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Post by neferetus on Sept 18, 2010 12:02:02 GMT -5
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Post by Greg C. on Sept 18, 2010 15:13:10 GMT -5
I don't even know what to say to that.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 20, 2010 21:21:51 GMT -5
There seems to be a very irritating trend in television commercials that employ supposed real life customers where those customers talk about the glories of the product, or service. Rather than having the customer speak directly into the camera, as though looking you in the eye, they look and speak off to the side. Who are they suppose to be talking to? Certainly not the viewing audience. One way of testing the sincerity of anyone is to have them look you in the eye when speaking to you. A person who will instead look to the side is either trying to hide something, or being insincere. I, for one, will not buy a product, or service whose spokesperson comes across as being shady, or insincere. Will you?
Like I said, I would not mind so much if this practice was confined to one lousy ad, but it seems to be becoming a sort of trend in advertizing, as though the ad men seem to feel they are being artsy, or clever.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 22, 2010 19:58:50 GMT -5
There's a brand new tv commercial for breakfast at Burger King that I cannot stand. I hate it almost as much as those old Wendy ads with that guy in the red wig.
In this one, a man rises from his bed early in the morning fully clothed and then marches out his door singing a godawful jingle about how "I'm hungry for breakfast at Burger King." He is soon joined in song by other morons on their way to work who dance and prance to the tune of a guy dressed as the Pied Piper of Hammelin. Ugh! I have to mute the commercial every time and then just walk away from the tv screen to avoid the visuals until the danger at length has passed.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Oct 14, 2010 18:33:50 GMT -5
I second that!
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Post by neferetus on Dec 5, 2010 7:22:07 GMT -5
Ah, how times have changed. Back when I was a lad, the Three Musketeers candy bar was actually packaged in three pieces. At that time, the slogan for it was, "Enough for you and enough to share." Recently I saw a new add for the candy bar. It is in one piece now and it's slogan goes, "It's big enough to share, but you probably won't want to." Ah me. How sad to think that sharing has gone out of vogue.
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Post by neferetus on Dec 9, 2010 12:04:03 GMT -5
There's this car commercial with these Rappin' Rats that drives me to distraction. I have to either mute it and leave the room, or else change channels. Don't the promoters realize that people who are old enough to purchace a new car do not listen to hip-hop?
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Post by neferetus on Dec 27, 2010 15:24:38 GMT -5
There's this unbelievable Radio Shack TV commercial that shows Santa Claus on top of a snow covered rooftop and just about to go down a chimney with his bag of gifts when this caped super-hero-looking dude swoops down on him, knocking him off the roof, presumably to his death. The commercial pitchman then follows up this eyewitness to a murder with, "Be your OWN Christmas super hero at The Shack."
So the message here is, get rid of Santa Claus and just take all the credit for gift-giving yourself. Just think of the tens of thousands of TV viewing children who saw Santa Claus killed before their eyes, all so some electrinics store could make a buck.
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