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stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Dont worry tumblr will throw a huge shitfit and force them to change and make a public apology

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stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Tiggum posted:

On the other hand, I will never buy Cottonelle toilet paper specifically because of the dog on the ads/packs. I just find the association of a cute puppy with toilet paper subtly disgusting.

What about angel soft, they have babies on the packaging :madmax:

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Some places are cool, if you go inside to pay cash for gas or get food or whatever and the cashier is cool enough they'll turn it on for free.

Also sometimes the machine fucks up and doesn't take cards the cashier will usually turn it on for free

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Dr_Amazing posted:

I got one of these as a gag gift once. There's no way you'd want to scrub your balls with it though. But the commercial is funny and I prefer funny commercials.

Its stiff as gently caress and unless you use a decent amount of force it doesn't lather for poo poo, lord knows I'm not putting that much force on my balls

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Croccers posted:

But what does Enrique do when he wants his coffee hit?

Give him the leftovers from your enema obviously :banjo:

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

People that are the Enriques of the low wage world in america are almost universally the nicest people and the hardest working, you'll know what I'm talking about if you live in a mexico border state and worked low wage jobs

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Walmart is switching some of it's 'Great value" branding to "Price first" and I cant help but think of "price first, quality second" especially because its at walmart...

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Yeah I don't see or care a difference in quality from the few price first things, its just silly to me

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

I normally don't like image macros/memes/whatever but I thought this was pretty funny

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

I read an article some time ago that explained that Nintendo was a huge pain in the rear end to work and develop stuff with, can someone link this?

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Thanks for the replies, but I actually found it!

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-secret-developers-wii-u-the-inside-story

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

What do "religious" schools/private schools do for DARE programs?

I can only imagine its like the homeschooled girls textbook that's in gbs...

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3740333&pagenumber=1&perpage=40

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

I just remember that our dare division that was ran by the sheriff had a really really cool tricked out bigass Hummer that a high up drug dude owned and the moral was your cool Hummer will be stolen from the police if you deal drugs

This was Arizona by the way, and it was a cool Hummer too though

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

I was reading a label of raw chicken that had something along the lines of "Proudly contains no hormones* because we care!"

*use of hormones in chicken is illegal

They're very proud to advertise they aren't breaking the law I guess!

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Lagomorphic posted:

Most people don't parse lyrics beyond just getting the jist of the chorus and ad people know this.

I saw an ad for some show about an adult bachelor and a young teenager being friends right after the superbowl (it wasn't 2015, it might have been 2014 or 2013) and the song they used was that one direction song "you don't know you're beautiful"

Now I don't know if theres some hidden deep lyrics in one direction songs but it for sure seemed like the wrong one to use

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Buy moist wipes you gross fucks

Or at least use them after you've used regular tp

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Wanamingo posted:

Moist wipes are really great but apparently the idea that they're flushable is a complete lie :(

Yeah there's an asterisk next to flushable that says to only flush one wipe at a time

How bad are they for your tank/system?

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

SA has had its share of Bad Ads too and took them quite a while to fix once iirc

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Can anyone tell me what's up with subliminal commercials? Some have a normal commercial then flash something related to the commercial.

The enzyme ones (the pill that claims/lies to make your dick bigger) are standalone and sometimes saw them once per break?

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Took these today







Now I don't know much about the backstory of this insanity of marketing, but I don't feel like "minion made! (made in china)" is a very good thing to put on something

From what I can gather from 30 seconds on rotten tomatoes these things are mindless who desperate look for a evil mastermind to serve, or in this case work for a typical chinese slave labor sweatshop

stringball has a new favorite as of 01:49 on Mar 27, 2016

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Bast Relief posted:

And even if you call bullshit on the premise, my guess is it probably does well with it's audience. [video type="youtube"]NQhHyHkCeBo[
/video]

I love the opening shot with the children's drawing on the wall while asking about something more natural for their family

Can someone tell me what actually is wrong with GMO/hormones/whatever?

I can understand the appeal of the whole "natural and organic for my precious family" but are any of these scary pest resistant or modified food bad even in a way that would even do the smallest bit of harm?

Pretty late edit: I read this article and everything became much clearer and I loving hate anti-GMO people about 1000% more now
http://www.slate.com/articles/healt...and_errors.html

stringball has a new favorite as of 12:32 on May 25, 2016

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Speaking of legal commercials or commercials with some form of disclosure: how the gently caress is someone going to reasonably read a giant wall of text that is almost certainly extremely blurry and they don't stick on screen for more than a few seconds at best?

I guess someone could pause it if they have the service but I've seen ones where it's nigh impossible to read even with it paused and your eyeballs as close to the screen as possible?

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Nobody posted it yet but here's the mystery box SA mart thread, still amazing reading it back

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3338464&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

e: im dumb

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

While I don't care for image macros at all this is still pretty funny and it seems they didn't remember the movie well at all

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Waffleman_ posted:

You wear your Beats by Dre everywhere?

