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Johnny Aztec posted:If your poo poo is black, then you got a problem. That means you got some blood going on in there. If it ever happens again, get thee to a doctor. Kraken rum does the same thing.
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Wanamingo posted:Anti-smoking commercials have been trying really, really hard to appeal to the youth demographic lately.
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Dr_Amazing posted:When I was 5 or 6 I told my mom that I was afraid I was an alcoholic. There were these commercials that said if you were having multiple drinks everyday you might be an alcoholic. I assumed it was some sort of disease that caused excessive thirst. Similarly, I was inconsolable when, during the initial AIDS scare, I discovered condom wrappers in my parent's bathroom trash. If there was one thing the media made clear, it was that you had to use condoms to prevent AIDS; my parents were using condoms, ergo, one (or both) of them had AIDS (and would thus die a terrible terrible too-young death). Ah, the ignorance of youth. 
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Nov 2, 2015 03:36
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Dr_Amazing posted:I know when I started getting the anti-drug talks, I was young enough that I freaked out when my dad mentioned he was going to the drugstore. I once yelled at my grandma for "drinking" and driving. She was drinking a soda and I was like 6. She explained the difference to me.
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Whatev posted:That is loving pathetic. Someone had to write that script and someone had to direct this. Embarrassing. And then you have companies that haven't figured out the difference between copywriters and a mentally-challenged newphew, and that hiring one is considerably less expensive than the five figures you dropped for an ad slot during the local news. snergle posted:I once yelled at my grandma for "drinking" and driving. She was drinking a soda and I was like 6. She explained the difference to me. This garbage plant grows loving everywhere in Hawaii, including where we lived. I existed in a state of constant terror. Fur20 has a new favorite as of 04:22 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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Fear is a common tool in the ad-making toolkit and that can be as simple as "I fear I will stink." Of course public awareness ads have a very long history with taking no holds. The Government here got into a bit of hot soup when it remade a failed ad campaign from 2007. It's literally shot by shot with the 2015 version flipping the line of action. The problem is many people find the ads too horrifying to really be effective or roll their eyes at the exaggerated depictions of the risks of the drugs taken - studies showed that even if people who were watching had experimented with ice they weren't shocked with images of desperate users turning into scabby prostitutes as in their experience they'd tried some it felt good and then continued on with their lives. The testing only really scored highly with a younger audience or adults who were more than happy to buy into the graphic imagery as it fitted in with lurid tales that float around the media - such as the one about the guy who was so psychotic he ate his own eyeballs. Also some of the ads were seen as a bit too real that it's been noted that once during audience testing a former addict got inspired to light up in the bathrooms. HIV had a similar thing in the 1980's with the infamous Grim Reaper commercial scaring a whole generation of kids. Grim had been seen as an icon of early road safety ads dating back to the 50's who warned you of ending precious lives with your bad driving - namely with a much mocked radio commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U219eUIZ7Qo But the big problem was that ad didn't shift perceptions of HIV being something you got from touching or kissing. While it spooked many people and has been constantly mentioned as being the ad that helped fight HIV the reality was that new ads came about that promoted realistic discussions about using protection and so on - however it's legacy is entombed with every new major anti-something campaign trying to shock you into abstaining out of fear. In comparison the famous "Slip, Slop Slap" campaign was better at raising awareness over skin cancer prevention as it didn't push you into a barrage of graphic images of cancerous moles eating holes into people - it just encouraged with a nice animated jingle.
