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JCPenney has a holiday ad to the tune of "Deck The Halls" with "shop shop shop shop shop, shop shop shop shop" that's already irritated me after hearing it once.
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Choco1980 posted:You can send letters via FedEx and UPS, but not many people do... At a much higher cost and lower efficiency, last study I read.
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Fedex and UPS are prohibited by law from delivering non-urgent letters
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ILL ON PZONES posted:If I were dictator for life, those would be the only commercials allowed. "Buy cars. They get you places a lot faster than walking!" "Try renting an apartment. It's like a little house but cheaper. Here is a coupon for a fish." Hell yes! I would love straightforward, no nonsense commercials that just gave you the facts on a product. I hate that virtually all commercials need to weave some moronic little playlet. Just tell me why your product is good with facts, don't have characters and jokes and a narrative. Also, git off muh' lawn.
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Nov 28, 2013 04:27
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Hell yes! I would love straightforward, no nonsense commercials that just gave you the facts on a product. I hate that virtually all commercials need to weave some moronic little playlet. Just tell me why your product is good with facts, don't have characters and jokes and a narrative. If you don't like commercials like this, you're weird, and your opinions are weird.
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Nov 28, 2013 05:06
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Toffile posted:Are you familiar with the Republican party and their "Kill the government" policy. This has literally nothing to do with why the post office has commercials.
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Nov 28, 2013 07:32
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Toffile posted:Are you familiar with the Republican party and their "Kill the government" policy. Little hard to kill something that's already dead (the USPS). They've been sustaining themselves on junk mail income for years, now. People rarely use their business model anymore. Hell, the only time I buy a stamp is when I need to send a bithday card or Christmas card to somebody. I pay all my paperless bills automatically online every month. And if I need to ship something important in a box, I use FedEx, UPS or DHL.
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Nov 28, 2013 07:48
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Gonz posted:Little hard to kill something that's already dead (the USPS). They don't make money because, unlike any other business or government agency, they've been required to pay their current employees retirement benefits like a zillion years into the future. Sorry for the mobile link
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Sash! posted:This has literally nothing to do with why the post office has commercials. Yes, they aren't PR to combat the toxic effects of conservative messaging in the past 40 years regarding the USPS and its function in society. But that's probably a discussion more suited to D&D than here.
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Nov 28, 2013 14:41
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Hell yes! I would love straightforward, no nonsense commercials that just gave you the facts on a product. I hate that virtually all commercials need to weave some moronic little playlet. Just tell me why your product is good with facts, don't have characters and jokes and a narrative. That's what I like about the 5 hour energy ads. They look like they're made for two bucks, and they're like "Hey, maybe you'll like this, maybe you won't. We don't judge.  " That being said, I do enjoy the Skittles commercials.On the other hand, some are so literal you wonder if it's a joke. Also, what's up with Chinese (?) Walmart ads on Youtube? eminkey2003 fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Nov 28, 2013 |
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eminkey2003 posted:
I don't know if this is what you mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVxN65p0Aso But I like how this one is basically the same ad as in the US, complete with "Back in Black" for the soundtrack.
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Nov 28, 2013 16:29
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raditts posted:Cottonelle has been trying for the better part of a year now to make a "thing" out of the complex process of wiping your rear end then following up with a baby wipe. I can't imagine what they intend to accomplish other than selling baby wipes to adults. Because a surprising amount of people, especially men, wet the toilet paper before wiping.
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BigBoss posted:Because a surprising amount of people, especially men, wet the toilet paper before wiping. What? What?
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I just noticed that stupid Verizon commercial for tablets with the office guy and the tech guy ends with a voice over saying they will give you "up to 150 dollars or more." well which one is it Verizon?
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I use baby wipes to wipe my rear end. It owns.
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Oh god it's become an A.I. floating about the internet now. Stand/Wipe: poo poo Chat has made it into the thread about food TV commercials. Oddly fitting, though.
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BigBoss posted:Because a surprising amount of people, especially men, wet the toilet paper before wiping. I don't know why you would use both and not one or the other, though.
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Cobalt Chloride posted:What? What? No, it makes sense. Because if even one person is doing that, that's a surprising number of people.
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Good to see everyone else hates that K-mart ad. Is anyone else afraid of going into the kitchen late at night, opening the pantry door, and finding goddamn Hans Strudel in there, waiting for you? Because that kid is creepy. He's like the Burger King king, only he is a living person somehow.
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computer parts posted:But I like how this one is basically the same ad as in the US, complete with "Back in Black" for the soundtrack. That's basically how it always works, you usually just don't see the other side of it. I get english and spanish commercials all the time that are exactly the same. Like with Ford. English spot is the Mike Rowe and a bunch of white people, Spanish spot is shot for shot identical but with some hispanic guy and a bunch of hispanics.
