# Commercials Currently Annoying You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655 "2016-01-30T16:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/321 "2017-02-23T14:34:31Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Blanche McWhitebread Hee hee! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/322 "2017-02-23T14:47:01Z")
[fucking Geico](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0RpqXi3LiE). This annoying videoblurb runs at least once in the commercial-and-previews segment before main feature at the local movie theatres, and we’v been binge-watching to see the oscar nominees. It’s one of those ads that’s annoying the first time but escalates with repetition until you really really want to backhand someone hard enough to knock out some teeth. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/323 "2017-02-23T15:40:15Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Regarding the [ancestry.com](http://ancestry.com) commercials, they always leave me with a vague sense that people put a little too much stock in the whole thing. The one with Blanche McWhitebread beaming about how she’s some fraction Cherokee especially makes me roll my eyes. Yeah, Sally, you and everyone else :rolleyes: Are you going to go weave a basket now or something? They all do bother me, but that one especially. “I’m Native American! I’m going to connect to Native American roots!” What does that even mean? Does she know which tribe (no, of course not)? How do you even know which kind of basket to weave? Or do you just pick a tribe, any tribe 'cause they’re all interchangeable - now that you’re Native American. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/324 "2017-02-23T15:47:09Z")
Would you believe voice-over ads are now appearing–so to speak–on YouTube? Last night I started to view something there and a loud voice sounded, with a spoken blurb for the Oscar show this coming Sunday! Damn! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/325 "2017-02-23T15:50:33Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > They all do bother me, but that one especially. “I’m Native American! I’m going to connect to Native American roots!” What does that even mean? Does she know which tribe (no, of course not)? How do you even know which kind of basket to weave? Or do you just pick a tribe, any tribe 'cause they’re all interchangeable - now that you’re Native American. You know, you just get yourself a teepee and a totem pole, some turquoise jewelry, beaded belt, fringed dress and maybe some feathers for your hair and you’re golden. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/326 "2017-02-23T17:23:05Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > There is a rehab center that has its priorities all screwed up. At first I thought it was just lazy writing but then there was a second commercial where the line was repeated and then written out on the screen for emphasis. The man in the lab coat says, “Drug addiction can lead to death. Or, even worse, you can hurt someone.” > > Which leads me to believe this rehab center thinks that drug addicts are better off dead. Why would anyone go to such a place? > > Looked it up. [It’s The Addiction Network](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeIsWu_pXhw). You cannot convince me the guy in the glasses and lab coat isn’t a con artist. > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There’s some expensive rehab clinic in Malibu where the guy who runs it starts off by saying, “I used to be an addict, now I’m not one any more.” Don’t people who were addicts consider themselves addicts for life, just able to control their addiction? > [@Biggirl](#): > > This is the same place. That was in the first ad. These guys seriously look like a bunch of con artists. No, they aren’t the same place. The one **Rick Kitchen** is talking about is called [Passages Malibu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s96XdnN6bNE). The line comes after about 15 seconds into the commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/327 "2017-02-23T21:14:16Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > This line always jumps out at me too. I’ve been to more AA, NA, CA meetings than I care to ponder and don’t believe most of their schtick but even to me this sounds fishy.The speaker comes off as a spoilt Hollywood bastard and the whole thing raises giant red flags. Who thought this smarmy ass would make a convincing spokesman? I think he owns the facility. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/328 "2017-02-23T21:25:05Z")
He co-founded it with his father. His father used to be in the older commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/329 "2017-02-23T21:25:17Z")
> [@Azeotrope](#): > > The commerical for fruit cups with the smug bitch sneering at the “drainers.” I want to stab HER repeatedly with a plastic fork. Man, I am with you on this one! I mean, really – you’re _judging_ someone for not consuming their fruit cup in your prescribed manner?? I always think, “Bitch, you’ll be divorced in no time – and you’ll deserve it!” I would also add the, “Uhhhhhhh…” commercials. I have no idea what they’re pitching, because I can’t turn the sound off fast enough. So annoying!! Oh. And the PC-Matic “I believe!” ads. Stop proselytizing. I always feel like there’s a dog whistle in there and I really dislike it. Another that merits the Instant Mute Button. