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What tv commercials are annoying to you  
- Leon's with that couple  
- Shaw with that talking cable box

Every single betting commercial

Vehicle ads: 'goofy' and tell you nothing about the vehicle.  
Tampax/pads/leaking-protection: some very offensive (Tampax) and do we really need all this info?  
 
On lighter side, really like the Haribo Gummies commercial w/kid's voices coming from the adults.

The whole lot of them. Commercial’s are an insult to our intelligence and programming isn’t much better. Am seriously considering cancelling our cable and getting rid of the TV.

I can't agree more! It is ridicuolus!

Just tell us what it is for. If I asked my doctor about every medication that’s advertised I’m sure he’d stop seeing me lol.

One of main reasons I canceled cable, plus poor quality of programs.

The one where the girl with the mustache dances in her classroom wearing a yellow Freddy mercury jacket

The betting ones are really annoying especially in time like these when people are barely hanging on with grocery prices. The Peleton ads are a close second, On my small street alone I know of two for sale so pretty sure 92% aren’t still using them.

 
 
Edited by Slanted, 2023-04-21 15:50:26

Got caught watching live tv the other day and saw this one. I thought it was great

We tape everything and fast forward through the commercials. It’s criminal how many there are.

And they play it over and over. Seeing it once was enough fir me. I just change the channel as soon as i see it come on.

I think I’d rather stab a screwdriver in both ears than listen to the Kars for Kids ad one more time.

nail fungus what is wrong with that family they like fungus ?  
TD the screeching women floating around the room

That Pronamel toothpaste commercial with that whiny woman.

I agree enamel 3 times she says it .

What I don't understand is why does the volume go way up for the commercials.  
The same happens during the intermissions of the hockey games. The music is so loud you can not hear what Ron McLain or others are commenting about.

Honestly, the sheer quantity of obnoxious ads on tv gradually chased me away from watching cable tv to the point where I got rid of my cable box.  
 
Traditional television is suffering from what I perceive to be a catch-22. Less people are watching cable thanks to streaming services, and to compensate television companies need to play more ads, which then chases away more cable users. It doesn't help that cable is quite expensive for what it is, AND you still need to watch ads. To me it made much more sense to pay for a streaming service where I don't have to sit through ads. However, we will see how long some of these services last considering some of them play ads anyways, or in the case of Netflix they begin cracking down on password sharing.  
 
I was worried that I would miss my cable tv, but I find that the only time I actually want to watch something is if it's a live event (New Year's Eve specials, sometimes the Superbowl Halftime Show, maybe an awards show or two), but that's about it.  
 
Ads annoy me enough that I run an adblocker on my web browser of choice too. I just can't tolerate being advertised to like that anymore.

The interesting part of this discussion, is the fact that everyone is doing exactly that ...discussing.  
Commercials are intended to get the attention of a least one single viewer and hope that it spurns a discussion of the product or the commercial itself, in this case both. It's interesting to see how many people who don't watch football are interested in watching the commercials during the Super Bowl. Regardless of whether the commercial is appealing or not to the viewer...it gets the word out there.  
So I guess....it's working or to paraphrase, Charlie Sheen...."winning"

Omg robbie2. We were just complaining about that last night. The play by play is almost muted and drowned out by crowd noise. Seems worse on hd channels so I switch to sd to hear better but sacrifice picture quality.

I completely agree, society has always had this love/hate relationship with television ads, to the point that it has created a whole new generation that has fallen in love with them so much that they will spend hours upon hours scrolling through their "for you page" of one minute video clips promoting thoughts, ideas and even advertisements.  
 
Let's face it, ads are only becoming a bigger part of our lives, and no amount of cable cutting is going to have any sort of affect on that.

Television ads have long been airing with an increased volume because we all do the same thing when they come on, we will either go to the kitchen for a snack or the bathroom for a break. That higher volume makes certain that you won't be missing out on those "all-too-important" adverts while you are digging through the fridge!  
 
Edited by PrimeConvoy, 2023-05-26 16:19:54

The FCC is trying to soothe your ears with something called the CALM Act, which passed in 2010. It requires commercials to match the average volume of the shows during which they’re playing. The FCC also sets a legal limit to how loud shows can get, but there’s a catch. Shows mix loud and soft parts: One character whispers, while another one shouts.  
 
Some advertisers create audio tracks that match every part—the music, the voices, the effects—to the loudest part of a show. In other words, the entire commercial is set to a guy shouting over a police siren.

The one that really fries my brain is the '' Check Your Credit Score '' sites. I always thought a good credit score was earned and NOT manufactured. Silly me . I am sitting here with a O bank balance and 18 cents in my pocket and Wham I now have an eighteen star credit rating .WOW . New apartment .New car . New girlfriend. Life is good !!!

Wow, I didnt think there are still people watching regular tv :_O its been more than 10 years since my last cable bill.

This is horrible, I agree

I find it disgusting that the company recommending you do a partial load of dishes "every night" instead of waiting for the dishwasher to be full!!! They also suggest you are saving water by doing this instead of washing in the sink. Ridiculous!! It doesn't take 17 liters of water to hand wash a small load, unless you leave the water running the whole time! Duh!  
Also if you do 2 half loads in your dishwasher instead of a full load you end up using twice as much water/electricity, 4 quarter loads =four times as much water/electricity. What a waste of water and electricity, not to mention the extra wear and tear to your dishwasher!! Of course you end up using a lot more of their expensive product!!

I didn't believe the dishwasher propaganda either, so I did some research. Here's what I found:  
 
- Yes, the assume you are running the tap the entire time you are washing. I have personally only known 1 person my whole life that washed dishes like that.  
 
- Modern dishwashers really do use very little water. The modern ultra-efficient ones only use a few gallons. The trade off is that they take a really long time to wash. This is a good primer demonstrating how dishwashers wash https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04 They are also more prone to clogging in from my experience, as they just don't have the water pressure/volume to move food bits along.  
 
- They don't tell you how much energy your dishwasher uses.  
 
- I calculated how much water I use when handwashing a similar amount of dishes to what my dishwasher holds. It's approx the same, assuming the rating on my dishwasher is accurate. The only thing it saves me is time.