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AlbieQuirky posted:It's a terrible thing, but it's weird that the commercial undermined the marketing premise that had been in play for several years, which was "Parents, buy this elf doll and book and have a game with your kids where you pretend it's real." I'm pretty sure the premise is actually for a bunch of stay-at-home moms with nothing better to do to post on Facebook about the "cute, clever, and totally original" places they hide their Elf, so that other do-nothing stay-at-home moms can comment on what a cute, clever, and totally original job they did at hiding their Elf.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Not gonna lie, I was thinking pyramid scheme, like Amway. I assumed it was some marketing or consulting agency.
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Murderion posted:Back to twitter fuckups, energy firm British Gas decided to host an AMA on the same day it announced a 10% price hike in time for the start of winter. The British public laid down some sick burns in an effort to keep warm. Speaking of dumb Twitter mistakes:   
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C.M. Kruger posted:EA tried to promote Bulletstorm by sending reviewers packages full of raw meat. Reminds of Sony(?) promoting God of War(?) by planning to sacrifice a goat.
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pentyne posted:The Monopoly disaster where it turned out that since starting the annual contest all the winning pieces were stolen and funneled to family and friends by the guy in charge of distributing them. Wait a minute...a higher-up guy at the marketing company in charge of doing the Monopoly game admitted to performing fraud, and yet somehow McD's had to PAY them?! I't says "breach of contract," so I'm guessing McD's just cut off all ties with them, with broke the contract, but you'd think someone at the marketing company committing fraud and, essentially, stealing money from McD's would be a valid reason to break the contract. And again, I know very little about this sort of thing, but shouldn't whoever was underwriting these promotions/contests have noticed this?
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My girlfriend reminded me of this horrendously stupid Levi's ad campaign: http://www.businessinsider.com/levis-love-your-body-campaign-only-applies-to-skinny-girls-2012-2?op=1     quote:Even though the ad features plus-sized models Sabina Carlson, Marquita Pring, McKenzie, and Ashley Graham — whose sizes range from US 12 to US 16 and hips range from 44” to 47” — the ad says they are all size 32.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The perfect accompaniment for this alcohol-flavored candy! Jelly Belly has tons of alcohol flavors. Pina Colada, Margarita, Strawberry Daiquiri, Mojito, etc... They used to have one called Champagne Punch that was my all-time favorite as a kid, but they stopped making it for some reason. Edit: I'm aware there's a plain-old "champagne" flavor, but the old champagne punch flavor was better. Though I'm sure one can make a reasonable facsimile from a champagne and a tutti-frutti, or something. DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 16:33 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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LumpyGumby posted:Its always funny to see when people come in asking for the little roses that come in tiny glass pipes though. Even funnier when "No, the wooden ones won't work, they have to be the ones in the glass." http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-secret-criminal-uses-stuff-they-sell-in-gas-stations/ quote:Have you ever wondered what kind of awful husband buys his wife one of those cheesy fake roses in a glass tube? They're such lame gifts, but you see them everywhere. If stores keep stocking them, someone must be buying them, right? What kind of relationship transgression can be fixed with a $1 gas station purchase? Failure to DVR the right television show usually requires more apology effort than that. This one isn't even trying to hide it: 
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The thing about ice cream is that size only partially matters. In the US, ice cream can legally have 100% overrun, meaning that literally half the volume in a container can be air. The cheaper the ice cream, the more likely they will get to this 100% mark. You certainly want SOME overrun, otherwise you'd always have super hard ice cream (that's also why ice cream that's melted and refrozen is rock hard, all the microscopic air bubbles throughout the ice cream are gone,) but good companies don't go as high as 100%. Now whether or not it's better than you get more volume or more weight for your money is a personal choice...more volume can feel like you actually get more, since the average person doesn't weigh their portions, they just go buy what looks like the amount they want. But just be aware the price per pound might not be as good as a "dense" ice cream. Ideally, all we'd have to do is look at unit price, but there's not a lot of consistency there...one store might show unit price in pounds or ounces, in which case great. But another store might show it in quarts, and a third might mix and match.
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Tiggum posted:At large Australian supermarkets, the labels on the shelf give the price for the item and for a fixed quantity, so if one brand is selling 200g of cream cheese for $4.10 and another brand is selling 250g for $5.30 it will also tell you that the first one is $2.05/100g and the second is $2.12/100g so you can see at a glance which is cheaper, no maths needed. It's not required for every shop to do it, but it's really handy at the ones that do. They have to do this in the US too, but as I said previously, it's not always the same consistent UNIT. For some things, like milk, it'll always be the same. If you go to a store, all the milk will give the price for the gallon/quart/whatever of milk, and next to it, it will show the unit price (probably in dollars per quart,) so you can compare all the milk prices. But some things have the potential to be listed in different units, like my ice cream example. I don't know if it's up to the store or the manufacturer, but you can easily have one brand of ice cream show the unit price in dollars/quart, but then another brand will be in dollars/pound. Produce can also be annoying. Most bulk produce will already be in dollars/pound, but sometimes it might be dollars/each. Like, say, all cucumbers of this type of $1 each. But the other kind of cucumber next to it is $1/pound, so now you've got to weight the $1/each cucumbers to see if they average over a pound each and are the better deal if you're that serious about savings. Things like bags of apples and oranges are big offenders here. The bags will just say "$5 each!" and the unit price will also show it as $5/unit, so it's hard to compare to the bulk apples that are priced at, like, $1.50/pound without checking the weight on the bag itself doing the math. DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 17:03 on Feb 13, 2015 |
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Oh man, I was hoping it was going to be the NCIS "two people/one keyboard" hacking scene. 
