slaves, tell me about 50 Shades of Grey

The End Times, I tell you: 50 Shades of Grey Adult Toys

lol Target. america is becoming denmark

Heard an ad on NPR for 50 Shades gray teddy bear (for Valentine's Day) during evening rush hour

Pledge gift?

No it was some stupid bear company -- Vermont bears? Like Pajamagram.

wait npr is sending people live bears? thats so next level.

BeatABear SexShop

Only YOU can prevent benwah-ball inflicted injuries

http://cdn.vermontteddybear.com/Images/ProductImages/600/KK0015958_600_20150120_1312.jpg

amazing

heirloom gift

http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/trojan-mocks-50-shades-grey-ad-about-average-couple-trying-get-kinky-162797

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7AvZPTT4kU

xp: lol at "Sex time!" "No!"

trojan viciously defending their market share of middle america friendly vibes

managed to avoid the trailer until the lego one; that is a terrible terrible terrible cover of crazy in love

Is it a cover when it's the same artist

i should be clear that my wife isn't keeping me away from her girls night out because they're all going to take this seriously. pretty sure none of them were actually able to finish the book - they're going to smuggle booze in and lol, for sure.

This book sold a bazillion copies, but I wonder how many were able to make it through. Like, the "Twilight" books were apparently garbage, but I know people who still plowed through, guilty-pleasure style. But my understanding is that these books are truly, truly POS express.

i am man enough to admit that i slogged through about 100 pages of the book before giving up

however i am embarrassed to admit that after seeing the trailer, it was the first time i've ever seen a film adaptation of a book i read look EXACTLY how i constructed it in my imagination. not the sex scenes, but just like the sets/locations etc were such a photocopy of my mental image that it was jarring

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is it a cover when it's the same artist
― da croupier, Friday, February 6, 2015

yyyyyyyyeah, i kinda doubted that was bey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8WqxbOvXSE

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beyonce-is-crazy-in-love-on-fifty-shades-of-grey-remix-20150205

wait were you talking about the song in the lego trailer or the actual trailer.

wait the lego trailer has beyonce's too

forks i think you got suckered

and..

http://www.papermag.com/2015/02/listen_to_the_50_shades_of_gre.php

Well, if Beyonce attached her name to it, then clearly the movie is perfect.

is that some strawman diss at beyonce fans or

greyonshade

wait were you talking about the song in the lego trailer or the actual trailer.
― da croupier, Friday, February 6, 2015 3:55 PM

managed to avoid the trailer until the lego one; that is a terrible terrible terrible cover of crazy in love

I hope this film is 90% Chris grey making sick high-flying business calls on his blackberry

Don't fight enlightenment buddy

Xpost lol

"Mr. Grey, it's Welch here. I have the information you require." "Good. E-mail it to me. Anything to add?"

“They want two?… How much will that cost?... Okay, and what safety measures do we have in place?… And they’ll go via Suez?… How safe is Ben Sudan?... And when do they arrive in Darfur?... Okay, let’s do it. Keep me abreast of progress.” He hangs up.

this guys business card just says "millionaire"

Somehow they found a way to make Crazy in Love depressing

The opening of the trailer looks like it's going to be a film about a death

They should've cast Mark Cuban.

it is about death...the death of literature

Lol

The book isn't really finishable but it's interesting that it exists in that it's like what if an idiot wrote a book, like a really stupid person like Homer Simpson or someone, and they weren't even quite sure what a novel actually is or how basically anything works but they managed to write it anyway and there are three of them

and the third one is called fifty shades freed and the best way I can make that makes sense is that at some point the author decided that the protagonist is actually called "fifty shades"

fiddy, shades

http://www.men-access.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/50cents-bulgarisunglassess-8007.jpg

Don't read the books. Read Jenny Trout's recaps of the books - http://jennytrout.com/?tag=jenny-reads-50-shades

my co-worker was just saying that this started out as twilight fanfic?

also, the lady next to be on the train yesterday was reading something on her kindle and holding it very close to her so of course I stole a peak and from the first line I knew it had to be this. Then I saw "Christian" a couple lines down. lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._James

James initially wrote fanfiction under the pen name "Snowqueen's Icedragon", with her most notable work being a Twilight fanfiction that eventually developed into Fifty Shades of Grey,[12][13] and subsequent film adaptation.[14] James has spoken of her shock at the success of the book. "The explosion of interest has taken me completely by surprise" she said.[15] James has described the Fifty Shades trilogy as "my midlife crisis, writ large. All my fantasies in there, and that's it."[16] She did not start to write until January 2009, as she revealed while still active on fanfiction.net as Snowqueen's Icedragon: "I started writing in January 2009 after I finished the Twilight saga, and I haven't stopped since. I discovered Fan Fiction in August 2009. Since then I have written my two fics and plan on doing at least one more. After that... who knows?"[17] In August 2013, sales of the trilogy saw James top the Forbes' list of the highest-earning authors [18] with earnings of $95m which included $5m for the film rights to Fifty Shades of Grey.[19]

Totally hope she gets a biopic someday

Middle-aged office assistant inspired to write fan-fiction after reading twilight, rollin' in the high eight figures within five years. AND THEY SAY THE NOVEL IS DEAD.

my bad - according to this interview with her husband, a tv screenwriter, she was a tv exec

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/31/fifty-shades-el-james-husband

Our first Christmas together I bought her a tin opener, and my earliest experience of kinky sex was her trying to shove it up my arse.

Now's as good a place as any to reveal that my hit series "Game of Thrones" began as Hobbit fanfic. The editors took out all the good stuff, though, and replaced it with, like, dragons and barbarians and stuff.