Pretty sure milk advertizing is subsidized by the feds. They got a stipend some time ago to promote milk for the health of the nation or whatever and would be dumb not to use it. Also I think milk production itself gets a subsidy so it actually costs more than you pay for it to make, well maybe not exactly with profit involved but meh i rambling now.
I have one of their tweed jackets. Nice jacket - bought it at Goodwill for $5.00. Their shirts are ubiquitous at the thrift stores around here, but as I wear a 17 1/2 to 18 inch collar, 36 inch sleeves, I rarely find them in my size.
I wanted to add, radio commercials for seminars that end with: “Book now. This event will sell out.”
If it’s going to sell out anyway, then why are you spending money advertising? Or if your ad will push it over the edge to being a sell-out then why are you using up precious advertising time telling us it will sell out?
Gah!
Not totally what the OP is looking for, but I’ve seen billboards advertising defence helicopters and railway rolling stock before, which seems a bit pointless when you consider there’s probably a dozen people in the entire state who have any say in whether those things get bought or not and I sincerely doubt they’re making squillion dollar purchasing decisions based on billboards.
“May cause Lycanthropy in some users. Check with your doctor.”
“Caught you looking!” billboards. Sure, they caught my eye: I saw an EMPTY billboard. The more of those I see, the more I think their advertising doesn’t work, or they’d be sold to paying customers.
I used to suffer from lycanthropy.
But I’m all right nooooowwwwwwwwwww!!!
Not only commercials for selling your gold, but there are double full-page newspaper ads in the daily fishwrap for gold-buying events, coming to a venue near you. (Gold, silver, coins, jewelry, too.) It’s absurd. I can’t help but imagine a hotel parking lot jam packed with cars and desperate folks toting in bushel baskets of family heirlooms, to be examined and bought by some corporation set up in the Harvest Buffet Suite. I’ve looked all over my house and all the valuables I can find fit in my coin purse! But these ads run week after week - I should think they’ve already bought up every class ring and QVC necklace in the tri-state area.
It’s not technically subsidized by the federal government. MilkPEP (the Milk Processor Educaton Program) is a quasi-governmental agency, but its funding comes from all of the milk processors – by law, all dairy milk processors in the U.S. have to contribute a set amount of money for each gallon of milk that they process to fund MilkPEP’s programs. If more milk gets processed, MilkPEP gets more money. If less milk gets processed, MilkPEP gets less money.
Looks like Goldline got busted for fraud:
Nothing suspicious about a telemarketing hard-sell for gold coins, nope, nothing at all :rolleyes:
There’s an ad I keep seeing on Hulu for some treatment for psoriasis. It basically comes right out and tells you that if you take their drug, you’re going to get tuberculosis and die.
My favorite side effect is the Gout medicine that says Gout might be a side effect. Um…?
In my area there are several chains selling the same cheap junk furniture (Bob’s, Bernie & Phyl, Jordans, etc.).
They all sell the same crap-with laghable “finance” terms…no money don, no interest for five years…of course, you need to buy new furniture in five years.
Ads are on constanly-I hit the mute button when they come on.
Late to the party but the gold thing has always confused me. If there’s never a bad time to buy gold then conversely there isn’t really a good time to sell it either. So you’re left with an ever growing pile of metal as an investment with no actual intrinsic use to you, and you’re being told constantly to keep buying more no matter what the economic situation.
How is that NOT a scam?
Meds for depression and anxiety. Caution: may CAUSE anxiety and depression.
??? I’m looking at the handout sheet that came with Citalopram. ‘Contact your doctor for new or worse anxiety or depression, or thoughts of offing yourself.’ How sad. This convinces me they really don’t know what they are doing handing this stuff out, don’t know how it works, either. And what’s with Abilify (?) the pill you take on top of the anti-depressant that already isn’t working?
What’s that ad for the service that’ll ‘clean up’ your music? It makes me want to stab everyone involved and I immediately change the channel.
salinqmind, the problem is that different medications work differently on different people. Did you know, for example, birth control can make some women really depressed and others it helps their moods? And if I respond well to, say, Paxil, I may not respond well to Zoloft. And of course, if the anti-depressive works, it may give them enough energy to actually go about killing themselves, instead of just thinking about it (which is also where the gambling and other compulsions come in.) I don’t think anti-depressants are any worse than medication for high-blood pressure for having to fiddle with specific medications and dosages to make it work.
Out here in Western Washington we are besieged by commercials (at least on the radio) by some treacley-voiced smarmy guy promoting a drunk hospital over in Seattle. I can’t even stand five seconds of listening. From the frequency of the commercials, there must be a really big supply of drunks around here. Probably caused by our winters.
I think the point of that warning is that it may cause drowsiness at times when you are trying to be awake, not just right after you take the pill so you can go to sleep. “May cause drowsiness 12 hours from now after you’ve managed 8 full hours of sleep.”
I hate the surfer dude selling smoothies on the radio. “Did you know if you’re a women over 40, you have to work out an hour a day just to MAINTAIN your current wieght?” No way, brah!
Every few years, I get junk mail from an energy company called IGN. They promise to protect me from spikes in the price of natural gas by letting me lock in a fixed rate for my gas. The fist time I got such an ad, I was suspicious, so I looked them up online. Sure enough, they only advertize when they expect natural gas prices to go down in the near future. Basically, it’s a scam to get you to buy your energy at above-market rates.