if i ever get hit by a car the first place i am going is trolman lichtman and glaser
― Uncle Shavedlongcock (max), Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
also definitely planning a trip to aruba, everyone seems really friendly, if a little weird-looking
― Uncle Shavedlongcock (max), Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't wait to get $10 back for every $100 i spend in transit purchases before december 31!
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
dr. zizmor saved my life, btw.
1-888-MARGARITA
― dmr, Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
NO SE CONFORME CON MENOS!
― Uncle Shavedlongcock (max), Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Dr. Z accepts Master Charge
― WE ARE ALL GEETIKA (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
There's apparently some college where paternalistic older men teach their professions to young women and get uncomfortably close in the process.
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Also Bloomberg can fuck off with telling me not to eat a muffin.
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Speaking of paternalistic older men.
uh oh hammertoe! downtown podiatry to the rescue!
― donna rouge, Monday, 10 November 2008 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
What was up with those Kanye ads? You take a pill and turn into KanYe?
― Chelvis, Monday, 10 November 2008 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
it's an absolut ad.
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
― WE ARE ALL GEETIKA (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 10 November 2008 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/272/vacimillionbanerwk6.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 November 2008 05:50 (fifteen years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2008/10/28/palin.php
― gabbneb, Monday, 10 November 2008 05:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.barnesandnoble.com/images/29000000/29003395.jpgThat's just book one of an eight volume series guys!
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 November 2008 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
plastering the car w/single ad = totale dud
― m coleman, Monday, 10 November 2008 10:59 (fifteen years ago) link
MTA should get corporate sponsors "the L train to Carnasie brought to you by citibank"
― m coleman, Monday, 10 November 2008 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i liked those wrapped buses, though!xpost
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Monday, 10 November 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
they look intersting.
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Monday, 10 November 2008 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
when the taxis had flowers on them wtf
― ✧✦✵✶✴i feel magical✴✶✵✦✧ (ice crӕm), Monday, 10 November 2008 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I like when the shuttle trains betw Grand Central and Times Sq are completely wrapped on the INSIDE, so far I have seen them be woods and be water (ad for an aquarium??). It's even more fun getting a seat on the train when your seat is made of FOREST.
― Fred Dalton Township (Laurel), Monday, 10 November 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
that does sound cool - never seen that - i think ive taken that train once
― SNAKES! (ice crӕm), Monday, 10 November 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
on the t/s shuttle last thursday a train had wraparound ads that looked like old school graffiti (from a distance)
― m coleman, Monday, 10 November 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ on the outside of the train. the trains wrapped on the inside are like theme=park restaurants
― m coleman, Monday, 10 November 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah theyre only doing it on shuttles right now for some reason
― Uncle Shavedlongcock (max), Monday, 10 November 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i sat on the MAD MEN train
who can believe Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald approved a boxing leprechaun logo
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 10 November 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought that was Bloomberg's subtle revenge for the protests from cab drivers at the time.
― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Monday, 10 November 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mynetworktv.com/banners/jpg_banner_1223084183.jpghttp://www.wwe.com/content/media/touts/medium/29062/8558884
― mookieproof, Monday, 10 November 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ not as bad as the tyler perry reruns ads
― Uncle Shavedlongcock (max), Monday, 10 November 2008 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
omg that one glowering guy from the wrestling ad genuinely disturbs me - he looks like an actually terrible person
― SNAKES! (ice crӕm), Monday, 10 November 2008 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
is that a relative of jimmy sooka(sp?)?
― LUTE JOINTS (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Monday, 10 November 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, Arubans are mildly creepy imho -- it's like they want me to come there because THEY'RE desperate for friends.
― Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Friday, 14 November 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
apparently they have cacti too. and you can talk to the wildlife.
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Friday, 14 November 2008 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
http://nastynets.com/?p=379
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 14 November 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
ilx: 90,000 friends you never knew you had
― Albert Jeans (Hurting 2), Saturday, 15 November 2008 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
mrs. z is shy!
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Saturday, 15 November 2008 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
did u guys know dr z designs those ads HIMSELF!
― ketchup bro (ice cr?m), Saturday, 15 November 2008 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i admire his choice of color palette.
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Saturday, 15 November 2008 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
today i noticed the rest of the ad: "great, now can you do something about the price of a studio below 23rd street?"
you fucking douches! can you do something about the price of any apartment anywhere?!?!!
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
lol all those empty midtown studios to be had for $800/mo
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
she's not looking for studios above 23rd street
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
it was a he.
― ;n_n; (tehresa), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
shes lookin 4 dat dik
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.desktopexchange.com/gallery/albums/WWE_wallpaper/Triple_H_WWE_2.jpgHI DERE
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 19 November 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Mainly just starting this because I have an RFID -
There's this attorney ad with a dark background and a picture of this middle-aged dude (sort of handsome, trustworthy-looking) and then it says "Robert _____, paid spokesperson" - which I think is hilarious because it's just his picture and he's not saying anything.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh nm, figured it out - it's Wilentz and Baker, featuring John Roland, compensated spokesperson.
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
or rather Wilens & Baker
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://o.onionstatic.com/images/23/23402/original/700.jpg?1695
― am0n, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
o_O
― ian, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
classic
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
That guy was an utterly banal local news anchor in the '80s and '90s. Trustworthy for life, obviously.
My fave EZ Pawn ad was the one featuring the beehived gal who looked like she was a 1964 Shirelles concert attendee.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
yeah, something was so weirdly transfixing about that beehive girl!
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
I'm kind of mezmerized by vaguely evil uncle sam tbh
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
i saw it again on the way home, the 1964 girl is for GEM Pawnbrokers.
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 00:27 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/V2EfafO.jpg
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 00:50 (ten years ago) link
http://www.legendarylifestylemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jack-Ryan-Shadow-Recruit-Kenneth-Branagh-2-590x860.jpg
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:17 (ten years ago) link
https://mobile.twitter.com/doctorzizmor
― action bronson pinchot (sanskrit), Saturday, 11 January 2014 13:59 (ten years ago) link
:( :( :(
― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 January 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
not an ad, but i really truly hate that smug poem that ends with the line about roast chicken and red wine.
― ryan, Saturday, 11 January 2014 18:19 (ten years ago) link
I hate all these "in the know new yorker" ads for seamless and flatrate and that other storage company. Really, really hate.
And also I agree about that roast chicken and red wine poem.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UPhttp://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/21022/257959/hipster.jpg
wow freud so hipster very brooklyn
― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
all these bushwick kids with their "worlds greatest grandpa" tees
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 11 January 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
are you in NYC Ryan?
― max, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
yeah I live here now! texan in the big city midnight cowboy style. minus the cowboy hat.
― ryan, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
In Texas is there lots of overly familiar "Yeehaw we're Texas, truckballs on my Ford amirite?" advertising? Cuz it seems like a symptom of that whole "I'm a New Yorker" thing that comes from really wanting to identify with here because you left somewhere else that was too boring or square.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
it's literally inescapable in Texas, with bonus bashing of other places as in the famous picante sauce ad where the salsa is revealed to be made in *shudder* new york city.
― ryan, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
I think part of what I hate about the NYC stuff is that it's mostly stuff that does not actually make me feel proud
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
tbf though most salsa made here is some bullshit
― ryan, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
"We order lots of takeout because we can't cook for ourselves, our apartments are small and shitty, and we're shallow, superficial, judgmental and materialistic!"
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
Is there even a salsa industry in NYC anymore? I mean if there is I'm sure it's triple-priced craft salsa or w/e.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
hurting 2 is burt stanton and i claim my $5
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
take out is by far the #1 reason to live in ny, just one of the greatest human achievements ever, and i cook for myself v well fwiw
― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
wait not takeout DELIVERY
― lag∞n, Saturday, 11 January 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
I'm probably just bitter because there's no good delivery in my hood now. It's like, uzbek kebab and that's it.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 January 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
http://www.steinerfoods.com/images/brands/brooklyn_salsa.jpg
first time i saw this, thought of those "new york city!" ads
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Sunday, 12 January 2014 01:04 (ten years ago) link
^lumpy ketchup in jar.
just kidding i havent had that one.
― ryan, Sunday, 12 January 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
having brooklyn itself as a logo is not a smart graphic choice
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 January 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
is that john bull in profile dressed like a chicken?
― a lake full of ancient spices (los blue jeans), Sunday, 12 January 2014 01:25 (ten years ago) link
BK salsa is okay.amazing local salsa to be found here: http://www.bbg.org/visit/event/chile_pepper_festival_2013Discovered this stuff there: http://www.redheadhotsauce.com/ which is concentrated awesome
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 January 2014 02:19 (ten years ago) link
will try. looks like it might make a good michelada as well.
― ryan, Sunday, 12 January 2014 02:24 (ten years ago) link
i bought six bottles from that lady about a year ago; gave three away and have been working through the second one since. plan on having some around as long as she makes it.
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 January 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
lol the nadir of the "HEY YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK ADS" was those yankees themed... maybe budweiser? ads with mo rivera and the caption CLOSER IN A CITY OF CLOSERS
― max, Sunday, 12 January 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
zizmor and the language schools are still the only subway ads i like
― max, Sunday, 12 January 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_men8kbwwf11qaxc2so1_500.jpg
lol
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 January 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
snickers' tribute to dr zizmor was solid tho
http://brandmediaweek.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834519bc269e201156f51d44e970b-pi
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 January 2014 18:07 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ5eljJhYKY
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 January 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
― max, Sunday, 12 January 2014 12:41 (5 hours ago) Permalink
i will always rep for john roland compensated spokesperson
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 January 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
I was alarmed to see that zizmor made an appearance in Bleeding Edge. id like to think the ad hasn't changed at all since 2001.
― ryan, Sunday, 12 January 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
"the school of practical philosophy" is a cult right?
― ryan, Sunday, 12 January 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
least fun cult ever
― lag∞n, Sunday, 12 January 2014 18:25 (ten years ago) link
hugh jackman is into it!
― max, Sunday, 12 January 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
iirc its just transcendetnal meditation
― max, Sunday, 12 January 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
hope nobody has been #PouringOnThePounds recently, because there is an ad campaign directed squarely at YOU.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/images/pr2013/pr043-13-image.gif
Also, the West Village version of that HIPSTER CHECKLIST Flatrate ad is equally awful
http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/21022/257959/westvillage_METRO_QTR_PG.jpg
Altho weird enough the version I saw had "Pet Stylist" or something as the 4th option.
― Call me Shitmael (CompuPost), Saturday, 25 January 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
Yeah as noted above, fuck those flatrate ads they're terrible. The concept is already bad, but the execution is so poor.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Saturday, 25 January 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
"west village" still annoys the fuck out of me. it's like saying "gin martini". it's "the village". that's it!!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 January 2014 19:59 (ten years ago) link
How old are you?
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Saturday, 25 January 2014 20:03 (ten years ago) link
Trying to picture film directors who live in the West Village struggling to figure out how to move, and somehow finding themselves on the G train and going "Aha!" Like, don't those people have assistants or something?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 25 January 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
what's with the accent over the e in "move"?
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 25 January 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
everyone says west village
― lag∞n, Saturday, 25 January 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
i will only watch another episode of Brooklyn 99 if Zizmor guests.
― action bronson pinchot (sanskrit), Sunday, 26 January 2014 02:16 (ten years ago) link
the daily mail o_O
― caek, Friday, 31 January 2014 05:55 (ten years ago) link
Ugh, these KROLL SHOW ads. Nothing could be less funny.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 January 2014 06:43 (ten years ago) link
This lucas guy needs to fuck off
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 January 2014 06:49 (ten years ago) link
yeah so watched a couple Kroll Show clips, it's even less funny than the ads
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 January 2014 07:01 (ten years ago) link
I spent half of this week's subway rides trying to get "Lucas With The Lid Off" out of my head. Wonder how many others are suffering from the same.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
well one more now
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Kroll guy seems real cutting edge, he has a character named Bobby Bottleservice
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
Almost every Kroll Show sketch seems to be a completely on-the-nose parody of some genre of reality show, and the humor of a lot of them revolves around Kroll doing bad ethnic or drag schtick.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
sets dvr
― lag∞n, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Kroll is desperately unfunny and proportionately popular
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 January 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
http://ads.manhattanministorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/French-Aristocracy_f1.jpg
idgi
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
glad I'm not the only one
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
apparently those storage peeps have the inside word about the sans-culottes rising up against the corporatist Republicrats.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
i read that as them suggesting that there's likely gonna be a CULTURE WAR (or RACE WAR, i dunno) so you should put your stuff in storage so it doesn't get damaged in the forthcoming riotsthose fucking ads tend to be very knowing and batshit
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
I just thought that meant that you, the reader, never saw [your massive accumulation of junk] coming, but now here you are.
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
they tend to be very "msnbc" imho
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Mini_Storage#Marketing
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
forks has got it i think
― max, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
saw another one of those anxious "you're a real new yorker" ones from grubhub the other day. something like "calling the restaurant is like walking behind slow tourists."
― ryan, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
spending less than $30 on brunch is like having an actual conversation with a stranger
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:46 (ten years ago) link
im not sure what's worse, that or the equally anxious "im just too *real* to buy into the new york thing so i'm leaving" essays that pop up once in a while.
― ryan, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
I think the former is worse. It's 10x more pervasive anyway.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
God, I hate the storage ones (not typically on subway tho) that are like ''trying to raise kids in an NYC apartment is like trying to grow a tree in a thimble!'' Which maybe is supposed to be a chuckle for all us folks struggling to raise kids but it just seems like snobbery from people raised in giant suburban homes. Like, no, dickhead, growing a tree in a thimble is an absurdity, and raising kids in a New York apartment is something that happens all the time.
I assumed the French Aristocracy one was just like ''we're a REVOLUTION in storage!'' but I'm now leaning towards the forks reading.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 22:07 (ten years ago) link
wait the French Aristocracy one isn't an oblique uranium backpack 9/11/17 premonition?
― action bronson pinchot (sanskrit), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
When I saw this one I honestly thought they were suggesting you raise your kids in a storage box rather than an apartment, because their storage is so big.
― pariah newsletter (seandalai), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
I knew what they meant but I didn't think it was very well thought out -- it sounds like an ad for moving to the suburbs rather than for storage.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 16:39 (ten years ago) link
I think it means "you have all this kid junk filling your apartment now so you'll need to store some things to make room" but it vaguely pisses me off when I see it
the French Aristocracy one is just incoherent
― dmr, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
i like it.
― eric banana (s.clover), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/d38724a43272082203fe50d24f01f123/tumblr_mzefawF9YW1qhg6i3o1_400.gif
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 March 2014 01:39 (ten years ago) link
oh, lucas.you are just a man.
― ian, Saturday, 15 March 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
hahaha, good gif
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 15 March 2014 08:45 (ten years ago) link
the hate for those ads is thoroughly justified
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 March 2014 13:25 (ten years ago) link
why is youtube advertising in the subway
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 May 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
because they're FAMOUS
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 May 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
I hate those ads
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
especially the smirky duckface cupcake
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 02:03 (nine years ago) link
But yeah it's hard to understand who it's aimed at or what the purpose is. Youtube is like a near monopoly on internet video content as it is, is it not?
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 02:04 (nine years ago) link
Again, they're informing us that youtube stars are FAMOUS. it's a publicity campaign for "what youtube can do" to get kids to post content in the hopes that they too will become FAMOUS
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 02:07 (nine years ago) link
God the smirky duckface cupcake is the worst. The only thing that cancels that out is the arid unrelenting blankness of Lucas, evading her gaze, shutting down the whole situation by his casual relationship to his own totalitarian presence.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
http://www.cuny.edu/news/features/all-stars/members-2013/AlekseyRuditskiy.jpg
totally fascinated by this dude
vaguely reminiscent of the inner sleeve of trans am's "ta"
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.colombia.travel/en/components/com_fpslideshow/images/Icolombiatravel_Cartagena_03.jpg
this is kinda nerdy copy editor shit but the "amongst" and "which" in this one drive me nuts
I mean it's supposed to be inspired by great literature ffs, just reads so awkward
― dmr, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
also what is "The Answer Is Co" supposed to mean
― dmr, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link
lol @ "lucas touched the crystal"
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Monday, May 5, 2014 9:03 PM (Yesterday)
ugh i want to fucking burn those.
