Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[meep.meep]

4 hours ago, ennui said:

I live in an area that has banned plastic bags. I've decided this was a plot instigated by plastic bag manufacturers, because while you can no longer have groceries bagged, and thus re-use the grocery bag, you now have to buy plastic bags. I was recently at Costco, and there is an entire aisle of plastic bags in all sizes.

Plastic bags didn't go away.

Every retailer took advantage of the ban to also start charging for paper bags.   There are weird loopholes on the plastic ones - for some reason take out prepared food can still go in plastic bags.  So, now we save up the bags from getting Chinese food.

It definitely was not a plot by the plastic bag manufacturers - they have an initiative on the November ballot to remove the ban.

[ennui]

12 minutes ago, meep.meep said:

It definitely was not a plot by the plastic bag manufacturers - they have an initiative on the November ballot to remove the ban.

Thanks, now I have a reason to vote.  

The newspaper still comes in a plastic bag on rainy days. Maybe the type of plastic is at issue? *shrug*

[riley702]

I admit I buy the liner bags for my automatic litter box. Spent a shit ton for that thing, but I never have to scoop; just change the drawer liner every 4 days or so for two kitties. I love that thing.

[Brattinella]

37 minutes ago, riley702 said:

I admit I buy the liner bags for my automatic litter box. Spent a shit ton for that thing, but I never have to scoop; just change the drawer liner every 4 days or so for two kitties. I love that thing.

Only every 4 days for two kitties?  Wow.  Maybe I should get one...

[kat165]

Besides muting Bon Jovi hawking some cable company & the Silk commercial, which seems to have stopped airing here lately I now mute some food commercial, pizza or fast food with a bunch of idiots saying "whaaaaaaaattttttttt?" to well known classical compostion which I can't think of the name of.

Word to advertisers: if you commerical contains sounds that annoy me I'm not going to buy your product.

[bilgistic]

3 hours ago, margol29 said:

Another bug is that stupid little ding dong at the beginning of Honda (I think) or Toyota commercials makes me what to hit the mute button as fast as I can.

It's Honda, and it breaks my heart, because I love my 12-year-old Civic, but those commercials make me homicidal. That "ding dong" is one of the most annoying things in a commercial EVER. There's something (I can't remember what) that I watch online, and every commercial break plays two or three of those Honda commercials IN A ROW. Every break! It's TORTURE.

3 hours ago, ennui said:

If you watch carefully, the dogs are wearing pet restraints and seat belts. Kudos to Lincoln, methinks.

Hooray for this! I tune out those commercials, but I think it's incredibly important to secure your pets in your car, and I'm glad to hear someone's showing that. If you secure your kids, why not your pets?

Edited August 17, 2016 by bilgistic

[Haleth]

9 hours ago, kat165 said:

or fast food with a bunch of idiots saying "whaaaaaaaattttttttt?

That commercial is really annoying.  But the funny thing is the producers felt the need to subtitle one kid saying "whaaaaaat?" as if viewers couldn't figure out that he was saying the same thing as everyone else in the commercial.

The good thing about using reusable cloth bags is you don't end up with mountains of plastic bags in the pantry.  I think those things spontaneously reproduce like tribbles.  The trick though is to remember to bring the cloth bags into the store with you.

[NinjaPenguins]

I rather like the chime at the beginning of the Honda commercials. It's like an early warning system that tells me some shitty, annoying music is about to play and I need to hit the mute button. 

[iMonrey]

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Then the newest commercial with him in his fancy mansion looking out at his fancy pool thinking about driving his fancy car.

The weird thing about this commercial is that he does the "Nestea Plunge" (for those of you old enough to remember it) - falling backwards into the pool. Then says driving the new Lincoln is "like that." Wait, what? Driving the new Lincoln is like falling backwards into a pool? Wouldn't that be kind of  . . .  you know, scary? "Drive our car, it's like falling backwards into a pool." Uh, no thanks.

[friendperidot]

It's going to take a minute, but I'll get to the drainers and drinkers.

