Annoying commercials

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Does anyone else here dislike the new Amoco Ultimate commercials? The ones that go something like this:

You’re merging onto a busy highway. You know you need to go fast to merge, but will your gasoline help you or hurt you. If you have Amoco Ultimate, you’re golden. (boring product info) If you don’t have Amoco Ultimate, hopefully the people stuck behind you as you stop on the exit ramp waiting for the opening won’t get too mad.

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Does anyone else here dislike the new Amoco Ultimate commercials? The ones that go something like this:
You’re merging onto a busy highway. You know you need to go fast to merge, but will your gasoline help you or hurt you. If you have Amoco Ultimate, you’re golden. (boring product info) If you don’t have Amoco Ultimate, hopefully the people stuck behind you as you stop on the exit ramp waiting for the opening won’t get too mad.

I HATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATHEATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATEHATE THAT COMMERCIAL.

Now let me tell you how I really feel…
Now if you’re using shine from the hills to run your car, MAYBE then Amoco Ultimate might help your car, but no more than Shell’s 87-octane gas would. Maybe I’ll go buy an old Pinto, put some Amoco Ultimate in it, and then go drag race some 911s?
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3 thoughts on “Annoying commercials”

  1. Me?

    I don’t watch TV, but here’s my usual gas routine:

    • See gas gauge is low
    • Find convenient station
    • Fill tank with whatever is 87 octane or higher
    • Reset my trip-meter and drive for another 600 miles on 10 gallons of gas until my gauge is low again*.

    It seems as if I get the same fuel economy and acceleration performance from whatever I put in there. Must be the gasoline!

    —
    Matthew P. Barnson

    * I drive a Honda Insight. Yes, I do get 600 miles per 10-gallon tank. I could have done much better if I’d purchased a manual transmission, rather than an automatic, but hindsight is 20/20.

  2. Crown

    No, but here’s what makes me laugh whenever I see it.

    Crown stations have a new slogan, printed on large signs outside their stations:

    “QUALITY IS NOT AN OPTION”

    I know what they’re trying to say, but it doesn’t look good.

    — Ben

  3. 5 Year Subway ban

    As some of you know, I didn’t eat at Subway for five years because of the stupidity of their commercials. For the same reason, I avoided Miller Lite during the post-college drinking days. Today, I wouldn’t buy gas at an Amoco station even if my car broke down in the desert and Amoco was the first station I found after crawling over miles of broken glass in the heat.

    I wonder if ad sketchers realize that dumb ads turn off the population from buying the product? I hope the industry realizes that people get irked when dumb ads are produced. Irked to the point that we avoid buying the product just because of the dumb ad.

    I hereby offer the postulate that “TV ads are for stupid people.”

    I try not to watch television commercials. I would never buy anything again.

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