Sleep like he just proposed...

[mbcdefg]

I stayed up and ate ice cream the night MH proposed. He knocked right out.

[jillboston]

so you can't sleep till you're engaged? is this like your parents telling you to go to bed or Santa won't come?

[IIOY]

This stupid little ad manages to simultaneously demean and demonize women.  Gold star.

[saz]

Well now we know why he didn't propose for a decade.. Saving for that giant rock.

[josieposy]

Because you don't have to sleep with him anymore. You got a ring!! Wink wink!

[EloiseWeenie]

(huh) 

Sooo, she needed Nyquil to go to sleep after he proposed? 

[cattledogkisses]

I'm feeling slow, because I don't even get it.

Is it supposed to imply that when you get engaged you can finally relax, or something?

[casarosada]

Jan 24, 2015 13:58:31 GMT -5 cattledogkisses said:

I'm feeling slow, because I don't even get it.

Is it supposed to imply that when you get engaged you can finally relax, or something?

Yeah...I don't get it either.

[tacosforlife]

I know that IIOY is right that the ad is insulting. Yet it's so confusing that I'm almost having trouble feeling insulted. Like, nice try, dudes, but your insult doesn't even make sense.

I am disappointed to see this from the NyQuil peeps since they gave us the "Dads don't get sick days" ad for actual NyQuil.

[cattledogkisses]

The night that I got engaged I'm pretty sure I spent all night bouncing off the walls in excitement, while pausing occasionally to stare at my sparkly and call everyone in my phonebook. Sleeping was low on my list of priorities. Lol.

[IIOY]

Jan 24, 2015 14:11:16 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

I know that IIOY is right that the ad is insulting. Yet it's so confusing that I'm almost having trouble feeling insulted. Like, nice try, dudes, but your insult doesn't even make sense.

Yeah, I had a vague feeling I'd been insulted but it took me a minute to figure out why. The implication is that she wasn't sleeping well because her boyfriend of a decade hadn't proposed. So she was insecure and/or had no control over the situation and/or chose to sit around for ten years being so unhappy that she couldn't sleep well at night. Now she's bagged her man and a fat diamond so she is sleeping well.

I'd like this ad a lot more if it said, "Sleep like you finally earned that big promotion" or "Sleep like you finally finished all your graduate exams" or "Sleep like you finally became a homeowner" or "Sleep like you made it through the day without being awkward around strangers or walking into walls" or anything else that implies a happy, comforting accomplishment not involving a goddamn man.

[josieposy]

Sleep like your gun in your fanny pack didn't fall out and hurt someone!

[spankswife]

I could sleep pretty well with a ring like that

[NitaX]

Jan 24, 2015 13:41:43 GMT -5 IIOY said:

This stupid little ad manages to simultaneously demean and demonize women.  Gold star.

Right, because I have been dating somebody's ass for 10 years and NOW I can sleep better?

Chile Please. 

[teflepi]

[tacosforlife]

Also, like hell am I going to stick around for 10 goddamned years without getting married. Sorry. Ain't nobody got time for that. I got shit to do.

[grace]

Huh. And it seems like zzzquil has nothing to do with that. Thank God they went the extra mile to make an offensive connection.

[Deleted]

If my head is tilted sharply to the side and my brain can't wrap around this, those are good signs, right?

[pixy0stix]

Well... huh.

[FloFTW]

We got Donato's when we bought my engagement ring. We got Donato's when we picked that ring up. We got Donato's when we got our wedding rings.

Donato's makes me horny.

[Deleted]

Sleep like you just saw the entire Twilight series in one sitting.
Sleep like you just kicked that project's ass all over again.
Sleep like you just assembled that entire IKEA bed by yourself.

I just... this is so offensive. On so many levels. They seriously couldn't have taken a different direction?

[secretlyevil]

They really screwed this one up. It's either offensive or no one gets it. Bad ad person.

[MarmeeNoir]

I thought of Kate Middleton.

