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zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

Somfin posted:

Because I'm aware of the influence that ads have on decision making and consciously attempt to counteract it? You're the one who posted a discredited 20 year old study about subliminal ads, dude.
That sounds loving tiring, second guessing every little purchase you don't have quantitative data on. Sometimes it's OK to buy the TP for the sole reason that you sub consciously associate it with teddy bears from children's books.

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bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

zedprime posted:

That sounds loving tiring, second guessing every little purchase you don't have quantitative data on. Sometimes it's OK to buy the TP for the sole reason that you sub consciously associate it with teddy bears from children's books.

I associate TP with your posts

TontoCorazon
Aug 18, 2007


bradzilla posted:

I associate TP with your posts

Oh poo poo! Get at him zedprime.

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

zedprime posted:

That sounds loving tiring, second guessing every little purchase you don't have quantitative data on. Sometimes it's OK to buy the TP for the sole reason that you sub consciously associate it with teddy bears from children's books.

That's a pretty weird reason to buy something use to wipe your butt with.

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

RBA Starblade posted:

That's a pretty weird reason to buy something use to wipe your butt with.
Its kind of a personal example because I interned at a toilet paper factory for a competitor to Charmin where I learned to be OK with never understanding how marketing and branding works. Not being privy to the inner workings of the business development, this is from scuttlebutt so feel free to file as one of those apocryphal marketing stories. But apparently most of the quantitative industrial measures of quality were in favor of the competitor's product and in double blind marketing studies they usually preferred the competitor's, but they just couldn't assault the brand juggernaut of those dumb loving bears to make a dent in market share.

dirksteadfast
Oct 10, 2010

Forceholy posted:

I always thought that song was about heroin use.

That's a fair interpretation as well, and I sort of just want to accept it outright after learning that apparently 90% of all songs seem to be about heroin use.

My Lovely Horse
Aug 21, 2010

Just use this song in everything, at least that clears up all uncertainties right from the start.

Johnny Aztec
Jan 30, 2005

by Hand Knit

zedprime posted:

That sounds loving tiring, second guessing every little purchase you don't have quantitative data on. Sometimes it's OK to buy the TP for the sole reason that you sub consciously associate it with teddy bears from children's books.

I just compare what is being offered at that store and pick the best value in terms of both price and softness.
You can get super cheap TB but it's thin and scratchy on your bhole. At the same time, buying the most expensive stuff isn't going to be the best idea either.
I don't buy things because someone on TV told me to. I buy things because A: I like the product already in terms of flavor/usefulness, or if it's something I am unfamiliar with, probably the best value in terms of size/price.

Nitrox
Jul 5, 2002
I personally start at the lowest price point, which is usually sub par. Then move up the price ladder until reaching the acceptable quality. It's working out well.

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Buy moist wipes you gross fucks

Or at least use them after you've used regular tp

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

stringball posted:

Buy moist wipes you gross fucks

Or at least use them after you've used regular tp

Moist wipes are really great but apparently the idea that they're flushable is a complete lie :(

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)

They can't be flushable, since they aren't water-soluble.

RagnarokAngel
Oct 5, 2006

Black Magic Extraordinaire
Just go full Muslim. No waste at all!

(Well, except one)

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Wanamingo posted:

Moist wipes are really great but apparently the idea that they're flushable is a complete lie :(

Yeah there's an asterisk next to flushable that says to only flush one wipe at a time

How bad are they for your tank/system?

Wanamingo
Feb 22, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

stringball posted:

Yeah there's an asterisk next to flushable that says to only flush one wipe at a time

How bad are they for your tank/system?

quote:

Companies like Cottonelle and Charmin heavily advertise their flushable wipes. They sound so convenient. But plumbers make a lot of house calls that involve clogged toilets, backed up sewer lines, and flooded basements. Often the culprit is flushable wipes.

Consumer Reports checked out four flushable wipes from Cottonelle, Charmin, Scott and Equate. They all say they’re flushable and make claims like “sewer and septic safe” and “breaks up after flushing.”

In Consumer Reports’ standard tests, toilet paper breaks down quickly. But when testers ran the same test with the flushable wipes they didn’t break down at all. Consumer Reports gave up after ten minutes. Testers even ran them for ten minutes in a mixer, the wipes still didn’t break apart.

