I’ve long hated the Verizon ads and that four-eyed fuck who stars in them. I’ve often wished that someone would shove that phone up his ass or that the corporation would suffer calamitous bankruptcy.
But the latest ad just takes the cake. Here we have Mr. Dweeb standing outside a ladies’ toilet waiting for someone. He waits a considerable amount of time, mind you. Then some gal exits the bathroom, phone open, and hands it to him, telling him that it apparently works in said shithouse. He immediately puts the phone to his face and starts talking into it.
My take on this is that the woman was taking a prolonged dump and talking to all her, like, girlfriends and like, what-ever; paused to wipe, exited the stall, either didn’t washup because of the phone or set the phone on the bacteria-infested sink counter, then came out and handed the case of dysentary to said dweeb.
Somehow, this doesn’t make me want to subscribe to the service.
It’s a lame rant, but it’s a lame ad and I just needed to vent, hokay?
My DAD will call up the people we are with when he knows they are in the bathroom.
And they ANSWER!
And talk to him!
Then when they come out of the bathroom they continue the conversation!
My phone is ignored when I’m in the bathroom, but I have seen lots of people chatting away while doing makeup, mainly because my (former) school has a no cell phone policy, so people will get it out in the bathroom and chat there because teachers have their own washrooms and don’t come in ours.
Another favourite spot is the pedway between one side of the school and the other because you are technically not in the school.
Can I put another toilet commercial tag-on to your rant rather than start another one?
What is with those idiotic people who dance to their symptoms in the Pepto Bismol commercial. Especially the Diarrhea girl. Who the fuck smiles and dances when they got the runs. And who stands in a line with other 'rrea victims patting their asses. For some reason that commercial really pisses me off.
I’m with you on that one Wolfman. She looks a bit too happy to have the trots.
Another “EEUUUUWWWWWWWW” advertisement are the new print ones for Axe deodorant- beautiful women snuggling up to huge hairy pits. Pits with little feet.
Ugh.
Verizon is trying to make the wireless repairman the new Energizer Bunny. Doesn’t work.
You know a catchphrase that works? “I have some good news…I saved a bunch of money by switching to Geico.” It is always used as a non-sequitir (un)ntentional diss, and always that works brilliantly.
I’ve always loathed the one with the black couple where the woman is nattering away gaily about her husband’s inability to take a good dump and the man looks scandalized at the very mention of the subject. She looks like an idiot and he looks like a man who hasn’t noticed yet that “Everybody Poops!” (as the children’s book title says).
I’m simultaneously amused and appalled by the Enzyte commercials. (“He is wood that will not bend!”)
I notice that the Quiznos sub commercial with the man suckling off the wolf didn’t last long, which was certainly no surprise. Now THAT was a great shocking/funny commercial. It certainly beats the singing dead hamsters, which seem to have taken voice lessons from the Taco Bell dog.
I am a contractor who happens to work for VzW (Verizon Wireless). When I first saw this ad, I was so embarrassed. Still am for that matter. How low will marketing go? What is next? The men’s room? Yeah, like I want to see a guy standing there at the urinals talking on his cellphone.