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Sash! posted:Yeah, we're the ones that made it an abomination, not the group that decided "-ough" is somehow "-ow;" crammed a silent u into everything that ends with "-or;" and gave the world "masheen," "kernal," and "Wensday." so we're blaming the French and Germans again if you want to have fun, consider that Wednesday is a corruption of Odin's Day
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Mister Kingdom posted:Wait, let me go change my tyre. That's not a good comparison. I could understand "pijamas" but "pajamas" is just really weird.
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Dec 20, 2015 23:03
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PT6A posted:That's not a good comparison. I could understand "pijamas" but "pajamas" is just really weird. Does anyone pronounce it PIE-jahmas?
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ayn rand hand job posted:so we're blaming the French and Germans again English has had plenty of time to spell words right, so its entirely on their shoulders 
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Mister Kingdom posted:Does anyone pronounce it PIE-jahmas? Short i, not long i. An "a" sound there, long or short, would be very strange.
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PT6A posted:Short i, not long i. An "a" sound there, long or short, would be very strange. I hear it pronounced "puh-jahmas".
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Dec 21, 2015 00:01
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Okay is there one female vocalist doing all the song covers now? There's one voice I keep hearing, it's not bad but it's very distinct.
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Dec 21, 2015 00:24
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6pv4OMfg8 Every singer in this is off-key or off-beat in a different way. It's so grating and it's on all the time.
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Dec 21, 2015 00:49
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PT6A posted:Short i, not long i. An "a" sound there, long or short, would be very strange. All our un-stressed vowel sounds tend towards "uh", so it becomes that generic filler sound instead of any kind of "a" sound like in cat or ate. puh-jah-muhs or puh-jam-uhs (if you're a weirdo).
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ayn rand hand job posted:Its some kernkraft production that ended up in a stock music library It's a mash-up of two Kraftwerk songs (Musique Non Stop and Sex Object). Both came out in 1986. KITH have sampled Kraftwerk before, IIRC.
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No. 9 posted:It's a mash-up of two Kraftwerk songs (Musique Non Stop and Sex Object). Both came out in 1986. KITH have sampled Kraftwerk before, IIRC. It isn't really a case of just sampling though. The KITH track and Harlem Heat theme are identical. KOTH is Canadian, and WCW was a wrestling promotion headquartered in Atlanta, GA.
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OneTruePecos posted:puh-jah-muhs or puh-jam-uhs (if you're a weirdo). What's a bit odd is, in the area I grew up, people said it both ways. Sometimes in the same sentence. It was vexing. "Route" did the same thing. It could sound either way depending on what just happened to fall out of your mouth. I've noticed I have a contextual shift in the pronunciation. I'll say "rout" for a road name (Route 19) and "root" for a course of travel. I suspect it comes from the alliteration of saying something is "out on Route X."
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All of the Star Wars-related advertising is really bumming me out because it's all some variation of "You're old and you life sucks and is boring now, but when you were a kid Star Wars made you happy and you can recapture some of that magic with [product]" Especially the ones about parents pushing Star Wars on their kids because they liked it themselves when they were kids. computer parts posted:Classic example of market segmentation. A nice side effect of this is that sometimes the equivalent product is much cheaper than the one you're "supposed" to get, so as long as you don't mind floral designs you can save a bunch of money on an identical product. Also the entire "man cave" phenomena, which has basically become an excuse to sell interior decorating stuff to men at mark-up.
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Sash! posted:What's a bit odd is, in the area I grew up, people said it both ways. Sometimes in the same sentence. It was vexing. "Route" did the same thing. It could sound either way depending on what just happened to fall out of your mouth. I've noticed I have a contextual shift in the pronunciation. I'll say "rout" for a road name (Route 19) and "root" for a course of travel. I suspect it comes from the alliteration of saying something is "out on Route X." Same here (central NC), but at the same time no one would ever pronounce "router" as rooter. ^^^^ The Star Wars marketing saturation is itself a blast of nostalgia; I keep waiting for Burger King to announce a line of collectible cups or something.
