Commercials That Annoy, Irritate or Outright Enrage

[EtheltoTillie]

I don't understand those pay-early systems.  Who is paying for that?  Chime seems to be a bank, and if you sign up for an account with direct deposit they agree to give you your money two days early.    I can't imagine the employer is releasing the money earlier than it is due.  How do these work?  This would only work for full time employees.

With my part-time employee, the pay day and number of hours vary each week, depending on his schedule.  When he finishes a week, I email in the hours, and he gets his direct deposit the next day. 

 

[peacheslatour]

Just now, EtheltoTillie said:

I don't understand those pay-early systems.  Who is paying for that?  Chime seems to be a bank, and if you sign up for an account with direct deposit they agree to give you your money two days early.    I can't imagine the employer is releasing the money earlier than it is due.  How do these work?  This would only work for full time employees.

With my part-time employee, the pay day and number of hours vary each week, depending on his schedule.  When he finishes a week, I email in the hours, and he gets his direct deposit the next day. 

 

At my last job, I did payroll on every other Tues. and the employees got their checks on Thurs. If they opted for Direct Deposit, they got it the same day I did payroll.

[Prevailing Wind]

My credit union always shows the money there early, but it's in italics, indicating it's not really available; it's just pending. The Social Security deposit clears on Wednesdays, but it's "pending" on the previous Saturday...more than 3 days.

[proserpina65]

22 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:

Okay, now I've watched the Paycom commercial.  It's completely misleading.  The employees are not "doing payroll."  They are entering their own hours worked and expenses if incurred.  Like they're punching a time clock.  Employer will still have to verify. 

 

Okay, so like what we do at my job.

[Gharlane]

50 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:

I don't understand those pay-early systems.  Who is paying for that?  Chime seems to be a bank, and if you sign up for an account with direct deposit they agree to give you your money two days early.    I can't imagine the employer is releasing the money earlier than it is due.  How do these work?  This would only work for full time employees.

I assumed they gave the person a short-term loan and use the paycheck to pay it off, probably with some extra processing fees.

[EtheltoTillie]

1 minute ago, Gharlane said:

I assumed they gave the person a short-term loan and use the paycheck to pay it off, probably with some extra processing fees.

That's what I was guessing.  So it's not a freebee by any means.  Another exploitative practice, like payday loans.

[TattleTeeny]

But what is the point/difference of being paid “early”? Isn’t it still the same amount of time between paychecks? I don’t get it.

[CrystalBlue]

Chime is not a bank, it's a financial technology company.  Users download and use their app.  Much like as is supposed above, Chime fronts the customer their deposit making it available two days early because Chime is guaranteed to receive the deposited funds from the employer.  Chime does not charge fees for anything except for using an out-of-network ATM or an over-the-counter withdrawal.

 

[PrincessPurrsALot]

There is a huggies commercial that runs every 12 seconds (OK, it just feels that way). The guy is singing about different types of baby butts while they show different babies with a focus on their diapers.  A few things that make me cringe:  the singer keeps saying bot, not butt.  Only late in the commercial does in become clear he is saying butt.  Also they show a baby sitting on a man's face, then they sing about stinky butt.  Great.  I really want to think about a full diaper on someone's face.  

Full disclosure:  I am not a baby person.  I do not need to see baby butts over and over or to think about what may be in their diapers.  I don't care how well they fit.  If it's full, I don't want it on me. 

[Bruinsfan]

I would prefer that babies with full diapers stay as far away from me as whatever studio that commercial is being filmed in.

[ebk57]

6 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

Okay, now I've watched the Paycom commercial.  It's completely misleading.  The employees are not "doing payroll."  They are entering their own hours worked and expenses if incurred.  Like they're punching a time clock.  Employer will still have to verify. 

 

Thank you for researching this so that I don't have Paycom in my search history! 

Now I'm really annoyed with the company for making this service sound like something so unusual.  It's really just what most employees do before they hand (and by "hand", I don't necessarily mean using your actual hands) their hours/expenses/regular payroll stuff over to the payroll department.  Like a normal company.

