While we wait for Lowes to get a new door…regarding commercials and sound…
…have you noticed the new trend in commercials: they start soft, then dial up the volume to a near-painful point. On my particular never-buy list: Bare Minerals. And Humana Supplemental health insurance for retired persons: I find it particularly insulting that they assume all of us over 60 are also deaf as posts and need to be shouted at.
Runner up: commercials that repeat phone numbers again and again and again, especially targeting old people. What do you think we can't remember, or what? I have a long memory for annoying commercials.
I also have had it with commercials exhorting me to buy "now" or "today." My answer: "I'll buy, if ever, unlikely, since you have annoyed me in a very memorable way, when I feel like it."
And stupid exaultation over stupid products. HD Sunglasses? Give me a break. HD. Yeah.
Why do I need TWO slap-choppers? Because they break?
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I am so glad I missed that ad. I don't watch anything other than American TV, so I have nothing to compare the ads I see to.
I mute my TV when it comes to commercials precisely because they are among the most insipid things ever invented. They serve a purpose, but hearing the same thing over and over again is an incentive to stay away from it, not decide to buy it. As is being yelled at. How is yelling at people going to make them buy your product? Why would anyone want to feel like they're an idiot and need to be screamed at in order to do something?