I didn’t have to do any of that to get my credit report. Are you just talking about the Credit Score itself? Because I remember that being an extra charge, but the actual report (sans score) is free with no strings attached.
Yes, the score.Now, annualcreditreport.com is the free-with-no-strings-attached report website.
I use them every year.
And now they have a Country set, too! I think t’s called “Down Home Worship” (or, as the singers pronounce it, “wuuuuurrrrship”).
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Ah, thus my confusion.
The ones I honestly truly don’t get are the Aspercreme commercials. I mean didn’t that kind of sunny deadly infectious kind of jingle go out of style sometime in the late 70’s? It’s so retro and out of place here in the year 2008 that it ties my intestines up in knots when I hear that “You bet if it’s Aspercreme!” coming out of my TV.
The ones that kinda sqwick me out are the ones with talking mucuous blobs and toenail fungi.
I hate those stupid pretentious Converse commercials where there is no audio, just text scrolling over footage of either a soap opera or preteen band, where they berate you for watching tv and commercials. Then they act like the people who program tv are all these greedy old men “like, your parents age” who know nothing about “what it’s like to be you”. Yeah, I’m sure everyone at Converse wears jeans and a Goodwill suit coat as they ride their skateboards to work everyday. Oh wait, they probably do because they think it’s hip and they’re a bunch of shills.
The ad for the prescription medication Caduet. Every time they say “Caduet,” I think “catamite” (for a while, I thought that were actually saying that). Since “catamite” means “young boy kept by a pederast,” that’s probably not the kind of association their marketing department was banking on.
I’ll second almost all of these… plus these two:
The Coors song about how “I’m not gonna keep changin’, 'cause I got me a good beer and it’s made right in the Rockies.” Yeah, whatever. The company that makes your unchanging beer merged with another brewer two years ago, and just last year it merged with another brewer that’s owned by a company from South Africa. Unchanging my ass.
In a similar vein, I just saw a commercial about how people don’t want to fix things anymore, just get rid of stuff. And the first example they give? “Don’t like your nose? Get a new one.” How am I supposed to “fix” my nose without getting a new one? Can I just stretch it or something? Can I do exercises? I don’t think so. It may be shallow, but nose jobs are most definitely “fixing” and not “replacing” noses. Then the commercial moves on to “Don’t like your job? Get a new one.” Yeah, I should commit to a sucky job. "Don’t like your spouse? Get a new one. " A valid point, maybe, but you’re selling me a car. I don’t give a fuck what you think about divorce.
My people!
Let me add my hatred for the following commercials mentioned upthread:
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Kia “Maniac” salesman. Especially the groin thrusting when he sells the minivan. What the fuck brings that on?
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Celebrex. It is the longest, ugliest, worse pitch ever. Were they required by law to make this commercial? Because it seems that they are telling the world how NCAIDS or whatever those drugs are called are essentially death candy. It’s truly awful in every sense.
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Diet Dr. Pepper. I like sweet things. But I don’t want a soda that tastes like a cupcake, or cherry pie. It’s not like Dr. Pepper is a drink that people who like really sweet stuff go for… like Mountain Dew or something. But the inextricable vision I have of the stuff is carbonated jelly bean soda, which is completely gross.
Let me introduce one that makes me want to kill. The cell phone company that has the ad with the big blond Scandinavian “Sven.” This douchebag yells at various members of the family like some kind of shag-pile-carpet sleazeball drill instructor. He yells at dad that he has e-mails; yells at the kids that they have karate… and passes out sweaters as they escape his evil clutches by leaving the house. Then they claim the cell phone does the same things that this cretin does.
First, if that’s true, I don’t want that fucking cell phone, because it’s an annoying prick. Just let me call and keep my appointments, okay? Don’t yell to wake me up or give me a sweater, asshole. Second, they act like having a “Sven” is desirable. To whom?
Scandinavian people, you are getting royally screwed in American TV commercials. There’s that commercial with the dad and son who go to Sweden and are forced to eat a cold slimy fish, and this one. If you have more Svens over there, please keep them on your shores, thank you very much.
Holy shit, as I was reading this thread I just saw a Multigrain Cheerios commercial that consisted of nothing but a man and wife having a hateful argument for the entire length of the commercial, with no hint of whimsy or twist at any time. Jesus!
Uh oh. I think they are funny. There aren’t any Sonics within 100 miles of here so I can’t eat there. Or drink the berry smoothie.
Well, yes, that’s really the problem with “praise music.” “My God is an awesome god” over and over.
Don’t mention the rest of the words: “Oh when He rolls up his sleeves He ain’t just puttin’ on the ritz, Our God is an awesome God, There is thunder in his footsteps and lightning in his fists, Our God is an awesome God.”
It’s good stuff. Really. Can’t wait to get to that church, throw my arms up, wave them around, and sing it again.
There’s a commercial for some sleep aid that’s set up as an interview between some doctor and a news magazine show bimbo. It’s so slow it feels like it goes on forever. The doctor says if you have trouble getting to sleep, don’t drink caffeine after 2pm, don’t take prescription sleep aids because some people don’t like them, but take this thing I’m advertising, because it has “L-tryptophan, a common amino acid found in foods such as turkey”
Bimbo:“Maybe that’s why I’m so tired after a big Thanksgiving dinner”
Doctor: “Ha ha ha ha ha. L-tryptophan is amazing stuff.”
:rolleyes:
The most annoying though are the ones on local TV late a night with young women saying something along the lines of “When I’m home at night, I can’t think of anything better to do than rub myself seductively and talk on the phone to hot, sexy singles on <insert name of chat line here>.”
Lexus: “Conventional wisdom is often wrong. In 1492, conventional wisdom said the earth was flat.”
NO IT DIDN’T. I want to shove someone over this. Do they not have any fact checkers? The ENTIRE point of Columbus’ journey was that all the educated people knew the world was round. He just thought it was a lot smaller than it was.
Maybe it should be “Conventional wisdom says in 1492, conventional wisdom said the earth was flat”?
That’s a lot like Head-On, actually. The reason those commercials were so awful is that they couldn’t say much else. They can’t make any medical claims that aren’t proven. You’ll notice they dance right up to the edge of saying that their L-tryptophan product will act as a sleep aid, but then stop short.
The law did have something to do with it. If a drug ad makes a claim of a beneficial effect, they are required to run through the possible side effects in the ad. If they make no claim, the ad does not have to explain a thing. Remember the first Zyrtec ads, where a guy scales a rock face and hollers “Zyrtec” for no apparent reason? They told us to ask our doctors if Zyrtec was right for us, but they never said what it was for. They didn’t have to list any side effects.
If you go to the web site and read the fear sheet, you’ll find out those side effects don’t happen for most patients, and you can assess the risk yourself.
Some old-school choir directors call 'em 7-11 hymns. 7 words, 11 times. :rolleyes: