Advertising

Raz · 2nd August 2003, 02:35

Let out all your frustration at the media for having advert after advert after advert all designed to control your thought processes and have a slim chance at buying their product so they can have more money to indulge into paying for shit they don't need. Bastards. Let it all out here....

Joel · 2nd August 2003, 15:20

Advertising is cool, you can know what's new...
the anoying part is

Hate those web sites ....

Mr_007 · 2nd August 2003, 15:42

Cool!

sgtfuzzbubble011 · 2nd August 2003, 20:47

Advertising is everywhere, and I'm sick of it. I can't even get away from it in the privacy of my own goddamn home. On the tv, on the radio, all over my computer screen, everywhere in my magazines, inside the covers of my cds, on all the billboards on the side of the road, every fucking place... I'm fucking tired of it. I don't listen to the radio anymore because every goddamn time I turn the motherfucker on, there's 20 fucking minutes of shitty commercials playing... seems like they play music in between the sets of commercials nowadays. Same fucking thing with tv. I don't watch that shit anymore, either.

GarbagePoe · 2nd August 2003, 23:33

The worst thing about the commercials on T.V. is that they raise the volume on them. I hate that!!!

hgnis · 3rd August 2003, 00:37

Just do it.

Budgie · 3rd August 2003, 10:02

Everything has become too commercial. Everybody and every single company want you to buy their product(s) so badly, no matter how crap or how much uncalled for it is.

It's just gotten rediculous. Just look at magazines, turn on the TV, listen to the radio, surf the internet

*agrees with Sarge*

It's like ... all over the damn place. If I watch something on TV, I can be sure the show gets a rude interruption every ~20 minutes for up to ~8 minutes

. It's just become really worse the past couple of years with the commercial shit. It's not like all these ads everywhere increase the chances I actually buy the damn shit that's advertised

.

As for the inet, they have ad filters that do work, now we just need something like that for everything else

.

sgtfuzzbubble011 · 3rd August 2003, 16:51

I'd like to see what an ad-filter for roadside billboards would look like.

duet maxwell · 3rd August 2003, 17:00

this is the day in age where everyone is selling something, the best one can do is be aware and not to let themselvs get pulled in by the tide

Budgie · 3rd August 2003, 18:04

Quote:

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
I'd like to see what an ad-filter for roadside billboards would look like.

Rocketlauncher, I hate these billboards :shootme:

Raz · 3rd August 2003, 19:09

*gets out axe, petrol and a few lighters and waits for nightfall*

Raz · 12th August 2003, 22:06

Shit, wrong thread....... /finds right one

Budgie · 12th August 2003, 22:22

Just let it die when nobody posts after 10 days or what

Coman · 12th August 2003, 22:51

advertising lets you know of new products which plays a big part in businesses and helps you choose the right stuff for you to buy plus it pays sites and tv-channels that you watch so they can keep running, without them they wouldn't exist, thus Advertising is good!

Raz · 12th August 2003, 22:58

i need: food, water, a place to sleep without getting killed/dying of inadequate places to sleep. That is my bare necessity. I do not need every fucking thing that's ever been inveneted paraded in front of me with flashing lights and misinformation about what this magical product can do for me.

missinformation · 13th August 2003, 03:21

I used to work for an advertising agency. The gimmicks that were thought up blow my mind. The sales reps were always sending over packages that fit demographics. Glad i escaped to mental health LOL.

zeppelinfr34k · 13th August 2003, 04:31

I normally don't mind advertising that much, but in the last few months I've been noticing just how much is on the radio. I understand that they need it to keep the station running, but jesus fucking christ, they don't need a 2:1 ratio of ads to music. I can drive from my house to my friend's house who lives 10 minutes away and not hear one single fucking song; it's entirely ads. I've gotten to the point where I refuse to patronize companies that advertise on radio stations that I listen to. The only thing you can do is switch between three stations constantly to find one that's playing decent music. It makes me want to shoot the people who come up with the stupid-ass monologues and then tie their dead bodies to the people who do the voices and throw them into a river.

Raz · 13th August 2003, 10:14

I haven't watched proper tv in months, i watch films on video/dvd and programme episodes that i've downloaded but i refuse to turn it on anymore, i don't want to be greeted with what i need to buy from 'our sponsers' next.

ÇhäötïÇLüñätïÇ · 13th August 2003, 12:31

Earth is turning into one big pile o' spam..

gremmlin · 14th August 2003, 18:23

In the words of Al Pacino in Scarface, "Ya know what capitalism is? Getting fucked."

sgtfuzzbubble011 · 15th August 2003, 02:45

Quote:

Bill said...
Kill your TV my friend. I did in 1989 and have been happy ever since. I lost radio in 1985...

