Ladies only (really, guys you'll be sorry)

[SoonerKate]

What I hate is the "I'm having trouble concentrating...could I be pregnant?" commercial!

Right...because having trouble concentrating definitely means you're pregnant. It couldn't possibly be anything else.

 

[clutter]

Annieandhalliesmom, you need to be a copywriter!!! I'd by that, too, and I don't use tampons!!!

GG, you're right about the patch thing. Like remembering every saturday is easier than remembering everyday! I agree with the others, I've never called my kid to task for spilling, especially since I was the champion spiller as a child. Sure, plenty of moms do, I just personally don't know any of them. I just see them walking around WDW!



HOWEVER, if I WAS on that patch, and it was monday, and I was supposed to have changed it on Saturday, that might happen!!!

 

[snoopy]

I don't scream at my kids when they spill something either, but nor am I ecstatic over the lemony fresh scent of the carpet cleaner.

Another commercial that I cannot stand is the one for the drugs used to treat genital herpes. Please. Genital herpes is all about a walk on the beach in a flowing white gown. I mean, c'mon! The Viagra commercials squick me out as well.

 

[Lanshark]

We were watching TV with my poor 16 year old and her boyfriend last night when one of these came. She looked like she wanted to melt into the couch.

 

[browneyes]

Those kinds of commercials just make me go every time I see them.

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

Plus they always make is sound like whatever they are offering is such a brand new innovation. Come on, it's just a slight remake on the same old thing.

As for the commercial with the kid who spills the whole thing of juice all over the floor -- I wouldn't be quite as "happy" as the mother in the commercial. I wouldn't curse out my child, but I wouldn't be all smiles either. My first reaction to that commercial was -- can you imagine how sticky that floor is going to be? I've had juice spilled on my floor and it takes a few washings to get the stickyness completely gone.

 

[Dodie]

Ick! Ack! Eek!

There's a new one where they say something about "getting out and moving around" helping cramps. I don't even know if it's an ad for one of those products with "wings" or for one of those new "pearl"-ized applicator things... The woman is dancing and skipping around with her little daughter out on the sidewalk in her skin-tight white pants.

Yeah, right.

If we all HATE them, why do they market these products this way? If I was in a test group for one of these things, I'd be honest. Who are they using? MEN?!!!!

 

[Minniespal]

I just don't see the point in advertising them.

Women need them so women are going to buy them. Personally I have been using tampax since I started my periods as a teenager and will continue to do so no matter what winged products come on the market.

 

[goofygirl]

I would never swear at my child especially for something as stupid as that!

Maybe you won't, but I've seen it done. I've seen parents scream all kinds of things to their kids out in public- in stores, etc for stupid reasons. I've also seen them get smacked around in public.

Maybe the typical mom wouldn't curse, but she'd at least be agitated , and NOT wearing a great big smile as she got out the latest miracle cleaner or wipe.

 

[goofygirl]

I would never swear at my child especially for something as stupid as that!

Maybe you won't, but I've seen it done. I've seen parents scream all kinds of things to their kids out in public- in stores, etc for stupid reasons. I've also seen them get smacked around in public.

Maybe the typical mom wouldn't curse, but she'd at least be agitated , and NOT wearing a great big smile as she got out the latest miracle cleaner or wipe.

 

[goofygirl]

Perhaps the most offensive commercial to women EVER was the old "Gentlemen prefer Haines" ads for pantyhose! Remember those ads? It was for Haines, right? And it was all these letching men looking a woman's legs!


Yeah, its REALLY IMPORTANT to have great looking legs for all the men to look at if you want to get somewhere in the world! Sexist!!

 

[Sonya]

The ones I love are the pregnancy test commercials..."Did I do it right??? Should I retest???". You pee on a stick! Its not hard.

LOL CamColt! We must be very stupid and let our DHs pee on the stick or something!

 

[Poohbear123]

ROTFLMBO! This thread is hysterical! I liked goofygirls response, lay off of her, she was only joking. Its called REAL life!

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

I don't get the wings business. When it's done and used, the LESS I have to PLAY with the thing, the better.

I don't wanna have to be fussing to detatch the sucker from my undies.....for heaven sakes!!

I agree, I think they use MEN when they do the surveys for these products. The commercials HAVE to be produced by men as well, don't you think?

By the way, why don't they sell these products in anything but 12 or 24 count packages? They're forcing us to go into the stores to constantly BUY these things......why not let us buy them in huge containers? Like, big cardboard boxes full?

 

[disykat]

Maybe the typical mom wouldn't curse, but she'd at least be agitated , and NOT wearing a great big smile as she got out the latest miracle cleaner or wipe. [/B][/QUOTE]

Thank you for rephrasing, gg. I think we can agree on that!

 

[snoopy]

HMG reminded me of funny story about my DH, I'm sure he won't mind if I tell all 10,000 of you.

It was when we were first married, and I was feeling very badly one Sunday morning, having just started my period. I was low on products, and being that he was still in the blinded by love mindset, he volunteered to go get them for me. He seemed a bit nervous about it, but because I felt so bad, I just let him do it.

Well lo and behold a couple of hours go by and he still isn't home. I'm getting frantic at this point, so I prop myself in a chair beside the window so I can look out for him when he comes down the street. And sure enough, about 10 minutes later he comes back with this HUGE, and I do mean HUGE, box of what look to be Kotex pads. Trust me, this box would have seen me and a few other women right up into menopause, that is just how big it was.

It wasn't until he was actually in the house that I realized the poor thing had been so nervous that he brought me home a huge, LIFE SIZE box of DEPENDS!

Did I mention that I'm in charge of buying my own products now?

 

[mhopset]

Oh GOd I knew I shouldn't have opened this thread!

But since I did just acouple of observations.

1) Snoopy, I did the same thing your husband did one time when Becky was to sick to get out of bed. She told me I should have just gotten her a bed comforter and it would have absorbed just as much.

2) How fresh can you possibly feel during a period.

3) Why do they call it a period. God, I hate that word.

4) Why so many brands of those girly things. I mean don't they all do the same thing?

Ok I'm leaving now.

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

Thanks for stopping by mhopset!! LMAO and feeling quite fresh today too!

 

[Breezy_Carol]

This thread is hilarious.

mhopset, you sure are brave to post here.

 

[phillybeth]

You girls need to be married to a guy with three sisters- nothing fazes him! He has no problem buying the stuff as long as I give him an EXACT description of the box and its contents. If not, I am liable to get one of 'those calls' as he is standing in aisle 6. But he doesn't get the wing thing either, he wants to know if it makes them fly!

Mhopset, what would you like us to call it? The best name I ever heard was my mom's she used to say her Aunt from Redding was visiting.