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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