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Nov 2, 2015 06:06
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WebDog posted:In comparison the famous "Slip, Slop Slap" campaign was better at raising awareness over skin cancer prevention as it didn't push you into a barrage of graphic images of cancerous moles eating holes into people - it just encouraged with a nice animated jingle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ5KC1s3YZo Then you have the problem with bombarding us for decades on end big scary ad campaigns and we just don't care any more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7zhgyawyv8
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My drug education didn't have "you smoke pot and you'll kill your family!" kind of stuff, it was purely "if you get caught with this, you will go to jail" and that was it. I do remember later the cop doing the presentation in a later grade was "pot isn't a problem unless you try to drive or anything else that takes concentration, like drinking". Which was pretty progressive, but my cop friend told me ages ago that dealing with pot is a stupid waste of time unless its large scale operations because they normally also involve harder drugs, guns and human trafficking. Some guy with a grow op in his basement isn't a problem, but the Russian mobsters in a mcmansion in the suburbs is. For fear based stuff, there are the classic Ontario Safty ads. Most are kind of silly, like the guy falling off the construction looks like a dummy, and the really lethargic "there's been an accident" doesn't convey the gravity of the situation, but the woman spilling hot grease on her face and then the camera zooming in on her screaming and her face melting off is pretty disturbing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jLGkmOVtnI
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Nov 2, 2015 07:13
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After I moved to America we had some awful Anti-Sex sex-ed sort of stuff. One class had a doctor, or at least a guy who claimed to be a doctor, come in and tell us horrible stories like how one guy gave another guy a blowjob and the evil STD sperms caused his throat to rot instantly. Because everyone knows gays blow acidic loads.
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Nov 2, 2015 09:00
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There's an ad on the local radio for a new restaurant that's opening up, and it invited the audience to guess what new thing is opening, plays a distracting ticking noise while declaring the listener's probably non-existent guess wrong every second, then ends with a "hint" that it's a hot new restaurant in [town]. No mention of a name or what kind of food, nor where in [town] to find it. On top of that, I just got a flyer in the mail that I think is for that place that declares it to be for "Good American eats". I do not live on America. In fact, I live in a small town, so the local population is wary enough of the nearest city, let alone a company that's insisting we should be impressed by their pretending to be from America. Way to know your audience, guys! 
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Nov 2, 2015 09:26
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Croccers posted:The Life. Be In It song was decent too I dunno, I thought that one from a few years ago about speeding with the guy and his family in an overturned car and time stops, then reverses was really loving powerful.
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The Aids campaign in the UK in the 1980s was genuinely scary as gently caress and it was at a time when we weren't really sure how it worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT-RH_2gfog As a result of this campaign, two facts were hammered into my brain: 1. Have sex with a girl and you'll get AIDS and die painfully. 'Sex' includes everything from french kissing upwards. 2. Most homosexuals have AIDS and leak it from every bodily fluid. If you want to be safe, wear full-body protection anytime you are near one who looks a bit sweaty. Well, despite all that, it turns out that it was actually quite effective: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15886670 quote:And yet the campaign - the world's first major government-sponsored national Aids awareness drive - would later be hailed as the most successful. Of course, there some downsides to this conditioning: my idea of a hot date is a firm handshake, closely followed by a thorough hand-washing in disinfectant and I still get nervous around men with impeccable dress-sense in confined places (lifts, the Tube, the Isle of Wight). But still, well done me for not catching AIDS. spog has a new favorite as of 10:06 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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AlphaKretin posted:There's an ad on the local radio for a new restaurant that's opening up, and it invited the audience to guess what new thing is opening, plays a distracting ticking noise while declaring the listener's probably non-existent guess wrong every second, then ends with a "hint" that it's a hot new restaurant in [town]. Such a shame I can't find it on YouTube, there's a new local commercial about some bar that opened up. Head-On style, they basically chant "It's a pub... that's a club! And a club... that's a pub!" for thirty seconds without actually saying the name of the establishment. Whoever designed the spot finally realized this at some point and at the end of the commercial, it cuts to an outdoor shot of the place. It's taken from across the street with no identifying landmarks, and the shot is so wide and the video quality so bad that you can't even tell what the sign above the door says. This lasts for all of one second before cutting to black.
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Nov 2, 2015 10:38
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Dr_Amazing posted:I know when I started getting the anti-drug talks, I was young enough that I freaked out when my dad mentioned he was going to the drugstore. This is adorable 
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Does anyone have a link to that Realtor ad where the husband is expressing serious misgivings about taking on a bunch of mortgage debt, only for his wife to convince him to buy by pointing out that the real estate agent looked into it and it's all good? You know, the one that was airing right before the real estate bubble exploded with the fury of a thousand suns?
