# Most Hated Commercials, Holiday Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101 "2015-11-20T17:58:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/81 "2015-11-25T15:18:41Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Hey, dickhead. If you don’t like the Pit, you are more than welcome to fuck off to another forum - or even better, an entirely different website altogether. I doubt there’s a single poster on this board who would miss your execrable brand of smug idiocy, your constitutional inability to recognize simple humor, or your constant attempts to troll people by trying to dictate what’s an “acceptable” way to discuss something you saw on TV. You are, in general, one of the dimmest, dullest, dampest posters we’ve ever had the misfortune to grace our electrons here, and I, personally, cannot wait for the day I never have to see another one of your moist little nuggets of what tragically passes as thought in your tiny - and largely solid - skull, you insipid, mouth-breathing shitbag. Absolute perfection. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/82 "2015-11-25T16:00:10Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Hey, dickhead. If you don’t like the Pit, you are more than welcome to fuck off to another forum - or even better, an entirely different website altogether. I doubt there’s a single poster on this board who would miss your execrable brand of smug idiocy, your constitutional inability to recognize simple humor, or your constant attempts to troll people by trying to dictate what’s an “acceptable” way to discuss something you saw on TV. You are, in general, one of the dimmest, dullest, dampest posters we’ve ever had the misfortune to grace our electrons here, and I, personally, cannot wait for the day I never have to see another one of your moist little nuggets of what tragically passes as thought in your tiny - and largely solid - skull, you insipid, mouth-breathing shitbag. I bow down before your greatness. All Hail **Miller**! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/83 "2015-11-25T17:08:39Z")
Between this [QUOTE=SmartAleq] Shut your cunting arseflap, you insufferable tiny dickcheese. [/QUOTE] \*\*Fiveroptics’s \*\*use of the word "cockhead " and \*\* Miller’s \*\*brilliant post, I’m stifling the laughter so hard, snot is coming out of my nose 😛 Thanks for brightening my previously very non good mood. As for my hated commercial, there’s one for one of the cel services and the opening line is “It’s the holidays; a time when everyone wants to get on line, watch different programs, etc. . . " or something to that effect, and no matter how many times I hear it I can’t help thinking what kind of assholes bother to get together for the holidays if all they’re going to do is spend their time on line or on the phone?” I don’t know, it just strikes me as particularly anti warm and fuzzy. (yes, I know people send seasons greeting and whatnot this time of year but this commercial implies it’s people in the same house doing it). ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/84 "2015-11-25T18:18:27Z")
Better copyright that shit, Miller, because it’s so perfect I can see it appearing on every message board on the web. ---
**Author:** ![Rudiger\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rudiger\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rudiger_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/85 "2015-11-25T18:57:57Z")
That fucking commercial with the smug little creep who “saved thousands” on a turd of a Buick gets me every time. You paid $32,000 for that piece of shit that’s been sitting on the lot for months and you call it “saving thousands”? Whatever, asshole. And how does the “loser” neighbor save hundreds on a $40 stereo? Ugh, it makes me sick. And now they have a GMC version. At least it doesn’t run twice an hour. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/86 "2015-11-25T19:19:11Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > Continuing with the jewelry theme, PANDORA. I’m convinced those commercials are aimed at guys who don’t know what to buy for their women. That stuff is UGLY. A charm bracelet would cover many gift-giving occasions. Oh, joy! Yeah, that stuff is truly atrocious. It looks like someone said, “Let’s make a line of crap that looks like it came out of a gumball machine and costs about as much to make and then sell it for big bucks. The clueless rubes out there will make us millionaires!” And if you can’t afford to buy your significant other some chunky charms or butt hearts (with or without brown diamonds) then the standby in the world of commercials is perfume. Which leads me to the fact that I saw my first Elizabeth Taylor perfume commercial of the season the other day. The very same one that’s been airing for the last 30 or 40 Christmas seasons. She’s dead now. I wish they’d let that commercial die, too. The only thing that saves it is that it’s mercifully brief. