Exactly.
Depends on the state. But if you are criminally negligent, like driving drunk, then an accident can rise to a crime. After all, you knowingly and willfully drank.
That’s my favorite part too. Especially when it’s just a normal car driving on a normal road, not showing any special capabilities. So I shouldn’t drive my new car on a street? In traffic?
Theres an ad for a company that will help you protect you home from “home thieves”
Ok maybe it’s problem, I wouldn’t know.
The woman spokesperson looks like she’s sitting in her car, first.
She looks like she’s posting on social media. She looks fake(AI, maybe?)
She speaks in the weirdest way. This is my problem with this ad.
The speech is jerky and emphasis on the hard consonates is irritating.
It cannot be a real actor.
Not related to the commercial, but yeah, it’s a thing, and a bad one, where someone files a false claim/deed on your house and either mortgages it or sells it out from under you.
There’s a Harbor Freight commercial where a guy is grinding the ‘diamonds’ off of diamond plate. Um… Why not just get metal sheet?
Yeah, someone tried to do it with Graceland, a year or so ago.
This is part of a larger trend to make commercials look like social media posts.
“Oh, this woman must be a famous influencer. I should heed what she says!”
No, it’s just some random lady (who may or may not be AI generated) sitting in a car. Which carries no gravitas with me, sorry.
Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about the Graceland one. i would venture a guess that Graceland is better equipped to fight the legalities than I am, though.
If I ever see another Limu Emu commercial I could die happy. Why are they still being made?
I’m with you on the stupid Emu ads. If they were slightly funny I could forgive them.
The pigeons tryna sell insurance is way funnier. Since they just gotta try to sell me insurance.
Here’s the most recent report Google could find: still rare.
I thought they were selling DirecTV? Either way, I like the ones where the pigeons are selling DirecTV. Listen carefully, and you’ll recognize the voices of Henry Winkler and Steve Buscemi. And when they were joined by the Coach back during football season, that was Deion Sanders.
Maybe it was. I never really know what they’re selling unless it’s a product I recognize easily.
The ads are generally lost on me because I do other things during commercials or I’ve DVR’d and skip thru them.
Hear! Hear! The whole concept annoys me. Why should I care about what some rando who cannot even flip their image says about a product while they’re in portrait mode on my widescreen TV?
There’s a several-minute commercial they run a lot on my L&O rerun channels, and it’s made to look like a segment of some daytime TV. The “hostess” says “You know those products, that are they say make you look younger? Well Jane here is going to tell us why…(dramatic pause) this one’s for real.”
And we cut to Jane whose first words are [tone of incredulity] “This one’s for real!”
No idiot, you’re supposed to tell me why! We’ve already conceded that “this one’s for real”.
It’s all done in a style to make you think we should care what these people have to say. And then it runs for a whole five minutes. Maybe it is for real (I think it’s botox cream, but they never actually say) but thanks to the miracle of fast forward, I never have to think about it. (Except for now)
“Look at my ugly dad! He’s not a model– well he is modeling this crap– I for real am a newscaster/scientist!”
I think it’s repurposed hemorrhoid cream. I am not joking.
I know there’s brewhaha over American Eagle commercial with Sydney Sweeney. What we should be discussing is how the hell anyone thinks she’s a good spokesperson ( or actress). Between the perpetual dumb look on her face and that voice, I’m perplexed.
Now that you say that, I think you are right. It’s why they don’t give any real information.
“Hey, buttface! How’s the ol’ eyebags hanging?”
I’ve read about this brouhaha and am still not at all clear what it’s all about.