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Phanatic posted:Does anyone have a link to that Realtor ad where the husband is expressing serious misgivings about taking on a bunch of mortgage debt, only for his wife to convince him to buy by pointing out that the real estate agent looked into it and it's all good? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20n-cD8ERgs Suzanne researched this. There's another video from 2006 that I can't find where a guy is predicting the housing crisis and all the other pundits and commentators are literally shouting him down.
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Nov 2, 2015 19:36
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Krispy Kareem posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20n-cD8ERgs People had been calling it since 2003 because it was literally the statistical definition of a bubble. It was more shocking that people kept buying houses for 2-3x what they were worth 5-10 years ago and not thinking it was strange.
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Nov 2, 2015 19:41
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Krispy Kareem posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20n-cD8ERgs This is why basic-level investment advice is shady. Much of investment and value has to do with confidence. It could be that the people who shouted him down had money were making money hand over fist from the bubble, and they didn't want anything to shake the confidence that people had, which would cause the bubble to burst.
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Dr_Amazing posted:I know when I started getting the anti-drug talks, I was young enough that I freaked out when my dad mentioned he was going to the drugstore. I yelled at my dad when I was six for drinking and driving because he was drinking lemonade. 
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It warms my heart to read that I wasn't the only first grader to the world to freak out that my mom was drinking coffee while driving us to school. DARE at my school in sixth grade was such a loving joke that even the teacher and the cop that came to talk to us on a semi-weekly basis was in on it. We had this box that in which we were supposed to put anonymous questions about drugs or drinking or smoking or whatever, but I think the only questions anyone ever bothered to put in where teasing the cop about his shiny bald held. "Mr. Cop, do you shine your head every morning? I think you hide pennies on there." We'd all have a hearty laugh about it. No one my state (WA represent!) was one of the first to legalize the Devil Weed. Also in high school we'd scour our closets and thrift shops to find old DARE t-shirts so we'd look extra ironic during parties. Good times
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Irradiation posted:I yelled at my dad when I was six for drinking and driving because he was drinking lemonade. 
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My only memory of our DARE program was them telling us if you ever do PCP you'll end up jumpin off your roof and breaking your legs but you won't notice because PCP makes you numb to pain. No idea how true that is, but it certainly made 10 year old me want to throw up in class.
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Nov 2, 2015 19:58
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I remember my dad drinking something while driving me home from school sometime in grade two or three, and I called him on it, too. His response was to hand the can to me and tell me to finish it instead. It was a Coors. You guys had lame parents.
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I never adorably called out my parents for drinking coffee behind the wheel, but I did refuse to set foot in the liquor aisle while grocery shopping with my parents (because I was a kid, obviously I'd get in trouble if a cop or teacher saw me in there!) and would wait quietly at the end of it for them to come back. Probably judging them, I don't remember.
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Nov 2, 2015 20:39
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WebDog posted:Fear is a common tool in the ad-making toolkit and that can be as simple as "I fear I will stink." Of course public awareness ads have a very long history with taking no holds. Shame sells.
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RandomFerret posted:I remember my dad drinking something while driving me home from school sometime in grade two or three, and I called him on it, too. His response was to hand the can to me and tell me to finish it instead. In fairness to your dad, Coors isn't actually beer.
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Besesoth posted:In fairness to your dad, Coors isn't actually beer. 
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Well I mean theoretically you're supposed to constantly keep both hands on the wheel at all times, so - especially to a mind as innocent and naive as a kid's - drinking anything literally while you're driving is technically an infraction.
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Man, I'm having trouble finding it, but the talk of grim reaper themed PSAs reminded me of one from the 80s that was creepy. Where this woman kept dancing from partner to partner while a voiceover kinda suggested she was sleeping around, and then the face of the final dancer is revealed and he's Death! It was a good one!
