Obnoxious advertisements

[PA Reb]

Sorry, but it's too bad the Bimbo still isn't struggling.

WOW ~ She's not a "bimbo" and if you would ever meet her in person you would soon learn she is a very kind and considerate person. She's a former comedian that got lucky and landed a good paying job which surely doesn't deserve being called nasty names on an internet gun forum. I'd bet you and many others would do the same thing if someone offered you a job like that.

 

[Fishslayer]

Especially annoying to me are commercials such as the one years ago for some top tier fuel with additives already in the blend that compared their gas to adding your own fuel additive and showed a guy, apparently with some neuromuscular disorder trying to put the additive is his tank and splashing it all over -

That's pretty common with a lot of the "as seen on TV" garbage. My favorite is the guy who needs a gator grip socket because he can't find a socket in a box. Poor guy cannot grip a socket & tools are flying everywhere!
(The gator grip is a POJ BTW. )

And who can help but pity the poor lady being strangled to death trying to operate a sleeveless blanket and a telephone at the same time?

The absolute worst ones to me are the ones that claim to get you off from tax debt. I pay may taxes however reluctantly and hope that all pay their fair share. To me these reek of calling those of us who follow the law idiots.

Those are big and repeat advertisers on our local talk radio stations. You know. The ones that proclaim personal responsibilty and accountability.

 

[vito]

+1 for Flo. I find some of the Progressive insurance ads funny, especially the one where she tries to talk to two guys and then she moves into the shadows, but not fully. Maybe because I use Progressive to insure my motorcycle and have had excellent experience with them I am more inclined to be tolerant of their ads.

Any ad that portrays men as morons and their wives as tolerant, smart and patient with their imbecilic spouse REALLY bugs me, and I have written to some companies over the years and told them that I will not buy their product because of their insulting ads.

I also hate local car dealer ads that are so cheesy while they try to be clever I end up thinking the folks at that dealership must be total idiots. And the worst are the ones with little kids saying "Come buy a car from my Grampa!".

And finally, if Jane Fonda advertises anything I will not buy it.

 

[shouldazagged]

Airing a "Christmas In July" or "Savin' Of The Green" spot, or any commercial featuring a yammering car dealership sales manager, should be a hanging offense.

 

[bgrone]

Commercials

I hate watching live TV with Missus Fan. As every guy knows, when a commercial comes on you are then supposed to go to the bathroom, get another beverage, see what is on another channel or at least hit the mute button. She pays rapt attention to the commercials.
Why a paper towel commercial can thrill her is beyond me.
Jim

Jim,
I have the opposite problem, my wife DVRs all the major shows then we watch off schedule, she fast forwards through the commercials . This is fine in theory; however you know how hard it can be to catch the show seamlessly, so she backs up then forward till she hits the break spot, by that time I have whiplash and would rather have just watched the ads.

Jim in Iowa

 

[V1 Rotate]

Anyone else tired of the TV ads being shown lately? One I detest is the State Farm ad where the woman comes downstairs when her husband is talking to an agent at 3AM. The other ones are the ads with that obnoxious Flo. I would never buy insurance from either company because of the idiotic ads. I could name many more, but those two are enough. Thank goodness the remote has a mute button.

The Viagara/Cialis ads are just as bad.

Bill, this is how out of touch we are: the State Farm commercial is considered on of the best of the decade. I thought it was funny the first six thousand times I saw it. I never got Flo either.
The Viagra commercials are stupid and in my opinion should only be on late at night.
Best Wishes, Bill S

 

[smokey04]

timn8ter, Really? We are from Tejas but live in LA[Lower Alabama for now] AND, here,who would have believed it? We have the "Alabama Hammer", wonder if it is the same jerk, Mike Slocomb , Da Alabama Hamma? BTW: if I happen to have an erection that lasts 4 hours, the heck with the Dr. I'ma gonna go all over de nayboor hoot an offer to share with all de lonely ladies...that is until the wife guns me down running around with my problems in hand , so to speak!Nick

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I don't get:
a) what bathtubs have to do with hard-ons

I think the proper medical term is "boner"

 

[rwsmith]

MeTV

Has anybody noticed that MeTV's commercials are geared toward life insurance and medical products. Can anybody tell me why that is?

 

[bgrafsr]

WOW ~ She's not a "bimbo" and if you would ever meet her in person you would soon learn she is a very kind and considerate person. She's a former comedian that got lucky and landed a good paying job which surely doesn't deserve being called nasty names on an internet gun forum. I'd bet you and many others would do the same thing if someone offered you a job like that.

Perhaps I was too harsh with my words, but I still do not like her, and have no intention of ever meeting her. That could be due to the idiotic commercials though.

 

[DeathGrip]

This company's adds annoy me on many levels...."Next Stop, Freedom!" - DriveTime Commercial 2014 - YouTube

 

[PA Reb]

Perhaps I was too harsh with my words, but I still do not like her, and have no intention of ever meeting her. That could be due to the idiotic commercials though.

I happened to meet her years ago in a Progressive stand at a motorcycle rally. Since then, we've become friends, not what I would call a close friendship but friends none the less. The makeup and the act she plays on the commercials is just that, an act. In all honesty, she's a wonderful person with a great personality.

As a side note, I hope you like Bill and Karolyn Slowsky. Darn kid turtles and their cussing !

Comcast "what the fast" slowsky commercial - YouTube

 

[steamloco76]

We buy any car dot com! Any any any any we buy any car dot com!--

over and over and over while a bunch of idiots dances around like they are having a meth induced seizure.

One eight-hundred My Lemon gets my knickers in a bunch too. And ANY Progressive or Gieco commercial bites the old nerves.