Silver Raven January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 "Our blondes have been buzzing about new Arctic White toothpaste." What is the significance of their being blonde? Are they implying that blondes are superficial and only care about looks? Link to comment
janie jones January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 I thought it was "our blogs have been buzzing." 3 Link to comment
Cobalt Stargazer January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 I can assure you, Jimmy, she has no interest in your tool. 5 Link to comment
Lava VaVoom January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 Dogs and cats should not be fed each other's food because their nutritional needs are completely different. Dogs are omnivores and can eat anything. Cats are pure carnivores with very high metabolisms. They require diets high in protein and cannot process carbohydrates. The fact that everyone feeds them dry cat food is the reason so many wind up with kidney disease later in life. They also, like big cats in the wild, get their water from their food and not from bowls on the floor. They drink maybe 1/4 cup a day. The source of my information was a former vet who is a feline nutrition specialist. All of my cats had canned food as their main diet, with a little dry on the side and a bowl of water. They all lived long and prospered. 3 Link to comment
Prevailing Wind January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 Taking the pet food to Small Talk. 1 Link to comment
Eliot January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 Quote Look, I like dogs. More than people most of the time. So I'm really annoyed, irritated and enraged that the trend seems to be to give dogs annoying human voices and have them act obnoxious. Case in point: The Beneful dog who scarfs up his dog food while talking with his mouth full about how delicious it is. Disgusting. 5 Link to comment
peacheslatour January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 2 hours ago, Eliot said: Case in point: The Beneful dog who scarfs up his dog food while talking with his mouth full about how delicious it is. Disgusting. That's the one I was trying to think of! It's just gross. Link to comment
St. Claire January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 On 1/19/2017 at 10:29 PM, Muffyn said: It's all well and good to leave a bit of a gap. It's another thing to manspread across an entire bench. Unless you're The Man With The 60 LB Scrotum, you don't need that much room. Exactly! Stay in side your own body frame- if your feet need to be more than shoulder width apart, you may have a priapism-like issue. 4 Link to comment
kat165 January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 I like the Suburu commercial with the dogs. It's the puppy in the car seat that gets to me. Cute and funny. But it's not making me buy a Suburu. 5 Link to comment
iMonrey January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 Is there anything more adorable than a puppy in a car seat? I don't think so. 11 Link to comment
ramble January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 11 minutes ago, iMonrey said: Is there anything more adorable than a puppy in a car seat? I don't think so. Baby goats in pajamas? Except they aren't in a commercial so I guess they're disqualified. 8 Link to comment
Silver Raven January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 There's a commercial for another car company with dogs jumping in and out of the car, and the caption at the bottom of the screen says, "Real dogs, not actors." 7 Link to comment
Ohwell January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 Today I noticed that in the drug addiction commercial with Not Doogie Howser portraying a "doctor," that they now have a small display that says "Actor Portrayal." Maybe the FCC caused them to do this? 1 Link to comment
peacheslatour January 26, 2017 Share January 26, 2017 1 hour ago, Ohwell said: Today I noticed that in the drug addiction commercial with Not Doogie Howser portraying a "doctor," that they now have a small display that says "Actor Portrayal." Maybe the FCC caused them to do this? That beard looks sooo fake. Lulz 2 Link to comment
Aquarius January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 (edited) nevermind - apparently I'm too stupid to imbed an image Edited January 27, 2017 by Aquarius Link to comment
smittykins January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 2 hours ago, Ohwell said: Today I noticed that in the drug addiction commercial with Not Doogie Howser portraying a "doctor," that they now have a small display that says "Actor Portrayal." Maybe the FCC caused them to do this? Is that Pax Whatshisface, the I-used-to-be-an-addict-but-now-I'm-not guy? Link to comment
