Zevious Zoquis
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20 minutes ago, Neurochick said:
I believe originally that cars were a luxury. Today they are a necessity. Unfortunately, there are people out here who shouldn't be driving, but since in most places in the US, a car is a necessity, what can those people do? So, this is as good an idea as any.
well, first my comment was mostly a joke.
But if we are going to take it at face value, ok. I'd say a better idea for people who shouldn't be driving would be to become better at driving! lol.
I don't think the computer driving aids are really designed to get bad drivers on the roads. They are designed to make cars safer in general - for all drivers. The idea being that once the system is fully operational, computers will make fewer mistakes than drivers in general do. It's probably true, but as a person who has worked with computers since the early 80s, it feels to me like sort of a nightmare scenario. :D
But the ads right now are annoying because they just show the driving aids taking over to perform incredibly mundane actions and then the drivers act like some amazing thing has just happened.
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Oh god that prancersize woman is a loon! And yeah, that music is total generic “free rock riff” crud. It “sorta” sounds like about 200 actual songs, but it isn’t. It has so little “groove” that it creates a groove vortex and actually sucks groove out of existence. Which explains the uncomfortable prancersize “moves.” Lol...and yeah that camel toe, Yeesh!
the whole “auto driving car” thing needs to stop. It’s all utterly terrifying! There’s an ad running now (not sure of the brand - might be Cadillac) in which a poor gal is driving along the center lane of a 3 lane roadway and approaching the treacherous circumstance of a big truck in the left lane, and another big truck in the right hand lane. Confronted by the tricky and rare driving maneuver known as “maintaining a fucking straight line!” she engages the auto drive function and as the car takes over (which we know because we get a look at the computer screen with all them cool digital guidance lines drawn all over the road ahead) and safely navigates her along her lane between the trucks she exclaims with understandable wonder “right down the middle.” Ho lee shit.
are we supposed to feel good about the fact that computer-driven cars are apparently making it possible for a whole class of drivers - those incapable of even driving in a straight line - are now going to be able to take to the roadways?
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He's neither good nor bad. He's nothing. Bland. If he actually was bad, the ad would probably be better. :D
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Not sure how prevalent these ads are nationwide but they are on a lot in Canada...Gibson’s Finest whiskey. They feature this incredibly bland “bro-dude” who turns a dreary, dead bar into a super party just by ordering a shot of Gibson’s. One of the ads has the hipster bartender putting his hands together prayer-style and mouthing “thank-you” at the dude for saving his night. The spokes-bro is just so tremendously bland in every way...there is just no way this guy is actually bringing the party anywhere! He’s supposed to be super smooth and dreamy or something but it just doesn’t work at all. He’s just this anonymous nobody with a cheezy cheap leather jacket (or in one ad a cheap suit) like a million other boring dudes walking around bars everywhere...
maybe that’s the point, lol. “Gibson’s! It brings the fun no matter how much of a plank you are!”
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2 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:
What.
what what
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Man, I'm watching American Pickers and it's a virtual Travagopocalypse! One Trivago ad after another...ugh! Saw the one where he dances and the one where he drops his breakfast. Everything about that guy is just OFF lol. The way he dresses, the way he dances, how he jumps on a bed, how he stands, his face! It's all just a little weird.
as far as Man caves go, I appreciate where some of you ladies are coming from but in my experience most women fully endorse their dudes having their own space - it keeps them and their dumb shit out of the rest of the house which is the women's domain!
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There’s an ad I see constantly while watching hockey games - not sure if it’s airing everywhere - for a financial company called Asante. As a rule I hate these ads for money managers. Just seems like such a shitty industry to me in general. But this Asante one is real annoying. It begins with the narrator announcing that “mark and Sara are a complete success story.” Then it uses the Rubicks cube as a metaphor for solving the puzzle of what to do with all their money. It’s like Asante is the company for folks who already have so much money they don’t know what to do with it. “Are you a complete success story? Well then come see us...we’ll help you!” The successful couple - especially the guy - look like two of the least interesting people on the planet. And they stand there with their Asante advisor and he has this pope-like vibe, like he’s just this super honorable fellow helping these poor rich folks get everything they can out of their piles of money...actually here's the ad
and then there’s a second money manager whose ad campaign is basically calling out their competition for charging exorbitant fees. The ads show various people confronting their money guys and asking them things like “why is it that my money is only making me this small amount, but i’m paying you this big amount?” Then the money guy offers the usual BS explanation. The problem with the ads is that the clients (basically you and me right?) are no more likeable than the “evil” money managers. They come across mostly as kinda bitchy smart alecks. There’s one in particular featuring a red-headed woman and when she gets off her “zinger” (the line that ends the ad where the customer burns the evil money guy)...well I don’t like violence but man, that’s a highly slappable face.
