I'm sick of those Shriner's commercials with the little crippled boys shilling teddy bear blankets!

100% agreed!

Well if it makes you feel better they probably won't live to be too old.

I hate those commercials. I know they should simply generate sympathy but I am always annoyed by the ways the boys speak “adowable” and the faux banter between the two brittle boned boys. It all feels super manipulative. And I work in human services ffs.

Try giving $50 to Doctors Without Borders. You will get weekly mailers from them FOREVER, with the postage paid far eclipsing the $50 you spent...

[R3], not to mention the subliminal shit they stick into the commercial.

We had some amazing threads about them the last couple of years. Most people here were sympathetic, perhaps surprisingly so, and the conversation was largely affectionate…believe it or not!

Fuck you OP!

Kaweb

Adowable

Alec and Caleb are the modern Margo Channing and Eve Harrington: the established hard-as-nails star fighting off his younger competition!

"Your bones are too brittle for that gesture, Kaleb."

"You can always put that adowable bwanket where your heart ought to be, Alec."

There's always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you.

You are a vile human being, OP. Please die soon.

Every time I see these or St. Jude’s commercials, my eyes start to well up. Right outside of my old office room, which was next to the copy room, the first thing you’d see when you open the door is a St. Jude’s calendar. Children having cancer/disease is the absolute worst.

If these ads really get to you that much, change the damn channel.

My only issue with the Shriner’s ads is one actor (from several years back), I suspected was far older than the age he was trying to portray, he sounded like a Cagney-ish character from the 1930s or something.

If Shriners spent more on the ads than they brought in, they would have discontinued the campaign years ago. Clearly they work.

These kids are as annoying as those Kars for Kids kids.

Shriners look creepy.

[quote]There's always someone younger and hungrier coming down the stairs after you.

You rang?

I'd like to see a death match between the Shriners kids and the 1-800-Kars for Kids monsters..

(For the record? I'd be rooting for the Shriners.)

Shriners kids vs Kars for Kids! That is very funny! And I agree - I hope that Caleb and Alec and co wallop those twee little Kars for Kids!!!

I'm surprised Kars for Kids is back. I thought they had a scandal that took them out.

I know it's almost Christmas when I hear Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" playing in every retail establishment I enter, when I embrace my fat whore ways for a few days without feeling guilty, when the Hallmark Channel runs the same movie (changing only characters' names) 3,402 times, and ...

... when there's a thread on DL about the Shriners commercials.

Shut the fuck up, Marlo(OP). Shriners is doing something right with their show biz babies lineup of optimistic go-getters, as opposed to those sad sack , slow motion sufferers in the St. Jude ward. Have you even TRIED to put tap shoes on those children?

And how much did you contribute OP so they won't need to run commercials?

Adowable!