I’ve seen one a few times where there are a group of big bodybuilder-type guys on a beach, throwing kettleweights around and just generally making a mess of everything and griefing all of the other beachgoers: Smashing a sand castle, wrecking a cornhole board, destroying some guy’s radio. It’s an ad for some sort of muscle-building protein supplement. So, I’m supposed to want to be like those jerks?
Sounds like an ad for steroids.
Or an anti-steroid PSA.
That reminds me of another one. The commercial starts with some overmuscled guy wearing nothing but boxer-briefs going through a posing routine to show off his incredible physique. Then the camera pulls back to show that he’s in a store fitting room, which has a line of people waiting to use it, and a store employee tells him he has to leave if he isn’t actually trying anything on. Muscle jerk pleads “just five more minutes” and everyone in line groans.
First of all, the store apparently only has one fitting room for both men and women (judging from the people in line). Secondly, why has he been allowed to use it in the first place?
One commercial that bugs the hell out of me, takes place at a gas station. Everyone is leaning backwards so that their toros are parallel with the ground, but their lower legs are vertical. First, it just seems stupid. Second, it just weirds me out (and I like weird!). Finally, I don’t know what it’s for. Some sort of app. But I’m too distracted by how annoying the commercial is, that I don’t pay attention to what they’re trying to sell.
There’s a car ad for a normal middle of the road, nothing special SUV. But everyone is staring at it like it is a Rolls Royce or something.
I’m not so jaded to think my very first car(a beat up VW Bug) was not a Ferrari.
All new cars are surely valued by their owners. How much is relative.
The car ads are all ridiculous to me.
I especially like the ones that say in teeny, tiny letters “This was filmed on a closed track, don’t try at home”
Rolls Royces are like the Cadillac of cars!
It’s not just a guy, it’s ex football legend and all around fun guy Rob Gronkowski, ala Gronk.
Doesn’t make the commercial any better, just adds context.
He’s working so his heirs don’t have to, would be my guess. Don’t ask me why, I wouldn’t do it.
Since I don’t follow baseball he could be Adam’s off ox for all I care.
There’s a PSA by (I think) TXDOT where a bunch of folks declare a wreck isn’t an accident. The PSA’s argument boils down to it being a wreck caused by speeding.
Nope, you jack asses. Unless they were speeding with the intent of wrecking the vehicle, it was an accident. A most likely easily preventable accident? Absolutely. The driver’s girlfriend is apparently dead at this point. If it wasn’t an accident, you could say it was murder. They say that it’s a lot of things, but they don’t say that it’s murder, so it’s pretty obviously an accident.
Seriously, in the time they spent declaring that it wasn’t an accident, they could have just explained that speeding is unsafe and often leads to deadly accidents. Instead they decide to abuse language for 30 seconds or so.
Out of curiosity, does the PSA show how many vehicles were involved in the accident? (Forgive me if this question seems meaningless but it’s just my lawyer-instincts kicking in.)
Yeah, it seems to be a single vehicle accident, it ran into a tree.
Is vehicular manslaughter/homicide actually murder? Legally speaking.
Yeah, the PSA sounds stupid.
Sorry for the additional question, but did it look like it was on an open highway or in a residential area? I’m curious because here in Washington state, they’re running an animated PSA that mostly targets speeding in residential areas. (FTR, I don’t find the commercial annoying.)
If you intend to kill someone, it basically doesn’t matter what instrument you use, that’s some variation of murder. Vehicular manslaughter is for when you don’t intend to kill someone, but you do anyway.
No reason to apologize, if I could have found it easily, I would have linked to it and you’d have your answers first hand. Ehh, it looks like a rural road of some sort. No houses in the scene, but it doesn’t look like a controlled access freeway. (FTR, the PSA you linked to is fine. I wish we had that one here instead of the one I see regularly.)
I think that “abuse of language” is a response to what I think is a bigger abuse of language, which is the people who believe that “accident” doesn’t simply mean that the incident was unintentional, but also that it was unavoidable and that the person causing it shouldn’t be blamed or punished in any way. They think or imply or even say that people shouldn’t be arrested or imprisoned for various types of homicide if the instrument was a car , as if the choice to drive while intoxicated or speed or run a red light or is the equivalent of a sudden and unexpected mechanical failure of a well-maintained car.
Yeah, even if the death is unintentional it doesn’t mean that you are free of culpability. I don’t know of anyone putting out PSAs to claim the converse is true, though. In fact, these jerkwads are reinforcing that abuse of language, as well.
Sports heads always have the breakroom TV blaring, so I rarely go in there but the constant ad breaks are mostly hawking fast food and watery beer that hammer their way into my head despite my efforts at tuning it out. Two come to mind: A Bojangle’s ad for a chicken sandwich that’s punctuated with an irritating chicken crowing. The other is an ad for Popeye’s that ends with a most inane, discordant, off-key musical jingle “( blah blah blah whatever )….at Pop-eeyyyees…”