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Is anyone besides me totally fed up with television advertising? How the hell can the dim-bulbs who make these things live with themselves???

Just saw an ad where they were trying to convince me to get all excited about something called "The Little Giant." The damned thing is a ladder! A damned ladder, for crying out loud!

How can they say, "Save up to $500 or more!" Sheese! the term "up to" sets an upper limit, so how can there be "more?"

And the local automobile advertising! OMG! Why oh why do these cretins think that because the owner acts like an idiot in his own advertising that's somehow going to convince me to buy from him? Give me a break!

Some of the worst ads I have ever seen advertise things on the Internet. Like those morons sitting at their computer desks getting all excited about some damned Website: "I went to this Website [ notice they never actualy say the name of the Website! ], filled out the form and now I'm making $90,000 a month!" Right. As IF! "It wasn't a get rich quick scheme, but guess what! I did!" I guess we're suppose to think that because these total morons got rich by visiting a Website, then surely we surely would be able to!

Anyone else have an ad they love to hate?

Anyone else have an ad they love to hate?
The latest Burger King ad for their "new" sandwich.
It has little or nothing to do with anything, and looks as though someone had been slipping LSD into the advertising division's food.

And some of those Toyota ads that have nothing to do with the trucks. I hate those.

The latest Burger King ad for their "new" sandwich.
It has little or nothing to do with anything, and looks as though someone had been slipping LSD into the advertising division's food.

And some of those Toyota ads that have nothing to do with the trucks. I hate those.
Is that the Burger King ad with the African-American country & western singers and all the gorgeous women? I have to admit that the women are nice to look at, but you're absolutely right about the ad having very little to do with anything Burger King makes. Your comment about LSD can be applied to advertising people across the board, in my opinion. Heh!

Is that the Burger King ad with the African-American country & western singers and all the gorgeous women?
Yup, that's the one.
Your comment about LSD can be applied to advertising people across the board, in my opinion. Heh!
:D

There's a TV in the living room here at the dorms. We have free cable.

I've used it for total of five minutes all year.

TV went to hell the instant they invented Reality shows.

The only thing worth watching is the now-endangered decent documentaries, and some of the shows on Adult Swim. And a show or two Nick if you're not in the mood to stimulate brain cells...

Is anyone besides me totally fed up with television advertising? How the hell can the dim-bulbs who make these things live with themselves???

Just saw an ad where they were trying to convince me to get all excited about something called "The Little Giant." The damned thing is a ladder! A damned ladder, for crying out loud!

How can they say, "Save up to $500 or more!" Sheese! the term "up to" sets an upper limit, so how can there be "more?"

And the local automobile advertising! OMG! Why oh why do these cretins think that because the owner acts like an idiot in his own advertising that's somehow going to convince me to buy from him? Give me a break!

Some of the worst ads I have ever seen advertise things on the Internet. Like those morons sitting at their computer desks getting all excited about some damned Website: "I went to this Website [ notice they never actualy say the name of the Website! ], filled out the form and now I'm making $90,000 a month!" Right. As IF! "It wasn't a get rich quick scheme, but guess what! I did!" I guess we're suppose to think that because these total morons got rich by visiting a Website, then surely we surely would be able to!

Anyone else have an ad they love to hate?


TiVo. I haven't watched a commercial in months. :D

There's a TV in the living room here at the dorms. We have free cable.

I've used it for total of five minutes all year.

TV went to hell the instant they invented Reality shows.

The only thing worth watching is the now-endangered decent documentaries, and some of the shows on Adult Swim. And a show or two Nick if you're not in the mood to stimulate brain cells...
Television, like public schools, seems to be aimed at the lowest common denominator. I can count the number of programs which challenge me to think, or which impart interesting information on the fingers of one hand. Sigh. :(

I mute and/or turn off my TV when it gets to commercials, they cause me cronic headaches with their stupidity, ignorance, and moronicism. I really wish someone would kill the fuckers that make the commercials so I don't see anymore. But if thats not bad enough, THEY ACTUALLY WORK, which reinforces my already low opinion of humanity and our chances to survive the next century.

