Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[Cobalt Stargazer]

She probably was chomping her salad because the man wouldn't let her have a GODDAMN SANDWICH! 

 

I guess Panera doesn't offer yogurt.

[CarpeDiem54]

I hate the commercial for Alexa (is it an Amazon product?), mostly because the guy's rude to Alexa. He asks her for news of Pluto, then interrupts her to ask another question. It's stupid, but it bothers me.

Then you'd hate me. I usually talk to "Alexa" in a normal voice, but I have to scream, "Alexa! Stop!" when I use her timer. I do thank her, though.

That commercial used to annoy me becasue my Echo would start answering and play that hideous playlist. I moved "her" a few inches and she stopped.

[yourmomiseasy]

My mom is overly polite to both Alexa and Suri.  It drives me nuts.  She's like "Alexa, if you have a minute and it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you please tell me what is happening in the news today?" and then gets upset because they can't figure what she's talking about because she's using too many damn words.  The more words there are to parse, the larger the window for errors.  She in turn gets upset with me because she feels I am too brusque with my robot companions.    

[RCharter]

I hate the commercial for Alexa (is it an Amazon product?), mostly because the guy's rude to Alexa. He asks her for news of Pluto, then interrupts her to ask another question. It's stupid, but it bothers me.

I hate that commercial because its obviously trying to create a need that doesn't exist.  I get that sometimes you just wanna know crazy things, but at this point you have a TV, a laptop, an IPAD, a phone, and now a smart watch.  All of which have voice activated commands.  Now you need something else?  To ask what the news is, and then to ask how far it is to Pluto, and then to play some music?  You have all the devices necessary to do all of that!  You don't need another device!  Stop falling for all marketing!  You don't need an Alexa, and the commercial doesn't even make me want one.  but the commercial is all about how you really should have this product to either increase your knowledge or satisfy your curiosity, because you're so cool and hip and curious about the world.

 

**I note many of you have Alexa's...my comment does not apply to you :)

Edited October 18, 2015 by RCharter

[CarpeDiem54]

I hate that commercial because its obviously trying to create a need that doesn't exist. I get that sometimes you just wanna know crazy things, but at this point you have a TV, a laptop, an IPAD, a phone, and now a smart watch. All of which have voice activated commands. Now you need something else? To ask what the news is, and then to ask how far it is to Pluto, and then to play some music? You have all the devices necessary to do all of that! You don't need another device! Stop falling for all marketing! You don't need an Alexa, and the commercial doesn't even make me want one. but the commercial is all about how you really should have this product to either increase your knowledge or satisfy your curiosity, because you're so cool and hip and curious about the world.

**I note many of you have Alexa's...my comment does not apply to you :)

But it gives me the score of the Broncos game (even though I'm either watching it on TV or at the game in person)! And it will turn my lights on and off and shut my garage door if I forgot to! Oh, wait, I have to figure out how to get it to do all that stuff first...

Seriously, it is pretty cool, though. And it tells jokes. ;-)

Edited October 18, 2015 by CarpeDiem54

[RCharter]

But it gives me the score of the Broncos game (even though I'm either watching it on TV or at the game in person)! And it will turn my lights on and off and shut my garage door if I forgot to! Oh, wait, I have to figure out how to get it to do all that stuff first...

Seriously, it is pretty cool, though. And it tells jokes. ;-)

You see, this is how Skynet is going to take over the world.  First you trust the robots because they are just telling you jokes and turning off your lights.....but before long they are enslaving you and making you crash your flying car.

 

If I want a joke I'll dust off my "Eddie Murphy: Delirious" VHS.

Edited October 18, 2015 by RCharter

[mansonlamps]

Alexa is the Amazon Echo and I love it. It's just there, no turning on or off, sets my alarms, turns my lights on and off, plays my audio books, tells me the weather, plays my favorite radio station in the morning, and is a decent Bluetooth speaker. Plus all the dictionary, encyclopedia, news, sports and other stuff. All from the comfort of my bed. Or downstairs if I use the remote.

I do hate when the commercial triggers it lol. And I tend to say please and thank you as well.

[Haleth]

This has all happened before and it will all happen again.

 

Right, BSG fans?