ennui January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 3 hours ago, Silver Raven said: There's a commercial for another car company with dogs jumping in and out of the car, and the caption at the bottom of the screen says, "Real dogs, not actors." I wish I could recall the exact ad, but there was a car commercial with the usual footage (fast, through the desert, lots of stunt driving), and the small print had all kinds of snarky comments that were very funny, instead of the usual boring, dry "professional driver in controlled conditions." 1 Link to comment
riley702 January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 5 hours ago, iMonrey said: Is there anything more adorable than a puppy in a car seat? Kittens trying to catch a butterfly? Or playing with a ribbon? 5 Link to comment
Prevailing Wind January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 51 minutes ago, riley702 said: Kittens trying to catch a butterfly? Or playing with a ribbon? One badass kitten trying to frighten off the badass kitten in the mirror. 6 Link to comment
Ohwell January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 1 hour ago, smittykins said: Is that Pax Whatshisface, the I-used-to-be-an-addict-but-now-I'm-not guy? I don't know if it's Pax but it's the one with the really looking kid with some hipster scruff on his face. The name of the organization is The Addiction Network. Funny thing is, there's a new ad I've been seeing with an older "doctor" with the display "Actor Portrayal" and it's for some outfit called The Recovery Network. I don't know if the two groups are related. Link to comment
Ilovecomputers January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 (edited) 4 hours ago, Ohwell said: Today I noticed that in the drug addiction commercial with Not Doogie Howser portraying a "doctor," that they now have a small display that says "Actor Portrayal." Maybe the FCC caused them to do this? They've been showing that in ads for a few years now. Maybe the FCC thinks we're all so stupid we can't discern someone portraying a doctor from a real doctor. But then, I heard people were always asking the actor who played "Marcus Welby, M.D." for medical advice, so maybe not everyone can. Edited January 27, 2017 by Ilovecomputers 2 Link to comment
proserpina65 January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 On 1/25/2017 at 9:17 PM, MaryPatShelby said: I live in Wisconsin and we say "grill out" all the time. Yeah, this discussion went around a few months ago. For me, the ad bugs because, while it may be a regional thing, no one in my area says it. I fully accept that it probably doesn't bother others. Link to comment
Ohwell January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 (edited) 12 hours ago, Ilovecomputers said: They've been showing that in ads for a few years now. Maybe the FCC thinks we're all so stupid we can't discern someone portraying a doctor from a real doctor. But then, I heard people were always asking the actor who played "Marcus Welby, M.D." for medical advice, so maybe not everyone can. All I know is that I hadn't seen it before and now it appears in the ad. Perhaps it depends upon where the ad is shown, I don't know. I can understand some people not knowing whether someone is a "real" doctor or any other profession on TV and that's why I think it's important to make that distinction when it comes to tv ads (not tv shows where, of course, they're actors). Doesn't make us stupid. Edited January 27, 2017 by Ohwell 1 Link to comment
St. Claire January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 8 minutes ago, Ohwell said: All I know is that I hadn't seen it before and now it appears in the ad. Perhaps it depends upon where the ad is shown, I don't know. I can understand some people not knowing whether someone is a "real" doctor or any other profession on TV and that's why I think it's important to make that distinction when it comes to tv ads (not tv shows where, of course, they're actors). Doesn't make us stupid. And yet, Vick's had a whole campaign back in the day using actors who played doctors to sell their cough syrup. "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV!" And that's supposed to make me trust your recommendation, because...? 8 Link to comment
habenero January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 2 hours ago, St. Claire said: And yet, Vick's had a whole campaign back in the day using actors who played doctors to sell their cough syrup. "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV!" And that's supposed to make me trust your recommendation, because...? All I can say about this addiction tv ad is that they are TRULY honest - They tell you that this 800 call is toll free. Yeah I want to call up a stranger and empty out my closet full of skeletons..... Can anyone besides a owl or The Supreme Being read that fine print? 8 Link to comment
Silver Raven January 27, 2017 Share January 27, 2017 Hey, Angel Soft, I really don't need to know that the pregnant lady never peed so much in her life. 5 Link to comment
