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Snatch Duster posted:Since Apple fired their ad agency a little while back and brought advertising in house, their sales have been flat lining across all products. 
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Jastiger posted:You can literally say this about ANY commercial listed here. "You aren't the target audience". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEa9fL9nS0 I can more or less guarantee you that anyone watching the Seahawks wipe the floor with the Eages is pretty much not the target audience for this, either.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:So you had people saying that all of the missiles were going to launch or all the power plants would simultaneously explode and crap. It didn't help that the major stations with off-air broadcast power pretty much all did their own made-for-TV movie takes on Y2K catastrophes, and had to preface them all with "THIS COULD ONLY POTENTIALLY HAPPEN" I remember one on NBC about a nuclear power plant in bumfuck, nowhere that was gonna irradiate the entire United States because its central computer failed and the hero had to sacrifice himself(?) to get it back on manual control and keep it from melting down. Fur20 has a new favorite as of 06:15 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The Starbucks near my office corrects me every single time. Without fail, every time I order a small black coffee they ask "You mean Tall?" or when I order a large, "You mean Venti, right?" The few times I've been to a Starbucks, I've always gotten the "Venti" correction. Once, I even got "what size?" "Large." "Venti?" "Yeah, that." "So which size, again?" "LARGE." "We don't have large." Seriously dude at the counter, I'm not gonna fuckin' say it. Hate that Starbucks fake vernacular culture.
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amityville anus posted:"I like my coffee how I like my women: young, black, dumb, and pumped full of cum" The cum will take about two minutes extra, will that be okay sir?
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mind the walrus posted:I used to work in a Starbucks. I never once heard anyone correct anyone over referring to a Venti as a Large because no one gave a flying gently caress and everyone understood what they meant. I'm envious that you've never worked with or encountered jackasses or zealots even once in your entire life.
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Henchman of Santa posted:McDonald's does have really nice bathrooms. I dunno what McDonalds you've been eating at, but every one I've been to, you're lucky if a homeless hasn't pissed/vomited on the hand dryers.
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Apr 15, 2015 00:41
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Pitch posted:He could easily have been around 10 years old when Friends went off the air. Yeah, Friends was still in the middle of (late on?) in its run when I was thirteen, and that's probably the lower end as far as "you're old enough to enjoy Friends." One of my buddies at school watched it, nobody else did, so it just wasn't on my radar. The next year, my folks shipped me to boarding school and the seniors didn't watch it, so I never developed nostalgia for it and it ended up being just another 90s sitcom to me  I don't think having an indifferent attitude towards it is edgy at all.
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That's... actually pretty great, and a fun joke for the right kind of person. It kinda makes me wanna go to Denny's if I knew they weren't racist and wouldn't make me wait an hour and a half.
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Birb Katter posted:The pie to rule them all has neither a top crust or a bottom crust. The shepherds pie rules. I'm a little apathetic towards Shepherd's Pie, but that's just because I'm not really a potatoes kinda guy. I love quiche and meat pies, but I rarely eat 'em because they're packed with calories, but are only a little more filling than dessert pies 
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Apr 19, 2015 23:29
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Super Waffle posted:It payed off with me, I loved those drat commercials and I'm pretty sure I was the only one. I did indeed eat more Quiznos You probably were. Even in the more forgotten corners of the internet, folks had no idea what the gently caress those rats were. Mainstream was not yet prepared for Flash sensation advertising, though I wouldn't have minded a Coke commercial that incorporated Hatten är Din. Quiznos was still good enough that I was willing to overlook the insinuation that their restaurants were infested with vermin
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Apr 23, 2015 08:12
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A White Guy posted:Midwestern Cuisine is really just anti-food porn material:  One of the most disgusting foods I ever ate was a jello with, like, relish in it.