I really hate Paycom. 

 

And on a completely different note, I wonder what the "big story" the little Jardiance pill has to tell.  Okay, I don't really wonder - I actually don't want to know. 

[TattleTeeny]

There’s a commercial for Club crackers that makes me nuts! First, there’s a closeup of a knife smearing jelly so fast and sloppily onto the cracker, probably getting everything all sticky. I hate that. Then it, for some reason, shows a kid’s sock feet sliding and rubbing across a carpet. I really hate that. Ugh, I can barely even type it without crunching up my neck and shoulders.

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

15 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:

I don't know if this is a sign of the end of civilization, but they've brought back Sham Wow (now called Sham Pow).  I think they same guy's doing the commercial.

I thought he had died? 

6 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

But what is the point/difference of being paid “early”? Isn’t it still the same amount of time between paychecks? I don’t get it.

That's because you're intelligent. 

[EtheltoTillie]

7 hours ago, ebk57 said:

Thank you for researching this so that I don't have Paycom in my search history! 

Now I'm really annoyed with the company for making this service sound like something so unusual.  It's really just what most employees do before they hand (and by "hand", I don't necessarily mean using your actual hands) their hours/expenses/regular payroll stuff over to the payroll department.  Like a normal company.

I really hate Paycom. 

I have more thoughts about Paycom--all negative--after reading your post.  These commercials (there are actually a few different ones) fall into the category of selling something to people who cannot purchase the product so they will bug someone else to buy it (ask your doctor about Ozempic).  One ad, with Shemar Moore, encourages employees to "ask your employer" about Paycom.  Are large corporations likely to adopt a new payroll system just because their employees ask for it?  They'd just laugh. 

[EtheltoTillie]

So I watched the one for Club Crackers.  Yes, that was awful.  And it was peculiar how they spread the jelly on the crackers. 

[Haleth]

I know channels with a political bend have trouble selling ad time, but sheesh, do I really need to hear about the Uqora lady's infected vagina every frickin' frackin' commercial break?

[TattleTeeny]

2 hours ago, EtheltoTillie said:

So I watched the one for Club Crackers.  Yes, that was awful.  And it was peculiar how they spread the jelly on the crackers. 

Yeah! Just do it neatly! Ugh. UGH! Sticky!

[Tom Holmberg]

8 hours ago, Ghost of TWOP Past said:

I thought he had died? 

That's because you're intelligent. 

I only saw the ad once, and I thought it looked like him.

 

 

[EtheltoTillie]

Did the ShamWow guy die?  Well, this got me curious.

It was Billy Mays who died.  (He was the original Oxyclean and Shamwow guy). 

Get this.  It's a really old commercial with Billy Mays's image and the new guy's voice!

 

Edited June 6, 2023 by EtheltoTillie

[PrincessPurrsALot]

5 hours ago, Haleth said:

I know channels with a political bend have trouble selling ad time, but sheesh, do I really need to hear about the Uqora lady's infected vagina every frickin' frackin' commercial break?

Remember, prior to Uqora, she had a UTI almost as often as you see that commercial.  And Spencer likely still hasn't addressed his dirty dick. 

4 hours ago, Tom Holmberg said:

I only saw the ad once, and I thought it looked like him.

 

 

If you watch the whole commercial, when you order the ShamPow, you also get "the car hooker".  Seriously.  They called a hook you slip over the post of the head rest a hooker knowing Vince's past.  That is incredibly tone deaf and insensitive.  Also, do they want to remind everyone that Vince was in a brawl with a hooker?  

[Tom Holmberg]

2 hours ago, PrincessPurrsALot said:

 

If you watch the whole commercial, when you order the ShamPow, you also get "the car hooker".  Seriously.  They called a hook you slip over the post of the head rest a hooker knowing Vince's past.  That is incredibly tone deaf and insensitive.  Also, do they want to remind everyone that Vince was in a brawl with a hooker?  

