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#51 2006-08-11 9:39 am
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
justine wrote:
jcleek wrote:
The Apple commercials
There smug elitist and include so much spin they border pn on false advertising if not flat out lyingI kinda touched on that in my post. It woulda been nice if they'd had an actual Mac user play the Mac guy. Although, i have to admit, i still like the commercials. They made 35 of them. Most haven't aired yet, if they even will at all.
Ok My second vote......
Its a tie between the girls gone wild and the male member enhancement pill with the guy named Bob they always seem to play on Comedy Centeral during South Park…
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#52 2006-08-11 9:40 am
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
iBubba wrote:
MrJ in OZ wrote:
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Side note: When did Kool Aid Man start wearing pants?!
Court order.
GTFO!
Are you serious? Linxplzthx.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IKud4q4_fEk
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#53 2006-08-11 10:21 am
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
MrJ in OZ wrote:
iBubba wrote:
MrJ in OZ wrote:
Court order.GTFO!
Are you serious? Linxplzthx.http://youtube.com/watch?v=IKud4q4_fEk
Beat with a toaster? You sick demented man.
Brilliant!
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#54 2006-08-11 11:50 am
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
Do people in Austrailia eat cereal off of plates?
Are Frosties different from Frosted Flakes? Cause the last time I had Frosted Flakes they tasted like I was eating straight from a bag of sugar, and that's not exactly what I would call great.
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#55 2006-08-11 12:23 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
J.D.Hogg wrote:
Do people in Austrailia eat cereal off of plates?
He's South African, the advert is in the UK, where did Australia come into this?
Edit: Ah, he pisses off people in Australia and New York. I see. I should have paid more attention.
Frosties are the same as Frosted Flakes, only in Europe.
An In-Depth discussion of Frosties' Advert
Quite why the line, "I think of Frosties, when I masturb-ate.", wasn't uttered is beyond me.
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#56 2006-08-11 12:52 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:
He's South African, the advert is in the UK, where did Australia come into this?
Edit: Ah, he pisses off people in Australia and New York. I see. I should have paid more
Well no-one would have blamed you for sticking your fingers in both ears and going "la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la..." the second the annoying music started. Anyone coulda missed it.
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#57 2006-08-11 1:11 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
Who's South African? The Kid or tomfoolery?
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#58 2006-08-11 2:05 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
J.D.Hogg wrote:
Who's South African? The Kid or tomfoolery?
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#59 2006-08-11 3:59 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
J.D.Hogg wrote:
Who's South African? The Kid or tomfoolery?
I always assumed the kid was tF.
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#60 2006-08-11 4:44 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:
J.D.Hogg wrote:
Who's South African? The Kid or tomfoolery?
I always assumed the kid was tF.
That is all.
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#61 2006-08-11 5:06 pm
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I'm...I'm sorry. I didn't realise how much that could hurt somebody. It's...so hard to recall how irritating he really was. Memory doesn't do justice to the horror. Sorry.
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#62 2006-08-11 5:16 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
Y'know having Dell ad campaigns between watching Star Trek on Spike is quite disgusting. Who wants a $300 boat anchor (or a $700 slim bookend) when you could get a solid-bulit MacBook? So, you pay three times the price but, no viruses, Unix bullet-proof stability and seamless I/O integration. So, you people with your Dell, hey if you want to live in WinTel Hell, I don't feel sorry for you.
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#63 2006-08-12 5:07 am
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
I also object to the latest McDonalds one with the inflating bouncy castle and that awful "fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-laalaaha" music. Fortunately I couldn't find a video for you.
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#64 2006-08-12 3:27 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
gulmatan wrote:
Y'know having Dell ad campaigns between watching Star Trek on Spike is quite disgusting. Who wants a $300 boat anchor (or a $700 slim bookend) when you could get a solid-bulit MacBook? So, you pay three times the price but, no viruses, Unix bullet-proof stability and seamless I/O integration. So, you people with your Dell, hey if you want to live in WinTel Hell, I don't feel sorry for you.
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#66 2006-08-12 5:20 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
Rich chocolate Ovaltine.
They never just say "Ovaltine". It's "rich chocolate Ovaltine". And they don't sound like they were read straight from a piece of paper, either.
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#67 2006-08-12 7:19 pm
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My favorite Ovaltine "non-commercial" is in the movie A Christmas Story.
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#68 2006-08-12 10:05 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
I think Hummer is getting desperate to run those ads.
The Earthlink ads about "believing in a world without spyware and viruses" and equating that to mythological fantasies of fairies and trolls made me laugh. I'd yell, "Get a Mac!" at the TV.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#69 2006-08-12 11:45 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
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I think Hummer is getting desperate to run those ads.
The hummer commercials are so bad, they actually seem like parodies instead of actual ads.
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#70 2006-08-13 7:49 am
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
I hate any advert that has those women looking all free and easy after applying creams to "the intimate feminine area" to stop itching. You know the ones.
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#71 2006-08-13 11:32 am
Re: Most annoying commercials...
arkayn wrote:
The Helio commercials!!
Yup. It is a phone. And Korean company that engineered the piece of smurf is annoyed that it's being touted as anything but. Helio is a phone MVNO and not a company that sells dreams and unicorn farts; they really need to figure that out, but they never will, so that's fine and will make way for a MVNO that will actually be profitable, like Amp'd.
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#72 2006-08-13 2:16 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
I regularly get annoyed when I see a SUV commercial with the SUV driving through some wilderness mountain setting somewhere. Besides ruining the backcountry and wilderness if they actually did that, there wouldn't be anymore wilderness, because there would be stupid SUVs running all over the place in it.
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#73 2006-08-13 3:01 pm
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
Czachorski wrote:
I regularly get annoyed when I see a SUV commercial with the SUV driving through some wilderness mountain setting somewhere. Besides ruining the backcountry and wilderness if they actually did that, there wouldn't be anymore wilderness, because there would be stupid SUVs running all over the place in it.
what's funny about SUV commercials is they show the SUV climbing up the side of a mountain, if you actually tried that you'd flip over, And I saw a SUV drive up out of the ocean, after being fully submerged, are these glorified cars supposed to be submarines now
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#74 2006-08-15 12:22 am
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
Head On and Enzyte are probably my least favorites. I do a pretty good "Bob" impersonation, the smile, that is.
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#75 2006-08-15 4:06 am
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Re: Most annoying commercials...
Marcus wrote:
Head On and Enzyte are probably my least favorites. I do a pretty good "Bob" impersonation, the smile, that is.
The Daily Show tossed in a fairly good Head On styled ad the other day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Bv9cDU5kk
It's around the 2min mark
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