Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[configdotsys]

7 hours ago, Brattinella said:

So you say tour rhymes with pour?   I think tour more closely rhymes with poor.  But my geographics have probably affected my speech. ;)

ETA: I'm sorry, I attributed the wrong person with that pronunciation.

LOL. Now I'm even more confused because pour and poor sound exactly the same to me.

5 hours ago, Bastet said:

Rhyming with lure.

Here, lure is pronounced lore, which rhymes with poor, which rhymes with tour.

Do you pronounce lure as "Lur" like rhyming with the word 'her'?

[MrSmith]

21 minutes ago, configdotsys said:

LOL. Now I'm even more confused because pour and poor sound exactly the same to me.

Here, lure is pronounced lore, which rhymes with poor, which rhymes with tour.

Do you pronounce lure as "Lur" like rhyming with the word 'her'?

I pronounce "lure" as "loor", with the o's as kind of a "ew" sound (that I don't know how to represent in text). And, yes, "pour" and "poor" are homonyms, even though "our" is a homonym with "hour".

Edited to add: I guess that makes "lure", "poor", and "poor" all homonyms in my world, with the exception of the one starting with L.

Edited June 30, 2017 by MrSmith

[Haleth]

21 hours ago, Sandman87 said:

The Colonel is back. He's wearing a spacesuit and plagiarizing one of JFK's greatest speeches to push KFC's new Salt, Fat, and Cholesterol sandwich. Kinda hoping his spaceship gets stranded on Pluto. With a slow air leak.

I wouldn't eat KFC if you threatened me but I like that they tease us with a new colonel every 6 months.  This one is Rob Lowe.

[Brattinella]

56 minutes ago, Haleth said:

I wouldn't eat KFC if you threatened me but I like that they tease us with a new colonel every 6 months.  This one is Rob Lowe.

I wish they wouldn't advertise in my area at all.  Our KFC was removed a couple years ago AND I MISS IT!

[iMonrey]

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The woman who does the red copper ads has an annoying voice at the best of times, but she outdoes herself in the Flipwich ads.

That's Cathy Mitchell. You can't get away from her if you watch H&I. She's like a living cartoon. I have to admit though, the pans she hawks look pretty cool. I kind of want them.

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Ugh. Pronunciation. My mother used to tell us to warsh our hands or that she was warshing our clothes. No one else in her family says it like that. Not even her mother said it like that! I don't know where the hell she got that from

My dad said "warshed" too. He was from Pennsylvania. Sounds sort of hillbilly to me.

[peacheslatour]

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The woman who smoked looks into the incubator with the camera strategically placed to see her face from inside.  It a TOTALLY different and dramatic tone of voice, she says "speak louder so your baby can hear you."   Who talks like that?!

That flat affect is common to many Native Americans.

[proserpina65]

On ‎06‎/‎16‎/‎2017 at 6:16 PM, Jaded said:

The Cancer Treatment Centers of America commercials being on every damn channel I watch. They make it seem like they will help anyone but if you have insurance they don't take they want a yuge deposit. It doesn't help the fact that they are damn scary if you've lost someone to C.

Their commercials, which tout all kinds of miracle treatments that most insurance companies won't pay for because they're experimental, are why I actually LIKE the commercial raising awareness of pancreatic cancer using disappearing runners.  Yeah, it's depressing, but so is the fact that pancreatic cancer research gets so little funding even though it's an incredibly deadly disease.

(I tend to take this particular disease personally.  My grandmother died of pancreatic cancer just two weeks after being diagnosed; that survival rates have changed little in the intervening 51 years, at least partially due to lack of research, makes me very angry.)

On ‎06‎/‎18‎/‎2017 at 10:46 AM, Ubiquitous said:

I hate that ad for so many reasons! I hate the music; I hate the narrative, especially the girl's dorky dance move; and I am convinced any product made by that American swill beer company is going to be nasty as hell.

That product is an abomination.  If it ain't got tequila, it ain't a margarita, damn it!

[proserpina65]

On ‎06‎/‎25‎/‎2017 at 0:26 AM, Jamoche said:

To the smug Susan Sarandon lookalike in the Geico flat tire ad who keeps shushing her family: Would it hurt you to let them talk? https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wwxK/geico-emergency-roadside-service-the-flat-tire-guitar-solo

Whenever I see that commercial, all I can think is "get out of the car and change your own damned tire, you lazy bitch".  Plus, they'd all have to get out before anyone could jack the car up for tire changing anyway.

[proserpina65]

On ‎06‎/‎29‎/‎2017 at 3:47 PM, ennui said:

Does it come with fries?

Mashed potatoes & gravy, probably.

[Bastet]

10 hours ago, configdotsys said:

Do you pronounce lure as "Lur" like rhyming with the word 'her'?