― clouds, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoGbQH-IQAM0ZFA.jpg
ffs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 May 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
revolting
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 23 May 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
#powerpunchurmarketingteaminnaface
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 May 2014 08:02 (nine years ago) link
I kinda love how shitty the CG/photoshop is on the poster for the Six Flags ZUMANJARO ride. If you look at it up close it looks like a 90s rave video.
Current lamest: Febreze ads with a bunch of lame scenarios where you might want Febreze ("The guy in 3A ordered takeout!") and yet not one of them is about the fairly obvious angle of the subway itself smelling bad, as if the ad campaign started around that joke, but it got vetoed by MTA very far down the line, forcing last minute rewrites. The Paypal ads with cutesy everyday people and painfully obvious high school composition book font are also a pale shadow of Lucas's implacable, dictatorial confidence at Venmo.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
you shoulda smelled the subway pre-A/C
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I don't have a huge problem with the smell - it's just, if you're gonna make lame jokes about odors on a subway, make one *about the subway*. Hackwork worth doing is worth doing well.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
my assumption was that the "takeout" one was originally about ethnic minorities cooking 'weird' food but was changed to be more P.C. but your scenario seems just as likely.
― ian, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
This is a little late, but that Expendables 3 poster is so silly. Even by the standards of these things, it is painfully obvious that nobody was ever together in the same room, the light's coming from different directions, you can see the Photoshop lasso-cut lines on Wesley Snipes's face, and I swear the number of feet just doesn't match up with the number of people. Also Arnold Schwarzenegger looks about five foot seven.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 August 2014 20:42 (nine years ago) link
it is a funny funny poster. also it's this pile of names just jammed in all over the place.
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 August 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, my girlfriend told me she saw one where someone had taken a Sharpie and added key numbers to match the names up with the people since they're all in random order and it's a fuckton of people/names. My kind of ad vandalism, right there.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 August 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
via a friend:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152203112917261&set=a.10150459925137261.355844.734817260&type=1
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152203112917261&set=a.10150459925137261.355844.734817260&type=1
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 August 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
hmm
cupcake youtube woman > head-tilty heart-gesture youtube woman
― mookieproof, Saturday, 23 August 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10615507_10152203112917261_5786243552934752933_n.jpg
― 'arry Goldman (Hurting 2), Saturday, 23 August 2014 14:37 (nine years ago) link
http://imgur.com/CbSmAic
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CbSmAic.jpg?1
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:04 (nine years ago) link
Kind of wish I took a picture of the Boxed ad emblazoned with "#datfreemembershipdoe"
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, May 6, 2014 9:12 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hah yes i told myself many stories about everyone in this ad
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
there was one girl who was so much more confident than everyone else i was kinda embarrassed for them
don't u live in new brunswick or something
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 November 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link
i was in ny for a couple months last spring i think
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
and i commuted on the subway every day! something i m/l never did for the ~10 yrs i lived in ny, kinda sux tbh
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
btw i live p close to quebec but not nb
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
i have driven all the way across nb a number of times tho and let me tell u not a whole lot to see on that drive
Some of the other college ads (not so much the city college ads) make me feel kinda bad for the people in them, like where even the person they selected for the ad is probably not getting far with their Monroe College degree
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 November 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
yeah how they name their degrees weird non industry standard names "associate of technology specialist"
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 November 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
http://deadbutexcited.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/img_4037-1.jpg
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 November 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
http://4044walnut.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/tech-bubble.jpg
They couldn't even come up with an actual alum success story, they had to make one up
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 17 November 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.monroe.com/images/header/english/header_logo.png
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 November 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, those "how a..." ones are terrible. I can't remember what it was but there was one where it was like, did they actually do anything? Or is it just that the structure of the sentence vaguely implies changes and momentum, even if you say "How a poor farmhand from Missouri earned a degree in service technology, millked some cows, and brought in the harvest."
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 17 November 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
keep weighing a thread entitled "comedy means brightly-lit people face the camera and grimace; drama means shadowed people look sideways suspiciously"
https://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/shameless-season-5-poster2.jpg?w=400
http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/nbc-fall-allegiance.jpg
...but i can't find a jpeg online of that ghastly one for "THE KROLL SHOW" and i can't remember the other generic-looking drama hyped at 14th street that sparks this thought once or twice a week
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
who the fuck at the CIA would assign someone's first case to his own family? that's messed up!
