# Boycott and Fuck any commercial that promotes shitass customer behavior **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 5, 2008, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362 "2008-02-05T06:32:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/61 "2008-02-05T18:38:51Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Wait. It’s about tantrums. Not having tantrums, or having tantrums, or something. [/QUOTE] It’s about tantrum sex. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/62 "2008-02-05T18:43:20Z")
[QUOTE=cowgirl] Come to think of it, did \*\*VCO3 \*\*change his name? I missed the memo, but his unique style is unmistakable. [/QUOTE] Yep, this is his new user name. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/63 "2008-02-05T18:52:45Z")
I’ve worked retail. I’m now in hotel reservations. Any commercial that _encourages_ people to treat us service industry people like shit should be banned. And then all copies should be burned. And the people that came up with it should be taken out and shot. I get enough shit from some people without commercials telling them that it’s okay to give us even more of it. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/64 "2008-02-05T19:10:46Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] It’s about tantrum sex. [/QUOTE] I’ve read about this. Isn’t this where you sit and meditate for a while, and then throw yourself screaming and kicking on the floor until someone comes along and does you? I heard that Sting does this kind of thing all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/65 "2008-02-05T19:11:24Z")
[QUOTE=Eonwe] Well I’ve got plenty of potassium, and potassium’s plenty for me. [/QUOTE] I’ve got a lovely bunch of bananas. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/66 "2008-02-05T19:49:51Z")
[QUOTE=Jamaika a jamaikaiaké] Well, why _did_ you? [/QUOTE] I didn’t. Asking a question of respondents to a thread is not the same as responding to the OP, unless you really want to stretch the definition of “respond to.” ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/67 "2008-02-05T20:00:18Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] I didn’t. Asking a question of respondents to a thread is not the same as responding to the OP, unless you really want to stretch the definition of “respond to.” [/QUOTE] Yeah, you wanted to get in on the OP. You like it. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/68 "2008-02-05T20:01:50Z")
[QUOTE=whiterabbit] I’ve worked retail. I’m now in hotel reservations. Any commercial that _encourages_ people to treat us service industry people like shit should be banned. And then all copies should be burned. And the people that came up with it should be taken out and shot. I get enough shit from some people without commercials telling them that it’s okay to give us even more of it. [/QUOTE] Agreed. I understood the rant, because I didn’t like the commercial anyway. And those Burger King commercials–someone should be BEATEN for those! I hope the “customers” used in that commercial feel ashamed of themselves once they see themselves being dicks on national television. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/69 "2008-02-05T20:12:30Z")
[QUOTE=TroubleAgain] Agreed. I understood the rant, because I didn’t like the commercial anyway. And those Burger King commercials–someone should be BEATEN for those! I hope the “customers” used in that commercial feel ashamed of themselves once they see themselves being dicks on national television. [/QUOTE] Get me a WHOPPER! The last time one of those came on - last night, before I wrote this thread - I picked up the plate I had been eating dinner on and smashed it against the wall, then had a full panic attack. I felt like my mind had been raped. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/70 "2008-02-05T20:27:45Z")
TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW you will move more comfortably through life when you learn to use the mute button on the remote. When they go to commercial press mute and the press it again when the program comes back on. About 95% of the mind raping power of commercials comes from the inane dialog. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/71 "2008-02-05T20:34:59Z")
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW] Get me a WHOPPER! The last time one of those came on - last night, before I wrote this thread - I picked up the plate I had been eating dinner on and smashed it against the wall, then had a full panic attack. I felt like my mind had been raped. [/QUOTE] Jesus, I hope this is your usual hyperbole. But regardless, did they REALLY have to “doctor” the guy’s voice to sound like a movie monster, too? He sounds so menacing! ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/72 "2008-02-05T20:36:07Z")
[QUOTE=jali] I saw the headline, clicked and read the rant. THEN I checked the author. Now, I see. [/QUOTE] I made the same mistake. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/73 "2008-02-05T21:13:00Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] I didn’t. Asking a question of respondents to a thread is not the same as responding to the OP, unless you really want to stretch the definition of “respond to.” [/QUOTE] Or, you could have done what I do when I see a thread that I can tell from the title or the OP will not be of any interest to me. Ignore it. I have better things to do with my time than concern myself with what other posters here do, or why they do it. And yes, I know that responding to you seems to violate that principle. In my defense I can only quote Emerson’s “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/74 "2008-02-05T23:05:11Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Yep, this is his new user name. [/QUOTE] I thought they banned **VCO3**. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/75 "2008-02-05T23:14:52Z")
Nah, do a search. He changed his name. This is him. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/76 "2008-02-05T23:25:11Z")
[QUOTE=Idle Thoughts] Nah, do a search. He changed his name. This is him. 😛 [/QUOTE] Ah, that explains everything, and at the same time, nothing important. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/77 "2008-02-05T23:44:16Z")
Make sure to get your potassium in ionized form, _not_ in metallic potassium form. Much embarrassment and premature morbidity and mortality can be avoided. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/78 "2008-02-05T23:55:31Z")
[QUOTE=flight] I thought they banned **VCO3**. [/QUOTE] Not quite. He’s BACK! AND HE’S BAD! in a hide the wife and grease the cats ass sort of way ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/79 "2008-02-06T00:09:09Z")
BTW, I’ve been curious to know-what happened when you brought your breadboard on the plane? Did they let you? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362/80 "2008-02-06T00:10:20Z")
Why do I read these threads? I rarely have an opportunity to examine the deeply disturbed from a safe distance. It’s kind of like visiting a petting zoo for psychotics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-and-fuck-any-commercial-that-promotes-shitass-customer-behavior/436362.md?page=5)