# Another "what were they thinking?" commercial thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983 "2012-12-14T01:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/121 "2012-12-20T00:30:39Z")
I’ve hated those ever since [first came out](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=497606). ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/122 "2012-12-20T00:42:30Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Open heart necklaces look like a scrotum with two hefty balls. I’ve always thought it looked like a very curvy lady’s butt. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/123 "2012-12-20T01:24:51Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > I’ve always thought it looked like a very curvy lady’s butt. To me they look like a big **Z** , which makes me think of Zale’s. I can’t remember which jeweler actually sells them. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/124 "2012-12-20T03:14:15Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > State Farm apparently has nothing to recommend them, so they air ridiculous fantasies. Their ads also feature horrendous off-tune singing.r? State Farm is actually very highly rated. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/125 "2012-12-20T03:21:09Z")
> [@azraiel](#): > > Nope. Regular (if outdated) glasses. > > Fat? Squat? Dude is at least average height. And he has the belly that middle-aged male primates tend to get, but he’s far from grotesquely fat. And his pecs indicate that he was stacked as hell when younger. > > Perhaps that he’s a normal dude with a decent physique for his age who happens to be unconcerned about others’ take on his fashion decisions? That he’s comfortable with himself? And your reaction and perception of the ad (as terribly distorted as it is) goes a long way toward justifying the ad’s message. > > Absent your ridiculous post, I would just say that “he’s out of fucks to give.” > > [Ad in question.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygeWsoYYMuQ) I actaully think that is a very cool ad. Nice to see a slightly older, slightly out of shape guy just being himself in a booze ad. They usually feature dudes that I’d card before allowing them to drink. He’s actually kinda macho cool. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/126 "2012-12-20T03:24:31Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > The Folgers ad is a bit odd. I Just get a weird feeling watching it. But the one that really sleeves me out is the Kay jewelry commercial where the step-dad gives his new step-daughter the same necklace he gave her mom (his new wife). It’s one of Jane Seymores “open heart” collection necklaces. I hate the open heart necklaces with a passion, but that ad creeps me out. I know what it is trying to say, but it gives me stranger vibes than the folgers ad. > > As for the Febreeze ads, I hate them. Are people actually too stupid to be able to tell they have been moved? Yeah, I don’t get too much of a weird vibe with the Folgers ad, but that Kay one is a little creepy. I hate the smell of Febreeze- what works to get the smell of Febreeze out of things? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/127 "2012-12-20T03:28:46Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > To me they look like a big **Z** , which makes me think of Zale’s. I can’t remember which jeweler actually sells them. I couldn’t either so I looked it up and apparently lots of places sell them. To me, aside from not being my taste, they look incredibly _cheap_ and I’m always distracted, wondering why the lovely and classy Jane Seymour is hawking them. Well, she actually designed them so I guess what I mean is, why has the lovely and classy Jany Seymour created such a substandard item. I can’t believe I omitted from my OP the schlocky Chanel No. 5 ad, with a scruffy Brad Pitt spewing pretentious nonsense. On the (scruffy) face of it, sure I get why they’d have the arguably “sexiest man in the world” as their spokesman. But I’m so busy first thinking" who wrote this crap?" then “how many takes before he could keep a straight face while saying it?” and then I’m downright irritated by the way he says “. . .my\* luCK\*; my _faTe_…”. But what really makes me wonder what they were thinking is, does anyone think of anyone but Angelina Joilie when they see this? Are we \*supposed \*to be listening to his love letter to her or are we supposed to think he’s speaking abstractly or, if they think we’re really stupid / delusional, that he’s somehow speaking to us, the viewer? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/128 "2012-12-20T05:27:24Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > To me they look like a big **Z** , which makes me think of Zale’s. I can’t remember which jeweler actually sells them. I had to look it up…it’s Kay. 😃 They have one “open hearts” necklace that has wings…that one reminds me of those Ancient Roman phallus pendants. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/129 "2012-12-20T14:33:54Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > State Farm is actually very highly rated. But did you learn that from their commercials? Progressive has now stolen the “we can hear customers (and only customers) sing our jingle anywhere and transport an agent to them” idea. In a recent Progressive commercial Flo materializes on a dark deserted road for a customer in need. Flo and customer engage in a conversation laden with sexual double entendres. Yuck. No one wants to be hit on by Flo. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/130 "2012-12-20T14:58:31Z")
Two words: [Skittles Pox](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmF9ylLDBIY). Ewwwww… ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/131 "2012-12-20T15:07:06Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHC21IOhGpM) A bit squicky. ---
**Author:** ![romadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@romadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romadea)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/132 "2012-12-20T19:53:40Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > Perhaps [this image](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/look-at-all-the-fucks-i-give) will help clear up the confusion about the “out of fucks to give” issue. > > See all those (non-existent) fucks? She has none. So she doesn’t give a fuck. She’s out of fucks to give. She has no fucks to give. > > /no longer giving a fuck about this hijack :p:p:p ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/133 "2012-12-21T09:06:30Z")
For me, it’s this series from AT&T touting their UVerse service. The set up is the same: tween kid lectures little kids on how good they have it with DVRs and the like aplenty, because when they were kids they didn’t have the technology. Unfunny and dull? Yep. The weird thing is that the tween comes off as morose and depressing, while the little kids come across as entitled douches. If that’s what happens when you subscribe to AT&T, keep out of my home please. ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/134 "2012-12-21T09:11:07Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > [http://youtu.be/JHC21IOhGpM](http://youtu.be/JHC21IOhGpM) > > A bit squicky. Understatement. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/135 "2012-12-21T20:40:46Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yeah, I don’t get too much of a weird vibe with the Folgers ad, but that Kay one is a little creepy. > > I hate the smell of Febreeze- what works to get the smell of Febreeze out of things? Oh yeah, that stuff smells worse than what it’s supposed to cover up. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/136 "2012-12-22T00:02:41Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I don’t either, but because I never got the vibe they were brother and sister. I just now noticed she says “sister” when they come in. (Which is also weird–who calls their sister “sister”?) > > Yes, brothers and sisters sometimes really love each other. But the way they are staring at each other is odd. Do you tend to stare at your family members like that? I mean, with people you know that well, even making eye contact is unusual–you’re so comfortable that you don’t bother. > > I’m not skeeved out by it, but it does seem unrealistic to me. Well, _I_ thought it was perfectly charming, as I remarked to my sister in bed last night. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/137 "2012-12-22T01:45:12Z")
There’s a commercial for [Alexander Keith’s beer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76RvMlrQHnU) that drives me nuts every time. If you listen carefully to the YouTube link, you can hear a low-pitched moan or yowl that starts at 0:03. Why does that bother me? Because it’s exactly the same sound my cat makes when he’s angry and warning another cat to F\*\*\* OFF! So the first few times I heard it, I thought my screen door was going to get ripped up again… ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/138 "2012-12-22T01:59:52Z")
I love [this](http://youtu.be/Htbo1yW6qeU) guy, who either has never used a Q-Tip before in his life, or has a bunch of broken glass in there. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/139 "2012-12-22T04:05:33Z")
> [@laina\_f](#): > > Progressive’s Flo creeps me out, Her name is Flo. She dresses in all white, and her bright red lipstick really stands out. Reminds me of a used feminine hygiene product. I will never buy their insurance. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983/140 "2012-12-22T05:12:53Z")
> [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](#): > > Her name is Flo. She dresses in all white, and her bright red lipstick really stands out. > > \*\*Reminds me of a used feminine hygiene product. \*\* Hence the name “Flo.” 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-what-were-they-thinking-commercial-thread/643983.md?page=8)