hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha you couldn't make it up :D
― the juddering triumph of camembert (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i36.tinypic.com/24w7x1d.jpg
― provates: feminine plural of provato (sarahel), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait lol maybe you could
awesome
― the juddering triumph of camembert (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway, being entirely serious here, these are unconscionable
― the juddering triumph of camembert (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Mobile phone adverts remind me of the first time I saw a Sunny Delight ad in this country - no longer available apparently since being regraded as an industrial cleaning fluid. Anyhoo, there's the advert with this kid going in his mate's fridge and saying, in the most stilted child actorly way possible, "SUNNY D! COOL! I WILL HAVE TO CONSUME ONE OF THESE COOL DRINKS IF I WANT TO BE COOL LIKE THE COOL KIDS IN MY SCHOOL WHO ARE COOL" And I remember thinking 'jesus not even 7 year-olds are gonna fall for this shite'. But I was wrong, y'see. So now when I see a mobile phone ad trying to instil a fake sense of community and cool thru the medium of running up vast unpayable lakes of debt in the space of a couple of months and listening to terrible fucking music I don't think 'jesus not even the most bell-end-brained 16 year-old in the world is gonna fall for this shit' because I work with these bell-end-brained monsters, whose genetic code was fucked on Sunny D and is now being dissolved in a 16 tins a day Relentless habit, so fuck 'em they deserve every last inch of corporate eye-shafting they're gonna take for the rest of their lives.
― Death to False Meta (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
At least Relentless has a specialised aesthetic. These bastards are going for the universal in the crassest manner imaginable.
― the juddering triumph of camembert (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.rhube.com/wp-content/mytouch.JPG
― sarahel, Monday, 16 November 2009 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ an ad very similar to this was in the window of a cell phone store in San Francisco, adjacent to Good Vibrations - contextually, you could interpret this as mobile phone = masturbatory aid
― sarahel, Monday, 16 November 2009 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i561.photobucket.com/albums/ss51/tr_fudge/t-mobile_mytouch_3g_celebrity_adver.jpg
― hell yeah give me some more english language i want all of it (tremendoid), Monday, 16 November 2009 09:27 (fourteen years ago) link
jordan those are his real legs look upon them
― hell yeah give me some more english language i want all of it (tremendoid), Monday, 16 November 2009 09:49 (fourteen years ago) link
whose real legs, bendy thinlegs giantchest man, or crumpledlegs mcstumpy?
― George Mucus (ledge), Monday, 16 November 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
pls have national identity in an ad with rly bad song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuKpJv0PlSE
― wilter, Monday, 16 November 2009 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
The logistics of the o2 gimp's plan to start a superband confuse me
This decade really made it OK for men to have curly hair and wear cardigans, huh
― MPx4A, Monday, 16 November 2009 10:57 (fourteen years ago) link
For me, it's not the outfit that is offensive, shit but not offensive. It's the total look of amazement that he could text all of his musician buddies, and they'd all come rushing over to start a great new band.. but only if his mobile provider gave him free texts for life. Just so annoying.
― mmmm, Monday, 16 November 2009 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I know this isn't the kind of thing to be seen saying on ILX, but drownedinsound OTM:
if i had free texts for life and limited myself to texting "wanna form a superband?" to the 20+ musicians i have the numbers of, that would be rather a waste of what would amount to about £2-3 worth of texts
let me get this straight: you need free texts for life before you can afford to text a load of musicians to start a band. how are you going to afford all the equipment, practice room booking and other costs associated with being in a band? i don't realy think you've thought this through
He's in a local band but I've never bothered to see them despite having been told a few times that they are the best local band since like ever, which is generally a pretty good way of making me not at all bothered about seeing a band.
― subtyll cauillacyons (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 16 November 2009 11:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Exhibit IIIJJJ: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=1123449&boardid=77&threadid=65343
― the juddering triumph of camembert (acoleuthic), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
^ 324,311 people are fans of Verizon
― sarahel, Monday, 16 November 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
it will bring them ROMANCE in the same way that 3 brought us FREEDOM and Samsung brought us PARTIES
― the juddering triumph of camembert (acoleuthic), Monday, 16 November 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
waiting for a cell phone to bring us HEALTH
― sarahel, Monday, 16 November 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
holy motherfucking hell
― a used up cumrag who now plays NFL for the Bengals (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Life B.B. (Before Blackberry)
― sarahel, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i45.tinypic.com/2hnwd4x.jpg
I think the largest text says "the universal is personal"
The guys wearing the cell phone billboards on their backs asked if I was taking pictures. I said yes. They asked if I worked for T-Mobile (they have a store across the street, these walking billboard guys are from AT&T). I said no. They said it was okay to take their picture.
― sarahel, Friday, 4 December 2009 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link
'aim your fruit here'
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 December 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i actually went a few blocks out of my way to take this picture.
― sarahel, Friday, 4 December 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
my dumb short-story is actually happening
― a. cole, u thic (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 December 2009 02:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Precisely!
― sarahel, Friday, 4 December 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
This is dramatisation. Please do not imitate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiITXFVBy-o
― What a wonderful vocabulary word! (acoleuthic), Monday, 7 December 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
those "Why Phone You" ads are everywhere - bus shelters, billboards, everywhere.
― sarahel, Monday, 7 December 2009 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks to the crossover masculinity marketing thread...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLDxv9ohH2s&feature=player_embedded
i think this actually pushes every single button i possess
― 102. LJ: British. 5. (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
this is NOT ILTMI!!!!
― sarahel, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lol I was just skimming a paper on this the other day
http://www.umsl.edu/~mjanson/myarticles/D__SIGPHL02-1364.pdf
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
there is no way that vodaphone dude hanging himself ad plays anywhere in america
― famous tuamos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 06:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://broccolicity.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/iphone20costume203-dog.jpg
― famous tuamos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 06:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/images/set3/ipod_dogcostume.jpg
― famous tuamos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 06:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.ikeepadiary.com/diary/2007/2007_10_27.Halloween_2007/images/IMG_2459.jpg
Whiney you are a genius!
― sarahel, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 06:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i31.tinypic.com/24ebdhc.jpg
― sarahel, Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
We brought this upon ourselves.
― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
it's true - we're giving them ideas itt
― sarahel, Saturday, 24 July 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe we should come up with really outlandish ideas and see if they get implemented?
― sarahel, Saturday, 24 July 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
like a campaign that involves an inflatable ass that clenches and unclenches to demonstrate the sliding mechanism of the sliding phone - you know, for all your booty call needs?
― sarahel, Saturday, 24 July 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
wait so do people really refer to their phones as "cellies"?!!!
― Gregory Bateson is always appropriate (sarahell), Wednesday, 24 July 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
anyone going to MWC this year think it's actually going to take place?
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/7/21127891/ericsson-mobile-world-congress-coronavirus-mwc-conference
― Fizzles, Friday, 7 February 2020 21:01 (four years ago) link