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Lap-Lem posted:And every single town off the freeways will have at least one mom and pop greasy spoon diner, that will make you contemplate on existence as you ponder how they managed to make toast in bacon grease. They won't even ask you if you want coffee, because you want coffee. My last job involved a LOT of travel to small towns in northern NY and New England, and most of these "mom and pop" places have the worst God damned food...I'd usually rather go to a loving Applebee's or Chili's if there was one (often there wasn't, because these are seriously tiny towns.) Bland and muishy is the name of the game, which is why it makes sense that most of their clientele are senior citizens who can gum down the food and not have it upset their digestion. I'm not saying that I need some gourmet, artisinal burger that costs $35, but I'd also rather it not be literally the exact same un-salted, un-seasoned Sysco-brand frozen patty I was served in my high school cafeteria...with the exact same disgusting, soggy*, crinkle-cut fries, to boot. *Soggy except for that one fry that is so overcooked it's basically a fry-shaped rock.
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What? That's stupid, everyone knows Orcas live on the moon.
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:As far as I know, it's only in the US where they use HFCS more than cane sugar, because the American corn lobby is so strong. Both that and higher sugar tariffs in the US.  The largest difference is from the 80's - late 90's, which I believe is when most producers switched to using mostly HFCS over cane sugar. But yeah, I am still baffled why Coke never released their version of "Coke Throwback" with all cane sugar like Pepsi did. Especially since they already have bottling plants that MAKE all cane sugar Coke.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Not quite marketing, but who the hell picks out the horrible Muzak + "thank you for holding, we appreciate your patience!" messages I've been listening to for 15 minutes now (and this is for a .gov line)? While I'm sitting here with the phone stuck to my head, it occurs to me that ClearChannel (or any paying ASCAP entity) could make a mint piping some quasi-popular songs, plus advertising, versus this endless loop of off-brand Kenny G . For my job, I have to frequently call Dell tech support. They have ONE single song that loops, it lasts all of one minute before restarting, and it's some terrible Kenny-G-lite muzak. And of course it's piped through the phone lines that don't have the bandwidth for music so it frequently has parts that are cut off, garbled, etc...
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You know, I gotta say that the seafood industry convincing the public that lobster is FANCY, and rich people food that you pay a premium for, and not literal bottom-feeding, sea-cockroach, trash-food that the poor working class at one point refused to eat was a pretty damned GOOD move in marketing.
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pookel posted:I just assumed it was Leslie Nielsen. That might improve the movie. Yes, I too enjoy spooky skeletons.
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pienipple posted:Or buy truffle butter and put it on the steaks before cooking  Uhhh...gonna pass on that one, thanks
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Cakefool posted:Yup, this sounds like an example of very good marketing. When everyone thinks of the product category they think of your product, combined with a product category virtually no-one would have previously thought about. Actually, from the company's perspective, that's bad. They work had to trademark their names, and hate it if the generic/competitor's version is called theirs.
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Man, you people have hosed up sex ed. I guess I take it for granted that I went to school in God-less, liberal New England. I think it started in 6th grade, and that was just pretty basic stuff that everyone knew by then. Man has a weiner, girl's got a clam, smoosh 'em together, out pops a little man. But then in 7-10th grade is when we had more serious stuff. Basically the same class, but taken, like, 3 loving times between junior high and high school. We learned about STDs, proper condom usage, other BC methods like pills, diaphragms, sponges, vasectomies, etc...Even had units on breast, cervical, and testicular cancer. Lots of giggling and jokes when it came to fondling the fake silicone breasts and balls. The only part I remember being sort of "anti-sex" was in one of the classes, one day some pregnant/just given birth teens who I imagine were fulfilling some sort of community service thing came in and were like "yeah, don't get knocked up as a teenager."
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muscles like this? posted:When I was a kid (in the 80s) I remember two different kinds of candy cigarettes. There were ones that were just candy sticks that were kind of colored like cigarettes and ones that were gum in paper wrappers made up to look like cigarettes. They were the ones with the sugar dust in them that you could blow out. Then once all the "smoke" was gone, you'd try to unwrap the gum, realize half the paper won't come off, and resign yourself to chewing the paper, too.
