Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[millennium]

This fucking commercial.

 

Should I be forced to think about colorectal cancer every 7-10 minutes while streaming MSNBC shows?   Should my imagination be forced to entertain images of people shitting in boxes with the same frequency?   Should my ears be assaulted by the painfully off-key voices of "real people" actors who have been instructed to sing "My Way" abusively?

The answer to all of these questions is NFW.

And yet that's exactly what's happening.

I find it no coincidence that the comments for this commercial have been "turned off" at youtube.  Or that there is no "share" link.   Those bastards at Cologuard know exactly what they're doing.  This is like harassment.  I hope they're damned to spend eternity in Satan's asshole.

[millennium]

7 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

Also when I think of  a "side hustle", I think of guys with trucks who move stuff or haul junk on weekends or the copier repair lady who sells weed on the side.

Side-hustle smacks of illicit, perhaps illegal.  Like a guy selling stuff that "fell off a truck" or running a game of three-card monte on the streets of New York.   Unfortunately I've heard people I know -- who never would have used the phrase pre-Covid -- say it.  I know it's because of commercials.  It always sounds unnatural and cringey.

[TattleTeeny]

This is such an annoying commercial. The music, the dancing, the lady doing the dancing, all of it. Can she hear the song? Is she supposed to be sexy? I don’t get it at all.

[andromeda331]

I want to know why the husband in the Medicare commercial didn't leave his wife years ago. Divorce surely would be better then being screamed at all the time.

[Deskisamess]

On 3/29/2023 at 7:49 AM, Haleth said:

I yell at the Cascade people every time about wasting water.  No, it is not just as efficient when the dishwasher is only half full.  I run the thing every other night.  And I'm a rinser.  I don't want all that crap getting caught in the filter.

With just the 2 of us now, we rarely have a full load in just one day. We run ours when it is full, I never realized that was a problem. 😉

I like the girl with the mustache, and how she emulates Freddie. It's fun, and not gross, which so many commercials are now. But I think she looks more like Joanie from Happy Days than Freddie.

[Prevailing Wind]

19 minutes ago, Deskisamess said:

With just the 2 of us now, we rarely have a full load in just one day. We run ours when it is full, I never realized that was a problem. 😉

Mine fills up faster with Stella's catfood dishes than my own.

[Welshman in Ca]

13 hours ago, millennium said:

This fucking commercial.

 

Should I be forced to think about colorectal cancer every 7-10 minutes while streaming MSNBC shows?   Should my imagination be forced to entertain images of people shitting in boxes with the same frequency?   Should my ears be assaulted by the painfully off-key voices of "real people" actors who have been instructed to sing "My Way" abusively?

The answer to all of these questions is NFW.

And yet that's exactly what's happening.

I find it no coincidence that the comments for this commercial have been "turned off" at youtube.  Or that there is no "share" link.   Those bastards at Cologuard know exactly what they're doing.  This is like harassment.  I hope they're damned to spend eternity in Satan's asshole.

Surely you need to take that up with MSNBC or maybe it's their way of saying their channel stinks?

It does make you wonder how good the ad buyers at MSNBC are though.

[jcbrown]

If I never have to hear Vivica Fox call me "darlings" again as she shills for CarShield, it will be too soon. 

[Cobalt Stargazer]

On 3/29/2023 at 12:42 PM, CrystalBlue said:

What about your private parts: Do you rinse, scrape, or let them soak overnight?

I've heard you can just slap some Lume on them and it'll be fine.

Unless you're Spencer.

[Crashcourse]

2 hours ago, jcbrown said:

If I never have to hear Vivica Fox call me "darlings" again as she shills for CarShield, it will be too soon. 

Although I hate all the CarShield ads, that blue-eyed blonde chick talking about Thomas Paine and "freedom" just creeps me the hell out. 

Edited March 30, 2023 by Crashcourse

[Tom Holmberg]

17 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

This is such an annoying commercial. The music, the dancing, the lady doing the dancing, all of it. Can she hear the song? Is she supposed to be sexy? I don’t get it at all.

