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Tired Moritz posted:so a chinese company gave their product a weirdly racist name? I'm too  to look up the actual mandarin name of the product but I think it could just be an unfortunate accident. For example I suspect "dingdong" might be a pun on the phrase "tingdong", meaning to understand by hearing.
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Jaguars! posted:Dumb marketing... A subtle one: 
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Dec 5, 2016 23:14
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Surveyors wanted - engineer shirt supplied. Renumeration no barrier to candidate with suitably wide, staring eyes Found a box of these under the stairs between New Zealand Farmer 1986-89 and a box of chequebook stubs from 1976.
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Dec 13, 2016 00:23
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Right now on Pandora are a series of just plain dumb commercials about a happy couple celebrating the holidays...with water softener rock salt. They get super excited giving each other it for xmas, and another has the husband hiding from his in-laws in the basement putting the salt in. They're ridiculous.
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Dec 13, 2016 00:40
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Choco1980 posted:Right now on Pandora are a series of just plain dumb commercials about a happy couple celebrating the holidays...with water softener rock salt. They get super excited giving each other it for xmas, and another has the husband hiding from his in-laws in the basement putting the salt in. They're ridiculous. Oh good, I was wondering what to get my boyfriend for Christmas. This'll be perfect!
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Dec 13, 2016 01:12
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If your water is hard, just let it thaw because that's ice.
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Jaguars! posted:Surveyors wanted - engineer shirt supplied. Renumeration no barrier to candidate with suitably wide, staring eyes
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Dec 14, 2016 22:19
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Getting such a Harrison Ford/Tron vibe from that textbook.
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Dec 14, 2016 22:27
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Full size: http://i.imgur.com/SWIIrCC.jpg I mean, if you really, really want the original, PM me.  Sadly no video  pehaps a the 90s-est things thread would be a better match for this one.
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Dec 14, 2016 22:35
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Dec 14, 2016 23:09
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Ah, the registered valuer approach. "Yeah, sure I visited the place, no-one was home." *shits out report in 15 minutes based on existing sales data*
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Dec 14, 2016 23:23
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Idgi  All I can tell is that the guys are photoshopped in.
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Dec 15, 2016 00:09
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jojoinnit posted:Idgi The people in Jaguars' surveying pamphlet had that look of "poorly composited in," which reminded me of that infamous masterpiece of Chinese bureaucratic publicity: Floating Chinese Government Officials Inspect New Road
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Dec 15, 2016 00:14
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I don't...think that surveyor picture is photoshopped. That's just a really newly paved street. And holy poo poo look at the antenna on that walkie talkie.
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Dec 15, 2016 00:15
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Krispy Kareem posted:I don't...think that surveyor picture is photoshopped. That's just a really newly paved street. If the text's editorial quality is any indication of the publication's ability to create doctored images, that image is definitely not photoshopped.
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Dec 15, 2016 00:19
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Pastry of the Year posted:The people in Jaguars' surveying pamphlet had that look of "poorly composited in," which reminded me of that infamous masterpiece of Chinese bureaucratic publicity: Thanks! 
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Dec 15, 2016 00:21
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It's more the quality of the scan than anything, the shadows are visible in the original. Printed on beautiful glossy paper too. Can we take a moment to admire those mom jeans? Every possible contour of the body is eliminated. It's like the platonic ideal of early 90's mom jeans.
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Dec 15, 2016 01:33
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Jaguars! posted:
Solid bright pink sweater with mom jeans, and a huuuuuge antenna this is definitely super 80s
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Dec 15, 2016 01:37
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Zaphod42 posted:Solid bright pink sweater with mom jeans, and a huuuuuge antenna Not to mention the yuppie suit being worn on a construction site. Then again, I wasn't born in the '80s, so this may have been accurate.
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Dec 15, 2016 03:42
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Zaphod42 posted:Solid bright pink sweater with mom jeans, and a huuuuuge antenna The 80s didn't end in New Zealand until about 1998
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Jaguars! posted:Can we take a moment to admire those mom jeans? Every possible contour of the body is eliminated. It's like the platonic ideal of early 90's mom jeans. I don't know what you expect? It' a survey site. A job. You want some skinny jeans with the rear end cut out or what?
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Dec 15, 2016 04:06
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Zaphod42 posted:Solid bright pink sweater with mom jeans, and a huuuuuge antenna nah bro that's 1993 as gently caress honestly
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InediblePenguin posted:nah bro that's 1993 as gently caress honestly Gotta agree with that 
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Johnny Aztec posted:I don't know what you expect? It' a survey site. A job. You want some skinny jeans with the rear end cut out or what? Overalls or a jumpsuit. Dress for the job. Not like you're heading to a PTSA bake sale. People must have snagged those walkie talkie antennas on everything.
