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Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Chrpno posted:

Is that David Mitchell?

It always is.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2014 18:38

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# ¿ May 1, 2024 13:48

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

kith_groupie posted:

They need to address that, not act like it's something your ethnic grandmother made.

What is your dolmio day?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0rSuErqB5w

# ¿ Jan 3, 2015 13:12

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

pentyne posted:

McDonald's has some pretty hilarious marketing disasters. The Arch Deluxe is ranked as one of the biggest marketing flops ever, and as soon as it launched I remember seeing ads and going "what the gently caress are they trying to sell? adult taste? what does that even mean?"

Then you get McDonald's pizza, an offering that required you to place an order, wait 11 minutes for it to cook, at a place where people want to get food and go in 3 minutes or less.

There was the classic 1984 Olympics offer, where McD's had to hand out insane amounts of free food when the USSR didn't compete.

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.

Either the McD's marketing department had huge turnovers or the idea guys making the new products refused to listen to market research.

Then there was their infamous McAfrika burger: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/aug/24/famine.andrewosborn

# ¿ Jan 12, 2015 19:52

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

0toShifty posted:

OR, you can go to a drive-thru beer distributor where chilled cases of beer are loaded into your trunk. Wait you want WINE? Gotta go to the STATE STORE. It's just like DMV - it even smells the same. Full of government workers and outdated equipment. But they have the wine and liquor. What a strange state!

I grew up in a country where wine and hard liquor was only available in the state store. Of course the state store is actually kinda nice with a highly competent staff. It was also illegal until quite recently to buy liquor on election day.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2015 18:52

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Lamprey Cannon posted:

There really is a better solution to this problem.

Sorry, that reminds me too much of this: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3406045

# ¿ Jul 11, 2016 13:11

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Hardcordion posted:

If you're someone who likes little cheap crappy surprises that you'll probably end up throwing in a drawer or the trash, just buy a kinder egg. At least then you'll at least get some nice chocolate.

You can also make a small bomb out of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCRXlBD2oV8

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 12:38

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Karma Monkey posted:

What does "til folket" mean?

To the people.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2016 19:37

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Sereri posted:

Comedy option:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOpsnNf9Wj0

# ¿ Aug 30, 2016 06:25

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Andrast posted:

I really want those people to try eating natural wild bananas

Or wild almonds.

spog posted:

And I love whales.

You should, they're pretty tasty.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2016 16:48

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Improbable Lobster posted:

Just being a different colour would make a huge difference but bats are also very curious and will go and investigate wind turbines on their own.

Which shows that while curiosity may be the handmaiden of intelligence it doesn't work very well as its substitute.

# ¿ Oct 17, 2016 17:16

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

# ¿ Dec 27, 2016 16:05

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Glazier posted:

Am I missing something here?

Johhny Depp has been accused of beating up his wife.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2016 17:29

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

El Gallinero Gros posted:

I guess what I'm saying is licensing music can be a pain in the rear end, and the hip-hop songs they used in the ads were probably simply a matter of making a decent offer.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2017 20:54

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

RagnarokAngel posted:

Actually I believe youll find it infects you with the Islamic virus and converts you to Islam without your knowing.

A sikh who eats halal meat (or any meat killed in a ritualistic manner) is no longer regarded as a proper sikh, so it's a big deal for some.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 19:12

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

chitoryu12 posted:

Don't most religions with those restrictions also usually say that it doesn't count if it's against your knowledge or will?

Doesn't seem that way: https://translate.google.com/transl...t-text=&act=url

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 19:29

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Waffleman_ posted:

Yeah, and Catholics aren't supposed to eat red meat on Fridays, but we usually only follow that during Lent.

The catholics also once declared that the capybara was a fish so that they could eat it during lent.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2017 23:16

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Pigs will eat you if they get a chance.

Most animals will eat you given a chance :ssh:

# ¿ Jan 28, 2017 08:59

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Croccers posted:

Do what Australia does and just eat your national animals, duh.

So spiders and snakes?

# ¿ Jan 30, 2017 22:01

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

mandatory lesbian posted:

dang dude bread lasts me like 2 weeks, how many people live with you

Any bread that lasts for two weeks without moulding or going stale is not made by natural ingredients.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2017 14:34

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Solice Kirsk posted:

You just pull the fuzzy parts off the bread. #BachelorLife

After two weeks you pull the bread parts of the fuzz.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2017 16:04

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Unless you do something like, you know, put it in the refrigerator. Keeps a lot longer that way.

