Of shavers and men.

-wyvern · Post by **-wyvern** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 6:02 pm

Question: Does anyone like shaver adverts.

No, seriously.

I know I am being extremely petty when there are so many starving orphans and unplayed dreamcasts out there, but for some reason shaver adverts just send me over the edge. The adverts show you the awesome power, the technological sexiness, the techno soundtrack built into their product. But I just want to leap up and yell "You are trying to sell a green battery operated razor. SHUT THE F*** UP ABOUT THE INCREDIBLE CUTTING POWER OF THREE BLADE ACTION, DAMN IT!!!" and if there is no-one around, I frequently do.

So you can see that most shaver adverts do not really induce me to rush out and buy a mach tenthousand so that hot girls will come along and kiss my smooth, smooth chin - but I am reliably informed that I am different from most men anyway. So, I want to ask if any of the guys here see a gillette advert and actually find themselves inclined to choose that product, rather than so irritated by the shallowness of it all that they will choose an electric shaver from the bargin bin just to spite the advertising agency? If the latter, then why are these maddening ads still around? Explain.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 6:54 pm

I completely understand your frustration, but razor ads are certainly not the lone transgressor. I feel much the same way when I view just about any advertisement for any product. Even if I just sit down to eat some McDonald's and happen to read the utter bullshit they print all over the bag. Who finds this happy horseshit appealing? What kind of drooling fag-ass morons get paid to sit around and analyze elements which are supposedly appealing to people then mash that crippled research into the most god-fuck awful demeaning advertisements and corporate hot air imaginable? Advertising is designed not only to appeal to the ignorance and stupidity in average joe consumer, but also to induce such flaws in mental processing. It's far, far easier to sell to idiots.

You know what bothers me more than anything else? Advertisements always have smiling people, even if the grinning model has fuck all to do with the product in question. Obviously you'd expect to see pearly whites, say, in a toothpaste ad. But why do I need this beaming jackweed on this ad for some online clothing store, or this video-by-mail rental service? I guess I'm the exception, but I can't fucking stand to look at grinning people. I fucking hate broad, toothy grins and fucking, fucking hate laughing. Y'know, a subtle, conscious smile is certainly acceptable, even a subdued chuckle, but if your mouth is open wide enough to bite into a double cheeseburger, you are not being nearly self-conscious enough. All fucking ad models are like this. I guess they're told to look as fucking idiotic as they possibly can because evidently the vast majority of consumers enjoy looking down people's throats.

I fucking hate it all. I think I understand too much to function properly in society.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:12 pm

I completely understand your frustration, but razor ads are certainly not the lone transgressor. I feel much the same way when I view just about any advertisement for any product. Even if I just sit down to eat some McDonald's and happen to read the utter bullshit they print all over the bag. Who finds this happy horseshit appealing? What kind of drooling fag-ass morons get paid to sit around and analyze elements which are supposedly appealing to people then mash that crippled research into the most god-fuck awful demeaning advertisements and corporate hot air imaginable? Advertising is designed not only to appeal to the ignorance and stupidity in average joe consumer, but also to induce such flaws in mental processing. It's far, far easier to sell to idiots.

And you yet, you still buy a MacDonald's...

Yes, Ads suck with their mostly false advertisement that works in commerical, but never at the average smhoe who buys it. But unfortunaterly, it does appeal to people. That's what commericals do in terms of some random product. People, old or young, get so obsessed with, fills with hope, and uses that product, only to be disappointed. I know I had have my fair shares of that experience. Even people who knew better probably still buy whatever they see in the ads that they're interested in. Ads courrpt people or make them stupider, I don't know...

I fucking hate it all. I think I understand too much to function properly in society.

That explains a lot...I think.
~Neo

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:57 pm

This tread is so antisocial I won't even get into it.

And yet, I did...

SHIT!!!

-wyvern · Post by **-wyvern** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:04 pm

I fucking hate it all. I think I understand too much to function properly in society.

Wow. Didn't mean to make you that angry. Sorry...

Not that I don't sympathise, though.

People, old or young, get so obsessed with, fills with hope, and uses that product, only to be disappointed. I know I had have my fair shares of that experience.

I used to be like that, before I became a jaded cynic. I'd much rather see an advert that was at least realistic in what it tried to present, like the Natwest or Ronsil ads. They were repetitive and a bit annoying, but they didn't promise to make lassie come home. It's the exaggetion that gets me. I don't personally know anyone who would believe for a second that senatogen vitamin pills will make the world suddenly glow and everyone happy to see you. Why? I mean, why? Why do they play to minority crowd at risk of annoying everyone else? Do we have any media studies students in the house?

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:04 pm

There is a reason I stopped watching TV. Aside from Halo I mean.