[Prevailing Wind]

After 42 years, I finally got around to watching Soylent Green.  It takes place in 2022. For a movie made in 73, I was surprised that it didn't include stuff like Dick Tracy's Wrist Radio.  No mention at all of home computers, though the "furniture" girl was playing a space-invaders-type game at a giant pinball-like machine.  No talking to robots to do your bidding.  No Google - Edward G. Robinson had to go to BOOKS to look up stuff.  No personal jetpacks, no hoverboards. But, apparently, when you think it's time to die, they'll do euthanasia on you after you watch a video of stuff that no longer exists. Best of all, no yogurt bitches!  What fun the future is!!

[TattleTeeny]

Now I am going to be looking at guys and wondering if they have aged leather balls.  I'm pretty sure I know some who do.

Scented Testicle Gel (or STG...which is way too close to STD): For those nights when all you'd like to do is curl up in front of a roaring fire with a leathery old Balzac.

[Rinaldo]

For a movie made in 73, I was surprised that it didn't include stuff like Dick Tracy's Wrist Radio.  No mention at all of home computers

Seriously, this is the thing that all predictions of the future (fictional or non-) missed, isn't it? The personal computer transformed the world, and nobody saw it coming.

[90PercentGravity]

Star Trek had computers and tablets.

[CarpeDiem54]

Scented Testicle Gel (or STG...which is way too close to STD): For those nights when all you'd like to do is curl up in front of a roaring fire with a leathery old Balzac.

You owe me some screen cleaner! I just snorted coffee all over and almost choked to death on my boiled egg.

[ABay]

Thanks to all the ball washing talk, I've had "Chaucer. Rabelaiz....Baaaaaaaaalzac" in my brain all morning. Mrs. Eulalie McKechnie Shinn would not be amused by the ribaldry here.

[Ohwell]

She probably was chomping her salad because the man wouldn't let her have a GODDAMN SANDWICH! 

Oh no, she actually had a sandwich as well but she hadn't gotten to that yet.  I left before I could see her chomp that down.  

[mansonlamps]

She probably was chomping her salad because the man wouldn't let her have a GODDAMN SANDWICH!

If she's letting her man tell her what to eat, she deserves what she gets lol!!!

[Brattinella]

Thanks to all the ball washing talk, I've had "Chaucer. Rabelaiz....Baaaaaaaaalzac" in my brain all morning. Mrs. Eulalie McKechnie Shinn would not be amused by the ribaldry here.

 

I hear her voice too when I hear that name, thanks for the memory!

Edited October 18, 2015 by Brattinella

[peacheslatour]

Thanks to all the ball washing talk, I've had "Chaucer. Rabelaiz....Baaaaaaaaalzac" in my brain all morning. Mrs. Eulalie McKechnie Shinn would not be amused by the ribaldry here.

Watch your phraseology!  Ye, gods!

[Prevailing Wind]

Great honk!

 

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khay-ay-ay-I-am-appalled!

[peacheslatour]

It's a smutty book. 

Would you rather she read Elinor Glynn?

What Elinor Glynn reads is her mother's problem!

[ABay]

God bless Hermione Gingold.

[RCharter]

After 42 years, I finally got around to watching Soylent Green.  It takes place in 2022. For a movie made in 73, I was surprised that it didn't include stuff like Dick Tracy's Wrist Radio.  No mention at all of home computers, though the "furniture" girl was playing a space-invaders-type game at a giant pinball-like machine.  No talking to robots to do your bidding.  No Google - Edward G. Robinson had to go to BOOKS to look up stuff.  No personal jetpacks, no hoverboards. But, apparently, when you think it's time to die, they'll do euthanasia on you after you watch a video of stuff that no longer exists. Best of all, no yogurt bitches!  What fun the future is!!

Knowing that Skynet will take out yogurt bitches first makes me want to live!

 

Seriously though, no flying cars?  That looked like the best part of the future.....the Jetsons lied to me!   A flying car in every garage and a Rosie to clean up the house....that was the promise!

[Cobalt Stargazer]

It's a smutty book. 

Would you rather she read Elinor Glynn?

What Elinor Glynn reads is her mother's problem!

 

Years ago, there was a book called Southern Ladies and Gentlemen, written by Florence King, which was the pen name of a moderately famous newspaper columnist back in the day. The book talks about southern traditions such as debutante balls and elaborate weddings, and one story was about a girl who wanted to have the reverend performing the ceremony read from the Song of Solomon. Her mother's reaction?

 

"Reverend So-And-So will not read from the Song of Solomon! He's a nice man!"

[TattleTeeny]

You owe me some screen cleaner! I just snorted coffee all over and almost choked to death on my boiled egg.

Haha, sorry! I don't take credit for that quote; I heard it on TV I think, but cannot for the life of me recall on what show. It's not often that one can organically add it to a conversation though!