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Phanatic posted:Smith & Wesson makes a line of handguns called the M&P. If you think that's bad... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beKVrPW0LLQ  also I keep reading that hashtag as Man DP
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Phanatic posted:Privatization does generally seem to be a good way to generate good television shows. Privatization also gave us ABC's insanely racist sitcom lineup. I'm not even sure how Black Attack and Those Kooky Gooks got greenlit, but privatized production has proven time and time again that bad ideas aren't the sole property of publicly-funded TV. Fur20 has a new favorite as of 20:09 on Jun 1, 2015 |
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Jun 1, 2015 20:07
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:Part of the problem is that most of the commercials about it that I've seen seem to play up the "come laugh at Asian stereotypes" angle, and if it weren't based on an autobiography there would have been a lot more outcry over it from that alone. I've only seen the commercials, but those gave me the impression that the show is 1950s racist. At no point did the ads ever give me the impression that it was gonna be anything other than the made-up title I called it.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:05
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Captainsalami posted:Gonna be honest, if they had a bounce sheet that infused my clothes with the scent of working with cedar or pine woods i'd buy it. Yeah, not gonna lie, that freshly-cut-wood shop scent is pretty nice.
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dirksteadfast posted:Looked into where the closest one was. There wasn't a Norm's on our island...or any of the Hawaiian islands. In fact the website seems to show there only being California locations. Any Hawaiian goons care to explain why this commercial exists? Is it specifically for the tourists from California to know where they can eat after their plane ride back home? Did you see any of our weird local Kia dealership commercials? They bought some beady-eyed rodent fursuits for their employees to bounce around in awkwardly for thirty seconds while they try to do a low-budget imitation of the already-creepy Kia commercials with the CGI hamsters.
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duckmaster posted:I mean Toyotas here have always been marketed as sensible family cars for sensible people. They're Hondas for people with mortgages. I dunno, I've always seen 'em as like Lexus on the inside for people who are smart enough not to pay for Lexus on the outside. They're light, spacious, and usually more reliable than Korean or American cars, and cheap enough that it's not a bad idea to go for that over the Audi. But then, a car is also just a car. Dr_Amazing posted:I'm not disagreeing with any of this but do people really pay that much attention to the different brands? I guess I'd care when I'm actually buying a car, but 99% of the time I couldn't tell you what make or model most people I know drive or which ones I should be more impressed with. Lucky, when I was growing up my dad was full Cop Mode "if you can't identify made and model and memorize the color at a glance then you're gonna get murdered." And he's not even a police. Now I'm hyperalert about that poo poo and it sucks. I still care very little for brand or model beyond "hey I want <these features> in a vehicle and I don't want it to say Kia on the back," but I can tell you that car isn't a Ford because it has stupid flaring on the sides and is therefore a Lincoln. duckmaster posted:a self-proclaimed internet prankster (whatever that is) You see them all the time in the schadenfreude thread, they're scrawny rich white kids who go up to poor people and then lick their faces or pretend to pull a gun. Then they get the poo poo beat out of them and post it on the internet. Fur20 has a new favorite as of 01:21 on Jun 21, 2015 |
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pentyne posted:The best cup of coffee I've ever had was at a coffee plantation in El Salvador. God drat, that guy who hired Enrique must feel pretty embarrassed to know you just own an entire plantation.
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Wanamingo posted:
Sliced pimentos on a classic 'Murican burger is the lunch I always wanted but never knew I did.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Don't diss the one magazine smart enough to make me man of the year, pal. When they said "this screaming idiot on youtube" was person of the year, they meant a different one
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Captainsalami posted:Holy gently caress you guys are grumpy over new things. Im almost 30 with fat fingers and i can touchscreen type fine. I don't have fat fingers, but I have big hands with wide fingertips. My touchscreen keeps thinking I'm putting down two fingers to zoom my screen
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Aug 22, 2015 22:43
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Trump Corporation does make the best ICE countermeasures. I wouldn't trust any other securityware to take out some lovely shadowrunners
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The insinuation is that you drink it until the mess of metal and wire looks hot.
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less than three posted:http://www.neowin.net/news/activision-criticized-after-fabricating-terrorist-attack-online-to-promote-call-of-duty Wells and Welles just high-fived in hell
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olive garden didn't realize that there's a regional english language in which boto is a filipino-derived slang for dick
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Oct 2, 2015 23:57
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Well yeah, it's a slang in a separate language that's only based on the original word, not the actual Filipino word itself 
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AlphaKretin posted:Wendy's is a fairly good ice-creamery here too. In 'Murica, Wendy's is synonymous with being served month-old rubberized hamburger shavings.
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I wouldn't buy them because I ain't much of a chips guy these days, but there's something... weirdly charming about these? I'd probably grin/grimace if I seen it in the supermarket.
