The commerical for fruit cups with the smug bitch sneering at the “drainers.” I want to stab HER repeatedly with a plastic fork.
That’s what I thought, too. Implying that every American is such an e-junkie that they can’t function without a cell phone in their hands 24-7.
That’s quite the leap, there. Because my phone might be nearby I’m a 24/7 e-junkie?
It’s the impression I get from the tone of the commercial, not my personal opinion of smartphone users.
It’s for a women’s lingerie website called Adore Me.
Ah, gotcha. thanks for clarifying.
The guy “you” call after having had an accident. (In other words, the representative of your current car-insurance company–the one “you” will presumably dump in favor of Liberty.)
Seriously, the entire “You” commercial campaign for Liberty has to die. “You name your car Brad” etc…NO. I DO NOT.
I will never, ever give my business to Liberty.
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. You cannot convince me the guy in the glasses and lab coat isn’t a con artist.
I think the the point they’re making is: If you’re dead, you don’t know it, you don’t know the pain you left in others, etc. Imagine living with the knowledge that you maimed or killed someone else.
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?
This is the same place. That was in the first ad. These guys seriously look like a bunch of con artists.
I’ve recently watched two that are very annoying.
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The one for some online mortgage search site with a muppet in boxers telling someone putting on a suit “this is how I dress to get a mortgage.”
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I saw one last night for some kind of flavored carbonated water. It featured a family having dinner at an upside down dinner table. Every time they opened a beverage it would spill towards the ceiling at the bottom of the screen. It didn’t even make sense, much less make me want to go buy the product or even remember it’s name. If I did remember the name and came across the product I would be less likely to buy it because of the commercial.
The one whare the guy can’t pronounce Mazda.
It’s Ma’s-dah. Ma’s-dah.
So why is the guy saying mmuahs-dah?
I thought it was that people who are likely to be the target of the commercial (women between the ages of about 18 & 30-ish - as it is a commercial for a cheap-ish lingerie subscription box) are going to have a cellphone nearby. Not every American. But the ones most likely to want to have a bra-and-panty set delivered to their home every month.
That doesn’t feel like a huge leap to me.
That’s the AA model of addiction. Not every recovery program follows it. Apparently this one doesn’t, and they want to put it right out there.
FWIW, there are actually studies that contradict the AA model. But since there’s no actual need to drink or use illegal drugs, there’s nothing technically wrong with the paradigm-- except when you get individual AA members to take it to far and tell other members that using any drug with mind effects is wrong, like antidepressants.
This happened to a friend of mine. She decided to go on antidepressants, and he life improved significantly, but she got shunned by several people in AA, to the point that she stopped going to meetings. She then discovered (with the help of a therapist) that her drinking was probably an attempt to deal with her depression. She drank for eight years, she went to AA for five years, and got sober, then she stopped going to AA, and has been sober without AA for 17 years, so clearly their thing about how no one can never stop going to meetings or you will drink again is wrong.
Now can I complain about how much I hate Kate Hudsons “Fabletics” and the commercials therefore.
“Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road…” Some car commercial, maybe only playing in California. Who is this guy riffing on. I don’t think Bukowski even had a car. It’s been playing for a looooong time. Give it up guys. I ain’t buying and it’s shitty poetry. And it’s been playing for a Real. Long. Time.
Why would anyone go afoot in a car commercial?
My father was a heavy drinker. I saw firsthand the effects of his drinking. I never went to a meeting of any therapist or support group (though I did have sessions with psychiatrists, on general matters). I have been a teetotaler without AA or any other specialized support organizations. I guess it does work for me…
Walt Whitman - Song Of The Open Road
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?
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The one whare the guy can’t pronounce Mazda.
It’s Ma’s-dah. Ma’s-dah.
So why is the guy saying mmuahs-dah?
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Anybody else having a hard time figuring out what this might sound like? Does the speaker hold the “m” too long?
Regarding the 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?