# Current ads that grate on you

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 22, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122 "2010-12-22T21:34:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/181 "2011-02-14T06:34:15Z")

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> [@anya\_marie](#):
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> And what’s so romantic about mundane chores?

Maybe not romantic, but it seems that [doing chores may lead to more action](http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/31/2/135).

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**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/182 "2011-02-14T14:14:12Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Has the creepy commercial (for AT&T) with flowering plants growing everywhere and covering cityscapes like Seattle been mentioned? The tagline is about 97% coverage, but when I see those same plants everywhere, covering buildings and highways and just everything, it makes shivers go up my back. It reminds me of invasion of the body snatchers, for some reason. That commercial is a real misfire. “Come, celebrate AT&T and their creepy uniform hegemony over all the world!”  
> Roddy

Plus, the plants don’t grow over the windows of the buildings or the surface of the roadways…an _intelligent_ invasive species? Aieeee!

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**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2011, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-ads-that-grate-on-you/565122/183 "2011-02-14T14:44:01Z")

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> [@Superdude](#):
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> 1. There’s one for a medication - I think - that mentions fibromyalgia. The middle-aged woman says “I learned that connected to our muscles are nerve endings.” Really? _REALLY_? I learned that shit in third grade.

I just saw this one again, and it gets worse. Right after she says “I learned that connected to my muscles are nerve endings that send signals to my brain”, she says “my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia.”

So, fibromyalgia is apparently nerve endings. Connected to your muscles.

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