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Oxydosic ([info]oxydosic) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-08-09 16:59:00


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Entry tags:stupid free, your rules don't apply to me

Who knew some bank stupid would come to this?
So, over on [info]stupid_free, [info]dwa20 posts about someone who doesn't seem to fathom how a bank account works. But that's not the wank. The wank begins when [info]albino_dinosaur says, "i will never ever ever ever understand using a debit card to make a $1 purchase." Well actually, it's not his/her's fault...it's the response by [info]hey_its_michael that gets things rolling:

"I dislike cash for a multitude of reasons (it's literally filthy, requires me to carry paper declaring a belief in the supernatural, and is inconvenient). I debit whenever I can, but carry cash for those times I cannot".

[info]anomie666 immediately goes on the attack:

"When meta-stupids attack!!

Your radical atheism is one of the reasons you don't carry cash!"

Thus begins a brawl between [info]hey_its_michael and [info]anomie666. The constitution is rammed up the ass sideways repeatedly discussed, the meaning of separation of church and state is argued, and Google is called upon to settle things. Small but tasty, I thought.



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[info]hallidae
2007-08-09 10:35 pm UTC (link)
The whole series of new Visa commercials creep the hell out of me. They've got a vaguely futuristic dystopian feel to them. "Pay with a card, or the order is disturbed!"

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[info]malana
2007-08-09 10:45 pm UTC (link)
Creeps me out too. Especially the one that uses the main song from the movie "Brazil".

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[info]dreamer_marie
2007-08-10 05:24 pm UTC (link)
Sometimes, I think that the people making commercials must really hate their jobs, because there are lots of commercials out there (like the Visa one) that seems to make you turn away from the product: the sleeping pills which get you stalked by radioactive butterflies, the cellphone that gets you fired, the beef jerky that turns you into a bullying moron and eventually gets you attacked by an apeman...
Or maybe they're just plain stupid.
/thoughts on TV commercials

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-08-10 05:28 pm UTC (link)
Don't forget the ones where using Febreeze will make you addicted to sniffing fabric.

We call the radioactive butterfly one the butterfly of DEATH! because with the sound off, it looks a bit creepy.

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[info]priestesspadfoo
2007-08-10 09:57 pm UTC (link)
LOL... I love that butterfly/moth/whatever it is. My personal code for taking a sleeping pill is "I'm going to go ride the green moth."

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-08-10 11:43 pm UTC (link)
That makes me think of absinthe. . .wasn't that called 'the green fairy' or similar?

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[info]priestesspadfoo
2007-08-10 11:59 pm UTC (link)
Yep. That's my favorite line in Bram Stoker's Dracula too. I often say it to people when I serve them Sour Apple Pucker. It's very amusing to people who have been sitting around drinking all night.

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[info]littlest_lurker
2007-08-11 05:45 am UTC (link)
You mean those commercials where a cut-off call implies the pending total destruction of a professional/romantic/whatever relationship? 'Cause I hate those.

Comcast made an ad that made fun of those I think. But now they're ripping off the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in their commercials, so they aren't in my good-books at the moment, ad-wise, either.

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[info]hallidae
2007-08-11 12:11 pm UTC (link)
The only one of those Cingular commercials I actually liked was the one where the lady's pregnant.

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[info]polarisnorth
2007-08-13 02:52 am UTC (link)
Those commercials set off my embarrassment squick something fierce.

I don't watch much TV, though-- how is Comcast ripping off Hitchhiker's Guide?

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[info]littlest_lurker
2007-08-13 03:22 am UTC (link)
Same here. Now I have to mute them whenever they show up.

Right now Comcast is running ads for their services that ape the Guide segments from the Hitchhiker's Guide TV show, from the animation and narration right down to the music. A little searching turned up this video, which compares the commercial with the Babel fish segment from the series (bless you, youtube).

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[info]prettypinkkitty
2007-08-09 10:45 pm UTC (link)
OOOOOH. I bet if you put the movie in highly contrasted greyscale, it would look great edited into Metropolis! You are so right.

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[info]hallidae
2007-08-09 10:55 pm UTC (link)
One of them already does that. Everything's all happy and shiny and colorful until the lady stops progress to write a check, then the birds stop singing and everything goes grey while all the other people stare at her until she slinks off in embarrassment after finishing her purchase, then everything becomes happy and colorful again. Creeeeepy.

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[info]deliciouschaos
2007-08-09 11:10 pm UTC (link)
SHUN THE NONBELIEVER. SHUUUUUUUUN.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2007-08-11 10:23 am UTC (link)
That, or they all open their mouths and emit the pod-person shriek.

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[info]fionnabhair
2007-08-12 01:19 pm UTC (link)
But did they take her kidney?

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[info]theladyfeylene
2007-08-09 11:51 pm UTC (link)
That's exactly how I feel about them, but could never properly put it into words.

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[info]seiberwing
2007-08-10 12:35 am UTC (link)
Yeah, that's about how it came across. Makes me want to pay in cash all the time.

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