Ilovecomputers January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 Grandpa, I am a child. I don't care about your COPD , about your discussions with your doctor or whether your prescription is "right" for you. I just want to play with my hand puppets. Thanks! 16 Link to comment
Jamoche January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 Just hit me about that ad for a knee brace with the cartoon kid and grandma that make 70s cartoons look like works of art - the target audience grew up on Looney Tunes. Way to misjudge your target audience's buttons. 4 Link to comment
peacheslatour January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 2 hours ago, Jamoche said: Just hit me about that ad for a knee brace with the cartoon kid and grandma that make 70s cartoons look like works of art - the target audience grew up on Looney Tunes. Way to misjudge your target audience's buttons. It's just a really weird commercial. The artwork, the voices and everything they say is weird. 3 Link to comment
Jaded January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 I might sound heartless with this one. This commercial drives me crazy and I hate seeing kids like this with food all over them and that people think it's cute. Oh yeah seeing a kid put your pasta sauce all over their head and elsewhere really makes me want to buy your stuff. 17 Link to comment
bilgistic January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 (edited) I must be heartless, too, because I agree. Also, I don't understand giving a one-year-old its own cake to smash on its birthday, but I'm a child-hating monster. My cat has better manners. Edited January 29, 2017 by bilgistic 17 Link to comment
Brattinella January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 (edited) 31 minutes ago, Jaded said: I might sound heartless with this one. This commercial drives me crazy and I hate seeing kids like this with food all over them and that people think it's cute. Oh yeah seeing a kid put your pasta sauce all over their head and elsewhere really makes me want to buy your stuff. I think allowing this, and the cake-smashing are both symptoms of being a bad parent. It is NOT CUTE. Edited January 28, 2017 by Brattinella HOW DO I FIX THIS? I don't want video quoted! 8 Link to comment
Bastet January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 I'd never seen that commercial before, but that's gross. I like the one where the guy goes into the other room to get something to wipe his kid's face and comes back in to find a clean kid and the dog licking his lips, but that kid had the normal amount of food around the mouth for someone little and not all that coordinated yet. This shit, of a kid deliberately smearing food all over the place, including dumping it on his head, without a parent stepping in to teach him to eat food, not play with it, is on a different level. 11 Link to comment
Ohwell January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 42 minutes ago, peacheslatour said: 3 hours ago, Jamoche said: Just hit me about that ad for a knee brace with the cartoon kid and grandma that make 70s cartoons look like works of art - the target audience grew up on Looney Tunes. Way to misjudge your target audience's buttons. It's just a really weird commercial. The artwork, the voices and everything they say is weird. I grew up watching Looney Tunes but, I swear, grandma sitting in that chair scares the crap out of me. There's just something about her... 5 Link to comment
Jamoche January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 3 minutes ago, Ohwell said: I grew up watching Looney Tunes but, I swear, grandma sitting in that chair scares the crap out of me. There's just something about her... I can't work out what the meta-pitch is - like the way Nigerian email scams have bad grammar etc to weed out the people who'd notice how stupid it is. People whose knees are so bad they can't get to the remote when they've realized they left it too far away? 2 Link to comment
peacheslatour January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 1 hour ago, Ohwell said: I grew up watching Looney Tunes but, I swear, grandma sitting in that chair scares the crap out of me. There's just something about her... It strange isn't it? There's just something unnerving about her. 3 Link to comment
bubbls January 28, 2017 Share January 28, 2017 That horrible song playing during the Cheerios ad with all the babies? Cannot lunge for the remote fast enough! 5 Link to comment
ennui January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 1 hour ago, peacheslatour said: It strange isn't it? There's just something unnerving about her. I think it's her voice. I'll bet it's not a true older person, but some voice actor sounding old and quavery. Like when they have women doing children's voices. 2 Link to comment
Brattinella January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 I think it might be Katey Sagal doing the voice-over. Sounds like her. 1 Link to comment
