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― estela, Friday, 25 September 2009 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you for indulging my vacuum cleaners
― my other display name is a controversial mod edit (sarahel), Friday, 25 September 2009 09:59 (fourteen years ago) link
thank you for indulging my interest in your posting total.
― estela, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Straight one is like a straight, "You suck."
Flying one is like someone in a sing-song voice, "You suuUUUuuuUuuck!"
― bamcquern, Friday, 25 September 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
well, it has multiple connotations. It could be interpreted as "you suck," but as the vacuum cleaner is the thing doing the sucking, it could just as easily connote "i suck," or "this sucks"
― my other display name is a controversial mod edit (sarahel), Friday, 25 September 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
pol·y·se·mous (pl-sms)adj.Having or characterized by many meanings:
― I ♠ my display name (sarahel), Friday, 25 September 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i love what bamcquern said
i saw that yellow dyson at the store this morning
― heave haw (roxymuzak), Friday, 25 September 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i love it too.
― estela, Friday, 25 September 2009 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
meanwhile - over a million facebook users have become fans of vitaminwater
― sarahel, Monday, 19 October 2009 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
damn them
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently vitamin water is successful enough that some other company has come out with vitamintea
― sarahel, Monday, 19 October 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
sue them
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
both products have the same sans-serif font product label thing going on. The vitamintea (one word) company is "Pureamerican" - which makes me wonder whether sans-serif fonts in food packaging and in supermarkets are supposed to connote organic-ness and purity or something.
― sarahel, Monday, 19 October 2009 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
sure!
― e\m/ily (roxymuzak), Thursday, 22 October 2009 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
did innocent smoothies invent that thing where every product label acts like ur pal. kept expecting the directions on the frozen pizza box 2 call me "bro," prolly serves me right for reading them tho
― plaques (I know, right?), Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno - Odwalla juice did this quite a while ago. That was the first time I noticed it. I read these things as well.
― sarahel, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
btw happy birthday u r awesome!
― plaques (I know, right?), Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks!
This is from a bottle of "Honest Ade Superfruit Punch"
Not all superheroes are real (we're pretty sure Green Lantern doesn't exist), but our Superfruit Punch is nothing but real. The dynamic duo in this drink is blah blah blah ingredients blah blah nutritional benefits blah blah description of product made to sound enticing.
― sarahel, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
whoever invented this shit should be killed immediately
― plaques (I know, right?), Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
tell me about innocent smoothies.
― sarahel, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
they are cunty and expensive but irresistibly delicious
― plaques (I know, right?), Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
what does the packaging say though?
― sarahel, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
happy birthdayi also totally hate when ad copy pretends it cares about you
― harbl, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
oh they have this thing where they go 28 grapes! 5 apples! 6 strawberries! and no bungalows! and ur meant to be like "oh shiz i didn't see that coming!"
― plaques (I know, right?), Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate products with annoying stupid names that it almost triggers a fit of self-loathing to even say to yourself, let alone out loud.
― sarahel, Saturday, 7 November 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
current ad copy placed on each label of Arrowhead:
THE ULTIMATE HYDRATORArrowhead brand mountain spring water has no calories, and we do not add anything: no sweeteners, no caffeine, no sodium - it's pure refreshment that quenches your thirst and replenishes your body. Be Healthy.
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 8 November 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
This bag of Doritos has this inspirational story about a kid on the back, but I can't get past the bold type on bright yellow that says:
Buddy Booby'sBirthmark Read Along
― sarahel, Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
In the Mouth of Madness.
― pringles and loving it (latebloomer), Sunday, 8 November 2009 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
When it comes to juice we understand your need to get Naked.
― sarahel, Sunday, 8 November 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
50cent owns vitamin water?
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 12 December 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
do you not listen to rap music?
I took quarter water, sold it in bottles for two bucks/Coca-Cola came and bought it for billions, what the fuck?
― can you eat baconator? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 December 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmuH0H7u6u8
― can you eat baconator? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 December 2009 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, when u said that line i realised i knew it but i didn't like that song and it never i dunno sunk in which is weird cos its pretty wtf
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 12 December 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF020-Skub.gif
― =皿= (dyao), Sunday, 20 December 2009 07:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i45.tinypic.com/2v12reh.jpg
why are there dog sweaters all of a sudden? People have had dogs for centuries. People have knitted sweaters for centuries. Why dog sweaters now?
― sarahel, Monday, 28 December 2009 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
The only thing I can think of to explain this, is the increased anthropomorphization of pets, especially dogs, which includes talking about them as if they were one's children, social networking sites for pets, bringing dogs to work, restaurants, etc.
― sarahel, Monday, 28 December 2009 08:25 (fourteen years ago) link
The As Seen On TV store I work at has dog Snuggies. I got one for my sister's dog this Christmas as a gag gift.
― hear shart attack (latebloomer), Monday, 28 December 2009 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
this?
http://brandonreed.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/dog-snuggie.jpg
― sarahel, Monday, 28 December 2009 09:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yep!
― hear shart attack (latebloomer), Monday, 28 December 2009 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah - it's gotta be some anthropomorphizing desire. Someone suggested that it had to do with people having breeds of dogs as pets that aren't "native" to the particular climate, but I've seen long-haired dogs in dog sweaters, and I live in the Bay Area which has a pretty mild climate as it is.
― sarahel, Monday, 28 December 2009 09:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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almost all these vacuums have clear parts, which often seem to connote a need for the user of the product to see it working.
― sarahel, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
gross
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
will probably inculcate the buyer with insecurities about the cleanliness of their vacuum cleaner, necessitating the need to buy a smaller, opaque vacuum cleaner to keep their big vacuum cleaner clean
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
sadly i recognize that price tag+ store fixtures as being from Bed Bath and Beyond.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it's meant to scare the buyer straight. at a glance, s/he can witness the buildup of dust, pubes, dead bugs, foot particles, etc. all over the floor. overcome by horror and nausea, the buyer vows to pull out the vacuum at the merest hint of uncleanliness, lest the floor grime should turn sentient and devour all the neighborhood children. the overused vacuum will wear out and need to be replaced sooner than usual, putting more money in Mr. Bissel's wallet.
― un(!)registered (unregistered), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
also - corndogs - is there a relation between the popularity of corndogs with hipsters and the way they "perform" masculinity?
― i don't know whether it's really popular in Canada as well (sarahel), Monday, June 21, 2010 1:57 PM (4 minutes
i think this post fits better in this thread
― i don't know whether it's really popular in Canada as well (sarahel), Monday, 21 June 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
has the innocent smoothies semiotic mode crossed the atlantic?
Does the entire Innocent Smoothies aesthetic strike you as deeply fucking irritating?
would it be considered too 'pretentious' for american consumers?
― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 20 July 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
things that announce themselves as things
things that want you to like them
― the most promising US ilxor has thrown the TOWEL IN (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 20 July 2013 01:58 (ten years ago) link
I sorta catch on to what's happening there. It's become so ubiquitous since the late 90s that I hardly notice it anymore. One of those annoying things in pubic that's become so commonplace that my brain has learned to accept it, like people talking on their cellphones.
is there a US brand that pulls this kind of stuff?
― goole, Monday, March 19, 2012 11:20 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
said it in the thread I think but fuck the assholes who write copy for Groupon gave me a p similar vibe
― Cantera: Vulgar Display Of Puyol (DJ Mencap), Monday, March 19, 2012 1:54 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^ Good answer.
― pplains, Saturday, 20 July 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
― hear shart attack (latebloomer)
XD
― imago, Saturday, 20 July 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link