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General Chat / Re: What Is Up With These Ads?
« on: August 18, 2008, 10:06:48 PM »
The most annoying TV ads:
-Everest Institute, and pretty much all of these other "technical institutes" (IADT, ITT, Kaplan, etc.) (I know we all need to "call now, train now"!)
-All of these "male enhancement" products (especially the one with a very cheesy whistley tune-and I thought that kind of stuff was restricted on broadcast TV)
-Target "Good buy Hello"
-the Odor Eaters commercial with the dog running around trying to find "smelly sneakers"
-Anything that follows the format of "HeadON Apply Directly To the Forehead" (1-800 Plumber, LEE FREE)
-how about all of these prescription drug ads (drives me nuts how they depict people in these commercials as so "happy-go-lucky" while mentioning (they have to) "rare, but serious side effects"-is it any wonder that no other country in the world other than the US and NZ allows these kind of ads on TV?)
-CASH4GOLD.com
The most annoying internet ads:
-"Congratulations, you have been selected to recieve a free (insert some new consumer electronic product)" voice ads-with no way to turn off the sound! (same thing goes for the one with the animated emoticons)
-When will you die quiz
-"Find out who your crush is"
-Jason Hommel's "Silver Stock Report" (yah I know there's shortages of silver--and oil, and everything else)
Here's one that particularly p'd me off-
I ended up getting a pop-up one day claiming that my hard drives had "hardware error" and that I had a DVD-RAM drive and it popped up a message box saying that "serious privacy and security threats found" and that I needed to download a "CRITICAL" security update. It wouldn't let me cancel out of it (ever time I clicked to cancel or "x" the message would spring right back with no other way other than to click OK or kill off the browser's .exe process in Task Manager.
-Everest Institute, and pretty much all of these other "technical institutes" (IADT, ITT, Kaplan, etc.) (I know we all need to "call now, train now"!)
-All of these "male enhancement" products (especially the one with a very cheesy whistley tune-and I thought that kind of stuff was restricted on broadcast TV)
-Target "Good buy Hello"
-the Odor Eaters commercial with the dog running around trying to find "smelly sneakers"
-Anything that follows the format of "HeadON Apply Directly To the Forehead" (1-800 Plumber, LEE FREE)
-how about all of these prescription drug ads (drives me nuts how they depict people in these commercials as so "happy-go-lucky" while mentioning (they have to) "rare, but serious side effects"-is it any wonder that no other country in the world other than the US and NZ allows these kind of ads on TV?)
-CASH4GOLD.com
The most annoying internet ads:
-"Congratulations, you have been selected to recieve a free (insert some new consumer electronic product)" voice ads-with no way to turn off the sound! (same thing goes for the one with the animated emoticons)
-When will you die quiz
-"Find out who your crush is"
-Jason Hommel's "Silver Stock Report" (yah I know there's shortages of silver--and oil, and everything else)
Here's one that particularly p'd me off-
I ended up getting a pop-up one day claiming that my hard drives had "hardware error" and that I had a DVD-RAM drive and it popped up a message box saying that "serious privacy and security threats found" and that I needed to download a "CRITICAL" security update. It wouldn't let me cancel out of it (ever time I clicked to cancel or "x" the message would spring right back with no other way other than to click OK or kill off the browser's .exe process in Task Manager.