The dancing woman still hasn't been smacked in the head by a golf ball, dammit.

Edited March 30, 2023 by Tom Holmberg

[peacheslatour]

1 hour ago, Cobalt Stargazer said:

I've heard you can just slap some Lume on them and it'll be fine.

Unless you're Spencer.

They didn't advertise to men Maybe they should have.

 

 

 

[Tom Holmberg]

8 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

They didn't advertise to men Maybe they should have.

 

 

 

Rat poison in his martini might be a faster preventative.

[millennium]

17 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

I want to know why the husband in the Medicare commercial didn't leave his wife years ago. Divorce surely would be better then being screamed at all the time.

Divorce?  I'm surprised that woman isn't one of the cases on an Investigation Discovery show.

[shapeshifter]

On 3/24/2023 at 12:51 PM, proserpina65 said:

I've been seeing an Amazon commercial where a girl with a noticeable mustache decides that, because Eddie Murphy, Frida Kahla and Freddie Mercury all rocked mustaches, she can too if she just buys a cool (in actuality very ugly) jacket and pair of boots on Amazon.  All I can think while watching is "oh honey, none of those people are teenage girls going to high school where they're going to be teased mercilessly for that mustache no matter what jacket they're wearing, just shave the mustache".  I mean, I wish high school students were as accepting as those in that commercial, but they're not.

Plus, she's no Freddie Mercury.

I have mixed emotions and opinions about this Prime commercial for the teenage girl with the mustache, but it definitely triggers me every damn time it comes on. It's like the proverbial train wreck for me, from which I cannot turn away, because I've ridden that train. 

Like her, I have fair skin and dark hair, including some facial hair, albeit neither so thick nor curly. But in freshman biology class in the 60s a boy turned around in his chair, looked closely at me, and said: You have a mustache. (Note: He was also the one kid who cheered in 5th grade when they announced Kennedy was assassinated.)
Except for the 70s, I have been removing facial hair (and abundant leg hair) ever since. 

So I am *sort of* glad the very real young actor feels free to do a close-up of her real hirsute self on national TV.
One of my daughter's close girlfriends wore a beard for about a year.
But . . .
Is this really going to become a mainstream thing? In my life time?  
A young woman applied for a job in the college library were I worked, and while she was giving a teaching demonstration, all I could see on the projected screen were the shadows of her bushy sideburns intruding on her PowerPoint because she was seemingly deliberately standing in the path of the projection beam.

Never mind that Amazon is trying to convince all the young women who share my insecurity over facial hair that buying expensive jackets, boots, and headphones makes it all okay!
Argh!

[lh25]

On 3/29/2023 at 12:54 PM, chessiegal said:

Apparently, in Medicare world, the husbands are all too stupid to know about Medicare Part C, so the wives have to nag them to get it, because for some unknown reason a wife can't make the call. 😉

And doesn't she say something like "have you made that call yet?" meaning they had talked about it at one point?

[peacheslatour]

16 hours ago, millennium said:

Divorce?  I'm surprised that woman isn't one of the cases on an Investigation Discovery show.

"Today on Deadly Women, we will show the case of Naggy VonBitchface, the woman who nagged her husband to death."

[proserpina65]

2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

I have mixed emotions and opinions about this Prime commercial for the teenage girl with the mustache, but it definitely triggers me every damn time it comes on. It's like the proverbial train wreck for me, from which I cannot turn away, because I've ridden that train. 

Like her, I have fair skin and dark hair, including some facial hair, albeit neither so thick nor curly. But in freshman biology class in the 60s a boy turned around in his chair, looked closely at me, and said: You have a mustache. (Note: He was also the one kid who cheered in 5th grade when they announced Kennedy was assassinated.)
Except for the 70s, I have been removing facial hair (and abundant leg hair) ever since. 

So I am *sort of* glad the very real young actor feels free to do a close-up of her real hirsute self on national TV.
One of my daughter's close girlfriends wore a beard for about a year.
But . . .
Is this really going to become a mainstream thing? In my life time?  
A young woman applied for a job in the college library were I worked, and while she was giving a teaching demonstration, all I could see on the projected screen were the shadows of her bushy sideburns intruding on her PowerPoint because she was seemingly deliberately standing in the path of the projection beam.

