# 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:** 33
**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 10, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/641 "2015-09-10T12:56:20Z")
Yeah, I got that. Obviously my snarkiness didn’t come thru in my post. We need a snark smiley. ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/642 "2015-09-10T13:27:46Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Yeah, I got that. Obviously my snarkiness didn’t come thru in my post. We need a snark smiley. [Yeah.](http://i857.photobucket.com/albums/ab131/snarf777za/pbprofilepics/pth_Snarf_Avatar.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/643 "2015-09-10T15:55:04Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > Oh and I also hate those three ugly old ladies in those Volkswagon ads. No need to go into looks. They are just &^%#$ annoying. How in the world are they supposed to move cars is beyond me. ---
**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 10, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/644 "2015-09-10T17:39:45Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > No need to go into looks. They are just &^%#$ annoying. How in the world are they supposed to move cars is beyond me. They probably have to get out and push. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/645 "2015-09-10T18:38:33Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > So I think the Rufaldo Wimmerson is a play on Ralph Waldo Emerson. I don’t believe it’s an intentional play on words. They are citing the guy for their point about living well or whatever. Just the way the guy says it is odd. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/646 "2015-09-10T22:57:40Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > No need for the mute button, his voice is fine, just his appearance lately. No, I turn _off_ the mute button, which is usually “on” (or muted) when commercials are on. ---
**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 11, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/647 "2015-09-11T00:09:54Z")
The only problem with that is that you can be caught unawares when the program comes back on. ---
**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 12, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/648 "2015-09-12T01:21:19Z")
Non-Smoking PSA trying to use “It’s a trap!” but apparently lacking the blessing of Lucus/Disney and so they just use every other meme under the sun. Hey, no one owns the rights to seals, right? So let’s have a seal saying “It’s a trap”! Or that painting of Joseph Ducreux! That’s public domain by now, right? That’s not how memes work, PSA. Also, there’s a Pandora commercial where some teens are in a car and waiting for the next song and time slows down. All the usual slow-motion stuff – a girl blinking, someone laughing, the driver checking her mirror. Then the next song comes on and it’s over. But I’m so trained by commercials where slow motion happy people driving = about to get hit by a garbage truck that I tense up just watching it. I guess that’s not the commercial’s fault as such but I dislike seeing it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/649 "2015-09-12T06:49:27Z")
I just saw a Cottonelle commercial and am still trying to pick up my jaw from the floor. I’m not even sure what to say about it so I’ll let someone else describe it. You know this commercial if you saw it. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/650 "2015-09-12T15:18:15Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > 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). Nope - **Irishman** is right - it’s her paper. There is no paper on his table at the start of the ad - he’s just sitting there reading a book. She looks at him, looks at the paper, then he finds the paper on his table. ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/651 "2015-09-12T16:15:33Z")
But suppose he had focused on the advertisement under the crossword puzzle - the one for Depends - Beano - Mouthwash - Divorce Lawyer - Male Enhancement Surgery, ect? Or he’d looked at his horoscope adjacent to the crossword puzzle - Today is not the day for new ventures. ---
**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 12, 2015, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/652 "2015-09-12T16:34:18Z")
> [@dba\_Fred](#): > > But suppose he had focused on the advertisement under the crossword puzzle - the one for Depends - Beano - Mouthwash - Divorce Lawyer - Male Enhancement Surgery, ect? > Or he’d looked at his horoscope adjacent to the crossword puzzle - Today is not the day for new ventures. :Heh: Wouldn’t matter to me. I regularly ignore newspaper ads–same as I ignore horoscopes.😛 ---
**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 15, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/653 "2015-09-15T15:57:48Z")
Last night, I was reminded about another commercial gimmick that makes me stabby. I’ve seen several car company ads with this same idiocy - the car is zipping along and suddenly there’s something ahead in the road - an animal, a truck, a gigantic boulder - and the car just zigs and zags around it because it’s got such great handling. I dunno, maybe that’s how everyone else in the world drives, but when I see something in the road ahead, I’m on the brake before I think about swerving. Normally, I see whatever lies ahead long before it becomes a swerving issue. Seems to me if you’re paying attention, the fancy-pants handling isn’t an issue. Silly me - assuming drivers pay attention to what they’re doing… ---
