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aquatic sideshow posted:These FALLING OFF THE BONE ribs at Golden Corral are FALLING OFF THE BONE. *stares at small child across the table while aggressively tearing off a hunk of meat with teeth* I CAN'T BELIEVE THESE ARE JUST 10 DOLLARS. The way you describe it, it sounds like the guy is eating that kid's infant sibling and will go to work on them next.
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flamedrake posted:I stumbled onto a pretty amazing infomercial the other day when flipping channels: This looks sleazy as all out. She's gotta be wearing some sort of fat cummerbund or something, because that fat bounce looked like rubber and didn't fall out of her shirt. Then she took it off for the "after" shots.
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DrBouvenstein posted:In a few months there will a movie just called "gently caress Buddies" with Shia LeBouf and Emma Stone. Funny you mention her. According to a newspaper review, she's in the first ten minutes of Friends With Benefits, dumping Justin Timberlake.
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Jul 23, 2011 02:43
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vyst posted:Those moneymutual and "indian version of moneymutual" commercials piss me off to no end just because of the business. They're essentially legal loan sharks and it boggles my mind how they can do business like that and it's nbd. There was an article on Salon some years ago, talking about the proliferation of those payday loan places and usury laws. The APR for a payday loan place far exceeds that which you could get from a loan shark. Legally, legal loans between businesses and individuals that aren't licensed lenders (i.e. banks) or pawnbrokers is something between 5% to 10% per year. In fact, I just found this article from 2001 brings up gangster Samuel "Wings" Carlisi, who ran the Chicago Outfit, until his arrest in 1992 for illegal gambling and loan sharking. The Chicago Outfit charged something like 260% APR on their short-term "juice" loans. But, it's perfectly legal in California to have a state-licensed lender like a payday loan outfit that charges up to 5474% APR.
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The Steak Justice posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYt3Pc0V5zc Nope. Capri Sun has been doing threatening kids with murder or wishing to the Cornfield as part of their "Respect The Pouch" campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SesasYdKVI
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Speaking of Geico commericals, I don't know what one of the new ones is getting at, I would've loved a robot day care when I was a kid.
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DJExile posted:I don't really see why people consider it a bad thing that actor X lends his voice or face to a commercial. If anything, the ad companies must love it since you're usually getting someone comfortable with being on camera, and you know exactly how they sound. Rollins was the rebel back in the day. He headlined Black Flag, a major punk band, back in the late '70s-early '80s. Fucker was counterculture hardcore. Rollins voicing over commercials for not just a car brand, but a luxury car brand, is akin to selling out. \/\/\/ Yes. I knew I remember that line, but couldn't remember the band who did that cover. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Sep 1, 2011 |
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Palleon posted:To me, all of Geico's terrible commercials were redeemed by the Robot Day Care commercial, and I look forward to them running it into the ground and then some. It'll all end in a battle royale between the Geico Cavemen and Robot Day Care, the past and the future fighting for the present of auto insurance. You know you want to see that.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:
Well, to be honest, a lot of newer home entertainment items are becoming more Internet-capable, so you can watch Hulu or Netflix on them, but something like 90% homes have the phone or networking outlets nowhere near the living room. So, the options are string a dozen of feet of cable through the most heavy traffic area of the house; spend hundreds of dollars to get a contractor to route the cable to an outlet near a potential TV area; or go WiFi. Also, more convenient connections with stuff like laptops and mobile devices, which is especially handy for business presentations.
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Televisions have been going perfectly fine without WiFi for decades... why would there be a difference now?
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Stairs posted:I can't find the commercial on Youtube, but if you have a problem with wifi TVs, try a loving WIFI REFRIGERATOR! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3e5aBh7JUI Here's a video of someone demonstrating it. It's the epitome of "First World Problems." The commercial makes me want to throw a shoe at my television. And if I do that, I'm probably going to replace it with a wifi enabled microwave or something. Okay, that's what I call "missing the point" of having an internet refrigerator. There's an IBM ad from the '90s or so that had a repairman showing up at someone's door to fix the refrigerator, but the homeowner didn't call a repairman. The repairman replies the refrigerator did. The refrigerator was able to do it's own maintenance checklist, recognize it had a problem, and called for service (I assume it and the repairman are part of its warranty), before the owner knew there was a problem. Another was maintaining groceries. With RFID tags, the refrigerator would be able to deliver an inventory of items in the fridge and what is nearing or past its expiration date to be thrown out. This. I don't know. It seems superfluous, especially with mobile device and the like. I was reading on the first entry of this type on the market, the LG internet fridge, and the rationale was that it's an appliance that's on 24 hours a day, so it could be possible to do more than just receive e-mail. The problem I see it is that it's probably better to have a central wireless-networked centerpiece and have these apps modular and be slaves to that, going off how smart homes are maintained, instead of having each appliance have its own thing. That said, the fridge is pretty nice, even though that networking features adds a few hundred dollars to it. I like that they've switched to LEDs for interior lighting.