Consumer Reports did find that after soaking overnight, two of the products did break down, Cottonelle and Scotts. But even after 12 hours, the ones from Charmin and Equate still stayed in one piece.

Consumer Reports advice, if you use these products don’t flush them down the toilet.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/business/Consumer-Reports-Are-Flushable-Wipes-Flushable-237585911.html

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Wanamingo posted:

Moist wipes are really great but apparently the idea that they're flushable is a complete lie :(

you can also develop an allergy to the soap in them and then spend weeks wondering why your hatch is baboon swamp itchfest woodstock

Praseodymi
Aug 26, 2010

stringball posted:

How bad are they for your tank/system?

It can gently caress up the sewers all the way to the end.

Cage
Jul 17, 2003
www.revivethedrive.org
Sorry but I'm not willing to give up having my butt smell like peppermint.

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Cage posted:

Sorry but I'm not willing to give up having my butt smell like peppermint.

Just wipe with regular TP and rub some toothpaste into your butt afterwards. Wait sorry this isn't the lifehacks thread.

Krispy Wafer
Jul 26, 2002

I shouted out "Free the exposed 67"
But they stood on my hair and told me I was fat

Grimey Drawer
My dumbass 35 year old man-child brother called me up one day raving about moist butt wipes. Like it was the only thing missing from his life. We don't talk when close family dies. But moist butt wipes - that warranted a call.

The next call will be moist butt wipes on a stick, I'm sure of it.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Cage posted:

Sorry but I'm not willing to give up having my butt smell like peppermint.

wipe u rear end like u like it but then wad it up in some TP and put it in the trashebo

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)

LOL if you don't have Enrique something something, whatever, I don't care

bongwizzard
May 19, 2005

Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"
Grimey Drawer
I got hooked on the butt wipes over the summer as I was using portajohns for most of my poops. It has been a hard road going back to normal tp but we have a septic field at home so they are completely unusable there.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
I can't buy personal hygeine products unless they're explicitly labeled as for men and an unthreatening manly color like black or camo, otherwise I might as well be suckin' dicks on the golden gate bridge!

http://www.dudeproducts.com/

shut up netface
Jun 15, 2008

Sleeveless posted:

I can't buy personal hygeine products unless they're explicitly labeled as for men and an unthreatening manly color like black or camo, otherwise I might as well be suckin' dicks on the golden gate bridge!

http://www.dudeproducts.com/

There's nothing more masculine than an individually wrapped rear end wipe. Dudes love extraneous packaging.

FutonForensic
Nov 11, 2012

Looks like giant packaged condoms

"I dropped my monster wipe for my magnum rear end!"

Coucho Marx
Mar 2, 2009

kick back and relax

Tasteful Dickpic posted:

LOL if you don't have Enrique something something, whatever, I don't care

as if you didn't have Enrique make his own Enrique jokes for you

5er
Jun 1, 2000

Qapla' to a true warrior! :patriot:

GWBBQ posted:

I'll bet that a sizable majority of people never knew that this song had lyrics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3SzI92FDFo

AFewBricksShy posted:

I remember hearing that the band would get really angry when people would sing "Shampoo" instead of "Woohoo" during their concerts.

Sometimes it catches me by surprise when I hear something on the radio that I only ever heard being used with an advertisement. I only ever can associate that music with the ad. Hell, it's gotten so bad lately that I can hear these lovely shoegazey "alternative" songs that are put out fresh lately and visualize a Capital One or Coca Cola ad coalescing around the lyrics. "Oh, here's where that cute, sorta Jewish looking girl with the long, large-ringlet curly hair is squinting into the sunset and smiling which is probably where the marketing toads are saying it's the young person wisely looking ahead in the years while in truth they're expecting her tits in the loose sundress to reel in the less thoughtful. Ok now we fade to some attractive 20somethings smiling and laughing and running along the beach without a care as the Chase logo flashes in a corner..."