Post by **Delphine** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:14 pm

Apathy helps.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:30 pm

And you yet, you still buy a MacDonald's...

I know, it's awful. When you're hungry and have exactly two dollars in cash, there aren't many options. We're slaves, every one of us.

WhoopA · Post by **WhoopA** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:57 pm

Come on Gibs, you know you're lovin' it.

*gets shot for bad punning*

I don't watch TV, but I do listen to the radio on occasion. KILO 94.3MHz; Colorado's Pure Rock. As such, I listen to the radio advertisements they have, and think they're leagues better than TV ads. Geico is notorious for ads that make me laugh.

Psxphile · Post by **Psxphile** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:18 pm

We love to see you smile.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:24 pm

I know, it's awful. When you're hungry and have exactly two dollars in cash, there aren't many options. We're slaves, every one of us.

Ronald Macdonald's plan to corrupt every living children and teenagers to go to Mickey D's Work. I KNEW clowns were the spawn of Satan!
~Neo

Post by **G.Silver** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:04 am

Even if I just sit down to eat some McDonald's and happen to read the utter bullshit they print all over the bag.

Out of curiousity, has anyone seen the new stuff printed on everything at Burger King? Almost every item has something different on it, and I think it's pretty clever, like the small bag that suggests that if you really like BK and don't know when you'll get your next fix, just seal up this bag and take a wiff of the BK smell every time you get that craving, or the way the Large and King Size drink cups attempt to analyze your personality based on what drink size you buy. It all ranges in quality and some of it comes off more obnoxious, but I like to think that the marketing guys who put all the new packaging together were, at the very least, enjoying their jobs.

Today was my last day at BK, incidentally.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:57 am

I got a psychological analysis and a musical suggestion from my Big Mac.
I feel my faith in humanity declining again....

CE · Post by CE » Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:09 am

Green Gibbon! wrote:
And you yet, you still buy a MacDonald's...
I know, it's awful. When you're hungry and have exactly two dollars in cash, there aren't many options. We're slaves, every one of us.

I find that supermarkets tend to have good tasting, filling food for two dollars or less. That's more than you can say about McD's tasteless filth.

-wyvern · Post by **-wyvern** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:10 am

Being a vegitarian is very handy money wise, especially at university when you can choose to be self catering and live off whatever rabbit food you desire for half the cost of your neighbours. I've allways gotten by on a diet consisting mostly of bowls of couscous with a fried egg and tomato sauce on top. All the grease and calories of macdonalds, with the added bonus that I won't be one of the ones against the wall when cows take over the world.

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:47 am

Two dollars can get you a small fruit salad at my local grocery.

Of course, it's not as easy as the drive-thru.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:08 pm

Today was my last day at BK, incidentally.

Finally got that job at Wendy's across the street? You hamburger whore.

Dunjohn · Post by **Dunjohn** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:15 pm

Wow, a thread dedicated to those shaver ads....

*sobs* I thought I was alone....

Those ads have always left me with a burning desire to buy said shaver and attack whichever wrinkly old actress that's in the skin cream ad that follows. But anyhow, several posts above basically sum up the whole thing.

Watch MTV (it's like the opposite of Marathon bars and Prince - same name, no music) and count the finance ads. How many of them made eyewrenching attempts at humour? How many featured ridiculous comedy mascots? Is there such a thing as the serious finance ad anymore? Is it actually true that idiots will trust their money with whatever asshole made them laugh more?

smiths32 · Post by **smiths32** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:50 pm

The only adverts I ever see on MTV are the ones that tell you to send a text message to a number and you get a polyphonic ring-tone based on whatever song is playing while the advert is running. There are like 50 in a row (note: number may be slightly exaggerated)

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:42 pm

All the pro-voting propaganda commercials are what's really pissing me off this year.

Attention world: I WILL BE VOTING. Thank you. You don't need to keep telling me. I especially don't need encouragement from fucking Burger King on how to handle politics. Stick to peddling dangerously fattening foods, thank you, and keep your nose out of the government.

Anyone who needs a damned fast-food resteraunt to remind them to vote problably shouldn't be voting in the first place.

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:12 pm

Yeah, you're voting, but most of America isn't.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:19 pm

My point is that a message from BurgerKing problably isn't going to change anyone's mind. No matter how hungry for a Whopper they are.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:50 pm

Do we really want people who take advice from Burger King to vote?

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 5:56 pm

If BurgerKing told them to vote Kerry? Yes.

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:11 pm

THIRD PARTY OMGWTF. Badnarik. Cobb. Nader. I don't care, but BushCo is an idiotic bible-thumping plague and Kerry is a wishy-washy traitorus scumbag, and neither of them deserve a single fucking vote.

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