I was taken by ambulance to the ER the other day for heat exhaustion. It was around 4PM. I got a lot attention when I first got there, put in a room, vitals, nurses, doctors, etc. I had drunk 2 bottles of water by the time I got there and then was hooked up to an IV for fluids. Well, you know what happens when you get a lot of fluids. A nurse helped unplug the IV, and helped me walk to the bathroom - walking was a problem and it was a long process to get there. I don't know what happened in the few minutes while I was in the potty, but I came out to a line of gurneys with patients and EMTs in the hallway. None were bleeding, so it didn't look there had been a big accident or anything. But after that, no one came to check on me. I have no idea how to hook up an IV, it didn't get done, but I found a hook for it, crawled back on my gurney and went to sleep for about an hour. When I woke the line of gurneys were gone, but I still hadn't seen anyone, went to the bathroom by myself, came back, found my tv/call button thingie, turned on the Olympics. But after about another hour, I was very upset with the entire situation. I didn't know officially what was wrong, I was freezing cold - sweating a lot then going in a/c does that, asked a woman emptying the trash if I could have another blanket - she was very kind and helpful. Finally called for a nurse, but I was so upset by then, freezing and starving. The nurse had no idea why I hadn't been checked on and went to find the dr and had someone bring me a tray. There was a container of peaches, a horrible but wonderful roast beef sandwich, Sun Chips and a diet Sprite. Hate diet, but I drank every drop. But those peaches! I didn't care if they were drainable or drinkable, I ate every bite! When you are hungry - who gives a bleep!

I'm fine, was discharged after I ate. Except now I have shin splints from my little 6 mile walk in the heat. 

[riley702]

It is hella pricey, but I love it. It even has a night light (a pretty blue that I find one of my cats staring at) and a drawer full indicator light. If you ignore that, it quits cycling until you change the liner. You can also program it to turn off at night if the cycling noise bothers you.

https://www.litter-robot.com/litter-robot-iii-open-air.html

[erikdepressant]

I know this wasn't the intention, but since riley702's post came after friendperidot's, it seemed like an endorsement of the Litter Robot III as a great fixture in hospital rooms, so people hooked up to IV bags wouldn't have to travel or get lost trying to use the restroom.

ETA: friendperidot, I hope you're feeling better.  I know what it's like to be misplaced in a hospital, and I know how deprivation can make hospital food delicious.

Edited August 18, 2016 by erikdepressant

[MichelleAK]

Latest annoyance: a commercial for (I think) Google Photos, or something like that--it's cloud storage for pix and videos. Anyway, the whole commercial is people taking pictures or videos, but running out of storage room on their phones.  The annoying part is the "ping" sound each time they show a "low memory" warning.  I didn't think I could find a sound more annoying than an alarm clock going off, but there it is. That damned ping, a dozen times in one commercial.

[TattleTeeny]

18 hours ago, friendperidot said:

It's going to take a minute, but I'll get to the drainers and drinkers.

I was taken by ambulance to the ER the other day for heat exhaustion. It was around 4PM. I got a lot attention when I first got there, put in a room, vitals, nurses, doctors, etc. I had drunk 2 bottles of water by the time I got there and then was hooked up to an IV for fluids. Well, you know what happens when you get a lot of fluids. A nurse helped unplug the IV, and helped me walk to the bathroom - walking was a problem and it was a long process to get there. I don't know what happened in the few minutes while I was in the potty, but I came out to a line of gurneys with patients and EMTs in the hallway. None were bleeding, so it didn't look there had been a big accident or anything. But after that, no one came to check on me. I have no idea how to hook up an IV, it didn't get done, but I found a hook for it, crawled back on my gurney and went to sleep for about an hour. When I woke the line of gurneys were gone, but I still hadn't seen anyone, went to the bathroom by myself, came back, found my tv/call button thingie, turned on the Olympics. But after about another hour, I was very upset with the entire situation. I didn't know officially what was wrong, I was freezing cold - sweating a lot then going in a/c does that, asked a woman emptying the trash if I could have another blanket - she was very kind and helpful. Finally called for a nurse, but I was so upset by then, freezing and starving. The nurse had no idea why I hadn't been checked on and went to find the dr and had someone bring me a tray. There was a container of peaches, a horrible but wonderful roast beef sandwich, Sun Chips and a diet Sprite. Hate diet, but I drank every drop. But those peaches! I didn't care if they were drainable or drinkable, I ate every bite! When you are hungry - who gives a bleep!

I'm fine, was discharged after I ate. Except now I have shin splints from my little 6 mile walk in the heat. 

Can I share a non-commercial-related IV story too? It's so ridiculous; I'll to not to ramble.

Years ago, I woke up with a terrible, horrible pain in my lower back. It got worse fast so I went to the ER. I got there and they did all the usual tests they do (except a catheter because I practically kicked it out of the nurse's hand). They started me on IV fluids because they needed me to have a full bladder for that test with the jelly-smeared abdomen rolly-ball thing. Anyway, I had not one but two of those fluid bags, which boggled the mind of the nurse (she said it usually takes less than one*). Finally, I had to pee so they took me to the rolly-ball test. When I was done, I really had to go but they left me on a gurney in the hallway, still attached to that damn IV! No one came, but there was a bathroom not far away. So I started, like, pushing along the wall with my hands to move the whole gurney. I got to the bathroom and didn't know how to navigate the IV so...