i gotta watch this show
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
would be cool if the villain turns out to just be a bumbling assistant manager who only skimmed the paperwork from HR and made a bad judgment call
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
the one w veronica mars gnawing on don cheadle's ear is very unpleasant
― adam, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--f0ki7Ejzxg/VLUs6x2kSBI/AAAAAAAAFPQ/0FOXoO5W9Ts/s1600/test_photo_house_of_lies.JPG
― adam, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
i'll take all of those over ads showing all the sitcom's actors looking variously smug, wacky, annoyed and welp on a white background
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
http://thebacklot.mtvnimages.com/uploads/2014/01/Sean-Saves-the-World.jpg
never forget
― mookieproof, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
Don Cheadle looks very uncertain how he feels about that ear nibble
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Friday, January 16, 2015 10:54 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Is it the one where he's doing his "man of a thousand faces" schtick and he's all the people in the ad? I fucking hate that guy's mug.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
http://1069thefox.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/8/files/2015/01/webKROLL-600-FINAL-620x400.jpg
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
and the other one I was thinking about for shadowy dramas was "Empire," but it's kinda too blah and airbrushed to even post here.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
That's the one I meant, xp. That and the Amy Schumer ads are constant annoying reminders that not-very-good people manage to get TV shows somehow.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
OTOH "Final Season" I guess there is some justice in the world
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
no argument on kroll but amy schumer is awesome
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 January 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
i heard an Amy Schumer joke on NPR last weekend about how to spot a Jewish child molester
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 January 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Incidentally re: "Sean," the irony is that despite that poster's fundamental generic awfulness, its discussion here has firmly cemented that exact image in my brain as a shorthand for exactly that type of seemingly made-up sitcom. It does for sitcoms what Seinfeld's "Sack Lunch" did for throwaway film comedies.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
I saw Amy Schumer at the comedy cellar once. She had a better persona than I expected but I didn't remember any of her jokes after. Haven't actually seen her show.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
maybe you would have better luck remembering any of her jokes if you saw her show, just an idea though
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
no I mean I didn't remember any of the jokes from her standup set
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
she did standup, at the comedy cellar
ahhhhhhhhhh okay
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
lol it would be pretty funny if I literally just saw her sitting at a table and then afterward didn't understand why I hadn't absorbed her jokes by osmosis
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
haha, i was just reading "show" as in, like, you go see a show...kinda forgot we were talking about posters for TV shows... oops.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 16 January 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8m2olZIcAEVjs8.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 January 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link
these NY Post ads really hit their readers' grade level
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
I REALLY have to fight the urge to deface those, ideally by gluing on codas in the same font, etc., laying bare all the evil.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
not a great picture, but these ads always make me laughhttp://i.imgur.com/gACASuC.jpg
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Friday, 30 January 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9mU5FIIYAA4zIz.jpg
jeez
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 February 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, what are they doing in a $10,000/mo apartment!
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, 27 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
for real though, stark
the talkspace ad confused the hell out of me for a while i just cldnt come to grips with the fact that theres a service where u pay to txt therapists
― lag∞n, Friday, 27 February 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
this does not happen in other advanced countries
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 June 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
on the other hand, it runs all night so
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 22 June 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
am i the only one grossed out by those mattress ads with the cutesy cartoons that are all like "the perfect mattress for - - - party animals!" and it shows a bunch of like rats hanging out on your mattress? like great, that's what i want to think about, rats shitting on my mattress. and then it's like "the perfect mattress for - - - cleansers!" and it's people chugging stuff from a blender and it's like, you know cleanses are fundamentally about excretion also right? like are these the associations you want? at least those gross top-down perspective views of hypothetical apartments you could have feel like they were drawn by a human being.
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
those mattresses are too soft but they give you cucumber water and choc chip cookies at their "showroom," which is just a loft on bond st
― adam, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
also there's just one mattress in a bedroom, that's the showroom, and in the bathroom there's like shampoo and shit in the shower so someone clearly lives there, so the whole thing is creepy af
hahahahaha
― a chamillionaire full of mallomars (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
i kinda wanna go now, and bring a bunch of rats
i am pretty sure you were not at a showroom but at my friend gary's apartment
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
oh and we were like "the mattress is too soft" and the girl told us that the mattress is awesome but it we really really really thought it was too soft but bought it anyway they would send us a firmer mattress pad at some undetermined point in the future.
is your friend gary approachably attractive but possessed of a creepy quiet cultlike low-level startup employee enthusiasm?
― adam, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
nah, just a really good tindr profile
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 July 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
http://web.mta.info/siteimages/pth-logo.png
every single time i see this i think, for a moment, that it's supposed to be a map of pennsylvania
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 September 2015 23:55 (eight years ago) link
current vitamin water ads are pulling some really weak "omg lol we're new yorkers amirite?" material in trying to, i guess, describe situations where you'd need a vitamin water. uptown date... downtown meeting?!?!
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Friday, 11 September 2015 00:18 (eight years ago) link
like wow you've really captured the spirit of living here, 20 things only a native new yorker will understand
Is there some specific ad agency that does subway ads with that schtick? Because I feel like there have been so many bad campaigns with that exact vibe -- Seamless, various storage companies, etc.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
I hate when ads try to get all in-the-know with you like that, it feels like a stranger showing up at your party and reminiscing about old times they weren't actually there for.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 02:02 (eight years ago) link
replace the new yorkisms with, say, a white upper middle class suburban milieu and I think you'll find those ads to be a pretty standard form--except there's an extra layer of new yorker self-regard being called upon that's particularly creepy.
― ryan, Friday, 11 September 2015 03:52 (eight years ago) link
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Saturday, January 11, 2014 2:36 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Friday, 11 September 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
i admit to finding those ads pretty fascinating...like how they almost always insist on the quotidian new york experience (take out, walk ups, cabs) rather than anything like the "making it in the big city" narrative. almost as if the highest aspiration that you can appeal to in an ad is the *desire to be a new yorker* rather than anything new york might be a means to.
― ryan, Friday, 11 September 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/10/02/subway-poster_custom-780357a2b706d94d8263cdafcc35a3d0dd1cbfdd-s900-c85.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:24 (eight years ago) link
FUIUD
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 01:35 (eight years ago) link
I hate these ads so fucking much:http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/clever-seamless-campaign-uses-witty-one-liners-tap-how-new-yorkers-eat-166975
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:00 (eight years ago) link
BEING a SHITTY HUMAN burns a lot of CALORIES
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
the one that always befuddles mehttp://www.adweek.com/files/2015_Sep/seamless-art-3.jpg
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
yeah, that whole seamless campaign is awful.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
http://ads.manhattanministorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/GayCouple.jpg
― iatee, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
i find myself wondering what the photo shoot for this was like
'okay guys -- think GAY and FRENZIED'
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:17 (eight years ago) link
Lol the facial expressions of that couple always captivate me in a car wreck sort of way.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
They also had that drag queen ad -- whoever photographs them is really good at creating images that are simultaneously a little creepy and hard to stop looking at.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
Who the fuck are all these people with spacious, neatly organized walk-in storage rooms anyway?
