Most hated radio commercials anyone?

[ItsOver]

Between your avatar of Roy and your above post, I think I love you.

I salute you, sir!

[onan]

I differ with you on the general subject and I'll leave it at that.  This country needs more Patton and less patent leather.  I'm tired of all the "bleeding heart" crap and I'm a so called senior citizen.  Time to take care of your own butt and stop sucking off of others.

I hope it works well for you.

[stevesh]

My experience with nursing homes has little to do with a welfare state. Most nursing homes I am aware of are hardly affordable within a ssi budget. If someone is living in a nursing home and "doesn't have to lift a finger" it is costing several thousands of dollars a month. Well above what medicaid and ssi will afford. And trust me, if you have a family member that you are considering placing in a nursing home... well I wish you and your family member the best... because more often than not, no one is happy.


The way most elderly, especially the infirmed, live, well, most of us would find it unacceptable.


I have no doubt that it bothers many that their tax dollars go into any kind of welfare and to some extent I can relate. But and this is a big but anyone bitching about nursing home costs should spend a few days volunteering in one of the "lesser" homes. I doubt your cynicism for our wonderful welfare state would remain as it is now.

I'll put my anti-Nanny State credentials up against anyone's here, but my experience with having to find an assisted living place for my mother and my uncle's ordeal finding a nursing home for his stroke-disabled wife proves that onan is exactly right. Not a big deal until you've been there, I guess.

Fact is, if your wife or husband needs nursing home care, you have to essentially impoverish yourself before Medicare or Medicaid picks up a penny. It's a degrading and bureaucratically maddening process.

Don't get me wrong - I don't want the federal government paying nursing home costs for folks who can easily pay them  themselves, but there needs to be some sort of compassion involved. I don't know how/if ObamaCare will change this.

[West of the Rockies]

My experience with nursing homes has little to do with a welfare state. Most nursing homes I am aware of are hardly affordable within a ssi budget. If someone is living in a nursing home and "doesn't have to lift a finger" it is costing several thousands of dollars a month. Well above what medicaid and ssi will afford. And trust me, if you have a family member that you are considering placing in a nursing home... well I wish you and your family member the best... because more often than not, no one is happy.


The way most elderly, especially the infirmed, live, well, most of us would find it unacceptable.


I have no doubt that it bothers many that their tax dollars go into any kind of welfare and to some extent I can relate. But and this is a big but anyone bitching about nursing home costs should spend a few days volunteering in one of the "lesser" homes. I doubt your cynicism for our wonderful welfare state would remain as it is now.

I think nursing homes in American (a lot of them) are probably wretched places.  The topic reminds me a bit of the old Ursula K. Leguin short story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas", where a child is kept in a dank cell and abused so that society can be happy -- he's the sacrificial lamb, so to speak, the scapegoat.  He is out of sight and out of mind, and society keeps running along smoothly somehow because of his (or her) abuse. 

I think most of us don't ponder the care of the elderly in these home and hope like hell that when we all age, we are taken in by kindly relatives.

[West of the Rockies]

Oh, and back on-topic, I hate locally-made, poorly-produced commercials that feature a monster-truck-rally-announcer-wannabe ("Come down to Monstro's Pizza for the Monster all-you-can eat deal!").

[stevesh]

Oh, and back on-topic, I hate locally-made, poorly-produced commercials that feature a monster-truck-rally-announcer-wannabe ("Come down to Monstro's Pizza for the Monster all-you-can eat deal!").

Yup. Any commercial, radio or TV, that shouts at me gets turned off/tuned out. Local car dealer ads are the worst.

[West of the Rockies]

Oh, I hate used car commercials!  I grew up in So Cal where commercials for Cal Worthington (and his dog Spot) were on constantly.  If you want a terrible song to become a brain-worm in your head, go look on Youtube for any Cal Worthington commerical!   

If you need a better car... Go see Cal

For the best deal by far... Go see Cal

If you want your payments low..If you want to save some dough..