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Sep 18, 2011 00:44
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Stairs posted:See, if the fridge did ANY of that, it would be worth it. But This POS just accesses recipe sites and reminds you to go get your kids from school. If my fridge told me I was out of mustard and planned a grocery list for me based on my usual purchases I'd mortgage my car to get it. This is just a smart phone that keeps your milk cold. Pointless. What's worse is that it looks like it's a single site, so you don't have much of a choice. What's the point of having an internet connection if you're locked into only two sites  One of the things the LG fridge had was a video camera, for the reason that you could leave video messages to family. That sounds pretty cool, but I'm not sure if it really justified the cost.
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Sep 18, 2011 05:11
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explosivo posted:Has anyone seen that new terrible Kia commercial? The one with the hamsters and robots dancing? My dad works at a Kia dealership and they got an email from someone complaining about how it shows a post-apocalyptic setting and how "they should be ashamed of themselves". It's an awful commercial, but Jesus. Come on, people. What the hell? The hamsters bring peace with their kicking cool jams? How could anyone be opposed to a post-apocalyptic setting? I mean, how many video games and movies have used that as setting. The only thing I can think of is that is some fundie who equates the post-apocalypse with the Great Tribulation. That or a nutbag who thinks of the rape scene from The Road Warrior is all that would happen in the collapse of human civilization.
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Sep 18, 2011 20:05
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Fauxhawk Express posted:I don't think it's really either bad or great, just kinda there. I would gladly watch this over any Miller/Coors commercial, though. It seems very early '60s pop-film, musical-comedy inspired, especially with the crowd spontaneously breaking into dance near the end.
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Sep 23, 2011 09:00
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You can't fool me, that's Waylon Smithers.
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Oct 13, 2011 17:51
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raditts posted:I think it's weird that they included Pos-T-Vac when that commercial has been around for at least 5 years. I think that the fact it's a television advertisement for a penis pump is more than enough to have it "win" some lifetime achievement award in bad commercials.
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Oct 19, 2011 20:15
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Wow, Drug Free America, way to advocate something way more dangerous than using drugs. The new commercial has some kid freerunning on the top of apartment buildings and jumping from rooftops like out of The Matrix. I was waiting for the kid to screw up and splatter himself on the pavement.
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100 Years in Iraq posted:Yeah, I went to the grocery store Saturday and half the seasonal aisle was halloween candy and the other half was the same loving candy but with snowmen on the packages I know that Neiman Marcus is proud that they're not putting up holiday decorations until after Thanksgiving, so it seems that there's some sort of reaction from stores to the Christmas creep. The Moon Monster posted:A pet can be a good gift depending on the situation, but it's pretty lovely to spring an animal on someone who may or may not want it. My sister got a god from her birthday from her college roommate last June. Now it's become an obstacle in her post-college planning. How can it be that much of an obstacle if it's a god? I mean, that's a supernatural being of untold power on our mortal plane. Unless it's an evil god, I don't see the problem. 
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Nov 4, 2011 20:36
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raditts posted:I haven't seen the Fruity Pebbles commercial in a few years, do they still show that one? Considering the new Fruity Peebles commercials use this claymation/3D look nowadays, there's a good chance they've probably are going to replace that.
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Nov 6, 2011 19:55
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NaturalLow posted:This reminds me of the terrible natural gas commercials airing right now with the smug college students convincing their classmate how superior natural gas is in every way. "Actually it's cleaner AND it creates jobs." I want someone to make a parody of this where the classmate, as a counterpoint, fills up a bucket full of water, throws it on them, then throws a match at them, which causes the tap water contaminated because of natural gas fracking to ignite and burn them alive.
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Then of course the classmate is convinced and goes along with it just on the word of these people and we're supposed to do the same I guess.
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Jenny From The Block shot her Fiat commercial in LA! A body double does the few shots that had to be shot in NYC, because Lopez refused to go to the actual Bronx to shoot the commercial.
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SpacePig posted:He's sad that all of his firends can't come to eat the Nandos food that he got for all of them because they are all dead. I guess. Still a hilarious commercial. I think this was first posted in the Mid-East Revolt thread a few days ago. It got a bump because Robert Mugabe (the dictator depicted in the ad) is actually pissed enough that it's gotten Nando's Zimbabwe staff into trouble, so they pulled it.
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Zifnab posted:Saw an ad for this today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SJsk1L2RUg When I was watching that, all I could see was this... 
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Before I left campus, I saw an ad for some sort of male enhancement or ED supplement on CNN. What was unusual was the spokesman was Billy Batts. "Go get your loving
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the_Vandal posted:Give me that loving money you fat pieces of poo poo or I'll rip off your loving faces and wear them while I do my capitalism dance. That's the one where you tuck your junk between your legs, play "Goodbye Horses" in the background, while you go on about "I'll usure me, I'll usure me so hard"? Young Freud fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Dec 29, 2011 |
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Please tell me that Gotham Dating Partners is an ARG for the next Batman movie. 