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
yeah lol. the whole thing is just stuffing them with cardboard boxes, right?
i guess it could potentially be smart marketing for the u-stor-it industry... convince people they really should use this more like a spacious walk-in closet or a well-organized backyard shed, and thus upsell them on a much bigger unit.. still it seems bonkers. i mean the brownie cameras and keepsakes just sitting out there! just pack this stuff up into a few u-haul boxes and stick it at the bottom of your closet or something. if you don't like that menorah enough to display it in your house maybe it's time to let it go. not sure if the telescope or the stack of pashminas and hats seems most absurd.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
dr. zizmor has retired, now spends his time studying the talmud
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 January 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2016/01/08/subway_facelift_shutdown.phpthis is gonna be a FUCKED UP PROBLEM
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 9 January 2016 07:29 (eight years ago) link
jelly queen is really disturbing
― 龜, Monday, 22 February 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
i'm just really glad that museum of sex has finally retired the boobs bouncy castle ad.... that was ghastly.
― shandemonium padawan (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 February 2016 19:51 (eight years ago) link
Lol at jelly queenI also like the std volcano
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 08:24 (eight years ago) link
Casino otm.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 23 February 2016 11:50 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RjmKnh5.jpg
:\
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:33 (eight years ago) link
man, fuck the streeteasy "find your formula" ads:
http://creativity-online.com/work/streeteasy-find-your-formula/45564
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:43 (eight years ago) link
i really dislike those but part of me is secretly glad that at least it's a hand-drawn illustration from someone with their own kinda gross-looking style. versus the equally gross but also retchingly saccharine mattress ads previously discussed.
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
Perhaps doesn't need to be said, but those Thinx period underwear ads that were controversial really are much more tasteful than a lot of the ads on the subway.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
frenzied storage couple haunt my thoughts and dreams btw. It's bizarre.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5630a2cc9dd7cc25008c540e-3264-2448/img_3114.jpg hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it
― adam, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
sorry for huge but i want yall to feel me here
https://adsonthesubway.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/fullsizerender10.jpg?w=525&h=537
these are so half-assed and shitty-looking that it actually pisses me off
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
xp yeah those too
my friend on instagram re: jelly queen: "I find these ads exceptionally strange"
adam you are so great on this thread btw
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
garbage all over the sidewalk + 3am guns + crowded trains + exploding sewer lines = your neighborhoodgreat schools + 5 nearby dog parks + doorperson that knows your name + sunshine and flowers = some place you can't afford
thanks streeteasy!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
thank u doctor
― adam, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link
There's so much competition in the "we'll take care of minor inconvenience for you via an app" space.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
I saw like two other dry-cleaning/laundry apps advertised just this week.
Wype: toilet paper delivered to your bathroom in seconds.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/smashedmcdouble/status/694179644560523264
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:38 (eight years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:43 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
someone has written "bomb all condos" on one of those at the lafayette c
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
have we talked about this one
http://nypost.com/2015/12/30/syphilis-explosion-ads-catch-subway-passengers-eyes/
― Treeship, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
gimme those muslim frittata recipes tbqfh
― ian, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/rvrmpzb.png
― mookieproof, Friday, 6 May 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
Couldn't snap a pic without the dude sitting in front of it thinking I was photographing him, but there's this new NPR ad that says something like "The NSA is listening, why not give them something more interesting to listen to?"
And I had the sensation that I'm pretty sure is the same feeling people get when they suspect the person trying to ingratiate himself is actually a narc.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 13 June 2016 14:33 (seven years ago) link
That Manhattan Institute personal training guy is terrifying. Can't find a pic.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
is that the one with the lady posing with a skeleton on the other half of the ad?
― adam, Friday, 1 July 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
like you can be a personal trainer or a skeleton lady
yes!
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
seeing this guy's expression ruins all my mornings
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7q3f6bbuhDq_0JPmN55G8u1aKYMW5iA5m9T5MYun7SSoYInFN8n3AL_u6fqJ3ma_rZdx=w300
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 July 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
this one is my current fave
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/std_explosion_005.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=664&h=441&crop=1
― adam, Friday, 1 July 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
spotify has arrived
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 1 July 2016 16:03 (seven years ago) link
Couldn't find a pic of the actual subway version of the ad but I did this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cs0iJRsXgAAcfcV.jpg:large
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/N5tLRAO.jpg
Sometimes I feel like network ad execs give up before the show even comes out."That drama about the trial consultant based on young dr. phil that we're calling BULL? let's get a close-up of a stubbly round white guy from his sears headshots and tag it 'He'll Get You Off'. Research shows people love that."
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 22:37 (seven years ago) link
hahaha I think abt this thread every time I pass that one
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 03:51 (seven years ago) link
Sort of along those lines (lazy TV ads), I keep wanting to get a shot of the Danson/Bell show called "The Good Place" with the tagline "Where everything is good" and then a sort of second tagline "What the Fork?"
so zany
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 04:20 (seven years ago) link
i watched the show last night, the conceit is that you can't curse in heaven so everyone says "what the fork" and "bullshirt" and "ash hole"
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
that sounds...like something that would definitely be really funny for at least an entire season of a show...
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/eRjgct0.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WjhdU00.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 15:50 (seven years ago) link
hi, we're looking for a drawing of a crow standing on top of a decaying gravestone with a bite mark on the corner. the gravestone should read "R.I.P. / I THOUGHT IT WAS A FRECKLE." oh yeah, and please draw a zombie hand coming out of the ground just in front of the grave. thx
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/subway-ad-celebrity-gregg-t-is-an-nypd-lawyer-who-bullies-civil-rights-protesters-into-submission-9351423
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 November 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Gideon Oliver is my hero.