There is an ad with Pei Yun Jung smiling and selling pizza that just makes me want to strangle him. How can he be so damn happy to smell shitty squid and corn pizza! Thin crust to boot!!
Also, the Morning Musume ad for Epson printers where they fly around in cute costumes delivering prints to each other and giving the V for victory sign are annoying as hell.

These are Japanese advertisments, sorry but I had to vent about them.

Television, like public schools, seems to be aimed at the lowest common denominator. I can count the number of programs which challenge me to think, or which impart interesting information on the fingers of one hand. Sigh. :(

Well, here's the trick.

Smart people can completely ignore commercials.

The only time I've ever been tempted by a commercial is when it was something I'd have wanted ANYWAYS.

OOOO heres a good one that pisses me off.

Delissio pizza, god they make it seem like it gives orgasms, makes you a multi-millionaire and makes members of the opposite and same sex fantasize about you.

HERES NEWS!!! IT TASTES LIKE PLASTIC!!! Jesus, I tried it and I took one bite and almost choked because it wasn't fully chewed after being in my mouth for about 5 minutes.

I really hate the new Carl's Jr ones with the unborn baby .

I will never eat there again , ever

There's an advert in the UK for organics hair shampoo, in which a woman in the shower has not one, but two "organic" experiences...

It's a shampoo, it has NOTHING to do with sex...

It's a crap shampoo at that.

There's a TV in the living room here at the dorms. We have free cable.

I've used it for total of five minutes all year.

TV went to hell the instant they invented Reality shows.

The only thing worth watching is the now-endangered decent documentaries, and some of the shows on Adult Swim. And a show or two Nick if you're not in the mood to stimulate brain cells...

Ditto.

Burger King, in general, has crap ads. Not just the "Rock Candy Mountain" ripoff bit, but the ones with the "king" mascot.

Like the guy waking up next to the guy in the rubber king mask. It's generally not a good idea marketing-wise to say that your mascot has gay sex. That sort of thing is usually left up to the public to figure out, like with Spongebob.

Is anyone besides me totally fed up with television advertising? How the hell can the dim-bulbs who make these things live with themselves???

Just saw an ad where they were trying to convince me to get all excited about something called "The Little Giant." The damned thing is a ladder! A damned ladder, for crying out loud!

How can they say, "Save up to $500 or more!" Sheese! the term "up to" sets an upper limit, so how can there be "more?"

And the local automobile advertising! OMG! Why oh why do these cretins think that because the owner acts like an idiot in his own advertising that's somehow going to convince me to buy from him? Give me a break!

Some of the worst ads I have ever seen advertise things on the Internet. Like those morons sitting at their computer desks getting all excited about some damned Website: "I went to this Website [ notice they never actualy say the name of the Website! ], filled out the form and now I'm making $90,000 a month!" Right. As IF! "It wasn't a get rich quick scheme, but guess what! I did!" I guess we're suppose to think that because these total morons got rich by visiting a Website, then surely we surely would be able to!

Anyone else have an ad they love to hate?

Hate all the commercials for toothpaste, and how fantastic tehy are compared to thers.

There is expically one whhich contaians bleeching substances, where a girl has been at the beach, and the narrator says something like "when you get a tan, you see it right away, but how about your teeths?" And she looks like a total moron.

Ususally I just zap around during commercials. Luckily I live in Sweden, so it isn't as bad as in the US when it comes to the amount of breaks...

Thank god for the BBC then, i know it has its faults like all other channels but I like paying my licence fee just so i don't have to watch some utter morons try and sell me some piece of crap, or have some guy constantly ask me

"Have you been in an accident in the past 5 years? Well phone us up and we will sue the crap out of somebody for it!"

And they wonder why lawyers are some of the most loathed people on the planet! :D

Thank god for the BBC then, i know it has its faults like all other channels but I like paying my licence fee just so i don't have to watch some utter morons try and sell me some piece of crap, or have some guy constantly ask me

"Have you been in an accident in the past 5 years? Well phone us up and we will sue the crap out of somebody for it!"

