# Want to punch an actress **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2012, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920 "2012-08-09T00:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/21 "2012-08-09T21:34:46Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Not only did he interrupt Spandau Ballet, but he did it to monologue about something he had already blathered about “all the way to the restaurant.” Yeah, she was a bitch, but he was asking for it. Incidentally, would it change anything if the guy actually interrupted a good song rather than a drippy 80s synth-ballad by Spandau Ballet? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/22 "2012-08-09T21:40:47Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > She’s the wife of the driver in the new Chevy Malibu commercial, where her husband is talking about the car’s performance and she drowns him out by singing Spandau Balet’s “True.” > > She is so freaking obnoxious. If I were the driver, the last scene would be her dumped on her ass on the sidewalk, and me driving away, having flipped the song from “True,” to Steam’s “(Hey Hey) Goodbye.” This is the commercial, by the way – [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMr5kofFm1c](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMr5kofFm1c) See, I feel exactly the opposite. I hate the driver for obnoxiously interrupting his wife and friends’ joyful performance of “True” with his boring car performance statistics. They’re all enjoying themselves and he _turns the volume down_ to prattle on about his car. And apparently he’s been doing that all evening. _He’s_ the jerk here. But the guy I hate even more is in the Chevy with his elderly parents who want to give him $2 for gas and he makes condescending remarks about not needing money. I just fucking hate the smug expression on his face. “It’s called _technology_ dad.” I just want to slap the hell out of his face. https://www.youtube.com/embed/JFWMVyeU7CY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Of course, the dad is obnoxious and stupid too, but I hate the son more. Basically, what I’m learning is that people who drive Chevrolet Malibu Ecos are assholes. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/23 "2012-08-09T21:45:58Z")
> [@Trion](#): > > That’s probably true. But a character isn’t real. You could almost say that he wants to punch an _idea_. > > And you know, there is a way to - effectively - puch an idea in your own head. It’s called drinking. So my suggestion to you **Bricker** is to have a good stiff drink. Works wonders. DC Comics once ran a storyline where Superboy punched [reality](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=370974) so hard that it changed. Maybe that’s what **Bricker** needs to do. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/24 "2012-08-09T22:31:17Z")
You are all missing the real villain of the piece, which is the guy in the backseat who goes “Dude, it’s _Spandau Ballet_” as though he turned off Beethoven or something. I mean, no one in the US is a big Spandau Ballet fan. No one. Probably less than one person in a thousand can even name more than one song by them. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/25 "2012-08-09T23:15:03Z")
You don’t need to name more than one song by them. For people my age, “True” is part if the soundtrack of our youths. Prom, homecoming, all that. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/26 "2012-08-09T23:17:38Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > You don’t need to name more than one song by them. For people my age, “True” is part if the soundtrack of our youths. Prom, homecoming, all that. True. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/27 "2012-08-10T00:21:05Z")
I opened this thread thinking it was going to be about Kathy Griffin. We can still punch her, right? ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/28 "2012-08-10T02:01:31Z")
I rewatched the commercial to be sure, but when I watched it, I felt the poor driver (designated) was just desperatley trying to get his wife and tipsy friends to stop caterwauling for a minute and Just. Be. Quiet. Like his new car. He tried to do the same thing on the way to the restaurant as well, but they Just. Kept. Singing. Badly. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/29 "2012-08-10T02:21:27Z")
Indeed, that commercial only makes sense if you assume everyone except the driver is drunk. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/30 "2012-08-10T02:48:19Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > You don’t need to name more than one song by them. For people my age, “True” is part if the soundtrack of our youths. Prom, homecoming, all that. I was born in 74. Trust me, I like the song. But I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of spandau ballet, any more than I’m a fan of flock of seagulls or aha, as much as I like their one hit. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/31 "2012-08-10T02:52:16Z")
Nobody said they had to meet some kind of official definition of “a fan of Spandau Ballet.” The behavior in the car is perfectly realistic given what I know about that song and what I know about people my age, by direct observation even. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/32 "2012-08-10T03:59:20Z")
I’m with _ **Bricker.** _ I want to punch her… AND the driver for interrupting with his boring litany of car features. AND everyone at the ad agency meeting where they came up with this idea. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/33 "2012-08-10T04:12:48Z")
Does nobody want to punch the guy from Spandau Ballet? ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/34 "2012-08-10T15:34:56Z")
The only commercial actress I’d like to punch is the bitch in the beer commercial with the Bluetooth: “Do you want to go to a party _giggle_ …with _me_?” The nasty look she gives the poor bastard who thinks she’s talking to him pisses me right off. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/35 "2012-08-10T15:38:04Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > She’s the wife of the driver in the new Chevy Malibu commercial, where her husband is talking about the car’s performance and she drowns him out by singing Spandau Balet’s “True.” > > She is so freaking obnoxious. If I were the driver, the last scene would be her dumped on her ass on the sidewalk, and me driving away, having flipped the song from “True,” to Steam’s “(Hey Hey) Goodbye.” Even ignoring the Rhymer rule against hitting girls, I cannot support this rant. It wasn’t the wife being obnoxious; it was the husband. Everyone else was clearly enjoying the song–_singing along with it_, for Athena’s sake-- and he turns off the stereo to do a car commercial? The wife was exactly right to slap him down. Also, the wife’s cute. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/36 "2012-08-10T16:51:43Z")
I think that girl from the sparkly vampire series needs a good backhand to wipe that bunny sneer off her face- am I evil? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/37 "2012-08-10T17:08:25Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Does nobody want to punch the guy from Spandau Ballet? He’s been punished enough. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/38 "2012-08-10T18:54:15Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Even ignoring the Rhymer rule against hitting girls, I cannot support this rant. It wasn’t the wife being obnoxious; it was the husband. Everyone else was clearly enjoying the song–_singing along with it_, for Athena’s sake-- and he turns off the stereo to do a car commercial? The wife was exactly right to slap him down. > > Also, the wife’s cute. Seconded. We loved that gal’s response, and the look she gives the driver is priceless. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/39 "2012-08-10T19:06:21Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I’m goin’ out, > Goin’ out lookin’ for a cynical girl, > who’s got no use for me in the world, > I’m looking for a cynical girl! [pedantic]A great song, but the lyrics are actually “got no use for the real world”.[/pedantic] ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920/40 "2012-08-10T23:27:04Z")
Bricker Wrong thread…should have been: “what actress in which role do you want to punch?” I would start it, however that TRO is remains in force… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-punch-an-actress/630920.md?page=3)