No.  Sorry, I should have written it phonetically rather than continuing the "rhymes with" theme, since the whole point of the conversation was that what it rhymes with varies regionally.  The comparison I made, when you asked how else tour could be pronounced, with lure and tour is lo͝or and to͝or.

Edited June 30, 2017 by Bastet

[meep.meep]

20 hours ago, configdotsys said:

How else is there to pronounce the word tour? I've never heard it said any other way than rhyming with pour.

Don't ever plan to go on the stage with a pronunciation-Nazi director.  My daughter still talks about the hours she spent with her director so that she pronounced "pour" so that it didn't sound like "pore" or even "poor."  

[Prevailing Wind]

Something I learned from Andy Rooney - "dour" is rhymes with pour, not sour.

[crazycatlady58]

20 hours ago, Bastet said:

Rhyming with lure.

Yes. All during  this  discussion  I have been thinking , how   DO I say tour? And yes to rhyming lure. Thank you Bastet.

[Cobalt Stargazer]

22 hours ago, Brattinella said:

So you say tour rhymes with pour?   I think tour more closely rhymes with poor.  But my geographics have probably affected my speech. ;)

Think about it like this; bands don't go on ture, they go on tour.

[DrSpaceman73]

1 hour ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Something I learned from Andy Rooney - "dour" is rhymes with pour, not sour.

So "dour" sounds like "door"? 

I say it the opposite, like sour. I guess I say it wrong

And I say "pour" and "poor" pretty much the same

Edited July 1, 2017 by DrSpaceman73

[friendperidot]

I'm from KCMO and I worsched things all of my life until at 22 I moved to Washington DC. I also said I was from Missoura, now when I say it, I mean, Show Me. 

So, to bring it back to commercials, yes, Cathy Mitchell is all over H&I. I started watching that channel last summer, Hill Street Blues, still a good program, then I moved on to NYPD Blue that I had never watched before, some very excellent programs and actors, to now when I start watching Star Trek Deep Space Nine and change the channel 5 hours later before Kung Fu starts unless I'm sound asleep by then. But I've been reading reviews of the red copper pots and pans, mixed, earlier this year I bought a set of Farberware instead and this week I bought a second set as a birthday gift for my brother. But, to try to keep to commercials, she makes some interesting concoctions and I think chocolate chip pancakes sounds disgusting. I'm not a big fan of chocolate (sacrilege, I know, but there you have it). Why anyone would want to melt a plastic cup is beyond me, but then again since I belong to a FB group about making dollhouse miniatures from everyday items, maybe there would be a reason. I've started saving all kinds of used to be trash items. 

Ah, now a commercial comes on that qualifies for this thread, Holly Robinson Peete and Rodney Peete for Lipozene. It's the friend that walks up to them to tell her story, something about the way she says, "Hi". I don't know what it is about her, but she annoys me.

[riley702]

2 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Something I learned from Andy Rooney - "dour" is rhymes with pour, not sour.

Get the heck outta Dodge! 

Oh, whew! Both are acceptable now: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/04/dour.html

On 6/25/2017 at 0:26 AM, Jamoche said:

To the smug Susan Sarandon lookalike in the Geico flat tire ad who keeps shushing her family: Would it hurt you to let them talk? https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wwxK/geico-emergency-roadside-service-the-flat-tire-guitar-solo

Actually, the guitar-solo kid seems annoying, too. At the end, I'm sure Dad is wondering how to escape.

Edited July 1, 2017 by riley702

[Silver Raven]

dour rhymes with sewer (except one syllable).  The oo is pronounced like "too".

[ChromaKelly]

On 6/29/2017 at 2:50 PM, Stella Rose said:

The Olive Garden "Tour of Italy"  commercial makes my ears hurt.  The VO actor keeps saying "Tore" of Italy, and it's aggravating.  I know there is a subtle difference, but in this case - it's about as subtle as a hammer to the head.

Now I'm sitting here saying "tour" and "tore" to myself and they both sound the same. I guess it's like the Merry, Marry, Mary debate. Those sound subtly different to me but Tour and Tore sound the same.  How should "tour" be pronounced so it doesn't sound like "tore"?

[TattleTeeny]

Oooh, I hear distinct differences in Mary, marry, and merry!

[Popples]

On 6/28/2017 at 4:17 PM, ennui said:

It would be more interesting if they pulled a Maury Povich and found out "you are not the father!".

While not that exact scenario, there have been a few instances where finding long lost relatives using genetic testing services caused some strife in families.

With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce

Genetic testing brings families together And sometimes tears them apart

[ennui]

On 6/30/2017 at 1:08 PM, proserpina65 said:

Mashed potatoes & gravy, probably.

I meant it as a joke, but KFC does have good potato wedges. I like them better than the mashed/gravy.

