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  • #451
    Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

    While they are not TV commercials, and it is not really "annoying" so much as it is bizarre:

    In Grand Central Terminal, on the walls of the corridors, they have some really large frames for advertisers to put up posters (something like 5' x 10', say). Most of the time there is one advertiser using all of them; sometimes they have advertisers alternating between one and the other.

    In the current ad campaign, they have two different advertisers sharing the same frame, half each. One side has various people extolling how NYC services helped them ("they help with my panic attacks," "they help me deal with my depression," etc.) and right next to them they have ads for Haagen-Dasz ice cream, with a big "aaah" on top.
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    • #452
      Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

      Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
      In the current ad campaign, they have two different advertisers sharing the same frame, half each. One side has various people extolling how NYC services helped them ("they help with my panic attacks," "they help me deal with my depression," etc.) and right next to them they have ads for Haagen-Dasz ice cream, with a big "aaah" on top.
      That reads like excellent ad placement by Haagen-Dasz.
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      • #453
        Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

        Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
        While they are not TV commercials, and it is not really "annoying" so much as it is bizarre:

        In Grand Central Terminal, on the walls of the corridors, they have some really large frames for advertisers to put up posters (something like 5' x 10', say). Most of the time there is one advertiser using all of them; sometimes they have advertisers alternating between one and the other.

        In the current ad campaign, they have two different advertisers sharing the same frame, half each. One side has various people extolling how NYC services helped them ("they help with my panic attacks," "they help me deal with my depression," etc.) and right next to them they have ads for Haagen-Dasz ice cream, with a big "aaah" on top.
        This reminds me of a really unfortunate juxtaposition in the DC Metro a few years ago, at Pentagon City, Crystal City, and other DOD-contractor-heavy stops. One half was Save the Children posters of little brown kids, amputee, blinded, living in squalor. The other half were slick, hyper-macho shots of gleaming Grumman or Boeing death machines, with slogans like "we get the job done!" or "all that's left is the invoice!"

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        • #454
          Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

          We call it the remainder that's the number that remains.

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          • #455
            Originally posted by MadTownSioux View Post
            Anybody listening to I(Heart)Radio? The ZipRecruiter adds are so horrible that just listening once makes me cringe. But, no, IHR (or maybe just WIBA AM in Madison) runs this ad at least once during every commercial break. I sometimes turn the volume off and just forget to turn it back up again.
            Refuse to use that service. TSN Radio is an iHeart company and they refuse to let their internet stream cross the border.

            Fortunately, there are other services that do.
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            • #456
              Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

              Not a post about an annoying commercial today.

              Instead, for some of us at least, a memory of the greatest candy commercial ever made.

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I
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              "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

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              • #457
                Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

                Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
                the greatest candy commercial ever made.

                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExSlyoVTX3I
                Concur!!! That commercial brings back almost as many memories as a distinct perfume.
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                • #458
                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  Concur!!! That commercial brings back almost as many memories as a distinct perfume.
                  And could sing along with the jingle word for word.

                  Face it - I am an Old Fart.
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                  • #459
                    Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

                    Originally posted by joecct View Post
                    Face it - I am an Old Fart.
                    Not sure anybody's fightin ya on that, joe.
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                    • #460
                      My anti-depressant, Trintellix, has a commercial.
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                      • #461
                        Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

                        During the Eagles/Falcons game they just had a car commercial where people were rushing to put all of their stuff in their car because a meteor was going to hit the earth. Or as Hawaiians call it, "earlier this morning".

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                        Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
                        iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
                        gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
                        Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
                        Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
                        TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
                        DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

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                        • #462
                          Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

                          Never thought I'd say this:

                          Bring back Flo.
                          Jamie makes her seem acceptable.
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                          • #463
                            Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

                            Originally posted by The Sicatoka View Post
                            Never thought I'd say this:

                            Bring back Flo.
                            Jamie makes her seem acceptable.
                            Just think, with the corporate tax rate down, Geico and Progressive have so much more to spend on commercials!

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                            Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
                            iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
                            gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
                            Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
                            Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
                            TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
                            DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

                            Test to see if I can add this.

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                            • #464
                              Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

                              Goldman Sachs pizza parlor commercial. Employee takes a bite of pizza as a "fee." Supposed to show the fees other places charge when getting a loan. Wouldn't the fee just increase the price of the pizza? It's not like you get less of a loan with a fee, you just pay more.
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                              • #465
                                Re: Annoying Commercials 2: Searching for the MUTE button

                                Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
                                Goldman Sachs pizza parlor commercial. Employee takes a bite of pizza as a "fee." Supposed to show the fees other places charge when getting a loan. Wouldn't the fee just increase the price of the pizza? It's not like you get less of a loan with a fee, you just pay more.
                                Joke's on you. No matter how big the bite is, they're still laughing on the entire limo ride to Peter Luger.

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