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On 2018-03-10 at 12:14 PM, configdotsys said:
Am so sick of that one. There is no one in the auditorium either.
If you look closely, the guy passerby that the girl nods to is the guy in the guy version of the commercial and vice versa for the girl. I hope that makes sense...
Hey you’re right! Lol...that’s some pretty darn high concept stuff. Now if the girl wasn’t so annoying I might actually drink a Diet Coke!
well...ok, no I wouldn’t
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The “yurt it up” Diet Coke ad is annoying. The choice of pop isn’t really all that much of a life statement or anything y’know. It’s just bubbly sugar water. The hip/cool lingo (“you do you!”) is grating. Also, there’s at least a couple versions of the ad - one with a girl and one with a guy - and in both of them there’s a moment where they turn and start walking with their “statement soda” and somebody walks past them and they give the passer by a little knowing nod, as though it’s someone they know or something. I guess it’s supposed to be showing that these are a couple of hip young folk connected to their hood or something...it’s just a tiny little thing but it bugs me...
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The Tide commercial where 2 women finish running a marathon and the first grabs the sleeve of her shirt, turns her face to her smelly pit and takes a big whiff, makes a stinky face and then turns to her friend and lets out a big laugh! LOL...who does that?? "ah-ha-ha-ha get a load of me! Holy shit do I stink!"
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Jeep has some pretty annoying ads. The "recalculating" ones where a GPS voice gives strange life advice. Ugh...it's an ad for a frikkin car! "This is just one way our amazing car will change your life - the GPS will allow you to make better life decisions!" brother! :rolleyes
And there's a short one running now that has a few weather people giving updates during a "snow storm" and getting "jeep bombed" by people in the background. First, I live in Winnipeg and that ain't no snow storm. Second, the female weather person is really annoying. She does this weird little series of hand gestures while she talks that don't relate in any way to what she's saying. Bugs me. lol...the one that says "seriously?" is annoying too!
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Pretty sure the few seconds in the dogs mouth probably actually makes the soother CLEANER rather than dirtier anyway lol...
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9 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:
Lol I just saw this ad for the first time and came here to tear it a new one but I see Mahk beat me to it. The JD Power crap is so pathetic. :D Getting an award from JD Power is only slightly better than getting an award from Chevy’s corporate news letter lol...
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There’s an ad running in which a little girl gets grandpa to read her a bedtime story only he’s doing it from somewhere else via a laptop placed next to the girl’s bed. Can’t remember what the ad is for, but the problem is the little girl. She is the most sickengly sweet little cutesy patootsie you could ever imagine and I hate her! The sound of her sweet little voice makes my teeth grind. So OTT sweet! This kid is like a bowl of mini marshmallows covered in syrup and whipped cream and topped with crumbled candy canes. Ick!
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1 hour ago, janie jones said:
Well then on top of everything else it's poorly made. You can tell they're on a test track and it never occurred to me that they were trying to make it seem real.
I've only seen the ad once, so you're probably right. Still, the one time I saw it it wasn't particularly clear they were on any sort of closed area, and even if they were the whole idea is still pretty irresponsible and dumb for a jewelry store ad...
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1 hour ago, janie jones said:
Aren't they at like a track or something? They're not on the road.
It's a remarkably stupid ad. It's supposed to be funny I guess, but it's making light of something some dumb kid (or just some dummy of any sort) might actually try. I actually think it's supposed to be a truck driving by on a road near a b ball court rather than any sort of arranged stunt on a test track. That's how irresponsible the ad is...
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I got another one! Those Sodastream "better bubbles" commercials. "I get the fizz I crave...but with better bubbles." What does that even mean? As though what people crave when they drink pop is just the fizz. I mean yeah that's part of it, but the sweetness and flavour is at least as important - hence the dozens of different soda pops you can choose from. If all I want is bubbly water I could just get sparkling water! Not like it's some amazing new invention. Bubbly water ain't satisfying anyone's pop craving!
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33 minutes ago, Thrifty said:
I didn't say there was no such thing as bad publicity. Harvey Weinstein has nothing to do with advertising.
I think the fact that you guys remembered them and cared enough to write about them means that they do.
This does happen sometimes. I do it with Old Navy. But I think many more people are not responding this way.
