# It's a shame we can't watch television in 2014 without seeing ... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 24, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330 "2014-08-24T00:01:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/41 "2014-08-24T22:52:00Z")
Commercials are the time when you’re supposed to go and get a snack, or go to the bathroom. So why are you watching them? Duh! ---
**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:** [August 25, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/42 "2014-08-25T03:23:38Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > This is a fairly popular sentiment, and I just don’t get it. > Commercials for feminine hygiene products feature attractive young sporty women doing fun sporty activities. They’re smiling, running, jumping, and wearing form fitting clothing. What’s not to like? > > The only reason to be put off by commercials for feminine hygiene products would be some personal ick factor regarding an entirely natural, necessary, and healthy human bodily function- the kind of ick factor that anyone over the age of thirteen should have outgrown. “Ick factor.” Yeah, that pretty well sums it up. Is something is icky, it’s icky; age is irrelevant. And no, not even if it had any relevance to my own life would I want to listen to a bunch of airheaded women laughing and chatting about their bodily functions at a cocktail party no matter how “young” and “beautiful” they are. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/43 "2014-08-25T04:31:22Z")
Don’t worry, the ad balance will become less creepy once all of baby boomers die off. As I told a friend “I know I’m old - all the things they advertise on news programs now apply to me.” ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/44 "2014-08-25T04:59:43Z")
I guess commercials are geared toward the aging population. I remember the common commercials in the 70s, such as Nair pantyhose, were for younger people. We need more pantyhose commercials and less cancer commercials. Baldness remedy commmercials are my least favorite. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/45 "2014-08-25T05:01:38Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Commercials are the time when you’re supposed to go and get a snack, or go to the bathroom. So why are you watching them? Duh! That was true when commercials aired every 10-15 minutes. Now they’re typically every 3-5 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/46 "2014-08-25T06:08:57Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Personally, I’m tired of the commercials for Christian Mingle dot com. Ha! I see your ChristianMingle commercials and raise you a [FarmersOnly dot com ad!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGZLmbar4xQ) (With ads like these, how can they possibly get any female clients?) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/47 "2014-08-25T08:33:17Z")
> [@7e42](#): > > those depressing commercials Advertising the ability of the human race to help people, who previously could not be helped, is the **opposite** of depressing. ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/48 "2014-08-25T13:29:37Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > I guess commercials are geared toward the aging population. I remember the common commercials in the 70s, such as Nair pantyhose, were for younger people. We need more pantyhose commercials and less cancer commercials. Baldness remedy commmercials are my least favorite. As a person in her mid-60’s. this amuses me. So many of the ads aimed at us old folks and our “conditions” are on programs that are aimed at 12-year-olds. I suppose they think we are watching with our grandkids. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/49 "2014-08-25T14:50:38Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > … These and erectile dysfunction. > > Frankly, I’ll take them over feminine hygiene products any day. Does anybody else notice a strong correlation between these two? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/50 "2014-08-25T15:20:10Z")
Moved to IMHO from Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/51 "2014-08-25T15:40:03Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > You poor, poor thing. Have you started a fundraiser yet? I would dearly love to contribute to ease your pain and suffering. This is the same OP who [complained that ordering McNuggets from McDonalds](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=730920) was over-complicated enough to warrant a trip to the Dope and a new thread. That was the human equivalent of pulling a lever to drop a food pellet into your mouth, then complaining that you shouldn’t have to even pull the lever. This thread is par for the course. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/52 "2014-08-25T15:43:39Z")
And don’t forget the long, long commercials with cute baby animals and children with flies walking around in their snotty hare-lips and the deformed ex-smokers… ---
**Author:** ![7e42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/51bf81/32.png) [@7e42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7e42)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/53 "2014-08-25T18:03:49Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Advertising the ability of the human race to help people, who previously could not be helped, is the **opposite** of depressing. I want to see happy and fun commercials which is why I can;t wait until NFL sundays ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/54 "2014-08-25T18:21:17Z")
Commercials are those things I fast forward through. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/55 "2014-08-25T18:32:21Z")
**It’s a shame we can’t watch television in 2014 without seeing** If you could watch TV without seeing, it would be radio. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/56 "2014-08-25T21:02:16Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Commercials are those things I fast forward through. This ↑↑↑ ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/57 "2014-08-25T23:07:44Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > I guess commercials are geared toward the aging population. I remember the common commercials in the 70s, such as Nair pantyhose, were for younger people. Nair pantyhose? Was this actually a thing or was there supposed to be an “and” between them? Asking sincerely. ---
**Author:** ![7e42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/7/51bf81/32.png) [@7e42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7e42)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/58 "2014-08-26T00:13:24Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > Commercials are those things I fast forward through. I don’t have that option ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/59 "2014-08-26T00:22:48Z")
> [@JuliaSqueezer](#): > > As a person in her mid-60’s. this amuses me. So many of the ads aimed at us old folks and our “conditions” are on programs that are aimed at 12-year-olds. I suppose they think we are watching with our grandkids. Well, the times I am forced to sit and watch daytime TV (waiting rooms, usually) the content is aimed at a 12yo intelligence and the ads are one old-fart-disease buster after another. I’ll take the hobnoxious shows over the ads, and that’s really saying something. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330/60 "2014-08-26T01:15:07Z")
> [@GreenElf](#): > > I guess commercials are geared toward the aging population. I remember the common commercials in the 70s, such as Nair pantyhose, were for younger people… :How does that work? You put the pantyhose on and the hair just sticks to it when you take them off? 😕 Or you put the pantyhose on and let them dissolve along with the hair before washing off? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-shame-we-cant-watch-television-in-2014-without-seeing/696330.md?page=4)