Your bread skills are terrible. Terrible.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2017 20:22

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Marvel asks comic store employees to dress as nazis: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/04/20/marvel-want-comic-store-staff-dress-like-hydra-secret-empire/

# ¿ Apr 23, 2017 10:40

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

jojoinnit posted:

No they just want them to wear these t-shirts:

Which is the symbol of a fictional nazi organisation.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2017 11:31

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Carl Killer Miller posted:

So uh isn't this whole project based around validating Islam?

Contrary to popular beliefs muslims doesn't crumble into a pile of dust if they are exposed to a pig, neither is it part of muslims beliefs.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2017 17:00

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Krispy Kareem posted:

Counterpoint, coating rifle cartridges with pig and beef fat did incite Indians to revolt against the British and resulted in the deaths of 100 thousand Indians.

Leave it to the British to find a way to unite Muslims and Hindus.

That's an oversimplification at best: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Indian_Rebellion_of_1857

# ¿ Apr 26, 2017 18:31

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

A poster for Marvel's new show:

# ¿ May 8, 2017 19:55

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

HAT FETISH posted:

Google turned up this

http://www.salguod.net/weblog/archive/2008/03/discount-tire.shtml

As a non-American,

As a non-American. meh. In my country stores are closed on sundays and all (christian) religious holidays, including good friday.

# ¿ May 21, 2017 10:31

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

purple death ray posted:

What about Big Pun

Big Pun beat his wife, so he was not good.

# ¿ Jun 18, 2017 09:12

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Corrode posted:

Everyone hates Russians though and the Chinese aren't exactly endearing themselves. The Japanese have the best reputation I think.

I work in a kindergarten and it's really annoying how japanese tourists treats groups of kids as tourist attractions it's okay to take pictures of.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2017 11:01

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Music magazine puts a singer who beat his girlfriend to death on their front cover:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/18/french-murderer-bertrand-cantat-magazine-cover-marie-trintignant

# ¿ Oct 19, 2017 15:50

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Krispy Wafer posted:

Well sure, how many guns can one person buy.

Surprisingly many.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2017 16:51

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

# ¿ Jan 8, 2018 20:15

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Krispy Wafer posted:

So calling Black people monkeys is an American thing? Because I�m pretty sure I�ve seen some old Belgium stuff that portrayed Africans as monkeys. Then again, that is Belgium.

Comparing black people to monkeys is sadly pretty common around the world.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2018 13:41

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

The_White_Crane posted:

Hey, do you know what helps stop people using them?
If they don't learn new slurs and stereotypes that they didn't previously know about by giant mass media frenzies that bring them to their attention!

I didn't say "people shouldn't stop using them, we should stop complaining when they do", I merely pointed out that pouring huge amounts of attention on them has the negative effect of spreading knowledge of them as well as the positive one of encouraging people not to use them.

But hey, great point you made there!

Black people being compared to monkeys is not an unknown stereotype in Europe. For example, when a guy from the Ivory Coast started playing soccer in Europe people threw bananas at him.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2018 06:55

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

The_White_Crane posted:

I never claimed it was "unknown". My point was that it isn't as well known in Britain as it may be in some other parts of the world, and that Britain also has the "little monkeys" idiom for referring to children which people would tend to think of before they think of an old racial slur.

For gently caress's sake: And by the Sydney Test, Marqusee points out, there was no good excuse for Harbhajan to not know that the insult was racist and out of bounds, especially as he's played so much cricket in England, where the "monkey chants aimed at black footballers are widely known and condemned".

# ¿ Jan 10, 2018 16:35

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Someone at snapchat approved this ad:

# ¿ Mar 15, 2018 07:57

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

poptart_fairy posted:

It is possible to think of Rihanna as silly for courting controversy with photoshoots on religious grounds, while also thinking this campaign is dumb, and that Chris Brown is a piece of poo poo woman beater.

Thank you for allowing three thoughts at once.

How many slaps do you think she deserves for the blasphemous act of "posing suggestively"?

# ¿ Mar 15, 2018 18:09