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Illinois has a series of really annoying ads advertising the state being the home of Abe Lincoln by having a statue of him going around town shouting Whoa for 30 seconds. This ad was pretty awful and the person doing his voice sounded like a fratboy, but they had a second ad with him going around eating, with him making "Mmmmm" noises for 30 seconds!
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Suzuki Method posted:Haha, this is great. Mugabe and Amin on the tank is my favorite part. In case you didn't make the connection: the guy on the swing is P. W. Botha, the last Prime Minister of South Africa, it's first State President, and last Apartheid leader of South Africa (assuming one doesn't count de Klerk as one). It's a South African restaurant chain. That's practically on the level of a German beer company having a Young Hitler burst into a beer hall with the Blood-Flag and see a beer so great that he forgets trying to overthrow the government. Sash! fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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Jun 1, 2014 01:36
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I have no idea why, but that PSA linked in the last page made me laugh my rear end off. I guess it's the timing of her line delivery combined with the in-your-face quality of it.
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Paradox Personified posted:I have no idea why, but that PSA linked in the last page made me laugh my rear end off. I guess it's the timing of her line delivery combined with the in-your-face quality of it. also the way in the gif that the guy in the back doesn't even begin to react to it so it looks like he's just ignoring it
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Jun 1, 2014 06:22
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Vicas posted:also the way in the gif that the guy in the back doesn't even begin to react to it so it looks like he's just ignoring it "Bitch got what she deserved."
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Jun 1, 2014 15:55
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Vicas posted:also the way in the gif that the guy in the back doesn't even begin to react to it so it looks like he's just ignoring it Happens all the time, man.
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Jun 1, 2014 16:16
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Paradox Personified posted:I have no idea why, but that PSA linked in the last page made me laugh my rear end off. I guess it's the timing of her line delivery combined with the in-your-face quality of it. Isn't this exactly the reason that most restaurant kitchens have all sorts of no-slip padding on the floors, require no-slip shoes, and that sort of thing?
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Jun 1, 2014 16:40
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Yeah, the actual ad is uncomfortable because it lingers on the victim being in howling unimaginable pain, but as a gif that's just funny. Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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Jun 1, 2014 17:28
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Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah, the actual ad is uncomfortable because it lingers on the victim being in howling unimaginable pain, but as a gif that's just funny. Yeah, after that shot, the Guy in the background runs to her aid as the camera centers on her sizzling hands and face. It's some well done practical effects, I'll give them that.
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Jun 1, 2014 18:27
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With PSAs like that I'm always conflicted. Is it ethical to bring important issues and matters of public safety to greater attention if you're basically forcing brutal and potential PTSD-triggering stuff on an unsuspecting audience? It may well be the most effective way to do it so that complicates things- if you can prevent actual harm that's a good thing but it's so hard to say for sure. None of this applies to commercial stuff like Life Alert, though. They can go gently caress themselves.
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Jun 1, 2014 19:52
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I really don't get what's supposed to be so great about a curved TV.
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rotinaj posted:Isn't this exactly the reason that most restaurant kitchens have all sorts of no-slip padding on the floors, require no-slip shoes, and that sort of thing? Yes, but many don't because they're awful. This ad was to get people using that kind of thing.
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Jun 2, 2014 00:49
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muscles like this? posted:I really don't get what's supposed to be so great about a curved TV. The stated reason is that TVs have now gotten so big that when you watch from any angle other than straight on it distorts the picture. Your brain can compensate but it takes some effort and looks weird. With curved TVs you get a bigger "sweet spot" where the picture looks perfect, and it's easier for people outside of that sweet spot to adjust. It also reduces light glare. The real reason for this "this is huge" ad campagin is because ever since HD electronics makers have been looking for and failing to find the next game changer. That's why 3D was gonna change the world, that's why Smart TVs were gonna change the world, that's why curved TVs are gonna change the world. In a similar light, they're using that first adopter cred to push the insane prices on these things. Now that you can buy a 55" for like $700, you gotta have something that lets you charge $9000 for a TV
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I bought a 75" Samsung smart LED TV 3 days ago for $2,200 bucks. I'm pretty goddamn thrilled. It was last year's model, and was a floor model (that didn't come with a box or any literature/instructions), which explained why it was so cheap. But I insisted they run a BluRay demo on it to make sure there weren't any picture problems, and there weren't, so I immediately bought that bad boy. It gets delivered tomorrow. It will replace the 58 inch plasma I bought 4 years ago (which was also a floor model; original price was 2,800 bucks; I got it for 1,400). The moral of this story is "Never buy new technology right away."
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Jun 2, 2014 01:12
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I never buy a TV for more than $500 and I'm currently up to a 47" 3D TV right now. (The 3D is nice for the odd movie / game where the effects are actually well done.) I think back to about 10 years ago when a friend of mine spent thousands to get the first models of one of those big-screen TVs that weighed like a thousand pounds and laugh occasionally.
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Jun 2, 2014 01:32
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The only problem is that today's TVs are pretty much disposable; all the big brand names have been licensed and everything is the same cheap crappy parts and workmanship, so you can get a huge TV for a couple hundred bucks but it will break in just a few years and repairing them is so expensive that you just chuck it and buy a new one. And even if it miraculously keeps working then they're gonna stop supporting it so you're gonna be SOL for the smart features (see: old Rokus that don't support profiles or subtitles with Netflix). Your old Trinitron may have weighed a ton but it would last you forever and it didn't send your viewing habits to the manufacturer without your consent. 
