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Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Scientific Community Baffled By Man Whose Waist 32 With Some Pants, 33 With Others

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May 15, 2012

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

That was just one example. Those movies have a higher bodycount than the Civil War, most of the deaths are pretty horrible and a good number of the victims didn't deserve it. Flipping out and calling it THE WORST MOVIE EVER over one dog kinda misses the forest for the blood-soaked trees. But whatever, let's not carry this derail any further.

During the Iraq War, a lot of New Zealanders started boycotting American products in protest. This led to a lot of companies removing "American" from the names of their products, and KFC temporarily rebranding itself as "Kiwi For Chicken!"

Now that we're buddy-buddy with the US again, they're all trying to pretend it never happened. Even google can't dredge up a single relevant "Kiwi For Chicken!" result, but it was everywhere at the time. It must have cost them millions in advertising.

http://cargocollective.com/jamesbowman/KFC-Kiwi-For-Chicken

Tunicate
May 15, 2012


Reminds me of this old internet story

quote:

This girl came up to me at a gas station and told me she ran out of gas and asked me if I'd give her five dollars. I told her I'd give her ten, but she had to trade me for a hug. When she hugged me I whispered, "You're a whore now."

I like helping people.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

MonkeyHate posted:

At work I just received a package - looks and feels like a book. Cover is blue sky and mountains. Open it up, and inside the cover is a photo of skydivers. EXTREME skydivers. With snowboards! One skydiver holds out his hand like I'm supposed to high five the page.

But it's not a book, because over where the pages would be is a ~10" HD video screen and a speaker. It starts playing automatically and loudly. A bro dude does a backflip. The music is a "bodies hit the floor" knock off. Somebro backflips into a BASE jump. Quick cut to slo-mo high five Tokyo drifting. A mountain bike ziplines through fire. Wingsuit guy big air kiteboard backflip. Let us allow the persons to go down onto the ground. Surfing high five motocross backflip. Bikini ladies backflip. Blue sky. Corporate logo.

What were they earnestly trying to sell me? Gopro cameras? Sporting goods? Or was it Oracle development contracting services? Surely not the latter. Surely not.

Got a photo of it?

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Webpage design is evidently not a bullshit job.

Also, he says telemarketers are highly paid.

Tunicate has a new favorite as of 21:09 on Jun 2, 2015

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

As far as banner ads go 'we sell this, have a coupon code' is how I think everyone should do it.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

One way mirrors are called that because they are only a mirror in one direction.

A window would be a zero-way mirror :smuggo:

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May 15, 2012

DrBouvenstein posted:

You know, I gotta say that the seafood industry convincing the public that lobster is FANCY, and rich people food that you pay a premium for, and not literal bottom-feeding, sea-cockroach, trash-food that the poor working class at one point refused to eat was a pretty damned GOOD move in marketing.

Literally the only primary source for that is stories told by some really old guys about things back in their day.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Ignite Memories posted:

Seriously. Marketers don't like talking about it, but Millenials are loving broke and saddled with huge amounts of debt. Maybe Gen Y'ers want expensive organic artisanal ingredients and poo poo, but Millenials just want more pizza than the other guy will give them for the same price.

The dumb move in marketing I saw from pizza hut was getting an ad that said

"$11 ANY pizza. Yes, you read that right. ANY Pizza."

*Additional charge for stuffed crust.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Archeage community blew up when they tried to lure back past-subscribers by giving them the expensive status symbol riding dolphin.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Hitler B. Natural posted:

Everything about this advert



edit: this one also



Wait, that's not one of those aggro-gator ads?

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

UraniumFuelElement posted:

At least it will make stealing your phone way easier for pickpockets.

Yeah bu it'll give the cops an easier time with the paperwork.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

The Altitudes East air carrier conference has an interesting choice of banner

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

https://twitter.com/Discover/status/854802781097656324

(image in case they take it down )


"Discover: Why not get hosed by us?"

Tunicate has a new favorite as of 18:38 on Apr 22, 2017

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:

What would cause that sort of damage beyond deliberate tampering? Genuine question because I thought professional golf clubs would not break easily. Bend maybe, but for that many to break?

Precariously balanced on the edge of a forklift, as forklift goes towards the plane the luggage it falls off halfway and gets crunched.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Krispy Kareem posted:

My in-laws started doing this with my nephews. Stupidest loving concept ever. Right up there with Easter gifts. I feel so old and crotchety.


What you didn't get any easter chocolate? Your parents must have been mean.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

TontoCorazon posted:

How'd he get his hands on your Ferrari?

Because the us doesn't have a single payer system to give the doctor a government ferrari.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

food court bailiff posted:

Yeah, uh, he didn't seem to be attacking the poor at all? They were informative posts even if you don't agree with their conclusions. TB just went loving ~~crazy~~.

Like, how do you get in a slapfight with Pick and walk away looking like the crazier poster? :psyduck:

I mean it's not as bad a meltdown as losing a slapfight to LoB but it's pretty close.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Taeke posted:

Can I stop now, please?

Where the gently caress is Say Nothing when you really need them?

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

The euphemism treadmill is an inevitability - you can yell as much as you want but the treadmill won't stop and people won't stop running.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

SpacePig posted:

Are you a teetotaler or something?