I pulled it right out of my hand! I went in, took care of business, and came back out to find an angry nurse who showed me that I could have simply wheeled the IV apparatus in with me. 

Turns out I had a kidney stone, but by the time they told me that, it must have worked itself out because the pain was pretty much gone. But they sent me home with a coffee-filter-looking thing, which I was apparently supposed to use to catch the stone the next time I went to the bathroom. I didn't use it because I didn't care anymore!

* I apparently could withstand multiple bags of IV fluids because I had become adept at holding my pee for long stretches of time due to the fact that the bathrooms at the Barnes & Noble where I worked at the time were always in atrocious condition. The doctor told me that that may have contributed to why I ended up with a gnarly kidney stone in the first place. Cut to years later--when I have to pee, I now find a way! I also find that, ever since then, I always am slightly...I guess "aware of" (the best term I can come up with) my general kidney region.

I hope you're feeling better, friendperidot!

Edited August 18, 2016 by TattleTeeny

[riley702]

1 hour ago, erikdepressant said:

I know this wasn't the intention, but since riley702's post came after friendperidot's, it seemed like an endorsement of the Litter Robot III as a great fixture in hospital rooms, so people hooked up to IV bags wouldn't have to travel or get lost trying to use the restroom.

ETA: friendperidot, I hope you're feeling better.  I know what it's like to be misplaced in a hospital, and I know how deprivation can make hospital food delicious.

Not sure what happened there. I was responding to Brattinella's post (last one on page 209) and originally it showed up as right below hers. Now there's a whole bunch of stuff in between.

[Brattinella]

Okay, this Beautyrest ad with Tom Brady?  He creeps me the hell out, "Will you be needing anything?"  "No, Not a thing." while he looks with lust at the bare room with a mattress in it.  Eesh!

[Trini]

2 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

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* I apparently could withstand multiple bags of IV fluids because I had become adept at holding my pee for long stretches of time due to the fact that the bathrooms at the Barnes & Noble where I worked at the time were always in atrocious condition. The doctor told me that that may have contributed to why I ended up with a gnarly kidney stone in the first place. Cut to years later--when I have to pee, I now find a way! I also find that, ever since then, I always am slightly...I guess "aware of" (the best term I can come up with) my general kidney region.
 

Answering in Small Talk...

[TattleTeeny]

Just saw Katy Perry in a makeup commercial. She is insufferable. 

[Ubiquitous]

On ‎8‎/‎16‎/‎2016 at 10:34 PM, kat165 said:

Besides muting Bon Jovi hawking some cable company & the Silk commercial, which seems to have stopped airing here lately I now mute some food commercial, pizza or fast food with a bunch of idiots saying "whaaaaaaaattttttttt?" to well known classical compostion which I can't think of the name of.

It's the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think it's named "Thus Spoke Zathras".

[kat165]

Thanks, Ubiq, I thought it was a much older composition, like 1700 something.

[Brattinella]

1896, Richard Strauss "Also Sprach Zarathustra".   The piece used in 2001 was also called "Sunrise".  Such a beautiful piece of music!

[ennui]

34 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

1896, Richard Strauss "Also Sprach Zarathustra".   The piece used in 2001 was also called "Sunrise".  Such a beautiful piece of music!

Elvis used it to open his shows, segueing into See See Rider.  

[iMonrey]

The Verizon commercial with the fake Jamie Foxx shilling for Sprint is actually kind of funny. Unfortunately every time the real Jamie Foxx says "ek cetera" I cringe.

[bilgistic]

3 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

Just saw Katy Perry in a makeup commercial. She is insufferable. 

So is her "music".

[proserpina65]

On ‎08‎/‎17‎/‎2016 at 7:50 AM, Haleth said:

That commercial is really annoying.  But the funny thing is the producers felt the need to subtitle one kid saying "whaaaaaat?" as if viewers couldn't figure out that he was saying the same thing as everyone else in the commercial.

The good thing about using reusable cloth bags is you don't end up with mountains of plastic bags in the pantry.  I think those things spontaneously reproduce like tribbles.  The trick though is to remember to bring the cloth bags into the store with you.

And yet I can never find the right kind plastic bag when I need it (ones without holes for cat box purposes, ones with for my lunch - do not want to mix those up).

