"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