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Tardcore posted:I really like the new Little Caesars ad they've been showing. As my friend put it: "That was incredibly stupid, but I'm not going to forget it."
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Nerdfest X posted:I can't stand any commercial where the actor uses some long name, a prefix or suffix that no one in the real world uses when ordering a product. Nobody orders a "premium roasted coffee", nobody gives a gently caress what "premium roasted" means, and if they do they are not going to McDonalds for it. Same goes for "Ice Cold Coca Cola" and "triple thick shake". No one uses these terms except actors in your commercials, so just loving stop already. I dunno, I sometimes say "Mushroom and Swiss Angus Burger" but that's because I feel kind of like an rear end if I just say "number 11 meal" or whatever.
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Sash! posted:It doesn't even make sense to me as a Catholic. Fish is also supposed to be "healthy" so it also pushes to those people who are dumb enough to believe it while being lazy enough to not just buy their own fish.
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Vicas posted:The biggest problem I have with them is that the message is pretty blatantly "only a child would be stupid and shortsighted enough to use AT&T." No, it's "even a child gets that our poo poo is better you loving moron, go buy our phones".
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:I have been trying to wrap my brain around those Velveeta "eat like that guy you know" commercials. Are they supposed to be tongue in cheek, or is the company seriously advertising their product as allowing you to "eat like a limo driver or someone who works the helicopter kiosk at the mall." They're meant to get you talking about them, so you remember Velveeta and the next time you want a snack you think of Velveeta. They're working great.
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Magnatux posted:I wonder why anybody should buy stuff from companies that think: For everything not directly relating to something that interests me (but that I have to do) this is basically me.
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Kimmalah posted:Well you see, God helps those who help themselves...by forking over tons of cash to various people. Not charities though, He hates charity. It's literally the moneychangers part of the New Testament, which is funny as hell.
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Apr 8, 2013 22:42
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Tupping Liberty posted:Yeah, now that they can't do it on TV I have noticed they're really ramping up the volume on internet ads. Has that been put into place? I notice my local NBC station the volume varies wildly.
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DrBouvenstein posted:That drat 1800 tequila commercial where it "pours you a shot" is back, and it still makes no sense. Maybe it's one of those squeeze bottles?
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SubponticatePoster posted:If the Republicans would properly fund public broadcasting like pretty much every other civilized nation they wouldn't have to beg for pocket change twice a month They'd just do it anyway because hey free money and a culture of giving. I remember they're playing ads now about how people are so happy with PBS that they put them in their will, which is only a little creepy.
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Sagebrush posted:Prescription pharmaceutical advertising should be outlawed. It was until 1998.
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Chuck E. Cheese is a little too animated now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cI3DAhVb5w
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm still bemused by their strategy of naming ALL their products "Galaxy". I mean, they've got "Galaxy S" and "Galaxy Tablet" and whatever so I guess you use that, but then what is the point? It's a brand, some people ask for "the latest Galaxy phone" every two years whenever they upgrade. I remember people being asked about phone operating systems and aside from Apple the most popular options were "Droid", "Android", and "HTC".
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Mokinokaro posted:It also helps that they release a ridiculously high number of models and have a new phone out at least every six months. Last year they actually had 30 different models of phone released.
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bull3964 posted:It actually isn't just the pure number of models or components. The SGS3 specifically (that one model) has been the #1 selling smartphone and the SGS4 is on pace to beat it by a decent margin. That was for the quarter before the iPhone 5 launched specifically.
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Wagonburner posted:Has there ever been a TV commercial before for a hard drive or any kind of internal PC component? I've seen ads for motherboards before. Hell I've seen ads for Qualcom chips and you can't even buy those outside of a factory.
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Choco1980 posted:There's always a fad food trend that everything has to have, yet isn't exactly hard to utilize. I recall a few years back when suddenly mango was everywhere, which pissed me off because I can't have mangoes due to a medicinal interaction, so like every new food was something I certainly couldn't have. Pretzel bread is just the current one. Which actually saddens me because that means it will go away. Pretzel bread is tasty yo. Starting in a week or two thats going to be chicken wings (McDonald's is releasing the McWing or something like that) so that'll be an interesting fad.
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Choco1980 posted:I swear the food trends have been declining in exoticness to the US as well. Sure, for a while we had stuff like Acai berry that most people in the US had never heard of, let alone tasted, but now we just have like, different bread and stuff you find in the produce aisle. Watch, eventually it's going to be something super simple like apples or something treated as the hot new flavor. Considering that Greek Yogurt/Hummus/et all is less a food trend than an actual regular part of people's diet that might be technically true but not in the way you mean.
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muscles like this? posted:Speaking of weird food trends, looks like Burger King just upped the stakes, introducing a burger with french fries on it. I got a giftcard in the mail for a pizza burger from Boston's. Slight sidenote, but if you ever want to see sperging about fast food this site is pretty good.
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muscles like this? posted:Haven't cell phones been required to be 911 compliant for years now? Yes, but they have some bullshit reasoning, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwsjHpD9cLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKKtBQfUos
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Gonz posted:Death to Subway and Quiznos. Their sandwiches are okay but their meat is very weird.
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Mahoning posted:Insinuating that the Windows tablet comes with a keyboard (it doesn't) and/or the iPad isn't able to use a keyboard (it is). That and the keyboard in question costs $100.
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And now time for some unintentional racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVv9HIP0jLQ
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They have these for virtually every demographic now (thanks, ChristianMingle!).
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McSpanky posted:The day that the number sign becomes formally recognized as "hashtag" in the US, I'll see myself off the planet. To be fair, it's better than calling it the pound sign.
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Shawn posted:Anyone else see the new Thor 2 commercial with Loki talking to the kids like the guy from the AT&T commercial? I didn't just hallucinate that did I? It seems you are not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIhR5eObvmo
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FuzzySkinner posted:There's some Kay Jewler's ad that makes me laugh for unknown reason. I like the one with the mistletoe salesman that looks like Steve Ballmer.
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There appears to be a fad of "I want shiny thing, let me destroy my old thing to get it" ads. e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1RtRDjecxk
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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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reagan posted:My university switched to Office 365, and I'm sure they aren't the only ones to do so. Office365 is actually pretty tame as far as online services go. Go look up Adobe Creative Cloud for some real lovely service prices.
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The most likely scenario would be something similar to HP spinning off their medical devices into a separate company, although hopefully Microsoft isn't dumb enough to do that since their equivalent to that part of the company is basically the Office Team.
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Meltathon posted:Pretty much every "buy our product and we'll give money to [charity name here]" is a shameless cash grab. Remember all the [red] stuff from a few years back? If I remember right, that was actually worse for AIDS fundraising. And all the NFL stuff: 
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Mister Kingdom posted:How much do they gently caress you over with those deals anyway? Usually the way settlements work is that you're paid $X per month for however long (say 5 years). What they'll do is talk to the company, and have them give you $Y which might be greater than $X but they only have to pay it once. Then they probably skim 10% off so you may or may not actually get more than you were getting in a single month. e: based on this an example might be "Get $500/month for the next 35 years" or "Get $50,000 now, minus 10%".
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Meltathon posted:Are chocolate diamonds just trying to market really lovely diamonds? Put it this way - a decade ago they would be considered lovely diamonds, but other than color there's not really a difference.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Diamonds are good for cutting tools and drillbits but that's about it imo. Diamonds are pretty but so's lots of other stuff. If you want to give someone a pretty looking gem that's cheap nowadays you can just do Lapis Lazuli. It's even considered historically a rare gem on the level of sapphires so it's not like you're going cubic zirconium on your significant other.
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