Yeah, but obviously this isn’t really the thread for people who don’t care if an ad annoys them they’ll buy the product anyway just cuz the brand pops into their mind. Anyone that doesn’t want to complain about annoying ads probably can easily avoid a thread like this based on the title alone right?
...and I really don’t think the fact that an ad may be annoying enough that people think to complain about it in a thread like this is proof it’s a successful thing. I mean several of the ones i’ve mentioned I can’t even figure out what the product was that they were trying to get me to buy...
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22 hours ago, Thrifty said:
Lotta anger toward advertisements in this thread. Obviously, since that's the point. But the advertisers are really doing their jobs well. The point of advertisement is to create brand awareness by being memorable. And you can do that equally well by being either really creative or really obnoxious. It's basically trolling, but it works! I carry GEICO for my auto insurance, and before that I carried Progressive. I hate every ad those companies did, but they both stuck out the most in my brain.
I don’t think most of us are unaware of the aspect of advertising you refer to. It goes back to that old saw that there’s “no such thing as bad publicity.”
A few responses...
1 - it isn’t true. Ask Harvey Weinstein.
2 - even if it is true that bad/annoying commercials are doing it intentionally, the problem with many of the ads we hate is that they are both annoying AND they do a terrible job of getting the brand stuck in your brain.
3 - as noted by somebody else, some of us (myself included) actively avoid products that have really annoying ads. I recently bought a car. I didn’t for one second consider a Chevy.
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I just saw what I think is a new Trivago Guy ad. Is that goof wearing some kind of jacket thing with the lapels unfolded flat so they point at each other across his chest? If so...why?? I mean are they just intentionally doing these weird wardrobe things to make people go “wtf?” And why do so many of the things have Trivago douche telling a little story about three or more different characters - “Dave found his room on a travel site. Mike found his on a discount site...yadda blah blah” - and Trivago goof plays all the different roles (sporting different color sweaters so we know they’s different folks of course)? I mean couldn’t Trivago afford to get a few actually different people to walk toward the camera and hold a smartphone up? Do we really have to be treated to Trivago weirdo’s questionable acting skills and goofy mug all the time?
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1 hour ago, funky-rat said:
Since I know so many people are not fans of this commercial.....a friend posted this yesterday and I had to laugh.
Hah! Perfect! :D
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17 hours ago, seasons said:
Gah.
Do people still really give a shit about Oprah?
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wXiT/weight-watchers-freestyle-program-taco-fiesta-featuring-oprah
Oprah has throughout pretty much her entire career been a person I really can’t stand. From her over-zealous cheerleading and applause pandering on her shows to her sanctimonious “Oprah’s Selections” recommendations for books and so forth I find her incredibly irritating. She oozes this manufactured enthusiasm about every single thing she is involved in whether it’s an interview or a commercial. Nothing she does is ever not super interesting and exciting and also profoundly moving and motivational. She really bugs me. Always has.
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1 hour ago, MaryPatShelby said:
I haven't watched Stranger Things, and probably won't....but there is a character whose name is 11?!?!? Now I definitely won't watch it, probably.
And I don't think I'd tell my husband if I was constipated, unless it became a serious medical issue. He doesn't need to know all my bathroom secrets.
well, its the number tattooed on her wrist since she was one of a number of babies who were part of a dark semi-scientific research project...
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18 hours ago, AntiBeeSpray said:
This commercial by Skittles grosses me out. >_<
It’s a classic example of an ad that completely doesn’t achieve what the clever ad agency intended. They are going for a sort of weird/zany fun thing (I guess) but the end result of this ad is that I now can’t eat a skittles without imagining it’s a disease pustule on some (slightly dirty-looking) kid’s face. It really is quite a disgusting commercial. Actually even the other ads in the Skittles campaign of the past few years have been quite disturbing. All the people cursed with the “Skittles touch” where anything they happen to touch instantly turns to Skittles. The afflicted individual is obviously quite perturbed and not at all enjoying their predicament but everyone else is just havin some sweet candy! It’s horrible and does nothing to make me want Skittles - although I hate the things anyway.
i just moved in to a new place recently and i’m going “streaming only” no cable so i’m not going to be subjected to nearly as much advertising as in the past. I won’t miss Chevy’s Beardy McDoe Eyes one bit. F that guy!
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Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage
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Public transit?
We aren’t really at the point yet where cars drive from one place to another by themselves. If a person has a health issue that prevents them from driving, the fact that a computer can take over and guide the vehicle along a straight path for a time really doesn’t open up the wonderful world of motoring for them. I mean the hard part of driving is the stuff that requires actually diverging from a straight line...