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Previously, I wrote about television ads that drive me crazy. I thought I was finished with that topic, but I feel compelled to revisit it.

Currently, there are at least three advertisements running on television that make me cringe. I decided that I have to write about them and share the pain I feel with others. Misery, they say, loves company!

One ad is from Progressive Insurance and features a creature with a human torso connected permanently to a motorcycle.

We learn that this being is a motaur (as in “centaur” – get it?) and he drinks gasoline. The people he meets are in awe of him (who w...