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San Antonio, the Tacky Capital of the United States

So, is the Twin Towers commercial in San Antonio patriotic or tacky?

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I don't have a link for this, but it was on the news over the weekend. A commercial airing in San Antonio is about a 911 mattress sale. Mattresses are stacked up into 2 piles like the twin towers. One of the owners of the furniture company says that, on the anniversary of 911, they have towers of mattresses in their inventory, and implores the audience to come on down for a great deal. At the end of the commercial, 2 guys are pushed into the mattress towers, and they come tumbling down. Kind of disgusting, if you ask me. But San Antonio is known for tacky TV. When I first came to Texas in 1975, one station in San Antonio aired graphic images from deadly car accidents, set to classical music, in it's news program. LOL.

So here is a poll. Is this commercial patriotic, or is it just tacky?
 
I've been in San Antonio and I've been in Houston.

I like San Antonio a lot more.
 
Never been to San Antonio, but the mattress commercial was pretty tacky.

 
danarhea said:
I don't have a link for this, but it was on the news over the weekend. A commercial airing in San Antonio is about a 911 mattress sale. Mattresses are stacked up into 2 piles like the twin towers. One of the owners of the furniture company says that, on the anniversary of 911, they have towers of mattresses in their inventory, and implores the audience to come on down for a great deal. At the end of the commercial, 2 guys are pushed into the mattress towers, and they come tumbling down. Kind of disgusting, if you ask me. But San Antonio is known for tacky TV. When I first came to Texas in 1975, one station in San Antonio aired graphic images from deadly car accidents, set to classical music, in it's news program. LOL.

So here is a poll. Is this commercial patriotic, or is it just tacky?
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Pretty damn tacky. While I don't think the idea that we should be in perpetual social mourning forever is good for us as a people, as some seem to think, this **** just... isn't funny. And as a way to sell mattresses of all things? Jesus, have some shame. It wouldn't be funny if they'd done a Pearl Harbor joke either. This was an attack where thousands of Americans died. Just... no.
 
danarhea said:
I don't have a link for this, but it was on the news over the weekend. A commercial airing in San Antonio is about a 911 mattress sale. Mattresses are stacked up into 2 piles like the twin towers. One of the owners of the furniture company says that, on the anniversary of 911, they have towers of mattresses in their inventory, and implores the audience to come on down for a great deal. At the end of the commercial, 2 guys are pushed into the mattress towers, and they come tumbling down. Kind of disgusting, if you ask me. But San Antonio is known for tacky TV. When I first came to Texas in 1975, one station in San Antonio aired graphic images from deadly car accidents, set to classical music, in it's news program. LOL.

So here is a poll. Is this commercial patriotic, or is it just tacky?
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Lcoal radio ripped them, everyone I know that saw it or heard of it is just... flabbergasted at the stupid.
 
Flabbergasted is the right word. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite as tasteless. What next? Sandy Hook themed back-to-school clothing discounts?
 
Associating the populous of San Antonio with a mattress ad?

I don't get it.

Tacky commercial for sure..........but
 
Andalublue said:
Flabbergasted is the right word. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite as tasteless. What next? Sandy Hook themed back-to-school clothing discounts?
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It's gross, but we don't have a lot of room to comment since a bunch of British bankers on a stag do took selfies at the 911 memorial with a blow-up doll! It happened last week, but the UK press waited for maximum breastbeating.

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One compounding factor is they work in the US (though possibly not for long!) so it's not like they were unaware of the significance.
 
Manc Skipper said:
It's gross, but we don't have a lot of room to comment since a bunch of British bankers on a stag do took selfies at the 911 memorial with a blow-up doll! It happened last week, but the UK press waited for maximum breastbeating.

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One compounding factor is they work in the US (though possibly not for long!) so it's not like they were unaware of the significance.
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Mmmm... that's classy! I do hope the P45s fly.
 
Is taking something done by a mattress store and applying it to an entire city tacky or just silly?
 
The store doesn't exist in a bubble. Presumably they thought that the ad would attract local custom in San Antonio.
 
Andalublue said:
Flabbergasted is the right word. I'm not sure I've ever seen anything quite as tasteless. What next? Sandy Hook themed back-to-school clothing discounts?
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Sandy Hook red sale.
 
New Jersey is way more tacky than San Antonio.
 
danarhea said:
I don't have a link for this, but it was on the news over the weekend. A commercial airing in San Antonio is about a 911 mattress sale. Mattresses are stacked up into 2 piles like the twin towers. One of the owners of the furniture company says that, on the anniversary of 911, they have towers of mattresses in their inventory, and implores the audience to come on down for a great deal. At the end of the commercial, 2 guys are pushed into the mattress towers, and they come tumbling down. Kind of disgusting, if you ask me. But San Antonio is known for tacky TV. When I first came to Texas in 1975, one station in San Antonio aired graphic images from deadly car accidents, set to classical music, in it's news program. LOL.

So here is a poll. Is this commercial patriotic, or is it just tacky?
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I sat and watched that video. People are just insanely stupid.

And all that took time to achieve.

From the time that inane idea popped into someone's head to storyboarding the concept with a larger group to creating the set to filming amd then editing not once did it ever occur to anyone involved just how bad of a idea that was.
 
danarhea said:
I don't have a link for this, but it was on the news over the weekend. A commercial airing in San Antonio is about a 911 mattress sale. Mattresses are stacked up into 2 piles like the twin towers. One of the owners of the furniture company says that, on the anniversary of 911, they have towers of mattresses in their inventory, and implores the audience to come on down for a great deal. At the end of the commercial, 2 guys are pushed into the mattress towers, and they come tumbling down. Kind of disgusting, if you ask me. But San Antonio is known for tacky TV. When I first came to Texas in 1975, one station in San Antonio aired graphic images from deadly car accidents, set to classical music, in it's news program. LOL.

So here is a poll. Is this commercial patriotic, or is it just tacky?
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There are some hot women in SA. That is a single man's paradise. I even married a woman that I met in SA. Best woman in the world.

These people didn't do themselves any favors making this commercial.
 
Fenton said:
I sat and watched that video. People are just insanely stupid.

And all that took time to achieve.

From the time that inane idea popped into someone's head to storyboarding the concept with a larger group to creating the set to filming amd then editing not once did it ever occur to anyone involved just how bad of a idea that was.
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It does seem like a perfect storm of stupid.
 
Kobie said:
It does seem like a perfect storm of stupid.
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Hey , Coca Cola did a twin tower display of coke cans in a Walmart in Florida. I guess people are just plain disrespectful everyplace.
 
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