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Vin BioEthanol
Jan 18, 2002

by Ralp
Please don't buy any of our new $40,000 4wd bluetooth airconditioned 6 speaker navigation heated seats trucks go ahead and spend "more than its worth" on some rusted fading paint slow as gently caress base model poo poo from the smog era that gets 6 mpg and probably has a loving 3 on the tree or a powerglide to go with the ripped vinyl benchseat. gently caress you.

Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Aug 30, 2011

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ONE YEAR LATER
Apr 13, 2004

Fry old buddy, it's me, Bender!
Oven Wrangler
'merica sells dudes, just look at Levi commercials. :911:

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



ONE YEAR LATER posted:

People regularly eat food that is filled with sodium and saturated fats and they think it's healthy because it says low cal on the package. If losing 60 pounds in the last year has taught me anything it's the nutrition should be something parents teach their kids because the schools don't give it much attention and it's a really important (and simple) thing that I personally regret learning about so (relatively) late in my life.

Jamie Oliver did an entire tv show season on this and it didn't get him very far heh.

Sizzlechest
May 7, 2007

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

People regularly eat food that is filled with sodium and saturated fats and they think it's healthy because it says low cal on the package. If losing 60 pounds in the last year has taught me anything it's the nutrition should be something parents teach their kids because the schools don't give it much attention and it's a really important (and simple) thing that I personally regret learning about so (relatively) late in my life.

Ah, but sodium and saturated fat are fine for you.

Schools give PLENTY of attention to dietary guidelines. If they didn't, they'd lose federal funding of their lunch programs. The problem are with the guidelines, not the schools. This is going to result in a huge derail, so PM me if you care to discuss it more.

ONE YEAR LATER
Apr 13, 2004

Fry old buddy, it's me, Bender!
Oven Wrangler

Sizzlechest posted:

Ah, but sodium and saturated fat are fine for you.

Schools give PLENTY of attention to dietary guidelines. If they didn't, they'd lose federal funding of their lunch programs. The problem are with the guidelines, not the schools. This is going to result in a huge derail, so PM me if you care to discuss it more.

I won't comment on a low-carb diet any more than if it works for you that's great and stick with it. And I'm not talking about schools feeding kids food that follows guide lines, I'm talking about schools teaching kids that well balanced diets and exercise are important and that should be stressed as much as any other subject. In my experience during high school/middle school I took a health class that touched on this stuff. The main focus was on STD and drug prevention and even then a course you take for one year and then never again.


Anyway yes derail over.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Wagonburner posted:

3 on the tree

hahahaha goddamn I haven't heard this phrase in forever

Bodnoirbabe
Apr 30, 2007

moleman posted:

This Chevy commercial is quite possible the worst I've ever seen. I honestly thought it was a joke the first time I watched it. Terrible acting, terrible camera work, terrible audio issues...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvnohA-sdNo

Ugh. That is terrible. Reminds me of another of their commercials I hate. Well, pretty much all of them I hate. But this particular one is about a soldier coming home and this little kid is teaching his little brother how to salute. The dad drives up and the little brother runs up to him. They stare at each other for a second, then the kid salutes and his dad embraces him in a huge. Then the logo appears! CHEVY!

It's so emotionally manipulative and sappy I get furious whenever I see it. I think it ran during the superbowl. I hate Chevy.

unhwillneverwin
Oct 16, 2010

Smashing through the boundaries
Lunacy has found me
Cannot stop the battery!
Most ads are annoying but I can ignore them. However, I get livid with propaganda like ExxonMobil saying nothing wrong can happen with fracking. I hope that geologist got paid enough to bullshit his way through the commercial and can forget his 'advice' is helping to poison the water supply.

