Captain Monkey posted:

We're also not buying into the idealized 1950's fantasy that a lot of Gen Xers at first rebelled against, and then quickly tried to get for themselves -- at least not the same way.

Barudak posted:

So Coca-Cola had a twitter it ran where you would send it hateful messages add #makeithappy and it would make a "feel good image" out of the text. Sounds misguided but innocuous right? Welp, Gawker decided to test if it had any limits to what it would repost after seeing an image made out of the infamous 14 words and it turns out Cokes twitter will make pictures out of line by line tweets of Mein Kampf. It has, of course, since been pulled.

Lumberjack Bonanza posted:

*blows smoke in your face* gently caress off, nerd.

Panic! at Nabisco posted:

I think that might just be you projecting, friend

Tweet Me Balls posted:

Barrista: Hello! How would xe like xis coffee today?

Customer 1: *gesticulates wildly and makes a series of fart noises with his mouth*

Barrista: *takes notes and nods thoughtfully*

Customer 2: Yes I'd like a large--

Barrista: *clears throat noisily*

Customer 2: ...a large mocha--

Barrista: Alright, get the gently caress out, we don't serve your kind here.

Customer 3: Hi, I'd like a Venti black coffee, and speaking of which, how do you think society can overcome the self-feeding cycle of disproportionate African american incarceration?

scamtank posted:

All the Lidl stores I've known follow the "Moldovian operating room 1991" school of interior decorating. Harsh fluorescent lights, weird and impractical (check-out) furniture, constant security presence and pus-yellow tile floor for easy blood cleanup.

I think they're knowingly leveraging the ">>>> HUDDLE HERE POORS <<<<" atmosphere.

ryonguy posted:

Yes, in case you folks in other countries weren't aware that is literally how anti-union American businesses are, that laws had to be made to prevent them from firing people for trying to organize (and doing so anyways with loopholes).

mr. mephistopheles posted:

You see, at-will employment is mutually beneficial because you can quit any time without the employer having any recourse, which is totally not a thing you could do otherwise without first giving them free reign to fire you for no reason.

Avenging_Mikon posted:

They also protected him from being disciplined over a stupid reason: 40%of his sick days were Fridays and Mondays. Assuming a random distribution, that's what you'd expect.

Davfff posted:

Not really, not anymore.

Maybe he's right after all, if I was to try and pinpoint a time where this stopped being true, it was about 15 years ago...

Davfff posted:

Look at you yanks using your big clever words.

Davfff posted:

If you look at political and cultural developments of pies, there is a clear break between the happy-go-lucky 'politically correct' nineties where it was assumed that Western pie flavours would go on to conquer the world and immigrants would inevitably absorb our superior pies, and the right-wing flavour backlash that occurred in many countries during the 2000's when people realized this wasn't the case. It wasn't caused by the Butter Chicken pie, but it was certainly part of the same trend, and that pie is as good as any.

You don't have to get all 'pies'

ChaosArgate posted:

Did someone say selling video games using boobs?

NLJP posted:

When was this, 1273 AD?

Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:

Except I made it clear I don't watch the BBC. Tell me again how I'm a moocher.

I Am Crake posted:

I'm 23, I make about 19-20k euros living in the Netherlands, which I think translates pretty directly to dollars if you consider cost of living etc.

OctoberBlues posted:

I got a credit card when I was 18, but didn't really start using it until after college, and now I am 28 and pretty much use it for everything. My friends all seem to use debit cards, which makes no sense to me... Just make sure you don't spend more than you have, use a credit card, pay it off in full every month out of your checking account, get free money/products/trips/etc.

Phanatic posted:

Danger Mahoney posted:

But back to dumb moves in marketing... I like how the beef industry has tricked stupid Americans into eating rare or medium rare steaks so they can't detect the declining quality of the beef that only comes out when cooked well done.

f#a# posted:

Pop quiz: what's wrong with this promo image for Trump that was deleted?



Here's the exciting answer!

That Robox posted:

I guess it was meant to be a fun game for the local college kids or something? Apparently olive burgers were called "BOBs" (Best Olive Burgers). And that's what you had to ask for. Or you simply could not get them. The thing was, either the employees didn't know about the secret menu, or they were just told to refuse special orders without the codes.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Oh they do now? Huh. When did they switch to Gregorian calendars?

Cumslut1895 posted:

What a dumb name lol

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Really the biggest thing was when cigarette advertising was banned. Banning tobacco is a poor idea in general for a lot of reasons but the adverts would often use cartoon characters from popular shows in the past (go look up Flintstones smoking adverts on the YouTubes some time, it's baffling how much they used to get away with).

hackbunny posted:

: Let's make a charity fitness event to help the homeless survive the cold season!
: How are we going to call it?
: "Let's help them, doing Zumba!"
: Er, ok. What about the campaign?
: The poster's ready! wanna see it?

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BrigadierSensible posted:

Has anyone posted the Heineken - Hotel Babylon thing yet?

The gist of it is, the BBC were making a program designed to appeal to young people with bands and pop culture and all that jazz. Heineken sponsored it. Then an email came out from Heineken to the shows producers in which Heineken were unhappy with a) the amount of shots of their product in the show, they wanted more, and b) the amount of "negroes" in the shows cast and audience, they wanted less