GO SEE CAL! GO SEE CAL! GO SEE CAL!

Any Model and make... Go see Cal

(Cal Sings)
Give your pocket book a break .. Go see Cal

Save some money save some time.. Save a nickle save a dime ...Lower prices everytime..

GO SEE CAL! GO SEE CAL! GO SEE CAL!

Actually, the commercials where he gets mauled by a tiger and a bear are pretty nifty.... 

[stevesh]

Here in Michigan we have Terry Hanks. Cowboy-themed ads with horses and everything, and Terry shouting "If we make a buck, it's sheer luck." The boy does sell a red shitload of cars, though.

[HorrorRetro]

Oh, I hate used car commercials!  I grew up in So Cal where commercials for Cal Worthington (and his dog Spot) were on constantly.  If you want a terrible song to become a brain-worm in your head, go look on Youtube for any Cal Worthington commerical!   

If you need a better car... Go see Cal

For the best deal by far... Go see Cal

If you want your payments low..If you want to save some dough..

GO SEE CAL! GO SEE CAL! GO SEE CAL!

Any Model and make... Go see Cal

(Cal Sings)
Give your pocket book a break .. Go see Cal

Save some money save some time.. Save a nickle save a dime ...Lower prices everytime..

GO SEE CAL! GO SEE CAL! GO SEE CAL!

Actually, the commercials where he gets mauled by a tiger and a bear are pretty nifty.... 

I grew up in Alaska and Cal had a dealership up there too, so we got the local versions of his commercials with the animals.  As a kid, I loved those stupid commercials.  However, it seems there were a lot of us kids who thought he was saying, "Pussy cow."  Of course, that makes no sense, but as kids, we just rolled with it.  As a kid, my husband was subjected to the commercials in the Anaheim area, and he also thought the course was "pussy cow."


Pussy Cow!

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/02/17/can-56000-people-on-facebook-be-wrong-just-ask-pussycow-video/

[West of the Rockies]

Great, Horror Retro, now I've got that damn jingle in my head!  Actually though, I must have heard that song a thousand times growing up in Orange County (Fullerton, which was right next to Anaheim).

[Histronic Fop]

Safe-Lite repair, Safe-Lite replace!

Ugh.

This one runs a lot, sometimes repeating every 30 seconds during a spot set.

[HorrorRetro]

Safe-Lite repair, Safe-Lite replace!

Ugh.

This one runs a lot, sometimes repeating every 30 seconds during a spot set.

That one used to be on here constantly.  I haven't heard it recently though.

[Histronic Fop]

That one used to be on here constantly.  I haven't heard it recently though.

You will.

Another commercial, actually a series of spots, that really bugs are those Geico spots: "Your lapel pin is so happy you saved money on your car insurance, it wants to do blow and chase hookers with you, but it can't -- it's a lapel pin."

[Histronic Fop]

How 'bout them fucking flipping formula spots? 

[Eddie Coyle]

Another commercial, actually a series of spots, that really bugs are those Geico spots: "Your lapel pin is so happy you saved money on your car insurance, it wants to do blow and chase hookers with you, but it can't -- it's a lapel pin."

Those are indeed horrible and annoying and fast approaching the all time pits of Kars4Yids.

[b_dubb]

I avoid listening to anything but NPR but even the underwriting annoys me. "Brought to you by..."

How did the Mona Lisa get painted without a corporate sponsor?

[onan]

I avoid listening to anything but NPR but even the underwriting annoys me. "Brought to you by..."

How did the Mona Lisa get painted without a corporate sponsor?

Considering that the church and several benefactors supported Da Vinci... I don't think the Mona Lisa was painted from a pan handling budget.

[ziznak]

that fucking 1877 cars for kids jingle annoys me almost as much as some UFO phil early on saturday morning.

[bigchucka]

The one where the band is talking about how there new song has the heartbeat "of a child in need".  One, I think the song sucks. Two, after recording the kid's heartbeat, what happened next?  And how was this obtained?

