Have you ever been offended by advertising?

[LunchladyDoris]

Sure there are always exceptions. Dan and Roseanne always seemed to be on an even playing field on Roseanne but then David and Mark were brought in to be idiots to the girls. Mad About You was an exception and to this day remains one of my favorite shows of all time.

Well, true Roseanne and Dan were equal..to a point. Roseanne did win a lot more by being a little bit more clever then Dan but then again he was also a bit more pratical about things. David wasn't really an idiot but just a bit more sensitive and this was played up by the fact he was so different from the Connors. Mark was an idiot, but then again in a way so was Becky.

 

[marcyinPA]

I just saw a new one with Kirstie Alley last night, about some organic diet thing, and at the end, in her seductive voice, she said everyone needs a good organic...(it was supposed to sound sexual, ya know?)... Didn't like that one.

Also, I hate those commercials for Boost Mobile (I think it's Boost?) The one where the girl is riding a bike and she's got the really really long armpit hair blowing around. GROSS.

 

[Nette]

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.

My problem with those commercials is that they're all saying "It's ok to have HFCS in moderation"... but in this day an age it's in EVERYTHING so unless you're like us and just don't buy a lot of processed food, it's IMPOSSIBLE to get it in moderation. Just IRKS the heck outta me.

About 15 years ago when I lived in KS there was a commercial for one of those huge churches on TV. Normally I would just kinda tune that out... but this one had these images of the big spikes going INTO the feet and hands of Jesus as he was being crucified. I'm sorry, but it was WAY too graphic and gave me nightmares. I can't imagine what that would have done to a small child.

 

[java]

Yep the HFCS ones annoy me. Particularly since they make the ones against seem like morons.

And they are always eating an ice pop or something. Yes if it was only in an ice pop I would be eliminating it as much- but when it's in my Bread and really processed.

In a way though it made me laugh thinking - well the corn lobby must be freaking out if they are spending money against the Anti HFCS groups.
Plus I am seeing more and more companies promoting their HFCS free stuff. (or local stores have even started carrying the Mexican Coke- regular sugar stuff)

 

[MinnieTink]

The one with the kid shaking up the bottle of orange soda and spraying his mother annoys me to no end! Not offensive really tho.

I'm not easily offended but I'm not happy with erectile dysfunction commercials shown during family programming or on channels with most shows directed toward kids. Just icky. Why??

The one that gave me a completely bad taste in my mouth...ok, I really could say I was offended by this one...was the one with the cast of Poltergeist, including the little blond, Caroline(?). I knew that little girl had passed away at a young age and I just found it in bad taste to use her image to sell Direct TV, I think.

 

[4greatboys]

Being a male, over 60 and no longer concerned about pg's, I will admit that I only half listen to those commercials, but isn't that what the commercial is about...having an easier way to get the answer?

Yes but to me the insinuation is that it was the women that were the problem with the misreading of the previous ones. I think more emphasis should be made on how the previous tests were hard to read. Then again I'm sure it's all in perception but that's how it sounds to me.

 

[paintnolish]

I hate the Pledge commercial where the woman is in a glass box and the male announcer is telling her how/what to clean!
My latest annoyance wasn't a commercial-it was a segment on The Today Show. Martha Steweart was talking about her latest book and they were doing a few crafts. She was saying how easy the one they were doing was- so easy little girls could help their moms with it. Then she added, "Er, or little boys who like to sew."

 

[4greatboys]

What about the pregnancy test where they pour liquid (couldn't be real pee) on the test. "It's the best test you will ever pee on"

You know that one doesn't really bother me. Just the one that insinuates we aren't smart enough to read the test.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

Amen to that. This is exactly how I feel. There was actually a thread about this commercial during the Olympics and this is pretty much what I had to say. As I type this, my DH is at a volleyball tournament with DD while I sit here Dis'ing . And he is the one who saves vacation time to go to her softball games, but it's all about the Moms. Really??? Don't get me wrong. I do my share, but DH does more on this end than I do.

