# Commercials you don't hate **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [March 20, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672 "2016-03-20T18:19:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 55
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1082 "2024-04-05T00:37:20Z")
We export most of California almonds, and there is a massive surplus. In CA, almonds use about the same amount of water are all residential water usage. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1083 "2024-04-05T00:48:57Z")
What Is the best milk to use? Cow, soy, almond, cashew, oatmilk? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1084 "2024-04-05T00:50:40Z")
Still not the Almonds fault. That’s the humans fault. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1085 "2024-04-05T02:50:27Z")
[potential hijack] All plant-based milks are going to be better on the environment than cow’s milk. However, they all have some level of downside - almond milk is widely available and inexpensive, but thirsty (think a gallon of water needed per nut), oat milk is dependent on heavy usage of herbicides, and other nut milks are expensive and less common. You have to determine what’s best for you, but making a switch to plant-based milk is going to be better for your health and that of the environment - even almond milk. [/potential hijack, now back to commercials]. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1086 "2024-04-16T23:12:10Z")
Etsy’s “people cake” commercial makes zero sense, but it’s unhinged enough to be funny. ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1087 "2024-05-01T17:31:08Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7M6TYlXmI8E/maxresdefault.jpg ""Traded"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M6TYlXmI8E) This is the long version of the “faux ficus” commercial, which I have never seen on television, but a shorter version shows up frequently. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1088 "2024-05-03T15:49:28Z")
I now find myself waiting for the next Gillette Venus commercial with Lydia Jacoby to come on. She’s gorgeous! She looks better in a one-piece swimsuit than a lot of women do in far less. 🥰 [![](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.pJu_HeaosLX2CQwwl2R1MAHaIV?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain/) ](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.pJu_HeaosLX2CQwwl2R1MAHaIV?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain/) ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1089 "2024-05-03T15:58:45Z")
[This Progressive commercial](https://youtu.be/WDcPBIC8P2o) had me LOL with the whole “influencer” idiocy shaming ("…practicing gratitude, manifesting abundance…) 😂 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1090 "2024-05-03T17:05:07Z")
> [@jerseymule](#): > > “faux ficus” I hate that commercial, but for some perverse reason I love saying faux ficus. Still never going to use their service. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1091 "2024-05-11T06:54:01Z")
I just saw one for Maker’s Mark bourbon. It shows a woman perform stunts for a movie and when the director yells cut she reachers for a delicious glass of Marker’s Mark bourbon. Tell me you’re marketing to alcoholics without telling me you’re marketing to alcoholics. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1092 "2024-05-13T20:40:56Z")
Okay the new Starbux ad has mixed emotions for me. First of all they are pushing overpriced sugar laden drinks. But the music is really cool- does anyone know what the song is? Starts out by "sampling "- “na na na na”. It’s the commercial that starts with the babysitter? with all the prison tats ordering one of those sugar laden monstrosities- and handing one to the young girl next to her, I suppose it could be a mom and daughter, but then that was a early pregnancy. Then a guy in an office starts to move to the beat- then everyone is dancing and moving and getting a sugar high. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1093 "2024-05-16T03:40:20Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > But the music is really cool- does anyone know what the song is? Starts out by "sampling "- “na na na na”. @Mean_Mr.Mustard do you know what that song is? ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1094 "2024-05-16T04:03:04Z")
Maybe this one? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/w0N4twV28Mw/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgVShKMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDdShi7vRbrtP1vCMxjrX-efYa1Xg "Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper (HQ)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0N4twV28Mw) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1095 "2024-05-16T21:54:53Z")
Thats the one! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1096 "2024-05-17T00:43:16Z")
Not really “commercials I don’t hate”, more like something amusing I just happened to note. Airbnb has been running ads touting the advantages of renting a house through them over staying in a hotel. I just saw an ad for (I think) Embassy suites where a family rents a home and are confronted with an Annabel-like doll welcoming them.Cut to them getting a non-haunted hotel room. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1097 "2024-05-17T14:26:12Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > Airbnb has been running ads touting the advantages of renting a house through them over staying in a hotel. I just saw an ad for (I think) Embassy suites where a family rents a home and are confronted with an Annabel-like doll welcoming them.Cut to them getting a non-haunted hotel room. Welcome to ‘Lodging Wars’. A battle shaping up to be potentially as fierce as the ‘Cola Wars’ of the 80s 😂 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1098 "2024-05-17T20:49:32Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Welcome to ‘Lodging Wars’. A battle shaping up to be potentially as fierce as the ‘Cola Wars’ of the 80s In a hotel I am pretty damn sure no hidden cameras, but in a Aitbnb, etc the chances are high. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1099 "2024-05-18T00:28:14Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > In a hotel I am pretty damn sure no hidden cameras, but in a Aitbnb, etc the chances are high. The ad agency for Embassy Suites would like to hear your pitches, I bet. Even scarier scenario than the Annabel-like doll 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1100 "2024-05-18T10:38:42Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > a family rents a home and are confronted with an Annabel-like doll welcoming them gesundheit! That one made me think of an old USPS commercial where the mail carrier shows up with a Priority Mail box just in time to save a family from a haunted clown figurine. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/1101 "2024-05-18T13:54:36Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I hate that commercial, Yeah, too much like this nonsense. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AQVxaVhMkvk/maxresdefault.jpg "We Talkin' Bout Cashbacking | Chase Freedom Unlimited") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQVxaVhMkvk) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672.md?page=54) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672.md?page=56)