I haven't watched any tv in a long time now. The only time I turn on my tv anymore is because I'm playing a video game or watching a dvd/vhs. I've gotten to the point where I don't listen to the radio anymore, either. I'm sick of it. Hell, I haven't bought any new cds in half a year now because I fucking refuse to support that shit. I don't know if there's any good new music out because I haven't listened to the radio to find out. That used to be the way I would learn about new bands and such... the radio. But now, that's all been shit-canned. Oh well. I was actually thinking about XM satellite radio, but that's subscriber-only. Fuck that. I'm not going to pay to hear something I should be able to hear for free over the open airways. Fuck it. I guess I'll just have to do without new music for a long time...

[/rant]

Bob the Tomato · 15th August 2003, 04:55

One thing I liked about Colorado. No billboard ads. In fact, I didn't see a sign over 10 feet tall or so. Makes a world of difference both inside and outside the city.

Budgie · 15th August 2003, 09:45

Quote:

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
I was actually thinking about XM satellite radio, but that's subscriber-only. Fuck that. I'm not going to pay to hear something I should be able to hear for free over the open airways. Fuck it. I guess I'll just have to do without new music for a long time...

[hint]There's Shoutcast, plays lots of music from all over the world for free

[/hint]

sgtfuzzbubble011 · 15th August 2003, 22:08

Yeah, well, my connection isn't that great... even if they do call it "broadband."

Just for the hell of it, this afternoon on my way home from work, I turned on the radio to see if the usual commercials were playing. To my surprise and delight, I didn't hear a single commercial during my entire drive home. I was like...

Cool!

But, figure the odds of that ever happening again.

Budgie · 16th August 2003, 10:45

There's this rather local mainstream radio station called N-JOY that doesn't broadcast any commercials, downside is they play the same mainstream crap all over

The "good" radio stations that play rather underground music ... don't really exist, that's why I got Winamp streaming music all day

.

Ah well, can't have everything I guess

.

Raz · 16th August 2003, 14:13

I just have my thousands of mp3s and have done with it. I take recommendations of people i know have good taste to find my good music. My brother, certain friends etc etc.

Merlin · 16th August 2003, 14:53

Quote:

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
I'd like to see what an ad-filter for roadside billboards would look like.

Billboards are different, since you weren't looking at that space when the billboard suddenly appeared.

In my ideal utopia, the only ads allowed would be in magazines and on billboards. It totally wouldn't work, but this is utopia we're talking about, it doesn't have to make sense.

Budgie · 16th August 2003, 17:26

Ads in magazines are whack, too. On certain magazines (no, not the Playboy

), it's gotten so bad that there's a fullsized ad on every other page

Not mentioning the rather little ads in between paragraphs sometimes. Really ugly, makes me wanna throw the damn magazine against the wall, it really prevents me from enjoying the articles.

Tom · 16th August 2003, 19:31

Quote:

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
...XM satellite radio...

Some stations on XM have ads too, I think your only option would be SIRIUS but that too is subscription only.

Tom

sgtfuzzbubble011 · 16th August 2003, 20:41

Quote:

Billboards are different, since you weren't looking at that space when the billboard suddenly appeared.

Not true. There's a section of freeway (Interstate 10 between Menge Avenue and Lorraine Road) close to where I live that has no fewer than 18 billboards strewn all over the side of the road. It's hideous, and that section of freeway is only a few miles long. You can't see the pretty colors in the sky when the sun is going down in the evening because of all the damn billboards.

And thanks for the suggestion, Tom.

ÇhäötïÇLüñätïÇ · 17th August 2003, 02:40

Well, if u wanna fight spam... here's a start, toss your TV in the garbage.

Coman · 17th August 2003, 04:48

Quote:

Originally posted by ÇhäötïÇLüñätïÇ
Well, if u wanna fight spam... here's a start, toss your TV in the garbage.

Done. What's next?

Budgie · 17th August 2003, 09:13

There are some billboards near where I live that are preferrably located near traffic lights that would even electrically change their ad paper roll after a moment. Those are really ugly, quite high, too

.

They seriously cluttered the area with these.

2nd August 2003, 02:35	#1
Raz Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 6,470	Advertising Let out all your frustration at the media for having advert after advert after advert all designed to control your thought processes and have a slim chance at buying their product so they can have more money to indulge into paying for shit they don't need. Bastards. Let it all out here....

