For some website that lets you file legal documents without paying a lawyer:
“As a divorce attorney, I could catch heat for this…”
In small print at the bottom of the screen:
[sub]Actor portrayal by someone who is not an attorney…[/sub]Okay, then.
Any banking ad where they say Because it’s your money.
Because once you hand it over to them, it’s not, technically, your money anymore*
*At least where I come from.
What’s inaccurate about it? You’re not supposed to apply it directly to the forehead?
You’re not supposed to apply it directly to the forehead?
You’re not supposed to apply it directly to the forehead?
You’re not supposed to apply it directly to the forehead?
You’re not supposed to apply it directly to the forehead?
There was a car ad a while ago purporting to show all of the local American towns where their parts were made. One of the towns was not far from me, and the local news had a ball revealing that the ad’s video of the town looked nothing at all like the actual town. The company admitted they just took some stock footage of a New England-y looking rural town and used that.
I also like “Lose up to 50 pounds or more!” meaning, I suppose, anything from zero to infinity pounds.
muldoonthief said:
Do they really say that, or is that your interpretation? Couldn’t their hot dogs be better tasting because of the manufacturing process using full cuts rather than scraps, and less fillers? What do they actually say, and how are the hot dogs actually made?
I can’t find the commercial itself online, but here’s their website, showing the graphic and tagline “No Ifs, Ands or Butts” from the commercial. They are clearly implying that the front half of the cow is somehow “better” than the rear half. Which is untrue. Hell, filet mignon isn’t kosher, and you can’t tell me that’s an inferior cut of beef to the foreshank.
Now they also talk about how being kosher means no fillers, no byproducts, etc, which absolutely does make for a better dog, but the “front half good, back half not” is just a lie.
I saw a commercial for one of those debt-consolidation companies (mentioned upthread somewhere) this morning. The actor/hawker started out by saying, “Guess how many credit cards the average American has in their wallet? EIGHT!”
Really? The average American has eight credit cards???
I dunno, but maybe, if you include your debit card as a credit card. Then you have one or two major credit cards, a couple store credit cards (which I make a point not to get, but a lot of people have them) and a couple gas cards. They add up.
Doesn’t matter if he doesn’t actually sing them. I still find them amusing. 
And why does that “basement” look like a tiny apartment?
From here:
So 159 million card holders with 1.5 billion cards. So not quite 10 cards for everyone. I find this astounding. I have two. One for household use, one for my wife’s business in case she asks me to pick something up for her work. Dunno if my bank’s ATM card counts.
Well, sure. The guy’s breaking in because he intends to rape the hot mom, or sell the child’s kidneys to a Saudi prince with a child on dialysis. There’d be no point in breaking in when they WEREN’T there.
There’s a long-running household cleaner ad in the UK with the annoying slogan, Kills 99.9% of all household germs! I always thought it a dumb slogan because the first thing people are going to think is, “What about the other .1%?” I longed to have the cash to bring out a rival product with the slogan, Kills *100% of all household germs! *
I’d clean up. (Literally!) Until the advertising standards guys stepped in. The 100% claim is easily falsifiable, the 99.9% would be a lot trickier.
“We found this, this and this sort of germ still alive.”
“Yep, part of the 0.1%”
Last Christmas season, Walmart ran ads hawking cheapo HDTVs with “full 1080i resolution.” That statement counts as a lie any way you slice it.
No TVs (except CRTs, which they weren’t talking about) have “1080i resolution.” 1080i TVs take a 1080i SIGNAL and display it with 768 lines, so you’re downscaling almost 30% of the image.
The only TVs that can display “full 1080i resolution” are 1080p sets. Given that 1080p sets are called “Full HD” sets, it’s obvious Walmart invented the nonsense phrase “full 1080i” to confuse customers.
They also make a point of saying in their ads that Walmart sells the same brand TVs as the “big electronics stores,” so why not go to Walmart? Same brand, yes, but they’re not the same TVs – Walmart largely stocks lousy downmarket sets, including some that are ONLY available at Walmart (presumably because they’re lousy Chinese TVs with a Japanese manufacturer logo stuck on).
I’ve mentioned this in other threads about microbiology stuff, but my beef with this is that 99.9% just isn’t that much when it comes to bugs that grow exponentially, like bacteria. Food processing plants are required to kill 99.99999% of any potential microbial life at a bare minimum. It’s a statistic that sounds impressive, but is really pretty meaningless.
No, MagicXylophone’s quoted commerical says eight cards per average American. squeegee’s link says 9-10 cards per cardholder.
I’m willing to bet the number of cardholders is smaller than the number of Americans.
About the guy singing or lipsynching in the Free Credit Report commercials, in all fairness, all commercials are lipsynched regardless of whether the voice is of the performer or not. Commercials aren’t concerts, there are multiple camera setups and such, so they lipsynch to the playback.
I agree and I actually like the guy, but next time the commericals come on look at them. Once you notice it, you can see, they did a BAD job at timing it. His mouth isn’t even coming close to matching the words.
I think they could’ve done a bit better.
Head-Off! Apply directly to the jugular!
Head-Off! Apply directly to the jugular!
Head-Off! Apply directly to the jugular!
Gee, you think?