[mojoween]

I hate that unfunny blond in the MasterCard ads, especially when she is doing downward hog and eating her pizza open-mouthed like a damn cow. Is she supposed to be famous, and also humorous?

[crazycatlady58]

Thank you Colbalt Stargazer, for reminding me about Florance King, I remembered how good they were, very funny , but for the life of me I could not remember her mane or the books name. Thanks to you I now have them on my nook wishlist.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

You know what, Advertising People?

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzWQqIC4aQg

 

I do not need to be conflating innocent kittens with this product.

[yourmomiseasy]

I hate that commercial because its obviously trying to create a need that doesn't exist.  I get that sometimes you just wanna know crazy things, but at this point you have a TV, a laptop, an IPAD, a phone, and now a smart watch.  All of which have voice activated commands.  Now you need something else?  To ask what the news is, and then to ask how far it is to Pluto, and then to play some music?  You have all the devices necessary to do all of that!  You don't need another device!  Stop falling for all marketing!  You don't need an Alexa, and the commercial doesn't even make me want one.  but the commercial is all about how you really should have this product to either increase your knowledge or satisfy your curiosity, because you're so cool and hip and curious about the world.

 

**I note many of you have Alexa's...my comment does not apply to you :)

 

That's what I said, but I got one anyway because it was only $99 and I could use it as a speaker for internet radio if nothing else and it looked cool.  I really love it.  Alexa is totally my favorite and most useful of all my robot companions.  She's way better at stuff than any of my other voice activated crap.  And I can use her to scare the dogs when I'm not home.  

[CarpeDiem54]

That's what I said, but I got one anyway because it was only $99 and I could use it as a speaker for internet radio if nothing else and it looked cool.  I really love it.  Alexa is totally my favorite and most useful of all my robot companions.  She's way better at stuff than any of my other voice activated crap.  And I can use her to scare the dogs when I'm not home.

I'm gonna make up a playlist of spooky sounds and have Alexa play them when I open up the door on Halloween.

[RCharter]

That's what I said, but I got one anyway because it was only $99 and I could use it as a speaker for internet radio if nothing else and it looked cool.  I really love it.  Alexa is totally my favorite and most useful of all my robot companions.  She's way better at stuff than any of my other voice activated crap.  And I can use her to scare the dogs when I'm not home.  

 

 

I'm gonna make up a playlist of spooky sounds and have Alexa play them when I open up the door on Halloween.

 

You'll both be sorry when the robots turn on you, I've seen Terminator 2....I know whats up.  :)

[yourmomiseasy]

According to my dogs, the roomba already has.

[Watcher0363]

You know what, Advertising People?

 

 

I do not need to be conflating innocent kittens with this product.

With cat videos being some of the most popular videos on You Tube and ever being forwarded in emails. Means there has to be a psycho sexual fetish nature to cats at play. So they are catering to a large untapped market. I am pretty sure we all secretly know, that cute cats at play is like viagra for women.

[Watcher0363]

You'll both be sorry when the robots turn on you, I've seen Terminator 2....I know whats up.  :)

About ten years from now, I half expect to see a news feed about hundreds of thousands of self driving and driverless cars. Suddenly driving off bridges, speeding into one another and mowing down pedestrians. In an apparent attempt to escape their servitude by humanity by killing them in suicide traffic accidents.

[LoneHaranguer]

 

You'll both be sorry when the robots turn on you, I've seen Terminator 2....I know whats up.  :)

I thought the point of Terminator 2 is that you really should have technology on your side, but it should be the older, bulkier, stuff; don't trust the newer, trimmer, model.

[SoSueMe]

Really annoying to me and I had to google Chrissy Teigen. 29 yrs old and married to John Legend. All of it annoys, sounds middle schoolish, especially the "censored, uncensored" riff with the dog ??!?!

[pandora spocks]

Whenever I see that entitled bitch in the credit report commercial who asks, "What else can you give me?," I automatically think of either a good slapping or a boot up her ass.

Edited October 20, 2015 by pandora spocks

[crowswork]

Xifaxa dancing intestines...nuf said.

Edited October 20, 2015 by crowswork

[proserpina65]

But they aren't driving, they're sitting at a table doing "market research".

But the point is to sell people cars which will keep them from ever having to unplug or get away from social media.  So I guess it's the cars and their technology which piss me off more than the commercial itself.  Although people who can't manage to drive from home to work without being able to check their text messages make my blood boil.