Here is the commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8du6pQbvyo

And here is a poor bastard showing how his loving water is flammable thanks to the runoff from fracking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U01EK76Sy4A

Ryokurin
Jul 14, 2001

Wanna Die?
It probably is safe. As far as the plant won't explode like the deepwater horizon and the well being there alone won't contaminate ground water. The issue is what happens in the long term over multiple fracking attempts. Now, keep in mind I'm not jumping on the whole fracking is evil and dangerous bit but like anything it's safe up until the conditions they tested for and by the conditions we currently know. Things change.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
And if things do change, most affected people have already signed away any right to sue.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Ryokurin posted:

It probably is safe. As far as the plant won't explode like the deepwater horizon and the well being there alone won't contaminate ground water. The issue is what happens in the long term over multiple fracking attempts. Now, keep in mind I'm not jumping on the whole fracking is evil and dangerous bit but like anything it's safe up until the conditions they tested for and by the conditions we currently know. Things change.

So did you not see the video he linked of a dude lighting his water on fire or what.

After everything in the last few years I can't understand how anyone would trust oil companies to do the right thing by default.

Ryokurin
Jul 14, 2001

Wanna Die?
Yep I know. That's why I said as far as the plant won't explode or the well being there alone won't contaminate water. I was trying to be sarcastic. Anyhow the point I was trying to make was that anything is safe depending on how you look at it.

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together

raditts posted:

After everything in the last few years I can't understand how anyone would trust oil companies to do the right thing by default.

They gave out a motherfucking coloring book to children about how fracking is perfectly safe and great for everyone until a congressman and Stephen Colbert shamed them into pulling it.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
So loving tired of this Jeff from State Farm commercial. It wasn't funny the first time, it wasn't funny the five hundred loving times afterward :argh:

fronz
Apr 7, 2009



Lipstick Apathy
Apparently it's from the superbowl, but I've only just seen it, and I already hate the ad with the guy with a Dorito harassing a dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5hAOLaJZI&feature=related
kind of want to beat the poo poo out of that guy

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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"Oooh, see what Anandra did?"

"MAJOR WOW FACTOR."

Tim Gunn, you're such a nice guy but that commercial makes me hate you. :smith:


Also,

aquatic sideshow posted:

There's a stupid lovely commercial where apparently a group of people go into a restaurant, and all order bowls of cereal. Not only that, they apparently order bowls of cereal by telling the waitress whichever health problem they have, and the waitress brings out bowls of Cheerios like some sort of bizarre pharmacist-waitress-cereal maker. It boggles the mind.

Imagining doing this to a waitress in real life sent me into an uncontrollable fit of giggles. "MISS, I HAVE ASTHMA AND GLAUCOMA WHICH CEREAL SHOULD I EAT I AM LITERALLY A CHILD." :saddowns:

Thank you.

You Are A Werewolf
Apr 26, 2010

Black Gold!

So, can anybody tell me just what the hell "Jailhouse Rock" has to do with the new Fiat 500? I mean, I get that they're going for the whole old and new thing, but a loop of the opening two guitar strums and snare hits throughout the commercial (later filled with MAD BEATZ and a snippet of the guitar solo) is just... I don't know, bland and dumb, and gets pretty annoying once you've seen the commercial multiple times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MpTxActPI

Annoying and hateful? That's pushing it. Bland and terrible with a song that has absolutely nothing to do with a tiny Italian car other than the fact that they both came out in 1957? Bingo.

ElectricSheep
Jan 14, 2006

she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

moleman posted:

This Chevy commercial is quite possible the worst I've ever seen. I honestly thought it was a joke the first time I watched it. Terrible acting, terrible camera work, terrible audio issues...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvnohA-sdNo

Unsurprisingly, it's got a lot of REAL MUHRICANS staunchly defending it in the Youtube comments. :911:

jtsold
Jul 6, 2004
dlostj
[Edit: Redacted. Sorry, this wasn't the place for the discussion!]

jtsold fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Aug 31, 2011

Peanut President
Nov 5, 2008



You Are A Elf posted:

So, can anybody tell me just what the hell "Jailhouse Rock" has to do with the new Fiat 500? I mean, I get that they're going for the whole old and new thing, but a loop of the opening two guitar strums and snare hits throughout the commercial (later filled with MAD BEATZ and a snippet of the guitar solo) is just... I don't know, bland and dumb, and gets pretty annoying once you've seen the commercial multiple times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MpTxActPI

Annoying and hateful? That's pushing it. Bland and terrible with a song that has absolutely nothing to do with a tiny Italian car other than the fact that they both came out in 1957? Bingo.