[Brattinella]

Our local grocery store will give me literally hundreds of fresh plastic bags, right off the rack (if they have enough) for free!  And I just lay them neatly in the plastic bag drawer, and use when I scoop the box.

[bilgistic]

2 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

And yet I can never find the right kind plastic bag when I need it (ones without holes for cat box purposes, ones with for my lunch - do not want to mix those up).

Why are there always holes in the bags when I go to scoop the cat box?

[Jamoche]

8 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

Just saw Katy Perry in a makeup commercial. She is insufferable. 

My first thought - with those kitty ears and exaggerated eyeshadow, is she aiming for the Japanese-inspired fashion fans? I've got friends who do that, but it's a very tiny market.

7 hours ago, Ubiquitous said:

I think it's named "Thus Spoke Zathras".

That would be a Babylon5 theme :)

[AimingforYoko]

1 hour ago, Jamoche said:

That would be a Babylon5 theme :)

Zathras likes this reference.

[xaxat]

Peyton can pretend to be a retired superstar standing in line with a handful of coupons all he wants. But Tim Duncan is  is the real deal.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

I don't know why Jennifer Garner's Capital One ads annoy me so much more than Samuel L. Jackson's, but they do. Maybe because Jackson doesn't give me that 'you so stupid' face about what people can save money on.

[Brattinella]

1 hour ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

I don't know why Jennifer Garner's Capital One ads annoy me so much more than Samuel L. Jackson's, but they do. Maybe because Jackson doesn't give me that 'you so stupid' face about what people can save money on.

That's EXACTLY it!

 

P.S. Why can't I highlight anything in the quoted text?

Edited August 20, 2016 by Brattinella
duh

[mojoween]

I have a four gallon trash can for litter and get four gallon trash bags at Target.  I may have a huge tote in my trunk filled with reusable bags for any store I go to (I even use them in the mall) but what am I supposed to do with the litter?

On another topic, Frosty's are apparently 50 cents for a limited time which is fine and while I know it's a real thing, dipping a fry in your Frosty will NEVER be ok with me.

[Brattinella]

2 minutes ago, mojoween said:

I have a four gallon trash can for litter and get four gallon trash bags at Target.  I may have a huge tote in my trunk filled with reusable bags for any store I go to (I even use them in the mall) but what am I supposed to do with the litter?

On another topic, Frosty's are apparently 50 cents for a limited time which is fine and while I know it's a real thing, dipping a fry in your Frosty will NEVER be ok with me.

What are you supposed to do with the litter? Is anyone suggesting anything other than putting the bag in the outside garbage?

[bilgistic]

54 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

What are you supposed to do with the litter? Is anyone suggesting anything other than putting the bag in the outside garbage?

I've had a ridiculous week at work, and this struck me as so funny for some reason. I just laughed and laughed.

"Jim, I've found that used litter is good for sealing cracks in the foundations of the houses we flip. I came up with that idea when I was trying to chisel it out of the cat box one day."

Edited August 20, 2016 by bilgistic

[friendperidot]

Mojoween, I'm sorry, but there's something about the hot, salty, fried taste of French fries that is wonderful dipped in the freezing, sweet, chocolaty Frosty that is just so good. I guess it's a love it or hate it, and I enjoy it. Don't do it all the time, but yum. I'm not a big chocolate fan (gasp!) but I actually like a Frosty now and then, they aren't that chocolaty chocolate. I liked it better when Wendy's had vanilla Frostys, though.

[Haleth]

7 hours ago, bilgistic said:

"Jim, I've found that used litter is good for sealing cracks in the foundations of the houses we flip. I came up with that idea when I was trying to chisel it out of the cat box one day."

And then paint over it with anti bacterial paint!  Viola!  Brilliant!

[mojoween]

9 hours ago, Brattinella said:

What are you supposed to do with the litter? Is anyone suggesting anything other than putting the bag in the outside garbage?

Ha!  I think the discussion started with being environmentally friendly but still using dead dinosaurs to dispose of the litter clumps.

[TattleTeeny]

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Why are there always holes in the bags when I go to scoop the cat box?

I use two at a time (shhhhh, I know I am horrible for this).

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My first thought - with those kitty ears and exaggerated eyeshadow, is she aiming for the Japanese-inspired fashion fans? I've got friends who do that, but it's a very tiny market.

