Thread: Tell Me About Crappy Products/Advertisements In Your Country!

We have a local series airing on TV now teaching people how to love? Every commercial break, the show will find "famous" people to talk about their ideas of love.

False advertising is constructively legal in the United States. I don't know how that happened. The law says that advertisers cannot deliberately mislead people with their commercials, yet I keep seeing total crocks about how to lose weight with close to no effort, make millions of dollars while sitting on your ass, and even make your penis bigger! American television is infested with those kinds of commercials, and they are all just flat out deceptions. They all have little fine print "Ah, but I did say this and technically didn't say that" defenses to use, but it is flat out deliberate deception.










Shake Weight For Men

Anything sold via infomercial

Technically, getting an erection does make you larger, so...



Oh, look! A penny!

Originally Posted by Supernova

Anything sold via infomercial

There is one exception to that-- Time-Life music compilations. I love those infomercials and watch them multiple times each, and they are advertising really good CD's. Everything else advertised on an infomercial is a joke.

Originally Posted by melanieb

Technically, getting an erection does make you larger, so...

Ha ha, is that their defense? I think they've been giving a different impression.

Originally Posted by melanieb

Or these, the Cuddleuppets, which look like they're on heroin

This is literally the best thing I have ever read.

Originally Posted by melanieb

LOL no way.

Well, you've seen the crap we advertise here.

I want to see the crap from your country.

Please don't post images of poo.

Ok then, one step removed:



Awkward promotion of this product. It's a campaign.

was that double chin thing from Sky Mall? That magazine sells the weirdest shit!

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

Am I immature to laugh at this?

Originally Posted by mooseantlers

Am I immature to laugh at this?

I laughed too. It's her face.

Originally Posted by melanieb

I live in the United States, and I am constantly bombarded with stupid advertisements for products like:

This stupid video

I'm pretty sure I had the original VHS of the first volume as a kid...



This God-forsaken product is probably the DUMBEST thing that people actually buy. And they buy it "as a joke." for friends... BUT you're still giving these NITWITS money!

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

Ok then, one step removed:
Awkward promotion of this product. It's a campaign.

That was odd.

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

I'm pretty sure I had the original VHS of the first volume as a kid...


This God-forsaken product is probably the DUMBEST thing that people actually buy. And they buy it "as a joke." for friends... BUT you're still giving these NITWITS money!

The latest product is a Snuggie-type pajama called Forever Lazy with a butt-flap for when you don't want to be cold using the toilet. It comes in 4 "stylish" colors. The ad suggests you could utilize the butt flap while at the football stadium.

No kidding...the stadium. *sad*

Originally Posted by melanieb

That was odd.





The latest product is a Snuggie-type pajama called Forever Lazy with a butt-flap for when you don't want to be cold using the toilet. It comes in 4 "stylish" colors. The ad suggests you could utilize the butt flap while at the football stadium.

No kidding...the stadium. *sad*

That's ridiculous: "It covers you from head to toe", "oh yes, forever lazy, it covers you from head to toe". No it bloody doesn't. Your feet are exposed....probably the main thing that needs to be covered under a blanket (lol you get free socks). >_> Plus, it just looks like jogging bottoms + a hoodie sewn together. Why go through the effort of integrating a 'bum flap', when you can just not sew the hoodie + joggers together and use the toilet normally....

The dreaded Virgin Media 'junk mail' - nobody wants it, yet their customer's are subsidising it via a paper-billing fee. (Hypocrisy!)

Dear Mr Branson, stick it up your ('cat-flap') arse... How many rainforests are you destroying? (More hypocrasy!)


Grrr, now I'm getting...

Sadly crappy infomercials don't exist here.We do have some but thats mostly pans,knives and gardening equipment.

The only crappy advertisement I know is this -> Food ads

Clean the house as you walk!
Sold from a store with the fitting name "New and Useful"

Another "useful" product from my lovely country:


"the owl has a motion sensor, and it howls when you walk by. Fascinating!"


...

Ásóka, the nail fungus... It's just horrible.. especially when the TV is on during dinner and this comes on -.-" But it's not on since long, gladly.


This kid is sooo annoying... he basically keeps telling his dad about some cartoon that'll be on soon, with "DAD IT BEGINS!" "DAD IT BEGINS!" while acting retarded o.o It's an old ad for T-Home IP TV or what...


Some webshop had a "wish goldfish", the girl wishes for a TV, then for a blender... of course all that with a really annoying voice =S


There are many more, but the annoy factor in most of them can only be understood if you understand the language

I haven't had cable in over two years between my time in Dakota and Colorado. I had it through University, but never watched it unless I was catching a Denver Broncos game. Tuning out from television/cable/mainstream media was one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life. Advertisements for pharmaceuticals, alcohol and cell phones are pretty much what I see if I am somewhere and a TV is on. All stupid, all silly.

Originally Posted by WDr

Another "useful" product from my lovely country:


"the owl has a motion sensor, and it howls when you walk by. Fascinating!"

...

I actually have this owl. It comes out at Halloween and makes noise as people walk by. I think we got it to scare off birds when we got the turkey.

Originally Posted by littlezoe

Ásóka, the nail fungus... It's just horrible.. especially when the TV is on during dinner and this comes on -.-" But it's not on since long, gladly.

This commercial shows here in the states. It is creepy, though I can think of stranger ones.

I kept seeing this one on bus stops in Vancouver and it annoyed me. They're really trying to manipulate people into proposing when they wouldn't have otherwise, possibly ending in years of torment and/or a divorce because they weren't really compatible, just so they can make money?

Seems like an odd ad to place on the side of bus stops.

Television commercials sparked my skepticism as a child. I was always telling my mom what not to buy. She'd never listen.

12-year-old me: "Mom don't get the thigh buster that'll just give you more muscle if you want to get skinny you have to run. Also try buying the low-fat version of _____." Surprise, parents don't like their children giving them diet advice. :V

Also,


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