We were very fortunate when i was younger. My mom was ALWAYS there. She was a stay-at-home mom and I always knew when I got off the bus that she was going to be there. Well... the reason she was able to be a stay-at-home mom was because my dad busted his butt working so she wouldn't have to. He gets as much credit from me as she does

 

[tlmdisney]

I hate the commercials for Bing, we are all to stupid to search for something on the internet without becoming completely overwhelmed, and need Microsoft to save us.

 

[MIGrandma]

Yes, probably several times but the one I most distinctly remember was an advertisement for a local college, Baker College over near Owosso.

The student was working as a waitress in a restaurant but was going to college to she could "get a real job."

At the time I was a waitress and that WAS a "real job" to me so it did offend me. Not all people work as servers in restaurants and use it as a stepping stone, some people actually work many years in the serving business and that is their career of choice.

 

[JerseyJanice]

There was one a few years ago that showed a man lying on a gurney with defibrillator paddles on his chest. It showed him dreaming about whatever product it was, as he was being resuscitated, as if whatever product they were advertising (I don't remember) would be the last thing someone would be thinking about as they were close to death.

It really offended me to see that ad since my father died after an unsuccessful defibrillator attempt. A lot of people die that way, and I don't think it's respectful or sensitive to their loved ones to reenact the way they died in order to sell a product.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Every single Sonic commercial offends me. Every one has the sound effect of someone being punched. Really, really offensive.

 

[NonScents]

Air/fabric fresheners and scented plug-ins that promise miracles ranging from stress-reduction to making teenaged boys more popular with female friends.

Do I want to fill my home with toxic carcinogens and petroleum based chemicals which also trigger asthma and migraines? (At the very least.)

Um, NO, how about using simple soap and water to clean?

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Offensive - Quizno's, they are gross!!

beyond stupid - the Dip stick ones. OMG I'm trying to teach my kids not to hit people!!

Basically all the commercials are stupid now, really dumbed down.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I hate those tax commercials: "We owed $150,000 in taxes, but we only had to pay $2,000!"

Also a lot of political ones annoy me. They're so condescending.

 

[Liberty Belle]

That one for 'male enhancement' where all the girls are lining up to sit on Santa's lap That is so wrong on so many levels

I haven't seen that one.

But...they're adults, right? Not little girls?

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

Soooo many annoy me. I HATE when commercials (show, movies, etc) portray men as stupid, less then or incompetent. Hate that. I hate all the ED commercials, and I am not a prude but when my youngest DD was like 5 she was singing Viva Viagara like it was a nursery rhyme. There is a time and a place and so often they are not at shown at the right time or place.

One did cross over to the line of offensive to me and I even wrote a letter. It was several years ago. It was for JCPenney's and it was a teenage girl getting ready for the first day of school. She had a low cut, skin tight tshirt on and she came down the stairs and her mom said "yo uaren't going to school like that" and then pulled her t-shirt up so her belly button was showing and said something like "much better." I guess it bothered me more because my oldest DD was just getting to that age and I was trying to teach her not to show off all her assets and to value herself and here comes a commercial (for a store that we spend the majority of our shopping budget at) showing the mom saying the exact opposite. Again, I am not a prude but that was the one time I ever really hated a commercial and wrote to Penney's and said I was not going to spend $1 of our clothing budget for my 3 girls there for back to school that year. I got a generic letter back but the commercial was not shown long so I'd like to think I was not the only one who didn't care for it.

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

The one that I saw yesterday was not so much offensive as it was rather annoying.

the Tiger Woods Nike ad using his fathers voice.

dosn't really sound like they are selling shoes. kind of offensive that they are using his dead fathers voice to bring tiger woods back into mainstream advertising.

UNTIL...


I saw the SNL version.

now whenever I see the real one, I will think of the SNL one!!

 

[nmmom95]

The commercial that I really hated was the Axe body spray where the kid turned into chocolate and all the girls were trying to take a bite of him. It was disturbing on just so many levels.