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First thing I thought of when I read this thread was the anti marijuana ad that aired during the Super Bowl shortly after 9/11 that implied that if you smoke pot you somehow support terrorists, but drat if I can find that fucker. I remember watching it, and was probably high at the time or maybe about to get high at halftime or even get high when I got home, and realizing for the first time that the fall of the twin towers was about to be exploited for right wing purposes. It was the most stupid god damned thing I'd ever watched and I recall being personally insulted by it. It was the first time I went "Uh oh. So much for unity". I think it aired the same year that U2 did their awesome halftime show too, which somehow made it even worse.
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Boogoose posted:Inappropriate music choices in ads is something that really annoys me. In the UK there was an advert for iPhones that had "Gigantic" by the Pixies playing. I don't see how watching a black man have sex with a white woman and feeling envious has much to do with phones to be honest with you, but I'm not in marketing. I think the O2 network used "Ante Up" by the M.O.P. to sell phone plans, because committing violent robbery is something I want associated with my mobile phone provider. I'd love to have a job where I match up the most superficial reading of a popular song with whatever pointless poo poo I'm trying to unload on the general public. The trickiest part would be keeping a straight face while saying the word "synergy". This bugs me too, especially with talk shows and poo poo. Conservative pundits co-opting The Pretenders' "Back to Ohio", Prince's "Sign O' the Times" and Rage Against the Machine's "Sleep Now in the Fire" really irk the poo poo out of me and I don't think they should be allowed to use that music. Someone else brought up politicians doing the same thing and missing the point of the song entirely but for some reason that makes me laugh. princecoo posted:Walmart crashed and burned in Germany because European nations are heavily unionised. Once Walmart realised they wouldn't be able to actively gently caress over employees in favour of profits, they gave up entirely. They'd rather abandon a nationwide launch of their brand than deal with unions. Can you source that for me?
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Does this count? The Olympic logo from the 2012 Olympics in Britain? http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00637/news-graphics-2007-_637249a.gif Has it been posted yet?
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