I would never switch to Verizon or Sprint, because those guys on the commercials annoy me no end.
Any others?
Ditto.
I will never be a Progressive insurance customer.
Any toilet paper with bears or children.
Geico. They hit 100% saturation years ago. Now they’re just throwing away money in their effort to hit 20 ads per day per viewer.
If I wanted to switch, I would have done it by now. Honestly, someone should teach them the meaning of “enough.”
Anything Panera. The commercials disgust me.
Verizon fios and Progressive will never get my business.
Sonic. Apparently I’m missing out on their milkshakes but those two guys on their commercials are too irritating to ever give them my money.
I don’t know about the current commercials but one old Sprint commercial is one of my favorite ads ever. It was the one with the two hundred dachshunds on a ranch.
Stampede!
Here Here! We need more Dachshund-based advertising. Shit-can those horrid Owls!
I’m going to go out and get an annuity today, just because Josh Melburg told me not to.
There’s something about the voice-over for the Panera commercials that rubs me the wrong way. It’s like she’s so choked up with emotion over Panera’s food, she’s on the verge of bursting into tears.
Another voice-over who rubs me the wrong way was for the Jersey Mike’s ads I kept hearing on the radio a few years ago. I don’t know why, but for some unexplained reason, something about the guy’s voice made me want to punch him.
I don’t go so far as to refuse to eat at either establishment, though.
While they don’t have them in Chicago (that I know of), I’d never buy Carl’s Jr/Hardees. I’ve seen plenty of their commercials and they revolt me.
“HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead”
“HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead”
“HeadOn. Apply directly to the forehead”
Actually, many investment advisors tell you not to invest in annuities- primarily because they wont make any more money off you when you do. :(:mad:
The “Truth Initiative” commercials make me want to quit having quit smoking.
The Sonic chili dogs are better than the commercials are bad. One the other hand, i used to eat Carl’s Junior before they went into their dumb lug, Burgers, Fries and a Coke. Don’t bother me, I’m eating campaign. They just got stupider with the face stuffing bigger and bigger, you’ll never get this in your mouth heart-failure specials and the same smug voice. Jack-in-the-Box, on the other, other hand, continues to annoy me with a anger that used to be rage. I never ate there, declining to talk to a clown puppet at the drive-thru lane, but I was horrified when they had an ad campaign blowing up all of the stupid clowns to rebrand the place. Shit, what’s scarier than a clown? Exterminating them with dynamite, that’s what. But then they went all-in with the stupid. They decided to bring the clown back and hired that sarcastic, round head doofus. How did they introduce him? He went through the corporate offices of JITB throwing bombs into the conference rooms, murdering the directors. With a BOMB! But you see, this was almost right after the Oklahoma City bombing.
I don’t understand why people who hate commercials insist on wasting their time watching them! And then waste more time complaining about them.
My TV has a remote control, with a mute button. Whenever a commercial comes on, I mute the TV and go back to reading my book for the next 60 seconds (or more). The commercial’s still on there, but it’s easy to ignore.
I only listen to radio in my car, and I have several stations programmed on buttons. When a commercial starts, I just punch for a different station. If they all happen to have ads, I go to NPR, which doesn’t have them (unless it’s their member drive week). Or I can put on a music recording.
I’ve heard that there are lots of ads on the Internet. (Even on the Dope?) But I have Ubck Origin installed, so I never see them. There are a few sites with ads stuck in the middle of their content. Those I just ignore, or find another website with similar content but without ads.
It seems incredibly masochistic to claim to hate ads, but take no effort to avoid them.
I agree that when the revolution starts, everyone involved with the Sonic commercials will be the first to the wall. But I still go there for the chili dogs, breakfast burritos and tater tots.
Decades ago there was a local boat dealership who did their own annoying commercials. Annoying jingle. Annoying owner’s granddaughter. And even the annoying pet dog. I wouldn’t have bought a boat from them if the forecast had been rain for forty days and forty nights.
This! Especially the bears!
Agreed. Flo is probably the most annoying commercial spokesperson ever. The commercial where she is driving in the country and some aliens are kidnapping a cow and it starts snowing all of a sudden while she keeps driving as if nothing is happening is VERY annoying.