# More very hate-able commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663 "2015-04-14T17:48:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/501 "2015-08-13T20:37:15Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > There’s one for a burglar alarm company called SimpliSafe. The voiceover says something like “most alarm systems rely on vulnerable landlines, but SimpliSafe is cellular for a more reliable connection”. Landlines are vulnerable to what, exactly, greedy, thieving gophers? I don’t recall landline phones needing a display to show if they have a connection or not, they just always do. You never saw movies where the clever crooks cut the phone line before breaking in? I would argue that the real benefit of using a cell signal for the alarm is due to many households not having landlines anymore. SimpliSafe was ahead of the curve in using a cell signal for the alert. And they don’t charge extra for it, unlike many other alarm companies. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/502 "2015-08-13T21:16:01Z")
> [@Orwell](#): > > You never saw movies where the clever crooks cut the phone line before breaking in? Yes. I’ve also seen James Bond use an x-ray hidden inside a cigarette case to open a safe. Doesn’t mean that’s the threat I need to guard my home against. > [@](#): > > I would argue that the real benefit of using a cell signal for the alarm is due to many households not having landlines anymore. SimpliSafe was ahead of the curve in using a cell signal for the alert. And they don’t charge extra for it, unlike many other alarm companies. Sure, I can see a need for a security system to use a cellular connection, and maybe even some benefits. I just think it’s unfounded scare tactics to phrase it the way they do. Do you honestly think vulnerable landlines are a problem homeowners need to be conerned with? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/503 "2015-08-13T21:26:43Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I won’t, as long as you don’t criticize the new GEICO one with the Kraken. Oh yeah, I like the Kraken too. ---
**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:** [August 13, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/504 "2015-08-13T22:54:27Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Oh, do you mean these? > [Toshiba Satellite Radius TV Spot, 'Advocate' Featuring Vashtie Kola - iSpot.tv](http://www.ispot.tv/ad/74Ju/toshiba-satellite-radius-advocate-featuring-vashtie-kola) > > What’s particularly annoying about them? One or two are innocuous, but try sitting through six or eight of them in rapid succession. The Science Channel is particularly bad about this for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/505 "2015-08-17T00:19:15Z")
Move over Darrel Hammond, there’s a new Colonel Sanders, and I think it is Norm MacDonald! ---
**Author:** ![vjja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c57346/32.png) [@vjja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vjja)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/506 "2015-08-17T01:17:47Z")
[http://imgur.com/mOuf9yc](http://imgur.com/mOuf9yc) ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/507 "2015-08-17T19:49:27Z")
> [@vjja](#): > > [http://imgur.com/mOuf9yc](http://imgur.com/mOuf9yc) Yeah, his voice is pretty unmistakable. If they are going for a whole _series_ of Colonels, they could get themselves some nice publicity by sticking their thumb in Donald Trump’s eye and casting Rosie O’Donnell. Trump wouldn’t be able to resist mentioning it on national television (= free ad for KFC!) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/508 "2015-08-17T20:00:45Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > There’s a Red Lobster ad about a crab leg special, and the voice-over says something about being a crab addict. I swear, it sounds like he’s saying “crap addict” - which, as far as I’m concerned, works for Red Lobster. Except for their cheddar biscuits - those thing ROCK!! Is that the one where it sounds like the guy is saying “I’m going to crap like nobody’s looking”? Yeah I hate that one too. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/509 "2015-08-20T19:19:28Z")
This may well make me the crankiest of all cranky old ladies everywhere, but I insist on outing myself anyway. There’s a commercial for Subaru airing now. The father is cleaning out the old wagon to hand it over to his daughter, who I presume is taking it off to college. He waxes nostalgic as he picks up miscellaneous crap from the floor of the car - part of a bandage from a soccer injury, part of a prom corsege… I know I’m supposed to get all teary-eyed, but all I can think about when I see this commercial is “You’ve had this car HOW LONG and you never even vacuumed it out once???” ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/510 "2015-08-20T20:37:16Z")
Yeah, I’ve whined about that already. I do find the new Colonel Sanders amusing, if only in the sense they seem to be listening to the general buzz that Daryl Hammond’s version sucked. At least Norm’s didn’t have that stupid laugh. ---
**Author:** ![r\_u\_serious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@r\_u\_serious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/r_u_serious)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/511 "2015-08-20T20:38:26Z")
Anyone else seeing that Honda commercial with the Great Danes in it back to back every time it airs? I can’t mute the tv fast enough… ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/512 "2015-08-25T01:29:14Z")
New one on radio: “Rufaldo Wimmerson said…” Who the fuck is tha-- oh. :smack: I dont know what the ad is for. After that I’m too distracted to follow the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/513 "2015-08-25T02:54:14Z")
FWIW, I have no idea who “Rufaldo Wimmerson” is, and if the name is a play on words, I’m not seeing it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/514 "2015-08-25T03:08:26Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > New one on radio: > > “Rufaldo Wimmerson said…” > > Who the fuck is tha-- oh. :smack: > > I dont know what the ad is for. After that I’m too distracted to follow the rest. > [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > FWIW, I have no idea who “Rufaldo Wimmerson” is, and if the name is a play on words, I’m not seeing it. Perhaps it would help if we knew what he said. If it was anything to do with mid-19th-Century Transcendentalism and individuality, that might narrow it down a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/515 "2015-08-25T03:20:10Z")
Wait. “Rufaldo Wimmerson” \<=\> Ralph Waldo Emerson? But the ad pronounced it Rufaldo Wimmerson? Is that what the poster was complaining about? I guess I just didn’t get what the complaint was, having never heard/seen the ad in question. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/516 "2015-08-25T03:50:36Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Wait. “Rufaldo Wimmerson” \<=\> Ralph Waldo Emerson? Just a guess on my part, but what the hell else could it be? ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/517 "2015-08-25T04:34:50Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > I hate new Yoplait woman with her annoying French accent. That is all. She is an Amalie clone. Its an excellent film. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/518 "2015-08-25T15:11:52Z")
I didn’t read the whole thread to see if this was posted. There’s an ad for [Denorex](http://ispot.tv/a/7Px2) dandruff shampoo that’s all kinds of WTF. I’m assuming women are not the target audience for this. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/519 "2015-08-25T19:01:19Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > Wait. “Rufaldo Wimmerson” \<=\> Ralph Waldo Emerson? > > But the ad pronounced it Rufaldo Wimmerson? Is that what the poster was complaining about? I guess I just didn’t get what the complaint was, having never heard/seen the ad in question. Yes, that’s it. I figured people would try mumbling it and figure it out, but I just made the same blunder. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/520 "2015-08-25T21:56:47Z")
Anybody mentioned the Target ads yet with the shrill cover version of “ABC”? By the time the melisma kicks in I’m about ready to claw my ears out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=27)