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Dec 15, 2016 17:38
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Jaguars! posted:Full size: But I mean, it's close. Surveying is a rewarding career 
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Dec 15, 2016 18:54
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CEX has a bunch of terrible posters of halfassed mascots and movie/game references but one always tickles me - I can't find a picture of the poster online unfortunately but he looks like a grimdark Crimson Chin from Fairly Odd Parents and I find that kinda hilarious.
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Jaguars! posted:Full size: When was it published? The woman looks like a walking early nineties stereotype. e: should have scrolled down. Phlegmish has a new favorite as of 08:06 on Dec 16, 2016 |
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Dec 16, 2016 08:04
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Krispy Kareem posted:People must have snagged those walkie talkie antennas on everything.
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Dec 16, 2016 08:27
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Pastry of the Year posted:The people in Jaguars' surveying pamphlet had that look of "poorly composited in," which reminded me of that infamous masterpiece of Chinese bureaucratic publicity: Proclick. The photoshops but also the comments. quote:upon clicking and seeing the photo, I spit out half a liter of blood!
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Dec 18, 2016 03:02
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Saw my first commercial for Cracker Barrell over the weekend. There are no Cracker Barrells in this state. The channel wasn't even a standard channel for most hotel cable packages, so you can't even argue it's for the tourists when they head back home. I even had to go out of my way to find the nearest one, because the radius for the locator on their website doesn't stretch far enough.
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Dec 19, 2016 19:30
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dirksteadfast posted:Saw my first commercial for Cracker Barrell over the weekend. There are no Cracker Barrells in this state. The channel wasn't even a standard channel for most hotel cable packages, so you can't even argue it's for the tourists when they head back home. I even had to go out of my way to find the nearest one, because the radius for the locator on their website doesn't stretch far enough. Do people in your state travel on interstate highways? Cracker Barrels are all over that poo poo. Maybe they just occasionally advertise outside their region so when you're driving through Indiana or some poo poo and see a Cracker Barrel billboard you know what it is.
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I uh, just heard the weirdest ad on pandora. *sexy seductive woman* ooh Santa, let me see that big package you have for me... *sexy...santa?* not this time...this one is for your husband! *woman* what? *sexy santa proceeds to talk about xl sized pants* What did I just listen to?!
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Dec 21, 2016 12:42
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Choco1980 posted:I uh, just heard the weirdest ad on pandora. She's clearly into fat dudes; that game was Santa's to lose.
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Dec 21, 2016 12:47
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I was more surprised by the fact that they used Santa's bisexual dong to sell pants
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Choco1980 posted:I uh, just heard the weirdest ad on pandora. I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets that weird ad on pandora. As far as I can tell, someone at the ad office just thought up the bait-and-switch on 'sexy santa' and then just figured that'd carry the ad, despite it having nothing at all to do with the product advertised 
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Dec 21, 2016 16:29
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I've heard it on Spotify too, so it's making the rounds. Of course, Spotify was also the place that I saw an ad for Cyber Monday proclaiming "Let's Cyber!"
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idk seems to me that 'weird' and 'sexy' are more in the brilliant category than dumb when it comes to advertisements- sounds like a quick, inexpensive spot that's stuck with a lot of you- y'all remember that its for pants, for instance
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Blue Moonlight posted:Of course, Spotify was also the place that I saw an ad for Cyber Monday proclaiming "Let's Cyber!" To be fair, nobody has used cyber to mean that in like 10 years.
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Peanut Butler posted:idk seems to me that 'weird' and 'sexy' are more in the brilliant category than dumb when it comes to advertisements- sounds like a quick, inexpensive spot that's stuck with a lot of you- y'all remember that its for pants, for instance Took an intro to advertising design class in college. Day one the teacher outlined that it was an insta-fail if you used sex or puns in any of your projects because that was the easy way out. Of course, the real world doesn't have to adhere to that restriction, but yeah sex is just the laziest way imaginable to sell something.
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Boogaloo Shrimp posted:Took an intro to advertising design class in college. Day one the teacher outlined that it was an insta-fail if you used sex or puns in any of your projects because that was the easy way out. Of course, the real world doesn't have to adhere to that restriction, but yeah sex is just the laziest way imaginable to sell something. I remember reading a study that proved that sex gets attention but is a terrible way to sell things. People seeing an advert with a sexy woman will remember the woman pretty well but tend to forget everything else.
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