Ads for things we didn't used to have ads for
Anyone else noticed the "generic" ads we have had lately, within the last 10 years.
1. Milk.
2. Beef
3. Cheese
4. Plastic ( <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> )
5. Aluminum cans (pretty sure I saw that).
Also, I just saw an ad for a COUNTRY. That's funny. It was the Saudi Arabia "good PR" one.
Any others?
1. Milk.
2. Beef
3. Cheese
4. Plastic ( <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> )
5. Aluminum cans (pretty sure I saw that).
Also, I just saw an ad for a COUNTRY. That's funny. It was the Saudi Arabia "good PR" one.
Any others?
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I mean outside US it's just "generally" everything that is USA.
<strong>Anyone else noticed the "generic" ads we have had lately, within the last 10 years.
1. Milk.
2. Beef
3. Cheese
4. Plastic ( <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> )
5. Aluminum cans (pretty sure I saw that).
Also, I just saw an ad for a COUNTRY. That's funny. It was the Saudi Arabia "good PR" one.
Any others?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Pork
Quebec
Ireland
Reading
Islam
Las Vegas
I'm out, someone else go
My pet peeve: commericials in movie theaters.
I remember the first time these appeared (about 10 or so years ago?), the audience booed. We've now been properly conditioned; the audience sits docilely and watches.
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<strong>Pork
Quebec
Ireland
Reading
Islam
Las Vegas</strong><hr></blockquote>
Islam? <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
For some reason I'm picturing the words "Got Muhammad?" in black bold sans-serif font on a white screen.
[quote]Originally posted by Hobbes:
<strong>My pet peeve: commericials in movie theaters.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I hate that too! I actually stopped going to a theater near me because they would show 15 minutes of commercials at the advertised start time of the movie. If I'm paying $8 for the ticket (and sometimes another $8 for my date's ticket), $3 for a medium soda and $4 for a medium popcorn, I sure as hell shouldn't have to sit through commercials! The theater I go to now is $0.50 more for the ticket, but it's worth those 15 minutes of my life.
Kotex
the whole bouncing little red dot is just too much.
<strong>one evil little word:
Kotex
the whole bouncing little red dot is just too much.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Amen!
States have ads too. Why just yesterday I learned so much about North Carolina, it makes me want to go out and explore!
Which brings up another thing: there are now TWO shows on TV (John Edwards and some chubby little guy) who "communicate with the dead" in front of an audience. One part Oprah, one part Springer, one part "That's Incredible".
These people just talk and say whatever and the people in the audience are crying and carrying on and so forth. And the stupid fishing these "psychics" do to get answers: "I'm getting the sense of a B...was there someone in your family - at any time - who had the letter "B" in their name? No? D? L? R? C? M? J? J! Okay, "J"! Did you know someone in within the past 10 years named John? A co-worker, a relative, a neighbor, a celebrity, a famous singer?"
Idiot client: "OH MY GOD...waaaaaahhhhhh! It's...a...miracle...sob...sob...Johnny? Is that you?".
<strong>I hate the psychic commercials, like Miss Cleo and others. People actually stupid enough to call and pay money to hear some scammer fling out a bunch of bullcrap just blows my mind.
Which brings up another thing: there are now TWO shows on TV (John Edwards and some chubby little guy) who "communicate with the dead" in front of an audience. One part Oprah, one part Springer, one part "That's Incredible".
These people just talk and say whatever and the people in the audience are crying and carrying on and so forth. And the stupid fishing these "psychics" do to get answers: "I'm getting the sense of a B...was there someone in your family - at any time - who had the letter "B" in their name? No? D? L? R? C? M? J? J! Okay, "J"! Did you know someone in within the past 10 years named John? A co-worker, a relative, a neighbor, a celebrity, a famous singer?"
Idiot client: "OH MY GOD...waaaaaahhhhhh! It's...a...miracle...sob...sob...Johnny? Is that you?".
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> I know exactly the show you're talking about. "Crossing Over" or something like that. One more reason I stopped watching t.v.
About the rx drugs: I read an article the other day about how much more drug companies are spending advertising specific drugs. Did you know that it was only 5 years ago that they first allowed to market specific drugs? And did you know that drug costs have skyrocketed (in direct proportion to the advertising costs) in the past five years? Coincidence? I think not.
Advertising sucks. I don't even have a home phone anymore just because I got about 20 telemarketing calls a week. Now I've got a cell phone and I've never been happier with the peace and quiet. If I ever get a call from a telemarketer on my cell....
<strong>I don't even have a home phone anymore just because I got about 20 telemarketing calls a week. </strong><hr></blockquote>
:eek: Spam calls?
Here only newspapers is allowed to call people to sell them newspapers unless you have allowed it explicitly.
Damn communist government