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Sir Lemming posted:I guess there'll be lots of arguments over whether it's truly "dumb" to piss people off, but it's definitely gonna piss a lot of people off. In the UK? I can see this pissing off maybe half a dozen religious nutjobs and resulting in one letter to the Daily Mail.
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Len posted:Wait it isn't pronounced semens? I might be  but no, it's [ˈziːmɛns] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr0UmYogYJo. Spotify ad went for English pronunciation, which indeed made it semen
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I think most Americans, anyway, are either unaware of or disregard the German pronunciation. I've never heard it as anything other than "semens," and I'm an old. eta: I just found a Siemens commercial on YouTube, and if it's meant to start with a Z-sound, it's really unclear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9kXYPrSksY&t=61s Hirayuki has a new favorite as of 17:38 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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canis minor posted:I might be No you didn't miss I'm from the mid-west USA and I've never heard it anything but semens
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That company is ubiquitous in America to the point of being a house hold name and I’ve literally never heard anyone pronounce it any way other than semens
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I'm American and never heard of siemens
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm American and never heard of siemens Man, sex ed in this country is abysmal.
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm American and never heard of siemens who do you think crew all the ships, smart guy?
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm American and never heard of siemens 
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Put that sick filth behind a link before some impressionable youth is psychologically warped by giant siemen-covered balls 
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm American and never heard of siemens Yes, however: you're dumb
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Speaking of Siemens: https://www.local10.com/news/florida/florida-church-changes-sign-after-message-misinterpreted-as-sexual quote:EDGEWATER, Fla. - A church in Edgewater is changing its sign after a message about forgiveness was misinterpreted by many in the community as a sexual innuendo. 
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I dunno if this is dumb, but it sure made me groan. https://twitter.com/ElderScrolls/status/926898128585883653
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Phanatic posted:Speaking of Siemens: As always, the comments are heartwarming & fun Sean Bishop posted:I am so tired of everything these days being run past some juvenile bathroom humor filter that panders to the lowest common denominator. Our society is regressing and will not survive all this immaturity. Time for the grown-ups to stop pandering to the big babies who can see some dirty meaning in everything. They should leave the sign as it is and tell anyone who doesn't like it to grow up and get their head out of the gutter. That is the reasonable solution rather than reaffirming their juvenile nonsense. Richard Clark posted:If your first thought reading this was something sexual you should look at your heart. Keith Diggs posted:What an ABYSMALLY STUPID SIGN from a false church that got it's doctrine not from the Apostles but from man. They do neither this, Acts 2:38 nor this , Acts 2:4 and therefore do not have this, John 3:1-8 and would not be recognized as "Christians" by any of the Apostles, which ONLY baptized in Jesus' name and ONLY considered someone to be Christian after they were "converted" (Luke 22:32) by the reception of the Holy Ghost like this, Acts 2:4. Jim Dee posted:Many are saying that it is the person who reads the sign that is making it dirty. Unfortunately, we live in very perverse age and sexuality is not something that is kept behind closed doors anymore. I was exposed to perversion at an early age by kids older than me, that's just the way it goes if you're raised in the public school system. We as Christians should understand the perverse ways of our society and not publicize anything that could be taken the wrong way. Not saying walk on eggshells, just that this was blatant. Somebody in the church should have known how it would have been interpreted. Tim Chastain posted:Absurd story. Gutter minds. Tim Chastain posted:Absurd non story. Anyone who misinterpreted that sign is wacko. Abu Nudnik posted:They should not have changed the sign. It was the readers who are perverse. "Get your mind out of the gutter and up to God" should have been their response. I'm not sure what other way there is to take it?
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Ziv Zulander posted:I'm not sure what other way there is to take it? That being said, I giggled the moment I read the sign, too
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Ziv Zulander posted:I'm not sure what other way there is to take it? I believe the idea is be so mad at someone that you'd want to spit in their face, but then swallowing your saliva instead.
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Waffleman_ posted:I dunno if this is dumb, but it sure made me groan. This just makes me imagine Skyrim: Blood Dragon.
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To be fair to the Skyrim thing, it and Thor's main characters are both Nordic warriors who shoot magic (Thor uses his hammer but the comparison stands), Skyrim dude may be able to do lightning too I don't know. I can see the connection. Also lol at "they got their texts from man, not the apostles" - what do they think the apostles were? The whole point was they were human men that Jesus happened to favour.