Well, he's an expert when it comes to hookers!

[dleighg]

Cologuard "I did it my way"

Singing "more easy" just because it rhymes irritates me. NOBODY says "more easy."

The guy at the end in the bleachers singing "I did it my way" as he carefully sits down on the bench. Once I saw that as imitating sitting on a toilet (which is how you, um, use this product) I can't unsee it.

[janie jones]

20 hours ago, PrincessPurrsALot said:

If you watch the whole commercial, when you order the ShamPow, you also get "the car hooker".  Seriously.  They called a hook you slip over the post of the head rest a hooker knowing Vince's past.  That is incredibly tone deaf and insensitive.  Also, do they want to remind everyone that Vince was in a brawl with a hooker?  

We're talking about a guy who uttered "You're gonna love my nuts" and "You're gonna be slappin' all day" in a SlapChop commercial. I have no doubt they'd reference the hooker thing here.

[marceline]

On 6/6/2023 at 7:45 AM, Haleth said:

I know channels with a political bend have trouble selling ad time, but sheesh, do I really need to hear about the Uqora lady's infected vagina every frickin' frackin' commercial break?

If this thread had a Hall of Fame, Uqora Lady and Dr. Shannon Klingman the Lume Loony would be on it.

[peacheslatour]

That chicken tenders (whatever the fuck those are) VS baby back ribs commercial needs 

 

Edited June 7, 2023 by peacheslatour

[TVForever]

On 3/6/2023 at 11:46 AM, Tom Holmberg said:

There's a website TEMU that sells all this crap at like 1/3 to 1/4 the price on the ads.

So THAT's what they sell? Their online ads constantly make their way onto my laptop, but Ive never been interested enough to click on them. At least I now know what I'm ignoring.

[TattleTeeny]

15 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

That chicken tenders (whatever the fuck those are) VS baby back ribs commercial needs 

 

YES. I hate the tenders girl. Also, I hate the term "chicken tenders." Nuggets, strips, even fingers -- whatever. Tenders, no.

[Prevailing Wind]

58 minutes ago, TattleTeeny said:

I hate the term "chicken tenders." Nuggets, strips, even fingers -- whatever. Tenders, no.

It makes me think of people in overalls, taking care of the live chickens.

 

[Gharlane]

19 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

That chicken tenders (whatever the fuck those are) VS baby back ribs commercial needs 

Ugh, I hate that commercial! It's nonsensical and was obviously made by someone who doesn't understand the expression.

 

4 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

YES. I hate the tenders girl. Also, I hate the term "chicken tenders." Nuggets, strips, even fingers -- whatever. Tenders, no.

Actually, "chicken tenders" is the actual name of the cut of meat and is abbreviated from "chicken tenderloin". 

[kathyk24]

I hate the ad for the Max streaming service where a guy tells his mother in law she has to leave because streaming is expensive. I've been critical of ads with rude older people but this lady is doing nothing wrong.

[TattleTeeny]

1 hour ago, Gharlane said:

Ugh, I hate that commercial! It's nonsensical and was obviously made by someone who doesn't understand the expression.

 

Actually, "chicken tenders" is the actual name of the cut of meat and is abbreviated from "chicken tenderloin". 

I don't care, ahhahahaaa; it sounds stupid no matter who says it!

Edited June 8, 2023 by TattleTeeny

[peacheslatour]

1 hour ago, TattleTeeny said:

I don't care, ahhahahaaa; it sounds stupid no matter who says it!

Or even worse 'tendies". Aaarrrggghhh!

[TattleTeeny]

Who the hell would do that?! Never mind, never tell me!

[Bastet]

10 hours ago, TattleTeeny said:

Also, I hate the term "chicken tenders." Nuggets, strips, even fingers -- whatever. Tenders, no.

I'm the opposite.  Since there actually is a tenderloin, chicken tenders tells me what I'm eating.  It's what they're called in the appetizer recipes I make.  Chicken strips doesn't bug me, I guess, but fingers sounds ridiculous to me.  And a nugget tells me it's something I don't want to eat.

