I mean sometimes to the point of not only can you not stand them, but sometimes where you just would like to go medieval on those involved? Where you know you level of irritability outsizes the offending item?
Well, for fun, or at least to vent, I have to surrender the commercials, music or jingles that I viscerally hate. I don't know if I will find agreement, laughter or shock with this list, but here goes a list of my top 10 least favorite or down right "hated it".
- The Craftmatic Adjustable Bed commercial. A few people express how the bed is good for their. However, there is a least one older lady is over the top. She too eagerly and excitedly exclaims, "MY BAD BACK LOVES MY CRAFTMATIC ADJUSTABLE BED". I am like, "lady get a room with that bed". It's almost as if we are being made to suffer her desire to become one with the bed and not in a healthy way. :D
- Tom Shane, the Shane Company. Now he always kind of annoyed me, but over the holidays, in my book he completely destroyed his man card. In the commercials, he portrayed himself asking some dopey guy what he'd get his lady for Christmas. Clueless guy said, a vacuum cleaner or something to that effect. Now, if that wasn't enough, that gender traitor--not using the b-word here--brought the lady on the line and had her shame and humiliate the clueless man. I'm like whose side are you on Tom? I'm like so you think its okay to portray the ambushing of a guy on the radio to get a buck. Dude completely, lost my respect and business forever. Let's just say, with him, I no longer have a friend in the diamond business.
- The Spin Doctors - Two Princes. Is it so wrong when he whines, "If you wanna call me baby, just go ahead now"... to want to smack him one? I know it's wrong and I know it shows latent hostility on my part, but for Pete's sake dude, don't whine about a woman. It is not befitting of a grown man. Just talk to the lady, tell her simply that she has to choose and make it clear if you don't hear from her, you'll assume she's made her choice. Then move on. Don't whine about your dilemma.
- Vincent from ShamWow. He talks on his mic headset on the commercial. I can imagine him going everywhere with that mic headset: the store, a restaurant, home. I can imagine him 'announcing' to his kids through it and them rolling their eyes and talking back to him, saying "Dad, you know that's really annoying".
- Head-On, apply directly to the forehead. Do I really have to explain this one?
- Mucinex. Really having a depiction of slimy green mucous in the form of a mucous person is what everyone wants to see?
- Any shyster lawyer that advertises in off-peak hours and says if you or your loved one had this procedure, etc and it ended out in injury or death, call this number. It occurred to me one time, if you were the victim of negligence and it ended in death for you, you wouldn't be calling them. Just saying...
- Brown and Brown. In IL, 618 all 8s (618-888-8888). In MO, 314 all 3s (314-333-3333). So, one time it occurs to me. Given number 7 above, it occurred to me, that maybe they should put if you are calling from h*ll, call all 6s. I know that's wrong, but sometimes our secret thoughts don't have any tact. ;-)
- Any commercial which expresses how some attorney will rescue you for pennies on the dollar if you are in trouble with the IRS. Especially, the Alan Thicke ones. I guess the acting gigs just aren't coming for him anymore?
- I Will Survive. That might have been an empowering song one day a long time ago, but now it just sounds like a tired, stale old song of a bygone area. It just grates on me. Is that so wrong to hate on it?
I'm bettering each of you who read this has your own "love to hate" list. Anyway, I feel much better and thank you for letting me share.
