogs. Real, hairy, smelly, dirty dogs.
It could a been Grandma Ethel sitting there smoking her Marlboros or Uncle Freddy with his cigar.
I’d rather have the dogs. A clean dog doesn’t have to stink.
Of course if they’ve been out rolling in stuff or have muddy feet it’s aggravating.
(Or a fish flopping around on my sofa, eh, I’d deal with it😀)
Yeah, I know, other states like Virginia and Utah, have ads showing all the wonderful outdoor stuff you can do there- all of which you can also do in california- and usually better.
I concur.
I noticed, growing up, that while other states had exciting slogans on their license plates, Ohio had “Seat Belts Buckled?”
Many of the states in the Midwest have those embarrassing ads, where NOTHING they show is unique to that state, let alone anything that an ordinary family would need to leave home to do.
Missouri: Deliriously happy family, kayaking! On a river, yet! Picnicking, in a park! Can’t do that at home… Final shot of the montage is kids petting the nose on a bust of Mark Twain. What tween hasn’t dreamt of that?
Google is running an ad for the Pixel 9 and it’s AI software with the tagine “Remember when all phones did the same stuff… until they didn’t?” So… does that mean the fancy new phone with the fancy new software doesn’t do stuff everybody expect phones to do?
Yeah, those ads are nuts.
Bank of America’s AI helper, Erica.
Commercial has a dude looking at the crayola scribble his kid did in the wall, pondering the shape of his head in the drawing. That leads him to ask the AI, “Should we start saving for art school?”
Wait, how does an IA banking app know if you should? Does it have the ability to measure the art talent of your 3 year old brat?
I tried to ask Google’s new “Jemuhnuh” (as the commercial said it) how to find video coverage of a specific male gymnast after his event and the thing didn’t even know the Olympics had started yet. Then it kept telling me it was a text only AI and couldn’t find video for me.
Even if Erica could view the art, it wouldn’t be able to give “should” advice.
I suppose it could answer a should question by saying “spending analysis shows you currently can’t pay your regular bills, you have no surplus income to invest in anything,” but should is a measure of desires, not ability.
Typical Indian casino ad:
Every one is the same. Just change-up the order. They dont, however, show the nasty cigarette smoke smell for some reason.
Showing depressed senior citizens in a dingy dim venue mindlessly throwing away a chunk of their social security, lining up at the buffet before getting back on the bus home doesn’t have the winning vibe, I guess.
Why the use of the word “annoying” in the thread title? Isn’t that simply understood???
If only you had warned me of this 7 years ago, you would have saved me the embarrassment. Oh the shame!
Actually it read “Seat belts fastened?”. But that was back in the early 1970s when they were fairly new. Since then we have had “Ohio -the heart of it all”. We should have, “Ohio - our tires are now made in Mexico”.
What happened to “The Buckeye state”?
Yep. I consulted for a local Indian owned casino. The average client was an older overweight female who smoked. Many on Social Security.
But it is correct.
Opal boycotted it.
One lone person complained it made them think of dead deer, but that person was popular, so it was removed.
Well, that’s the only “buck eye” most people know about.
And why would you name your state after a… seed? A nut? Whatever it is.
If I were a proud Ohioan, I’d want more than people saying “Oh, you’re from Ohio. Ummm, so… you’re the guys with those …things, right?”
“And the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, dorkwiffle!”
WKRP! Jerry Springer! Goodyear!
WKRP? Who’d stoop to name-checking an old comedy show to promote your state?