Pregnant women can touch as much booze as they want, they just shouldn't drink it.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

SpacePig posted:

Is there a second, almost identical, but also wrong flow chart under this one?

The original one has all the 'no' and 'yes' ones point to 'visit the am/pm organic cafe'

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Tiggum posted:

The one I always find strangest is the one where you can print off stamps at home (or something like that), which I guess is for people running a business from their home and needing to mail out a lot of packages? What percentage of the podcast-listening audience are in the market for that service? The recruitment company also seems a bit odd, because that also seems like a pretty niche market that could be targeted more effectively in some other medium.

also you can do it directly through the usps website OR get a discount by doing them through paypal

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Somehow its inevitable that SA is key to every development leading us into Hell World.

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May 15, 2012

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May 15, 2012

Pastry of the Year posted:

you wanna know some insanely insecure tacticool poo poo? there's a "thin yellow line" variant of those flags and Punisher skulls for rent-a-cops and "loss prevention officers"



you spend all day watching monitors to make sure teenagers don't steal Pokemon cards and Pringles, you're not fuckin' Robocop

hello friends,

Last year I made the decision to trust my life on the street to Second Chance body armor. I got the level IIa because it stops the most rounds. plus I got the Trauma Plate for the front.

What scares me is that, although I can fit an extra trauma plate in the front, I cannot fit a second one in back. As of late I have taken to duct-taping a second trauma plate to the area of my back where the heart and vital organs are located. Then I put my vest on.

Here is the questions. The ducttape solution, although tactically sound, is hot and painful to remove. I would like to go to the single-plate solution in back. What I am worried about is repeated hits to that area with .308 ammunition. I have a high-risk security job and I fear that I would be the target for repeated long-distance shots to my back.

Are any of you aware of a thicker plate that could stop, say, .338 Lapua or something like that? Is there a better way to do the second plate?

BTW, I am, of course, usually carrying a pair of ceramic plates in my briefcase so that I can shield my head. My SO (we work as a team when necessary) has a similar accessory containing a breakdown NEF single-shot 300 WinMag with an 18" bbl. The plan is that I shield us with my body and “catch the rounds” while she assembles the NEF. I lay down covering fire with my 23 (Bar-Sto .357 Sig barrel) and she makes the long shots. I will then throw smoke grenades to obscure the area while continuing to lay covering fire. The problem, of course, is when I have to turn my back to run, and then the problem crops up.

Thanks!

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

DUKE CANNON NEVER WANTS MORE THAN 20 PAGES PER BOOK, BOTH COLLECTIBLE AND HARDCOVER.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

So is this a recolored alibia dress or what?

Tunicate has a new favorite as of 01:19 on Mar 5, 2019

Tunicate
May 15, 2012


Yeah, imagine what the company's founder would have said if he were here today

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Tobermory posted:

Nah, Chipotle finally fixed their e coli problems. The one that just poisoned 600+ people in Ohio was clostridia, and I think the one before that was a norovirus.

honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it was deliberate sabotage. We've seen what types of people Subway is willing to work with in pursuit of greater profits

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

umalt posted:

Autistic People loving hate Autism Speaks because of that mentality. In addition to how Autism Speaks believes that Autism is a disease to be cured, rather than merely a different way that the human brain thinks (that happens to have difficulty coping with modern society).

I wouldn't go too overboard on that; severe autism is very much a disease, and being able to cure the people who require 24/7 support and supervision and are unable to learn how to speak would be amazing.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

The problem with this sort of discussion is that 'autistic' is used to describe a huge range of people, going from those who can live their lives with minimal accommodations at one end, all the way to people who are completely incapable of spoken language.

Which ends up with a lot of cross-talk because the people in the discussion aren't necessarily referring to the same thing when they say 'autistic'.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012


Yeah who the gently caress is named Claitze

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

HopperUK posted:

That makes a lot of sense. Frankly our colonial past is underhighlighted too. Hardly anyone here knows about the various atrocities committed by the British imperial state and it's hosed up.

That's because in the 1950s-1970s, the British realized that they'd been incredibly evil in the past, and put together a plan known as Operation Legacy. Fully backed by the British government, they made reparations destroyed all the evidence they could get their hands on.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Picnic Princess posted:

That reminds me that a local artist was commissioned by my city to do an underpass mural, and he did a series of portraits of local people.

Except he didn't. He stole a bunch of promotional headshots of performers for a Scottish festival.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/calgary-to-remove-public-art-installation-after-u-k-artist-finds-out-her-photo-was-filched

Public art initiatives like this are generally a way to channel government money to friends and failsons so I am unsurprised by the lack of oversight or basic quality control.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Anyone have a copy of that parody ad about some nebulous thing targeting small business owners, but every example given was always 'like a bakery'

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

I just saw a Coke Zero ad on youtube where the only text was 'finally a sequel that doesn't disappoint', and I'm not sure if dunking on the new star wars is a good move or a bad one, but dang

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

bob dobbs is dead posted:

Arizona Tea doesn't do anything but PR, iirc

And putting the 99 cents on the can itself so resellers need serious balls to mark it higher

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Bobby Digital posted:

I knew I took a screenshot for a reason




The controversy made a lot more sense in the original Greek.

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Tunicate
May 15, 2012

The multiple bonds theory is not only canon to the movies but the core plot of casino royale :colbert:

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