How are they not broken by now?

Beats are literally a fashion to some people and buy them just to wear around to look cool

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Non Serviam posted:

Perhaps you should use the money wasted on idiotic boxes or the lottery in helping a charity.

And I'm classist for thinking spending your money on generating waste is a bad idea? Yeah, gently caress you.

Why didn't you spend your sa register+plat+ avatar on charity instead of using that money to argue with people that are clearly below you

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

ToxicSlurpee posted:

It was a terrible idea. I think a lot of it is really just Pizza Hut hitting its limit. Between economic woes, the company being old hat, and people going to cheaper alternatives due to being broke they're trying to get blood from a stone. They want to grow but like...how can they? They aren't new or exciting and there is only so much money people spend on pizza.

Didn't dominos change their name from "dominos pizza" to just dominos because they're trying to expand way more into things that aren't pizza?

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

These are the same people who think cars in wrapping paper are gifts people give to husband/wife for christmas are good ads

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Why the hell do you guys listen to the radio when you can get an FM transmitter for like 12 bucks that plugs into your phone if you don't have an auxiliary jack

Radio seems like it's 40℅ ads and some them are awful to listen to

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Dunno if anyone else feels the way I do with the fuckload of dumb emoji merchandise, I work at a Walmart and I've seen the following, all an emoji: piggy banks, beam bag chairs, plushies, cups, shirts, glasses, cereal bowls, birthday/other cards, jewelry, temporary tattoos

There's so much of it and its seriously plastered on anything with pretty much zero creativity involved

I really don't them, and Pepsi in particular makes me sad because instead of doing cool stuff with the designs (dr pepper has cool artwork on some) of the bottles or do something along the share a coke/song, but nope let's just plaster emojis all over our bottles because that's what all the kids love now!!

I really want to know what went down in the conference room

"hmm kids and teens love these emojis, let's put them on our bottles to show we love emojis too!

stringball has a new favorite as of 09:42 on Aug 21, 2016

stringball
Mar 17, 2009



will it ever end?

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

I work for walmart and vendors do all the big elaborate displays and have high standards on how the product is shown

Partially the blame of the vendor, partially walmart

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Reminds me of some Boeing ads I saw on TV a few times, the only thing that I got out of them were montage of how great and cool Boeing is and all the great stuff they do over the years

That was literally the entire ad, nothing for recruitment or jobs or anything, just how great Boeing is.

It's not like people who are going that are going to buy a loving aircraft will be swayed to get a Boeing plane because of the ad, I seriously don't see the point of it at all

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Lady Demelza posted:

Because companies sell your information. About 10 years ago I signed up for a free trial and the employee forgot to change the default title from 'Mr' in the dropdown menu. Within a month, junk mail was arriving to Mr Lady Demelza, so it was pretty obvious that the company was making money from free trials by selling on data.

Except then another company started sending junk mail with a different - but common alternative - initial for my first name.



stringball
Mar 17, 2009

god I hate the poo poo that yahoo does when searching for literally any program, my 12 year old brother likes minecraft, happy wheels, roblox other popular youtube games and when searching for "miinecraft download" brings up some bullshit installer as the "first" link (it being something chopped with a gap on the top of the results), and of course him being 12 the first day he got his own laptop he ended up installing a bunch of garbage on it

I don't live there and I can't verify every one of his downloads and it's frustrating and dumb that yahoo allows that garbage

As for why he uses yahoo it was the default search engine and after setting it to google something sets it back to yahoo again :(

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

I Am Crake posted:

Something he installed, most likely.

I can't figure out how in 2016 microsoft still hasn't figured out a way to prevent tech-illiterate people to ruin their computer with two clicks. I mean, it really is shockingly easy how fast you can turn a brand new device into something completely infested with viruses.

The day he got the laptop he accidentally put all that crap on there and I had to go over and wipe the drat thing clean on the 2nd day

I put most of the stuff that wouldn't be on steam for him (he also downloaded a fake steam installer too!) and a couple days later gets some dumb sort of not a virus but annoying as poo poo stuff that comes bundled when you mash yes/I agree on installers

I can only await what poo poo I find when he starts (assuming he's not now) looking at porn

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Tiny Brontosaurus posted:

Take away his admin privileges

I'm not sure if taking it away would effect him doing anything school /homework related as I don't live there and giving it to my parents might work slightly better if I tell them never to run an exe file

stringball
Mar 17, 2009

I remember there was one SA ad hiring hiring for cam show girls and have no idea the male to female ratio here, and the very few ones who would consider doing that because of an ad here is probably pretty slim

It didn't last long, not sure how many months it even was

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stringball
Mar 17, 2009

Why do people loving care about gmo's so much? Is there any case ever where gmos ave even does something bad or are people afraid of "playing god with my food and injecting chemicals into it"?

I love this picture though

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