Badger_colorado

There are a series of Visa commercials that imply using your credit card is somehow better than cash. They show a bunch of people dancing around some store, singing happy songs, and working in perfect synchrony to get their items, pay, and walk out into the blissful world. Then...SHOCK....someone pays with cash and it all comes crashing down. People are annoyed with the audacity of the person who wold dare pay with actual money and the world grinds to a stop. In one case, the synchronous ones are dressed in Saints gear while the evil money-grubber is the prototype sissie-boy yuppie, complete with pink sweater draped over his skin-and-bones frame.

Does Visa really expect me to believe that it will be faster to use my card than to use cash? When I go to the coffee cart, people who use credit cards always hold up the line. Fact is, I get not too mildly annoyed when someone busts out the card for a $1.32 purchase (although I've learned not to let those things bother me over the years since we've probably all forgotten we didn't have cash at one point or another). I'll use my Discover card, thank you.

I did notice during the championship games (GRRR...Packers) that they cut out the cash portion of the commercials. It makes me think I'm not the only one who felt this way.

Hate level: Moderate, but will still use my Visa card.

Head on, apply directly to the forehead. Head on, apply directly to the forehead.... SHUT THE EFF UP!!!! Now, the same company apparently has added several other products, all of which use the annoying repeat slogan approach. These commercials make me almost shake with annoyance, much like fingernails down a chalkboard in overdrive. Even the "I've fallen, and I can't get up" had some comic value despite it's annoying quality. Not so with the "Head on" commercials. They trigger some deep down level of primal disgust in me.

Hate level: Extreme to the point of turning the channel and refusing to EVER use their products.

Commercials in which buff to the point of steroid suspicion dudes or thin large busted women try to sell me on the idea that 30 minutes a week using nothing but a rubber band and 3 paper clips will make me look just like them. I work out every friggin' day and eat mostly healthy and I look nothing like them. I will never look anything like them unless I starve myself and start popping a needle in my butt. The only thing 30 minutes a week will do is make my body think that it needs to go into hibernation and start storing fat because of the extreme inactivity. Note to people looking for a quick fix. 10 minute abs will not give you a 6-pack. You CANNOT look like Arnold Schwartznegger in his prime by using a machine composed of a cable and a seat. It's just not possible. Try using the stairs and stick to the single whopper instead of the triple, at least as a first step towards being healthy.

Speaking of Whoppers. It's no coincidence that the people in the "we told people we discontinued the whopper" commercials who are complaining about not getting their 3000 calorie fix are not healthy looking at all. My favorite is the woman with the hamhock arms saying "I could cry" and meaning it. The dude screaming "get me MY WHOPPER!" is pretty hilarious, too. In a pathetic kind of way.

Also, beware of drugs that claim:
"Tired of all that boring exercise and sick of those diets that require you to eat less? Try our pill and you can lay around and be a piece of crap and still lose all the weight you want!"
These products are not good for your body. In fact, the first clue that you are probably ingesting poison should come from the fact that they only advertise at 3am as the commercial break for a "make money without spending money" infomercial marathon. You may lose weight, but you are killing yourself just as surely as a case-of-beer a day habit would.

Hate level: Off the charts. These commercials should be against the law.

And stop playing that cutesy animals dropping into the car and singing a hip song commercial. It was o.k., maybe even cute, the first couple dozen times. The fact that it's aired more than actual programming at this point has caused it to jump the shark.