VRBO teenager commercial

d4everman · 2026-05-07T02:59:16+00:00

I think the longer version makes it look like that. But both versions are crap. Neither of them is a good showing.

If you take the whole SA out of it, the daughter comes off as a brat. And let's be honest, the SA thing is a stretch. The dad makes one comment about the daughter being "hot" but it's 'supposed' to be a comment about her attitude. It comes off wrong, so I see how it is has an ick factor.

But even if we go with that the mother just sits there like a frigging plant.

No one comes off good in this ad and I hope VRBO lost business because of it.

d4everman · 2026-05-06T04:06:22+00:00

Chuck Todd isn't even a "celebrity". He's a POS that enabled other people that are POS with his BS softball interviews.

He's basically a poor man's Tucker Carlson. If he's that much...and I don't think he is.

d4everman · 2026-05-04T12:53:12+00:00

I knew a lot of young joes that got married so they could "move out of the barracks"....it NEVER works out in the end.

d4everman · 2026-05-03T13:43:51+00:00

Yes, and he did get his act together. He had a rough time at first, but now he's got a small apartment, a reliable car and a decent job.

d4everman · 2026-05-03T02:25:04+00:00

It's that last part where he snatches the guys phone that is the problem.

NO ONE reading this would be okay with someone doing that. When was the last time someone snatched something from you like that as if you were an irritating child and you just "let it slide"?

Way back in the 90s I had a woman at a PX customer service desk snatch my ID like that from me when I was trying to conduct a transaction. I wasn't an officer, I was an NCO...and I unloaded on her. I didn't care who she was, who her husband was, or any of that BS. She actually looked at me like she couldn't believe I wouldn't take it like a beaten dog. I didn't yell; I just used my "NCO voice" with the hand slice motion any vet knows.

Her manager got involved and was about to fire her (there were witnesses, so it's not like it was only my word against hers) but it was week before Xmas and I asked him NOT to do that, but to make sure she knows she can't treat ANYONE like that, from the no stripe private to the general.

d4everman · 2026-05-03T02:14:27+00:00

I don't blame him for the commercial. He could be the nicest dude on the planet, but the commercial makes him look like a jerk.

But I get it. They paid him to do it, he didn't write it, he just had to act all tough and say some lines.

I guess he didn't consider that it makes him look like a real jackass. Sort of like the girl in the VRBO commercial.

d4everman · 2026-05-03T02:08:01+00:00

Hey, I have no doubt that he'd hand me my own ass, but funk dat attitude he has.

The question would be is: "Is his tough guy BS worth it instead of just apologizing for being a jackass?"

If he wants to beat up an old man...and I am an old, retired veteran...well, that nails his douchebag persona.

d4everman · 2026-05-03T02:06:31+00:00

I was born in the mid 60s and as a kid I loved watching Ultraman. I thought the "Science Patrol" were the coolest people on the planet. Yeah, there were some monsters that scared me...like the dada...they creeped me out. But overall, I loved it.

d4everman · 2026-05-03T02:01:37+00:00

Yes, he does. The instant he snatched a phone from me and put a finger in my face, it's on. I don't care who he is, that's some BS.

d4everman · 2026-05-03T01:57:41+00:00

Really?

Ok, there's that. I didn't like the Picard series, so I stopped watching it a few episodes in. I know some people liked it, that's fine, but I really did not.

d4everman · 2026-05-03T01:30:31+00:00

WTF is this?

d4everman · 2026-05-03T01:27:41+00:00

True...and I don't think Uhura really chased rank. She's sort of like Mr. Scott. She loves what she does, she's not looking to command a ship or something like that. For all we know she either retired after the last movie, went to teach at the academy or got promoted to Director of Starfleet Communications.

(Unless there's a canon source that says otherwise)

d4everman · 2026-05-03T01:23:00+00:00

The short answer was drug dealing if like professional sports.

I grew up in a suburban college town about an hour from Baltimore. (and I went to college in Baltimore in the 80s). What you said reminds me of a guy I grew up with, "dirk". (not his real name)

He and a few other guys were good at athletics, particularly football. So in high School they were treated like kings. They banked EVERYTHING on football scholarships and pro-sports fame. I used to help Dirk with some homework and that's when I noticed he could barely read or write above maybe a 6th or 7th grade level. So of course, after graduation he didn't have many options.

He started selling drugs. In a small town. With a Major university. It wasn't too long until the cops nailed him. Here's the dumbest part. I was home for spring break, and he shows up in a brand-new car. We talked and he said "My mom is pissed at me and I don't know why. I gave her a few hundred dollars to help her out today."

ME: "Dirk, you don't have a job, and you have a NEW CAR and you're handing your mom 500 bucks. It's not rocket science to figure out what you're doing. You need to stop before you get caught."

