Has anyone seen the commercial about the hand condition that apparently makes one of your tendons contract into a talking face? D:
Also, the Subway ad featuring a girl with flashing lights on her eyes who bellows “BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH” at the end can go away now.
the ambulance chasing attorney ads talking about how some of the new diabetes drugs might of maybe have a slight chance of giving you some version of gangrene of the genitals …… and if so call them for the attempt at a class action law suit ……
It’s a long thread, this may have been mentioned, but if so it deserves a double mention:
Valet: “Here’s your Buick.”
Buick owner: “No, that’s my Buick!!!”
Surfer girl: “Hey, your Buick doesn’t have a roof rack!”
Buick owner: “*This *is my Buick!!!”
And on and on.
So, the point is, what? People should know which Buick is yours, but they don’t because Buicks are such outstanding machines?
mmm
Can’t mute this fast enough!
Okay! Okay! I’ll buy some fucking Symbicort. Just STAHHP playing that fucking commercial.
I saw a “new” version last night. <sob>
The last class action suit I was involved in was some decades ago where Levi Strauss was accused of price fixing or something. All you had to do was assert how many pairs of jeans you’d bought over a period of some years; no receipts or other proof required. The lawyers made a bundle; us proles got 16-cents a pair.
I worked for many, many years processing these types of claims and yes, claimants typically got pennies on the dollar, the lawyer fees were standard 1/3rd of the settlement plus expenses. The claimants divided the leftovers. These type lawsuits were more to punish and deter the large companies than to compensate the injured individuals. This is on purpose. The courts decide how much the settlement should be and they use some strange formula to come up with the final numbers.
But sometimes, especially if less claimants than expected filed, claimants got a nice payout. Twice in my over a decade of doing this, the payout was more than the loss.
There is no part of that commercial that makes sense. Were the people who wrote it (filmed it & approved it) paying attention?
Buick used to be known as the older persons car. Solid, reliable, but not 'flashy" like a caddy.
So all their ads are pushing that you can’t tell a Buick from any other car. Which makes no sense.
Because the “This is not your father’s car” campaign worked so well with Oldsmobile.
Oh, wait…
I like the song (it’s pretty famous) but I get what you mean. What I can live without is thescary ass looking woman in the very last shot. This ad was running for several weeks before I actually watched the whole thing (in fact, I think there’s an abridged, 10 sec version of it)and I would always look up just in time to see an old hag biting into a chocolate like the big bad wolf chomping on little red riding hood.
It makes more sense now that I’ve seen it in it’s entirety but damn that lady is unsettling when viewed out of context.
the suit wasn’t what annoyed me it was the thought of genitals rotting and falling off …
Ageist much? :rolleyes:
Nope. I’m pretty sure she was cast and is made up and photographed to emphasize her age and like I said, out of context, to look up and see this visageis jarring.
Only to someone who hates old people. i.e. a* ageist. *
She is a lovely older person.
Pffffft. How dare you. I’m sure she’s perfectly nice and kind and everything good; I made absolutely no comment on what kind of person she is or how I feel about her. I just think she look particularly scary in those few short seconds.<shrug>
Does it make me a completely heartless monster if I’m just completely over the Shriner’s Hospital commercials? I have cable news on in the background when I get home from work, and it seems like every other commercial is for the organization. The commercials themselves aren’t annoying, but the sheer frequency with which they appear. And it’s not even limited to one cable news network.
Also, if any of you are familiar with the commercials, I have a theory that they are phasing out the older, brown-haired kid in a wheelchair with the younger blond-haired kid in a wheelchair, a la Menudo.
For me, even worse than the Shriners Hospital commercial is the shameless one from the ASPCA, with cute little puppies shivering in the cold while a Sarah McLachlan song plays over the images.
BTW, why is it that both the Shriners Hospital and the ASPCA commercials ask for people to agree to donate $19 per month? Why that amount and not, say, twenty bucks or thirty bucks a month?
I, too, have been exposed enough to those commercials to have come up with the same speculation. The older kid does a good job of saying “adow-able” adorably, but his voice seems to indicate that puberty arrived some time ago, and so he must be phased out.
(Yeah, they may be harming their own fundraising by over-exposure. At some point TV viewers start to wonder how much of their donation is going to the kids, versus how much is going to the advertising budget.)
(my bolding)