[DXD526]

And, of course, there are the less-than-honest places that think it's ok to use 'tenders' as a generic term, when it's actually a specific thing. It's always disappointing, and maddening, to order chicken tenders, and have fingers brought to the table!

[TattleTeeny]

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

I'm the opposite.  Since there actually is a tenderloin, chicken tenders tells me what I'm eating.  It's what they're called in the appetizer recipes I make.  Chicken strips doesn't bug me, I guess, but fingers sounds ridiculous to me.  And a nugget tells me it's something I don't want to eat.

Haha, I don’t eat chicken anyway, so to me it’s just about how the words sound, not about what part of an animal it is. I (arbitrarily and for as long as I can remember) just don’t like how some words sound. 

[PrincessPurrsALot]

In the power swabs commercial, the last person says, "I've not seen anything work as effective."  No, no, no!  You have not seen anything work as effectively.  Adverbs have a purpose.  Use them.

[chessiegal]

1 hour ago, PrincessPurrsALot said:

In the power swabs commercial, the last person says, "I've not seen anything work as effective."  No, no, no!  You have not seen anything work as effectively.  Adverbs have a purpose.  Use them.

I hear that daily in a variety of commercials. It seems like they think they have to pay more to add a syllable.

[Leeds]

On 5/30/2023 at 9:41 AM, Gramto6 said:

This whole double speak carp the rx companies have to go through is just one more reason that I  think they should not be advertising to the general public at all. Advertise to doctors directly, but not to the public that really doesn't know anything about interactions or their individual needs.

Here's an article from The Atlantic about how it came to be that the US is one of only two developed nations (the other being New Zealand) that allow TV commercials for prescription drugs, and why they should be banned:

https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/61f4c3849d9e380022bdaeb9/big-pharma-tv-drug-ads-legal/

Some highlights:

• If you wonder why we are a self-absorbed, querulous, neurotic society, it might have something to do with a barrage of ads meant to turn us into hypochondriacs who are determined to make our doctors prescribe us the thing we just saw.
• Some ads are just icky, especially for supplements for everything from memory to testosterone. (Yes, I’m looking at you, Mayim Bialik, “actual neuroscientist.”) Their claims, as the makers are always quick to tell you, “have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration” and “are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.”
• Worse yet are the manipulative ads for psychiatric drugs to treat everything from mood disorders to schizophrenia. One ad for depression shows a child looking with deep concern at a crying mommy—because that’ll certainly help someone who’s depressed. 
• Many of the ads about mood disorders are clearly aimed at women, and they rely on implied mommy-guilt
• Anyway, the net effect of all this advertising is that we’re prescribing more and more drugs to a nation that is, to judge from watching a random few hours of television, composed of depressed heart patients and diabetics who keep picking at their bad skin while running for the office bathroom to deal with their leaky bladders and spasming colons but can’t get in the door because their Parkinson’s tremors or their tardive dyskinesia keeps making them drop their keys.
• I am not making light of any of these conditions. I am suggesting that flooding us with ads for conditions we have—and that many of us don’t have—is bad for our mental health, undermines the relationship between patients and doctors, and pollutes the public sphere with invitations to hypochondria. Drug marketing didn’t really take off until the late 1990s, when the pharmaceutical industries got a helpful “clarification” on TV rules from the FDA itself. That’s when things went bonkers. In 1997, according to NPR, drug companies spent $300 million on TV ads; a year later, spending doubled to $600 million. By 2000 it was over a billion and a half dollars. Today, it’s closer to $6 billion a year (although the drug companies still spend more advertising to doctors).
• As one M.D. put it to me, people no longer come in for a diagnosis of a problem; they walk in and say, “This is what I have, and this is what you’re going to prescribe."

[Leeds]

On 5/31/2023 at 5:08 PM, DXD526 said:

The current bane of my TV watching existence: Pooph. Possibly even worse than Lume. I risk spraining my hand diving for the remote whenever it comes on. 

