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McSpanky posted:The day that the number sign becomes formally recognized as "hashtag" in the US, I'll see myself off the planet. To be fair, it's better than calling it the pound sign.
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McSpanky posted:The day that the number sign becomes formally recognized as "hashtag" in the US, I'll see myself off the planet. You're done then because voice-conferencing services in the US now say "hit the pound or hashtag button"
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I can almost guarantee that the term pound sign will be dropped completely for hashtag. The times, they are a changin.
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piratepilates posted:Being on the sides of buildings isn't so bad, you know what is bad? Also one of many reasons I can't loving stand Robin Thicke. piratepilates posted:Well it's not like it's really used for much else, and it's also commonly called a hash symbol anyway so it eventually being called a hashtag when it's pretty much always used for hashtags wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I never heard it referred to as that before Twitter. Pound sign, number sign, octothorpe, but never a hash symbol. loving Twitter.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:26
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raditts posted:Also one of many reasons I can't loving stand Robin Thicke. quote:Number sign is a name for the symbol #, which is used for a variety of purposes, including the designation of a number (for example, "#1" stands for "number one"). The symbol is defined in Unicode as U+0023 # number sign (HTML: # as in ASCII). I don't quite know how I know it as a hash symbol or why a hashtag is named after the British name for it but it was definitely a thing.
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So, uh, apparently someone at Covergirl didn't exactly do any research into The Hunger Games seeing as they've debuted the "Capitol Collection." You know, based on the decadent evil society that enables mass murder.
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Oct 10, 2013 02:54
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piratepilates posted:I don't quite know how I know it as a hash symbol or why a hashtag is named after the British name for it but it was definitely a thing. I'd imagine it comes from some programming language where # does something with hash functions?
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Seems like there is always at least one commercial that irritates me in particular when I'm watching hockey. Right now it's the mighty wing commercial. It's pretty obvious they are pandering to the youth demographics with LOOK FOOTBALL PLAYERS LOOK LOOK. It's all so very gauche.
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muscles like this? posted:So, uh, apparently someone at Covergirl didn't exactly do any research into The Hunger Games seeing as they've debuted the "Capitol Collection." You know, based on the decadent evil society that enables mass murder. They did it last movie too. But really, what kind of products ARE you going to tie to that movie? Makeup is kind of the perfect tie in.
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Tupping Liberty posted:They did it last movie too. But really, what kind of products ARE you going to tie to that movie? Survival gear and archery equipment?
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McSpanky posted:Survival gear and archery equipment? Baked goods? e: A Lenny Kravitz comeback album?
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McSpanky posted:Survival gear and archery equipment? NERF has a crossbow marketed towards girls.
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raditts posted:Also one of many reasons I can't loving stand Robin Thicke. Don't mean to derail this, but how the hell did this guy get to be so..relevant. He's like Justin Timberlake if you removed any sort of charisma from Justin Timberlake. Also, his number 1 hit song was godawful, about rape, and kept Daft Punk from reaching number 1 on the hot 100 this summer. (something they definitely should have had) Can I blame the "beats" commercial? I think without that the guy is mowing my neighbors lawn.
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Because he is Alan Thicke's son, and Kirk Cameron is his TV son, I can't decide whether he's a worse TV dad or real dad. They're like opposite parallel universe extremes of horrible.
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computer parts posted:To be fair, it's better than calling it the pound sign. I will fight you irl about this.
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FuzzySkinner posted:Don't mean to derail this, but how the hell did this guy get to be so..relevant. He's like Justin Timberlake if you removed any sort of charisma from Justin Timberlake. He had a music video where he paid some ladies to parade around topless and shake their titties and write notes exaggerating the size of his dick, that's pretty much it. It certainly didn't have anything to do with the song being any good, and he's been around for a good 10-15 years with nobody knowing or giving a poo poo about who he was before this. Even more egregious is that we can blame him for "entertainment media" not being able to shut the gently caress up about Miley Cyrus for the last 2 months. He's like a pop culture viral epidemic. raditts fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Oct 10, 2013 |
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raditts posted:He had a music video where he paid some ladies to parade around topless and shake their titties and write notes exaggerating the size of his dick, that's pretty much it. It certainly didn't have anything to do with the song being any good, and he's been around for a good 10-15 years with nobody knowing or giving a poo poo about who he was before this. He gives off some mega-Vanilla Ice vibes. Meaning, he comes off as the type of "pop star" we'll see in 10 years on some 3rd rate VH1 reality show. The internet can piss me off with some of the stuff it makes viral. Like why the hell is "Keyboard cat" a thing, and why am I seeing it in commercials?
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FuzzySkinner posted:He gives off some mega-Vanilla Ice vibes. Meaning, he comes off as the type of "pop star" we'll see in 10 years on some 3rd rate VH1 reality show. I have no idea why it became an internet meme (besides that the internet loves all things cats), but IIRC it started out as a VHS recording in the 80s that somehow managed to spread however far things ever managed to spread on VHS.
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raditts posted:He had a music video where he paid some ladies to parade around topless and shake their titties and write notes exaggerating the size of his dick, that's pretty much it. It certainly didn't have anything to do with the song being any good, and he's been around for a good 10-15 years with nobody knowing or giving a poo poo about who he was before this. I used to really like that song but was sad because I couldn't listen to it without remembering the creepy rear end music video. And then I realized the good parts of the song were just inspired by Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give it Up" anyway so I just listen to that!
