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Buick released a car model with a name that was also slang for masturbation in Quebec. Other mishaps are included in the article, too. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3208501.stm quote:Buick 'masturbation' car renamed
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Flaggy posted:The reason that movies have so many ads in front of them is simple, the studio makes money selling the ads, and its really the only place anymore that you can't change the channel, you can't fast forward. Basically movie audiences are the most attentive audiences due to not being able to control it.
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BattleMaster posted:A guy at my school did his undergrad thesis on a robot that retrieves waste containers at a uranium refinery and brings them to the designated storage area. Normally it's a job that people have to suit up in protective gear for.
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jidohanbaiki posted:NPR just did an unelightening piece on millenials: IBM did a much more extensive study that's relevant here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2015/02/23/what-you-think-about-millennials-is-wrong/
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hyperhazard posted:Pulled up Shazam the other day and saw the weirdest ad. It looked like it was for a luxury car or something at first.
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scuzzy pumper posted:That's incredible.  This is one of the less-weird ones, but still a good example. Here's an article that talks a bit about Raytheon's subway ad campaigns: http://www.boston.com/news/local/bl...bCymK/blog.html quote:The Capitol South station is literally covered wall to wall with Raytheon’s tailor-made billboards and banners. There are ads for the Patriot missile, the so-called JLENS surveillance blimp, the Standard missile, satellite communications, and another advocating the company’s cyber warfare solutions: “defeat persistence with resilience.”
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My Lovely Horse posted:Deutsche Bahn, the largest German railway company, is infamous for their frequent delays and resulting missed connections.
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Their latest ad campaign got me to try Pizza Hut again for the first time in about five years, mainly because they made it cheap and I was curious to see if they pulled off something better than Domino's latest attempt to update their pizza. I haven't felt inclined at all to try any of the super-complex creations at all; I went with their garlic butter (I think?) crust and it was on the verge of being too salty, but it was pretty good for the price. I was curious about the pretzel crust, but everyone seemed to have the same opinion on it: too drat salty. They should've cut the number of crust options in half and not even bothered with the "signature" or whatever bullshit.
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Choco1980 posted:I've seen McDonald's do this quite often actually when trying new or different sandwiches, such as the Big n Tasty or the Arch Deluxe.
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Sardonik posted:There can only be one king of hold musics. At my last job, our clients would have this hold music about 75% of the time. Used to put it on speakerphone in the shared office and jam out while waiting to chat with 'em.
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Zaphod42 posted:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ontent=20150429
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Elfface posted:Contrary to popular belief, there is such a thing as bad publicity. A stupid, tone-deaf statement trickled through a larger marketing campaign and they apologized for it immediately. Lots of big companies know how to come out ahead in these situations.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Under Armour presents, "Band of Ballers"
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Ryoshi posted:How exactly do you think this is pronounced?
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I think he meant to type "13"
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FWIW, Tim Roth flat-out admitted that he did it to get out of a "financial hole" and said that his father is probably spinning in his grave over the whole thing.
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Holy poo poo, something even stupider than the pistol grip stick shift: http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-cellphone-case-gun-20150701-htmlstory.html
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hahaha that pic makes it look like a bayonet attachment for a pistol (which is silly enough on its own), but it turns out the entire thing is just a knife.
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Print shop turned to Twitter to show off its goods, but they probably could've picked a better example: https://twitter.com/AllStateBanners/status/587744368334876673
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darkhand posted:Looks like it was photoshopped in the 90s too.
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Terrible Subway commercial redeemed through bad audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uPr28dQP_A
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Schrödinger's Merch: dumb and amazing at the same time Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan™ Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk The Needs of the Many Ornament  http://shop.hallmark.com/ornaments/...995QXI2587.html
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Besesoth posted:I guess "selling a thing I don't like" is now a dumb move in marketing?
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Krispy Kareem posted:Hyundai has a new commercial out where their Tucson driving rebel leaves work "on time" to the dismay of all of his co-workers. The time he boldly walks out the door? 6:01pm. My last office job mandated 8:30 to 5:30, unless you got approval otherwise.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I was part of that boycott and MW1 is still my newest CoD game.  way to miss the best one in the series
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:I just said I have the first Modern Warfare. It's ok. Be strong. We'll get through this together.
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Irradiation posted:I yelled at my dad when I was six for drinking and driving because he was drinking lemonade. 
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Zaphod42 posted:I feel like this has to be posted
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Egg Poacher posted:Do your inner child a favour edit: To this day, I don't know how people can say the turtle puzzle was more infuriating than the glowy-orb-robot thing you had to program commands for so it'd pick something up. Literally the only puzzle I've ever called a goddam tipline for in my entire life. edit2: Oh!!! I completely forgot the game even came with a card that gave you like five free minutes on the tipline, like those fuckers knew. Grey Fox has a new favorite as of 01:32 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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Geokinesis posted:KFC trying to sell their bucket as friendship bucket where the people in the and sit with a friend. They are asked a question about their friend and have their answer on a piece of paper, if they're right they get a piece of chicken.
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Sentient Data posted:For immediate payback they're hoping that you ever dial 411 or pay to not have your address listed in the phonebook, but usually it's simply that telecom providers get subsidies based on the number of subscribers in some areas, and they want to make sure you (read: old people) don't get landline service with someone else, then decide that a dsl package with that provider is cheaper than cable internet
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Poe missing going unnoticed 
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Nitrox posted:What is so special about the current minions? Other than people are weirdly obsessed with em, according to terrible tattoo thread. 
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Microsoft's Tay twitter bot seems more in line with how the Joker would use social media, anyway.
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Part of me just died a little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPnTa1UJPEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4LUasFly0c (Ford commercials)
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It feels weird to have decades-old media rehashed and re-purposed with the original actors just to get you to buy a drat car. All that work that goes into it, the campaign pitch, the budgeting, the contracting, the rights acquisition from Konami, the recording, the editing, etc. It's a ton of thought and effort to produce something....dumb. Please also understand that "dumb" isn't always a negative thing. I love lots of dumb things.
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Here thread, have a lame trailer for a kickstarter game experiencing development hell, countless delays, and ever-dwindling expectations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YngbHOz--oc (Mighty No. 9)
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