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Plus, that was back when Billy West and JK Simmons were the voices of the M&M's, so that's something, I guess?
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Platystemon posted:Chewie was snubbed again! I'm sure there's a joke about how Japan* loves robots and the droid being front and center. *Or China? I'm pretty sure it's not Korean, beyond that, I can't tell.
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AgentF posted:What happens if you put your dick into this thing? At best you have cold panels with hard edges. At worst you're sticking it into machinery. You end up with this guy writing disparaging books about you: 
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Everything about this marketing video for Frontier Airlines new seats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL2QOhKnW54
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Clockwork Sputnik posted:Remember "Got ________?" Hungry for apples?
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Wait...the "drop mic" feature didn't ACTUALLY send the recipient a gif of a Minion dropping a mic and then set things to "mute" without confirmation/a way to undo, right? It just made it look like it did from the sender's POV, right? Right? Google couldn't possibly be so stupid as to think actually having that appear in emails and auto-mute them was a good idea, right?
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dsriggs posted:Ooh, that wacky Joker! Whatever will he get up to next?? Hopefully learning how to spell "haha" correctly. It was spelled the same way on the Robin suit in BvS:  There's no trailing 'H', God-dammit! 
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I Am Crake posted:It says “HAHAHA”. You can see the third A above the S in “JOKE'S” 
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Yvonmukluk posted:What's wrong with a name like Mr. Spaghetti? Nothing, IMO. Mr.Shpaghetti is a great name for a dog. Fun, whimsical, and the "Mr" on the front adds a nice air of fake-formality to nicely juxtapose to the silliness of the spaghetti. And if you read the link below you can see the origin of the name does have (very loose) ties to the MBTA. The police department were just being a bunch of unfunny pricks, though, and clearly wanted a "cool" name. I think they went with Hunter? http://www.metro.us/boston/mbta-police-announce-name-for-new-k-9-recruit-after-asking-twitter-for-help/zsJpdg---4WBKiHw77eis/ Yvonmukluk posted:What's wrong with Boaty McBoatface? Boaty McBoatface, on the other hand, is a poo poo name. It's the epitome of lazy ,"money cheese lol" style humor, and a bad example at that. Using the previous example, that would be like calling the dog Doggy McDogface. It's dumb, there's no sincerity, no heart. Hell, even something like Boaty McScience, or Science McBoatface would be better, since it's a scientific research vessel. Make it somehow appropriate? Like...any drat boat could be Boaty McBoatface, so why this one?
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Does someone have a link to that SA-Mart thread where a goon literally scammed a bunch of other goons into his fake Lootcrate-esque service? IIRC, he was literally sending out his trash in boxes at like $20-$25 a pop, "guaranteeing" that there was at least $30 or so worth of merch in them. He even showed pictures of his company's "office" that some other goon figured out was just a loving conference room in some university's student union. Hell, it might even have already been mentioned/linked to in this thread.
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I was getting (and enjoying) SkinnerBox for 9 years, but then suddenly we all discovered it was a FAKE SkinnerBox and the real SkinnerBox showed up instead. We weren't even all the way through our first box before we discovered the new/real SkinnerBox was terrible, so we complained until we got the Fake SkinnerBOx box. Then we all just pretended like it never happened.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I always wondered who was buying these Joe Biden? Atmus posted:I had some Sara Lee bread last 6-8 months without mold. I didn't have the nerve to see if it still tasted good, but the ducks didn't mind. I didn't stick around to see if they died or mutated or whatever though. You shouldn't feed ducks bread.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Every second of every flight you are breathing in dozens of people's recycled farts. Enjoy your flight! Seats ain't non too clean, either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GWXinarYic That's a bus, but I imagine the same principle applies.
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Bad timing on this sort-of-PSA/self-promotion ad that ran in my local paper:
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Iron Crowned posted:For home use, just stick with a B&W laser. If you really need color just go to Seriously, how often does the home user (excluding someone with a home office type deal) need to print in color? I'm lucky in that I am allowed "limited and responsible" (according to the employee handbook) personal printing at work, and even with that freedom, I print something at work in color maybe once every other month? It'd only cost me my time and like $10 a year total if I had to go to a printing place/FedEx.
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canis minor posted:https://jalopnik.com/dealership-makes-woman-sitting-right-in-front-of-them-c-1826232532 
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Tunicate posted:And putting the 99 cents on the can itself so resellers need serious balls to mark it higher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMUZ2sVjLfY
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Maxwell Lord posted:A lot of the above is also part of why America gave prohibition a shot- we as a nation really did have a problem with alcohol because it was so economical to produce. I've read/seen stats about pre-prohibition drinking in America and it really was off the charts bananas: quote:By 1830, alcohol consumption reached its peak at a truly outlandish 7 gallons of ethanol a year per capita. Via Okrent: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/08/the-1800s-when-americans-drank-whiskey-like-it-was.html
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