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Ziv Zulander posted:As always, the comments are heartwarming & fun Gosh, nobody show these pearl clutchers ancient Roman graffiti.
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Depressio111117 posted:Gosh, nobody show these pearl clutchers ancient Roman graffiti.
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Andorra posted:I don't know about you, but I tend to have terrible food and drink in my mouth more often than cum that's sad for two reasons
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Why are you eating so much bad food
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Why are you swallowing so little cum
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thanks for explaining that guy's post people, keep it up
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My question is genuine.
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WebDog posted:Didn't the Victorians keep all of the "obscene" stuff from Pompeii in closed rooms for private views where giggling was prohibited? In general Victorians suppressed anything remotely sexual in nature concerning the ancient cultures they were In Pompeii a specific mural was kept from public view for years because it depicts Priapus holding up his massive penis on one end of a scale he’s holding up.
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Cool, I just learned the etymology of "priapism."
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Trig Discipline posted:that's sad for two reasons Milk expires faster than I can find a man, don't judge me
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They keep showing a Cosentyx pharmaceutical commercial on a channel we monitor at work and it's really got some questionable choices. Like it's a little hipper than most drug ads with lots of quick takes, but there's a lady who doing yoga who has a nice body but skeletor head and it's like she's get's older and older the longer the camera is on her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJNAqf9gn14 They show her from behind and she looks maybe 40 years old and then there's the face shot and it's like that Tales from the Crypt episode where the old man buys a young man's body parts one at a time. She's just waiting to replace the head last.
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Holy poo poo it's a 1 minute ad and then 4 minutes of side effects and warnings
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Do you feel bad that you want to gently caress an old lady or what
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Tired Moritz posted:Do you feel bad that you want to gently caress an old lady or what When you get older you find you want to gently caress older people. So a little maybe. The body's alright. But holy poo poo the face. I think the unnaturally dark hair is what's making it all weird.
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Mu Zeta posted:Holy poo poo it's a 1 minute ad and then 4 minutes of side effects and warnings That's not unique when it comes to drug commercials.
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Old people like to gently caress 
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Waffleman_ posted:That's not unique when it comes to drug commercials. Drug adverts just don't exist the in the UK at all, so it's always a hoot when i'm watching the NFL and I get to see people's  reaction to hearing the side effects reeled off in an advert for the first time.Worst one was an actual advert for a chemo drug, which was basically "DYING OF CANCER? CLING ONTO LIFE FOR A FEW MORE AGONISING DAYS WITH OUR NEW DRUG"
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The best part is when they tell you to see their print ad in some old person magazine because those usually take up both sides of the page, with the back being nothing but side effects and warnings.
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MikeCrotch posted:Worst one was an actual advert for a chemo drug, which was basically "DYING OF CANCER? CLING ONTO LIFE FOR A FEW MORE AGONISING DAYS WITH OUR NEW DRUG" That's pretty much all of end of life care in the US, also it usually costs at least 5 figures for those couple of days.
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Waffleman_ posted:That's not unique when it comes to drug commercials. When i see drugs ads it's 30 seconds of vague nonsense about how this drug will help you be free and then in the last 10 seconds the guy rattles off the side effects in super rapid speech. Never seen an ad that just goes on and on for 4 additional minutes about the warnings.
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Iron Crowned posted:That's pretty much all of end of life care in the US, also it usually costs at least 5 figures for those couple of days. Those are depressing commercials. They're not even trying to cure you, just give you a few extra months to be surprised by your grandson home from backpacking in Europe while everyone is inexplicably having a picnic in a field with a big table and table cloth, which sounds like a terrible thing to hike to if you have terminal small cell lung cancer. Drug ads are so weird if you try to deconstruct them. Like that Cosentyx ad has the Asian guy who apparently brought a friend of his and the guy's kid to an arcade to watch him play pinball. And it's not even a cool Elvira, KISS, or Terminator II pinball machine.
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My favorites are the drugs for relatively benign conditions that also have horrific, life-altering side effects. Like Accutane, an oral acne medication:quote:* depressed mood, trouble concentrating, sleep problems, crying spells, aggression or agitation, changes in behavior, hallucinations, thoughts of suicide or hurting yourself; I'll keep the loving pimples, thanks. 
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