"Kiss My Grits."
Posted on 06/11/2010 11:41:57 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Anybody else find all of those Progressive Insurance commercials annoying?
Anyway, the owner of Progressive Insurance is a big lib.
Conservatives Urged to Avoid Progressive Insurance CNSNews.com ^ | 12/13/2005 | Unknown
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 8:45:04 AM by oxcart
(CNSNews.com) - A conservative advocacy group is urging its supporters to cancel their policies with Progressive Insurance, after Peter Lewis, the company's chairman, reportedly gave $8.5 million to the American Civil Liberties Union. The multi-million dollar donation will help the ACLU advance its liberal agenda, including its "war on Christmas," the American Family Association warned. In an email message, AFA Founder and Chairman Don Wildmon urged his supporters to "sign a letter to Chairman Lewis, letting him know" that his donation to the ACLU is prompting conservatives to cancel their insurance policies. The AFA recently announced that it was ending its boycott of Target stores, after the retailer promised to use the word "Christmas" in its advertising and in-store promotions.
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"Kiss My Grits."
I don’t know anything about Progressive Insurance, but I love Flo.
Who in the world thought marauding vikings would make me WANT their credit card? Somehow they must figure the vikings won’t remind me of their debt collectors ....
As for “Flo” ... she’s memorable, and treads a fine line between perky and irritating. She’s actually mildly amusing on occasion, though.
SnakeDoc
“I’ll have my daughter ask and post back.”
Ask her if Flo likes dirty old men...all bite and no bark.
I like Flo. I just do. I can’t help it. She makes me laugh.
“*hand shoots up so fast it flies off*
I wouldn’t buy Progressive Insurance if Obama held a gun to my head. “
I propose a Fatwa against watching or listening to any of their annoying commercials!
Isn’t that what the Mooslims do if they don’t like something?
One of my favorites is where Flo’s showing the customer his own isle. He notices someone else straightening boxes on his isle. Flo says, “That’s xxxx, he works here.”
The ad in which she talksabout riding the “pink Pony” is positively pornographic!
a business syndicate of political porn purveyors
Branching out from individual pitch men, the most annoying ads are:
Got Milk? For years, I could not figure out how this ad campaign made money for milk producers, since it advertised one of the more annoying aspects of milk. Then I found out it was a government sponsored ad campaign, meaning it didn't have to actually respond to market forces.
Anything from the Ad Council. Whether it's the ad where the woman makes her daughter climb a tree full of bees or the one where the kid has asthma "I don't want to feel like a fish out of water" or the frankly offensive one where some guy does all the racial stereotype phone calls trying to rent an apartment. If it's from the Ad Council, it's trying to make you feel guilty or convince you that anything that happens to you is because someone else is prejudiced.
Generally, the one's that REALLY make me mad are the radio ads where they play the sound of a car wreck or a siren. I'm driving along, minding my own business and hear a "CRASH!" I jerk around looking for the wreck and then hear some bozo trying to sell something. I make a mental note never to do business with those guys.
One of the ones that has always been funny to me is the ads that Time used to do to sell subscriptions. They'd send the most misleading ads in the world, guaranteeing that you'd already won some great prize. Whenever I saw these ads, I always thought, "Why the H#LL would I get a subscription to a "news" magazine when their sales pitch includes blatant lies?"
With the Big 12 breaking up, I went to the Sports Illustrated site to check out the latest (usually don't go there) and there are the ads for an Apple iPad for $23 if you sign up for some ad infested marketing campaign. Nice to know Time Inc. hasn't changed.
On Hulu, I recently saw a new type of deceptive ad. It was for a goofy comedian (I won't give his name, but he apparently had some kind of HBO show as one point in time.) Anyway, the commercial, which was supposedly selling a comedy DVD, was just a commercial for Obamacare. His jokes were things like "The Republicans think Obama is evil because he wants you to have health care! The Republicans really just want you to die!" Not kidding. That was really the commercial. Anyway, seemed pretty clever to me, as it was a political ad, but was posing as something else. This allows the agency to make claims like "The other side wants you to die!" without having to face the political flak if they did it in a political ad.
“... office party ...”
I’ve found nobody who even comes close to USAA. But I like Flo.
Colonel, USAFR
Considering that their lefty owner donates heavily ($15,000,000+ each year) to Planned Predators, I find the whole thing offensive . . . and Flo’s shtick is starting to wear thin . . . I just think of the babies that are being slaughtered by the donations from that company.
I absolutely HATE those ads. And yes, Progressive is owned by a PROGRESSIVE.
USAA Bump!
She looks kinda “greasy” to me? Know what I mean? Sweaty or something.”
working under that big bike...sweathog...heh heh...
At least the Gecko was funny for a bit, sorta like the Taco Bell chihuahua. Now Geico’s Caveman crap, that annoyed me from the start.
One word for all you whiners TIVO, now get back to saving the FRee World crybabies!
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