# 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:** 31
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/601 "2015-09-06T18:06:45Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > If I wasn’t convinced that they don’t really shoot the commercials there, I’d hang out in Battery Park with a water cannon to disrupt those asinine ads for Liberty Mutual insurance. “You named your car Brad…”\*\* SPLAT!\*\* You’re conviction is correct, if you look closely you’ll see that the Statue of Liberty is facing the camera, which is the wrong direction. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/602 "2015-09-06T18:53:09Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Was it a Fireball 8? Were you an excellent driver? 😉 > […] I have never heard of the term “Fireball 8.” It was a Roadmaster. We had to give up the car–long story–in 1960, when I was 10. I did not drive a car at all until Drivers’ Ed in high school, five years later. ---
**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:** [September 6, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/603 "2015-09-06T19:05:40Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I miss the old days when doctor stuff was mostly confined to the doctor’s office, and the worst things you heard about on commercials were the heartbreak of psoriasis and “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” “You ate it, Ralph.” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/604 "2015-09-06T19:33:46Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > I have never heard of the term “Fireball 8.” It was a Roadmaster. > We had to give up the car–long story–in 1960, when I was 10. > I did not drive a car at all until Drivers’ Ed in high school, five years later. Never saw the movie **[Rainman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU1A0sHWYQg)**, I take it? ---
**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:** [September 6, 2015, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/605 "2015-09-06T20:55:45Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Never saw the movie **[Rainman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU1A0sHWYQg)**, I take it? _Saw_ it? I’ve hardly ever _heard_ of it! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/606 "2015-09-06T21:51:36Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > And that Window 10 ad. My god, that is an ugly baby! The one for Windows 10 saying something like: “They’ll grow up on Windows 10.” :dubious: So there won’t be a new version of Windows for the next 15 years or so?? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/607 "2015-09-06T21:56:08Z")
Actually, no, there won’t be a new version of Windows for the foreseeable future. Their idea is that they’ll update Windows 10 from time to time but there won’t be another major release. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/608 "2015-09-06T22:39:19Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > It’s worse when you watch some of the channels that are apparently aimed at old people, like the Game Show Network. Other words I don’t want to hear: catheter, mesothelioma, gynecomastia, “tear in the stomach wall,” and incontinence. > > I miss the old days when doctor stuff was mostly confined to the doctor’s office, and the worst things you heard about on commercials were the heartbreak of psoriasis and “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” You forgot “vaginal mesh” - whatever that is. (No, I don’t really need to know, thanks). A different topic, and I don’t think it’s a national thing, but the local cable system intercuts commercials for Hom Furniture on top of the network commercials. The 15-second commercials aren’t usually too bad, but they repeat them after 15 seconds with the exact same commercial a second time. I’ve seen this on three different cable systems within the state, so it’s not just a local thing; it must be their corporate strategy to be as annoying as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/609 "2015-09-07T05:53:14Z")
I think it’s one for Time Warner, a woman says she doesn’t have to worry because she knows EXACTLY when the technician will show up to fix things…because of the one hour appointment window. Um no. You don’t know exactly when, you know within a 1 hour range. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/610 "2015-09-07T06:18:20Z")
Commercial for chocolate where some woman writes “Mystery” on a guy’s crossword puzzle (in his absence) and when he sees it, he goes to the Mystery section and finds her there (eating luxurious chocolate treats, of course). It’s not aggressively bad but, each time I see it, I imagine myself just saying “WTF? Someone wrote on my crossword puzzle!” and drinking my coffee in quiet annoyance rather than seeking out the chocolate-eating woman in the bookstore. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/611 "2015-09-07T14:58:55Z")
The Office Max “new gear feeling” commercials are just amazingly stupid. “No one has ever done X before, but because you have brand new pencils and a backpack, you’re about to do something that will probably get you branded as a complete loser for the rest of your middle school career.” Fortunately, now that the new school year is here, those commercials will probably die a well-deserved death. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/612 "2015-09-07T14:58:57Z")
Where on the crossword puzzle did she write it? Smeared across the page in lipstick? In one eight-letter space on the puzzle itself? In the margin, innocuously? If she ruined the puzzle I would walk out and she could stay in Mystery all night for all I care. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/613 "2015-09-07T15:50:53Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Where on the crossword puzzle did she write it? Smeared across the page in lipstick? In one eight-letter space on the puzzle itself? In the margin, innocuously? If she ruined the puzzle I would walk out and she could stay in Mystery all night for all I care. Right across the center of the puzzle and not even in an appropriate number of squares! [Here’s the commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7TGBxI6kCc). They must have shortened it because now he just goes to Mystery and there she is. ---
**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:** [September 7, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/614 "2015-09-07T17:22:46Z")
Well, she ruined the puzzle. As I see it she could wait there until the cows come home. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/615 "2015-09-08T06:54:37Z")
Look closely, it isn’t his crossword puzzle. She’s holding it at the start. He looks down and there’s a paper that says mystery. Somehow the ultrahot woman managed to sneak up and put the paper on his table and sneak away without him noticing. Putting only one entry on the paper was to ensure he got the message. Placing it in a line it didn’t fit was likely to make sure he knew it was deliberate. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/616 "2015-09-08T11:59:53Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Look closely, it isn’t his crossword puzzle. She’s holding it at the start. He looks down and there’s a paper that says mystery No, he looks down from his book, picks up his crossword [and it says “Mystery”](http://i.imgur.com/Q5jVG60.png) – looks like in 17 Across (12 letters: Person who spoils crosswords). Anyway, that’s just overly cute. Actively annoying is the M&M commercial where it’s funny because we should think of this woman having sex with sentient candy. A recurring theme in these commercials. I suppose it’s better than the one where Red M&M leaves a party to be (literally) messily devoured by an attractive woman when he thinks he’s just getting laid. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/617 "2015-09-08T12:09:39Z")
Oh, I misunderstood you. You’re saying it was her puzzle, not his puzzle that she ruined. Ok, I can get behind that. ---
**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:** [September 8, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/618 "2015-09-08T14:23:01Z")
Well, Jophiel, the woman is making a large assumption–he may not even be a crossword-puzzle fan. ---
**Author:** ![Dante\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dante\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_G)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/619 "2015-09-08T15:51:21Z")
Or he could be gay! Haha, jokes on her. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/620 "2015-09-08T16:27:30Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > It’s not aggressively bad but, each time I see it, I imagine myself just saying “WTF? Someone wrote on my crossword puzzle!” and drinking my coffee in quiet annoyance rather than seeking out the chocolate-eating woman in the bookstore. > [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Where on the crossword puzzle did she write it? Smeared across the page in lipstick? In one eight-letter space on the puzzle itself? In the margin, innocuously? If she ruined the puzzle I would walk out and she could stay in Mystery all night for all I care. Only a Doper would be more concerned with their crossword puzzle than pursuing the hot mystery woman into the stacks. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=32)