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compounded daily posted:CHECK YOUR ZIP CODE My TV was tuned to an off brand antenna channel for a while and the amount of times I saw this after turning off the Playstation or stopping streaming was surprising. It's like you can't watch old shows without old persons commercials.
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StormDrain posted:My TV was tuned to an off brand antenna channel for a while and the amount of times I saw this after turning off the Playstation or stopping streaming was surprising. It's like you can't watch old shows without old persons commercials. That's their prime demographic, olds who don't have cable (or streaming). I watch a ton of those sub-channels, and I can at least say I'm happy to have not seen a FarmersOnly.com commercial in several years, that loving jingle is burned into my brain. On the other hand, some of those channels are great for Sunday Dad-fternoon movies if you mute the boner pill commercials.
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One of our TVs is on CNN for about 12 hours a day, every day. I see every version of GET MONEY ADDED TO YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY, Ice T selling me car warranties, and "hey, husband, our neighbor's husband died, so you should get life insurance too and this in no way sounds like I just got an idea."
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YeahTubaMike posted:Ooooooohhh boy oh boy oh boy, this Lending Tree commercial isn't as bad as the Prime Day commercial yet, but this is because it feels like I've only heard it thousands of times and not millions. Timby posted:I want to find the person responsible for the current LendingTree campaign and make them suffer, horribly. These commercials are atrocious, but what really bothers me is one of the worst corporate slogans I've ever seen. "Lending Tree. You win." 
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Sash! posted:One of our TVs is on CNN for about 12 hours a day, every day. I see every version of GET MONEY ADDED TO YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY, Ice T selling me car warranties, and "hey, husband, our neighbor's husband died, so you should get life insurance too and this in no way sounds like I just got an idea." the ice t ones are so low budget it's incredible, i love the stock record scratch sound effect
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Don’t know how many Cali goons check this thread but Prop 27 ads have been absolutely non-stop for months now and it suuuuucks.
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Cup of Hemlock posted:Don’t know how many Cali goons check this thread but Prop 27 ads have been absolutely non-stop for months now and it suuuuucks. Ugh, yes! And then you get an ad for Prop 26 making GBS threads on Prop 27 right after. It’s like every ad break too and at least one of them uses that Smug Political Ad Voice that I hate. 
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What commercial does the thread title refer to? I tried looking up a commercial by that phrase but I didn't get any results.
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It was in the first post of this thread but the video is gone. Basically it was this bizarre McDonalds commercial where a guy is doing some weird beat poetry-esque praise to McNuggets.
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The greatest McDonald's ad of all time was the "I'D HIT IT" banner ad.
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Look, the #1 rule in marketing is: SEX SELLS
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac It was all downhill from here.
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StormDrain posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac Anything featuring Alexander is horrible.
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Buncha people walkin around with swamp rear end I guess.
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Sekhmnet posted:Buncha people walkin around with swamp rear end I guess. From where they were showing the stink lines, not just rear end.
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StormDrain posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTSdUOC8Kac Why on earth did they put the cheese on the cool side 
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ninjahedgehog posted:Why on earth did they put the cheese on the cool side Because it’s cool when it goes in the box duh
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VAPING CAN DELIVER TOXIC METALS LIKE NICKEL AND LEAD INTO YOUR LUNGS THAT’S METAL IN YOUR LUNGS
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I'm the last idiot paying for cable TV. Most of what I watch is sports. I'm also the last idiot listening to over-the-air radio when I drive. Just how much is there to be made off the bad water at Camp LeJeune? At least 4 or 5 law firms are running constant ads on the TV and 1 or 2 on radio. I watch Jeopardy and Forensic Files. I'm used to a ton of legal commercials, but nothing has been close to the Camp LeJeune phenomenon.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I'm the last idiot paying for cable TV. Most of what I watch is sports. I'm also the last idiot listening to over-the-air radio when I drive. My mother got a letter from the Camp Lejeune people about a week and a half ago telling her that she could get in on the class action lawsuit. She has never been in the Armed Forces in her life, and my father was in the Navy. He was never at Camp Lejeune….because Camp Lejeune is for the Marine Corps.
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Gonz posted:VAPING CAN DELIVER TOXIC METALS LIKE NICKEL AND LEAD INTO YOUR LUNGS DON'T PUT METAL IN YOUR LUNGS PUT IT IN THERE DO NOT PUT IT IN THERE
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For youtube, I only block MAGA ads, gambling ads (not sure why they bother me so much, I'm not against gambling) and solar ads (I am sure why they bother me so much, these are scams). You seem to get more ads in total if you block these ads and of course completely irrelevant, but I feel like I've grown less bothered by them and at least for now managed to avoid youtube's campaign to annoy me into youtube ad-free which seemed to be what they decided they were doing at the start of this year. I have noticed at least a few political ads that are so fast I don't have time to block them if the remote isn't in my hand which is an interesting tactic.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I'm the last idiot paying for cable TV. Most of what I watch is sports. I'm also the last idiot listening to over-the-air radio when I drive. In the past two weeks, I've gotten 14 emails about the water thing.
