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computer parts posted:I'm already seeing ads for ambulance chasers regarding that under-arm testosterone treatment they were advertising a year or so ago (turns out it doubles your risk for heart attacks), turns out it wasn't that good of an idea. Source on double? I had to use that stuff when I was younger for TRT.
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computer parts posted:I'm already seeing ads for ambulance chasers regarding that under-arm testosterone treatment they were advertising a year or so ago (turns out it doubles your risk for heart attacks), turns out it wasn't that good of an idea. I've seen 2 types of these commercials, each one signifying a completely different set of side effects. And yes, the one that mentioned death still wanted you to call them if you have died and are interested in getting a portion of their lawsuit winnings.
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I think I just saw an ad suggesting that Snickers Bites weren't invented in the 70s because it was a suggestion made by a black man. I seriously can't interpret it any other way. e: Now that I've paid attention to the whole ad (http://youtu.be/Fz9M-Ty-P6o), I found the joke in it. It's still really weird that it led off that way, because I genuinely stopped paying attention at that point. SpacePig fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Apr 5, 2014 |
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Tupping Liberty posted:Because what else would Geico need but to add M&Ms? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6etOdPkNAXs Apologies if already posted, I just saw it for the first time. So did the green girl M&M get fired a while back or what?
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I guess Honey Maid/Kraft released an ad featuring gay and bi racial couples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xeanX6xnRU Of course as you can imagine they got flooded with angry tweets by anti-gay/racist folks. But they double-downed on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBC-pRFt9OM Kind of weird to see such things now a days in commercials, but it's a good kind of weird.  .
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FuzzySkinner posted:I guess Honey Maid/Kraft released an ad featuring gay and bi racial couples: That's awesome, haven't even seen or heard of this. I don't know if it was posted in this particular thread, but there was a Cheerios commercial that featured a interracial couple and a little girl that pours Cheerios all over her dad while he is asleep on the couch. People were angry at that commercial as well, but some took it a step further and turned it into a children's social experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VifdBFp5pnw If I saw the Honey Maid commercial, I wouldn't have even noticed the undertones.
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trunkwontopen posted:If I saw the Honey Maid commercial, I wouldn't have even noticed the undertones. That's because you're a well rounded, functional adult.
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FuzzySkinner posted:I guess Honey Maid/Kraft released an ad featuring gay and bi racial couples: Honestly at this point it feels more like the big companies are racing to make themselves look progressive and feel-good by jumping onto the side of the issue that's obviously going to win.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Honestly at this point it feels more like the big companies are racing to make themselves look progressive and feel-good by jumping onto the side of the issue that's obviously going to win. If I'm ever this cynical I'm just going to blow my brains out. "I liked gay marriage before it was cool"
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trunkwontopen posted:That's awesome, haven't even seen or heard of this. I don't know if it was posted in this particular thread, but there was a Cheerios commercial that featured a interracial couple and a little girl that pours Cheerios all over her dad while he is asleep on the couch. People were angry at that commercial as well, but some took it a step further and turned it into a children's social experiment: Yeah, that was last year's Cheerios super bowl commercial. They did another one this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuQrKeGe6g quote:If I saw the Honey Maid commercial, I wouldn't have even noticed the undertones. Me neither. My wife only noticed because you don't see people with tattoos too often in these "family" oriented commercials.
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Mahoning posted:If I'm ever this cynical I'm just going to blow my brains out. He's right though, otherwise why weren't these same companies doing it 10 years ago?
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Honestly at this point it feels more like the big companies are racing to make themselves look progressive and feel-good by jumping onto the side of the issue that's obviously going to win. this is such a bizarre way to think of it that I honestly don't know where to begin. like are you saying it's bad because these companies are showing gay/bi-racial couples, which are still by no means represented in the mainstream media anywhere near as much as white heterosexual couples, for the specific purpose of appearing cool and hip? and even if that somehow was the case behind the scenes, how would that be a bad thing? would you rather not have advertisements show the homosexual/bi-racial as completely ordinary people who also buy/use various products and services? does that need to be an idea firmly on the fringes of mainstream society? I'm not trying to be an rear end in a top hat I'm just so puzzled by that sentence.
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Industrial posted:He's right though, otherwise why weren't these same companies doing it 10 years ago? Does it matter, if they're doing it now?
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Not An Irish Monk posted:and even if that somehow was the case behind the scenes, how would that be a bad thing? I guess you're fine with people exploiting other people then.
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Industrial posted:He's right though, otherwise why weren't these same companies doing it 10 years ago? Because companies aren't some organic living breathing being that has fully formed social mores that must stubbornly be adhered to forever and always? Maybe the companies' current upper management (and its shareholders) hold these values and are now passing it onto the company. Also, who gives a poo poo why a company does a good thing? Anyone who tries to act like for-profit companies make any decision without taking PR into account is delusional. And again, in the grand scheme of things, why does it matter?
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Sash! posted:I guess you're fine with people exploiting other people then. Is it exploitation or an attempted balancing of scales?