She probably is? IMO, she's a huge copycat--which is fine, everyone from celebrities to regular people mimic styles they see and like. But I heard her years ago on Howard Stern touting her unique style as if she came up with her Betty Page-ish look. It was super-annoying and she's rubbed me the wrong way ever since! Also (and this is mean of me), she looks pretty in profile but, I'm sorry, head-on...ugh, I do not see the appeal.

 

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What are you supposed to do with the litter? Is anyone suggesting anything other than putting the bag in the outside garbage?

The kind I use can be safely flushed but the only time I do that is when I am present at the time of the poop crime. At the end of the day (in the literal sense, not the figurative way people use that phrase), I don't flush 24 hours' worth of clumps from two litter boxes. The instructions say it's OK but I feel skeptical.

[Brattinella]

1 hour ago, mojoween said:

Ha!  I think the discussion started with being environmentally friendly but still using dead dinosaurs to dispose of the litter clumps.

Huh?  Dead dinosaurs?

[MichaelaRae]

I have no strong feelings one way or another with regard to Christy Teigan, but the Tresemme commercial where she shouts "WITH TRESEMME!" at the very end irks me. She's been speaking perfectly normally and conversationally throughout the commercial and then BAM. Is she trying to be cute? Does she think it's cute? I'd like to have a conversation with the creative director about why (s)he chose that take. It's just so incongruous it stumps me.

[TattleTeeny]

YES! It's as random as Shaq's "when I was...younger [coy look at the camera]" in the General insurance commercial! Maybe it's because the Tresemme products are for volume?

[mojoween]

38 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

Huh?  Dead dinosaurs?

I was being cheeky in using the belief that the petroleum used to make plastic comes from the dinosaurs that perished and ended up in our minerals underground.

Edited August 20, 2016 by mojoween

[bilgistic]

33 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

Huh?  Dead dinosaurs?

Clay litter is "strip mined" from the earth, which is not environmentally friendly at all, and will eventually, eventually be depleted. Short of teaching your cat how to use the human toilet, though, what do you do? Yes, there are "alternative" litters, but they cost an arm and a leg, and frankly, don't work as well, in my educated and experienced opinion. I recycle, reuse, reduce and whatever else, so my one crime against Earth (other than existing and consuming as a part of existing) is the use of clay litter.

[peacheslatour]

3 hours ago, Brattinella said:

Huh?  Dead dinosaurs?

Plastic is made from petroleum, petroleum is made from the remains of living organisms. That's why gasoline and natural gas are called "fossil fuels".

[kat165]

"The more you know!" :)

[Brattinella]

Wow did I get spanked.  And I still don't give a shit.  I have cats, I use clay litter, and plastic bags to collect it.  I (and you) are not saving the earth by not using these products.  And just how long do you think people will still be on this earth?

[chessiegal]

4 hours ago, MichaelaRae said:

I have no strong feelings one way or another with regard to Christy Teigan, but the Tresemme commercial where she shouts "WITH TRESEMME!" at the very end irks me. She's been speaking perfectly normally and conversationally throughout the commercial and then BAM. Is she trying to be cute? Does she think it's cute? I'd like to have a conversation with the creative director about why (s)he chose that take. It's just so incongruous it stumps me.

What irritates me about that commercial is the proclamation that the products are labeled with a "1" and "2" so us poor little stupid girls don't get mixed up or confused. ARGGGHH!!! It's as bad as the coffee commercial from the early seventies that was pushing it's decaffeinated brand, with the guy telling the woman that the coffee was decaffeinated, and her response is "De what?" I was so irritated I wrote to the company (snail mail of course) to tell them it was the 70s and time to stop demeaning women and acting like we were clueless bimbos. I got a letter back saying they were sorry I was offended by their ad, but they had run it by focus groups and no one had that reaction. Ack.

[bilgistic]

4 hours ago, mojoween said:

I was being cheeky in using the belief that the petroleum used to make plastic comes from the dinosaurs that perished and ended up in our minerals underground.

That, too.

[peacheslatour]

2 hours ago, chessiegal said:

What irritates me about that commercial is the proclamation that the products are labeled with a "1" and "2" so us poor little stupid girls don't get mixed up or confused. ARGGGHH!!! It's as bad as the coffee commercial from the early seventies that was pushing it's decaffeinated brand, with the guy telling the woman that the coffee was decaffeinated, and her response is "De what?" I was so irritated I wrote to the company (snail mail of course) to tell them it was the 70s and time to stop demeaning women and acting like we were clueless bimbos. I got a letter back saying they were sorry I was offended by their ad, but they had run it by focus groups and no one had that reaction. Ack.

Are you kidding me? The focus groups were probably made up of the kind of morons who say man cave unironically.