# What commercials say to you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135 "2013-11-17T18:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/141 "2013-12-18T21:24:19Z")
Radio commercial on during certain conservative talk shows boasting that now you can “buy silver on sale!” because it’s “selling for less than the cost of mining and production”. That would suggest that maybe it’s not such a great investment if they can’t sell it for a profit over mining it out of the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/142 "2013-12-18T22:30:56Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > If he says all the students have them, I think you’re supposed to think the school supplied them. Lots of schools supply iPads and MS’s point is that the Surface is better than an iPad. > > And HONESTLY, as far as value and compatibility go, they are a better fit for schools than an iPad. I’m not arguing about the value proposition here. And if you guys want to put that interpretation on “All my students have a Surface”, then feel free. But it doesn’t change the core of my original post, which is that you have a tedious nerd that no one wants to identify with expounding the benefits of owning a Surface. And there’s no call for it. The teacher in this ad could, with a few changes of dialog, be an enthusiast for technology who has finally found the right device to be used in his classroom. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/143 "2013-12-25T09:01:36Z")
There’s a couple of [Dewar’s Scotch commercials](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18w666p0hJY) that have been playing lately on the tube, and I guess they’re trying to imply that drinking Dewar’s Scotch will make you mature, sophisticated, and complex enough to score with the lovely but emaciated woman who’s narrating the commercial. But what the commercial is saying to me is that Dewar’s scotch will give you some kind of weird speech disorder or aphasia that makes it impossible to speak without long pauses between each phrase. Go to about the one minute mark in the commercial I linked to and you’ll see what I mean. “You’ve got to ask yrself…Are you…ready…to take life…seriously.” Apparently if you drink Dewar’s, every conversation will be deeply dramatic, but punctuated as if you just ran up ten flights of stairs before speaking. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/144 "2013-12-25T09:29:14Z")
seeing as Ms Forlani isn’t a Scottish, if you drink one _glug_, i tell ya … ya’ll … find yrself … _hic_ … speaking like one… ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/145 "2013-12-25T10:57:25Z")
Those commercials make me hate Claire Forlani and Dewar’s (although I wouldn’t drink Dewar’s no matter what they put in their commercials). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/146 "2013-12-25T16:12:20Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > There’s a couple of [Dewar’s Scotch commercials](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18w666p0hJY) that have been playing lately on the tube… ‘Go to bed, Angus.’ **Takeaway:** ‘Go to bed, Angus. I’m going to sit out here in the dark and drink myself into oblivion.’ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/147 "2014-01-09T18:11:07Z")
A couple of trade school commercials make me laugh: **Universal Technical Institute** I had a [UTI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinary_tract_infection) once. It was very painful. :eek: **Schools On Demand** [Sod _that!_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod_(word)) :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/148 "2014-01-09T18:19:26Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Geico \*could \*save you up to 15% or more… > > **Takeaway** : Geico might save you 15%, maybe less, maybe more. In other words, we ain’t promising nothin’!! I always intepret it as "\*\*Geico \*\*might _have_ saved you 15%, if we didn’t spend so much money on our advertising. \*\*Dos Equis \*\*ad with the Old “Most Interesting” Man in the world sitting between two young painted babes is telling us, \*“If you go a strip joint and are dumb enough to pay $9 for a premium beer, then the strippers will take you for a sucker.” \* ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/149 "2014-01-09T18:22:30Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > The new Sears commercial where the ladies are heading to a movie but decide to park in the Sears parking lot because it always has room, then they end up shopping there for hours. > > This commercial tells me that few people choose to go to Sears, hence the parking lot that always has lots of room! I know I’m late to the party, but believe it or not, that’s [exactly what that commercial is supposed to be telling you](http://consumerist.com/2013/12/17/sears-admits-people-only-come-to-our-stores-to-park/). ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/150 "2014-01-09T23:40:08Z")
New Silverado commercial: “The Chevy Silverado is second to none. And by none, I mean Ford and Ram.” …er, wait. So your truck is second to Ford and Ram? That means it’s worse. Also your math sucks, you’re actually third to them. You literally just said that you are the number 3 truck. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/151 "2014-01-10T00:28:26Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > New Silverado commercial: “The Chevy Silverado is second to none. And by none, I mean Ford and Ram.” > > …er, wait. So your truck is second to Ford and Ram? That means it’s worse. Also your math sucks, you’re actually third to them. You literally just said that you are the number 3 truck. At least they’re not playing “Like a Rock” anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/152 "2014-01-10T00:33:54Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > I know I’m late to the party, but believe it or not, that’s [exactly what that commercial is supposed to be telling you](http://consumerist.com/2013/12/17/sears-admits-people-only-come-to-our-stores-to-park/). I got one right! woohoo! Still a stupid message though. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/153 "2014-01-11T17:18:57Z")
Just saw a truecar-dot-com commercial. (More precisely, one was just on TV and I ignored it; but I was aware that it was there.) ‘Truecar’ always reminds me of [trocar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trocar), which seems a little unpleasant. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/154 "2014-01-12T05:15:17Z")
Nationwide: “We’re just a bunch of big babies.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![meecepeece](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@meecepeece](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meecepeece)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/155 "2014-01-12T05:40:40Z")
All informercials ever made, an average person making a huge cluttered mess out of stuff that comes easy to the rest of us,and cannot perform even the simplest of tasks-like cracking an egg,or putting on shoes. Commercials where the husband is a bumbling fool,or a jealous jerk,and the woman is acting all smug and superior.Alternately the one ad where the woman is made to look like a moron instead of the guy- The "its Jake,from state farm"ad,thats STILL playing after months. Cleansers that kill virtually all germs,or kills 99% of germs.so then it leaves some germs behind. The blood testing kit for bloodsugar is "virtually"painless. So then,it still does hurt,maybe slightly less,but still involves some pain. Ads that call something faux,as if we dont know faux means absolutely FAKE. Then they add the word genuine “a genuine faux diamond!” Is still saying genuine fake which makes no sense. I saw an ad this morning saying “genuine faux crystals” so its NOT crystal then. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/156 "2014-01-12T05:44:23Z")
> [@meecepeece](#): > > The "its Jake,from state farm"ad,thats STILL playing after months. 'You’re cheating on me with a _guy?_ :eek: :mad: ’ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135/157 "2014-01-14T20:11:14Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Just saw a Met Life commercial where a pair of daughters are convincing their mother to buy insurance for herself and their father. ‘Come on, I’ll help you call.’ > > I’ve been watching too many of those murder investigation shows on ID, because it just looks suspicious to me. This one just played yet again. ‘What happened?’ ‘Well, he was up on the ladder…’ It always reminds me of _Capricorn One_: ‘Your mother was on the roof…’ ‘What happened?’ ‘Your father was on the ladder…’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-commercials-say-to-you/674135.md?page=7)