duckmaster posted:

This was a common complaint about Oreos advertising campaign in the UK - the whole condescending "twist it, lick it, eat it" thing. Carefully breaking the top off a custard cream or bourbon before scraping the cream off with your teeth and eating what's left has been done for years here (by kids and, er, me) so we hardly need to be told how to eat a biscuit.

The fact that Oreos are foreign and, worse than that, American, didn't help either. This is the rubbish they came up with. The most sold biscuits in the UK are digestives/rich tea/hobnobs/bourbons/custard creams, all of which have a dozen generic rip offs so they hardly bother advertising on TV anyway. One of the few companies that does is Jaffa Cakes - notice that you don't even see the biscuit until the last few seconds of the advert.

Having said that Oreas haven't actually done too badly and they're now manufactured here, although a market share of 1% for the worlds favourite cookie is... well, quite bad.

Oh and the original recipe in 2008 contained cheese

Dr_Amazing posted:

I remember really wanting a Samsung SPH-N270

Tasteful Dickpic posted:

Lol if you don't have Enrique bake you fresh French bread slippers every morning.

Moddington posted:

The minion gif only showed up for a split second for me and refuses to show up again, looks like it's not fully working as intended.

Corrode posted:

Most grown-up jobs don't require a doctor's note unless you've missed a meaningful amount of time. For up to 5 days I self-certify, have a quick chat with my manager, and we all move on with our lives.

walrusman posted:

Who goes to the doctor every time they're sick? If I had the wherewithal to make an urgent (same-day) appointment, drive to the doctor's office, sit around breathing germs on other people, demand that the doctor perform a menial time-wasting task, and then drive home again, I may as well just go to work.

Mu Zeta posted:

I think Jeremy Clarkson said something like he'd rather kill himself than live in Belgium

Krispy Kareem posted:

Belgium and the U.S. are virtually tied in rapes per capita. If there were ever two countries with popped collars who did a head nod 'sup' passing each other on the street, it would be Belgium and the U.S.

We have more money, they have better healthcare, we both have really lovely histories with Blacks. It's a toss-up whose better or worse.

Non Serviam posted:

In this case it's the Dutch. You're thinking of the totally respectful and totally not awkward Black Peter.

EmmyOk posted:

Shut the gently caress up about laundry jesus christ

Tiggum posted:

s a nice hint of Vegemite

SubponticatePoster posted:

I work for government and our program is a mainframe that was designed in 1995. It's programmed in COBOL. When the 2 old guys who still know COBOL die or retire I'm pretty sure we're hosed. Other than being poo poo ugly and written in a dead language it's rock solid.

Phlegmish posted:

This is exactly when most white collar workers are paid in Belgium, seems like it would have made more sense in Europe.

Volcott posted:

Make it 1997 again through science/magic.

Pachelbels Cannon posted:

Or everything's fine for decades and you're completely oblivious.

I have severe sensory issues but school and university tended to be quiet enough. Home life was super quiet too (probably because parents are also autistic, it's genetic after all).

And then I graduated and found myself in an open plan office. I can't function in those, the sensory overstimulation triggers the fight or flight respone and I become an unpleasant intolerant rear end in a top hat and I can't seem to get any work done unless I do overtime - because that's when the office is finally quiet.

If I knew at an earlier age I would have picked a career that didn't involve offices.

mostlygray posted:

At least in my case, it was the straw that broke the camels back that switched me to be aggressively PC. I like Hodgman, I can't stand the other dude. He's arrogant. He reminds me of who I was in the 90's. An arrogant Mac user. Hodgman showed me the light and I've been using only PCs since the ads. I used to do tech support for PCs but still used a Mac at home. After the ads, it reminded me that Mac users are insufferable. It reminded me that I was insufferable. They made me feel like a bad person. I've been PC ever since. Of course, I had my Linux fling and I'm a big fan of FreeBSD as a server platform, but I'll never use a Mac again.

Buy a Macintosh. Everyone will hate you.

Beachcomber posted:

gently caress, that's the one I like. Except the tea.

Samuringa posted:

https://twitter.com/catsuka/status/1202187253889601539

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

hahaha, have fun drawing nothing but inbetweens for the rest of your career kevin bao

Phlegmish posted:

e: lol fifteen minutes later I got this ad playing a Fallout Shelter clone in BlueStacks:



I would have to say 'Amount of milk' makes the most sense

ToxicSlurpee posted:

It was some online thing that had a name that started with CIV. It looked so generic I've forgotten basically everything. Never did play it but it was in fact apparently just an extremely simple only pay to win strategy kind of thing mean to milk money out of whales. The adverts often said stuff like "build a kingdom, save your queen!" even though there was no queen saving in the game.

Pastry of the Year posted:

I would genuinely like to be a fly on the wall in the life of someone for whom this is true.

Phlegmish posted:

Imagine it, you could be a total nerd going for dem cheevos, while simultaneously getting into shape. The hardest difficulty setting would be 'Realistic', where you have to be an actual professional cyclist to keep up with the peloton.

That's it I'm creating my own tech start-up, even though I know nothing about either tech or running a business

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"Moving forward from our initial teaser campaign earlier this year, we're so pleased to finally give the fans exactly what they wanted; making the KFConsole a reality," said KFC PR boss Mark Cheevers. "We all know the console war is vicious, but we're very confident in the KFConsole as our flagship entry. This machine is capable of running games at top-level specs, all on top of keeping your meal warm for you to enjoy during your gaming experience... what's not to like? If Sony or Microsoft want any tips on how to engineer a chicken chamber for their efforts next time, they'd be welcome to get in touch."

Memento posted:

Paypal doing dumb poo poo is par for the course. I got an email from them a little while ago saying "check your security settings" and then the links in it that it wanted you to click were all url-shortened obfuscated things, exactly like a phishing email would have. You shits have spent a very long time telling people not to click links exactly like that.

RagnarokAngel posted:

I mean how is this any different from any other road map other than you like the game?

muscles like this! posted:

IIRC the original PC version of Wing Commander had a bug that caused the program to crash whenever you quit. Which, since you were exiting the game, wasn't exactly priority on their list of fixes. So what they did instead was change the crash message to say "Thank you for playing Wing Commander"

ponzicar posted:

The Intellivision game Space Hawk had a hyperspace feature that would let you randomly teleport to a different part of the screen to avoid danger. The developers discovered a bug where holding a specific direction on the control disc while pressing one of the side buttons was interpreted by the console as pressing the hyperspace button. Since they couldn't fix it, they turned it into a feature by adding an explanation in the manual about invisible black holes that would randomly put you into hyperspace.

Phanatic posted:

CJacobs posted:

Just wait till you unlock the skyhook, then you can go back through earlier courts and reach all those hoops with the yellow icons.

Ellie Trashcakes posted:

The Lone Badger posted:

I think I'd like to see subs that brutalise american shows to make them french or korean or something.

CJacobs posted:

Never buying another one of her albums smh

Edit: I'd believe it was an honest mistake, having tried to make emoticons and gang tags and stuff for this site taught me that what reads at 20px isn't really visible at 12px resized

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Yeah, there's a running theme with crypto in particular.

Taeke posted:

My favorite commercials from childhood are the Centraal Beheer ones.

https://youtu.be/KN_9kcam3Gc

https://youtu.be/D5iu8u0aVWs

https://youtu.be/_wkyTaSIotY

There used to be so many of them and pretty much each and every one of them was hilarious.

I don't know if they still do them. I don't think so but I haven't watched cable in over a decade.