friendperidot January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 where's the Super Beta Prostate guy? There used to be someone who would post on TWOP, random comments, Super Beta Prostate. I didn't used to see that commercial, but it's on H&I all the time. And every time it's on, I think of him/you. 2 Link to comment
Jaded January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 Here's the other commercial with kids that's driving me up a wall. Can you imagine if any of these kids get famous and this is shown as their first commercial? 1 Link to comment
Ohwell January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 There's a commercial where the woman says she raises "honest, simple turkeys." Who knew all these years that I'd been eating dishonest turkey? Seriously, I hate the way the word "honest" is used now to describe food/products without preservatives. Same thing with "clean" food. 15 Link to comment
habenero January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 Is there one tv ad out there that has NO FINE print associated with it (in other words a HONEST ad) Be it for whatever product or service; some greedy human and or org and or corporation?! I swear every AD on tv is designed to : #1 Deceive you #2 Take your $$ like a circus carney and or lawyer Look at the forum numbers on this site - we have as of now 2K of consumers (with ?able IQ) that actually love a tv ad and then we have 655K that would pee in the office water jug at some Ad agency....go figure But the issue goes deeper than a love/ hate idiom - we pay for cable - why the hell make good and honest tv ads? WE got the leech on our neck and it's called cable tv. They get our $$ (at obscene monthly rates) and throw them weekly (except for the cable/network negotiations) to the networks who will run catheter / adult diaper / soft sex ads / and toilet paper that shows if you're bleeding and other ASSorted visual feces AD Nauseam. We see the same irritating , deceptive ads over and over and I thank the Supreme Being that I got a FF on my DVR control. We want torture in this country? Strap a perp to a chair and let it watch tv ads non-stop for a month I cannot remember when I saw and listened to a tv ad in real time....maybe it was "WHERES the BEEF?!" 4 Link to comment
Prevailing Wind January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 Some of us don't have cable/Tivo/DVRs and we are, indeed, stuck watching ads in real time, or getting up to tidy a room or visit the loo or whatever. Stella & Bosco like the bad ads, 'cause I get up & fetch the baggie of catnip & watch them rolling around for the duration. 8 Link to comment
Ohwell January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 Lyin', thievin' turkeys............... 10 Link to comment
janie jones January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 17 hours ago, forumfish said: I have never understood the appeal of babies/toddlers who wear their food, but that Prego ad creeps me out because of the way the kid on the right won't even look at the food, and waves it off. Like the food is so offensive the kid can't bear to look at it. How do you teach a kid that young to do that? The motions, yes, but the emotion behind it? I wonder if they put something in it that smelled disgusting to get that reaction. Count me as another who finds nothing cute about children with food all over their head. 14 hours ago, friendperidot said: where's the Super Beta Prostate guy? There used to be someone who would post on TWOP, random comments, Super Beta Prostate. I didn't used to see that commercial, but it's on H&I all the time. And every time it's on, I think of him/you. I don't know if that person is still around, but a while back some of us commented that we were tired of hearing about it, so please don't encourage the return of the Super Beta Prostate comments. :) 10 Link to comment
friendperidot January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 actually, not really wanting to see that all the time either Janie, but I really never did so those ads before and now they are on H&I all night long and I keep thinking about that comment. 3 Link to comment
peacheslatour January 29, 2017 Share January 29, 2017 Super Beta Prostate has always reminded me of Vita Meata Vegamin. 12 Link to comment
riley702 January 30, 2017 Share January 30, 2017 10 hours ago, Ohwell said: Lyin', thievin' turkeys............... Lying, stupid turkeys. Or unsophisticated or rustic if you prefer that for simple. 1 Link to comment
mojoween January 30, 2017 Share January 30, 2017 I know this is not a new complaint but Panera just had an ad on and clean does not mean free of preservatives. It just doesn't! I hear clean food and I think you ran the lettuce under the faucet. That's it. Oh and maybe you washed your hands before cutting the chicken. 15 Link to comment
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