Why are they getting out at a drive in?

fariz
Nov 10, 2009

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Peanut President posted:

Why are they getting out at a drive in?

Snacks!

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Francois Kofko posted:

Apparently it's from the superbowl, but I've only just seen it, and I already hate the ad with the guy with a Dorito harassing a dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F5hAOLaJZI&feature=related
kind of want to beat the poo poo out of that guy

I really can't stand the CRUUNNNNNNNNCH sound at the end of all of them.

MillionsV
Jun 11, 2010
One of you will be my hero forever if you can somehow find a video of the new Judge Judy promo where she's dancing in the car. Something about her moving to five o'clock or something.

Acrolos
Mar 29, 2004

You Are A Elf posted:

So, can anybody tell me just what the hell "Jailhouse Rock" has to do with the new Fiat 500? I mean, I get that they're going for the whole old and new thing, but a loop of the opening two guitar strums and snare hits throughout the commercial (later filled with MAD BEATZ and a snippet of the guitar solo) is just... I don't know, bland and dumb, and gets pretty annoying once you've seen the commercial multiple times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1MpTxActPI

Annoying and hateful? That's pushing it. Bland and terrible with a song that has absolutely nothing to do with a tiny Italian car other than the fact that they both came out in 1957? Bingo.

My question is what made Henry Rollins decide to suddenly start doing voiceover work in every car commercial?

I know he was in the recent Acura one, and this one sounded like him as well.

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together
Easy money, probably? A ton of celebrities do uncredited VOs for random products.

AFewBricksShy
Jun 19, 2003

of a full load.



Acrolos posted:

My question is what made Henry Rollins decide to suddenly start doing voiceover work in every car commercial?

I know he was in the recent Acura one, and this one sounded like him as well.

I'm almost certain that's not Rollins. What Acura one?

Kimmalah
Nov 14, 2005

Basically just a baby in a trenchcoat.


Malachite_Dragon posted:

So loving tired of this Jeff from State Farm commercial. It wasn't funny the first time, it wasn't funny the five hundred loving times afterward :argh:

Don't forget hearing "Thanks for the falcon :haw: " about 20 times a day.

Acrolos posted:

My question is what made Henry Rollins decide to suddenly start doing voiceover work in every car commercial?

I know he was in the recent Acura one, and this one sounded like him as well.

I can hear a similarity, but I'm almost certain that isn't Henry Rollins (and I only say almost because I can't find any credits for the commercial to say for sure). I haven't heard him in any other commercials either. I think Henry just has a voice that sounds a lot like your typical "car commercial narration guy."

If he did though, it would probably be for the same reason that Jeff Bridges or Michael C. Hall do car commercials - money.

Speaking of, that one's old but probably belongs here just for the sheer :wtc: mix of Christmas cheer and the flat narration of Dexter Morgan.

Kimmalah fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Aug 31, 2011

Vin BioEthanol
Jan 18, 2002

by Ralp

Peanut President posted:

Why are they getting out at a drive in?

They're in a tiny little almost-car, you wouldn't want to sit in there any longer than you had to right?

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Wagonburner posted:

They're in a tiny little almost-car, you wouldn't want to sit in there any longer than you had to right?

Made me think of that old Chevy Aveo commercial where like 6 huge basketball players got in one of them.

Acrolos
Mar 29, 2004

AFewBricksShy posted:

I'm almost certain that's not Rollins. What Acura one?