**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 15, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/654 "2015-09-15T16:13:58Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Last night, I was reminded about another commercial gimmick that makes me stabby. I’ve seen several car company ads with this same idiocy - the car is zipping along and suddenly there’s something ahead in the road - an animal, a truck, a gigantic boulder - and the car just zigs and zags around it because it’s got such great handling. > > I dunno, maybe that’s how everyone else in the world drives, but when I see something in the road ahead, I’m on the brake before I think about swerving. Normally, I see whatever lies ahead long before it becomes a swerving issue. Seems to me if you’re paying attention, the fancy-pants handling isn’t an issue. Silly me - assuming drivers pay attention to what they’re doing… Good point - every fall we get public safety reminders about swerving for deer: [Don’t Veer for Deer](https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/ots/deer-vehicle-safety/Pages/default.aspx). People who swerve often end up in the ditch, hitting a tree, or swerving into the oncoming lane and having a front-end collision with another car. We’re being told to safely brake and hit it if necessary. I just hope cars don’t get too smart that they start swerving by themselves! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/655 "2015-09-15T16:53:39Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Last night, I was reminded about another commercial gimmick that makes me stabby. I’ve seen several car company ads with this same idiocy - the car is zipping along and suddenly there’s something ahead in the road - an animal, a truck, a gigantic boulder - and the car just zigs and zags around it because it’s got such great handling. > > I dunno, maybe that’s how everyone else in the world drives, but when I see something in the road ahead, I’m on the brake before I think about swerving. Normally, I see whatever lies ahead long before it becomes a swerving issue. Seems to me if you’re paying attention, the fancy-pants handling isn’t an issue. Silly me - assuming drivers pay attention to what they’re doing… I’ve seen it, typically on the interstate. Cars in front of you block your view, and they they veer or whatever. I actually hit a large metal object in the road because it sprang up when the car in front of me passed over it - no time and no space to veer, so I hit it. Fortunately it didn’t do any damage to my car or tires, but I saw two other cars pulled over just after that, I think they had a similar problem. Sometimes when there are other drivers blocking your view, they don’t give you enough cues and don’t slow down. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/656 "2015-09-15T20:04:19Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > I’ve seen it, typically on the interstate. Cars in front of you block your view, and they they veer or whatever. I actually hit a large metal object in the road because it sprang up when the car in front of me passed over it - no time and no space to veer, so I hit it. Fortunately it didn’t do any damage to my car or tires, but I saw two other cars pulled over just after that, I think they had a similar problem. > > Sometimes when there are other drivers blocking your view, they don’t give you enough cues and don’t slow down. These commercials though typically show someone driving on a picturesque empty road when a dear meanders onto the road. ---
**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 16, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/657 "2015-09-16T16:40:19Z")
Along the same line as the swerving - what’s with the people who narrowly miss backing into oncoming traffic, saved by their vehicle’s sensors? Did they not learn to look before moving? Yep, between the incredibly horrible drivers in car ads and the moronic whiners in the Liberty Mutual ads, I weep for anyone on the road at any time. Maybe the Amish have it right with their buggies… ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/658 "2015-09-16T17:58:35Z")
Yeah, those folks aren’t even trying. I mean, I accidentally backed into a car in a parking lot once. The car came around the corner of the aisle, I was maybe 3 cars over, and it rolled right into my blind spot as I was already moving. Note to drivers, if you see a car trying to back out, don’t try to rush past before they get there. Stop and let them out. They might not see you to stop and let you past. Xfinity is running a new ad about DirectTV and AT&T’s new partnership. “An old day is dawning. DirectTV and AT&T are bringing you yesterday’s technology today.” Um, yeah, satellite dishes aren’t exactly new, but then you are selling _cable_. How is that fresh technology? But it is amusing: “Branchy”. ---
**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:** [September 16, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/659 "2015-09-16T18:58:21Z")
There’s some commercial out right now for Verizon or T-Mobile or some shit (my brain is Teflon when it comes to stuff about which I absolutely do not care), and it features a short guy with black-framed eyeglasses trying to tell his friends something about phone service which it turns out they already know. But that’s not important. The thing that gets me about this commercial is that the guy has only one eyebrow that goes all the way across his forehead. Why? Are they trying to say something about the character? Is he supposed to remind us of someone else? Does everyone not know that each eye should have its very own eyebrow? Is it a new trend? _Lord, what does it mean?_ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663/660 "2015-09-16T19:28:23Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Xfinity is running a new ad about DirectTV and AT&T’s new partnership. “An old day is dawning. DirectTV and AT&T are bringing you yesterday’s technology today.” > > Um, yeah, satellite dishes aren’t exactly new, but then you are selling _cable_. How is that fresh technology? This was outlined in the first one: they’re emphasizing the ability for one to watch TV on one’s phone while on the go and seamlessly send the program from one’s phone to a nearby TV set when one reaches one’s destination. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-very-hate-able-commercials/717663.md?page=34)