Never mind that Amazon is trying to convince all the young women who share my insecurity over facial hair that buying expensive jackets, boots, and headphones makes it all okay!
Argh!

I have fair skin, dark hair and veins which run close to the surface by my upper lip, so I often look like I have a mustache even when I shave or wax. I totally get it.  I wish life worked like this commercial. 

[sempervivum]

Re. the Amazon ad with the mustached girl. Until I read about it here, I actually thought what she was concerned about was her teeth. Eddie Murphy had a small gap, and Frida Kahlo had such crooked teeth she wore an early version of a grill to disguise it, and of course Freddie had 4 extra teeth that gave him a huge overbite. (I admit my TV is too far away from my sofa for me to see super-clearly, because I honestly barely noticed her stache.)👓

Either way, I doubt that wearing that yellow strait-jacket thing and dancing around like a loon in school is going to help her popularity/acceptance or whatever we're supposed to see as her issue.

[Gharlane]

On 3/29/2023 at 10:19 PM, TattleTeeny said:

This is such an annoying commercial. The music, the dancing, the lady doing the dancing, all of it. Can she hear the song? Is she supposed to be sexy? I don’t get it at all.

I am not 100% certain, but I don't think the dancing girl is wearing a bra or panties. The man is getting a cheap thrill while playing golf.

[TattleTeeny]

I don't know about that part, but other than the (presumed) wife getting pissed, I am not convinced the man is ogling her or just like, "WTF this shit? I want to hit the ball, but this asshole in is my path." Or maybe they all can hear the song and he is just happy to dance too? 

And her dancing is stupid. And what does it have to do with whatever this ad is for?

[cinsays]

3 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

I have mixed emotions and opinions about this Prime commercial for the teenage girl with the mustache, but it definitely triggers me every damn time it comes on. It's like the proverbial train wreck for me, from which I cannot turn away, because I've ridden that train. 

Like her, I have fair skin and dark hair, including some facial hair, albeit neither so thick nor curly. But in freshman biology class in the 60s a boy turned around in his chair, looked closely at me, and said: You have a mustache. (Note: He was also the one kid who cheered in 5th grade when they announced Kennedy was assassinated.)
Except for the 70s, I have been removing facial hair (and abundant leg hair) ever since. 

So I am *sort of* glad the very real young actor feels free to do a close-up of her real hirsute self on national TV.
One of my daughter's close girlfriends wore a beard for about a year.
But . . .
Is this really going to become a mainstream thing? In my life time?  
A young woman applied for a job in the college library were I worked, and while she was giving a teaching demonstration, all I could see on the projected screen were the shadows of her bushy sideburns intruding on her PowerPoint because she was seemingly deliberately standing in the path of the projection beam.

Never mind that Amazon is trying to convince all the young women who share my insecurity over facial hair that buying expensive jackets, boots, and headphones makes it all okay!
Argh!

mustache?  i thought the commercial was about the gap in her teeth

whatever it is about, i love the way she dances/gyrates into the classroom

[dleighg]

16 minutes ago, cinsays said:

mustache?  i thought the commercial was about the gap in her teeth

definitely about a mustache. 

[Prevailing Wind]

Maybe it's about both.

[chessiegal]

26 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Maybe it's about both.

Amazon says it's about the mustache.

Quote

Amazon Prime’s new ad, directed by actor turned filmmaker Olivia Wilde, follows a young woman debating what to do with an unwanted moustache. While at first she wants to remove it, she changes her mind when she’s reminded of all of the cultural icons who have facial hair.

 

[shapeshifter]

16 minutes ago, chessiegal said:

45 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Maybe it's about both.

Amazon says it's about the mustache.

Quote

Amazon Prime’s new ad, directed by actor turned filmmaker Olivia Wilde, follows a young woman debating what to do with an unwanted moustache. While at first she wants to remove it, she changes her mind when she’s reminded of all of the cultural icons who have facial hair.