[bad things are bad]

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My dad said "warshed" too

Which brings to mind an old Wausau Insurance ad that played on the differences between regional pronounciation 

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Oooh, I hear distinct differences in Mary, marry, and merry!

 

 

College boyfriend was from Philly and he pronounced them 3 different ways. Me being a Michigander, they're all homophones

[Moose135]

26 minutes ago, bad things are bad said:

College boyfriend was from Philly and he pronounced them 3 different ways. Me being a Michigander, they're all homophones

I'm from Long Island, and Mary, merry, and marry all sound different.

[Ohwell]

Speaking of pronunciations, I remember in college that the women from Long Island would say "Lung" Island. 

[Moose135]

7 minutes ago, Ohwell said:

Speaking of pronunciations, I remember in college that the women from Long Island would say "Lung" Island. 

You hear that sometimes, more frequent is "Lawn Guyland".

[chenoa333]

On 6/28/2017 at 5:19 AM, Haleth said:

While most of the people in those commercials annoy me (especially the woman who confuses nationality with ethnicity) I think the idea of researching one's ancestry is a fun hobby.  I expect most people don't find any surprises in their DNA results.

I found a big surprise (aka mistake) from Ancestry.com. They misspelled my mothers maiden name and showed that she was still alive (and married to my dad)for many years after my father married my stepmother. My mom died when I was 3, not 11 and she had been deceased for 8 or 9 years when my father remarried. So fuck Ancestry.com. 

[Silver Raven]

5 minutes ago, chenoa333 said:

I found a big surprise (aka mistake) from Ancestry.com. They misspelled my mothers maiden name and showed that she was still alive (and married to my dad)for many years after my father married my stepmother. My mom died when I was 3, not 11 and she had been deceased for 8 or 9 years when my father remarried. So fuck Ancestry.com. 

Well, Ancestry only has what people put in it, so it's not the company's fault if people put in false information.

[chenoa333]

Just now, Silver Raven said:

Well, Ancestry only has what people put in it, so it's not the company's fault if people put in false information.

Good to know. Must have been one of my relatives giving false info because I've never used Ancestry.com. 

[Brattinella]

15 minutes ago, Silver Raven said:

Well, Ancestry only has what people put in it, so it's not the company's fault if people put in false information.

This is surprising.  I would assume Ancestry would do SOME research into the truth it sells.

[Silver Raven]

3 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

This is surprising.  I would assume Ancestry would do SOME research into the truth it sells.

Why?  They're a depository, not a research company.

[Jamoche]

2 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

This is surprising.  I would assume Ancestry would do SOME research into the truth it sells.

Why should they? That would cost money. They just rely on having gotten their data from people who, for the most part, really cared about their research. There was a whole sharing community built up around genealogy research before they came along. If you got data from your kooky cousin who got her data from one of those "we can prove you're descended from kings, and from there to Adam and Eve!" sites, you double-checked and then didn't pass it along. (No, seriously, she sent Mom that, and the detour into wackjobland happened three generations back - recent enough that Cousin could've driven half an hour to see the gravestone proving her wrong). 

But now kooky cousin's data is in there right next to Mom's.

[LilWharveyGal]

Just to clarify a bit further, Ancestry essentially provides two services.  The first is access to actual official records, such as censuses, birth, marriage, and death records, immigration data, military records, etc.  While there can be errors in these records if something was written down incorrectly, I've found them to be generally quite reliable.  The second main function Ancestry serves is to provide a platform for building your own family tree.  This is where people can enter whatever they want and the quality is questionable.  If I wanted to I could create a tree saying that JFK is my father, and Rudolph Valentino was his father, and Billy the Kid was his father, and if the tree is made public that information will pop up for anyone who searches for any of those three individuals.  Occasionally I will look at other members' trees if I hit a brick wall, but only as a starting point to do my own research to confirm that what they're saying is true.

I'm a very very amateur genealogist and I still have a soft spot for Ancestry.  It can be a useful tool but you have to know how to use it.

And to get back to the topic, I don't think I've ever seen an Ancestry ad that wasn't annoying!   Who the heck says, "Holy crow?"

Edited July 3, 2017 by LilWharveyGal

[Brattinella]

28 minutes ago, Silver Raven said:

Why?  They're a depository, not a research company.

Because they make a profit.  They sell a service and should have some integrity.

[Haleth]

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While most of the people in those commercials annoy me (especially the woman who confuses nationality with ethnicity) I think the idea of researching one's ancestry is a fun hobby.  I expect most people don't find any surprises in their DNA results.

When I posted this a few days ago I was talking about the DNA kits, not the genealogical service. I think most people are aware from what part of the world their ancestors came, without any big surprises. 

It's been a while since I looked at the genealogy site so I may be wrong but I believe you can flag something as being incorrect.

