Stupid TV adds
 

Would you really invest your money in some of the companys, because of an add?
I saw one other day, didn't catch what it was for. The one with copper pipe people walking around. Anyway It said if you took and didn't crap for 3 days call your DR.
Why didn't they dump a bunch of that into the levee breaks in NO? Hell that should have stopped the leaks. :lol:

Kinda like "Why don't they make airplanes out of the same material they use for black boxes?"

My brother & I used to have a pact - don't buy the product if you hate the advert. As we were both in our teens at the time I don't think our selective anti-consumerism rocked the advertising world, but it did make us feel better.

At present I am enjoying the "blind them with science" approach used mostly to sell skin & hair care products. Although my favourite ingredient is in Activia yoghurt - Bifidus Digestivum. Its not in any other pro-biotic yoghurts either. Fancy that.

there are things I would never buy due to the commerical. I really, really hate the one for ON*Star--bunch of adorable tykes asking me if I WANT little Jimmie to get carjacked or the car to spin out of control; and the one for some stomach med--prilosec?--where two old people are kvetching about Old Woman's pain med. for arthritis and SHE DID NOT KNOW-NOR DID HER HUSBAND!!!-that it could cause STOMACH PROBLEMS!! Old woman goes, "I didn't know!" and old man goes, "she didn't know!" and old woman goes, "Oh, YOU didn't know, either!!" Makes my stomach hurt.

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Seen on a message board...

"It has been discovered that the above "Friendly bacteria with extra 'Latin bollocksinium'" is in fact contaminated.

The contamination has arisen as a result of it being pulled from some marketing cretin's arse."

Me too. :D

i don't eat at burger king because of their advertisements. both on the radio and TV

The King scares the hell out of me. If I woke up with that son of a mannequin in bed with me, I'd blow his plastic brains all over the sheets with a shotgun.

and that Dos XX radio spot where the guy is leaving his buddy a message on how to get to their weekend party on the beach in Tijuana. i must hear that commercial 10 times a day. flooding the market with one commercial or theme def. will turn me off of their product.....

My two most hated commercials ever have earned the advertisers a spot on my Eternal Boycott List: the Arby's "ranch tooth" ad and that cellphone company ad with the orange background and assinine yodelling song (no brand recognition here because I always lunge for the mute button when it comes on).

A stop smoking product that I now can't even remember the name of, but was subject to a late night radio advertizing blitz. I was driving at night from near the Utah border back to Colorado Springs (about a 400 mile trip), and all the way across the damn state, this ad seemed to come on every 5 minutes, no matter what station I was listening to. I finally started answering the announcer back:

"Did you know that every pack of cigareetes you smoke can take a day off your life?"

Me: (lighting up an American Spirit and inhaling deeply) Is that ALL? Damn, I guess, I'm gonna have get up to two packs a day.

Announcer: Now with our revolutionary new product, quitting smoking is easy!

Me: Yeah, I've quit 4 or 5 hundred times myself.

I have since discovered the joy of Colorado Public Radio, a truely magnificent boon to any who must venture across the state line. It has relay towers all over the state and comes in loud and clear even on the passes or the most desolate strech of road between nowhere and nowhere. You can listen to Vivaldi or Beethoven for 500 miles and no one harasses you about smoking either.

I hate those Welch's grape juice commercials with the uber-precious children and their scenery chewing. Watching one all the way through is like having concentrated glucose forced into every orifice at high pressure. Here's a pic of the latest little monster. She should be chased by angry badgers every day until adulthood.

Wow... that sounds like it could be fun! :eek:

Is that concentrated glucose dripping out of every orifice, or are you just happy to see me? :biggrinba

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Are you gellin? I need some intersoles, but if they make ya that stupid, no thanks.

I really dislike Arby's commercials. My favority celebrity death match would be between the "Hamburger Helper" mitt and the Arby's potholder mascot.

Must be suppertime: now I want an Arby's Roast Beef Sandwich, cheese, and Horsey Sauce.

I have major issues with the "who are those guys?" "they're your network." I mean, I could barely tolerate that guy when he was wandering all the fuck over the place saying "Can you hear me now?" but the new campaign is just totally wack.

I know wack.

I am also horrified by the inane gellin' insole radio spots.

Luckily I don't get exposed to most commercials. I typically watch 2 hours of on-air TV daily, to get my Judging Amy fix over breakfast. Everything else is taped and I fast forward through the commercials.