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Rick posted:gambling ads (not sure why they bother me so much, I'm not against gambling) I'm not against gambling either, but gambling ads seem particularly sketchy these days, especially now that MLB encourages it so much. Announcers talk about odds during games, there are segments of baseball shows in which analysts discuss odds, these gambling discussions are peppered with gambling platform sponsor ads (Draft Kings DRAFT KINGS DRAFT KINGS ISN'T GAMBLING AWESOME WHEN YOU USE DRAFT KINGS??? ) -- then a little "if you have a gambling problem, call this number" message at the speed of light after the discussion has taken place. It just seems extra predatory lately.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I'm not against gambling either, but gambling ads seem particularly sketchy these days, especially now that MLB encourages it so much. Announcers talk about odds during games, there are segments of baseball shows in which analysts discuss odds, these gambling discussions are peppered with gambling platform sponsor ads (Draft Kings DRAFT KINGS DRAFT KINGS ISN'T GAMBLING AWESOME WHEN YOU USE DRAFT KINGS??? It really does. Give it 5-10 years and it will be regulated like alcohol and tobacco advertising.
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Mister Kingdom posted:In the past two weeks, I've gotten 14 emails about the water thing. My Dad was stationed at Camp Leguine (sp?) and died of esophageal cancer. He was also a smoker and worked as a painter in a factory for decades, so his cancer could have been caused by any number of things. But my mom has retained a lawyer and I hope she takes those bastards for six figures. He battled it for five years.
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I once saw ads for pro football concussion class action lawsuits; if there are as many people eligible as these Camp Lejune lawyers are saying, one of them will bet there's a profit in dropping money on a Super Bowl ad.
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I got a big ol bowl for five bucks
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Rick posted:gambling ads (not sure why they bother me so much, I'm not against gambling) How do those lovely free online casino sites make money anyway when everyone has the disclaimer at the bottom that says "NOT A GAMBLING WEBSITE. CANNOT WIN OR SPEND REAL MONEY"? I'm assuming they are are just free-to-play fronts that they can legally advertise on tv with boosted up win rates, then once you join and win a bunch of funny money, then you start getting popups saying "Psst, wouldn't it be better if that was real money you were winning? Well you can go to our sister site [link here] to make it big!"
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I think some do check to see if you've got legal gambling in their state and funnel you to it. At least one or two of them let you win bonus stuff that ties into Vegas casino rewards programs, so they're playing the long game. But some of them are sadder. They're genuinely just for fun money. But they cap you or start to limit your wins and then offer to sell you bonus fun money through aggressive microtransitions, watching ads or typical mobile game stuff. It's basically tapping into gambling addictions/addictive personalities in places that haven't legalized online gaming. At least with real gambling you could theoretically win a jackpot and with Gacha games you can end up with a cool looking picture of a dragon to fight other stuff. Just the worst of both.
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I think NPR's This American Life had a episode where 3 people got into ruinous amounts od debt from microtranaction games. An old woman ruined her and her husbands retirement years. lost their dream home they built, etc. literally millions of dollars converted to funbucks during the era where there were no real gambling game apps. Also the "casino-style" game she played had some ex-casino consultant that would call and text her and comp her free funbucks. lol at exploitative industries using behavioral psychologists/science to maximize "engagement." (dont remember the 3rd example, but some boy ruined his mom's fin because facebook made it hard to not auto charge stuff so the kid just bought all the cool swords for his dumb skinner box game)
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Just how much is there to be made off the bad water at Camp LeJeune? Camp Lejeune's water issue affected an excess of a million people (according to the CDC). There's just a shitload of people that have standing. I'm hard pressed to think of any other suit with such a broad group. Even 3M's earplug problem is "only" like 230,000 people.
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Linda got a lendah I want to hang myself each time one of those commercials comes on
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PhazonLink posted:I think NPR's This American Life had a episode where 3 people got into ruinous amounts od debt from microtranaction games. Looking forward to all the sports betting tragedies where you can bet $5 and get $1k free! And definitely looking forward to that already endless deluge of ads
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PhazonLink posted:I think NPR's This American Life had a episode where 3 people got into ruinous amounts od debt from microtranaction games. It's buried somewhere in the Giant Bomb podcast archive, but someone had tales from mobile game consultants. There were consulting groups that specifically helped with "whales." Tracking was so complete that they had explicit profiles and could do things like notice that one particular big spender who loved the Lakers was playing their game. So they put together a not technically the Lakers theme basketball outfit that was intended just for him and made it a big premium thing knowing that he'd pay a ton to get it. Crazy stuff.
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Sash! posted:Camp Lejeune's water issue affected an excess of a million people (according to the CDC). There's just a shitload of people that have standing. I'm hard pressed to think of any other suit with such a broad group. Even 3M's earplug problem is "only" like 230,000 people. how the hell do you gently caress up ear plugs
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:how the hell do you gently caress up ear plugs You know those stem kind that have three hemispheres and sort of look like little round pine trees? 3M made a kind that had two "cones" on them so they were double sided. One side was "block everything" and the other was "block very loud very short sounds." In theory, the second side was good for allowing you to hear people talking but block loud damaging sounds. The military thought this was fantastic for combat and bought mountains of them. Turns out that they had a tendency to roll one of flanges the wrong way when you put them in, so they didn't properly seal in the ear. They provided some protection, but not nearly enough. Kept you from going completely deaf, but you lost something.
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:I once saw ads for pro football concussion class action lawsuits; if there are as many people eligible as these Camp Lejune lawyers are saying, one of them will bet there's a profit in dropping money on a Super Bowl ad. If they get Matt Damon to call you a pussy if you don’t join the lawsuit(s)…we’ll, didn’t work out so great for crypto… 
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