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/330 "2017-02-24T00:54:29Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > They all do bother me, but that one especially. “I’m Native American! I’m going to connect to Native American roots!” What does that even mean? Does she know which tribe (no, of course not)? How do you even know which kind of basket to weave? Or do you just pick a tribe, any tribe 'cause they’re all interchangeable - now that you’re Native American. Yeah. Finding out you are “Native American” is like finding out you are European. Thanks. German or Polish? French or English? I need to know who to root for in the soccer tournaments, and whether I should feel bad about WWII. Also, should I be mad about things like the defeat of the Spanish Armada? Should I be getting drunk on St. Patrick’s Day? It’s imperative that I know these things. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/331 "2017-02-24T02:01:20Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Regarding the [ancestry.com](http://ancestry.com) commercials, they always leave me with a vague sense that people put a little too much stock in the whole thing. The one with Blanche McWhitebread beaming about how she’s some fraction Cherokee especially makes me roll my eyes. Yeah, Sally, you and everyone else :rolleyes: Are you going to go weave a basket now or something? The one that kills me is the one where the guy switches from lederhosen to kilts. My father was of German ancestry and we grew up with some German traditions,mostly having to do with food- although my grandmother did want to send me to German school. But here’s the thing- culture doesn’t get passed down with your genes.I know exactly where my grandparents came from. Gottschee. Currently part of Slovenia. Given the fact that the Germans who settled the place originally came from near the Italian border, it would not surprise me at all if sending a saliva sample off to be analysed showed that I had almost no German ancestry and was mostly Italian and Slovene on my father’s side. But the culture you grow up with is valuable because you grew up with it, not because there’s a genetic connection- if I did get a result back that said my ancestry was more Slovene than German, I wouldn’t throw out the German traditions and find some Slovene ones. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/332 "2017-02-24T05:50:53Z")
I hear you. Also, I have noticed that people tend to get raised with their mother’s traditions more than their father’s, so someone could be 1/16 something, but if the 1/16 was an unbroken maternal line, they might do a lot of cooking and have a lot of holiday traditions that reflect that 1/16. There’s another thing at play in Judaism. You might think you are Sephardic because of your practices, but find out that you are Ashkenazic, because an Ashkenazic family moved into a Sephardic neighborhood-- something that happened after WWII. Then in the US, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, many Ashknazic Jews deliberately chose to keep Passover the way Sephardic Jews do, because Sephardic Judaism is more conducive to good nutrition for vegetarians. I have long called myself a “convert” to “Sephardism” during Passover. Otherwise, you pretty much eat cheese, yogurt, cashew butter on matzah fresh fruit, and a few cooked vegetables with butter. As a Sephardim, you get corn, rice, beans, falafel made with matzah meal, hummus, peas and Italian green beans, peanut butter-- the eight days go much faster for a vegetarian. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/333 "2017-02-24T16:37:08Z")
My new one is the Crest 3D ad where the friend proposes the “tissue test” to see if your teeth are white enough. Suggesting that your teeth should naturally be as white as tissue paper is just nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/334 "2017-02-24T16:52:07Z")
And if you have to ask a friend if your teeth are yellow, then they’re not. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/335 "2017-02-24T19:13:10Z")
There are far too many bathroom ads these days. The “devil’s donuts” ad, the figurines having to watch in horror as people use the bathroom, the bears who tout not having to change their underwear when they aren’t wearing any, the Febreze ad where they spray the bathroom because it stinks so much, the English woman encouraging people to go commando … ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/336 "2017-02-24T19:23:16Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > My new one is the Crest 3D ad where the friend proposes the “tissue test” to see if your teeth are white enough. Suggesting that your teeth should naturally be as white as tissue paper is just nuts. I keep imagining future archaeologists struggling to understand decayed, yellowed skulls with perfect gleaming white teeth. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/337 "2017-02-24T19:41:25Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > I keep imagining future archaeologists struggling to understand decayed, yellowed skulls with perfect gleaming white teeth. Well, teeth and bones are not made of the exact same ingredients. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/338 "2017-02-24T19:48:29Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Well, teeth and bones are not made of the exact same ingredients. Sssshh…you’re spoiling my fun! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/339 "2017-02-24T20:00:29Z")
> [@Totenfeier](#): > > Sssshh…you’re spoiling my fun! 😃 :p:p ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655/340 "2017-02-24T23:00:26Z")
There’s some kind of Gatorade granola bar thing that has people singing a song with their mouths full. Can’t tell what they are singing and it’s vile. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-currently-annoying-you/744655.md?page=16)