Ghost Leviathan posted:

And endorsing products in the ring!

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

I think Ridley Scott wanted to include that in Gladiator, but didn't because people wouldn't think it was realistic.

Red Oktober posted:

This is true! Maximus Decimus Meridius was supposed to endorse a particular maker (brand, seller? I'm not sure) of olive oil while in the arena.

Volmarias posted:

I remember Rome had the public announcements sponsored by some bread maker, that one sticks with me. "Roman bread for true Romans" or something.

Brawnfire posted:

Probably made a pretty pane from it though

Volmarias posted:

I remember Rome had the public announcements sponsored by some bread maker, that one sticks with me. "Roman bread for true Romans" or something.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

I'm so dense, I thought Little Green Bag was about a handbag accessory the narrator was particularly proud of.

Len posted:

A friend and I were talking about ads that just completely misuse music last night. I know the GE/Sixteen Tons, Tigger Movie/Semi Charmed Life, Hershey/Melt with you, and Coke/99 Red Balloons.

I'm sure there's a ton I don't know about, anyone have them handy?

Phanatic posted:

Isepic posted:

I always chuckled at Garnier Fructis using this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuWuoOX0yis

Phanatic posted:

https://twitter.com/mikjcal/status/1597164383075196928?s=20&t=zXCjQviNi-EDJ_nF0vIVmQ

AFewBricksShy posted:

Apparently the band got mad when people starting singing “shamPOO” instead of the “wooHOO” that’s in the song at live shows.

teen witch posted:

Who the Sam Hill is going to a transplants concert

teen witch posted:

WooHoo the Sam Hill is going to a transplants concert

BattleMaster posted:

Opinions on 1939 may vary

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I bet Walt called his friend Leni to see how she was handling it.

PharmerBoy posted:

I feel like an idiot, because I can not figure out what the intended meaning of that was. All I'm getting is the hosed up side of it.

What were they hoping that would be interpreted as?

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Apparently (via Twitter) the Tower of Terror is themed to a specific day in 1939.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Apparently (via Twitter) the Tower of Terror is themed to a specific day in 1939.

Thomamelas posted:

I'm guessing it's a reference to Disney's presence at the World's Fair that year. Supposedly it inspired the existence of Epcot.

spookykid posted:

https://twitter.com/DaveScheidt/status/1600910699412090883

Not only did they hire a former cop, they posted the worst possible thing from his interview ("HE BUILT SURVEILLANCE DEVICES WITH OUR PRODUCT! ISN'T THAT COOL?!"), and then they doubled down on it and started hiding comments/blocking anyone that basically said "Umm... what the gently caress?"

E: previously mentioned doubling-down:

https://twitter.com/javidotpro/status/1600921067513466880

quote:

Liz Upton, Raspberry Pi’s cofounder and chief marketing officer, told BuzzFeed she believes that much of the issue stems not from the hiring of the former police officer who admitted to using Raspberry Pis for covert surveillance, but instead from a picture the account posted to Mastodon a day earlier showing pigs in blankets. “We didn’t put a content warning on it, because we don’t put a content warning on meat,” Upton said. “There were quite a few people who tried to start dogpiling on that.”

She also claimed that part of the vitriolic response could be because Raspberry Pi is struggling with supply chain difficulties at present, and people “were already cross.”

“I think what we’re looking at is a dogpile that’s being organized somewhere,” Upton said. “There’s obviously a Discord or a forum somewhere.” She did not provide evidence to support that claim. “I don’t think this is organic, but it’s very unpleasant, and extraordinarily unpleasant for the people involved,” she said. Upton claimed both Roberts and Raspberry Pi’s social media manager have been doxxed and received death threats...

Raspberry Pi’s Upton objected to the use of that term: “‘Private surveillance’ is a little bit of a dog-whistly way to talk about what [Roberts] has been doing.” When BuzzFeed News pointed out that the blog post the company published indicates that Roberts engaged in such activities, Upton replied, “He was a surveillance officer, yes. He was doing that as part of his job where he was catching people who were doing really, really bad stuff.”

She added, “I don’t think any of the people complaining here would not call the police if their house was burgled.” When BuzzFeed News pointed out that police don’t surveil burglars, Upton agreed that’s true.

...

Upton said she believes much of the negative reaction to Roberts’s hiring is not genuine. “Toby was in the police force for 30 years in the UK,” she said. “He’s a decorated officer. He worked on organized crime, on getting drugs out of schools. He’s not a bad person, and this is not the United States. I think there are people out there intent on perpetuating a culture war on Mastodon. And I’m not sure their motives are necessarily benign.”

Upton prevaricated as to why Spencer had been blocked by Raspberry Pi’s official account on Mastodon. Confronted with the messages and the account’s response, she said it was likely Spencer had been banned for “concern trolling” because he wrote, “You've basically written this guy specialises in surveillance and now he works with our computers, yay!”

Later in the interview, Upton said that the social media manager had possibly received death threats around the time Spencer replied to her post and could have been shaken up. “If she has made an error and blocked somebody who should not have been blocked, people should give her the benefit of the doubt given what had just happened to her,” Upton said.

When asked whether Raspberry Pi had managed the situation well as an organization, Upton responded, “I think come next week we will be talking about something else.” She also said as a Chinese woman she has long had bad experiences on the internet. “Your characteristics aren’t necessarily visible, but Toby is a former policeman. That is how he identifies. It’s what he is.” When asked if she was trying to equate being a police officer to being a Chinese woman, Upton replied, “No, no, no, no, absolutely not. But I am saying people will grab onto things to jump on.”

Phanatic posted:

They can't even blame this on a rogue social media manager. The tone-deafness goes right to the top:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy

1. This isn't organic and spontaneous, it's an organized conspiracy.
2. Frumious claims of death threats.
3. People really don't care about this all that much.

Yep, great response.

SulfurMonoxideCute posted:

Forming your entire personality and identity around your old job is so weird.

Ooh look at me, I'm former cashier SMC.

Silver Falcon posted:

People don't make it any easier not to. So much of your identify is centered around your job. I was unemployed for a long stretch of time and it just felt awkward any time I would meet someone and they'd ask me "What do you do?" Which was pretty much any time I met someone! Kinda sucked.

the holy poopacy posted:

also 4. Actually it's just people in a tizzy because they were triggered by a picture of meat

Which is the sort of dogwhistle used by people who think that hiring cops with a history of shady surveillance poo poo is a feature, not a bug.