Commercials that we like....NOT!

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Marysafan

Wednesday, April 03, 2002 - 06:02 am Click here to edit this post
Well, I agree with you about the language....it would ne nice if we could live in world where we could just filter out all the things we don't want. But that is simply not the case.

As mother's who love the children ...yes we want to shield them...but the better option would be to teach them how to deal with it. The truth is we simply cannot give them a world free from stress as much as we would like to. Sooner or later they will leave home and enter the "real world". Your job is to prepare them for it.

You can of course limit it as much as possible, but you will never be able to completely eliminate it.

As for the "Easy as Dell" reference. Yes, you are being too sensitve. I have seen that commercial a bazillion times...and NEVER made that connection. I doubt that your children would either.

and for the record...a couple of months ago...I decided to get a computer for home. I "got a Dell". I love it.

My UPS man says he can't count the number of Dell computer's he has delivered in the last several months.

There are a lot of reason's to chose whether or not to buy a product. My advice to you would be ...Don't cheat yourself out of a quality product, because of an obscure reference.

...but the choice is yours. Just my 2 cents.

Fruitbat

Wednesday, April 03, 2002 - 07:25 am Click here to edit this post
Mary...I did see that commercial and million times and the phrase "you're going to get a Dell" fit the situation. He talked the mother into it and turned to the kid and said it. Somehow I did not connect that would be the catch phrase in every commercial! <slinks off vowing to pay more attention>

Mssilhouette

Wednesday, April 03, 2002 - 11:49 am Click here to edit this post
I know this is off topic but it was interesting to me. I know that when I first starting talking to my boyfriend I really didn't use that many curse words, if any at all.

Now when i was in high school those words were in my speech so much a bunch of friends called ourselves the "N'SH*T" posse. LMAO, that because just about all our sentences were like:
"Yeah we can go to the mall, and S***." "So you gonna take the class n' sh**"

Okay that just made me laugh out loud. Of course I don't curse at all really. My boyfriend was around people who cursed a lot but after talking to me he really started to notice how well hard on the ears it was.

So much so that even when I curse sometimes in general (not at him) he doesn't really like it. He thinks it's not me.

My point, (and yeah I had one) is that sometimes ya gotta be allowed to experience things then decide to leave them.

(I'm still giggling about the high school thing...man were we stupid!...*SIGH*)

Sia

Friday, April 05, 2002 - 08:45 pm Click here to edit this post
The Geico Insurance commercials starring the gecko--particularly the one in which he gets out of the shower to answer the telephone--bother me. That one reminds me how annoyed I feel when a telemarketer interrupts me when I'm busy.

Hippyt

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 06:42 pm Click here to edit this post
OKay,I need to vent... If I have to listen to that Spice Girls song on that stupid new McDonald's chicken strip commercial ONE more time,I'm going to bust a vein!!!!!
SOOO,Tell me what I want,what I really,really want......
I REALLY REALLY want to never see this commercial again!!!!!!!

Hippyt

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 06:50 pm Click here to edit this post
TK,I kinda have a thing for the "Can you hear me?" guy! LOL He's spiffy...

Sia

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 07:16 pm Click here to edit this post
Hippy, I'm with you on that,but I didn't even know that it was the Spice Girls who sing that stupid song! Are they still together? I thought that half of the band dropped out to go have babies and play at being real mothers or something. The thing that bothers me most about that commercial is that it somehow rivets my children's attention; they will come into the kitchen from their bedrooms when they hear that ignorant, annoying chant (it's not a song!) begin. Then they won't answer any questions until the commercial has finished. What, is it laced with subliminal messages for kids to program them to demand McDonald's food every time we get within ten miles of one of their franchises? If, so, it's working. Please don't tell McD's corporate people!

Xxlt

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 02:03 pm Click here to edit this post
any commercial w/a 70/80's song
(i.e., "we're an american band")
i can see the surviving band members waiting by the mail box for a residual check......

jock commercials,
"kobe you done gone hollywood on us?"(bad english)
"flexall 454" (i'm crippled but this helps me move)
stupid "hockey town commercials" (hockey players as morons....)

infomercials with the flabby belly before and the
cut abdomen/pierced belly button after..

Mygetaway

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 07:08 pm Click here to edit this post
I hate the VW commercials with the Jerry Seinfeldish guy who licks the door handle.. Stupid!
I also dislike local area commercials for Vern Fonk Insurance. That man needs a prescription for Valium..LOL

Julieboo

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 07:44 am Click here to edit this post
Sorry, MGA, but I laughed my butt off at that one (the licking one). (But I do have a very unique and immature sense of humor!)

Whit4you

Friday, April 26, 2002 - 11:45 pm Click here to edit this post
Well I could sit here and list off 5001 commericals I hate... and then some.

The one I like is the new "Dell" commericals - I like that guy for some reason that I can't describe - carisma?? I don't know but he's got something "Dude your getting a dell" you know the guy I mean?