leemond2008 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 People with no hood or umbrella who duck in the rain. It makes no difference. I've said this one before but when it's hammering down and people decide to run to their destination, if it's raining that hard if doesn't matter if your outside for 30 seconds or 30 minutes Once you get to your destination you can dry though. Shirley you would want to get there sooner? rubbish, embrace the rain, one of the few times in life I feel really happy is when I get caught in a massive downpour and I just stroll about watching all the other ants panicking like they are going to drown to death 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I do my hair all nice though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 **** your hair, man up grow a beard and stop being ghey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Skin is waterproof and if it ain't raining , it ain't training . That's what my NCO's used to tell us anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Peoples reaction to a sainsburys advert trying to then explain why it's pissed them off so much it's made them feel nauseous? I feel nauseous when I get kicked in the balls, or have too beer or ice cream, or eat a dodgy curry, or all of those together. Be a better writer FFs, dumb ass journalist. I'm no linguist but it's bs and they get paid loads. Maybe my stomach is much more robust than journalists. And on that subject if someone says "yeah that advert wasn't a great idea because wwi was essentially and still is a misunderstood war which had such huge loss of life in the name of long and country that it's a very touchy subject and probably best left alone altogether" then fine War is always awful but if you've ever watched a war film, watched a documentary or read a book on it, someone's profited and nearly always a corporation. Hell, discovery hit £1.5bn last year for all their channels, so what profit is okay if you learn something but not if you buy something? It's the same thing, it's a pound sign that goes to a share holder or board. Legismising profit based on what individuals believe is morally right is bull. Fact is that I don't think this debate would even be happening if it was something set in WWII, I think the First World War has a real "ugly duckling" about it. People are still questioning what good game out of it. I guess that's because it is easier with ww2. You had genocide and ideological fascists sweeping the globe. The the whole bull crap "oh this advert just tries to pull on your emotions to make you shop there". Seriously people are that unaware of marketing and how it works. All marketing does that unless it's crap. Jeesh the best ones of all are charities themselves "help us with £3 a month or this poor kid dies, and this one and this one" emotional guilt designed for impact to make a certain percentage of people actually pay £3 a month. Crickey a prime time slot regionally for a week can cost you best part of £100k, and that's for a small region. Charity is competitive and unfortunately it's run as business, only so many each person can donate to. So anyway, yeah if you got a problem with sainsburys using the First World War as an unwise choice for their Christmas advert, all good. But many of the comments I have been reading about why people think its so wrong, is pretty much laughable and makes me angry to the point I want to tell them that if they don't want to be marketed to they should Not use facebook, not use chrome, go on a computer course so they know what cookies are, unregister from cashback sites, not have a smartphone win a Google account linked to it, pretty much visit any website which has Google universal analytics installed and install any apps on their phone which requires access to any information on their phone. Also do not have Gps running on your phone.... Ever. Alongside this. I mean crikey we are about a year away of being able to search for something online on a phone, login to our home computer and see a nice advert saying whether you still want to buy it. Then half an hour later when you're watching TV there will be an advert for the brand who makes the product you've just been looking at, specifically to you, and depending on a set of behavioural factors there may or may not be a discount or added value proposition there for you. Sorry I've been very ill this week and that was one helluva cabin fever post. I need to have my antibiotics now. And probably therapy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dAVe80 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Damn you Troon! Beat me to it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 The Sainsbury's ad is as crass as shit when you think about the fact that they are using trench warfare to sell food but then again all consumerism is crass . I won't be losing sleep over it at all but when you really dig deep it really is a strange piece of marketing . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I had to sit down last night and explain the whole football match during the middle of a war to my 6 year old god son last night, I actually didn't even realize it was a sainsbury's advert, cant say I really give a shit about the advert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 The Sainsbury's ad is as crass as shit when you think about the fact that they are using trench warfare to sell food but then again all consumerism is crass . I won't be losing sleep over it at all but when you really dig deep it really is a strange piece of marketing . That reminds me I've run out of mustard , thanks Sainsbury's 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ismail-villa Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 That advert was brilliant imo, not because of the attention it's drawn for Sainsbury's but because of the message it sent to the viewer. Much better than the John Lewis advert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 That advert was brilliant imo, not because of the attention it's drawn for Sainsbury's but because of the message it sent to the viewer. Much better than the John Lewis advert. you mean the sexual penguin advert? god I **** hate penguins, I will kill one some day, hopefully it'll be the little bastard that bit me...how long do penguins live for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 It's more about the fact people say things like "Consumerism is awful! Sent from my iPhone" "Profiteering from war like this is wrong, nothing like the documentary series on discovery" "Business using their links with charities for PR is wrong" (but the other way round is completely fine)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 It's more about the fact people say things like "Consumerism is awful! Sent from my iPhone" "Profiteering from war like this is wrong, nothing like the documentary series on discovery" "Business using their links with charities for PR is wrong" (but the other way round is completely fine)? Modern life is both brilliant and atrocious at the same time . So is humanity . It can be both you know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Modern life is both brilliant and atrocious at the same time . So is humanity . It can be both you know. PARKLIFE 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I am very self aware most of the time. I know I'm a hypocrit and probably throughout my posts have at some point referred to myself in some indirect capacity as someone that p*sses me off. people can have a go at the content of an advert for a reason which makes little sense when looking at it in isolation. Reminds me of a rather humorous photo of the anti globalisation/capitalist protests in London and captioning people with various items and beverages of global corporations. Summed up by that picture of doogle and ted outside that cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 myself for knowing better. I foolishly agreed to upgrade an online dating profile 6 months ago, thinking I would do it just the once to see if it was any better ( not really, total waste of money ) and thought nothing more of it until the **** billed me for the second "renewal" of this. I hate the **** opportunistic exploitation of the psychology of inertia by these tremendous words removed, but I am more annoyed by myself for making a rookie mistake. Didn't stop me sending possibly the angriest complaint message to the **** this evening when I realised it, closely followed by the realisation that I've been simmering with rage recently. **** business. **** the words removed who don't provide a simple notification email " you're account is due for renewal one week from today" for example ( a suggestion I made punctuated by more unrepeatable words ) to give customers a chance. **** the fact that I know full well the **** do that on purpose to get people hooked in. It's socially irresponsible, a **** exploitation of the market and some ideological construct that all humans always make rational decisions - that they are econs with full responsibility for every decision they make and **** them if they make mistakes no sense of **** taking any responsibility ( seriously - just one **** warning email ) , nah just **** all those silly stupid people who forget to cancel subscriptions - it's their fault - they are always free to cancel after all so we're not doing anything wrong - technically - blah blah blah I WANT TO SAVAGELY ABUSE THEM WITH A RUSTY **** POLE. words removed. It was £40, which is insane when you think about it for the service provided, but **** me I'm bored of these words removed. **** them all. **** me for falling for it initially. I am an idiot, people are idiots and there's no regulation or protection against idiocy. EVERYONE IN BUSINESS IS A word removed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leemond2008 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I think my laptop has just died from an STD it has just shut itself off and doesn't want to play anymore, it wants to get itself going again, I've got **** hours worth of porn on it...literally about 7 years worth, I will be gutted if it's dead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 "Put your feet up and watch Villa score while you enjoy a brew with this 1874 mug" http://shop.avfc.co.uk/shop/aston-villa-1874-mug/index.html Basically you can enjoy a brew every month and a bit. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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