peacheslatour January 22, 2019 Author Share January 22, 2019 Just beautiful. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5000802
Browncoat January 22, 2019 Share January 22, 2019 It's very cute, but I have to work really really hard to suspend disbelief enough for that bird with no "grown-up" feathers to be able to fly. And for a bird that age not to have "grown-up" feathers. Ducks grow up very fast! 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5000831
peacheslatour January 22, 2019 Author Share January 22, 2019 I think ducks are adorable until I remember they are rapists with corkscrew shaped penii. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5000893
janie jones January 23, 2019 Share January 23, 2019 3 hours ago, Browncoat said: It's very cute, but I have to work really really hard to suspend disbelief enough for that bird with no "grown-up" feathers to be able to fly. And for a bird that age not to have "grown-up" feathers. Ducks grow up very fast! I was thinking the same thing, and then I was thinking, "I don't care because this is the cutest thing I've ever seen." 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5001281
QuinnInND January 29, 2019 Share January 29, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 3:50 PM, peacheslatour said: I think ducks are adorable until I remember they are rapists with corkscrew shaped penii. Wait. What?? 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5017980
peacheslatour January 29, 2019 Author Share January 29, 2019 The duck penis is not straight, but spirals counterclockwise (!) from its base to its tip. The Muscovy duck penis completes six to 10 full twists over its 20-centimeter (7.8-inch) length. “Like a selection of sex toys from a vending machine in a strange alien bar,” writes Prum, “duck penises come in ribbed, ridged and even toothy varieties” to hook into a female’s reproductive tract, which is as long and convoluted as the penis. Female reproductive tracts are full of twists and turns or, as Prum puts it, “dead-end side pockets or cul-de-sacs,” and some spiral clockwise in the “opposite direction of the counter-clockwise spiraling duck penis.” Forced copulations are “pervasively common in many species of ducks,” writes Prum. These are socially organized “gang rapes” that are “violent, ugly, dangerous and even deadly” and even sometimes end in the death of the female. This represents a “selfish male evolutionary strategy that is at odds with the evolutionary interests of its female victims and possibly with the evolutionary interests of the entire species,” Prum writes. To spread their seed, these ducks are upsetting the natural order of selection. But the females have mounted their own defense with an increasingly elaborate anatomy — including, in some cases, sharp turns in her reproductive canal that act almost as teeth, making it harder for ducks to inseminate during forced copulations. 1 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5019103
rcc January 29, 2019 Share January 29, 2019 The things you learn here . . . 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5019238
Annber03 January 29, 2019 Share January 29, 2019 Well. I'll never look at ducks the same way again now. 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5019339
peacheslatour January 29, 2019 Author Share January 29, 2019 The joys of things you learn at vet tech school. Not that anybody ever brought a duck into our clinic but I guess we had to be ready for any eventuality. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5019431
Browncoat January 30, 2019 Share January 30, 2019 I used to work at a vet school. We had a couple bring in a pet duck -- in a fancy stroller. 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5019681
Prevailing Wind January 30, 2019 Share January 30, 2019 We had somebody arrive with a pig in the back of a pickup truck - they wanted her spayed. Dr. W. did the honors. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5020141
callie lee 29 January 30, 2019 Share January 30, 2019 8 hours ago, peacheslatour said: The duck penis is not straight, but spirals counterclockwise (!) from its base to its tip. The Muscovy duck penis completes six to 10 full twists over its 20-centimeter (7.8-inch) length. “Like a selection of sex toys from a vending machine in a strange alien bar,” writes Prum, “duck penises come in ribbed, ridged and even toothy varieties” to hook into a female’s reproductive tract, which is as long and convoluted as the penis. Female reproductive tracts are full of twists and turns or, as Prum puts it, “dead-end side pockets or cul-de-sacs,” and some spiral clockwise in the “opposite direction of the counter-clockwise spiraling duck penis.” Forced copulations are “pervasively common in many species of ducks,” writes Prum. These are socially organized “gang rapes” that are “violent, ugly, dangerous and even deadly” and even sometimes end in the death of the female. This represents a “selfish male evolutionary strategy that is at odds with the evolutionary interests of its female victims and possibly with the evolutionary interests of the entire species,” Prum writes. To spread their seed, these ducks are upsetting the natural order of selection. But the females have mounted their own defense with an increasingly elaborate anatomy — including, in some cases, sharp turns in her reproductive canal that act almost as teeth, making it harder for ducks to inseminate during forced copulations. I...I....I don't really know what to do with this information. I legit think on traumatized right now. And I'm holding a stuffed duck!!! I don't know whether to cry into Duckie or throw him across the room. I'm also never watching Howard the Duck again. 