And they wonder why lawyers are some of the most loathed people on the planet! :D

So what do you think of them thinking about making you pay a computer licensing fee in addition to your TV licensing fee?

There's this stupid beer ad here, where this guy finds a dog, and it wins some race, then digs up a rare bone. Then there's a follow-up ad when he returns it to it's owner. It's shown at least THREE times a break.


And any ad with the word 'Warehouse' in it.

So what do you think of them thinking about making you pay a computer licensing fee in addition to your TV licensing fee?

:eek: Woah, where did you hear that? I'm not in the UK at the moment so i haven't heard anything about it...

If they do want to do it i think they might get a huge up roar over it, I would not pay it thats for certain, as they can't stop advirtising on the internet, where as they can via the BBC...

Personally, I hate comercials that use sex appeal. Like the old Pepsi comercials that had Britney Spears.

For two reasons:

1. In my opinion, using sex appeal is the most shameless way to get your point across.

2. This thing objectifies women yes, but it also makes men look like IDIOTS. They think they can sell me something just because they plaster a bitch like Britney Spears or Anna-Nicole-Smith* on my TV? HELL NO! Give men a little more credit! Jesus! We all aren't oversexed perverts!

*Post "Trimspa". And yes I am well aware that the whole this is bullshit, and like Jared from Subway, they probably just paid for the liposuction.

Thank god for the BBC then, i know it has its faults like all other channels but I like paying my licence fee just so i don't have to watch some utter morons try and sell me some piece of crap, or have some guy constantly ask me

"Have you been in an accident in the past 5 years? Well phone us up and we will sue the crap out of somebody for it!"

And they wonder why lawyers are some of the most loathed people on the planet! :D
the BBC rules :)
apart from the ads, channels 3 & 4 are actually pretty crap.


actually, they're all crap :headbang:

the BBC rules :)
apart from the ads, channels 3 & 4 are actually pretty crap.


actually, they're all crap :headbang:

I like C4! Bremner, Bird and Fortune, The Simpsons! Whats not to like!?!??

Plus the blindness inducing colours of Jon Snows tie's on the news lol!

*snip*
2. This thing objectifies women yes, but it also makes men look like IDIOTS. They think they can sell me something just because they plaster a bitch like Britney Spears or Anna-Nicole-Smith* on my TV? HELL NO! Give men a little more credit! Jesus! We all aren't oversexed perverts!

*Post "Trimspa". And yes I am well aware that the whole this is bullshit, and like Jared from Subway, they probably just paid for the liposuction.

Hell, that made me remeber a commercial for Kellogs Corn flakes...it was shown here in Sweden, don't know if they showed in the whole world.

Anyway, it was about that men couldn't function properly in the morning, but was like neanderthals...until they had Corn flakes of course.

Made me never but naything from Kellogs, ever.

I think we as consumers should take more responsibility and firebomb places with annoying ads.

Yeah, I like firebombing things

I think we as consumers should take more responsibility and firebomb places with annoying ads.

Yeah, I like firebombing things
We should make advertisements about firebombing. Those would be much more interesting and airtime-worthy than the current useless stuff.

We should make advertisements about firebombing. Those would be much more interesting and airtime-worthy than the current useless stuff.

"Seen an ad you hate? Call us at 555-FIREBOMB and we will make sure they burn and die. Call now and we will also firebomb the guy from work you don't like!"

I hate no advertisments, mainly because if they're absolutely terrible they amuse me more than anything. Damnit. No wait. I hate any advert that's longer than say... 20 seconds long. Especially those ones for music. You know.

"This limited edition album is not available in the shops, order now and save £2.99 on post and packaging, again, this is not available in the shops." gah... they last for AGES. I hates them. The music on them is usually pretty bad too.