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OneTruePecos posted:I keep waiting for Burger King to announce a line of collectible cups or something. No it's Subway this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRvs4a5ak44
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This monstrosity just popped up on Hulu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpJVUa1JCdo Canned Panda fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Dec 21, 2015 |
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Dec 21, 2015 22:12
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Canned Panda posted:This monstrosity just popped up on Hulu at least it's short
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Dec 21, 2015 22:55
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Pierce and Pierce posted:Seriously, gently caress whoever came up with the Geico Peter Pan commercial
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CapnAndy posted:What is wrong with that commercial, I truly do not get it. Is it that Peter's annoying? Because Peter Pan is supposed to be an obnoxious little dickbag, he is literally perpetually 12. Yeah, even in the Disney movie he's a dick, he's even worse in the book and in that old Fox cartoon nobody but me remembers.
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raditts posted:Yeah, even in the Disney movie he's a dick, he's even worse in the book and in that old Fox cartoon nobody but me remembers. I remember Peter Pan & Wendy. The thing that bugs me the most about that commercial is that he sings the lyrics wrong.
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OneTruePecos posted:Same here (central NC), but at the same time no one would ever pronounce "router" as rooter. Never thought of that before, but you're completely right.
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Dec 22, 2015 04:09
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Canned Panda posted:I remember Peter Pan & Wendy. Peter Pan and the Pirates
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Canned Panda posted:The thing that bugs me the most about that commercial is that he sings the lyrics wrong. ok good it isn't just me. Also the way he says BILLLLLLLLL is so grating. I know that's the point, but still.
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The kid from that commercial is in the trailer for the Preacher tv series so hopefully he dies when Genesis blows up the town.
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raditts posted:Yeah, even in the Disney movie he's a dick, he's even worse in the book and in that old Fox cartoon nobody but me remembers. If that's really what he's supposed to be like, go back to the drawing board and make a new drat commercial then. Why would you have an obnoxious dickhead in your ad unless said dickhead was using the competitor's product?
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ElwoodCuse posted:If that's really what he's supposed to be like, go back to the drawing board and make a new drat commercial then. Why would you have an obnoxious dickhead in your ad unless said dickhead was using the competitor's product? Because when you're Peter Pan, you're an obnoxious dickhead. It's what you do.
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ElwoodCuse posted:If that's really what he's supposed to be like, go back to the drawing board and make a new drat commercial then. Why would you have an obnoxious dickhead in your ad unless said dickhead was using the competitor's product? Yeah it's not like Geico has ever made commercials with obnoxious characters
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DJExile posted:ok good it isn't just me. Also the way he says BILLLLLLLLL is so grating. I know that's the point, but still. What really freaks me out is he is one of the kid vampires in this season of American Horror Story.
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raditts posted:Peter Pan and the Pirates Well, maybe I don't remember it as well as I thought. But I do remember it.
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DJExile posted:ok good it isn't just me. Also the way he says BILLLLLLLLL is so grating. I know that's the point, but still.
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The commercial wouldn't be *as* bad (but still bad) if it ran for a month or so. Instead it's at just about every commercial break and has been for like 6 months at least. Just nuke it already (and the "lol tiny nyc apartment" one too; that one's even worse) and bring back the Gallagher ad.
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MisterZimbu posted:Just nuke it already (and the "lol tiny nyc apartment" one too; that one's even worse) and bring back the Gallagher ad. I vote to bring back Ickey Woods. "WOO! Gon' get some COLD CUTS today!"
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Keep Ickey, keep Kenny Rogers, keep Europe (if you must), throw the rest out.
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The problem with Geico is that they launch about 20 ad campaigns per year and the second someone admits one of them is good they commission 10 more commercials on that theme, so that even the good ones eventually get completely unbearable. It's so baldfaced and soulless that it's like the Oatmeal of car insurance
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remember when they made an entire abc show based on it which got canceled like three episodes in
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WescottF1 posted:I vote to bring back Ickey Woods. I hate that one more than the Peter Pan one. The Dikembe Mutombo one is the best. "NO NO NO. NOT TODAY."
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I like Ickey Woods but hate the Kenny Rogers one with a passion.
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raditts posted:I hate that one more than the Peter Pan one.  gently caress yo cereal.
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I always thought the Little Piggy commercials were far worse and insufferable than the Peter Pan commercial (which I happen to like). He went from a literal storybook little piggy going "WHEEEEE!" to a piggy going "WHEEEEE!" as a too cool teenage pig being dropped off from school to an insufferable condescending assbag that likes to point out that if you don't have the Geico app on your phone, you might as well kill yourself.
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