 

Although I was complaining about being triggered by the mustache (because of my own experiences) and that apparently is documented as the focus of the ad, I do think the director (Olivia Wilde) also made an effort to include the tooth gap, since it is another physical feature that can cause embarrassment.

I doubt director Wilde sees the ad as negative, but maybe a little.

But Amazon's claim to be supporting "inclusivity" feels more like using humiliation to entice customers to order products.

The actress/dancer is not usually mustachioed, which also pokes holes in Amazon's claim to be representing: 

• outofthewilderness.me/2023/03/17/the-amazon-prime-mustache-commercial-the-music-and-more/#:~:text=actress Olivia Wilde.-,The Actress,-. Playing part
   
• https://www.instagram.com/morganjeanquinn/
   
• https://thefullerhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Morgan_Quinn

[tres bien]

Is getting eight UTI's a year not enough for someone to seek medical care?

Uqora which seems to be cooked up in a couple's kitchen doesn't seem like something I would depend on if I had multiple UTI's a year 

Edited April 1, 2023 by tres bien

[Prevailing Wind]

34 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

The actress/dancer is not usually mustachioed,

But, as someone mentioned earlier, she looks a LOT like Joanie "Shortcake" Cunningham.

[millennium]

1 hour ago, shapeshifter said:

I do think the director (Olivia Wilde) also made an effort to include the tooth gap, since it is another physical feature that can cause embarrassment.

What a perfect choice to direct, given all the hardship and embarrassment Olivia Wilde has endured over the years due to her looks.

The fake mustache looks like pubes.

[andromeda331]

I get the idea by the Amazon commercial but all those iconics were guys. That doesn't work for girls in school.

[Prevailing Wind]

3 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

I get the idea by the Amazon commercial but all those iconics were guys. That doesn't work for girls in school.

Frida Kahlo was a woman.

[cinsays]

12 hours ago, millennium said:

What a perfect choice to direct, given all the hardship and embarrassment Olivia Wilde has endured over the years due to her looks.

The fake mustache looks like pubes.

what about Olivia's looks would cause hardship and embarrassment?

[sempervivum]

2 hours ago, cinsays said:

what about Olivia's looks would cause hardship and embarrassment?

I think that's a bit of sarcasm. Many would say OW got where she is in life at least in part due to her stunning beauty. (Not a fan of her big square jaw, personally, but House certainly thought she was amazing!)

15 hours ago, tres bien said:

Uqora which seems to be cooked up in a couple's kitchen doesn't seem like something I would depend on if I had multiple UTI's a year 

I also eye-roll at their 'emergency kit' that you're supposed to use 'until you can get medical attention'. If you ever had a UTI, you know how incredibly painful they are. By the time you get their concoction, you could have called the doc and gottent a prescription for the antibiotics that will actually cure the infection.

[millennium]

6 hours ago, sempervivum said:

I think that's a bit of sarcasm.

More than a bit.  I suspect Olivia's beauty not only opened doors for her, but ripped them off their hinges.

[Girl in a Cardigan]

On 3/31/2023 at 10:45 AM, sempervivum said:

Either way, I doubt that wearing that yellow strait-jacket thing and dancing around like a loon in school is going to help her popularity/acceptance or whatever we're supposed to see as her issue.

Yeah, the jacket is fine and if it helps her self-confidence, great. But the dancing around to her seat is gonna be the thing that gets everyone starting at her like a weirdo. If she's embracing her inner weirdo, then I applaud that, but I don't think it's gonna make the rest of her schooling any easier. Perhaps if the ending was her finding other "weirdos" then maybe I'd understand it.

I get that Amazon's whole thing is "just buy something, you'll feel better" but trying to tie it to body inclusion is not it.

[jcbrown]

Here's another one I hate. Sweetie, if hair is central to your identity you are quite vacuous and should be less willing to proclaim that.

 

[CrystalBlue]

1 hour ago, jcbrown said:

Here's another one I hate. Sweetie, if hair is central to your identity you are quite vacuous and should be less willing to proclaim that.

