Commercials that drive you crazy

[PBurke]

feminine hygene products. if they don't already know how to stay "FRESH" then maybe it is a hopeless case.

[Razor X]

Any commercial perpetuating the hysteria of global warming.

Are we talking about commercials or feature films?   

[Razor X]

feminine hygene products. if they don't already know how to stay "FRESH" then maybe it is a hopeless case.

I've often thought the same thing.  It really shouldn't be necessary to advertise certain products.  The people who need them should already know where to go to get them.  The people who don't need them don't need to hear about them.

[Robmeister]

Actually I pretty much despise any and all commericial breaks.  I don't watch TV that much, but when I do I am SUPER engaged and can't stand the interruption.

I keep the remote close by and toggle between shows during commercials.  Have it worked out where I know commercials last 3 to 4 minutes.

When a commercial break comes I toggle to an alternate program.  If there are commercials there too, I hit the play-button to watch a pre-recorded Seinfeld snippet until the 3 minutes is up.

I play those remotes like a finely tuned instrument.

[Robmeister]

feminine hygene products. if they don't already know how to stay "FRESH" then maybe it is a hopeless case.

Yeah...I throw up a little bit in my throat when they mention "itch" and "odor" 

[Marz]

DVR is where its at.

Other than football almost everything I watch is recorded.

[JohnMont]

Any commercial perpetuating the hysteria of global warming.

Hysteria???   
You've got to be kidding;
you don't think this is a real problem? ...

[Razor X]

Any commercial perpetuating the hysteria of global warming.

Hysteria???   
You've got to be kidding;
you don't think this is a real problem? ...

In the 1970s, environmental alarmists were in a frenzy about global cooling.  We were told in the 1990s that we only had 10 years left to save the planet.  The "experts" were wrong then.  Why should we listen to the same people now?  Check out these quotes about global cooling:



    The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. -- Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)

    The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer -- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)

    I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 -- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

    In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

    Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion -- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)

    This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century -- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

    There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it. -- Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

    This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976
    If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)


For more info, check out:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/130207globalwarming.htm

[frostillicus123]

something i think is great is you can find commercials on..
tamponds..
viagra and other ED drugs
meds for herpes
and birthcontrol
however howmany times have you seen comercials for condoms on those same stations?

besides much music in canada and MTV in the US i don't think any stations have condom commercal...moreal of the story..... sex is great as long as it's not safe.

[PBurke]

good point frosty. i hate car dealer commercials where they hit the cars and yell and crap. who wants a dented up car that was in the commercial?


can we please not turn this one into something political. some people seems to only show up once in awhile and turn things into political arguments. there are rules against political conversations for a reason guys. thanks for your cooperation.

[PORKY]

WELL GUYZ, the one that drives me CRAZY  is the car ad where the guy'z diving down the tree'd winding road (singing) and then a squirell drops in thru the OPEN sun roof ,and starts singin harmony then two bluejays(?) appear singing back up , THEN a wolf drops in and SWALLOWS one of the birds, WHY? then the wolf burps them back up and they go rollin on down the road singing . WHAT did it add to have the wolf EAT the birds ?  NOTHING ?  the one i MISS (cept at xmas) is the one with FROSTY on the REMINGTON electric (rechargeble)  razor gliding up n over the snow coverd hills  with i THINK, BURL IVE'S singin . WHAT I'd LIKE to see , is someone photoshop snoopy'z "redbaron" dive bombing over iraq or blowing up alkaidea's  to the song , ya know ,a "updated"version   i wonder if "mama goose" does video also ?

[Professor Melon]

  Ahoy Marz, Robmeister, and RaozrX. I've been so overwhelmed with my classes and editing that I haven't tuned in as much as I did when I was on sabbatical. But I have to comment on your distinctive auto licenses; they're "way cool," as my Hollywood daughter might say. How hard and how expensive is it to get such plates in your respective states? I live in Bergen County, NJ, where everything, including vanity plates, I expect, costs more. Hope you and all the brotherhood had a good Thanksgiving and are able to enjoy Christmas after the frantic rush to put it all together in the next two weeks. Professor Melon

[Razor X]

Ahoy Marz, Robmeister, and RaozrX. I've been so overwhelmed with my classes and editing that I haven't tuned in as much as I did when I was on sabbatical. But I have to comment on your distinctive auto licenses; they're "way cool," as my Hollywood daughter might say. How hard and how expensive is it to get such plates in your respective states? I live in Bergen County, NJ, where everything, including vanity plates, I expect, costs more. Hope you and all the brotherhood had a good Thanksgiving and are able to enjoy Christmas after the frantic rush to put it all together in the next two weeks. Professor Melon

Hi, Professor.  Welcome back.  I have no idea what vanity plates would cost for real.  I've never looked into it.  The People's Republic of New Jersey gets enough of my hard-earned cash as it is.

Try to visit more often.

[BaldRob]

Ahoy Marz, Robmeister, and RaozrX. I've been so overwhelmed with my classes and editing that I haven't tuned in as much as I did when I was on sabbatical. But I have to comment on your distinctive auto licenses; they're "way cool," as my Hollywood daughter might say. How hard and how expensive is it to get such plates in your respective states? I live in Bergen County, NJ, where everything, including vanity plates, I expect, costs more. Hope you and all the brotherhood had a good Thanksgiving and are able to enjoy Christmas after the frantic rush to put it all together in the next two weeks. Professor Melon

Hi, Professor.  Welcome back.  I have no idea what vanity plates would cost for real.  I've never looked into it.  The People's Republic of New Jersey gets enough of my hard-earned cash as it is.

Try to visit more often.

Mine, in the great state of Taxes... er, um, ah, I mean Illinois are about $50 more than standard plates the first year and then I believe there is a small fee above the normal registration upon renewal.

On the topic at hand, while every can agree that there are many commercials that drive you crazy, there are also many commercials that are cool and/or funny...  Who can remember the good ol' days of the Budweiser Frogs or Waaassssssuuuuuppppp comercials.  One of my personal favorites now is the Miller Lite More Taste League.

[PBurke]

the MAN LAW commercials are pretty funny.