If anyone can give me a good reason not to mute the entirety of every single commercial break I'd be grateful.

[Gramto6]

Thanks @Leeds for the info on drug advertising! I just went by my gut reaction to them and this confirmed my opinion quite well!

The only time I have ever gone to a dr with a dx of my own was with my trigger finger and arthritis in thumb years ago (recent flare up had me back for more shots).  I told him what I thought, they did ex-rays and came back with my exact dx! Steroid shots helped for many years after. No TV ads involved.

Edited June 10, 2023 by Gramto6
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[chessiegal]

Damn Jardiance. I woke up with their stupid jingle in my head this morning. 😬

[CrazyInAlabama]

I'm not even sure what they're advertising, but the woman who claims she's thrilled at being called her daughter's sister is bizarre.   She's obviously the mother, and anyone who 'confuses' her with her being the same age as her daughter, is sucking up to her. 

[Prevailing Wind]

I have gone to docs with self-diagnoses only because I'd had it before and knew what it was.  The only time I've ever asked for a specific drug was sulfa for a UTI.

[peacheslatour]

32 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I have gone to docs with self-diagnoses only because I'd had it before and knew what it was.  The only time I've ever asked for a specific drug was sulfa for a UTI.

You can't take Cipro? My MIL can't take it either.

[PrincessPurrsALot]

Reminder to stay on topic please.  Take personal discussions to Small Talk.

[Blergh]

Sorry if it's been discussed earlier but I ABHOR the new Duracell battery one which starts out as going through a drag car race .Then as the cars make a shrill sound in the midst of the race, winds up   zooming in on a toddler's mouth while making a very shrill loud SCREAM! Of course, the parent instantly replaces the toddler's toy's batteries instead of making the slightest attempt to teach said toddler NOT to scream at the top of his lungs when things don't totally and instantly go his way!

Great going, Duracell! Hasn't even ONE   affluenza teen been more than enough so why advocate for more to wind up like that via having their moods/whims constantly catered from toddlerhood on (and that's not even counting on the so-called adults out there who behave like that toddler)?!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edited June 17, 2023 by Blergh

[Haleth]

19 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

I'm not even sure what they're advertising, but the woman who claims she's thrilled at being called her daughter's sister is bizarre.   She's obviously the mother, and anyone who 'confuses' her with her being the same age as her daughter, is sucking up to her. 

Yeah, that one makes me laugh.  Oh, honey...

21 hours ago, Leeds said:

Some ads are just icky, especially for supplements for everything from memory to testosterone

I play word games on my ipad and the commercials are not only ludicrous, they are dangerous.  There's one for a gummy that guarantees weight loss (with testimony from Oprah, no less).  I've seen the same footage and the same gummies used to promote a cure (not a treatment, a cure) for diabetes and another disease that I don't recall.  It saddens me to think there might be people who throw away their medications thinking this candy is going to cure them.

[Ghost of TWOP Past]

I've got to be hallucinating. That commercial does not actually say that it "visibly" improves your colon, does it? Because then we have to ask, who is looking? 

Betty arrives for her Tuesday night knitting circle: "Hey gals, take a gander at THIS!" 
Marge: "Oh Betty, your intestines are practically glowing!" 
Milly: "Girl, your bowels look 10 years younger! What's your secret?" 
Tilly [glumly]: "Jim never wants a second look at my duodenum." 

[peacheslatour]

49 minutes ago, Ghost of TWOP Past said:

I've got to be hallucinating. That commercial does not actually say that it "visibly" improves your colon, does it? Because then we have to ask, who is looking? 

Betty arrives for her Tuesday night knitting circle: "Hey gals, take a gander at THIS!" 
Marge: "Oh Betty, your intestines are practically glowing!" 
Milly: "Girl, your bowels look 10 years younger! What's your secret?" 
Tilly [glumly]: "Jim never wants a second look at my duodenum." 

*dead*