America is a very commercial nation. Everything today is sold out for advertising, from our heroes to landmarks. Advertising brings in big bucks to the advertiser and advertisee, and it's bound to get larger as time goes on. :(

the BBC rules :)
apart from the ads, channels 3 & 4 are actually pretty crap.


actually, they're all crap :headbang:
ITV is crap, but 4 has enough good stuff on it to make it worthwhile

There is an ad with Pei Yun Jung smiling and selling pizza that just makes me want to strangle him. How can he be so damn happy to smell shitty squid and corn pizza! Thin crust to boot!!
Also, the Morning Musume ad for Epson printers where they fly around in cute costumes delivering prints to each other and giving the V for victory sign are annoying as hell.

These are Japanese advertisments, sorry but I had to vent about them.

At least they're better than that damned Nova Usagi (http://www.nova.ne.jp/novausagi/cm/index.html).

(all you ever wanted to know about the Nova Usagi (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Nova%20Usagi))

The Aiful commercials with the stupid dog were pretty bad as well.

The Ginza Jewelry Maki ads with that stupid woman rolling in her diamonds are pretty awful.

But the worst ads on Japanese TV are those on CNN for local (often foreign) businesses that appear to have been done on a budget of about a $100.

I was once talking with my neighbours about the "new" Macdonalds ad, Saying how much i hated it.
He then said, "I did that, didn't you know I work in advertising?"
Er I didn't.

But the ad got pulled a couple of weeks later.

Adverts are generally crap, but what makes them insanely annoying to me is the fact they TURN UP THE VOLUME when adverts come on :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:
Being told what to do by rich multinational corperations is irritating, having them shout orders at me is even worse.

Yeah, advertisements pretty much suck. I do like the Hybrid car commercial. :)

Personally, I hate comercials that use sex appeal. Like the old Pepsi comercials that had Britney Spears. Give men a little more credit! We all aren't oversexed perverts!
Speak for yourself! :D

I think we as consumers should take more responsibility and firebomb places with annoying ads.

Yeah, I like firebombing things

Me too. I also like C-4 and detcord! Yayyy! :D

Not many things in life as much fun as watching an entire building go up in smoke, especially when that's exactly what you planned for it to do. Brought down a bridge three times ... yeah, we could have stopped them from rebuilding it, but it was too much fun blowing it to kingdom come! LOL!

Whoever it was, yes we did have the Neandathal Kellogs cornfalkes one in the UK.

I didn't watch much American tv but what I remember the adverts were really boring, 'you don't need to diet, the fat is to do with middle age, take these pills, you don't need to be middle aged to take them, call 1800 RIP OFF today for your free sample.' At least in the UK they can make you laugh sometimes (as anyone who watches Tarrant on TV knows) and although that Honda Accord ad is one of the longest it got such rave comments, because it took skill to make. Whereas Michael Winner and his eSure ads get among the most annoying. (My dad did a version of that for the Staff awards) 'you just ran into the back of my..brand...new...car!' 'Don't worry dear it's only a commercial.' 'Hello mum!' I mean...wtf?

What's the point of ad free tv if there's nothing to watch...hmm...today's schedule from 4pm:
... continued EastEnders (rpt)
16:30 - 17:00 As Time Goes By (rpt?)
17:00 - 17:35 Songs of Praise
17:35 - 18:25 Kidnapped (ooh an old film :p)
18:25 - 18:55 Last of the Summer Wine (rpt)
18:55 - 19:45 Antiques Roadshow
19:45 - 20:05 BBC News (all of 20min)
20:05 - 20:10 BBC Local News (ooh 5min!)
20:10 - 21:00 Casualty (on a Sunday? oook)
21:00 - 22:00 Supervolcano (wow an interesting documentary...finishes Monday of course, and then there's the other two part documentary about Yellowstone Park...definitely getting their money's worth out of this one)
22:00 - 22:15 BBC News (15min now)
22:15 - 23:15 People Power (documentary about..riots. Yes riots.)
23:15 - 23:45 Billy Connolly's World Tour of...(with a title too long for the programme it reflects the arrogance of this totally unfunny comedien, oh yey)
23:45 - 01:20 The Innocent Sleep (1996 film starring..Michael Gambon [he still stars?] with violence and strong language that no-one's heard of)

So that's tonight's Sunday line up...can I be bothered to get out of bed yet. Damn I have to eat once today so yes :(

Edit: oh yea, at least ITv has some decent films and dramas on it usually. Channel 4 has...decent news..um...um..hmmmm.....occasionally some American comedy if I can be bothered to turn it on. I can't say I subscribe to the 'I have to watch this fantastic American series' fan club. One big minus: Big bloomin' Bruda. We don't care what a group of idiots do when shut up ok!

