http://i1354.photobucket.com/albums/q686/tinyservants/Screenshot2014-05-10at115324PM_zps1da75978.png
― slam dunk, Sunday, 11 May 2014 03:56 (nine years ago) link
i thought they were real boots for 10 seconds!
― mattresslessness, Sunday, 11 May 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
"Camouflage" should actually just be a smoke bomb
― 龜, Sunday, 11 May 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
No seriously, these are all joke candles, right?
http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2012/05/Yankee-Candles-Main-1337267181.jpg
Because I want one that smells like victory.
― pplains, Sunday, 11 May 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/27/93/ca/2793ca9f9cb203296d33110e3d650050.jpg
These aren't real, but it's getting more difficult to tell.
― pplains, Sunday, 11 May 2014 05:29 (nine years ago) link
"Prostate cancer", "Jizz" and "I don't need directions" scents obviously on the way
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Sunday, 11 May 2014 09:35 (nine years ago) link
glad to see you guys have discovered liartownusa
― gbx, Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/01ba6f6b75489321a6fb1a67f197f784/tumblr_muhm1obJE21s71q1zo1_1280.png
― gbx, Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:25 (nine years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/d6b082611472398ac88d354ea750193f/tumblr_mtc1m85kli1s71q1zo1_1280.png
I think at times the "be a MAN" schtick is kind of useful as a stand-in for "be an ADULT," -- something that's kind of useful in an era of prolonged childhood. I mean it's really fucking lame when it gets used as an excuse for retrograde attitudes or GQ-type marketing bullshit - where being a man is equated to being some kind of all around great guy with a perfect smile and a cool haircut.But still, sometimes I find it helpful to say to myself "Be a man. Stop whining and pick yourself up," etc. even if that has hints of retrograde gender attitudes.― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Wednesday, December 9, 2009
But still, sometimes I find it helpful to say to myself "Be a man. Stop whining and pick yourself up," etc. even if that has hints of retrograde gender attitudes.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Wednesday, December 9, 2009
i sometimes feel this way, too, but yeah, there is a lot of gender stereotyping in that notion, and it's probably better to think "be an adult, ffs." still, when "be a man" is used for marketing and many times generally, i don't think the idea behind it is to equate manliness with being "some kind of all around great guy with a perfect smile and a cool haircut." it's much more base than that: physical strength, aggression to hyper-aggression, quick decision-making, an instinct to protect women and children, a preference for decisiveness and action over thoughtfulness and caution, etc., smashing through things instead of trying to navigate around them. i know a lot of this is media-driven notions and obvious, anyway, but it's amazing how strong a hold these notions have over people (including me). even at 46, i still think back to experiences i had as a kid, and sometimes torture myself along these lines ("why didn't you just swing at them" kind of thoughts).
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
Seward started posting those liartown posts last year. Yankee Candle must be fans too.
― pplains, Sunday, 11 May 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pbdesigns.net/home/organiz/videomgmt/video-outline-GDL.pdf
the first page of this internal planning document from a PR firm trying to sell an overdriven premium cabernet blend from napa is sort of amusing
― the final twilight of all evaluative standpoints (nakhchivan), Monday, 13 October 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
LUXURY PEDIGREE GENTLEMAN
reads kind of like the grading rubric for a dog show
― i'd rather be arrested by you folks than by anybody i know (art), Monday, 13 October 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Voiceover: if not Jeffrey Stambor, then a sophisticated woman’s voice.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 13 October 2014 15:56 (nine years ago) link
Facebook ad I saw today:
http://i.imgur.com/ORzCNsJ.png
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
xp, it's kind of funny that anyone needs to hire a firm for the suggestion to use "luxury" and "tradition" in WINE marketing, like have we gone so far down the gazelle-on-the-label new Zealand Riesling road that we've forgotten that that's been like 99% of wine's marketing appeal for most of its history?
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
I can't believe Manwich still exists.
― never say goodbye before leaving chat room (Crabbits), Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
Never even thought about it before, but you're absolutely right.
Made even more obvious by having Ron Swanson voice their ads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmILFcDNSsg
Manwich: The Dinner of Choice of Kids Living in the Year 1987 A.D.
― pplains, Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Isn't sloppy joe sauce just ketchup + mustard + chili powder?
― never say goodbye before leaving chat room (Crabbits), Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I think Manwich's trick is tomato sauce as well.
And jizz.
― pplains, Saturday, 29 November 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
just like mom used to make
― never say goodbye before leaving chat room (Crabbits), Saturday, 29 November 2014 17:00 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaPcBwmCtiM
― slam dunk, Sunday, 30 November 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
then they got more wacky for millenials and got really creepy:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j_cMGu9HY0
― slam dunk, Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
is hungry-man a big deal in the US? they only have 103 followers on twitter
― soref, Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
Their consumer base is still prolly using chain email as its preferred social networking platform
― resting waterface (m bison), Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
Their consumer base is all dead from fatal heart attacks at age 25.
― pplains, Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyU--Tb-MO4
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:41 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JDgepQv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Zxk6uEe.gif
― pplains, Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
in case you don't have time to shit this week
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 November 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
for the man on the... stay.
― pplains, Sunday, 30 November 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
I think that's the hardest a Morbs post has ever made me lol
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 30 November 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
otm, i enjoyed that v much
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 November 2014 21:06 (nine years ago) link
C'mon, almost 1% of that is fiber!
― nickn, Sunday, 30 November 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/mxrk/status/546606308385116160
― Dej & the Fommly Loaf (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 December 2014 12:28 (nine years ago) link
http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/7588/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-spornosexual/
what the fuck is this. what the fuck is this word.
― goole, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/7063/rise-of-the-spornosexual/
esquire what the fuck are you trying to do here
― goole, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
This tendency towards buffness is a cultural phenomenon defined by author and journalist Mark Simpson as “spornosexuality”. The term, denoting men who strive to look like sportsmen or porn stars, marks the next stage in the evolution of the preening, mediated “metrosexual” (a word Simpson introduced to the public consciousness in a 1994 article in The Independent, then popularised in a 2002 piece for US news site salon.com).
mark simpson, please break up
― goole, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
What a terrible word. No one is going to actually say that out loud. Esquire, pls stop trying to make spornosexual happen.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
lol @ how much better the "before" is here
http://assets.esquire.co.uk/images/uploads/fourbythree/_1080_43/Max-Olesker-promo-43.jpg
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
No one is going to actually say that out loud.
I'm not even going to click on the link from work.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
Basically seems to mean "underwear ad model".
― how's life, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Sportellosexualhttp://cdnbakmi.kaltura.com/p/1151292/sp/115129200/thumbnail/entry_id/0_6buo3q0a/version/100002/acv/212/width/648/height/398
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Tbh I like his face better in the "after" but the body is mildly terrifying.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
it's rather odd, like the personal trainer screwed something up
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
Mark Simpson is good imo, haven't read that esquire article
― soref, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
there must be some lipo/plastic surgery involved in the "after" jaw, right?
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
the before picture has a lot of "make your face look schlubbier please" photographer instruction going on
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't think so? It didn't seem like he was that committed to the schtick except as something to write the article about. Just what you look like with 2% body fat or whatever. xp And yeah sure.
― Orson Wellies (in orbit), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Not exactly on all fours with this thread, but I just saw a banner ad for a document shreader that said "NOW THIS IS AUTOMATIC SHREDDING" and I got this amusing image in my head of middle-aged men calling their neighbors over to check out the horsepower on the new shredder.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 23 February 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
Would also make a good Yngwie Malmsteen album title
― JRN, Monday, 23 February 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link