There’s a Hillary for Prez commercial on You Tube where a little girl, probably 7 or 8 years old, asks her if she will make a lower salary if she’s elected POTUS just because she’s a woman.
UUURRRRRGGGGHHHH can you say setup? :smack:
Yeah, we’re gonna pay Hillary $288K to be president just because she’s a woman making 72 cents on the dollar. :dubious:
I hate the car ad where the kid wins the championship in whatever sport he’s in and the father is outraged, OUTRAGED!!! that the kid got a participation trophy so he tears off “Participation” and writes “Champs” on it. He seems like one of those fathers who lives his life through his son’s athletic successes.
Oh, good. It’s not just us.
That one doesn’t bother me. In fact, I like it. The kid’s team beat all the other teams. They’re the champs. Why shouldn’t they be proud of that?
That one doesn’t bother me, either. I’m tired of participation trophies and not keeping score after the kid is seven or so. His kid probably worked hard, so why not?
Participation trophies are for losers.
It bothers me because apparently, the commercial has been beamed in from 1978. The dad in that commercial is of the age where he would have gotten a participation trophy when he played little league. Those are not thoughts he would have; he would have grown up in a culture where everyone got an award. He knows “what’s next,” we’ve been living it for 40 years.
(I also know that I would have been pissed had my father taken off the “official” plate and written on the trophy with a sharpie.)
yup
Heh. That’s like that commercial that used the Beatles “It’s Getting Better all the Time”, and cut off just before “it can’t get much worse.”
Good old Microsoft. Between that, “Start Me Up” (with lines like “you make a grown man cry” and “I can’t compete”) and Mozart’s “Requiem” (specifically, the part about the souls of the damned), you really have to wonder about whoever’s picking their music. 
This was not shot in Battery park. The Statue is just facing the wrong way. Nowhere in Battery Park can you see her from that angle. (I lived there for 5 years) I’m convinced that this is generated. There are no planes flying over, and no boats in the water. There is always constant traffic around there, day and night. Always.
Q about commercial types, rather than a specific commercial:
I watch all of my television online, either on Netflix or on the networks’ own sites. Some networks won’t let me watch anything with AdBlock on, so I turn it off and endure the commercials.
And holy cow, those ads are one cell phone and cell provider ad after another.
I’m starting to wonder if the networks assume that, because I’m using “tech” to watch, they should push “tech-related” ads at me.
Or are the commercials on broadcast/cable the same way?
Thanks. Not having ever been to Battery Park, I wouldn’t know that. Also, I’m guessing the park foreground where the actors are is probably also CG with the foliage changed to correspond to the season when the commercial initially airs. I noticed, for example, in the latest Liberty Mutual ad featuring the couple talking about auto insurance, it’s obviously fall since the leaves are changing colors.
Not only does the latest Just For Men beard dye commercial feature epically bad celebrity line reading by Keith Hernandez and Clyde Frazier, the guy’s beard at the end looks so fake that even Brian Wilson would laugh at him.
Yeah, we were discussing Jar Jar Stinks a month ago. 
A local radio commercial with a chipper woman describing her busy-busy day with too cute alliteration (“Owen’s original oboe organization meets at one, Tina’s tapdance time is two-thirty…”) and finishes her day with “And if I don’t have the Frederick’s Fine Furniture file finished by five, I’m fired” and “So I don’t have time to let the flu slow me down…”
My depressing takeaway from that each time is that this woman’s job is hanging by a thin thread and she can’t even take a day off for a 103F fever, shakes and body aches. When she does get fired, I hope Owen and Tina are okay coming home after school for a while.
But she does have time to go into work, spread the flu around her coworkers, who also have families and deadlines- so as to get them fired. What a selfish bitch.
A quick question: Are YOU a smoker?
May I say I welcome overall how recent events seem to have sent the Volkswagen Old Ladies back to the assited living facility in their diesel Jetta. But meanwhile doesn’t MSNBC have any sponsors other than GE and the dude who can’t tell his family and friends “sod off, it’s a technological company and I’ll be making more than you”?
I think it’s just as well that he can’t. And how does it happen that he has friends?