3 12 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5020229
Jamoche January 30, 2019 Share January 30, 2019 47 minutes ago, callie lee 29 said: I...I....I don't really know what to do with this information. I legit think on traumatized right now. And I'm holding a stuffed duck!!! I don't know whether to cry into Duckie or throw him across the room. I'm also never watching Howard the Duck again. Think of Howard as being what ducks could be if they *weren't* stuck with a counterproductive evolutionary strategy :) 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5020327
Brattinella January 30, 2019 Share January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, callie lee 29 said: I...I....I don't really know what to do with this information. I legit think on traumatized right now. And I'm holding a stuffed duck!!! I don't know whether to cry into Duckie or throw him across the room. I'm also never watching Howard the Duck again. Me, too! What a horrible thing is a male duck! 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5020378
QuinnInND January 30, 2019 Share January 30, 2019 I am now traumatized after reading that. I had no idea about the ducks. Wow. Who says the internet isn't educational. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5020403
Maverick January 30, 2019 Share January 30, 2019 (edited) Oh, Donald. Now the no pants thing makes sense. Edited January 30, 2019 by Maverick 3 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5020408
peacheslatour January 30, 2019 Author Share January 30, 2019 11 hours ago, Maverick said: Oh, Donald. Now the no pants thing makes sense. And why he was always so pissed off. Poor Daisy. 1 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5021133
callie lee 29 February 3, 2019 Share February 3, 2019 Duckie and I've have had a conversation about good and bad touches. 1 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5030191
TheLastKidPicked March 1, 2019 Share March 1, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 3:50 PM, peacheslatour said: I think ducks are adorable until I remember they are rapists with corkscrew shaped penii. You paint with words, Peacheslatour. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5093313
peacheslatour March 1, 2019 Author Share March 1, 2019 On 1/29/2019 at 7:17 PM, Prevailing Wind said: We had somebody arrive with a pig in the back of a pickup truck - they wanted her spayed. Dr. W. did the honors. Heh, the vet I worked for was also Dr. W. RIP, Doc. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5093532
captain1 May 21, 2019 Share May 21, 2019 That anti-smoking commercial with the 53 year old woman who dies two days after saying she wished she had never picked up a cigarette makes me so sad - also the one with her daughter. For some reason I cannot look away. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5314784
Annber03 May 21, 2019 Share May 21, 2019 5 hours ago, captain1 said: That anti-smoking commercial with the 53 year old woman who dies two days after saying she wished she had never picked up a cigarette makes me so sad - also the one with her daughter. For some reason I cannot look away. God, yes. It's so haunting. Especially when they show a photo of her when she was younger, compared to how frail and ill she looked at the end. And she was only 53. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5315503
catlover79 May 31, 2019 Share May 31, 2019 I'm surprised no one has mentioned probably the most famous commercial Folgers Coffee ever did - "Peter Comes Home For Christmas". Yes, they were all actors and "Peter" probably is a grandfather by now - but it gets me every single time!!! 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5339391
peacheslatour May 31, 2019 Author Share May 31, 2019 11 minutes ago, catlover79 said: I'm surprised no one has mentioned probably the most famous commercial Folgers Coffee ever did - "Peter Comes Home For Christmas". Yes, they were all actors and "Peter" probably is a grandfather by now - but it gets me every single time!!! Is that the incestuous one? 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5339411
catlover79 May 31, 2019 Share May 31, 2019 I don't think so. Here it is: 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5339432