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Jun 2, 2014 04:18
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I don't get NBC sports unless I borrow a cable box, so I have to listen to the Kings on the radio. I am really getting pissed off with the budweiser ads about being a Kings fan. It's so loving obsequious. Hey guys I know some Kings trivia, buy our lovely beer. Also the coke commercial.
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Jun 2, 2014 05:21
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Almost all commercials geared towards fans of a specific or team drive me up the loving wall. But you're not allowed to be annoyed, you're a Kings fan. Personally I hate the one that airs for some ticketing service. Don't remember if it's for ticketmaster proper or stubhub or some other reseller. Airs on the radio every on 660AM during Devils games, though I'm sure they have a flavor for it for every sport. Drives me up the goddamned wall.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ZD0Zl4bJ0 Do these people even know what moonshine is?
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Jun 2, 2014 06:41
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Resident Hero posted:
"The sweet taste of moonshine" really should answer that question.
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Jun 2, 2014 11:42
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Resident Hero posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ZD0Zl4bJ0 They sell "moonshine" in liquor stores down in Kentucky. The fact that they're in liquor stores leads me to believe that it's just whiskey that hasn't been aged.
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Jun 2, 2014 12:43
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Iron Crowned posted:They sell "moonshine" in liquor stores down in Kentucky. The fact that they're in liquor stores leads me to believe that it's just whiskey that hasn't been aged. They sell "moonshine" in goddamn Walmarts now.
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The person making your moonshine has more than 4 teeth you are not drinking moonshine.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:The only problem is that today's TVs are pretty much disposable; all the big brand names have been licensed and everything is the same cheap crappy parts and workmanship, so you can get a huge TV for a couple hundred bucks but it will break in just a few years and repairing them is so expensive that you just chuck it and buy a new one. Yea I got a 50" plasma in 2009 or 2010 I think and it started getting black lines around summer of last year. Now? It looks like the top 16th of the TV is letterboxed. I'll have to get a new TV. It's such bullshit that I'm considering going against my principles and getting an extended warranty.
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vyst posted:The person making your moonshine has more than 4 teeth you are not drinking moonshine. This poo poo is truth, real moonshine tastes like stagnant water and smells like decay. Tardcore fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Jun 2, 2014 |
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muscles like this? posted:Getting really tired of the Gary Oldman HTC commercials. Right? loving right?! Only tools research things before they buy them. Be the cool kid and buy our phone sight unseen.
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I asked a co-worker what kind of booze he wanted for his birthday. He said 'Moonshine.' I almost asked him if he wanted Vodka or potato-whiskey instead.
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Doctor Butts posted:It's such bullshit that I'm considering going against my principles and getting an extended warranty. I bought a 42" LCD TV in 2009 for $725 and I paid $60 for the extended warranty. Good thing because the TV went kaput EXACTLY one day after the factory warranty expired. Seriously, the TV was fine when I went to bed and when I got up the next day - nothing. I still have the replacement.
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Tardcore posted:"The sweet taste of moonshine" really should answer that question. Plus having it anywhere near an open flame.
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Acquire Currency! posted:Right? loving right?!
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Doctor Butts posted:Yea I got a 50" plasma in 2009 or 2010 I think and it started getting black lines around summer of last year. Now? It looks like the top 16th of the TV is letterboxed. I'll have to get a new TV. It's such bullshit that I'm considering going against my principles and getting an extended warranty. Or, just don't buy a plasma since there have been superior alternatives for years now.
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"Frozen. How Fresh Stays Fresh." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMhRA8Mk6xE This is so  I don't even know what to say. You can't say something means some other thing that it does not mean!
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raditts posted:"Frozen. How Fresh Stays Fresh." The American Frozen Food Institute is, uh, a pretty odd lobby. As far as I can tell it was founded in 2011. Wikipedia lists its subsidiaries as such: Alliance for Listeriosis Prevention Food Industry Environmental Council Frozen Food Foundation National Yogurt Association National Frozen Pizza Institute Texas-Mexico Frozen Food Council Who the gently caress makes frozen Tex Mex
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Jun 4, 2014 20:11
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Vicas posted:
I assume that would cover all of those frozen taquitos and chimichangas I see.
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Vicas posted:The American Frozen Food Institute is, uh, a pretty odd lobby. As far as I can tell it was founded in 2011. Wikipedia lists its subsidiaries as such: There's a National Frozen Pizza Institute....and I've not been named to the Board of Directors?
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Jun 4, 2014 20:36
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You'd think America would have been sold on the concept of frozen food at this point.
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Somebody mentioned Life Alert earlier. One of the Life Alert commercials has one of my favorite moments in any commercial: an elderly man and wife are sitting next to one another. In the standard slow, old woman voice she says "I would give up...*anything*...to keep using Life Alert." And the old man gives her this look like "drat baby that's cold!"
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I'm really proud of you for being an algebra teacher, mom. KidsLoveDegrees.com KidsLoveDegrees.com KidsLoveDegrees.com KidsLoveDegrees.com! gently caress off with this poo poo, thanks.
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What the gently caress? Motherfucking PSYCHIC phone line commercials are back.
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muscles like this? posted:What the gently caress? Motherfucking PSYCHIC phone line commercials are back. As much as I hate this kind of woo I kind of feel bad for Miss Cleo, she only made a few thousand for appearing in infomercials that made hundreds of millions of dollars.
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