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

5er posted:

Sometimes it catches me by surprise when I hear something on the radio that I only ever heard being used with an advertisement. I only ever can associate that music with the ad. Hell, it's gotten so bad lately that I can hear these lovely shoegazey "alternative" songs that are put out fresh lately and visualize a Capital One or Coca Cola ad coalescing around the lyrics. "Oh, here's where that cute, sorta Jewish looking girl with the long, large-ringlet curly hair is squinting into the sunset and smiling which is probably where the marketing toads are saying it's the young person wisely looking ahead in the years while in truth they're expecting her tits in the loose sundress to reel in the less thoughtful. Ok now we fade to some attractive 20somethings smiling and laughing and running along the beach without a care as the Chase logo flashes in a corner..."

source your quotes

Doctor Malaver
May 23, 2007

Ce qui s'est passé t'a rendu plus fort
I'm listening to a metal/punk show on the Croatian Student Radio and they just played puppymonkeybaby. :stare: That commercial doesn't even air in Croatia.

A Shitty Reporter
Oct 29, 2012
Dinosaur Gum
gently caress, is this the next Minions?

Nitrox
Jul 5, 2002
What is so special about the current minions? Other than people are weirdly obsessed with em, according to terrible tattoo thread.

AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!

Just marketing aimed at kids that's tailored to be repeated incessantly, driving anyone above the age of twelve batshit mad if they have to be around kids exposed to said marketing.

Full Battle Rattle
Aug 29, 2009

As long as the times refuse to change, we're going to make a hell of a racket.
Unless they start selling puppy monkey baby plush dolls I think the commercial wasn't a huge success. I still haven't bought one purple mountain dew drink. Not on purpose, either, I actually like mountain dew kickstart because it has a lot less sugar than regular mountain dew (strangely). I also don't think I've actually seen it for sale anywhere except my grocery store, which doesn't help sales.

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Johnny Aztec posted:

I just compare what is being offered at that store and pick the best value in terms of both price and softness.
You can get super cheap TB but it's thin and scratchy on your bhole. At the same time, buying the most expensive stuff isn't going to be the best idea either.
I don't buy things because someone on TV told me to. I buy things because A: I like the product already in terms of flavor/usefulness, or if it's something I am unfamiliar with, probably the best value in terms of size/price.

Wake up, Sheeple!

bunnyofdoom
Mar 29, 2008

I've been here the whole time, and you're not my real Dad! :emo:
The convenience store at my office building sells them for $1 so my filing cabinet in full of them

Karma Monkey
Sep 6, 2005

I MAKE BAD POSTING DECISIONS

Full Battle Rattle posted:

Unless they start selling puppy monkey baby plush dolls I think the commercial wasn't a huge success. I still haven't bought one purple mountain dew drink. Not on purpose, either, I actually like mountain dew kickstart because it has a lot less sugar than regular mountain dew (strangely). I also don't think I've actually seen it for sale anywhere except my grocery store, which doesn't help sales.

Well, it looks like the marketing was successful in at least some small way. It gave some weird guy an excuse to wear a diaper in public and gave a costume company a way to sell multiple lovely items to create one enormously lovely item. Enjoy!

Bonus zany blogger bio:

quote:

Devin Rubink is an Inbound Marketing Specialist for HalloweenCostumes.com. He is a film fanatic who enjoys watching anything from action, to comedy, to horror, and even movies that are so bad, they’re entertaining. Fun fact: He hasn’t gone more than 3 days without watching a superhero movie since the Batman incident of ‘97. Devin also enjoys dressing up in costumes with his daughters, although he finds it difficult to fit into some of the princess dresses. He studies Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit, to buff up his knowledge and help him achieve his dream of being a game show contestant.

Mouse Dresser
Sep 4, 2002

This isn't Middle Earth, Quentin. There aren't enough noble quests to go around.

They call it a "DIY Puppy Monkey Baby" costume, but there's nothing DIY about it.

Buy puppy mask.

Buy gorilla suit.

Buy diaper.

Wear costume.

Scar your friends and family.

Wind up in a jail cell for indecent exposure.

Je suis fatigue
May 5, 2009

Amazing! It's a double J.O.!

FutonForensic posted:

Looks like giant packaged condoms

"I dropped my monster wipe for my magnum rear end!"

Dude Moves in Marketing: I dropped my monster wipe for my magnum dump

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Bast Relief
Feb 21, 2006

by exmarx

Nitrox posted:

What is so special about the current minions? Other than people are weirdly obsessed with em, according to terrible tattoo thread.

I noticed while scrolling through the red box website that they have retconned the original despicable me movie poster to feature mostly minions and the sequel poster only has minions. Next to that was the movie "minions" the only one that made sense to only have minions on it.

People I know and respect, who are educated and wise loving love minions and it disappoints me to no end.

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