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mania posted:Haha what? Maybe it's expensive in the USA, but it's about the same price or cheaper as most as the big name airlines around here. poo poo, sometimes it's even cheaper then the budget airlines. Yeah, exactly. They don't show you the smooshed-in coach passengers, they show you the over-the-top ultra luxury seats so you make a brand association in your mind and feel fancy when flying even as a smooshed-in coach passenger. Same reason why they don't feature the cheapest $35k 3 series with the cheapest trim in the BMW commercials, but put out the more expensive, fully loaded aspirational models at double the price. You can feel like a fancy, sophisticated person who wears neckties while you're driving a car that costs as much as a top of the line Camry.
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twistedmentat posted:Not to return to console chat, bad 90s consoles all pretty much had bad, bad ads You're right. I didn't see any indication that one could bomb some dodongos
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, those ads are also annoying. As are the V8 ads. Woman popping her husband in the head over and over "you could have had a v8!" and he says "but I don't like V8" and she gives him some half fruit, half vegetable V8 and he suddenly likes it, even though the vegetables in the alternative are the ones with the overpowering taste. So instead of tomato juice you get tomato juice with a slight orange taste. Who buys or drinks V8 anyway? I needed some for a soup base, and a 6 pack (smallest quantity available!) was $7. A giant quart can of the store brand stuff was like $1.50. For some reason they still always offer it on planes 
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Here's a dumb move in marketing: being a country music musician in 2003 criticizing then president George W. Bush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_Chicks#2003.E2.80.9305:_Political_controversy Talk about not reading your audience. Their career completely lost all momentum and took a dive they never really recovered from. Their music is garbage so nothing of value was lost anyway.
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Krispy Kareem posted:That was the biggest part of the backlash. They were overseas bashing the President. It's not like people weren't bashing the President domestically, but it rubbed people the wrong way when you're doing it with another country. Kind of like how you talk poo poo about your own family, but you feel defensive of someone else starts talking bad about them. That and the Iraq War was a pretty polarizing issue in 2003.
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I'm going to say they didn't go far enough, because the entire beard should be slim jims
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Phanatic posted:Plus, if you hydroplane it doesn't matter how loving big your truck is. Well, actually it does, because bigger means more inertia means you'll take longer to regain control once your wheels meet pavement again. I avoid puddles because around here that often means that the puddle is concealing a suspension wrecking pothole.
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sassassin posted:The thing I'm most surprised about is that he was actually carrying a signed statement from the mother saying they could travel together. Is that a common thing for one parent travelling with a child? International flight, travelling with only one parent to a country where that parent is a legal citizen. International Parental Kidnapping happens, and the US has no exit controls AND doesn't require two parent consent for international travel. Happens often when parents are separating or will be required to split custody that one of them will flee the US back to their home country with the kids. It's a crime and an internationally recognized one, so if the parent flees to some place like Mexico, England, or the Philippines the local law enforcement is going to help out. You'll get a lot less help from local authorities if one parent fled to somewhere like Yemen. Guy probably came prepared with it to ensure that nothing weird would happen if questioned (didn't work!)
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Sucrose posted:I could only make it for about 10 seconds. The bridge pins hold one end of the strings in. The picture is demonstrating how one would pull out the bridge pins, but the guitar in the photo has the strings under tension, so you'd never actually pull out the pins under tension like that without breaking stuff. edit: yeah, that too. The secondary function is as a bridge pin tool. It's like if the promo photo for a 40 function swiss army knife had a photo of only the corkscrew attachment visible, and making it look like the user was about to drill right into the top of a metal capped beer bottle canyoneer has a new favorite as of 23:02 on Aug 4, 2017 |
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http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/10/16/halloween-retailer-pulls-anne-frank-costume-amid-complaints/ Anne Frank costume was a bad idea, who could have foreseen this?!
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Aesop Poprock posted:How did you never hear of “40 Acres and a Mule”? Only paid attention for 2/5ths of class
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Mu Zeta posted:I'm American and never heard of siemens who do you think crew all the ships, smart guy?
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bunnyofdoom posted:Just from my professional usage It's not the worst. I think it was on these forums someone said "the only thing worse than SAP is the alternatives" and that rings true
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Marketing is astrology and economics is phrenology. Of course you'd say that! You have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!
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If U want it? it's 4 sale OK If U need 2 ask ASK
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Ultima66 posted:Are there places where it's an all electronic menu but you're still ordering from a person? I've seen several Asian restaurants that just take all their orders via a touchscreen/online menu and no one ever interacts with you outside of bringing you the food. I haven't seen ads on those systems though. My favorite Chinese noodle place in NYC does this and it rules. They are also a "no gratuity" restaurant and have the most incredible hand stretched noodles. Xi'an Famous Foods slaps
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