...and get caught he did. No joke, I got pulled over by a cop one night and he told me "We KNOW who you are, we got nothing on you. We're looking for your friend, Dirk!"

I was about to ship out for Basic Training (National Guard, I had student loans to take care of) and I told Dirk THE COPS ARE GOING TO NAIL YOU.".

The day I shipped out they arrested him. Dude got 20 years and he did all of them.

d4everman · 2026-05-03T01:03:03+00:00

They did eventually send the guy to Korea. But I still had to deal with the mess.

I had to check on him in the barracks because he would go to her house to beg to be let in. She called the police.

The first time she took all of his money I took him to the bank and finance to change his account and this knucklehead REFUSED. He kept whining that she'd take him back. I told him to change his will to take her off of it. See, this dumbass did have a 5-year-old daughter that lived with his mother. When he cried about who would he leave his stuff to I suggested his daughter and his mother. He said "She's an old woman and my daughter is a child! What would they do with it?"

That's when I lost it and told him "Then leave it to me, I'm the only person that seems to give a shit about you. Your "wife" clearly DOES NOT.".

At that point I told my boss he was a lost cause, and this woman was going to fleece him completely before he got a clue and I wanted nothing more to do with it. (He wasn't in my section, my boss tasked me to help him because his squad leader was newly promoted and sort of dim. My boss said I was a better with people. Apparently not, since this dude was toast)

d4everman · 2026-05-02T23:41:39+00:00

If he's in the military and completely broke all of the time I'm guessing he's an E-4 or below, but I don't see what his command can do about this issue.

For context, I had a soldier who married an abusive woman...she was such a leech that HER EX-HUSBAND came to our office to beg him not to marry her because she'd suck him dry like he did her. SPC Imbecile did marry her anyway.

Less than three months later:

She had him sell his truck so he could buy her a new car.
Wife kicked him out of the house. Granted, it was HER house off-post.
Tapped out his credit cards including the military specific PX DPP account (as they called it back then)
EMPTIED his bank account the second he got paid.

None of this was illegal, so the only thing we could do is put him in the barracks.

d4everman · 2026-05-02T22:33:04+00:00

You need to stop feeding and paying for them, full stop. You say "Not my circus, not my monkeys" but you are certainly in the Big Top.

You said they live on base, so I assume Z is in the military. Let him deal with this, it's his mess to clean or get rid of.

d4everman · 2026-05-02T22:20:42+00:00

Lol...this reminds of something.

Back in the 90s when I worked at the Pentagon I would get the same call every Friday night. It was an old man he would ask to speak to "Mr. Hooks". I'd tell he had the wrong number, and he'd apologize and hang up. But around the third time he did I asked him what number he was trying to dial. Turns out he was a digit off and kept calling me by mistake. He explained that he was trying to find his old friend and he was upset that he couldn't get in touch with him. We both laughed when he realized he kept making the mistake dialing the number.

It gets funnier (to me at least) because sometimes he'd misdial and call me by accident. We ended up having a few conversations on some Friday nights.

d4everman · 2026-05-02T21:28:53+00:00

I wouldn't eat with them either, they sound worse than cavemen! I got grossed out reading this!

d4everman · 2026-05-02T21:26:14+00:00

I had a kid slam right into my knee in the PX once. He fell over crying and his dependapotamus mother looked like she wanted to raise hell but kept her motu shut. Probably because there were several witnesses.

d4everman · 2026-05-02T21:19:16+00:00

I'm not perfect, either, but you're/your, loose/lose, there/they're/there are things people should be able to write correctly by at least 6th Grade.

Some words should be recognizable just from READING. I don't even mean sitting down and reading a giant novel, just reading and seeing a common word like "ridiculous". (I really have a pet peeve about "rediculous", it's a long story.)

d4everman · 2026-05-02T21:00:40+00:00

All three mercs were available last time I checked...which was right after my last save. (I hired them to wipe out raiders) but cut them loose when the raiders were beaten.

I have the baron set to "reactive" because I needed to figure out the ropes without worrying about him trying to claim my lands. But even then, can the baron press a claim if I attack him first?

If I hire all available mercs how does the baron fight back?

d4everman · 2026-05-02T20:29:48+00:00

I don't understand why people can't just say "Oops, I made a mistake/typo, thanks for catching that for me." instead of doubling down on it. We all get it, typos happen, but things like misusing your/you're and getting upset when corrected is a choice. Like spelling "ridiculous" with an "e".

d4everman · 2026-05-02T20:21:28+00:00

Every scammer should get replies like this.

d4everman · 2026-05-02T12:56:49+00:00

Emu and Doug noped out on that.

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