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SpazmasterX posted:That's basically how it always works, you usually just don't see the other side of it. I get english and spanish commercials all the time that are exactly the same. Like with Ford. English spot is the Mike Rowe and a bunch of white people, Spanish spot is shot for shot identical but with some hispanic guy and a bunch of hispanics. But you're talking about two countries that share a fair amount of culture and a lot of citizens. China isn't as much of the case, Mericans think more of stuff like this (Japanese ads compilation)when they think of most asian ads. That does explain how the Chinese "What Women Want," got made, and how it was so similar to The Mel Gibson.
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Kaizoku posted:If you don't like commercials like this, you're weird, and your opinions are weird. Well it's got Will Ferrel in it so that's already a knock against it.
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gently caress you assholes, I had no idea the "gifing out" ad existed until this thread and now it's taken over my goddamn television. You're gonna pay for this 
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McSpanky posted:gently caress you assholes, I had no idea the "gifing out" ad existed until this thread and now it's taken over my goddamn television. You're gonna pay for this We're pretty sure there's three versions of it, all of them only slightly tweaked--making it even harder to tune out and more annoying. Hopefully, since it's a Black Friday ad, it will be over tomorrow.
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Cox cable dad is back (whaaaat?) and he's got a little prodigy now. I had to lol. Can't find this one on youtube though.
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I just saw a commercial for a Windows tablet that starts off showing a Chromebook and then goes into an obfuscated diatribe about everything a Chromebook cant do, the drat thing features the Chromebook logo soo prominently, I really thought it was trying to make me buy a Chromebook. Way to gently caress up an ad for people who have a TV on for white noise and dont pay attention to what is being said.
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Rogers Canada has been running a long series of "hip family" ads for the last two years or so to promote their phone and cable packages. The thing I find amusing about them is that they keep using the same woman to play the mom of the family, but the father and children keep changing. The best theory I've come up with is that she's a black widow that kills her family and re-marries every 6 months just to get out of Roger's restrictive data plan contracts.
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I'm tired of these sentimental ads. First it was beer, then it was cars, now I've seen one for gum and game night.
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No More Heroes posted:I just saw a commercial for a Windows tablet that starts off showing a Chromebook and then goes into an obfuscated diatribe about everything a Chromebook cant do, the drat thing features the Chromebook logo soo prominently, I really thought it was trying to make me buy a Chromebook. Way to gently caress up an ad for people who have a TV on for white noise and dont pay attention to what is being said. Was that the Pawn Shop guys? I just saw that one myself.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Was that the Pawn Shop guys? I just saw that one myself. I've seen the Pawn Stars one too, and it just made me think "Well I guess Chromebooks aren't that bad." Those "scroogled" ads are like the new I'm A PC/I'm A Mac.
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Vakal posted:The thing I find amusing about them is that they keep using the same woman to play the mom of the family, but the father and children keep changing. Oh come on, that's sexist, thinking she's a black widow. She could be a cowboy in the Michael Mann sense of the word and lives by the code of not attaching yourself to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat when the heat is around the corner.
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What kind of an rear end in a top hat proposes before a plane flight? http://www.ispot.tv/ad/77lz/jared-airplane-proposal Also the Stewardess comes off as kind of a jerk.
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Arschlochkind posted:I've seen the Pawn Stars one too, and it just made me think "Well I guess Chromebooks aren't that bad." Those "scroogled" ads are like the new I'm A PC/I'm A Mac. You can blame this guy for Microsoft's recent attack ads against Google.  
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...of SCIENCE! posted:You can blame this guy for Microsoft's recent attack ads against Google. This is the guy that caused Hillary Clinton to lose the 2008 Democratic Primary because he didn't understand how delegates were appropriated. 
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computer parts posted:There appears to be a fad of "I want shiny thing, let me destroy my old thing to get it" ads. e.g., Yeah, this poo poo is infuriating.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:You can blame this guy for Microsoft's recent attack ads against Google. At the pace the XBone, their tablets, and Window 8 are going, I wouldn't be surprised Microsoft goes out of business in a few years from now...ironically bought out by Google.
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Speaking of dumb trends, I'm getting really tired of all these "Keep Calm and..." posters.
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Rirse posted:At the pace the XBone, their tablets, and Window 8 are going, I wouldn't be surprised Microsoft goes out of business in a few years from now...ironically bought out by Google. With office still being the big commercial suite I wouldn't be so sure. Microsoft has a long way to fall. EDIT: \/ Of course they are, but Microsoft's got such a hold on the corporate world in general they're not easy to kill. Mokinokaro fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Nov 30, 2013 |
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Mokinokaro posted:With office still being the big commercial suite I wouldn't be so sure. Microsoft has a long way to fall. Dude they are trying to gently caress up Office. Last time I thought about buying it, they didn't even want to sell it. They want you on Office 365, which is a cloud app you have to pay monthly/yearly for, and they also want you to be using their cloud storage service which is totally different than Google's because we're Microsoft and we promise we won't use your data to compete against you/sell to advertisers/the NSA.
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