I was watching tonight and all I think about is how much I HATE the commercials.
I am so tried of the McDonalds chicken sandwich, the Subway Scrabble commercials and the Geico gecko commercials.
Does anyone actually like them? Does every one hate them like I do?
GO Phelps! I am hoping he really does get to meet his goal of making his 8 gold medals.
Hi Emily, About television commercials, I either LOVE them or HATE them; I am never neutral about them. Some commericals should never be shown in the first place, like the ones for ED! The thing I like most about recording shows on my DVR is that I can skip through the commercials.
Hi Emily,
I prefer to TIVO everything. Then I only watch what I want to watch, when I want to watch it.
But yes, some of the commercials can get really annoying.
Commercials are like negative campaigning in politics, it seems like nobody likes either but the research shows they work ... it has always left me wondering!
For the most part I am neutral to most commercials however there are some that do arouse a laugh now and again!
I just mentally tune out the commercials and type on the laptop until the Olympics are back on.
Like Rich, I generally try to tune them out. One problem that makes commercials during the Olympics harder to deal with is that the same ones are repeated ad nauseum.
I do like the Chevy commercials with the theme of the pumps not liking them. So far I have seen the pumps flatten a tire, loosen a boat from behind a Tahoe, lock a woman out of her car...
And I just saw Piersol win Gold and Phelps win another gold...woohoo!!
Go America
Emily, I am becoming a huge fan of TIVO! The commercials that I am completely sick of are the Vonage commercials and the Progressive Insurance commercial. I can't believe that the people get paid a lot of money to do these and the ads that you have mentioned!
The problem with commercials with me is that I hate it when they turn up the volume. I always hit the mute button, get sidetracked and miss half of the program not realizing it has came back on.
I am loving the Budweiser commercials with those Clydesdale's; besides those I would pass. I have totally enjoyed the Olympics tonight though.
Emily, you have to try the DVR (TIVO) if you don't have it. Here in AZ it's only $6-10/mo. and so worth it. The only commercials I watch are the Mac ones when they are new. On average I knock off about 15 minutes for every hour-long show. Not to mention that you can pause it and rewind it and easily record the things that you can't watch. My girls just watched all of last night's Olympics this afternoon when they got home from school instead of staying up late. So worth it!
When a commercial arrives, I do ActiveRain. They are between broadcasts right now, so guess where I am? Oh, you don't need to guess because you can see that I am here.
I don't think I've paid attention to a commercial in about a decade now. They are like baseball's seventh inning stretch except that they occur every 15 minutes.
These Olympics fit my schedule very nicely because there is lots of live stuff on in the wee hours of the mornings here, which is the wee hours of the afternoon there.
I would TiVO except I am not happy with our cable provider so I am not inclined to give them more money for a service I am not sure I would use all the time.
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