S. Maturin

..'course that only lasted but a couple of moments, but, just the same... :roll:
----YUP, THIS IS A RANT-- BE FOREWARNED-----

Commercials-- almost 100% of them are stupid, and insulting.

Examples:

1) Insurance commercials; who here has taken advice from a freaking lizard that can walk upright and speak Australian English? Or purchased food because of what a talking box, refrigerator, rock or tree says on TV?
2) Automobile commercials: Oh, geez, did you see that! The wheels turned, the car went by and dust was thrown everywhere! (Except for that 'ugly-as-sin-Lexus.. no movement can erase that grille from my shocked memory.)
3) Auto Ins.: Anyone hear willing to let some i***t drive like an i***t, smash his two-year-old, "new car" and then pay him exactly what he paid for the thing when it was new?
4) Do any of you buy medicines because some member of the 'Lowest Actor Guild' claims miraculous healing?
5) How about buying precious metals from that dude that walks through a cloud burst rain without getting a drop on his sky-blue shirt?

And finally, about the nastiest damned thing about commercials is how they target your senses: Volume increases, so you press 'MUTE'. But then those nasty SOBs cause the lighting in the commercials to dim, dim, dim, until FLASH! BRIGHT! light hits your suffering retinas. I push mute, close my eyes, and when the flash-flash-flash subsides I open them and VIOLIN! It's showtime for another minute while the geniuses set up another five or ten minutes of insulting, stupid commercials.

Oh, and do not think you can switch channel-to-channel to escape- there is collusion.. all stations seem to coordinate their commercials.. losing move, trust me.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ it's all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

bahmer

That is why I go with direct TV because I can pause the show and get up and use the john or fast forward through a commercial. On sports you can slow mo through a hit in football or go slo mo through a touch down. But the fast forward through commercials is what I like the most. You can also record shows for later viewing as well.

S. Maturin

Excellent way to compensate for the obvious dislike producers,
managers, etc., have for us low-life viewers.

:thumbup:

bahmer

I can usually go through a 1 hour show in about 45 minutes. That way I can sit down and watch the programs that I have prerecorded and skip through the commercials and not hear a word or have to watch them.

Tork

Well folks at 75 the breaks in my shows really gives me enough time to go potty & get back when the show continues I also have DirecTV & watch from my bar. Every one have a nice rest of the day. Tork

maydaybaby Loc: SC, proud of it!!!

I absolutely refuse to sit through commercials. They are horrible. My least favorites are medicine commercials. They tell you if you take their drugs, you will be like all the actors, outside on a lake, splashing and laughing with all your loved ones, smiling, eating gourmet food, enjoying the good life. All problems magically erased. Then for a 1/1000th of a second they flash the disclaimer how you could bleed to death, or other horrible fates, from their wonder drugs. My other least favs are the ones that say "these are not actors, they are real people" omg, help me, why then are they so polished? 99% of us are not polished, slim, gorgeous, perfect to look at. give me a break.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

One of the major reasons I hardly watch TV....Most commercials truly insult the level of the buyers knowledge and they are just dang irritating..More commercials than show I'll pass~~~MUSIC, so much better~~

S. Maturin

I agree. As a matter of fact, that one with the walking, talking, bipedal freaking lizard from OZ.. I will NEVER buy insurance from those morons... never.

(Actually, there are numerous irritating pitches on the TV.. but the most onerous, I think are about insurance and *gold*... Car commercials at least have some credibility.
And all those graphic 'tales' about personal health problems and f**e testimonials; stomach-turning and in some cases plain hideous.)

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Oh, I so agree with you!!! Pathetic they are and such a waste...

The personal Health problems are such a joke its not even funny...

They could at least make them funny, then people may watch "some"....Even the commercials for the Super Bowl aren't what they once were...Used to enjoy seeing what they were coming out with, now, no different than most commercials~~stupid!

There has only been one that I will say moved me beyond words~~

http://youtu.be/2-_qRS4Li7A

bahmer

Thank you lindajoy I have never seen that one. Excellent.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Thank You bahmer...Chilling it is and so heart moving it truly is the epitome of what commercials, if they have to be, could be...