Why Jared's ads piss me off.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. It is bad enough that they market junk. But to call it something that rhymes with Diarrhea?

Jared's - The Diarrhea of Jewelry!

2. Their x-mas ads started BEFORE FUCKING THANKSGIVING!

3. Did I mention that they market junk?

4. Finally, I cannot think of a smarmier, more irritating tone and atmosphere done by any other advertiser. Even a Better Call Saul ad would be preferable.


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Which ads piss you off?

[cthulu2016]

1. And don't get me started on "Ave Maria..."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. ZING!

[Marrah_G]

3. Jared ads make me want to throw the tv

Car companies showing CARS as gift items make steam come out of my ears.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. I'm getting a shiny new Lexus for Christmas, isn't everyone?

Jared's ads annoy me to no end, and ugh, ads for Hardees.

[zbdent]

25. naw ... just those who

b*tch about spending another penny in taxes on poor people who can't afford Lexuses because they don't have a job because they don't have a car to get to the only jobs hiring, where you need a driver's license anyway ...

[sweetapogee]

40. Um I'm not getting a Lexus for christmas

instead, I'm giving my partner a MB C Class. Been planning this for a while. I think it will be quite a surprise!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

45. Sure ya are. And I'm marrying Tom Mison in a Scottish castle...

with a honeymoon trip around the world... twice.

There *is* a Santa Claus!

[sweetapogee]

48. oh, ok

what exactly are you trying to say to, or about, me? What is your message?

[Orrex]

4. The whole industry is disgusting

Jared is just a symptom.

[blogslut]

28. 400% markup

[Javaman]

5. I know, I hate Subway too!

sorry, couldn't resist.

[TlalocW]

9. That smirk as he stuffs another low-calorie six-inch sub down his gullet!

Oh, and I hated the Colonel too, with his wee, beady eyes! Oh, yuir gunna eat mah chicken! Ohhhhhhhhh!

TlalocW

[Amaril]

31. Thanks! This just made me..........

I needed that this morning!

[packman]

12. In addition,

it seems that no matter WHAT Sub-way you go into, FOX News is on every one of their TV's scattered around the room. I wrote their corporate offices bitching about it with no response back.

[kcr]

6. I will always hear Diarrhea of Jewelry now

Thanks for that

[cthulu2016]

8. I agree that jewelry advertising is disturbing stuff

It tends to be either inefficient prostitution (eg, Every kiss begins with Kay) or female competition for who is more loved, or whose mate has a bigger money-dick (eg, female co-workers whispering how you can tell whose male mate went to Jared)

Nobody comes off real well.

[TlalocW]

15. I always think this when it comes to those diamond commercials

Video below. But it is amazing to me the marketing that has gone into making what I think is a pretty boring gem into the ultimate expression of how much a man loves a woman and how able he is to provide for her. Now admittedly, I'm a 41-year-old bachelor who doesn't like wearing jewelry and who was only once engaged to be engaged, but I was lucky in that 1) she didn't care that much and 2) when we ended it, I was able to get my money back (it hadn't left the store yet as I was doing payments on it).

Still it was a $500 piece of glass that I thought was ridiculous.

TlalocW

[frylock]

32. bigger money-dick?!

never heard that phrase, but I will be incorporating it into my vocab!

[AngryAmish]

10. Every Kiss Begins With a Kay

so, you are marrying a whore....

[snooper2]

11. If a commercial pisses you off you are doing it wrong...

I only get mad when they BAN commercials!

LOL

[rudolph the red]

13. I always hit mute when commercials start

but now I am curious, what word rhymes with diarrhea in the context of a jewelry commercial?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. dalla . . . . balla . . . Gallaria

There, I got it.

[pipi_k]

19. The word

in the commercial is "galleria".

[rurallib]

14. couple years ago advertisers decided to essentially market to

income levels over $150,000 in annual income. So pretty much all of it pisses me off.
But I must say the luxury cars seem to be a special knife in the gut.

[Logical]

17. LOL, does everything piss off someone? This place cracks me up! nt

[Liberal Veteran]

22. Your being cracked up pisses me off!

[Logical]

24. LOL, good one! nt

[FrodosPet]

53. And now I am pissed off

at myself for cracking up over you being pissed off at someone who was cracking up at someone who was pissed off.

[hfojvt]

34. "so you call her on the phone

to talk about the teachers that you hate
and she says she's all alone
and her parents won't be coming home 'til late"

At least half the purpose of GD is to express anger and have other people join in the expression.

What else are we gonna talk about? The things we like?

Couldn't you see how that would work?

OP - I just love X

reply 1 - How puerile.
reply 2 - You would
reply 3 - detailed summary of why everything about X sucks and about how you suck for liking it

it would be like walking into a cage match, flinging your arms open and screaming "hit me!"

[CatWoman]

46. the irony is

that's the person who got all worked up over the pizza hut manager getting his job back

[ProdigalJunkMail]

18. i love that they are now marketing diamonds once unsellable for their color

as chocolate diamonds... what a joke

sP

[pipi_k]

26. Glad I'm not the only one

I wouldn't own a "chocolate" diamond for anything. Or a black diamond, either. Just get a black onyx, FGS.

I mean, what's the point if you can't see the colors bouncing around on the inside of the stone?

