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Elfface posted:Oh, I can think of stupider... Also, that rebranding was so widely disliked, the company themselves had to admit it was a terrible idea and changed everything back. But yeah, given how to-the-point the original brand is, NO-ONE would guess what Consignia was meant to be. Royal Mail, the British postal service.
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Manfrompoot posted:In addition to creating some of the most bizarre, visually striking art of the 20th century, Salvador Dali would also do loving anything for a buck. He also designed the Chupa Chups logo 
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Improbable Lobster posted:In the EU and many other countries it has never come with a charger because of the electroic waste laws. I live in the UK and my 3DS came with a charger.
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As far as I know, it's only in the US where they use HFCS more than cane sugar, because the American corn lobby is so strong.
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poptart_fairy posted:Is there a decent source to read up on why unions are looked on so poorly? I never really understood that aspect of US employment as it's not something I've experienced here. Essentially, the entire reason is "Employers don't like their employees having power".
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Product recipes actually tend to be pretty good, because they obviously want whatever it makes to taste good, so you buy more to make it again. I got a chili recipe from a pack of ground beef that I still use now.
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Choco1980 posted:(and arguably the next) Sixth gen has nothing arguably about it. The PS2 slapped both the Xbox and Gamecube around with ease. It's still the best-selling game console of all time, and the only things even in the same league are the original DS and the original Game Boy. For comparison, the PS2 sold over 155 million units. The closest competitor from that generation, the Xbox, sold 24 million.
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death .cab for qt posted:Seriously, words cannot express the schadenfreude involved here. I love Rocksteady, and tbh at this point I prefer Nvidia over AMD, but watching these two collaborate on a video game deal with a game that can't even run on the higher-end graphics cards it comes bundled with is loving beautiful. Not only that, but the game genuinely runs better on CONSOLES than PC. Those consoles that cost the same as just those graphics cards alone.
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And it's like, the purest uncut schadenfreude, because people who bought into bitcoin are exclusively Ronpaulite libertarian shitheads. So there's not even any "Shame that happened to <x> though". Every single person it happened to brought it on themselves.
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Yeah, in their yearly stockholder report, they actually BOAST about being so "successful" (again, wiped 25% off their stock price in one year) while having no marketing department whatsoever. There's also a tie-in Total War franchise game coming out for Warhammer Fantasy...set in the world they just retconned out of existence.
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Yeah, it does get surprisingly really loving serious in the UK. My friend, whose natural hair colour is beyond the point of being "ginger" and is straight-up ORANGE, routinely shaves his head bald, just because if he doesn't, complete strangers will give him abuse.
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Again, to anyone who thinks Trump is capable in any way: The man lost money on running a casino. You, goon reading this post, could probably make money with a casino.
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Also, supermarket budget lines like that are often the "higher quality" goods, just in different packaging.
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Armyman25 posted:I've been to the Venice McDonald's, but only to use the bathroom. I will say this, in a lot of non-US countries, a public bathroom can be hard to find, and McDonald's always has one that's clean and available to the public. Also a fairly reliable source of free WiFi too.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Kids are still super loyal to Nintendo, it's just those kids are all on mobile platforms (specifically DS/3DS) and a lot of them don't really have the money to branch into the home console market. It's much cheaper to get your kid a handheld obviously, and those kids are still heavily in the Nintendo pocket just like they were in 1998 when Pokemon was the hotness on Gameboy. But speaking from experience I had a GBC and a GBA but never a GC because while I could save up enough money to buy a GBA at launch, getting twice to three times that much money just to have a Gamecube was way out of my budget range. The Wii was less so because it was, at least for a large portion of its life, pretty low in price and families were buying them as family entertainment items not just as things for the kids. Well, if the rumours of the new Nintendo console are true, they've finally cottoned on that, nowadays, people associate Nintendo with handhelds, not home consoles. The rumours are saying it's going to be along the same idea as the Wii U, but the controller can operate independently. So it can be a handheld, or it can hook into a home unit.
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Semisponge posted:I dunno I found it as weird as the hot pockets ads inviting dudes to put their dicks in. Like, is this ad trying to say I should jerk off with a handful of totinos clenched in fist? I'm seriously struggling to find a message in that ad that isn't "You should gently caress a hot pocket".
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AlphaKretin posted:All it did was make drat sure kids had hear of drugs and make it very clear that this is something you rebellious teenagers who have been proven to be more likely to do something they're told not to shouldn't do. And teaching kids exactly what to expect when they inevitably try said drugs.
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Pastry of the Year posted:To be fair, I'm still afraid of Suge Knight. He's been dead for 20 years and I'm still a little scared of Eazy-E.
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ElwoodCuse posted:That kind of poo poo is really common in sports, too. The NHL spewed all this deep, flowery garbage about what it meant when their logo changed from Or last year, where the Cleveland Browns had a huge marketing campaign about how they were using a slightly lighter shade of orange on their uniforms this year.
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Any notion I had about joining the military were put out of my head because I live near two major naval bases, and 100% of the people I've met who serve on either of them are complete loving idiots.
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BioEnchanted posted:When it comes to insurance adverts, Hastings has a fun phone number at least: 0800 00 1066 And the catchiest ear worm jingle ever. It's just their phone number set to a melody.
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Lord Chumley posted:try 20 The original Metal Gear Solid turns 18 this year and I bet a LOT of people reading this suddenly feel far older.
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Ziv Zulander posted:I've always heard that high-end dry cleaners make the best fronts. You hang up a bunch of suits so it looks busy, you keep the prices sky high to scare people off, and you have it run by an elderly Asian man who keeps track of all the transactions in a hand written ledger. In the off chance you get any actual customers come through, you just tell them you're all booked up. Any business that deals primarily in cash is good for laundering. Dry cleaners, taxi services, restaurants, used car dealerships. Used car dealerships are particularly good because, if you want to make even more dirty money, you can run a chop shop out of it too. Gyro Zeppeli has a new favorite as of 10:27 on Jun 4, 2017 |
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Also murder-mystery is an entire genre that more or less relies on going into a story unspoiled.
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