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Sramaker: Oct 31, 2012; by Cowcaster

This played over and over in Canada years ago and it sucked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F93RIR0vvNk

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Sramaker: Oct 31, 2012; by Cowcaster

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Horrible/Advertising: :tvtropes:

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 20:59

Sramaker: Oct 31, 2012; by Cowcaster

Here's something funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNkK-aQEtMI
Yeah i wouldn't want to buy from this guy

There are a bunch of other Bruce's liquor store videos too on youtube if it can help y'all figure if it should be here or not.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2014 04:16

Sramaker: Oct 31, 2012; by Cowcaster

I saw an ad yesterday when watching a tv show from Quebec yesterday: It's a ad for Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) or something like that that show a lake and two people in a fishing boat and it starts with saying the location is a secret tranmitted from generation to generation, father to son.
Then the ad says something (i can't remember it too well) and it's revealed the was about pipelines.

What makes this so dumb is the ad give the impression the people behind the ad want to build a pipeline through near the lake, pipelines can leak.

Alll this while the citizens in that are angry because there was a train that blew up at Lac-M�gantic because of neglect which caused deaths, and some pipelines already built were revealed to empty in place where endangered wildlife pass and/or lives there.

# ¿ Dec 15, 2014 03:07

Sramaker: Oct 31, 2012; by Cowcaster

Spergminer posted:

It was Wal-Mart.

FTFY

# ¿ Dec 15, 2014 03:09

Sramaker: Oct 31, 2012; by Cowcaster

mrkillboy posted:

This is a Nando's commercial that aired on Australian TV (contains slight nudity):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWcfQceBib4

Also earlier this year they "stole" a giant fibreglass mango from a country town in order to promote a new marinade.

Yep and then two people put a drug lab in the Mango (I wish i was kidding)
http://news.epicinter.net/makeshift-meth-mango-lab-found-inside-bowens-giant-3-storey-high-mango-following-theft/

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Sramaker: Oct 31, 2012; by Cowcaster

Hey Fingercuffs posted:

I live in Hampton Roads and on the radio over the past couple years a bathroom remodeling company has decided to basically alienate a portion of customers they really don't want in their stores. Primarily young people and hispanics.

It started a couple years ago with owner doing the commercial talking about how his company is old fashioned and you don't have to press 2 for Spanish when you call them because "We speak English". I think the ad ran maybe a month or two before the complaints rolled in and they pulled it.

Fast forward to this year and now they have a spokeperson talking about how simple the company is how the only way to contact them is by phone and that when you call you don't have to press 1 for english and 2 for spanish. He follows that statement up with telling you that they aparently can't be contacted through any social media and pokes fun of people taking selfies in the "latrine". The messege is supposed to stress how easy it is to get a hold of them to redo your bathroom, they just stretch it out to long and it ends up sounding that if you do any of those things they really don't want your business.

Only thing they got right is selfies are dumb

# ¿ Dec 20, 2014 21:11

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