peacheslatour May 31, 2019 Author Share May 31, 2019 Nope, that's the good one not the weird one. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5339456
Aryanna June 7, 2019 Share June 7, 2019 On 5/31/2019 at 2:45 PM, peacheslatour said: Nope, that's the good one not the weird one. You're thinking of this one. 3 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5357828
Gramto6 June 8, 2019 Share June 8, 2019 8 hours ago, Aryanna said: You're thinking of this one. Holy carp! I don't think I ever saw that one! Maybe they are only related through their divorced parents marriage to each other?? Let's hope. 1 2 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5358754
Colleenna June 9, 2019 Share June 9, 2019 Mr. Rogers. Of course I probably see this because I watch PGH stations. https://www.shootonline.com/video/gsdm-gets-neighborly-jewish-federation-pittsburgh-fred-rogers-create-uplifting-response# Damned onion ninjas. 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5361187
peacheslatour June 9, 2019 Author Share June 9, 2019 This is said too often about too many people, but Fred Rogers was a national treasure. We are all richer for having known him. . Godspeed Neighbor Fred. Thanks, Colleenna. 10 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5361320
Aryanna June 9, 2019 Share June 9, 2019 On 6/7/2019 at 10:09 PM, Gramto6 said: Holy carp! I don't think I ever saw that one! Maybe they are only related through their divorced parents marriage to each other?? Let's hope. The original commercial ends about the 36 second mark. The rest is added on as a joke. I can't remember who did it, maybe funny or die or something like that. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5361470
Tom Holmberg June 10, 2019 Share June 10, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 4:50 PM, peacheslatour said: I think ducks are adorable until I remember they are rapists with corkscrew shaped penii. We had a library question about ducks mating and when we called the local zoo for info (pre-Internet days) the person there went on and on angrily about the horrors of duck mating practices. We had to tone it down for the patron. 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5363981
Brookside June 19, 2019 Share June 19, 2019 (edited) Pigs, like ducks, have corkscrew shaped penises. No wonder the sows squeal. Edited June 19, 2019 by Brookside 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5385174
peacheslatour June 19, 2019 Author Share June 19, 2019 55 minutes ago, Brookside said: Pigs, like ducks, have corkscrew shaped penises. No wonder the sows squeal. Our darling pet cats would like a word: The other purpose of the barbs on a cat's penis is to keep the female cat from escaping before mating is complete. She may attempt to flee because cats are more likely to be loners than dogs and resent the intrusion to some point. Mating is also painful for female cats, both because of the barbs themselves and because the male cat begins by biting the back of the female's neck. 2 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5385302
SoMuchTV June 20, 2019 Share June 20, 2019 Ok, ew. Maybe commercials that made us cry doesn’t mean what I thought it meant. 5 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5385901
mojoween November 28, 2019 Share November 28, 2019 It’s not up on YouTube yet that I saw, but they just ran an Xfinity ad during the Macy’s Parade with grown-up Henry Thomas and ET and this Gen Xers heart felt something it didn’t know it was capable of. 2 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5780475
Spartan Girl November 28, 2019 Share November 28, 2019 1 hour ago, mojoween said: It’s not up on YouTube yet that I saw, but they just ran an Xfinity ad during the Macy’s Parade with grown-up Henry Thomas and ET and this Gen Xers heart felt something it didn’t know it was capable of. I saw it and when I recognized Henry Thomas and realized this was the Elliot and ET reunion, I gasped and kept going omg omg omg.... It was beautiful. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5780585
24k Kate November 28, 2019 Share November 28, 2019 (edited) I found a long version. Yes, I cried. Look who came home for the holidays 53 minutes ago, Spartan Girl said: I saw it and when I recognized Henry Thomas and realized this was the Elliot and ET reunion, I gasped and kept going omg omg omg.... It was beautiful. Edited November 28, 2019 by 24k Kate 8 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5780664
Snow Apple November 28, 2019 Share November 28, 2019 8 hours ago, mojoween said: It’s not up on YouTube yet that I saw, but they just ran an Xfinity ad during the Macy’s Parade with grown-up Henry Thomas and ET and this Gen Xers heart felt something it didn’t know it was capable of. I'm old enough to have seen the movie in the theater. When that music score started on the commercial, I started crying. 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5781022
