Practically everything they advertise on TV shopping - including some stupid AB Gymnic stuff that is said to train your muscles even when you're sitting at the PC. Forget bodybuilding!
I'd say ca. 90% of ads are just plain dumb and absolutely unrealistic. Still, people buy it. Says sth about human nature, I guess.

I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down. No problem.
(stolen from a local pub)

One of the dumbest things I ever saw on ´Tell Sell´ must have been this `Flying Lure´ thingy A bunch of fat guys in the middle of a mid-life crisis trying to espace their pathetic mentally abused lives, their shriveled, bitching and moaning wives and stinking jobs by sitting in a way to small collapsible chair with their fat asses, hangovers and bad breath and trying to catch a fish with some damn so-called revolution in the fishing industry (according to Tell Sell of course). It´s some kind of bait that is supposed to look utterly real and is supposed to deliver some more fish on your hook, but the fact is that those fish are probably laughing their skinny scaled asses off when they see that rubber, odd looking fish freak !

Anyway, I go fishing every Sunday

stupid item no 1

Didi 7.

Most probably this is already banned in the US. But they are happily selling it here..

Suppose to use it to clean anything, especially dirst on your hand. I only found out that there's a lable that says "do not come into contact with skin. Wash with lots of water if contact occurs"

rigth...

stupid item 2

squeege bubbly carpet shampoo and applicator (from the makers of Didi 7).

you are suppose to agitate the solution with the supplied sponge applier and apply the bubbles on the carpet, so as not to make it wet. When it dries about 1 hour later, vacuum clean..


Amway actually sells a canned version of the same stuff. SPRAY it directly on the carpet, smear with sponge, and vacuum it after about 10 MINUTES

stupid item 3

Automatic speed bicycle.

A bicycle with automatic gear changing mechanism.

They actually showed that a normal bicycle climb hills slower than their bicycle because theirs change gears automatically.....

What you actually really look for in bicycle is weigth and rigidness of the frame (plus good tyres and good gear shift mechanism), not some extra weigth that changes gear for you..

being an amatuer cyclist, this really insults peoples intelligent.

stupid item no 4

slimming gel..

Your clothes cannot fit?. apply the slimming the gel and in ten minutes you'll lose that fat and you can wear those skinny shirts.


a chemist told that the warming action of you applying the gel actually loses away some fat. But they'll be back later.

so.. in the middle of a big dinner, you have been wearing your size 38 pants ..and suddenly the zips pop off.. ... oh..
@unpro.. both of them from the superbly annoying smart shop huh.. they actually can make an advert 30 mins long.. and guess what.. they don't have breaks.. cuz they are an advert themselves..
on TV, here, its practicalyl anything.. oh.. yes.. the milo comercial.. damned annoying.. its a tin of brown stuff you have to buy and its supposed to make you swim all so well and jump so high.. :S

and many others.. oh yes.. have you seen the honda comercial lately? sad dude.. a crappy looking car driving thru a lane flanked by other cooler looking cars and their headlights come on when the car passes.. whats that supposed to be ? :S

i like the korean car comercials better tho i'm not planning on buying any cars.. and fogive me.. i'm biased towards my own country..

Science is knowledge.
Knowledge is power.
Time is money.
power = work/time
therefore, knowledge= work/money
therefore, money = work/knowledge
therefore, money is inversely proportional to knowledge.

therefore,

The more knowledge you have, the less money you have.

Korean cars hear are expensive, maintenance wise...
so does japanese cars.

it is so stupid, our own national brand proton have no idea how to sell cars, and they actually cloned mitsubishi..

But they had bought Lotus Inc, and these people had been retuning those dumb suspension.

Just imagine this, a line from their add..
- Good for family or second car
- Good for city driving
- Low maintenance
- Easy to drive

Honda advert goes like
- 4 star safety ratings
- Macpherson suspension
- All round ABS and EDS
- Leather seats / Recaro
- Tiptronic auto gear

they (proton) sell because they are the cheapest around. I just hope when AFTA comes in, things will get better.

Have you seen that obnoxious, singing fish you can put on your wall? If you were to shoot the guy who invented that, no jury would convict you.

I always get a kick out of those 'juice weasels' that can turn disgusting table scraps into delicious and nutritious juice.

