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Ads that grate on your nerves

For me it's those Oak St Health (CVS) ads. They manage to be both patronizing, insulting, and completely uninformative.

What's your's?


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Old 01-23-2025, 03:49 PM
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Progressive Insurance where they insult parents.

I want to become like my Mom and Dad raised me. They raised me to be respectful of our elders, unlike Progressive Insurance.
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Old 01-23-2025, 04:16 PM
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Where do I start? This one's especially irritating, but there are many others too.
All the whole-body deodorant ads...Joe Namath hawking hearing aids...Liberty Mutual...the list is long
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This one...at every commercial break.

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Old 01-23-2025, 04:35 PM
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The fat women singing about diabetes. I hit the mute button every time it comes on.
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The dawn platinum plus lady. Something so unsettling about it.
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That Liberty commercial with the guy and the wax figure of himself, I absolutely hate those!!! Who comes up with that crap anyway?

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Yes the "Liberty" ones with the emu, as Marty said.

Also "My Pillow" and "Omega XL" w/John Walsh.
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My wife a I hit the mute button on every ad. It is the best device ever.
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The fat women singing about diabetes. I hit the mute button every time it comes on.
Especially this, but any pharma ad.
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"Here's a little salt trick that will make you hard in 15 minutes"

There has to be a back room person that sees me watch provacative dancing teenagers on Tik Tok and crashes that against my 68 years of age and says "Send it".

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...Joe Namath hawking hearing aids...
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We have 14 different law firms telling us how much money they have made for clients. These ads run all day long. Most have a "jingle" of some type. I remember from a class on advertising, if you have nothing intelligent to say, sing it.




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Especially this, but any pharma ad.
Yes! A bunch of fat people marching down the street for no reason. Though I do enjoy the WTF list of side effects.
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Yes! A bunch of fat people marching down the street for no reason. Though I do enjoy the WTF list of side effects.
And singing, why the hell are they always singing?
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Old 01-24-2025, 04:36 AM
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The SUV ads where, the current Santa Fe ad is a prime example, the SUV is being thrashed through streams, puddles, and jacking down dirt roads without a care in the GD Tie Rod World.
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The SUV ads where, the current Santa Fe ad is a prime example, the SUV is being thrashed through streams, puddles, and jacking down dirt roads without a care in the GD Tie Rod World.
Yes, and we all know that the vehicle would never be driven in such a manner and would probably never leave pavement.

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It's getting difficult to buy good radios to listen to while working in the garage. But the first requirement is a remote with a mute button. You gotta be quick-draw-McGraw or be inundated with Low T "Hey Bill, Haven't seen ya at the gym lately...Zap!!! And pity those with bad maculas who end up paying for the blanket ads for izervay.
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I don't need to see another Progressive or Liberty Mutual ad .

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