# Commercials that think you're an idiot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494 "2013-07-03T00:13:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494/161 "2013-07-13T20:33:18Z")
The AT &T Uverse commercial that starts “look at them kids” makes me want to scream. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494/162 "2013-07-13T21:08:34Z")
“If the line’s busy, keep trying!” Yeah right. Your call is going to a call center with four hundred reps that probably answers calls for twenty or more companies. The only way you’ll get a busy is if some wayward backhoe dug up the phone lines. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494/163 "2013-07-13T22:38:13Z")
Even before I read the rest of the ad: Any kind of prescription drug advertising, especially if it’s for a rare disease. Really, you don’t think your oncologist or rheumatologist doesn’t know about this? And anything that shows children destroying things. You just know kids are going to imitate that. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494/164 "2013-07-13T22:43:39Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > Unless it’s in the process of being changed (or regional), here they don’t make mention about being expensive at all, but they do mention that YOU can have $10,000 in your account TOMORROW. All of the information stating that the loan is at +80% interest, and you’re expected to make payments of $750 per month for 5 years or so is in the fine print at the bottom of the screen. I didn’t think that kind of thing was even legal. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494/165 "2013-07-13T22:48:08Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Wait until the decide to label it “GLUTEN FREE!” I’ve seen that. It’s actually a legitimate label, because corn or rice can contain trace amounts of gluten if it’s processed in the same factory as gluten-containing grains like rye or wheat. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494/166 "2013-07-13T22:50:53Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Did you know that SUGAR is _Fat Free!_:eek: And it’s sometimes vegan too. Again, a processing thing, because most commercial sugar is processed with bone char. Doing so does not make it strictly vegan. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494/167 "2013-07-13T22:56:41Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > More and more, they are labeled so; well, some of them… those which actually pass muster for it. Some manufacturers of corn-based products haven’t been able to get the label because they had detectable levels of gluten through cross-contamination from other products. > > Given how often I run into people who seem to think that “coeliac child” means “can’t eat anything kids like”, more labeling is good. I personally know several people who must avoid gluten, and my BFF has gone gluten-free because he’s allergic to wheat and this is the simplest way to go about it. Last year, Temple Grandin, the livestock expert who is also autistic, spoke in my town and I went to see her. She addressed the whole gluten-free thing, which does help some people with autism, and said that it does not have to be difficult or expensive: “Dirt cheap rice noodles, delicious corn tortillas - don’t mess with that fake bread made out of potatoes.” Jay Leno recently said, “I tried gluten-free bread. Wow! I had no idea how good gluten is. I keep a bowl on the side for dipping now.” 😛 I used to attend a church that offered gluten-free communion bread, and a lot of people wondered what that was all about. I did try it, and it wasn’t bad. And I also explained it to a lot of people who knew I was a health care professional. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494/168 "2013-07-13T23:01:21Z")
> [@tim314](#): > > Also, I have to give a shout out to that horrible Yaz commercial were the one woman lists all the disclaimers. > > Her idiot friends: “Wow, you really know your stuff!” > Disclaimer girl: “I didn’t go to medical school for nothing!” > > Yeah, because that’s what people do in medical school, don’t you know. Memorize the side-effects of every medicine, so they can recite them to their friends. > > Bonus points because Yaz was later [sued](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drospirenone#Litigation_and_regulatory_penalties) for not adequately warning people of the risks of their medication. Maybe she should have gone to law school. Like I said, prescription drug commercials, especially the ones for erectile dysfunction. Trust me, the men who use them don’t look like the guys in the ads. Instead, think of Grandpa - or better yet, don’t think of Grandpa. And Grandma too. You’d be surprised how many women use it for their own sexual dysfunction. Lots of women can’t tolerate Yaz, mainly because it gives them morning sickness without also being pregnant. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-that-think-youre-an-idiot/662494.md?page=8)