Car commercials where people are doing all of these fun and exciting things, all because they drive this one PARTICULAR car.
Like I can't go to the beach or hike in the redwoods because I drive a 2005 CR-V...
Or car commercials that no matter what they are doing, there is fine print "professional driver, on a closed course, do not attempt". <snip>
Those really crack me up when it is someone just driving down a regular road at normal speed in the commercial.
They are so paranoid of lawsuits that they have to put disclaimers on everything because someone will wreck and then go back to the commercial and run it frame by frame and find that they were driving at 35 in a 25 zone and say they were shown by the car company that speeding was okay.
That is annoying. I am retired, just wife and me.How about items with an "everyday low price" of 2 for $5?
Can't you just call them $2.50 each?
I have made this point at checkout, they say put one in the freezer.
Besides, it's a flagrant waste of water, which leads to another peeve of mine ...Also in the silly advice department: Used to have a dental hygienist who, whenever I said "I know I should floss more", would always say "Do it while the water is getting hot for your shower!" Lady, the bathroom is right on top of the water heater. That takes 15 seconds. Most houses, 30 seconds tops. That's not even time to cut off a piece of floss and wrap it around your fingers. Yet it was always the same advice. I wonder what her hot water bill was.
I don't wish to be contrary noogies, but, I think the younger ones are more wastful.as old people seem to be the worst offenders.
We can't afford to do this shit anymore, folks.
Back around 1980 an ad agency was taking still photos for a brochure for the Chevy El Camino at the state park where I worked. They had to pay for a permit to shoot in a red pine plantation where vehicles weren't allowed and for two off-duty rangers to oversee the production, keep the public away, bring them stuff, etc. The photo was a rear 3/4 view of the back of the El Camino with two flannel-shirted guys with chainsaws loading the bed with cut firewood. It happened that the park also had it's own El Camino at the time (no connection), and we were all wondering how they could load so much weight on it since we knew ours couldn't. Turned out they had hidden jacks under the body to keep it level so it looked like you could load way more cargo than it was capable of. They also used the previous model year's vehicle in the shot because the brochure was intended for the upcoming year which hadn't started production yet. The models were posed in front of the tail lights to hide the difference. This was way before digital photography was in use.Or car commercials that no matter what they are doing, there is fine print "professional driver, on a closed course, do not attempt". Basically saying, "Or truck is built for offroad! Just don't take it offroad. And our truck is built for dropping 40 tons of gravel into the bed from 30ft up, just don't actually do it".
The expression "we caught up with" - used by TV news "journalists" to introduce some interview with some out-of-shape nobody whom a turtle could "catch up with". I just hate it - I don't know why - I just do. "Our metro reporter Jill Newsy caught up with Mr. Nobody who hasn't left his desk in four hours except to use the bathroom".