 

I hate this one too.  Annoying voices, including vocal fry, and the chick whose head looks like a head of broccoli 🥦.  And the piano music.

[dleighg]

7 hours ago, jcbrown said:

Here's another one I hate. Sweetie, if hair is central to your identity you are quite vacuous and should be less willing to proclaim that

I have that same thought every time I hear it. Plus her voice is obnoxious. There's another version of this ad that has "and I was getting OLLLLLD.. er."

We all are, baby.

[shapeshifter]

6 minutes ago, dleighg said:

There's another version of this ad that has "and I was getting OLLLLLD.. er."

Maybe the “OLLLLLD.. er” version got pulled for being ageist? 
 

[cinsays]

3 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Maybe the “OLLLLLD.. er” version got pulled for being ageist? 
 

nope, still running here constantly

[peacheslatour]

Quote

Yeah, the jacket is fine and if it helps her self-confidence, great. But the dancing around to her seat is gonna be the thing that gets everyone starting at her like a weirdo. If she's embracing her inner weirdo, then I applaud that, but I don't think it's gonna make the rest of her schooling any easier. Perhaps if the ending was her finding other "weirdos" then maybe I'd understand it.

Something like this would be great.

 

[iMonrey]

Quote

I've been seeing an Amazon commercial where a girl with a noticeable mustache decides that, because Eddie Murphy, Frida Kahla and Freddie Mercury all rocked mustaches, she can too if she just buys a cool (in actuality very ugly) jacket and pair of boots on Amazon.  All I can think while watching is "oh honey, none of those people are teenage girls going to high school where they're going to be teased mercilessly for that mustache no matter what jacket they're wearing, just shave the mustache".  I mean, I wish high school students were as accepting as those in that commercial, but they're not.

Plus, she's no Freddie Mercury.

Oh, is that what's happening? I honestly had no idea what this commercial was trying to say, the whole Freddie Mercury thing went right over my head. I assumed this was about a boy who was transitioning into a girl.

[KLovestoShop]

With TV dad, all I want to do is slap that shit-eating grin off his face.  Despise those ads. 

[CrystalBlue]

8 hours ago, iMonrey said:

Oh, is that what's happening? I honestly had no idea what this commercial was trying to say, the whole Freddie Mercury thing went right over my head. I assumed this was about a boy who was transitioning into a girl.

Or a girl transitioning to a boy with a very weak fake moustache.

[Bruinsfan]

6 hours ago, KLovestoShop said:

With TV dad, all I want to do is slap that shit-eating grin off his face.  Despise those ads. 

You're too merciful. I want one of the Real Parents to click the TV remote and trap him with Urkel.

[Gramto6]

20 minutes ago, Bruinsfan said:

You're too merciful. I want one of the Real Parents to click the TV remote and trap him with Urkel.

I just want him gone, gone gone from my TV!!

[Gharlane]

Panda Express, a fast foodish restaurant that at best is as good as Chinese food from a food court, has this commercial in circulation with a scene where their take-out food is steaming up their glasses (yeah, right) and the singer is doing this plinka chinka-plinka cadence that sounds like "oriental music" which I find totally annoying. 

 

[chessiegal]

5 hours ago, Gharlane said:

Panda Express, a fast foodish restaurant that at best is as good as Chinese food from a food court, has this commercial in circulation with a scene where their take-out food is steaming up their glasses (yeah, right) and the singer is doing this plinka chinka-plinka cadence that sounds like "oriental music" which I find totally annoying. 

 

Panda Express has sit down restaurants? The only place I've ever seen one is in a food court in a mall.

[Baltimore Betty]

5 hours ago, Gharlane said:

the singer is doing this plinka chinka-plinka cadence that sounds like "oriental music" which I find totally annoying. 

"I Believe in a Think Called Love," is the song, it's about 20 years old...I like it.

 

[DrSpaceman73]

Those damn haribo commercials with adults talking in the high kids voices.  

Shut up and get off my tv.