Correction, it was actually an Infiniti commercial. I couldn't find the ad that I have seen on TV, but this article has a different one at the bottom. I have also heard him doing Infiniti ads on the radio quite a bit on Sirius. It isn't really the type of thing that you would expect him to do, but Henry Rollins has never really been a "holier than thou" kind of guy. He just does his thing and let's other people worry about what they are supposed to be/do.



http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2011/08/henry-rollins-infinitis-hardcore-voiceover-man.html

Acrolos fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Aug 31, 2011

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


I don't really see why people consider it a bad thing that actor X lends his voice or face to a commercial. If anything, the ad companies must love it since you're usually getting someone comfortable with being on camera, and you know exactly how they sound.

E: I guess if you don't like the guy that's one thing but jeez it drives some people crazy and I just don't get it.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

DJExile posted:

I don't really see why people consider it a bad thing that actor X lends his voice or face to a commercial. If anything, the ad companies must love it since you're usually getting someone comfortable with being on camera, and you know exactly how they sound.

E: I guess if you don't like the guy that's one thing but jeez it drives some people crazy and I just don't get it.

Rollins was the rebel back in the day. He headlined Black Flag, a major punk band, back in the late '70s-early '80s. Fucker was counterculture hardcore.

Rollins voicing over commercials for not just a car brand, but a luxury car brand, is akin to selling out.

\/\/\/ Yes. I knew I remember that line, but couldn't remember the band who did that cover.

Young Freud fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Sep 1, 2011

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

Young Freud posted:

Rollins was the rebel back in the day. He headlined Black Flag, a major punk band, back in the late '70s-early '80s. Fucker was counterculture hardcore.

Rollins voicing over commercials for not just a car brand, but a luxury car brand, is akin to selling out.

So you're telling me that the line:
Out on the road today,
I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.


from The Atari's cover of "Boys of Summer" is now oddly poignant?

MillionsV
Jun 11, 2010
If you have migraines... you know pain.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



MillionsV posted:

If you have migraines... you know pain.

And if you don't know, well now ya know :snoop:

Fortis
Oct 21, 2009

feelin' fine

MillionsV posted:

If you have migraines... you know pain.

That commercial always makes me vaguely uncomfortable, like she's angry at me personally.

That girl must be the granddaughter of the "when you had a heart attack... like I did... and no one is there for you :argh:" lady from the LifeAlert commercials.

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 60 days!
In the Progressive commercial with Groovy 70's Stache Dude sitting in the movie theater, I know what he says involves savings, and I know it's ridiculous on my part...but damned if I can't help but hear him saying "This movie stars you...and Satan. But mostly Satan." :unsmigghh:

Vin BioEthanol
Jan 18, 2002

by Ralp
I've never cared for the geico guy in the suit "can switching to geico really.." (or any geico ad) but I did crack a bit of a smile at the new "do people use smartphones to do dumb things?" Hits home pretty good with me because of some people I know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe-Y-zSd5gs

I quickly lost any bit of respect I gained for geico from this ad when I looked it up on youtube and saw indicators that you can get an official geico brostache app.

Vin BioEthanol fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Sep 1, 2011

Palleon
Aug 11, 2003

I've got a hot deal on a bridge to the Pegasus Galaxy!
Grimey Drawer

Wagonburner posted:

I've never cared for the geico guy in the suit "can switching to geico really.." (or any geico ad) but I did crack a bit of a smile at the new "do people use smartphones to do dumb things?" Hits home pretty good with me because of some people I know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe-Y-zSd5gs

I quickly lost any bit of respect I gained for geico from this ad when I looked it up on youtube and saw indicators that you can get an official geico brostache app.

To me, all of Geico's terrible commercials were redeemed by the Robot Day Care commercial, and I look forward to them running it into the ground and then some.

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Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Palleon posted:

To me, all of Geico's terrible commercials were redeemed by the Robot Day Care commercial, and I look forward to them running it into the ground and then some.

It'll all end in a battle royale between the Geico Cavemen and Robot Day Care, the past and the future fighting for the present of auto insurance.

You know you want to see that.

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