Is this the most adorable commercial ever?

smh @ all this

xpost,

slime, i am your father

http://i39.tinypic.com/2n86l34.gif

jon seriously if you are this earnest and enthusiastic about things all the time, i'm not sure you're doing the internet right

yeah what we need are more people "doing the internet right" please

The little darth pushing past his father was pretty funny.

jon seems super sensitive but i agree Whiney is kind of a http://blog.mrhacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/comic_book_guy.jpg version of the cool police here.

I feel like I temporarily lock half the threads I post in.

ppl are probably just burnt out on this thread

yeah i mean mixed feelings, obviously whiney can be utterly insufferable when he gets on some "this is the internet, son" ish, but otoh u start a poll thread about a car commercial with a leading title, you gotta be prepared for some heat.

christ @ this commercial. it's hard to believe anyone still has any fondness for the Star Wars brand (which is all it is) anymore. the costume the kid is wearing is probably like a $400 replica - that's the kind of shit that will get a kid's ass kicked by other kids. spoiled rich kid. and... wouldn't a kid that age be into something other than star wars? whatever little kids are into right now. oh yeah, i guess i'm supposed to be the little kid AND the parents, huh?

slime, i am your father

― odd taran wild'n gang killam all (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, February 4, 2011 11:37 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

loll

Uh, I've seen pretty much that exact kid's Darth Vader costume at Target for like $30. And kids are VERY into Star Wars, like you would not believe. Everyone I know who has kids, those kids have "Clone Wars" toys and video games up the wazoo.

damn, rockapads -- did C3PO bang your mom or something?

lol

it's more that george lucas banged my childhood memories, i guess

to channel patton oswalt

I don't think there is that much an emphasis on the Star Wars brand in this ad- it could be a kid playing pirate or cowboy or something else, but obviously it is about him using the "force" to control things, and how silly it looks to have a tiny kid decked out in a full Darth costume.

btw, what feature of the 2012 passat is this commercial specifically advertising? that you can make the lights flash remotely? or did i miss something?

That you can turn it on remotely.

oh i guess the car turns on? haven't cars been doing that for like 5 years

yeah

i would just like to point out that whiney has been otm on this thread

carry the torch, brother

it kind of writes itself

some guy thinks a volkswagen ad that references 'star wars' is the cutest shit ever...

Seriously, wtf is with the Whiney defenders? I mean, really, is this how you want the internet to be handled? This place is turning into a gigantic fucking circle jerk of bitterness and trying to out-"clown" each other. If thats what people want this place to be, so be it, I'm obviously the one out of step here. I think its time I bowed away from ILX, which is a shame, because there is quite a few people and ongoing threads here I will actively miss. It just seems like the balance has tipped from a cool place where lots of intelligent people talk about music to some insular world where we all need to constantly clown earnestness and excitement to make sure exude the proper aura of "doing the internet right".

Fwiw, I'm not calling Whiney an asshole because of this thread, it just happened to be a place to vent about his rampant shitty attitude in general, short of starting a whole new thread about it. I'm sure you guys will consider this some sort of victory for having chased off someone who doesn't "post right" or whatever, so enjoy it, I guess.

Btw I think the commercial's "adorableness" has nothing to do with Star Wars, I love the kids gestures and excitement at role-playing.

xxpost: ... some other guy with a "hipster puppies" tumblr claims that passing around links to cute shit is 'doing the internet wrong'...

lit's true whiney vomits bile on a timer but he didn't like this commercial & u took it personally. why are ppl who like cute things so often eggshells armed with hammers?

ps whiney is banned now

Again, because you can't seem to understand, this whole issue has next to noghing to do with this thread - it just happens to be the location where an ongoing issue came to a head.

pick yr battles imo

you should just stick around and try to not engage with what you consider to be the hostile aspects of ilx. i would like to imagine that folks would tone it down a notch tbh but even if they don't it's not difficult to avoid 'em.

Whiney doesn't bother me that much. He's never approached s1ocki levels of shitting on threads. But it's all on a continuum. Annoyance at all levels.

Also, j/v/c, please don't leave.

ha, jon's post reminds me of something from like 08 when watercooler types were campaigning to get dom permabanned

To be clear, I don't want to ban Whiney. I just want him to stop being so willfully dickish to people. Considering his book, he's obviously a smart guy with great things to say. I just wish he'd approach posting here with the same attitude.

It just seems like the balance has tipped from a cool place where lots of intelligent people talk about music to some insular world where we all need to constantly clown earnestness and excitement to make sure exude the proper aura of "doing the internet right".

not really sure when this golden age was

anyway, bye!!!! have fun!!!!!

when a thread titled: "Is this the most adorable commercial ever?" gets no snark it is time to leave ilx/the internet/the planet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZvCP25ka3E

j/v/c - hang out on the sports and vinyl boards, more chill

If you honestly thought I was on some Jean Teasdale type shit with this thread title, well, I don't know what to tell you other than to maybe look up "tongue-in-cheek" on wikipedia.

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you guys are goddamn assholes, the snuggle bear is one of the most cutest and cuddliest fellas ever to be on tv advertisements so please show some respect for that good ol' buddy.
retroman84 10 months ago

maybe we need to revive the "Don't post here if you hate me" tag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdT8R3TBW8s

Thats what happened to this thread

Jon, try and just tune out the people you don't like. Whiney has a schtick, and sometimes it's funny and useful, and sometimes it's boring and prickish, but don't get aggravated by it - it's pretty harmless. Easy for me to say, maybe, because the only two posters I genuinely hated have both gone, but good advice nonetheless.

He's never approached s1ocki levels of shitting on threads.

I'm assuming this is a very deadpan joke.

In my (very slight) defense, it came after an episode in which he was following me into various threads to post a picture of Jeff Tweedy after everything I said.

― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, February 4, 2011 10:26 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^this is genius.

this was a pretty cute commercial

for what it's worth, i wasn't trying to defend anybody with my post, I just didn't like the commercial. I don't mind that other people like it or anything.

lol Bill

i never did that, btw