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Sash! posted:I guess you're fine with people exploiting other people then. Literally all advertising is exploitative, by design. Jesus Christ. Naive much?
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Mahoning posted:Literally all advertising is exploitative, by design. Jesus Christ. Naive much? I don't think Popeye's exploited anyone when they told me that they have chicken for sale.
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Sash! posted:I don't think Popeye's exploited anyone when they told me that they have chicken for sale. Lousiana (especially black Louisiana) culture?
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Tupping Liberty posted:Is it exploitation or an attempted balancing of scales? So "throw some homos in that commercial, we'll look awesome" is balancing some sort of scale? computer parts posted:Lousiana (especially black Louisiana) culture? Popeye's was founded in and headquartered in New Orleans. Can you exploit...yourself?
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It's ridiculous how much progress we've made on these type of things. In 1997, Ellen had a show where she came out as gay that was boycotted by many major companies, including JC PENNY. Now? She's the spokes person. It used to be that groups like "One Millon Moms" were successful in getting people to even remotely endorse something that didn't match their values. Now? Those companies just seem to shrug it off.
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Sash! posted:So "throw some homos in that commercial, we'll look awesome" But you don't know that this was their motivation, you just made it up. Unless you're arguing that intent doesn't matter and that you can't represent anyone but the majority without being exploitative which is the dumbest opinion.
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Sash! posted:Popeye's was founded in and headquartered in New Orleans. Can you exploit...yourself? Popeye's was founded by and is owned by a sassy black woman from the french quarter?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTc0Zr41LD0 This Honey Nut Cheerios commercial is the bane of my existence right now, not because of the song (which is bad) but this face the bee makes at the end, just before he breaks into a smile-- it just looks so weird for a cereal mascot to me. It's just a split second so I couldn't be sure he wasn't outright glaring at us for some reason. I mean, look at this bee.  I don't like that bee.
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Nelly must really be hurting for money these days. It has been a long time since Country Grammar after all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__MEfm-7Vw I guess they realized that no one plays board games anymore so they thought the best way to hook kids in was to make it about things that they would much rather be playing or doing.
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Vakal posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__MEfm-7Vw It could also be a commentary on the fact that now a days brand names are more important than physical locations.
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Vakal posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5__MEfm-7Vw Yeah, but at this point there about a thousand different themed versions of Monopoly. This is old hat for them at this point.
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I'm more surprised to see a new Monopoly variant that still uses paper money. I remember seeing someone at Christmas last year get one of the newer versions that uses a "credit card" instead of paper money.
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Tupping Liberty posted:Does it matter, if they're doing it now? If the question is "are they only doing it to bandwagon onto a burgeoning social movement?" then yes, it is a highly relevant question. Mahoning posted:Because companies aren't some organic living breathing being that has fully formed social mores that must stubbornly be adhered to forever and always? They are though? Companies consist of human beings which are organic living breathing beings... FuzzySkinner posted:It's ridiculous how much progress we've made on these type of things. This is exactly my point. If a company made a pro-gay commercial in 1997 I would have been extremely impressed. Doing it when the majority is clearly swinging in that direction anyway just feels like pandering. I am not in any way saying it's bad that there are commercials featuring such families, just saying that doing so in 2014 doesn't really make them progressive heroes to me. Industrial fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Apr 6, 2014 |
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Industrial posted:
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iastudent posted:I'm more surprised to see a new Monopoly variant that still uses paper money. I remember seeing someone at Christmas last year get one of the newer versions that uses a "credit card" instead of paper money. CC version is the only way to play really. It pretty much eliminates the need for a banker, which is where all the cheating and strife that the game is known for comes from. Which I guess is to say that old-school Monopoly is pretty accurate model to real world situations (it was supposedly invented by socialists demonstrating how unfair property owners can get and cheating bankers is a feature not a bug) and that the only way to avoid it is implementing a more transparent and accessible banking system.
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Young Freud posted:CC version is the only way to play really. It pretty much eliminates the need for a banker, which is where all the cheating and strife that the game is known for comes from. If your game of Monopoly doesn't end in a fistfight and/or a flipped board then you're not playing it right.
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Industrial posted:They are though? Companies consist of human beings which are organic living breathing beings... Yes, that is exactly my point. The organization is not an independent being. It is made up of people, many of whom now think gay marriage is a normal thing that should be supported. The argument that companies didn't care 10 years ago is somewhat true, my argument is that those companies aren't made up of the same people they were ten years ago, and even if they are, it is possible those people have changed their minds about gay marriage. Whoever made the original argument I think was trying to imply that either these companies are hypocritical (which is dumb, for reasons I just went over), or that they're doing it because its the cool thing to do, which I'd argue doesn't really matter since the effect that the inclusion of gay couples (and bi-racial couples, etc) has on those people doesn't really take intent into consideration. Unless you're a cynical rear end in a top hat like whoever made that argument, I guess.
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Miracle Whip is sticking to the idea that they're mayo alternative is for "badasses" with these strange commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gnf_NEliYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Won8Lx-hVrU I like the what the gently caress are you doing look everyone has when the dishes are walked in.
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