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Sorry goons, Robin Thicke has been in the mainstream for quite a long time and has been popular for years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ibeIqOv1ww
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Rap Music and Dope posted:Sorry goons, Robin Thicke has been in the mainstream for quite a long time and has been popular for years. I'm sure as much as you'd like to be all "heh goons", sorry no singing backup on this one rap song doesn't make you "popular for years." The only time I ever saw him before Blurred Lines got popular was in a music video in 2003, and that was on some obscure music channel we got via satellite in Iraq. He was some kind of lovely proto-Buble back then. "I got tickets to the Robin Thicke concert, I'm so excited!" - a thing nobody has ever said before the year 2013, still something I have yet to hear even now raditts fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Oct 10, 2013 |
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raditts posted:I'm sure as much as you'd like to be all "heh goons", sorry no singing backup on this one rap song doesn't make you "popular for years." I still like "When I Get You Alone" (the first song he ever had that got exposure). I will not apologize for this. gently caress the current popularity though. 
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raditts posted:I'm sure as much as you'd like to be all "heh goons", sorry no singing backup on this one rap song doesn't make you "popular for years." Just because you have no loving idea who he is doesn't mean he's wrong.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:I still like "When I Get You Alone" (the first song he ever had that got exposure). I will not apologize for this. gently caress the current popularity though. That is an awesome track, I wish Walter Murphy would do more collaborations with R&B artists.
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muscles like this? posted:So, uh, apparently someone at Covergirl didn't exactly do any research into The Hunger Games seeing as they've debuted the "Capitol Collection." You know, based on the decadent evil society that enables mass murder. The more ads I see for "The Fishing Look", "The Mining Look", etc. the more depressed I feel. Because there is no way in hell that the long string of bad decisions that led to officially licensed "Hunger Games" makeup didn't start with someone saying, "Well, the main character is a girl, so..." Yes, I know Katniss' makeover is a plot point, but it's a relatively minor one compared to "'Series 7' But With Zombie-Dog-People". Rahonavis fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Oct 11, 2013 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vR4LeL0yzE See this ad? gently caress this ad. The song is annoying, and I just hate the  parents in the final shot. "heh, look at those LOSERS." I don't want/nor need your stupid phone microsoft. It's played literally every other commercial break too. Christ..for as bad a rep as Apple gets at least they keep their ads relatively non-annoying for the IPhone/IPod/IPad. FuzzySkinner fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Oct 11, 2013 |
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FuzzySkinner posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vR4LeL0yzE I don't know why the ad wizards behind these lovely Windows Phone ads are so obsessed with making fun of that NFC high-fiving thing.
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Sash! posted:I want an actual camera company to make a commercial that makes fun of everyone taking pictures with phones and tablets. Didn't a camera company actually do this though? I seem to recall seeing a commercial for DSLR's where they basically inferred that using anything other than an actual camera was a poor alternative. They didn't come right and out say "Camera phones suck!", but they seemed to be hinting at that.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Didn't a camera company actually do this though? I seem to recall seeing a commercial for DSLR's where they basically inferred that using anything other than an actual camera was a poor alternative. They didn't come right and out say "Camera phones suck!", but they seemed to be hinting at that. Whichever camera company that uses Ashton Kutcher had a camera that would upload stuff online. Which was kind of positioned against cameras on phones.
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I don't usually mind the hashtag thing, but THIS. THIS loving COMMERCIAL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKZYCrhb_Ok gently caress. YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
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muscles like this? posted:Whichever camera company that uses Ashton Kutcher had a camera that would upload stuff online. Which was kind of positioned against cameras on phones. Problem there is, you have no room to mock anyone else when Ashton Kutcher is your spokesperson. SamuraiFoochs posted:I don't usually mind the hashtag thing, but THIS. THIS loving COMMERCIAL. God, I hope this embarrassing chapter of pop culture ends soon. You just know it'll get dredged up in some future "I love the 2010s" show, too.
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raditts posted:Problem there is, you have no room to mock anyone else when Ashton Kutcher is your spokesperson. eventually all of the 40somethings making these ads will die off and people our age will misrepresent the trends of people younger, and the circle of life shall continue
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Vicas posted:eventually all of the 40somethings making these ads will die off and people our age will misrepresent the trends of people younger, and the circle of life shall continue That subway ad is awful but you know hashtags are actually a thing which real people use
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Wandle Cax posted:That subway ad is awful but you know hashtags are actually a thing which real people use Yes, and just like in that ad, no doubt
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Vicas posted:Yes, and just like in that ad, no doubt Yes, ads are meant to be realistic depictions of behavior and not exaggerated at all, of course
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lamey_whinehouse posted:Just because you have no loving idea who he is doesn't mean he's wrong. Well just because he does doesn't make him right either. Wandle Cax posted:Yes, ads are meant to be realistic depictions of behavior and not exaggerated at all, of course Depends on the ad, but exaggerated usually ends up to be grating so I don't understand why that school of thought is still a thing.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Well just because he does doesn't make him right either. I can understand wanting to go with current trends, but in commercials it just reeks of desperation. LOOK AT HOW HIP WE ARE! REALLY! WE'RE COOL! BUY OUR PRODUCT, HOMEY! HASHTAG!
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Wandle Cax posted:Yes, ads are meant to be realistic depictions of behavior and not exaggerated at all, of course I'm not sure what you're getting at because either way those are still terrible loving commercials.
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Vicas posted:Yes, and just like in that ad, no doubt I have heard younger college students actually say "hashtag" out loud. Many times. I'm only 5 years older than they are but it is completely alien to me.
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