Buy Lottery tickets, it's the tax on people who are bad at math.

Have you heard those commercials where for $45 you can name a star for someone? Heck, I can name any star whatever I want. I'll pick out a star and call it 'Andy' and since I'm the one who's picking it I can pick a real bright one, like in the Big Dipper's handle, or Orion's belt. Unless I meet an astronomer no one will know the difference. What if in a century or two we invent interstellar travel and make contact with people on a planet circling a star that someone paid $45 to name after their mom?
Astronaut: We greet you for the people of Earth.
Alien Leader: We welcome you, visitors from space. We are the Vornocks.
Astronaut: No you're not. You guys are the Blanch Feldmanians because Jimmy Feldman paid $45 to name your sun after his mother, Blanch.

I think this is the biggest evidence of human stupidity. Remember the group Milli Vanilli? They were pretty popular, and they even won a Grammy award. Then it came out that they were lip synching and they took the Grammy away. Why didn't they give the Grammy to whoever really sang those songs? Someone had to sing them. How can an album merit a Grammy one day but not the next day? One day everyone liked the album, then the next day everyong hated it, even though it sounded exactly the same.

Here's another stupid thing. There was a commercial where NASCAR drivers were telling how well a certain brand of deodorant worked for them. So you're down at a track in Georgia where the temperature and humidity are above 90, and your wearing a fireproof racing suit. I don't care what kind of deodorant you're wearing, you're gonna pit out. (maybe some of you European guys might not understand this, I hear a lot of people over there don't care if they stink)

Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!!

Whats really pathetic and pitiful are those commercials where people advertise one product, like a big pot that can drain with the top still on, and then they say, if you order this, well give you a CHEESE GRATER FREE! then they say "WAIT, hold on theres more. Call in the next 10 minutes and we'll give you a supersize pot, 2 smaller pots, and 3 cheese graters for no extra charge!" It just shows how desperate people are getting. I never stop wondering how the make a profit of that.

One other thing thats annoying is they say they give you one thing thats worth like $40 but advertise it for $70. Then they add in a rip-off piece of junk FREE! I just cant stand it.

O and one more last thing. i have a bunch of local car dealerships, and so they make commercials that are kinda normal, not high quality or anything. but then at the end, they have their little 2 yr old kids do something "cute". For example, we have a ford dealership, and at the end of the commercial a voice says: "its easy as:" and they show a little 3 yr old boy who can barely talk pick up a building block and say "1" pick up another block and say "2" and finally a third block after which the toddler says "3"
WEll thats it for my complaints.

There's a silly car dealership commercial running here. A lady gets in her car and goes to back out of her driveway and there's a thud. She gets out and behind the car is the guy who owns the dealership sitting on the ground like he's been nearly run over. The lady says, "what are you doing back there?" and the guy says, "I told you I stand behind every car I sell."

Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!!

A few years ago, the Florida state lottery was advertising a lotto called, "Mega Money." Well they had some dumb ass dressed as a lotto ball on stage sing "Mega money" to the tune of a song that I believe is actually "Wooley Bully." Of course people supposed to be fans were all screaming and freaking out over this clown.

Of course then there's AmWay distributers trying to rope you in.

Can't forget Ms. Cleo or the "get rich quick" scams that used to come on late-night tv.

One other commercial I've found highly annoying here in the US, is the ITT Technical Institute commercials.

The last words of a merchant: "Don't waste your ammo"

I get a kick out of Miss Cleo and her ilk. What a racket. If I could predict the future I wouldn't sit around talking to losers on the phone all day. I would go to Vegas and get rich.

Miss Cleo: I sense that you've recently experienced a loss.
Chump1: Wow! My dog died last year. You really are a psychic.

Miss Cleo: I sense that you've recently experienced a loss.
Chump2: Wow! My grandpa died last year. You really are a psychic.

Miss Cleo: I sense that you've recently experienced a loss.
Chump3: Wow! My hamster died last year. You really are a psychic.

Those commercials where they say they're giving away a bunch of stuff when you buy something. "This is an eighty dollar value, all for $19.99." If it really was worth $80 they would be losing $60 an order. If they're charging $20 for a bunch of crap it means it's really only worth 6 or 7 bucks. Who are they trying to fool?

Let's get those missiles ready to destroy the universe!!