The "Three Energy Hogs" also insults me, because of the things said about the third hog.  I'm a fat fuckin slob, but I also have lower utility bills than anyone else I know.  Not because I care about the environment, but because I care about my wallet.

[CampsieNP]

The one where the band is talking about how there new song has the heartbeat "of a child in need".  One, I think the song sucks. Two, after recording the kid's heartbeat, what happened next?  And how was this obtained?

I soooo hate this one. It just creeps me out. The song totally sucks and I imagine some african tribesman ripping the kids heart out and eating it afterward when I hear it.

[CampsieNP]

Bet Snoorgie likes it though.

[Sardondi]

Bet Snoorgie likes it though.

But only if the "child in need" is in that condition because it was horribly burned in a wreck which killed its entire family. Then George gets positively giddy about it.

[CampsieNP]

Isn't that thuh truth?
Of all the creepy things about the man (911 pages+ and counting), his glee at child death and injury is easily the most disturbing aspect of this strange strange person. I just can't stand it.
All while trying to keep up the facade of being a really nice guy.
And we coasters are the only ones that can see this? The idiots that gave him a contract can't see this or make any attempt to make it stop??
Unbeleeevable.

[ItsOver]

Speaking of dreck Jorch probably likes, the one with the kid in the operating room with the supposed doctor asking what the kid is doing there while the doctor is working on the kid's girlfriend, who was supposedly in a car accident, due to the kid driving drunk, or, I'm sorry, "buzzed."


First of all, why IS the "buzzed" kid in the operation room instead of entertaining some law enforcement officers?  Of course, I'm not for drunk driving but the whole premise of the commercial is fantasy land.  Plus it's just been so, so overplayed, it's lost any possible effectiveness.  Another amateur creation brought to you by Big Brother's wet dream, The Ad Council.

[yumyumtree]

Haven't heard it in a few months, but Gerber Collision and Glass. The jingle singer sounds like someone whose IQ is too low to pass the written part of a drivers' test. Like many of them, it was a little cute the first time or two, then I came to hate it.
As far as PSAs go, there was one that used to get played occasionally in which a sadistic mother made her daughter search all

over the house for a purse she knew was on the first floor. The idea is to sneakily get kids to exercise more--by lying to them.

[yumyumtree]

Do Internet banners count? I just noticed something called Cougar Life and it hasn't anything to do with animals or Washington State University.

Anyway, have you noticed Dynovite upping the ante lately? First , it made the dog smell better and itch less. Fair enough. But now it improves the dogs personality and even saved one from being euthanized. Fancy that.

[HorrorRetro]

Do Internet banners count? I just noticed something called Cougar Life and it hasn't anything to do with animals or Washington State University.

Anyway, have you noticed Dynovite upping the ante lately? First , it made the dog smell better and itch less. Fair enough. But now it improves the dogs personality and even saved one from being euthanized. Fancy that.

WSU  I've spent a lot of time in the Spokane and Pullman areas.

Yeah, they brought that Dinovite commercial out of the vault.  It used to run nonstop a few years ago.  That's D-I-N-O-V-I-T-E.com.  :   Back then, I bought it for one of my pugs who has severe autoimmune skin issues.  I noticed zero difference.

[SR-71]

Do Internet banners count? I just noticed something called Cougar Life and it hasn't anything to do with animals or Washington State University.

Anyway, have you noticed Dynovite upping the ante lately? First , it made the dog smell better and itch less. Fair enough. But now it improves the dogs personality and even saved one from being euthanized. Fancy that.

I do hate the internet banners too.

[yumyumtree]

I don't like to complain too much. That's one of the things that keeps so many things on the Internet free.

[Tinfoil Hat]

My local, early morning news-weather-and-traffic station keeps running these loud "Viagra only $3 a pill! Buy now!!!" ads. These would be annoying anytime but they seem moreso with coffee at 0-dark-30.

Sheesh. Are there really that many limp dicks out there?