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CommonShore posted:the 360 and the One You finally figured out why they called it the XBox One. Nothing is more prestigious than having people call your product, "THE ONE"  Of course, this backfired entirely. I myself call it the XBox Keanu Reeves.
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AlphaKretin posted:I just got a new iPhone and when I type, "come" auto-corrects to "Coke". Coke the gently caress on Man, El Chapo getting bold with his marketing decisions.
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, in a way that interferes with my use of the phone, is a loving dick move that achieves nothing but making me resent both companies. I know I'll still wind up buying their poo poo 
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Didn't DARE have some kind of weird opposite effect when it came to drug consumption?
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Whatev posted:That is loving pathetic. Someone had to write that script and someone had to direct this. Embarrassing. And then you have companies that haven't figured out the difference between copywriters and a mentally-challenged newphew, and that hiring one is considerably less expensive than the five figures you dropped for an ad slot during the local news. snergle posted:I once yelled at my grandma for "drinking" and driving. She was drinking a soda and I was like 6. She explained the difference to me. This garbage plant grows loving everywhere in Hawaii, including where we lived. I existed in a state of constant terror. Fur20 has a new favorite as of 04:22 on Nov 2, 2015 |
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AlphaKretin posted:There's an ad on the local radio for a new restaurant that's opening up, and it invited the audience to guess what new thing is opening, plays a distracting ticking noise while declaring the listener's probably non-existent guess wrong every second, then ends with a "hint" that it's a hot new restaurant in [town]. Such a shame I can't find it on YouTube, there's a new local commercial about some bar that opened up. Head-On style, they basically chant "It's a pub... that's a club! And a club... that's a pub!" for thirty seconds without actually saying the name of the establishment. Whoever designed the spot finally realized this at some point and at the end of the commercial, it cuts to an outdoor shot of the place. It's taken from across the street with no identifying landmarks, and the shot is so wide and the video quality so bad that you can't even tell what the sign above the door says. This lasts for all of one second before cutting to black.
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DrBouvenstein posted: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 went to a super-protestant high school, but the health teacher didn't give a gently caress. We got a good, regular education on STDs, how to strap your poo poo, and she cut out a lot of the abstinence education garbage and taught if not a sex-positive course, a very sex-neutral one and made sure to tell us that the ultraconservative Your One And OnlyTM works for some people but don't let them act like it's the only way to live your life. We got to meet her husband once, and after that the joke was that of course she'd teach such a chill curriculum, she married a ripped, seven-foot-tall Puerto Rican dude. For the drugs portion of the course, we got a lot of speakers delivering anti-alcohol or anti-meth messages, and one guy came in and talked about the dangers of steroids, but when we finished that segment and hadn't had a section on weed (because, like all good brainwashed teenagers attending a fairly Christian school, we found it weird that we didn't hear any propaganda against the Devil's Plant), we asked her why not, to which she said, "Yeah... well, what about it?" 
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BioEnchanted posted:There was a game shop that opened in England about 2 years ago called "Grainger Games". Let's just say their PR could have used a little work: quote:The awards were given out by the dwarves. Speeches were uncharacteristically short 
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Aren't those mostly just oils and poo poo with a little bit of nicotine in? When people talk about their homebrew vape cartridges, they certainly don't include antifreeze in the recipe.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Along the lines of Taco Bell and Denny's blatantly targeting stoners and drunks, Pedialyte is now advertising to adults as a hangover cure. e: Ohhh, it's one of those late-night deals. Doesn't really match my schedule these days. We woulda loved that poo poo in college though
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Mu Zeta posted:If you're too young to remember this game, don't worry Kemco's rereleasing it for the Game Boy Advance. iirc the real troll by the game developers here is that the GBA rerelease didn't use the ubiquitous cover art at all and just went with a boring silver ship shooting at a space monster.
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Yeah Bro posted:I can't wait to see the next fresh meme that the "My compsci degree qualifies me to see through marketing bullshit" thread comes up with. As far as I'm concerned, you can't see through the bullshit and it'll get to you somehow unless you shut it out entirely. Block your ads and mute your commercials, it's the only way to be certain 'cause you just know there's a whole subset of advertising folks who think about how to circumvent this all day. Hell, look at aggro-gator's ads.
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