Does that ever happen? Cause I’ve been cracking eggs for 50 years in fear of that happening.
Well, it was something monstrous.
Heard an exceptionally stupid commercial on the radio today for some random jewelry store.
While I can’t remember it word for word, the basic gist is this:
Girl announcer: “Love! You can’t time it! You just have to wait until you know it’s right. Oh, hey, it’s Valentine’s Day – can you think of a better day to pop the question?”
OK – did anyone bother to read the script? There’s a logical contradiction between waiting until the time is right and getting engaged on a goddamn made-up commercial holiday because society has randomly decided that February 14 is a particularly romantic day.
I mean, if you’re going to follow through on the thought expressed in the first part of the commercial, it would go something like “Love! You can’t time it! You just have to wait until you know it’s right. So go ahead, wrestle with your crippling doubt and fear of commitment. When you decide next summer that neither of you are getting any younger, we’ll certainly have a few of our famously overpriced diamonds still in stock.”
Here ya go: Balut (food) - Wikipedia
Prepaid debit cards from netSpend touting the benefits of their direct deposit. Anyone with a bank account and direct deposit is eligible for those benefits, people!
The card is for people who, for whatever reason (like really crap credit, owing money to a bank, or no fixed address) can’t get a bank account, and have to pay someone to cash their checks for them. They get this card, and have their checks sent to the card. The card people make their money by charging merchants, like all credit/debit cards do, and don’t take anything from the pay or benefits check. If it costs you $5 every time you cash your paycheck, and your paycheck isn’t that much to begin with, saving the $5 can be really attractive, plus, you get the benefits of having a card, and not having to pay for everything in cash.
Mine is that PSA for meningitis with… oh, some actress/singer/dancer from one of those shows all the 11-year-old girls would watch walking the halls of some high school with some teen who survived meningitis.
Don’t get me wrong, meningitis is serious, isn’t something to just be shrugged off, and probably should have had a PSA by now. But if the TV stations had to make a PSA for it, and they insist on playing it 40 times a day, was it really necessary to include one of those teenage specialty choirs in there to glee-ify the whole thing up?
Grrh.
That’s even worse! Two bucks per purchase or up to $9.95 in monthly fees.
The Viagra commercials with the hot 20-something girl who spends her bored hours at home playing dress-up in her husbands sports jersey and carrying his football around. How far you’ve come ladies, no longer are you expected to cook, clean, and present a huge dinner, you can now just wistfully pine for his absence while lounging in the morning sunbeams.
The women in Viagra ads are hardly 20-somethings. They’re all beautiful middle-aged women. Kelly Hu, the only women whose name I know, is 47.
Which may not be that bad- I think the check cashing fee around here is 2%. Cashing $1000 worth of checks a month costs $20 and if you don’t keep a minimum balance , bank service charges just to have an account run around $12 to $15 a month plus atm fees etc. All you need to get Netspend for $5/month with no per purchase fee is $500 in payroll or government benefit direct deposits in a month
The Laser Spine Institute commercial, with the woman who complains because she has to live on pain-killers. Hey, bitch, I’ve been in excruciating hip/spine pain for the past 9 months, and I can’t tolerate any pain killers whatsoever. You really don’t have my sympathy.
I am currently annoyed by the obnoxious “Halos” commercials, in which children coerce their parents into buying boxes of “Halos” by being bratty or downright psychotic.
(Can this really be a successful advertising campaign? Depicting parents as spineless wimps who seem to be nurturing budding psychos?)
Has this been mentioned? The slo-mo closeup of some kiD stuffing a “gooey flakey Toaster Strudel” into its maw, while mommy watches, coo-ing like a pigeon, in the most unctuous voice, how adorable this is.
VOMITOUS!
This one seems to be annoying Dopers right now.
Is that the one that includes the line about “cuddling”? Cause that concerned me - either really I’m unclear on what cuddling means, or people should stop telling others they cuddle their kids and pets…
Great thread!
I nominate the idiots who can’t read the name in bold letters all over the cars, or the girl who gets into the small cheap car:
“That’s a Buck?”
No, it’s a Mercedes. They put Buick on it to fool you.
It’d fool the dingbats who are asked to test a small car with the nameplate removed, and decide it must be a Lexus or other pricey model because of all the fabulous features, when it’s obviously a cheap econosedan (my first guess was a low-end Chevy - correct).
I wish there was an auto-mute setting on my remote so I could silence that insurance ad before the woman says “you loved your car - you named it Brad”.
I hate the ad - I’ve named you “Ninny”.