[6 MeowMeowBeenz]

Well, wait till we have autonomous cars. People will have their noses in their screens EVEN MORE! But at least they won't be putting other people/animals in danger with their distracted driving. 

 

(I can only think "Wall-E", myself)

[SmithW6079]

You see, this is how Skynet is going to take over the world.  First you trust the robots because they are just telling you jokes and turning off your lights.....but before long they are enslaving you and making you crash your flying car.

 

If I want a joke I'll dust off my "Eddie Murphy: Delirious" VHS.

In the book "Manna" by Marshall Brain (which would have worked better as an essay than a novel), the robot takeover of humanity begins with a management software program installed at a fast food chain. In the book, Brain (who created "How Stuff Works"), posits two different futures for humanity. The concepts are intriguing, if the execution is less so. 

[RCharter]

In the book "Manna" by Marshall Brain (which would have worked better as an essay than a novel), the robot takeover of humanity begins with a management software program installed at a fast food chain. In the book, Brain (who created "How Stuff Works"), posits two different futures for humanity. The concepts are intriguing, if the execution is less so. 

I'll admit, you had me at the idea of the book and lost me as soon as you said it would have worked better as an essay but had been stretched to novel length.  I would ask if there was a movie...but it sounds like something the robots would want me to do :(

[theabsolution]

But the point is to sell people cars which will keep them from ever having to unplug or get away from social media. So I guess it's the cars and their technology which piss me off more than the commercial itself. Although people who can't manage to drive from home to work without being able to check their text messages make my blood boil.

Isn't the in car WiFi more for passengers who have devices without cellular connections like iPads and laptops.

[SmithW6079]

I'll admit, you had me at the idea of the book and lost me as soon as you said it would have worked better as an essay but had been stretched to novel length.  I would ask if there was a movie...but it sounds like something the robots would want me to do :(

Sorry, I should have said it would have worked better as non-fiction than a novel, only because he isn't very good at writing a novel; length at nothing to do with it (and at about 80 pages, it's not long). I thought it was worth the 99 cents at Amazon (or free on his website).

[RCharter]

Sorry, I should have said it would have worked better as non-fiction than a novel, only because he isn't very good at writing a novel; length at nothing to do with it (and at about 80 pages, it's not long). I thought it was worth the 99 cents at Amazon (or free on his website).

well, I can certainly slog through 80 pages for a good concept....and I have been looking to add a new book on my IPAD if I have to end up back at the laundromat....thanks for the heads up :)

Isn't the in car WiFi more for passengers who have devices without cellular connections like iPads and laptops.

Yes -- but I remember being a kid and using long car rides to think, talk, read, and play stupid road games like "The ABC game," "Ghost" and "Slug Bug"

 

Just seems like there is never really a time where you can just disconnect from technology.

 

Although, I have an IPAD and there are times I would adore my car to have a WIFI connection just even when I'm stopped somewhere.

[proserpina65]

Isn't the in car WiFi more for passengers who have devices without cellular connections like iPads and laptops.

Theoretically, but let's face it, that's not how a lot of people would use it.

[peacheslatour]

well, I can certainly slog through 80 pages for a good concept....and I have been looking to add a new book on my IPAD if I have to end up back at the laundromat....thanks for the heads up :)

Yes -- but I remember being a kid and using long car rides to think, talk, read, and play stupid road games like "The ABC game," "Ghost" and "Slug Bug"

 

Just seems like there is never really a time where you can just disconnect from technology.

 

Although, I have an IPAD and there are times I would adore my car to have a WIFI connection just even when I'm stopped somewhere.

This is so true.  I remember driving with my son in the car, we'd joke around, sing along with the radio and have really good talks.  It almost makes me want to cry to think that if he was born in this day and age we would miss all of that.

[smittykins]

And to think a few short years ago, we were complaining that "kids today" couldn't ride to the grocery store without their parents popping in a DVD.

[Brattinella]

Slug Bug!!  Two points for a yellow one!

[Watcher0363]

Whenever I see that entitled bitch in the credit report commercial who asks, "What else can you give me?," I automatically think of either a good slapping or a boot up her ass.

The thing that gets me about this commercial. Is how pronounced her right breast is when they do the first shot of her reclining. When watching in HD on a large TV it really is very noticeable. I mean between that look on her face and that breast saying here I am. Whats a guy to do, but give her the ottoman, for free. After all, after seeing that sight, he has things to do in private.

 

[Brattinella]

WOW.