[bullwinkle428]

29. The entire concept of "colored diamonds" is ridiculous. HELLO - there are

colored gemstones that are way cheaper than diamonds if you really want a colored stone!

[MineralMan]

33. Yup, and black diamonds, too.

They're marketing industrial diamonds as jewelry now. It's amazing.

The other thing is the current trend of mounting diamonds in sterling silver. Gold is so pricey these days that they're doing something that never used to be done. Mounting precious stones in silver. Unheard of. Diamonds in gold vermeil, too. The diamond market is in the doldrums, and people will only buy if the mounting metal is cheap enough.

Jewelry. What a racket!

[sendero]

20. Diamonds.....

.... a joke product designed to separate rubes from their cash. But as far as jewelry ads go, I don't find Jared's any worse than the rest.

Every kiss begins with Kay?, I don't think so

[spanone]

21. BP ads that say they're such incredible environmentalists

[dionysus]

23. there was a Golden Corral Buffet ad than managed to be offensive to both white and black people

simultaneously...

..a stereotypical annoying white couple is driving their stereotypical black friends to a restaurant, and the black couple dove out of the moving car as they passed a Golden Corral Buffet...

[yesphan]

30. This annoys me to no end.

It's local, but the same ad has been running for decades.

[Bombero1956]

35. say you do buy a diamond or a Lexus for Christmas this year

Anything you get them from then on will be garbage in comparison. They'll always say "remember back in 2013 when you bought me that Lexus"? "This year you got me a toaster oven you asshole".

[rusty fender]

47. LOL!

"you asshole, I'm gonna throw that toaster into your next bath"

[geek tragedy]

36. They're comic gold.

"I know he really loves me."

"How?"

"He want to a jewelry chain store at the local strip mall."

[frogmarch]

37. "You got owned!" (Little Caesar's Pizza ad)

drives me up a wall.

But the one I hate the most is the Jared's ad!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

41. YES! That one, too!

[KurtNYC]

38. That Kraft ad were they have Jib Jab'd adult celebrity heads onto kids' bodies

and they speak in bratty zingers about a "hint of parmesan" in processed food.

[xfundy]

39. The current constant stream of ads for health insurance

and for-profit trade schools are on my last nerve at the moment.

[Egalitarian Thug]

42. Anyone that buys jewelry from a retail store in a mall is just another member of the flock

that doesn't realize all sheep share a common destiny.

[jmowreader]

43. Some of the other spots are worse

ITT Tech is a good one: "At Sprint we're always on the search for new talent so we rely on ITT Tech." But most of the new talent they seek is as sales clerks in their stores, so this ad is really saying "spend $40,000 on a junk education and you can get a job paying five percent commission." (On edit: one of my coworkers was dating a guy who is an ITT Tech grad for quite a while. She claims she dumped him because he doesn't work in the field he spent all that money to learn. I think his totaling her car, which she treated like a baby, had something to do with it too.)

Then there are all the testosterone pill ads. "This boosts free testosterone and that's what you want." What it boosts is the maker's profits; if it does anything for your dick I haven't a clue. The best one: it boosts muscle mass with strength training. Strength training will boost muscle mass all by itself - that's why you do it.

MetLife has another outrageous one for their final-expense product...the cute-but-condescending daughter who's heard of the product but has insurance-agent-level knowledge of it.

Twisting heartstrings and jerking DUers' chains is how they sell jewelry, but when you buy jewelry you get something that at least performs as advertised. (It's advertised to wrap around your finger or sit in a hole in your ear and look pretty and by damn, that's what it does) Junk educations that cost as much as starter homes in smaller cities, the Rabbit TV (a flash drive full of URLs to online TV providers), pills that don't work, insurance that's basically useless, the Bose Wave Radio that sounds as good as a $29.95 clock radio but the only $29.95 involved here is shipping to send it back...those are the ads to be pissed about.

[Initech]

44. What about that one where the guy proposes on an airplane?

Seriously who proposes on a plane? I would think that would be the least romantic place on earth to propose.

[edhopper]

49. And i love

how the Jewelry industry has decided that an engagement ring should cost 2 months salary, or whatever. Nothing says you are serious about starting a life together than going into debt over a showy bobble.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

50. generate maximum profit against the little folks.

make them feel guilty or unloving if they don't comply with our rules.

[AngryOldDem]

51. I hate those commercials.

And it's clear that the woman clearly loves the bling more than the man.

I wish I could just wake up tomorrow and it would be March 1. I am SO over these "feel-good" holiday ads.

The Kohl's ad that shows the couple decorating an elderly woman's apartment gets under my skin, too. One, that's breaking and entering, and two, that commercial started airing WEEKS before Thanksgiving. Enough for my shit list right there.

The ads are about the most irritating things about the holidays, anymore. And don't get me started on the commercials that run on kids' channels...

[jollyreaper2112]

52. Oops

I thought this was going to be about subway.

[missingthebigdog]

54. I have been ranting about this for weeks!

I HATE the jewelry store ads. All of them.

As a mother of daughters, it disgusts me that these advertisements create unrealistic expectations of what relationships should look like. It is just so much manipulation.

One local ad currently running advises that you can buy $5,000.00 worth of jewelry for around $100.00 per month; and "isn't she worth $100.00 a month?" That is absolutely the wrong message to send to young people just starting their life together.

Another local store is offering a free shotgun with purchase of $2,500.00. WTF???