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Mother may I sleep with Death?
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nah, this was just some 30 second psa that would run like, during saturday morning cartoons. I remember it had a real hazy blue tint to everything.
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AlphaKretin posted:Well I mean theoretically you're supposed to constantly keep both hands on the wheel at all times, so - especially to a mind as innocent and naive as a kid's - drinking anything literally while you're driving is technically an infraction. How are you supposed to shift? 
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So I guess recently google fiber had some sort of hiccup. Someone in Comcast thought it would be funny to call them out on their facebook. The response was exactly what you would expect.
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AlphaKretin posted:Well I mean theoretically you're supposed to constantly keep both hands on the wheel at all times, That'd make it pretty hard to drive a manual.
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FrozenVent posted:How are you supposed to shift? gently caress if I know, ask the PSA writers that drilled the into my head. Presumably a momentary distraction to use a function of the car is OK.  But not a momentary distraction for anything else of course. Hey look, I think I just accidentally mad this relevant to the thread!Dr_Amazing posted:So I guess recently google fiber had some sort of hiccup. Someone in Comcast thought it would be funny to call them out on their facebook. The response was exactly what you would expect. The best part is that in all the screenshots of the incident the first comment on all the snarky replies is "beep book please contact us so we can assist you with your problem". AlphaKretin has a new favorite as of 23:53 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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I remember having a conversation in senior year of high school with some other girls about how better sex ed was probably more important than DARE and how DARE just made people more knowledgeable about drugs without actually taking away any of the curiosity about trying them. (and like people in this thread pointed out, probably piquing more people's interest in them). Other than that my only vivid memories of DARE are: 1. In like sixth grade we read a story where a girl I guess does drugs and winds up getting STABBED with a letter opener by another girl. I literally think of that every time I use a letter opener, even though that's infrequent now, whether I use one of the long weapon type ones or one of the whale shaped ones. It apparently upset me as a child b/c the girl died at the end without a chance of being redeemed.  2. The DARE officer lived next door to a kid I was semi-friends with. I went to drop off an invitation to a party at the kids house when i was in high school and pulled into the officer's driveway b/c my friend's driveway was on the back of his house and it was more convenient to not have to drive all the way around ot the other street. The officer came to his door, started screaming at me for using his driveway, insisted I had been there before and done this tons of times (I had literally never been there before), and just made me feel like total poo poo for idling in his driveway for what would have been less than 15 seconds if he hadn't had to take the time to loving scream at me. gently caress that cop. He also told us when we were in DARE that he never even had a sip of alcohol in his life. I don't think any of us believed him even then. Well that's my story
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Zaphod42 posted:AA actually pisses me off because it teaches you that its not your fault and there's nothing you can do about it except pray that God takes away your affliction. I had to "take some time off" in a psychiatric ward for a while and I got lumped in with some recovering drug addicts, and because I was the most coherent person there I had to officiate the AA meeting. So I did it in the most overwrought preacher voice I could, and it changed from a depressing "oh poor pitiful me save me Jesus" fest into a good laugh from everyone involved. And then we all watched How To Train Your Dragon and had dinner. AA is awesome as long as you're surrounded by a bunch of bored druggies with time to kill until dinner.
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There was an anti-drug movie I saw in 7th grade (late 80's) that I saw three times because they played it in two different classes, and then I didn't get to go on a field trip or something for the second class so I got to sit and watch it a third time. Even after seeing it three times the only thing I remember is that it made a point that if you smoked marijuana and went driving, everything looked very slow and calm, while you were really driving at breakneck speed. So apparently pot gives you inhuman reflexes? I think there was someone cackling insanely because they were on acid or something. Would love to see that again.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s83kP07ufUI Since we're on the topic of anti-drug PSAs, this played a lot when I was a kid watching cartoons. The version I remember didn't have the same voice over but the message was the same, and my six year old self had no idea what it meant. I was deathly afraid of smelling anything too much for a long time.
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