Okay, What's with the commercials advertising other commercials?

[jbeany]

Is anyone else irritated by these?  I've seen several commercials advertising the "premiere" of some movie trailer.  I've seen several different ads saying to watch a tv show because they were going to show a movie trailer for the first time during the show.  Like it's a big, important event!  It's a commercial - for a movie, for heaven's sake.  This is not a mark-your-calender event.  An ad for an ad - I think Hollywood is starting to believe their own hype.

Okay, it's a silly thing to get peeved about, I realize. . . but honestly, how hard up do they think we are for entertainment?

[goofynina]

Speaking of commercials, i am so sick and tired of hearing that damn song from John Cougar Mellencamp (although i do love him) but they play that song at every commercial break during football and it is driving me nuts 

[kitkatz]

I hate commercials.  I am a channel flipper, so when commercials come on the TV I flip channels. 

[Inara]

Thanks to TiVo, I just fast forward through commercials now.  I LOVE IT!

[kitkatz]

I live with a technophobe.  It took him two years to learn how to use the microwave to heat water.  He still uses the kettle on the stove!  We have had email and internet for eight years and just this year he go into the email without my help and onto Ebay and one other board without help.  Technophobes unite!  I love gadgets, but know he hates them so new stuff has to come into the house slowly and be my toys, then he wants to play with them. He just now can put in a DVD and play it on the TV/DVD player in my office. 

[jbeany]

  It took him two years to learn how to use the microwave to heat water. 

Reminds me of my grandfather - he was so impressed with the microwave and his ability to heat water for instant coffee, and warm up leftovers, he went around telling everyone he had learned how to cook!

[angieskidney]

I live with a technophobe.  It took him two years to learn how to use the microwave to heat water.  He still uses the kettle on the stove!  We have had email and internet for eight years and just this year he go into the email without my help and onto Ebay and one other board without help.  Technophobes unite!  I love gadgets, but know he hates them so new stuff has to come into the house slowly and be my toys, then he wants to play with them. He just now can put in a DVD and play it on the TV/DVD player in my office. 

My mom said she would never use a computer and be like .. ME!! lol    .. now she is on there MORE than I am!! lol She tells me she couldn't live without her "Incredimail" and she thinks everyone who reads email has it. She doesn't understand that Incredimail is a program and that I can get email just fine with Outlook

She is so cute when she forwards me all these little tutorials on things I could care less about or already know about years before she was online

It took him two years to learn how to use the microwave to heat water.

Reminds me of my grandfather - he was so impressed with the microwave and his ability to heat water for instant coffee, and warm up leftovers, he went around telling everyone he had learned how to cook!

That reminds me of my brother and how he warmed up a can of spahgetti (ya .. the canned kind lol) and then told everyone that he "cooked" it from scratch and was sooo proud of himself

[Ken Shelmerdine]

Is anyone else irritated by these?  I've seen several commercials advertising the "premiere" of some movie trailer.  I've seen several different ads saying to watch a tv show because they were going to show a movie trailer for the first time during the show.  Like it's a big, important event!  It's a commercial - for a movie, for heaven's sake.  This is not a mark-your-calender event.  An ad for an ad - I think Hollywood is starting to believe their own hype.

Okay, it's a silly thing to get peeved about, I realize. . . but honestly, how hard up do they think we are for entertainment?

TV commercials do my head in. In fact I've never understood a Guinness commercial for about the last 5 years. I try and watch any of the 4 BBC channels in which there are no commercials at all. The only drawback is when you're watching a full length feature, and, if your still peeing, there's no commercial breaks where you can take one, lol.