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  • EricR said:
    Dude, when I pause it it gives me embed code. That's just mean!
    Posted: 3 years 30 weeks ago
  • EricR said:
    Gosh, you know, you lay half of Copenhagen and suddenly everyone thinks their babies are yours... Yes, that ad is 100% true-to-life. I love me some hygge. And by "hygge" I mean sexual intercourse with easy Scandinavians.
    Posted: 3 years 35 weeks ago
  • EricR said:
    Seriously, I think Denmark punk'd the world with this one.
    Posted: 3 years 35 weeks ago
  • EricR said:
    You're famous! What's a pink paper? Are they homosexuals? Why were people posting pictures from Iraq on a post about Tibet and a Swedish ad campaign?
    Posted: 4 years 40 weeks ago
  • EricR said:
    That's exactly the problem. But advertising has always tried to convince you that a certain product is somehow rebellious, and it's always (or almost always) bullshit because buying products from major corporations is inherently unrebellious. It's like the ad people are either too stupid to realize this themselves, or, more likely, assume that their intended audience is too stupid to notice. With the whole Scion thing, I wonder if the target audience is so young and maleducated that the latter might actually be a correct assumption. Which is to say, either stupid people with sophomoric senses of humor who are too dumb to understand they're being manipulated will be influenced in their purchasing decisions by this ad, or the ad will be a failure and actually backfire as people get resentful for being so nakedly manipulated. The whole sheep thing is so played out, anyway. If you're doing what the corporations tell you to, you're the fucking sheep.
    Posted: 5 years 44 weeks ago
  • Awesome.
    Posted: 6 years 34 weeks ago
  • I wonder if you can get one with a "fatting" feature.
    Posted: 6 years 34 weeks ago
  • The paper later published an apology to the author, readers, and energy company for the ad placement, claiming they had not checked the content of the ad. Must not be a popular newspaper. Apparently, even the employees of the paper don't read it.
    Posted: 7 years 16 weeks ago
  • The article linked mentions the oft-cited example of the Chevy "Nova" translating to "doesn't go" in Spanish, which is something of a falsehood. "No va" does means "it doesn't go", but the word "nova" means the same thing in Spanish as it does in English - the explosion of a dying star. So the name probably didn't really have much effect on sales in Spanish speaking countries.
    Posted: 9 years 30 weeks ago
  • Wow, I didn't notice that the nokia link went to Ad-Rag. I am completely agnostic about whether or not the Puma ads are real or fake, I just wouldn't put anything past the corporate world. That said, that must have been some funny photo shoot...
    Posted: 10 years 5 weeks ago