yeah - saw a commercial for a car that had “respond to texts while you drive” feature.
Well, it would really be “I don’t eat puppies for breakfast because I get paid to, but because they taste guuuuuud.”
Is it possible it’s voice activated? The texts are read aloud and you respond by voice and it converts it to a text and sends it?
Another minor pickup truck rant. I noticed on the tube last night that the slogan for one brand is Guts. Glory. Ram. Uh, no. It’s a pickup truck, not an armored personnel carrier. Unless you’re actively piloting your pickup truck full of miscellaneous plumbing accessories through a war zone, there’s no guts or glory involved and no amount of macho posturing is going to make me think otherwise.
I didn’t know the word “migraine” when I was a teenager, just that I got these really, really bad headaches. Usually, they’d start around 4pm, and last all evening, but be gone in the morning, although I’d feel slightly hungover. I’d miss dinner, and not get my homework done. Teachers didn’t accept “I had a headache” as a reason for letting you hand in your homework a day late.
Then I had one that lasted 3 days. I don’t know why I had never tried to explain how really, really awful those headaches were. I got them maybe once every six to eight weeks, so it wasn’t completely disruptive, but my gawd, that one that was still there in the morning-- it made me cry, and I wouldn’t get out of bed. I finally got a trip to the doctor’s after that. Not that there were good medications at the time, but the darvocet took the edge off, and the anti-nausea medicine made a big difference.
I hope it’s better than my text-to-voice on my phone. I got a call from the center for “out is in” once (autism), and my mother called me about her “cat wrecked” surgery (cataract).
Maybe it’s because I don’t text (don’t have a smart phone, don’t want one) that I don’t get the urgency of texts. Maybe it’s because I survived most of my 61 years not feeling as if I have to be constantly available to whoever wants to reach me.
Maybe I’m just an old grouch… 
But on the bright side, Liberty Mutual will buy you a whole new car!
No kidding. My secretary called in sick today, and my voicemail-to-email system told me “missionary not showing walnut from insurance”.
If texting disappeared tomorrow, I’d survive. But right now it’s an important tool for coordinating my life, including last minute changes to my daughter’s schedule. I was totally against texting- until I started doing it and I find it unbelievably more useful than phone calls or emails combined.
Between text and voice mail, I’ll take text any day.
Let me add another car ad - not sure what company, but it’s the one about the Kings and Queens of America. Yeah, that makes me want to run out and buy your car, whatever it is… :rolleyes:
I’d hazard a guess that Buick’s marketing department did some research and realized that to most Americans, “Buick”, like “Chrysler” and “Cadillac”, suggests four tons of gas-guzzling American steel, driven by the sort of old men who listen to Sinatra and wear fedoras unironically. Their ads are attacking that image - I like the one of the valet who can’t find the Buick that’s parked directly behind him. It gets the message across - “hey, we’re not making stodgy old-guy cars anymore”. I think it works, as an ad.
Slight hijack, but Consumer Reports just put out their car issue, and they actually rated Buick higher than Honda. According to them, Buick is making some very good cars right now.
I think that the Chico’s lady doesn’t say " I HAVE the best pair of legs in the room" but "I AM the best pair of legs in the room, which makes me even more stabby. Other than that, another hate vote for the Liberty Mutual ads, especially “Newsflash” woman who apparently doesn’t understand how insurance works.
My newest hated one is cheerios girl who guilts her father into getting her a puppy because her mother is pregnant. Great parenting there! And stop trying to rename lunchtime “half-time”. It’s lunch. Oh and the Kayak commercials bother the heck out of me because if you have it hooked up so you can type simultaneously on 5 computers, you will be typing the SAME THING on each computer which means you are only getting one result anyway and not searching multiple sites simultaneously so it’s not going to give you multiple results.
THANK YOU! And when I made a thread about this people refused to believe me and accused me of drunk posting!
And they are usually super models with a weird burgersexual vibe, which only emphasizes how disgustingly big the burger is. Also now making me wonder if there is porn out there which involves burgers, since they seem to be pitching to that demo.:eek:
CenturyLink’s “How long does it take to download a movie?” commercial is fine, until guy says “Now, let’s download the sequel”. The screen is showing Captain America: The Winter Soldier. There won’t be a sequel for another frigging year.
Pedantic, I know, but still annoys me.
The Chevy “That’s the dream, to have wifi in my car” - the cadence in how she says it strikes me as weird, and it bothers me.
Haven’t read the entire thread.
Has anyone mentioned the current Arnold Palmer commercial? Is that Palmer’s actual voice, or is he dubbed by some kind of android?
Well except that the youth market is heavily fought over, and the oldsters have the money. Buick would be best chasing after sort of old men who listen to Sinatra and wear fedoras unironically. Hey wait-** I **listen to Sinatra and wear a fedora…
I can’t say I hate that commercial, but it IS weird. Are we supposed to believe that Arnold Palmer, Kevin Nealon and Brian Vickers are golfing buddies? I guess the intention is that everyone will identify or like at least one of them, but it just comes off as strange. And, yes, Palmer sounds odd. Like they told him to act jovial, but he comes off like a deranged cartoon character.
The Lowe’s Foods commercial featuring the guy running through the parking lot with a flaming shopping cart…WTH??? Even more confusing is that some of the people in the parking lot look at the cart, and others ignore it.
I can’t stand the little girl who lectures us about some babysitting website. The babysitter has to love “fashion” (ie, dress-up), and her cat, Mr. Tickles, who looks like he’d rather be anywhere else. The kid has a really annoying voice, and an attitude that will have people quitting the service in droves.
Or it’s reminding potential car-buyers that Buick has long been synonymous with dull stodgy tanks for seniors, but now it makes cars that look like everyone else’s.
I’m not sure it’s a winning strategy. Hell, they had Tiger Woods driving one in ads about a decade ago, and that apparently didn’t convince people that Buicks were hip and edgy.
Anytime you have to focus on stuff like our-model-isn’t-crap-amymore, or we’re-just-as-good-as-foreign-cars-really, the implied inferiority complex swamps your message.