[SmithW6079]

I'm indifferent to most of the Progressive commercials with Flo -- and I think the ones with her sidekick Jamie are kind of cute -- but I absolutely detest the ones with Flo's family, where the actress plays all the parts. I don't find bickering or nasty-to-each-other humor to be funny at all.

[bilgistic]

There's a new(?) commercial for the "school" that is named after the bird that rises from the ashes (I do not want to see their ads on all of my mediums).

The commercial (which came on about 364 times during whatever I was streaming last night) is a Pixar-like cartoon of a woman with a Rosie the Riveter poster. With her new job in IT gained after getting her "degree" from the bird school, the cartoon woman sits in her cubicle and writes "IT" (as in information technology) over the "it" on the poster (as in "We can do it").

I'm REALLY DONE with the bastardization of the Rosie the Riveter iconography.

[Silver Raven]

7 hours ago, Brattinella said:

Because they make a profit.  They sell a service and should have some integrity.

How would you expect ANYONE IN THE WORLD to verify all of that information without going back doing all of the research all over again, look at people's family documents, read through all of the books and church records and other bits and pieces of research that people have done for years and years?

[bilgistic]

19 minutes ago, Silver Raven said:

How would you expect ANYONE IN THE WORLD to verify all of that information without going back doing all of the research all over again, look at people's family documents, read through all of the books and church records and other bits and pieces of research that people have done for years and years?

Several years ago, I was out of full-time work and spent a year researching my maternal family while freelancing and looking for work. There were so many people who had created trees in Ancestry that had just copied off each other. It wasn't necessarily right, and was just plain wrong, in some cases that I as an amateur found.

My mother and I went to old family graveyards and small-town libraries to research our family. Selfishly, I didn't want to share what I'd found. It was A LOT of work, and I don't want Ancestry profiting from it.

There are free tree collectives out there. I haven't worked on it in so long, so I've forgotten what they are. Much of what Ancestry sells can be found for free. It's not easy to get or compile (that's what you're paying for), but it's free. I never paid for a thing.

[FormerMod-a1]

16 hours ago, LilWharveyGal said:

Just to clarify a bit further, Ancestry essentially provides two services.  The first is access to actual official records, such as censuses, birth, marriage, and death records, immigration data, military records, etc.  ...

 

8 hours ago, Silver Raven said:

How would you expect ANYONE IN THE WORLD to verify all of that information without going back doing all of the research all over again, look at people's family documents, read through all of the books and church records and other bits and pieces of research that people have done for years and years?

Considering the bolded part above, it seems it would be easy for them to verify death dates.  Not the whole family trees, but actual easy to verify things like birth dates and death dates I would expect.

[Brattinella]

How much does Ancestry cost?

[Dirtybubble]

17 minutes ago, Brattinella said:

How much does Ancestry cost?

A one time fee ranges from $20 to $50, I think the more you pay the more access to tools and info available to you *shrug*.    Or you can pay $100 on up for a yearly subscription 

[Brattinella]

40 minutes ago, Dirtybubble said:

A one time fee ranges from $20 to $50, I think the more you pay the more access to tools and info available to you *shrug*.    Or you can pay $100 on up for a yearly subscription 

Thanks!

[Cobalt Stargazer]

12 hours ago, SmithW6079 said:

I'm indifferent to most of the Progressive commercials with Flo -- and I think the ones with her sidekick Jamie are kind of cute -- but I absolutely detest the ones with Flo's family, where the actress plays all the parts. I don't find bickering or nasty-to-each-other humor to be funny at all.

Aw, I kinda like those, especially the one where Flo's 'dad' says, "I've got the meat sweats!"

[Jamoche]

3 hours ago, aquarian1 said:

 

Considering the bolded part above, it seems it would be easy for them to verify death dates.  Not the whole family trees, but actual easy to verify things like birth dates and death dates I would expect.

It's not so easy to be sure you've got the right person; that's what Mom (and, I assume, bilgistic) spent all their time on. And this should probably go to the Small Talk thread now.

[Nordly Beaumont]

2 hours ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

Aw, I kinda like those, especially the one where Flo's 'dad' says, "I've got the meat sweats!"

"When I said "be quiet" did you hear "talk more and disappoint me?" cracks me up!

[bubbls]

So, Oreo Powers That Be, you want your new product associated with a grunting rapper who makes your commercial sound like something out of a porn flick? Really? Because nothing says yummy Oreos like the sounds of humping and rutting. 

[Brattinella]

46 minutes ago, bubbls said:

So, Oreo Powers That Be, you want your new product associated with a grunting rapper who makes your commercial sound like something out of a porn flick? Really? Because nothing says yummy Oreos like the sounds of humping and rutting. 

Seriously.  SO gross!

[TheNewJanBrady]

Liquid Plumr commercial with people's actual plumber butts--i.e. ass cracks--showing on national TV. I can't believe they're allowed to show that!

[Bastet]

That commercial, well, cracks me up.