He adds, "The 'If you see something, say something' campaign uncritically promotes snitch culture as a dogwhistle for Islamophobes, racists, and other bigots to inflict the government in the service of their prejudices and agendas on people I love and care about, including people I have represented in prosecutions. Since the campaign’s inception, the NYPD in particular has targeted Muslim, South Asians, Arab Americans, and others, for surveillance, prosecutions, and other harms. With all due respect to them, NYPD Legal Bureau lawyers should not be held up as heroes. In their place, I respectfully nominate the Black Lives Matter and other protesters who keep taking the streets – especially now."
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
http://images1.villagevoice.com/imager/u/745xauto/9351432/111616greggt.jpg
https://coolpapaesreviews.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/paintings2.jpg
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Wednesday, 16 November 2016 19:12 (seven years ago) link
lol such a skeeve
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 November 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
there are these sharper image ads that are so incredibly poor. they're just like clip-art of monkeys with bad monkey "puns".
like there's a monkey on a gift-wrapped box and it says "hey hey we're the monkeys" on the poster and then "sharper image".
its the laziest thing i've ever seen.
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Monday, 19 December 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
these?
https://twitter.com/SharperImage/status/809202932700811264
― the late great, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 08:12 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0EtqGEUsAA8cF8.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
lol fuck yes
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
well played
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 20 December 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/g4TP4fD.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qxi3P5o.jpg http://i.imgur.com/323RaG5.jpg
why
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 March 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
Yeah really, we are living out the endgame of "juxtaposition wackiness"
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 March 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link
those are the worst and are making me definitely never want to try mail chimp.
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Saturday, 4 March 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
MailShrimp pisses me off most of all
god knows none of the others are funny either but at least they bothered to rhyme both syllables
srsly fuck these ppl -- even gregg might be better
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 March 2017 03:17 (seven years ago) link
somewhere out there, Dale Rimp boards the train, looks up and something catches his eye
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 4 March 2017 03:35 (seven years ago) link
probably a shrimp
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Sunday, 5 March 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/mmBjuUs.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 27 March 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
nothing is worse than the new round of StreetEasy ads playing up their sickening one-percenter market more directly than ever, like, oh man I totally know what you mean, if I see a $3,000-a-month one-bedroom I just have to snap that up on general principle! FUuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUU
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Monday, 27 March 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
Never knew what these guys were selling, but it reminded me why it's a good thing I did not own an Uzi while working as an advertising peon.
At BAM, they show a MailShrimp ad/video before every... fucking... film.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 March 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
http://imgur.com/DSzwpA6
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Friday, 14 April 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link
fucking gregg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 April 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
http://blog.fiverr.com/wp-content/uploads/Visitors_Static_A_300x250-1.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 April 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/xTISZnS.jpg
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 April 2017 23:08 (six years ago) link
... IF THIS GUY WASN'T STARING AT YOU LIKE THAT
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Monday, 24 April 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Friday, April 14, 2017 6:43 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
slightly jealous of couples who can take an inside joke so far it becomes a beloved present.
― grand mac seizure (sanskrit), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
https://medium.com/@freddiedeboer/the-three-hot-trends-in-silicon-valley-horseshit-95cc5a85e8a4
The basic idea here is that 40 years of stagnant wages, the decline of unions, the death of middle class blue collar jobs, the demise of pensions, and a general slide of the American working world into a PTSD-inducing horror show of limitless vulnerability has been too easy on workers. I’m sorry, Doers, or whatever the fuck. The true beauty of these ads is that they are all predicated on mythologizing the very workers who their service is intended to immisserate. Sorry about your medical debt; here’s a photo of a model who we paid in “exposure” over ad copy written by an intern who we paid in college credit that cost $3,000 a credit hour. Enjoy.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 28 April 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
have only seen one of 'em, but: the poster for new book THE WAR ON COPS is absolutely infuriating.
― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
the tunnel of mouths in the west 4th st station is some serious cronenberg body horror shit, fuck's sake postmates
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 12 May 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
otfm
govern otmhttps://qz.com/980503/postmates-provocative-new-york-subway-ads-are-a-desperate-plea-for-attention-as-a-food-delivery-startup/
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 12 May 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
there's one of a woman eating a macaron on the turnstile that's so poorly cropped i thought she was eating a can of chewing tobacco
― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 12 May 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
https://cdn.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Young-Sheldon-1.jpg
young sheldon is really taking me back to the glory days of SEAN
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
will he be beaten up every 3rd ep?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 21:30 (six years ago) link
yessssss
http://i.imgur.com/tuw92cM.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/5CX47nt.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GWEQwPq.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 31 August 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link
man seems like the mom in that show sure had to put up with a lot from SEAN
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 August 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
i'm assuming young sheldon is like a richie rich character, or more like a doogie howser but he's a business prodigy instead of a doctor. see he gets money and figures but has a lot to learn about life. really he would have made a great addition to SEAN's wacky little family unit.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 31 August 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
On my commute this morning, two little kids were talking about baseball. Kid 1 says his favorite player was Babe Ruth, Kid 2 says he's dead, and Kid 1 said he died by electrocution. I don't know where the hell he got that from.
So that was a cute moment on an otherwise bleak summer of commuting.
― carpet_kaiser, Friday, 1 September 2017 02:12 (six years ago) link
Woah, that seems kinda weird now that I've written it out. I'm coming from a strange place here, people.