peacheslatour November 29, 2019 Author Share November 29, 2019 20 hours ago, Snow Apple said: I'm old enough to have seen the movie in the theater. When that music score started on the commercial, I started crying. I just saw it. I didn't think it would really affect me. Tears, tears just started rolling down my cheeks. Well done, Xfinity! 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5781928
Izzy85 November 30, 2019 Share November 30, 2019 (edited) I saw the shorter version yesterday afternoon, but the ending had me sobbing in the kitchen when I was making my pies 😭😭 Edited November 30, 2019 by Izzy85 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5782499
Conotocarious December 1, 2019 Share December 1, 2019 On 11/30/2019 at 2:54 AM, Izzy85 said: I saw the shorter version yesterday afternoon, but the ending had me sobbing in the kitchen when I was making my pies 😭😭 Good god, this commercial. I cry EVERY TIME. The Up music. Jesus, I can’t even think about it without waterworks starting. 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5784127
peacheslatour December 1, 2019 Author Share December 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, Conotocarious said: Good god, this commercial. I cry EVERY TIME. The Up music. Jesus, I can’t even think about it without waterworks starting. My god, why doesn't anybody ever dust in here. *sob* 6 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5784135
Bastet December 1, 2019 Share December 1, 2019 On 11/29/2019 at 11:54 PM, Izzy85 said: I saw the shorter version yesterday afternoon, but the ending had me sobbing in the kitchen when I was making my pies 😭😭 Oh, my. The ET one didn't do anything to me, as I have no emotional attachment to the film (I saw it when it came out, it was good, I think I re-watched it once as an adult, it was good - that's it), but this made me burst into fat tears. The adults keep shoving a device in those girls' face instead of interacting with them, yet they're still loving kids who have fun with the dog and then use the technology used to get them out of everyone's hair to make a thoughtful gift for the family. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5784138
Colleenna December 1, 2019 Share December 1, 2019 12 minutes ago, Conotocarious said: Good god, this commercial. I cry EVERY TIME. The Up music. Jesus, I can’t even think about it without waterworks starting. Damned onion ninjas. 1 7 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5784142
Ashforth December 1, 2019 Share December 1, 2019 On 11/30/2019 at 1:54 AM, Izzy85 said: I saw the shorter version yesterday afternoon, but the ending had me sobbing in the kitchen when I was making my pies 😭😭 Damn you, Apple, for caving in to China on Hong Kong protesters and to Russia on Crimea, and then you do this. I cried, of course I did, but your heartstring-jerking manipulation of the public doesn't make up for bad things you do. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5784190
peacheslatour December 1, 2019 Author Share December 1, 2019 10 minutes ago, Ashforth said: Damn you, Apple, for caving in to China on Hong Kong protesters and to Russia on Crimea, and then you do this. I cried, of course I did, but your heartstring-jerking manipulation of the public doesn't make up for bad things you do. I agree. I think it got me so hard is because my mom died two years ago and my dad just about lost it. After taking care of him for two years we had to put him in assisted living. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5784207
crazycatlady58 December 2, 2019 Share December 2, 2019 On 11/30/2019 at 1:54 AM, Izzy85 said: I saw the shorter version yesterday afternoon, but the ending had me sobbing in the kitchen when I was making my pies 😭😭 This is one of the times I am glad I live alone. No one to see be sobbing over a commercial. 11 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5784873
QuinnInND December 2, 2019 Share December 2, 2019 My father in law passed 3 years ago. This commercial really hit a nerve. Somebody needs to dust this place! Or stop chopping onions.. Something. 8 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5785221
theredhead77 December 2, 2019 Share December 2, 2019 On 12/1/2019 at 5:16 PM, Bastet said: The adults keep shoving a device in those girls' face instead of interacting with them, yet they're still loving kids who have fun with the dog and then use the technology used to get them out of everyone's hair to make a thoughtful gift for the family. I think the longer version put everything in context of what the family was dealing with, and the iPad was a bit of distraction in a home that probably didn't have technology (and a grieving, stressed grandparent) where as the short version just looks like they're shoving the iPad in their faces so they don't have to interact. 5 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/55667-commercials-that-got-us-misty-choked-us-up-or-made-us-cry/page/4/#findComment-5786634
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