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    Posted: 23 Nov 2014 at 7:32pm
Okay people, this one has it all, a Christmas song [raped by bad singing], a fancy gadget, sure to kill the X-mas budget.
Jimbo has been saying todays tablets are as good as a laptop??
Don't let my wife see this.....
 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Synesthesia Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Nov 2014 at 3:21am
Awful! Horrible singing! WHY CAN'T THEY PICK PEOPLE WHO CAN SING?!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ad nauseous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Nov 2014 at 3:47am
Good god that's bad. Ughh I never want to hear that sh#t again!
One good thing about TV-you could always turn it off
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Another Instant Mute Reflex Ad.  Reminds me, unhappily,  of "Gi-GAN-tic, Gi-GAN-tic"!!  

 Who would ever select this dreck for their very expensive, supposedly professionally produced  commercial?  Oh my God, none of these people can carry a tune in a bucket!Unhappy
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote craighwk Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Nov 2014 at 10:54pm
This really might be the worst commercial ever.  I've been hearing it all day during football games and it's absolutely insufferable.

The offkey singing makes it even worse.  I just might boycott Microsoft forever for this garbage.  
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I don't get it.  They like make a half-assed effort to rhyme at times and they suck.

So annoying was the angle for this jingle?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ad nauseous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Nov 2014 at 1:59am
Saw this piece of garbage today at my cousin's house. I just HAD to mute it! I can't believe this trashy advertsement is the apex of what a "good" commercial should be!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Ad nauseous Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Nov 2014 at 2:06am
Saw this piece of garbage today at my cousin's house. I just HAD to mute it! I can't believe this trashy advertsement is the apex of what a "good" commercial should be!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Triple J Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Nov 2014 at 7:17am
Who the hell is the guy singing anyway? Fred Flintstone? Dead
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Tiz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Nov 2014 at 12:26am
What is this "usb port" they speak of?Confused
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Eh, they're both overpriced.
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Insta-mute for me! But alas, it was too late. This damn jingle gets stuck in my head and is an hours-long earworm. I hope whoever wrote it gets pubic lice. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote zippyjet Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Dec 2014 at 4:12am
Originally posted by ShinyGreenApple ShinyGreenApple wrote:

Insta-mute for me! But alas, it was too late. This damn jingle gets stuck in my head and is an hours-long earworm. I hope whoever wrote it gets pubic lice. 


This damn commercial is on all the time. What's worse, while online it will come on all of a sudden and I tend to have multiple windows open/active. All of a sudden I'll be listening to my music I like and hear in the background that awful singing. I hate Christmas commercials and this one is a bottom feeder. I don't know about you but that awful voice reminds me of Carlton Your Doorman from Rhoda meets New York hack comic hocking Christmas music. At least so far this long holiday season the overall commercials are just boring and not as in your face offensive as in past years but this one has got to go! And with it popping up on your computer/smart phone is just plain sh*tty. 
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This POS commercial came on yesterday!!!! Please, please, someone, anybody KILL THIS COMMERCIAL!!!!!! PUT IT OUT OF ITS MISERY!!!
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Then you have to listen to the lame attempt at humor at the end: "Your Surface Pro sounds pretty neat.  No really.  No REALLY, where can I get one? I really want one! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH" which is really, really, really, roll-on-the-floor-for-15-minutes laugh-out-loud hilarious to the average commercial writer........... and completely NOT EVEN REMOTELY FUNNY to pretty much everyone else.
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Originally posted by MontanaTrav MontanaTrav wrote:

Then you have to listen to the lame attempt at humor at the end: "Your Surface Pro sounds pretty neat.  No really.  No REALLY, where can I get one? I really want one! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH" which is really, really, really, roll-on-the-floor-for-15-minutes laugh-out-loud hilarious to the average commercial writer........... and completely NOT EVEN REMOTELY FUNNY to pretty much everyone else.

You got that right! What drugs are these people on. How about matching up the Carlton Your Doorman singer with the Apple I Phone French Canadian Hipster Hippie Chick I'm Living the Life of Dreams and imagine if they shagged and sired a kid or two. Oh the humanity. The by-product is frightening to say the least at least talent wise. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Thor Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Dec 2014 at 2:28am

Hey, zippy...what's with the tiny font?  It makes me not wanna read your posts.




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Hey, zippy...what's with the tiny font?  It makes me not wanna read your posts.






I second that emotion! I have a 22 inch monitor so I can actually read black on white 12 point.
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Sorry about that. Is this any better?
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Much better.  With that small font, your words were just being wasted.


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Thank you. I never want my words to be wasted and my apologies. You got to check out my latest humorous (at least to me) posts on the Crapper Apple I'm Living the Life of Dreams Thread. That one poster who lambasted us for our opinions is probably having to loosen his sweater tied around his neck when he reads what I said on that thread. The PC, One worlder hipsters will probably want my head on a plate with an apple in my mouth. Hope you enjoy my latest diatribe on that thread. (:
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Originally posted by zippyjet zippyjet wrote:

Thank you. I never want my words to be wasted and my apologies. You got to check out my latest humorous (at least to me) posts on the Crapper Apple I'm Living the Life of Dreams Thread. That one poster who lambasted us for our opinions is probably having to loosen his sweater tied around his neck when he reads what I said on that thread. The PC, One worlder hipsters will probably want my head on a plate with an apple in my mouth. Hope you enjoy my latest diatribe on that thread. (:

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Triple J Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Dec 2014 at 3:48am
♫ Duh-hurrrrr my Mac is great, it's so duh-lightful duh-hurrrrrrr ♫

Stop saying "delightful." Nobody says "delightful" anymore.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote deacon blues Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Dec 2014 at 6:36am
I totally agree that the singing is horrifying but it's the way they lyricised (is that a word?) the song that makes it so painfully awkward....like the Rob Lowe character in the DirecTv ad

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Moochamoocha Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Dec 2014 at 8:46pm
This commercial, like many others, have me racing for the mute button. Why oh why oh WHY are advertisers hiring these people who can't sing to save their lives to be in their ads? Are they trying to appeal to regular ol' schmoes who aren't opera singers? At least we can be thankful for two things:

1. After Thursday, we won't be seeing this ad anymore.
2. At least it's not done by some auto-tuned pop tart or rap "star".
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