Neil Koch Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I don't know which is worse, Wal-Mart showing Christmas commercials in September or their last campaign where they claimed they paid their employees livable wages. Fuck Wal-Mart. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 To be OT for a moment: I don't know why anyone would go out of their way to shop at Wal-Mart when outside of clothing and cheap furniture items, you can do the same essential shopping between Dollar General and Dollar Tree. Those stores tend to be closer to most neighborhoods for easier access, and the prices are comparable (Dollar Tree obviously features everything for said dollar). Not to diss Wal-Mart so much, but an observation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVanderlay Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Jesus Christ, what is this, 1985? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVanderlay Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Being new to this, I am quite confused by the name... The spokesperson is a pleasant middle-aged woman who speaks of the recipes as "hers", is she supposed to be nicknamed "Popeye" and if so, why in God's name? The other possibilities would be the cartoon character, but he was big on spinach, not fried chicken, so I don't get the connection. The other Popeye of note was a NYC cop who has as much connection to Louisiana as I do to Nunavut. So, y'all that hail from below the MD line and grew up with Popeyes's; what's the deal with the name? It is actually named after the NYC cop. No idea why. William Friedkin's never before seen director's cut contains a 30-minute prologue where Popeye Doyle is a beat cop in Baton Rouge but is fired from the force after he gets a little rough with a transvestite prostitute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Walmart is already running Christmas commercials Fuck Walmart, but I'm seeing some stores with Christmas items already. Toys R Us has it out there, and there's this discount store called Ollies (not sure if it's local or not) that has it out as well. Haven't seen the main stores yet but wouldn't be surprised to see decorations and such at Target. Every year they push it earlier. That whole Christmas in July thing? Betcha we're going to see this shit in August next year, then the year after in July just because they suck. No wonder I like Halloween more and more as the years go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 http://youtu.be/DFqg5MFfWw8 http://youtu.be/eYJ7optgWh0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Koch Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Draft Kings can eat a bag of dicks. It's not bad enough that they're on every commercial break, but are seemingly sponsoring every podcast in the world as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Apparently they must be all over US TV because everyone is complaining about them, it doesn't seem nearly as bad up north. Of course the price here is you get the same 4 Tim Horton's and Canadian Tire commercials on every break on every station instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Supposedly Draft Kings spent the most advertising money of ANY company in August 2015. That's horrifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Koch Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Yeah, CNBC had the CEO on about that. It really is literally every commercial break, no matter what show is on. They're probably trying to make as much money as they can before they government shuts them down for running a gambling operation. Good riddance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 The commercials on football games have for a long time made it harder and harder for me to watch football games because it's like I'm being shown image after image of fat, lazy, insufferable, gluttonous, loud assholes stuffing themselves with cheetos and being as unappealing as possible all with the clear takeaway that: "this is how we see you. This is targeted at you because our marketers have determined you relate to this. This looks like you." And I get so insulted, I switch over to PBS just out of defiance. FanDraftDualKing's "Oh, and we've also determined that you are a literal dumb mark whose purpose in life is to be sucked dry by grifters like you're a matrix pod" is just the next level of this hell. God, thank you for Redzone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Big trucks, dick pills and beer by AB/Inbev or MillerCoors. All American men are overcompensating for our small, non-working cocks and we have shitty taste in beer. It's also funny how so many commercials targeted toward men use uber-manly cowboy, soldier, biker and construction worker archetypes. Same iconography as The Village People. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 After a couple of those commercial breaks I feel like I need to check a mirror and am terrified what I will see staring back at me is Michael Rapaport from BIG FAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 What would y'all put the over/under of Draft Kings being allowed to operate? I'd say the government will say "enough" in about a month. I'm anxiously awaiting the first tale of the dipshit who lost $70,000 and his house playing on Draft Kings, if there hasn't been one already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 I don't know. There's so much snake-oil that is allowed to be sold now and even advertised on t.v. I can remember a time when you couldn't get away with selling literal poison pills on television and calling them "miracle penis growth" or selling junk fake laser lights to old people on the evening news and telling them it will relieve their pain. Like, you just didn't get to do that. There were rules and stuff and t.v. advertising. No one gives a fuck anymore. hand of the market or whatever. I'm guessing a combination of lobbyists including the NFL's and cable companies, and advertising companies will spend a lot to keep this gravy-train flowing. That combined with the general natural axiom that nothing ESPN-related every gets better...only worse, tells me this is just the new normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 It's an interesting one. Online poker in the US essentially got taken down because horse racing commissions have a lot of friends in congress, and they were whining and crying about losing a slice of their pie (at a disgusting rake that no one can overcome). The NFL is a lot bigger. But it also has an utterly abysmal record in federal court. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Seriously, I miss my fucking online poker, and draft kings sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sydneybrown Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Seriously, I miss my fucking online poker, and draft kings sucks. Bovada. That's as close as you'll get to the PokerStars heyday. And they take US players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 I love all dick pill commercials. The guy is invariably a grey-haired schlub and the woman, though "older," is an amazingly hot MILF obviously out of his league and easily at least 10 years younger. It's cool to see that, after all these years of preying on women, the advertising industry finally learned that men can be just as insecure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 Apparently they must be all over US TV because everyone is complaining about them, it doesn't seem nearly as bad up north. Of course the price here is you get the same 4 Tim Horton's and Canadian Tire commercials on every break on every station instead. I see them everytime I watch a Raptors game on League Pass. Had a weird moment when there was a girl on the "Tim's bus" advertising their dark roast(not porn), that looked almost identical to a girl I am very close to, who also happens to be Canadian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stiffshots Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 So as a coda to my earlier posting of the fake "Better Call Saul" advert: I just finished binge-watching BREAKING BAD last night...and just this moment discovered this Esurance ad from the last Super Bowl. Yep. All kinds of awesome. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 I love all dick pill commercials. The guy is invariably a grey-haired schlub and the woman, though "older," is an amazingly hot MILF obviously out of his league and easily at least 10 years younger. It's cool to see that, after all these years of preying on women, the advertising industry finally learned that men can be just as insecure. Those men's hair dye commercials ("no play for Mr. Gray") have been doing the same angle for decades. "Lose the gray and hot 20-something models will want to have sex with you!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Koch Posted October 6, 2015 Share Posted October 6, 2015 It's an interesting one. Online poker in the US essentially got taken down because horse racing commissions have a lot of friends in congress, and they were whining and crying about losing a slice of their pie (at a disgusting rake that no one can overcome). The NFL is a lot bigger. But it also has an utterly abysmal record in federal court. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/05/draftkings-fanduel-issue-statements-as-scandal-erupts-in-world-of-fantasy-sports.html A major scandal is erupting in the multibillion-dollar industry of fantasy sports, the online and unregulated business in which players assemble their fantasy teams with real athletes. On Monday, the two major fantasy companies were forced to release statements defending their businesses' integrity after what amounted to allegations of insider trading, that employees were placing bets using information not available to the public. Maybe now they'll stop those fucking commercials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVanderlay Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 Those Miller Lite "Troy Aikman Lives In The Past" commercials are going to be really sad 10 years from now when Troy's slurring his words and can't remember where he is thanks to all those concussions he took as a player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 ZEUS!!!!! (is lookin' old) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ON_JgpWdwo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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