# 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:** 27
**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 25, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/521 "2015-08-25T23:20:10Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > 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. That one just came on…the TV is playing in the background, and my back is facing it. The guy totally sounded like he was saying “crap” instead of “crab”. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/522 "2015-08-26T10:25:32Z")
He says “crack”, i.e. “I’m going to crack like nobody’s business”. I.e. crack open crabs. But you might hear “crap”. ---
**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 26, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/523 "2015-08-26T12:40:47Z")
It also sounds like he’s saying ‘‘snow crap’’ instead of ‘‘snow crab’’. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/524 "2015-08-26T18:24:11Z")
Is anybody going to be interested in buying a Volkswagen after watching the 3 grannies test-driving one? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/525 "2015-08-26T20:32:14Z")
Only if I’m going to have a granny drive it! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/526 "2015-08-26T20:53:16Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Don’t nobody crap on the new Flo commercial with lactose intolerant Jamie. It’s the best. No worries, I like that one, too. I suffer from it myself, so I know Jamie is in for a world of pain and I feel like the look Flo gives him means she knows, too. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/527 "2015-08-26T20:54:23Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > 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. I don’t understand why Denorex is advertising Head & Shoulders when they’re made by different companies. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/528 "2015-08-26T22:58:02Z")
Head & Shoulders is more popular, so they need a way to get those loyal to the other brand. Ergo, they are claiming you should add Denorex to your routine rather than replace H&S. ---
**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 26, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/529 "2015-08-26T23:51:41Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > No worries, I like that one, too. I suffer from it myself, so I know Jamie is in for a world of pain and I feel like the \*\*look Flo gives \*\*him means she knows, too. I don’t think that’s why she gives him that look. She’s just said (after watching him chug carton after carton of milk), “Aren’t you lactose-intolerant?” And he’s just replied “This isn’t lactose–it’s milk.” So the look isn’t so much one of sympathy, but more one of surprise that anyone could be so thick. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/530 "2015-08-27T00:29:12Z")
Don’t assume that EVERYONE knows that lactose is milk sugar. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/531 "2015-08-27T03:17:54Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Don’t assume that EVERYONE knows that lactose is milk sugar. Those that need to, do - and that is who the commercial is aimed at. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/532 "2015-08-27T03:41:49Z")
> [@simster](#): > > Those that need to, do - and that is who the commercial is aimed at. Er, it’s a car insurance commercial. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/533 "2015-08-27T05:14:49Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Er, it’s a car insurance commercial. Hyuk hyuk hyuk. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/534 "2015-08-27T13:07:39Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Er, it’s a car insurance commercial. so - then let me rephrase - thats who the scene/comments are intended for - ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/535 "2015-08-27T13:38:41Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Don’t assume that EVERYONE knows that lactose is milk sugar. It seems that every third episode on “The Big Bang Theory” has a joke about Leonard’s lactose intolerance and some kind of dairy product. In this age of gluten sensitivity and probiotics and sports drinks, I think people are more aware (not necessarily knowledgable) about the stuff they put into their bodies than ever before. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/536 "2015-08-27T14:42:44Z")
Glad this thread got revived as there’s currently a commercial running that I loathe! It’s a Walmart back to school ad. Mom and son selecting items at the store. With each item, they cut to the Mother imagining her son misplacing each. So, of course, she just takes two Of everything! Two identical shirts, 2 identical backpacks, etc. Ends with happy Mom buying two of everything while smiling smugly over how smart she is! Every time I see it I think, “Seriously?” Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/537 "2015-08-27T20:55:14Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > I don’t think that’s why she gives him that look. She’s just said (after watching him chug carton after carton of milk), “Aren’t you lactose-intolerant?” And he’s just replied “This isn’t lactose–it’s milk.” > > So the look isn’t so much one of sympathy, but more one of surprise that anyone could be so thick. Can’t it be both? > [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Don’t assume that EVERYONE knows that lactose is milk sugar. There are numerous Lactaid products and commercials for such which run pretty often (just not as often as car insurance commercials). > [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](#): > > It seems that every third episode on “The Big Bang Theory” has a joke about Leonard’s lactose intolerance and some kind of dairy product. > > In this age of gluten sensitivity and probiotics and sports drinks, I think people are more aware (not necessarily knowledgable) about the stuff they put into their bodies than ever before. Yes, exactly. Although, Lactaid and all it’s various lactose-free dairy products don’t seem to exist in the TBBT universe. Also, from their complaints you’d think it just causes bad gas, which is only the half of it. Anyway, I gather from this offshoot discussion that some people hate this commercial? ---
**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 27, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/538 "2015-08-27T21:10:28Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Can’t it be both? Anything’s possible. But her expression seems more ‘WTF?’ than ‘you poor thing’ to me…note that there’s no smile, sympathetic or otherwise. > [@Wile\_E](#): > > Anyway, I gather from this offshoot discussion that some people hate this commercial? Not me; I think it’s funny. (It offers me no reason to change my car insurance over to the sponsoring company–but then that’s true of all auto-insurance commercials. They’re meant to manipulate us into identifying with the company that seems most clever and hip and droll, of course–not to provide solid information.) ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/539 "2015-08-30T02:21:25Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Anything’s possible. But her expression seems more ‘WTF?’ than ‘you poor thing’ to me…note that there’s no smile, sympathetic or otherwise. > ) Yep. There’s a Godaddy commercial where a room full of people are apparently celebrating by doing this two arm pump thing. It goes on for maybe 15 seconds but feels like three minutes. Godaddy always has bad commercials but this one tops them all. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2015, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/540 "2015-08-30T14:56:00Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Yep. > > There’s a Godaddy commercial where a room full of people are apparently celebrating by doing this two arm pump thing. It goes on for maybe 15 seconds but feels like three minutes. Godaddy always has bad commercials but this one tops them all. Godaddy 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=28)