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/87 "2015-11-25T19:31:07Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > There is a law involving who can and cannot pay for campaign ads, and the candidate’s own payments are those they endorse. It helps the campaign finance people keep tracking of who’s paying. It’s not about campaign finance. It was simply designed to make candidates personally attach themselves to the ad, discouraging them from running negative ads. Obviously, it’s blatantly unconstitutional. You can’t tell someone what to say, and the government has no business trying to discourage certain kinds of speech like negative ads. Someone should challenge it in court. It was part of the law that Citizens United overturned, so it’s no surprise there was other unconstitutional provisions in it. > **[Stand by Your Ad provision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_by_Your_Ad_provision)** > > The "Stand By Your Ad" provision (SBYA) of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA, also known as the McCain–Feingold Act), enacted in 2002, requires candidates in the United States for federal political office, as well as interest groups and political parties supporting or opposing a candidate, to include in political advertisements on television and radio "a statement by the candidate that identifies the candidate and states that the candidate has approved the communication". The provision w... ---
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/88 "2015-11-25T19:32:06Z")
Has anyone seen that Chanel ad (the guy diving into s swimming pool, while the shodow of an airplane moves overhead)? It is a classic. ---
**Author:** ![lance\_strongarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@lance\_strongarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lance_strongarm)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/89 "2015-11-25T19:33:55Z")
> [@curlcoat](#): > > My most hated commercials this time of year are all of the ones that are begging for money by showing starved/abused animals/kids. It doesn’t make any sense to try to get money out of folks at a time of year when they are going to be the busiest and most cash strapped, and it just makes the whole season even worse. Not to mention that sending money to these places isn’t going to fix the problems they are showing. Nice rationalization for not giving, relieving your guilt. 😉 > [@](#): > > I am now muting all of those as well as the Liberty Mutual ads. Sometimes I forget to turn the sound back on - don’t think I’m missing much! 😃 God I hate those Liberty Mutual ads too. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/90 "2015-11-25T19:38:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > See, a perfect example of why nothing should be in the pit, since this sort of infantile hijack will occur, often multiple times. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Oh, piffle. It’s fairly obvious that the Pitizens have taken this thread to their hearts, and what you’re calling “hijacks” are simply attempts to render it unsuitable for **CS** or **MPSIMS**. > > It’s like if you want to leave the lunchroom at work to go unjam the copier for the boss\*, but you don’t want anyone to steal your cupcake. So you make sure everyone sees you licking the frosting. > > \*because in this analogy, bosses are helpless morons who need the simplest tasks handled for them. > [@hajario](#): > > Good lord, you’re useless. Why can’t people have a Pit thread like that if they want? It doesn’t stop anyone from starting a new one in CS. 😕 I’m going to ask you to re-read the quotes above, where **DrDeth** comments, and I respond. Perhaps re-read them twice, then let me know if you require further explication of my intent. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/91 "2015-11-25T20:02:20Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > 😕 > > I’m going to ask you to re-read the quotes above, where **DrDeth** comments, and I respond. Perhaps re-read them twice, then let me know if you require further explication of my intent. I’m pretty sure **hajario** quoted the wrong person and meant to respond to **DrDeth**. Great fucking work, btw, **Miller**. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/92 "2015-11-25T20:19:32Z")
> [@sitchensis](#): > > [Incest coffee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Ir6CzxKl4) As disturbing as it will be, I have to know what’s in the box. Panties? Condoms? KY His-n-Hers? Please sir, I just gotsta know. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/93 "2015-11-25T20:26:24Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Hey, dickhead. If you don’t like the Pit, you are more than welcome to fuck off to another forum - or even better, an entirely different website altogether. I doubt there’s a single poster on this board who would miss your execrable brand of smug idiocy, your constitutional inability to recognize simple humor, or your constant attempts to troll people by trying to dictate what’s an “acceptable” way to discuss something you saw on TV. You are, in general, one of the dimmest, dullest, dampest posters we’ve ever had the misfortune to grace our electrons here, and I, personally, cannot wait for the day I never have to see another one of your moist little nuggets of what tragically passes as thought in your tiny - and largely solid - skull, you insipid, mouth-breathing shitbag. Now that I’ve read the post I’m curious about the movie version. And goddamn those who watch the movie version of this post without having read the actual post!! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/94 "2015-11-25T20:47:36Z")
