More very hate-able commercials

[JRDelirious]

@salinqmind

I want that enormous beach house! I want a loving, happy healthy husband to walk down the endless beach, in the winter, hand in hand, picking up driftwood and throwing the ball for the dog to fetch! (and later I can go to my nice little part-time job in the plant nursery down the street, potting up daisies and watering the cyclamen.)

Hold on we’re working on the thing for you. It’ll cost $6,000 a dose and be permanent daily maintenance, and 2% of the test subjects have experienced petrification but we think we can mitigate that…

[Skywatcher]

@Uncle_Jocko

Won’t you be the sorry one when the financial markets collapse, and you hadn’t sent in for Ron’s sure fire plan to survive (and profit from!) the resulting financial apocalypse?

insert IT’S HAPPENING gif

He’d be easier to believe without crap like this:

“I believe that if we ever get the full truth [about 9/11], we’ll find out that our government had it in the records exactly what the plans were, or at least close to it,” said Paul, during [a 2014] interview with Money and Markets host Charles Goyette. “You already mentioned that [the U.S. government] had been warned that something was going to happen.”

:snip:

In 2012, Paul told ABC News anchor Jake Tapper that the idea that the Bush administration knew about the 9/11 attacks beforehand was “complete nonsense.”

“I never bought into that stuff. I never talked about it,” Paul said at the time. “About the conspiracy of Bush—of Bush knowing about this? No, no, come on. Come on. Let’s be reasonable.”

[Finagle]

@dougie_monty

Tell me more about Greta.

Seriously dude, you gotta get over greta.

[Irishman]

@running_coach

They just haven’t filmed the “Wake up next to the Colonel” ad yet.

Don’t give them ideas!

@Gatopescado

Hannah can go fuck her talking horse.

The latest has Hannah washing the horse in the ocean. He is talking about how it’s his best bath ever, and next she needs to get the knees, his dirty knees. It sounds like someone wants her on her knees.

@Tinker_Grey

“Get your title back with Title Max!”

Well, WTF took it in the first place.

Is a title loan. Most places, you give them your title as collateral. Title Max apparently copies the info or something and let’s you hold the title.

[Tinker_Grey]

@Irishman

Is a title loan. Most places, you give them your title as collateral. Title Max apparently copies the info or something and let’s you hold the title.

I know how those loans work. I just didn’t know the distinction that Title Max was making. Thanks for the info.

[dougie_monty]

@Finagle

Seriously dude, you gotta get over greta.

Hey, I’m not the one who mentioned her in the FIRST place!

[DrDeth]

@salinqmind

I want that enormous beach house! I want a loving, happy healthy husband to walk down the endless beach, in the winter, hand in hand, picking up driftwood and throwing the ball for the dog to fetch! (and later I can go to my nice little part-time job in the plant nursery down the street, potting up daisies and watering the cyclamen.)

Then just take Damnitrol!

[WolfpackJeep]

One of the same organizations that sponsored the old-tech ad I mentioned upthread – I think it’s the American Society of Orthopedic Surgeons or something like that – has a new ad out. This one is about the menace young folks and their smart phones pose to old people out on the street. I’m starting to get the idea that this organization just flat out hates modern technology.

[Irishman]

@WolfpackJeep

There’s a PSA that has started running again – I know I’ve complained about it here before – featuring a lazy little boy sitting in his room who calls his grandma on her land line to demand a grape soda. But he’s using a freakin’ flip phone. And he’s sitting in front of a beige CRT monitor with a beige, corded keyboard. He’s also shown playing a Super Nintendo. WTF??? Is the ad that old? What’s up with all the ancient electronics?

The YouTube I found was 5 years old. I think the implication is grandma is old and unappealing to modern tech. I know plenty of grandmas are a lot hipper than that, but that appears to be the vibe.

@WolfpackJeep

One of the same organizations that sponsored the old-tech ad I mentioned upthread – I think it’s the American Society of Orthopedic Surgeons or something like that – has a new ad out. This one is about the menace young folks and their smart phones pose to old people out on the street. I’m starting to get the idea that this organization just flat out hates modern technology.

Didn’t see that one, but did see a few others. Apparently they don’t like much. The first one you mention is about kids being sedentary, and shows an unsupervised boy sitting in the yard with a leaf blower and only a circle around him cleared. Another shows two young children alone come across an old playground, with swings, a merry-go-round, slide, and jungle gym. The items are trying to tempt the kids to play on them in wild, unsafe ways. “Don’t leave your kids unsupervised.”

So which is it, they’re too sedentary, or they will play on a playground? Seems a bit contradictory.

[Jennshark]

If your spokesdoctor has a really, really, really funky neck, perhaps he shouldn’t be in your commercial for how great the ENT (ear, nose, throat) department is at the Robert Wood Johnson hospital.

I think this was mentioned upthread: who the heck are hospitals advertising to? I would think that most folks, like me, can only go to certain facilities designated by insurance.

[Richard_John_Marcej]

I am so sick and tired of that damned T-Mobile ad with the “Never Settle for Verizon” song by the Interrupters.
Maybe, MAYBE the first few times it ran I could think, yeah, that’s not too bad, but holy hell! They run this thing on every channel, on every show during all hours of the day over and over again!
Enough already!!!

[dougie_monty]

@Jennshark

If your spokesdoctor has a really, really, really funky neck

[funky_little_lee]

I think this one has been around for a little while, but I’ve only seen it a few times (thank Dog). It’s for some kind of razor or trimmer, and it has three women standing there with topiaries in front of their crotches, using various appliances to trim them. The woman with the winning appliance has trimmed her bush into the shape of a heart.

Not just generally tacky, but the shape of a heart? What is she, a porn star, a stripper, or a hooker?
ETA: Wait, maybe that’s Hannah, prepping for her next session with her horse.

[TheFaerie]

I hate any commercial that tags onto a local news program as if it is one of the stories.

[johnspartan]

You all might get a chuckle out of this…

Please Use This Song (Jon Lajoie) - YouTube "Please Use This Song In Your Commercial"

[Jennshark]

@dougie_monty

It looks like he has a goiter or some kind of fatty tumor; since ENTs work with necks/throats, this seems a very odd casting choice.

[Paintcharge]

I’ve seen two versions now of three little old ladies car shopping. VW? Maybe. Hitting on the salesman and some random dude in the showroom. Creepy. It would be creepy with old guys hitting on young girls.

[DZedNConfused]

@Paintcharge

I’ve seen two versions now of three little old ladies car shopping. VW? Maybe. Hitting on the salesman and some random dude in the showroom. Creepy. It would be creepy with old guys hitting on young girls.

Because of course, old people aren’t allowed to have sexual urges…

[Honey]

I know this is a hate thread, but I just wanted to give props to the new State Farm commercial with the Coneheads. “Save mass quantities”. Hee.

[Irishman]

@DZedNConfused

Because of course, old people aren’t allowed to have sexual urges…

In one, the old lady kisses her fingers and then places them against the car salesman’s lips as he’s trying to talk to her. Ewww. Not because she’s not allowed to be horny, but because you’re not allowed to force touch-kisses on strangers.