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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
I hate those ads
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 01:48 (ten years ago) link
especially the smirky duckface cupcake
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 6 May 2014 02:03 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
also what is "The Answer Is Co" supposed to mean
― dmr, Tuesday, 6 May 2014 14:31 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BoGbQH-IQAM0ZFA.jpg
ffs
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 May 2014 23:57 (ten years ago) link
revolting
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Friday, 23 May 2014 01:47 (ten years ago) link
#powerpunchurmarketingteaminnaface
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 May 2014 08:02 (ten 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