> [@botsgotme](#): > > Has anyone seen that Chanel ad (the guy diving into s swimming pool, while the shodow of an airplane moves overhead)? It is a classic. I haven’t seen it in several years but I always loved it. For Chanel #5 was it? “_I don’t want to set the worrrrrrrld onnn fiiiiiiire_” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/95 "2015-11-25T21:18:17Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > The TV ads for TJ Maxx plus a couple of other clothing chains, don’t remember which… > > They announce they’ll be closed on Thanksgiving, because they believe in the sanctity of the holiday and the importance of families having time together. > > _What utter horseshit!_ They’re trying to pass themselves off as good, caring, and supportive of family values instead of being greedy capitalist consumer magnet pig troughs. “Aw, let’s shop here. They care about families!” I must puke now. I’m totally ok with those commercials. They may be greedy capitalists, but they’re doing the right thing. By bragging about it, it puts pressure on other retailers to stop requiring people to miss Thanksgiving. I have a cousin who hasn’t been to Thanksgiving in years. It sucks for him to miss it. It sucks that he’s not there. And it sucks to have to hear the chorus of “isn’t it awful” every year. That last sounds selfish, but it seems to be driving his wife batshit already. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/96 "2015-11-25T21:30:32Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Now that I’ve read the post I’m curious about the movie version. And goddamn those who watch the movie version of this post without having read the actual post!! The movie version is not as good as the post. The second sentence isn’t even in the movie and they changed “your tiny - and largely **solid** - skull” to “your tiny - and largely **liquid** - skull”. It completely changes the meaning. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/97 "2015-11-25T21:36:04Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > …they changed “your tiny - and largely **solid** - skull” to “your tiny - and largely **liquid** - skull”. It completely changes the meaning. God damn it, spoiler that shit next time. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/98 "2015-11-25T21:44:18Z")
Don’t forget about the surprise twist at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/99 "2015-11-25T23:04:17Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Hey, dickhead. If you don’t like the Pit, you are more than welcome to fuck off to another forum - or even better, an entirely different website altogether. I doubt there’s a single poster on this board who would miss your execrable brand of smug idiocy, your constitutional inability to recognize simple humor, or your constant attempts to troll people by trying to dictate what’s an “acceptable” way to discuss something you saw on TV. You are, in general, one of the dimmest, dullest, dampest posters we’ve ever had the misfortune to grace our electrons here, and I, personally, cannot wait for the day I never have to see another one of your moist little nuggets of what tragically passes as thought in your tiny - and largely solid - skull, you insipid, mouth-breathing shitbag. [Whoa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3sOuEv0E2I) ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101/100 "2015-11-25T23:47:24Z")
> [@lance\_strongarm](#): > > > [@curlcoat](#): > > > > My most hated commercials this time of year are all of the ones that are begging for money by showing starved/abused animals/kids. It doesn’t make any sense to try to get money out of folks at a time of year when they are going to be the busiest and most cash strapped, and it just makes the whole season even worse. Not to mention that sending money to these places isn’t going to fix the problems they are showing. > > Nice rationalization for not giving, relieving your guilt. 😉 Moreover, **curlcoat** could not be more wrong in suggesting that it “doesn’t make any sense to try to get money out of folks at a time of year when they are going to be the busiest and most cash strapped”. In fact, the year-end holiday season is precisely when charities _do_ get the most money out of folks. As the nonprofit-evaluator [Charity Navigator](http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=2029#.VlZILtZzSgw) explains, > [@](#): > > Why do appeals increase at year-end? Because the year-end holidays are a time of religious and moral reflection that inspire many people to reach out to those who are less fortunate. Less altruistically, but still just as important, donors need to make their end-of-year giving decisions by December 31 to qualify for a tax deduction in this calendar year. Knowing that, charities increase their solicitations and an increase in charitable giving occurs between Thanksgiving and New Years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hated-commercials-holiday-edition/738101.md?page=6)