# Stupid Commercials **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-commercials/783791 "2017-04-05T02:06:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-commercials/783791/1 "2017-04-05T02:06:29Z")
OK, watching TV tonight I was stunned by some guy telling me that he was a “Spokeslistener”. I mean, WTF is a spokeslistener? Does he speak or listen? Perhaps both? At the same time? Maybe neither? Shouldn’t it be a hearsperson? Just when I thought that would be the dumbest thing I would hear tonight, some other guy tried to tell me wbyceiydbo. Are there really too few words in the English language that we need these new ones? I vote we get rid of both. OK, Mundane and Pointless. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-commercials/783791/2 "2017-04-05T03:01:45Z")
OK, just saw another. A prescription drug to deal with constipation. Guy says he has taken enough over-the-counter laxatives to cover the eastern seaboard. Sounds like problem solved, to me. No need to get the prescription. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-commercials/783791/3 "2017-04-05T03:05:24Z")
We have an ongoing thread in Cafe Society, [More very hate-able commercials](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=754454). ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-commercials/783791/4 "2017-04-06T17:07:00Z")
There’s one for the Iphone with a couple of guys out (I guess) birdwatching. I have no idea what the storyline of this thing is. Something about a picture of a robin, I think.