rolling nyc subway ads discussion thread

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.

"the school of practical philosophy" is a cult right?

least fun cult ever

hugh jackman is into it!

iirc its just transcendetnal meditation

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.

Yeah as noted above, fuck those flatrate ads they're terrible. The concept is already bad, but the execution is so poor.

"west village" still annoys the fuck out of me. it's like saying "gin martini". it's "the village". that's it!!

How old are you?

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?

what's with the accent over the e in "move"?

everyone says west village

i will only watch another episode of Brooklyn 99 if Zizmor guests.

the daily mail o_O

Ugh, these KROLL SHOW ads. Nothing could be less funny.

This lucas guy needs to fuck off

yeah so watched a couple Kroll Show clips, it's even less funny than the ads

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.

well one more now

Kroll guy seems real cutting edge, he has a character named Bobby Bottleservice

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.

sets dvr

Kroll is desperately unfunny and proportionately popular

http://ads.manhattanministorage.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/French-Aristocracy_f1.jpg

idgi

glad I'm not the only one

apparently those storage peeps have the inside word about the sans-culottes rising up against the corporatist Republicrats.

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 riots
those fucking ads tend to be very knowing and batshit

I just thought that meant that you, the reader, never saw [your massive accumulation of junk] coming, but now here you are.

they tend to be very "msnbc" imho

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Mini_Storage#Marketing

forks has got it i think

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."

spending less than $30 on brunch is like having an actual conversation with a stranger

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.

I think the former is worse. It's 10x more pervasive anyway.

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.

wait the French Aristocracy one isn't an oblique uranium backpack 9/11/17 premonition?

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.

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.

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.

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

i like it.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/d38724a43272082203fe50d24f01f123/tumblr_mzefawF9YW1qhg6i3o1_400.gif

oh, lucas.
you are just a man.

hahaha, good gif

the hate for those ads is thoroughly justified

why is youtube advertising in the subway

because they're FAMOUS

I hate those ads

especially the smirky duckface cupcake

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?