[StrawberryBlondie]

I know DH and I got engaged quickly, but there is no way I would've stuck around for 10 years before getting engaged. That would've been... 3 months ago.

We've been married for 8 years now. And I'm pretty sure we went to sleep at like 4 am the night we got engaged.

[wawa]

I slept like a log the day mh proposed. But thats because he proposed whIle we were hiking and I was exhausted.

This ad can go fuck itself.

[AAM2012]

I would need drugs on a nightly basis if I had to wait 10 years....actually I would never wait that long.

[tacosforlife]

Jan 25, 2015 17:49:48 GMT -5 @kirkette said:

Jan 24, 2015 15:33:33 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Also, like hell am I going to stick around for 10 goddamned years without getting married. Sorry. Ain't nobody got time for that. I got shit to do.

Yup. My shit or get off the pot deadline was two years from date #1.

I would've given him longer than 2 years since we were babies, except that 2 years happen to fall around the time I needed to start figuring where the hell I was going to look for a job after law school.

But we got engaged 9 years ago. If I were on the market today, I'm not sure I'd even give him 2 years. Sheeeeeeit. I ain't a baby anymore. I know what I want. I know whether you've got it. And you know you either want me or you don't. This ain't hard, sweetie.

[Michelle]

Jan 24, 2015 14:28:19 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Jan 24, 2015 14:11:16 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

I know that IIOY is right that the ad is insulting. Yet it's so confusing that I'm almost having trouble feeling insulted. Like, nice try, dudes, but your insult doesn't even make sense.

Yeah, I had a vague feeling I'd been insulted but it took me a minute to figure out why. The implication is that she wasn't sleeping well because her boyfriend of a decade hadn't proposed. So she was insecure and/or had no control over the situation and/or chose to sit around for ten years being so unhappy that she couldn't sleep well at night. Now she's bagged her man and a fat diamond so she is sleeping well.

I'd like this ad a lot more if it said, "Sleep like you finally earned that big promotion" or "Sleep like you finally finished all your graduate exams" or "Sleep like you finally became a homeowner" or "Sleep like you made it through the day without being awkward around strangers or walking into walls" or anything else that implies a happy, comforting accomplishment not involving a goddamn man.

That makes me chuckle, because I still wake up drenched in sweat thinking that I forgot to go to a class I'm registered for and I'm going to have to figure out how to learn everything in a few weeks and pray I pass the test. It's usually some literature or economics class and I have just somehow forgotten I was supposed to go to it. And I will walk around either worried that everyone will realize my MBA is a sham once they catch on I never made it to that class, or that I won't get my MBA. I went to graduation for it in December 2004. Why am I still having this nightmare!?! 

[jillboston]

Jan 25, 2015 18:52:57 GMT -5 Michelle said:

Jan 24, 2015 14:28:19 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Yeah, I had a vague feeling I'd been insulted but it took me a minute to figure out why. The implication is that she wasn't sleeping well because her boyfriend of a decade hadn't proposed. So she was insecure and/or had no control over the situation and/or chose to sit around for ten years being so unhappy that she couldn't sleep well at night. Now she's bagged her man and a fat diamond so she is sleeping well.

I'd like this ad a lot more if it said, "Sleep like you finally earned that big promotion" or "Sleep like you finally finished all your graduate exams" or "Sleep like you finally became a homeowner" or "Sleep like you made it through the day without being awkward around strangers or walking into walls" or anything else that implies a happy, comforting accomplishment not involving a goddamn man.

That makes me chuckle, because I still wake up drenched in sweat thinking that I forgot to go to a class I'm registered for and I'm going to have to figure out how to learn everything in a few weeks and pray I pass the test. It's usually some literature or economics class and I have just somehow forgotten I was supposed to go to it. And I will walk around either worried that everyone will realize my MBA is a sham once they catch on I never made it to that class, or that I won't get my MBA. I went to graduation for it in December 2004. Why am I still having this nightmare!?! 

I don't know but if you figure it out let me know. I have this dream all. the. time.

[forreals]

michelle, I still have the same dream too!