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Wagonburner posted:Whoah seriously? I'm sorry guys for what I said, apparently I haven't watched enough good movies. Now that you mention it, Sam Elliot does sound a bit like Wilford Brimley, except Elliot's voice has got more of a drawl and he's diabetus free.
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DJExile posted:Isn't that if you hold the loan for like a year or longer though? I thought most of these places were intending them as short-term. Yes. In my dealings with the short-term-loan places, it's best to pay that poo poo off quick before the fees pile up. That's why a lot of them are billed as "payday advances", since, if you have a job, you can pay that money out within two weeks at the most. It was something like $20-$25 for every $100, which, while it's a lot, it's still better than the $35 dollars for an overdraft fee at the bank.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Instead of having regular sales, they just decided to say, "gently caress it, we'll just lower our prices to be more competitive with Walmart and Target all the time." It's more than that. Back in summer of last year, Penney's hired Ron Johnson, the lead retail executive from Apple, as their CEO. If you don't know who Johnson is, he's the guy who created the Apple Stores back in 2001, as well as making Target a Wal-Mart competitor. Following the Holiday sale season, Johnson is now implementing a nation-wide refit of the entire store brand. One of the big changes is the elimination of coupons in favor of lower-price sales, as well as redo its online business, bring in more designer brands, and gear their merchandise toward the 18-35 market.
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explosivo posted:I looked it up before because I was curious too and found this. Basically each "cent" bid is actually 60 cents, so the iPad they claim to have been sold for $22.54 costs $1352.40. Scam! Something else on that link: the most recent comment mentions that a some of the big-ticket items they have are "out of stock", only to be discovered when they win, and that, while the winner can receive a refund for "out of stock" items, the losers can't refund for the same items.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm going on record as saying I'm pretty sure he still is a bad-rear end...he did win a few prison boxing matches before becoming involved with the movie/TV industry... Trejo as Enrique is great, because Enrique is pretty much the farthest thing from being a bad-rear end. Trejo's got some range. CapnAndy posted:A wife telling her husband that they should kill their newborn baby before they get attached to it is not nearly as winsome as Vonage seems to think it is. 
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Fauxhawk Express posted:I usually hate beer commercials, but Budweiser had one tonight with She Sells Sanctuary playing which piqued my interest. My friend made the comment that at least Ian Astbury and the Cult well get some money off this, even if Flo-rida ruined his song.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm partial to these two: Holy poo poo these are awesome. That Bounce one is the best. The Grimace posted:Mother loving Everest commercials. I swear they've been on TV atleast three years now, but it sure feels like thirty. They have to know that talking down to the audience is a bad habit. I've been staying at my parents' place until I can find work. My folks watch loving Jerry Springer, Steve Wolzkos or whatever, and Maury and these ads come on during almost every loving break. And they wonder why I don't watch TV with them.
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raditts posted:If you're talking about the Pos-T-Vac, that zombie has lurked basic cable for years now. Like 5-10 at least. And it looks like it was filmed farther back than that. Now that you mention it, it does look like it was filmed on some public access channel. My favorite bits are the old bug-eye guy quoting the old Army ad slogan and the Cornel West looking dude.
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Toffile posted:He hasn't owned Dominos in almost 20 years. Can't tell if that's worse.
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:Real I had to rewind the video back to hear that again. You weren't kidding about that sapphire, they just gussed it up with "faux ceylon sapphire" and "silvertone" so anyone with half a brain could recognize it as false as poo poo. quote:Plus, that announcer's voice is annoying. Also, his voice is cut the poo poo apart, like they edited it down for time or did ADR on it. Not just the "silvertone" but stuff like the "pendantnecklace".
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Dr_Amazing posted:Just saw the worse thing. While a show was still going, a banner ad for Adam Sandler's new movie came up. The actual show shrank to the top corner and about 2/3 of the screen was ad space. Was this on broadcast TV, cable, or the internet? I can see such a thing happening on the last one, but if it happened with the first two, this does not bode well.
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Dr Christmas posted:On the radio I heard a few commercials for an anti-tinnitus drug called "quietus." At least the suicide kit was cleverly named. I never knew that's what "quietus" actually meant. I thought it was some Web-2.0-sounding name that they mashed up. They should just called the anti-tinnitus med "Ring-be-gone". Of course, that ringing in your ears, that 'eeeeeeeeee'? That's the sound of the ear cells dying, like their swan song. Once it's gone you'll never hear that frequency again. Enjoy it while it lasts. Frot Lesnar posted:Right up there with the Reebok Succubus I can imagine this shoe without doing a Google search. It looks like a regular Reebox, but it has a stiletto heel and is on platforms.
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muscles like this? posted:Its a quote from Children of Men. Yeah, you can not expect me to let slide that an anti-tinnitus drug that shares the same name as the suicide kits in the film without quoting the line that's about tinnitus.
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Mokinokaro posted:I've used them once back in college because my rent was due a few days before payday. I think it cost me an extra 30 or 50 bucks on a 600 loan which wasn't too bad. If you have a job, payday loans were better than go to pawn shops and putting something valuable into hock for a temporary cash infusion.
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