Most Annoying Commercial

[steelyman]

No ad, IMHO, will ever be better than this:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cat+herdi...i=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE

Coincidentally, someone mentioned reading Lonesome Dove recently (which I happen to be doing too!). This ad pays homage to that classic.

 

[robls]

I searched Smart Tube is not available on my tele.

If you have access to a browser on your tv, you can enter the following link:
https://smart-youtube-tv.en.softonic.com/android
Or if your tv and computer are linked, you can download the file on your pc(windows) and transfer the file over to the tv, and install it that way.
Not an IOS guy, but it probably works the same way.

 

[OneMarcilV]

Very good. Much appreciated.

 

[brett]

We hate them all equally. We record and skip past the adverts.

 

[Amethyst]

If you have complete control of the TV, this is the smart way to go.

Since I despise commercials, and what I consider to be attempted brainwashing by commercials, I don't listen to any of them at all.

I either put them on "mute", or turn the television off and do something else. Usually the latter.

 

[OneMarcilV]

If you have access to a browser on your tv, you can enter the following link:
https://smart-youtube-tv.en.softonic.com/android
Or if your tv and computer are linked, you can download the file on your pc(windows) and transfer the file over to the tv, and install it that way.
Not an IOS guy, but it probably works the same way.

Might as well use YouTube. Below is why.

 

[robls]

Might as well use YouTube. Below is why.

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I have been using Smart Youtube TV for years on my Nvidia Shield, and the only ads I have seen are sponsor ads. e.g. Paul's Hardware has little sponsor ads that he describes in the beginning of the video. Never seen an ad otherwise.

 

[OneMarcilV]

What is a Nivia Shield?

 

[Car-Guy]

The same crap is going on during golf tournaments with 2/3 the screen being a commercial and 1/3 being the golf match. Even on a big screen TV, 1/3 is so small you lose the detail view.

Wait a minute, let's get carried away with this.... Almost ANYTHING is better than watching golf. If it were just golf and commercials being broadcast on TV, I switched to a test pattern.

 

[friar1610]

Wait a minute, let's get carried away with this.... Almost ANYTHING is better than watching golf. If it were just golf and commercials being broadcast on TV, I switched to a test pattern.

Bowling?

 

[Car-Guy]

Bowling?

I don't care much for bowling either but it's "watchable" if nothing else is on.

 

[OneMarcilV]

Bowling?

I agree bowling is fun to look at.

 

[robls]

What is a Nivia Shield?

Nvidia Shield is an Android streaming box.
You can find them on Amazon, Best Buy, etc...
I have the 2nd generation box.

 

[OneMarcilV]

Ok just wondering.

 

[eytonxav]

I have a special super power; I totally zone out when commercials come on, so I can't really say any one annoys me. DW will comment on a stupid commercial and I am clueless to respond back to her complaint.

 

[ivinsfan]

Wait a minute, let's get carried away with this.... Almost ANYTHING is better than watching golf. If it were just golf and commercials being broadcast on TV, I switched to a test pattern.

I'd rather watch golf, then basketball of any kind, car racing, soccer, or hockey....

 

[CardsFan]

Boston doesn’t have that bad of dialect.

Having been born and raised there, I can say, yes they do (or at least some). And, if you live there, you can tell the difference between areas. North of Boston and South of Boston are quite different.

For the record, as we used to say way back in the 60's (when I lived there), JFK didn't have a Boston accent, he had a Hahvard accent.

 

[aja8888]

Wait a minute, let's get carried away with this.... Almost ANYTHING is better than watching golf. If it were just golf and commercials being broadcast on TV, I switched to a test pattern.

I take it you missed the Ryder Cup match.....U.S. vs.Europe?

 

[Zona]

We skip commercials when watching OTA shows on TiVo and mute them when streaming. But, even muted, I despise the Seat Geek commercials. It really annoys me that the commercials worked well enough even muted, that I remember the company name.

However, we will actually unmute or rewind to watch those Progressive “turning into your parents” commercials. Ironically I could not remember what company those were for, despite having watched them many times…I had to look it up just now.

 

[Car-Guy]

I take it you missed the Ryder Cup match.....U.S. vs.Europe?

What's the Ryder cup? Honestly, I had to look it up....

 

[Amethyst]

This sounds like the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, which is thought to have originated after the Erie Canal was created, and then spread across the midwest. It's characterized by pronouncing "cat" as a drawn-out, nasal "key-at," "Anne" as "Ee-yan," and "Boston" as "Baaston." Very nasal.

I first heard it in my rural NJ neighborhood (where we said "cat" for cat) in the 1960s when more families with kids started moving in. A lot of them were midwestern transplants. Why is that kid calling for Ian, I thought. We don't have anybody named Ian here. Turned out he was calling for "Ann."

The NCVS is thought to be a major change in the way English is spoken, even though it probably sounds completely normal to anybody who grew up north of Maryland. (They have them some funny accents in MD, too - ask anybody who's been in Gulnbrny).

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/270794

Having been born and raised there, I can say, yes they do (or at least some). And, if you live there, you can tell the difference between areas. North of Boston and South of Boston are quite different.

For the record, as we used to say way back in the 60's (when I lived there), JFK didn't have a Boston accent, he had a Hahvard accent.

 

[MC Rider]

Did anyone say


1-877-Kars4Kids.

 

[John Galt III]

It's a radio ad, but the 'so easy you can do it in your underwear' jingle for some ripoff carbuying outfit.

 

[John Galt III]

I have to admit I like Flo from Progressive. And find her commercials amusing.

 

[OneMarcilV]

Did anyone say


1-877-Kars4Kids.

Did anyone say what?