Fortunately in the UK we still have a far higher quality of TV programmes than in the USA and the BBC remains free of advertisements due to the TV license which I believe is worth the price. All the other commercial channels however are blighted by about 2 - 3 minutes of adverts every 15 - 20 minutes and I immediately turn off the volume or switch to another channel during these adverts.

Speak for yourself! :D

NO! Not you too!

GAH!

NO! Not you too!

GAH!
Hahahaha! Ya don' kno, DO ya! Mwahahaha! :D

<snip>
or you could watch Bremner, Bird and Fortune at 8 on C4 :)

i think 4 is good, they tend to have some interesting documentaries on, and they do good programmes like Time Team

and then of course, theres Never Mind the Buzzcocks at 9 on BBC2...

Oh god, I cannot stand the new Burger King commerical with all those whorey women. I think it puts down females, and every time I see it, I feel a deep amount of shame and disgust.

Aside from that, hell yeah I am sick of commercials. TV in General. They are always trying to leach off of us. Oh look at how cool this gadget is! Then you get it and it is crap. I hate the attitude which is like "Oh boy my life is so much better now that I have this action figure". I dunno, I can't even describe what I feel about advertisements.

What I am really disliking is that now when you watch movies featured on TV, in the corner every once in a while an advertisement pops up that is all bright so you have to look at it because it caught your attention.. I mean come on.. if 10 minutes of commercials wasn't enough, now there are commercials while I am watching a program.

It's all about that fuzucking dollar sign! >< $$$$$$$$$$$$

One word: Fanta.

I HATE that commercial.

Fanta< :mp5: :mp5: :mp5:

My mom is car shopping. She got a brochure for a Toyota Camary, and it was filled with pictures. Instead of showing things about the car, every picture was just of a girl who looked at her toes while sipping a cup of coffee. Bad advertising at its best.

You know what's even more amazing? We have all of this horrible advertising and yet people can find enough to say about it that they have posted 2-3 paragraphs!

There's an advert in the UK for organics hair shampoo, in which a woman in the shower has not one, but two "organic" experiences...

It's a shampoo, it has NOTHING to do with sex...

It's a crap shampoo at that.

Ahh, I remember that one. It really was exceptionally crap, as is the shampoo. I borrowed my mums once and it made my hair go all coarse and yucky. That'll teach me to use other people's shampoo without asking.

Often now when I watch commercials, I imagine those corporates treating me like a little child. Oh look at this spinach? So yummy! Oh yum yumyum! Watch mommy have a little bite(gag). Oh here comes the air plane! ZzzZzzzZoooom

I look at every commercial in that way. Maybe it's because I hang out with a lot of Emo kids. Most of them are against the Corps.

Those commercials treat me like I am retarded, in my humble opinion.

There are good commercials though, but I admit most of them are terrible.

I think the best recent one was a Verizon commercial.
The guy is driving along in his car, his wife calls and says:
"Hey honey, have you heard about the creepy guy the police are looking for? They say he's hitchiking."
The guy hears "Hey honey, have you heard about....creepy guy...bzzz".
Guy says "Sorry dear, cant hear you." and hangs up.
Guy looks over to the passegner seat, which is occupied by a large guy in a hockey mask.
Guy says something I cant remember >_<
Hockey-mask guy "Mruh."
Guy "Not much of a talker, are you?"
Commercial cuts to talking about Verizons larger service areas.

I actually laughed at that one, but thats just me. :p

There's an advert in the UK for organics hair shampoo, in which a woman in the shower has not one, but two "organic" experiences...

It's a shampoo, it has NOTHING to do with sex...

It's a crap shampoo at that.

