[Michael G.]

I feel I need to vent here and wonder a "What the hell is going on out there in my old age?"

Why do we need to watch all those trucks and cars tear up our National Landscape in those TV commercials????

I'm sure there are animals/insects/birds that are near extinction out there and they take
$40,000 to $90,000 vehicles kicking up the dust and tearing through our rivers and water sheds.

Let me ask this: "When you look for a new replacement vehicle do those commercials
impress you to buy one"?

I'm be taking my meds now.

[vintageogauge]

Those commercials are not aimed at anyone living here, maybe our grandkids.

[tophcfa]

I was wondering why they bother to incur the expense of running the commercials when the sales lots are empty and people are paying over sticker price to order trucks that won’t be available for months. A good friend just put a deposit down on a ToyotaTacoma and was told delivery won’t be until early summer of 2022 in the soonest.

[Stu from NYC]

People still watch commercials? Who knew.

Ever since we got a DVR commercials have been a thing of the past for us.

[MrFlorida]

I don't mind the car commercials, it's the drug commercials that get me...........

[Michael G.]

Originally Posted by MrFlorida

I don't mind the car commercials, it's the drug commercials that get me...........

Especially when they babble about all the side effects of those drugs.
We have a doctor in our family and said by law, they have to tell you those side effects.

[jdulej]

Originally Posted by Michael G.

I feel I need to vent here and wonder a "What the hell is going on out there in my old age?"

Why do we need to watch all those trucks and cars tear up our National Landscape in those TV commercials????

I'm sure there are animals/insects/birds that are near extinction out there and they take
$40,000 to $90,000 vehicles kicking up the dust and tearing through our rivers and water sheds.

Let me ask this: "When you look for a new replacement vehicle do those commercials
impress you to buy one"?

I'm be taking my meds now.

I agree with you. I used to do some exploring in and around Death Valley with a 4WD - you absolutely do not go fast, more like 1 or 2 MPH in the tricky parts, 10 to 15 elsewhere, if that. And you stay on established road/trails. Doing otherwise is irresponsible and reinforces the bad rap 4WDing has gotten.

[Michael G.]

Also when I watch these 20 somethings laughing and smiling tearing up the land scape,
I'm wondering how many of these vehicles are financed by their parents.

[davem4616]

just yesterday I was asking myself during a commercial, "how'd they get that 4WD up on that rock?"....was it a Chinook, or is there really such a thing as a 'sky hook'

I also thought...why are they recklessly tearing up the landscape, and driving like a maniac....that's just going to result some young kids doing the same thing on land that most likely doesn't belong to them

values...they were drilled into me when I was growing up...seems like quite a few of them haven't been passed on

[Mortal1]

So someone can't or won't change the channel or mute the FlatScreen. Why is that? Why not just turn it off?

Actually complaining about something over which you have 100% control. Feel like I've stepped into the twilight zone of the mentally incompetent. How did some of you survive without being told what to do, when to do it and when to stop doing it?

Or do some old people not feel alive unless they are bashing something? Weird. As to the wildlife...seriously? The earth itself produces thousands of times more dust and noxious gases than anything we mere humans can add.

or just take your meds. ;-/

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by Mortal1

So someone can't or won't change the channel or mute the FlatScreen. Why is that? Why not just turn it off?

Actually complaining about something over which you have 100% control. Feel like I've stepped into the twilight zone of the mentally incompetent. How did some of you survive without being told what to do, when to do it and when to stop doing it?

Or do some old people not feel alive unless they are bashing something? Weird. As to the wildlife...seriously? The earth itself produces thousands of times more dust and noxious gases than anything we mere humans can add.

or just take your meds. ;-/

Complaining about complaining

[bimmertl]

Most of the commercials are targeted at senior citizens. Other than car/truck commercials, it's all prescription drug commercials.

Can only wish for the good old days and cigarette commercials.

Old Cigarette Commercial Camel Cigarettes 1950 - YouTube

[jdulej]

Originally Posted by bimmertl

Most of the commercials are targeted at senior citizens. Other than car/truck commercials, it's all prescription drug commercials.

Can only wish for the good old days and cigarette commercials.

Old Cigarette Commercial Camel Cigarettes 1950 - YouTube

I read somewhere that beer commercials, even though they try to look ‘guy’ oriented are really aimed at women since they do most of the shopping. True? Who knows.

[Michael G.]

Many time my wife and I will watch a tv commercial and one of us ask "what the hell was that about"?

Also, those Super Bowl commercials, remember when they were worth watching, funny and entertaining.
And that half time entertainment..........my god I'm I getting old.

[JoMar]

Most of the car commercials aren't real, they are computer generated. They use real vehicles for those static shots with families but all that tearing up the landscape.....not so much.