# nonsensical commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsensical-commercials/661399 "2013-06-19T22:13:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsensical-commercials/661399/81 "2013-10-01T20:22:33Z")
> [@WolfpackJeep](#): > > That makes me think of some of the ladies at my workplace…they just can’t understand why I keep a bottle of dish detergent in the restroom when we have a dispenser that produces such nice, tiny dollops of foamy, coconut-scented soap. I don’t care how good it smells, it does absolutely no good when your hands are covered in crud from handling inventory! > > **Dougie** , is that the one where the lady rambles about how taxing soda will hurt her family economically? That one was equal parts funny and confusing. If I recall, she says that having more information about food products being required on labels is bad. Because by god, the government has no business telling her what to feed her family. So not only a stupid ad but with a stupid message. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsensical-commercials/661399/82 "2013-10-01T20:49:58Z")
Are you saying the E and F are right/left flipped, or the fact the needle moves from E to F? I would think the needle is moving from Empty to Full to show filling up the truck, not Full to Empty as the truck burns gas. Because if the needle moved that fast, that would be low fuel efficiency. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsensical-commercials/661399/83 "2013-10-01T21:41:53Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Are you saying the E and F are right/left flipped, or the fact the needle moves from E to F? I would think the needle is moving from Empty to Full to show filling up the truck, not Full to Empty as the truck burns gas. Because if the needle moved that fast, that would be low fuel efficiency. That the E and F are right/left flipped. I’ve never seen a vehicle with full on the left of the gauge. ---
**Author:** ![svd678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@svd678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/svd678)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsensical-commercials/661399/84 "2013-10-01T22:07:53Z")
What gets me is the Ford truck commercial that ends with the truck pulling on a cable, the other end of which is higher than the camera. A truck pulling like that would raise the rear wheels so that there was no traction or pulling power at all. ---
**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:** [October 2, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsensical-commercials/661399/85 "2013-10-02T18:44:19Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > If I recall, she says that having more information about food products being required on labels is bad. Because by god, the government has no business telling her what to feed her family. So not only a stupid ad but with a stupid message. You should read about the notorious patent medicines sold around the end of the 19th Century; they contained God-knows-what, and their advertising concentrated on trademarks and ignored ingredients. This continued until enactment of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsensical-commercials/661399/86 "2013-10-02T19:53:58Z")
Do billboards count? There’s an anti-child-abuse billboard around here with a picture of a kid with two black eyes, saying “The worst thing you can do is nothing”, and a phone number to call to report abuse. Sure, people should get involved, but “worst”? I’m pretty confident that whoever gave her those black eyes was doing worse than “nothing”. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nonsensical-commercials/661399/87 "2013-10-03T16:32:03Z")
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