Oh, I know that one. I cringe whenever it's on. Just when you think it's finished, it comes up with a supplement bit about the NEW shampoo from the same people....*sigh* When will it end!? :p

You may all hate adverts but they are better than anything that ever comes on on channel 5. When my mum is watching something on there i either go up stairs or sit and wait for the adverts!!! lol

I hate the Actimel advert, it's like 'buy Actimel and we'll stalk you so that you can't con money out of us'

I hate the Actimel advert, it's like 'buy Actimel and we'll stalk you so that you can't con money out of us'

And its not true. I drink actimel every day and i feel no difference(i have been drinking it for nearly 6 months!!)

And its not true. I drink actimel every day and i feel no difference(i have been drinking it for nearly 6 months!!)
:eek:

New system, TV stations pay for the shows they have with $ they get from subscribers who order a la carte, thus, no ads, and only the good shows survive. Show does not get good ratings, station loses money by less people subscribing, show is dropped, replaced by better show, it all works out, and we pay for the shows, not advertisers.

I am disgusted with the latest Burger King commercial, has anyone seen it?

theres this one commerical...it HAUNTS ME IT HAUNTS ME I TELL YOU!

i see it in my sleep...i see it in my shoes...waiting to nip MY TOES!


MY LIFE IS A LIE! MY ADVIERTISEMENT CLICHE LIVES BY THY HAND!

he who lives by the billboard, shall fall off it.

embrace the truth...do not buy into these...these LIES...



i cant quite remember what that commercial was though...

by the way...



Tired and lonesome? Hungry and underpaid? why just call me up be cause your a sexy beast.

BUY my product, the paperback 9000 addition for college students to make GAZILLIONS OF DOLLARS!!

come, buy from me! your flithly and pathatic, you NEED MY PRODUCT!

I kind of like the Aflac commercials with the duck.

Is anyone besides me totally fed up with television advertising? How the hell can the dim-bulbs who make these things live with themselves???

...............

And the local automobile advertising! OMG! Why oh why do these cretins think that because the owner acts like an idiot in his own advertising that's somehow going to convince me to buy from him? Give me a break!

...............

As IF! "It wasn't a get rich quick scheme, but guess what! I did!" I guess we're suppose to think that because these total morons got rich by visiting a Website, then surely we surely would be able to!

Anyone else have an ad they love to hate?
Don't you love it when senior citizens rant?

I really hate the new Carl's Jr ones with the unborn baby .

I will never eat there again , ever

I know!!!! That commercial defies all odds of having so little to do with the product it's scary. yeah so the mom is eating jalepenos...and the slogan is "not for babies"-but this is just too literal.

the National American University commercials are pretty annoying too....I"m sad to admit I know the words to the song because it is on so much. :(

I think the fact that commercials are on every 5 minutes during a show has turned me into a chronic remote flipper... I will try and watch tv but can rarely get through a whole program because I enevitably flip during commercials.. which annoy me more then fingernails down a chalkboard.. So needelss to say i rarely watch TV anymore... Movies... DVD's and a friend of mine gets shows off movie channels so no commercials for me... ever so much better... They wonder why everyone seems to be ADD these days? hell they give us shows in 5 to 10 minute intervals and wonder why we cant concentrate? @_@ Besides the shows all sucking.... there is that too...

I think the fact that commercials are on every 5 minutes during a show has turned me into a chronic remote flipper... I will try and watch tv but can rarely get through a whole program because I enevitably flip during commercials.. which annoy me more then fingernails down a chalkboard.. So needelss to say i rarely watch TV anymore... Movies... DVD's and a friend of mine gets shows off movie channels so no commercials for me... ever so much better... They wonder why everyone seems to be ADD these days? hell they give us shows in 5 to 10 minute intervals and wonder why we cant concentrate? @_@ Besides the shows all sucking.... there is that too...
I know. They're pitched to the lowest common denominator. This is one of the major reasons I seldom watch anything other than the Science Channel, The History Channel, The SciFi Channel ( which has, BTW, started repeating itself! ), and FOX News.