Have you ever been offended by advertising?

[gisgt]

i forgot about the Go Daddy commercials. yeah those are some of the STUPIDEST commercials i've ever seen i don't get it with those commercials.


altho DH and i always do the "punch bug no punch back!" thing in the car but we don't actually PUNCH each other. it's more like a nudge or something.

Can someone tell my husband this?!? I end up with a bruised arm EVERY time we drive down to Disney - I never-never-ever notice the damn things until I get hit!!

 

[goofyernmost]

Those AT&T commercials just bother me because Owen Wilson looks like a fat, washed up actor.

Was that completely necessary? Fat? Really? BTW, it's Luke Wilson.

Can someone tell my husband this?!? I end up with a bruised arm EVERY time we drive down to Disney - I never-never-ever notice the damn things until I get hit!!

Any reason why you can't? Just wondering! Speak up, no one should have to be a punching bag.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Can someone tell my husband this?!? I end up with a bruised arm EVERY time we drive down to Disney - I never-never-ever notice the damn things until I get hit!!

you OBVIOUSLY don't know how to play....

you have to wait till he checks his speed or something, then...

slug bug...tan one....

when he says where, tell him it was going in the opposite direction, on the other side of the freeway.

after ten or fifteen times, I am sure he will think up a better game...maybe state tag license game.

 

[gisgt]

Any reason why you can't? Just wondering! Speak up, no one should have to be a punching bag.[/QUOTE]

Because I was joking, it's just a kid's game! I'm used to it, my friends always got me too. I'm guessing you never played 'bread & butter' either.....

you OBVIOUSLY don't know how to play....
you have to wait till he checks his speed or something, then...
slug bug...tan one....
when he says where, tell him it was going in the opposite direction, on the other side of the freeway.
after ten or fifteen times, I am sure he will think up a better game...maybe state tag license game.

That's the kinda advice I wanted - Thanks for the great idea, I'm so doing that!

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

Can someone tell my husband this?!? I end up with a bruised arm EVERY time we drive down to Disney - I never-never-ever notice the damn things until I get hit!!

idk i'm usually good at spotting them better than him, i guess. but tbh i bruise easily, so even those "nudges" sometimes will make me bruise up lol

 

[FireDancer]

We called the game punch bug. You would yell "punch bug yellow" for example but it had to be a VW bug, not any VW. We learned pretty early though that strip padiddle was much more fun in HS because getting naked trumps getting punched any day. Of course there had to be both guys and girls involved or it was just awkward for everyone involved. A Geronimo counted as 3 Padiddles.

Oh, and Luke Wilson, definitely fat. He looks like he is retaining more water then the Shamwow.

 

[Diznygrl]

Funny, I was well aware that people played "punch bug" (with actual punching) when I was growing up, but my brother and I never played that way. We called VW Beetles "Herbies" and would call out "Blue Herbie! Red Herbie!", etc...minus the punching.

 

[Tiana]

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[cm8]

The pro HFCS commercials make me want to throw things at the TV. So condescending. And so WRONG. What happens in the lab between types of sugars has nothing to do with actual humans.

If I felt like torturing my child, I would give him some and videotape his reaction, then send it to them. Better yet, I would have them here and give him some, then leave them alone. But I don't want to torture DS, and he would refuse it anyway; he was 3 when I finally figured it out, he's almost 6 now, and he still remembers how out of control, scary, and violent he would get when he would have HFCS (or corn syrup or even corn syrup solids like are found in Dole Whips).

In the lab, sugar is (might be) sugar, but in humans it's vastly different. DH has a reaction as well (the opposite of DS's, DH passes out), and we can monitor it on his blood sugar monitor...cane sugar does one thing...HFCS does far far more.

I hate the stinking commercials. PLUS they always are eating something with red dye in it, which causes a similar reaction in many many people! As we "purified" DS's diet, we saw the food dye reactions even as we culled the corn syrup based things out, and therefore we don't do dyes, especially the red ones, either. Just nasty stuff.

Hate those ads.

 

[kaytieeldr]

B/c we aren't unhealthy ENOUGH, let's tell people to choose an overly processed, pasteurized, full of HFCS drink over wholesome foods

Respectfully, having HFCS (or any item) as an ingredient is FAR from "being full of" that ingredient. If anything, and without having a list of ingredients, if V-8 Fusion is 'full of' anything, it's be water.

I found this on their FAQ page:

Is there added sugar or high fructose corn syrup in V8 V-Fusion?
V8 V-Fusion contains NO added sugar and NO high fructose corn syrup, see nutrition information for calories and sugar content.

 

[OceanAnnie]

There is one commercial in particular that annoys me. It's the one with a little girl asking her mother, "You feed me minced fish? Have you ever caught a minced fish?". Lots of attitude from such a sweet little girl. When the mother serves her "the" brand, the little girl says, "This is more like it.". Just rubs me the wrong way.

 

[paintnolish]

OT, but Luke Wilson still looks cute.

 

[bambii]

for philly teds http://www.phillyted.com/ think you can see the video here..

 

[Pigeon]

I find any commercial that contains the phrase "Ask your doctor" is going to be offensive.

I don't want to hear about erectile dysfunction, irritable bowels, urinary incontinence or the like when I sit down for the ten minutes a day that I get to relax.

 

[Arielle22]

There is no commercial I find annoying but I find many stupid and wonder who is guilible

If the advertising didn't work then it would be pulled. So for each one of us who dislikes a commercial, somewhere there is a person whose attention was caught by the commercial and decided to buy the product.

I do laugh whenever the Old Spice commercials are on. I find them amsuing.

 

[ChristaDeVil]

OT, but Luke Wilson still looks cute.

I think so, too!

 

[Explodo]

The Manbashing Commercials annoy me to no end. We're obviously to stupid to do the following

1. Buy Gifts
2. Do Dishes
3. Do Laundry
4. Raise Kids
5. Take out the trash
6. Breathe


Swear to god, if the gender was changed on some of these commercials, the Feminazi's would be furious!

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

The Manbashing Commercials annoy me to no end. We're obviously to stupid to do the following

1. Buy Gifts
2. Do Dishes
3. Do Laundry
4. Raise Kids
5. Take out the trash
6. Breathe


Swear to god, if the gender was changed on some of these commercials, the Feminazi's would be furious!

there's quite a few commercials where women are made to look like complete morons, too. i said in an earlier post, go look up some of the Labatt Blue commercials....

 

[Explodo]

How about this...Blantant Sexism is offensive...not matter which gender is in question.

 

[Handbag Lady]

The Manbashing Commercials annoy me to no end. We're obviously to stupid to do the following

1. Buy Gifts
2. Do Dishes
3. Do Laundry
4. Raise Kids
5. Take out the trash
6. Breathe


Swear to god, if the gender was changed on some of these commercials, the Feminazi's would be furious!

My husband does all of these just fune, thank you. Well, except the kids part as we don't have any, but he's a terrific uncle to our niece.