The absolutely stupidest TV commercial in Spanish:

Right now on Hispanic television stations' morning programs, they have saturation marketing for "Golden Memorial Plan". At least twice every program segment. It's a grainy bilious blue background with an actor looking like Abe Vigoda on a bad day telling all those loving hispanic families how they owe it to themselves to purchase this pre-paid funeral plan so that they won't have all the hassles when somebody kicks the bucket. You know how smarmy and "concerned" funeral directors are portrayed as? This ad definitely makes you want to go out and kill one of them after hearing about "Golden Memorial Plan" in that tone of voice about 200 times in a week. :rar:

Not that I would ever buy burial insurance from these guys anyway, but what REALLY ticks me off about this marketing is I know the reason that a majority of (recent) hispanic immigrants don't have the money to bury their loved ones is their insistence on sending the body back to Mexico or wherever for interment there. The poorer they are, the more bodies they seem to have to deal with, due to farm accidents or car crashes mostly. This also complicates getting the dearly departed back home before sanitation conditions become critical. THAT is the kind of insurance premium that employers in California need to deduct from these people.

Farm accidents, car crashes, and drive bys ... which may be why the Hispanic Community is targeted with those pre-planning ads.

I haven't seen those on regular channels.

True, Wolf, but since the "insurance" will only cover burying you in the US, where this enterprise is licensed, this becomes moot. If you are illegal or recently arrived and don't even speak English, this won't get your relatives back to Mexico where the family wants them. It's a morbid thought, but this is why there are so many car washes available on every streetcorner throughout the Central Valley of California; it's the only way they know to raise the money. The more spectacular deaths, the ones which make the papers, at least allow the family to solicit donations from the public. I find it horribly sad that a family which can't even feed itself adequately insists on using up their every resource for such a practice as sending a corpse back to the home grounds when eventually every person who ever knew the dead will leave for El Norte anyway.

This ad isn't stupid, so much as gross.

Have you seen the relatively new ad where shit is simulated with some green paste. Probably toothpaste? They show someone with a big smear of green toothpaste on the back of their hand trying to wipe it off with toilet paper. A single wipe doesn't get it. So they switch to Charmin (I think?) wet wipes, and are able to get the simul-shit of their hand in one wipe. It's really disturbing to me. Simulates shit smear on hand too well. Far too vivid. It's far more disturbing than tampon and maxi-pad ads that use blue water instead of blood.

The wipes really do work that well, though. I thought it was a fairly effective ad.

one of the 3 major networks, can't remember off the bat, but they have a radio spot where it seems these people are standing around a water cooler at the office and they're talking about the shows that are going to be on that night. trying to emulate that EVERYONE will be talking about these shows the next day. sheesh. click. goodbye.

Last night I was watching Lou Dobbs on cnn. I clicked on mute to answer the phone. Looked back at the closed captions there's an add for prostate meds. They either out sourced it or someone hacked it. I have no idea what it said. Tonight was C. Swab, the one where they use cartoons instead of paying actors.

I hate those commercials. The cartoonified folks are not cartoony enough to justify the effect. They just look awful. I try never to use products whose ads are annoying, it only encourages them to find new annoying ways of getting your attention.

Is that like that E- surance thingy?

I just googled your e*thingy. Chuck's ad doesn't look like the kinda traditional toon they have on their site. I think chucks is a digital effect applied to a filmed image.

But cartoon characters haven't done a porn film or an ad for a competitor somewhere in the hazy past. :)

sure they have. Ever heard of Felix the cat?

Yes, loved it, but their cartoon characters are new for each project... no past. :D

Oh, Charles Schwab. That translation took a day and a half...! Those ads are terrible.

But surely the worst investment/traders ads are from Ameritrade:

- Dads spoiled daughter demands designer jeans, Dad buys the designer jeans stock

- Runner finds everyone using the same running shoes, stops mid-race to buy the stock from a borrowed laptop

I think these ads are aimed at day traders, who think they are smarter than the market. But not the really smart traders, because buying stocks on this whim basis would of course be batshit insane.

UT. Sorry about my redneck spelling, I don't do a lot of day trades, or anyother. :lol: The CC showed how far they go to rip off a buck.
IMHO

That's OK buddy! Spell how you like, you have a long way to go to beat Zippyt at spelling, but as wolf said, it's all good!

He he. I thought we were avoiding using Chuck's name in a vain attempt to keep John 1*3 from spamming us with investment product.