― carpet_kaiser, Friday, 1 September 2017 02:30 (six years ago) link
Would you use time travel to kill Young Sheldon?— BANDZ STACKHAGE (@NickPinkerton) September 24, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 September 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
i have been informed w/out words that Elliott Gould and Linda Lavin are in a new sitcom
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 September 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
at some point i became aware that 'young sheldon' was a stupid spinoff of stupid big bang theory and started hating those ads even more.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 25 September 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
why are so many subway ads/billboards about EJACULATE now?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
casper mattresses and the seediness of internet commerce
https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-bloggers-lawsuits-underside-of-the-mattress-wars
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 October 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link
spotted along the G train pic.twitter.com/sMo0luf2j1— lαrissα phαm (@lrsphm) November 4, 2017
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 November 2017 18:52 (six years ago) link
ha!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 5 November 2017 18:56 (six years ago) link
lol, that's the snowman ad moved over. i like it when people do the juxtaposition box cutter trick
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 5 November 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
can't remember whether it's seamless or grubhub or bleepblorp but whoever has the "quirky" "hilarious" "that's so me" versions of special instructions added to orders... GAH. it's impossible not to picture the poor working stiffs at the restaurant getting these obnoxious AF requests showing up on the line and having to weigh the chance that the person actually expects this nonsense and will give them a shitty yelp review otherwise.
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 01:29 (six years ago) link
the one where the delivery guy is instructed to hassle the people on the next floor down for stealing their wifi = omg fuck off
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
nothing is as bad as fiverr
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 02:18 (six years ago) link
yeah fiverr kind of uniquely encapsulates an entire hateful awful mindset, in all its vast opinion of itself
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 02:35 (six years ago) link
meanwhile, the goony group photo of Big Bang Theory has returned to bother us all
― if you steeleye spanshine (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
hm... testing something, don't mind me
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
fiverr has not only the most nauseating message but manages to find uniquely punchable faces to match
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
http://mikekosk.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fiverr_poster.jpg
THIS. FUCKING. GUY.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
I'd live to trap the Fiverr models (and board) with Edward Woodward at the end of The Wicker Man
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
guys i learned about the NY state family leave thing from subway ads and now i get like a whole extra month of paternity leave. the rare case of subway ads gone right.
the other of course being the school of practical philosophy, which changed my life.
― adam, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
I bought a Casper mattress
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
well I saw something and said something so
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
i ate a snickers
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
i used the NYC transit promo code when i bought the mattress
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
i got my breasts enlarged
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
I also bought a Casper mattress, but haven't taken it out of the box yet. Maybe Friday.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
I bought some thinx to clean up egg spills, but they didn't really seem as ideally designed for that as advertised
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
fuck, if Morbs bought a Casper then they truly have won.
― 4chan marshall (sanskrit), Friday, 26 January 2018 00:27 (six years ago) link
the okcupid "DTF" ones are individually quite stupid and faux-with-it (ah yes, the cool leftie kids are totally down to flirtily thumb-wrestle trump voters!) but i was on a car that had an uninterrupted frieze of them running the full length, and it's kind of great because each individual ad is split into two panels (wacky photo, caption) and since there's no additional border at the edge of an ad, it's very easy to read an image as being paired with the next caption over. hijinks ensue.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 March 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
e.g. these, though i bet the side-by-side thing won't happen once i hit post:
https://i2.wp.com/www.ifitshipitshere.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/E_okc_dtf_hero7.jpg?resize=800%2C518https://i0.wp.com/www.ifitshipitshere.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/D_okc_dtf_hero10.jpg?resize=800%2C518
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
i giggle each time i see the ones for the show BILLIONS, but only because the first one i saw was the one with the blonde woman holding some grapes, and someone had defaced it with a speech balloon reading
I used some of my billions to buy these grapes!BILLIONS!
BILLIONS!
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Friday, 6 April 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
Twee Seamless delivery instructions are more than just unfunny. They represent the petty demands of a privileged class that sits atop our neo-feudal order.https://t.co/PTrflFsuPj— The Baffler (@thebafflermag) August 16, 2018
― badg, Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:54 (five years ago) link
Mainly they're unfunny though
― badg, Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
yes to both points. fuck them.
the lyft adds hyping up long-established NYC destinations have been my main source of fury lately, though. you know what's a great way to get to the Cloisters or Rockaway Beach? THE FUCKING PUBLIC TRANSIT NETWORK YOU'RE STANDING IN, LOOKING AT THIS AD. kind of amazing they approve ads that are that nakedly like "fuck the subway." granted, cuomo's MTA is sliding towards disaster but i'm pretty sure a 90-minute cab ride is not going to compete with a $2.75 or less subway fare.
― mortal kombats fill your eyes (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/aBIuqEQ.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
I like the detailed cartoon ads, they work well for avoiding looking at other people
― badg, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DlTpNtaVAAEACUb.jpg:small
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DluDGahUcAAQsBA.jpg
Lucas bides his time. Lucas lets John believe he has won.
― got the scuba tube blowin' like a snork (Doctor Casino), Friday, 7 September 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/eOSL1YY.jpg
― mick signals, Thursday, 6 December 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
GrubHub is back on the "what up, fellow New Yorkers?" kick, with slogans like "When you're craving cake so badly, you'd crash a Central Park wedding to get it."
Also, I hate how every dumb campaign like this now has twenty variations of the same concept/joke plastered all over the same car. I know that's been a thing since at least the days of creepy Venmo Lucas, but it's just so dispiriting. Today's Zizmors stand no chance.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 September 2022 00:12 (one year ago) link