2nd August 2003, 15:20	#2
Joel Debian user (Forum King) Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Arch land Posts: 4,898	Advertising is cool, you can know what's new... the anoying part is Hate those web sites .... * PC: Intel Core 2 DUO E6550 @ 2.33 GHz with 2 GB RAM: Archlinux w/ xfce4. * Laptop: Intel Core 2 DUO T6600 @ 2.20 GHz with 4 GB RAM: Debian unstable w/ xfce4.

2nd August 2003, 23:33	#5
GarbagePoe Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: \|\|\|\| \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| \|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\| Posts: 459	The worst thing about the commercials on T.V. is that they raise the volume on them. I hate that!!! i close my eyes to stay blind

3rd August 2003, 00:37	#6
hgnis Hobbit Humper Forum King Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: banned camp Posts: 4,099	Just do it. I am so important I feel the need to let it be known like a liberal discovering the internets for the first time. Uh hur hur hur. I also wash myself with a rag on a stick. Reality bites <3

3rd August 2003, 10:02	#7
Budgie Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Hell frozen up Posts: 1,217	Everything has become too commercial. Everybody and every single company want you to buy their product(s) so badly, no matter how crap or how much uncalled for it is. It's just gotten rediculous. Just look at magazines, turn on the TV, listen to the radio, surf the internet agrees with Sarge It's like ... all over the damn place. If I watch something on TV, I can be sure the show gets a rude interruption every ~20 minutes for up to ~8 minutes . It's just become really worse the past couple of years with the commercial shit. It's not like all these ads everywhere increase the chances I actually buy the damn shit that's advertised . As for the inet, they have ad filters that do work, now we just need something like that for everything else . Please consider the Forum Rules before posting utter crap. Thank you!

2nd August 2003, 15:42	#3
Mr_007 Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,838	Cool!

2nd August 2003, 20:47	#4
sgtfuzzbubble011 Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 60,767	Advertising is everywhere, and I'm sick of it. I can't even get away from it in the privacy of my own goddamn home. On the tv, on the radio, all over my computer screen, everywhere in my magazines, inside the covers of my cds, on all the billboards on the side of the road, every fucking place... I'm fucking tired of it. I don't listen to the radio anymore because every goddamn time I turn the motherfucker on, there's 20 fucking minutes of shitty commercials playing... seems like they play music in between the sets of commercials nowadays. Same fucking thing with tv. I don't watch that shit anymore, either.

3rd August 2003, 16:51	#8
sgtfuzzbubble011 Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 60,767	I'd like to see what an ad-filter for roadside billboards would look like.

3rd August 2003, 17:00	#9
duet maxwell Major Dudette Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Boredom Ville Posts: 1,039	this is the day in age where everyone is selling something, the best one can do is be aware and not to let themselvs get pulled in by the tide <3

3rd August 2003, 19:09	#11
Raz Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 6,470	gets out axe, petrol and a few lighters and waits for nightfall

12th August 2003, 22:06	#12
Raz Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 6,470	Shit, wrong thread....... /finds right one

12th August 2003, 22:22	#13
Budgie Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Hell frozen up Posts: 1,217	Just let it die when nobody posts after 10 days or what Please consider the Forum Rules before posting utter crap. Thank you!

12th August 2003, 22:51	#14
Coman Punk (Forum King) Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: 4.5th dimension . . Posts: infinitely few Posts: 2,799	advertising lets you know of new products which plays a big part in businesses and helps you choose the right stuff for you to buy plus it pays sites and tv-channels that you watch so they can keep running, without them they wouldn't exist, thus Advertising is good! "Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?"

12th August 2003, 22:58	#15
Raz Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 6,470	i need: food, water, a place to sleep without getting killed/dying of inadequate places to sleep. That is my bare necessity. I do not need every fucking thing that's ever been inveneted paraded in front of me with flashing lights and misinformation about what this magical product can do for me.

13th August 2003, 03:21	#16
missinformation Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: florida Posts: 69	I used to work for an advertising agency. The gimmicks that were thought up blow my mind. The sales reps were always sending over packages that fit demographics. Glad i escaped to mental health LOL. missinformation - earning my nickname every day

13th August 2003, 04:31	#17
zeppelinfr34k Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Anytown, USA Posts: 126	I normally don't mind advertising that much, but in the last few months I've been noticing just how much is on the radio. I understand that they need it to keep the station running, but jesus fucking christ, they don't need a 2:1 ratio of ads to music. I can drive from my house to my friend's house who lives 10 minutes away and not hear one single fucking song; it's entirely ads. I've gotten to the point where I refuse to patronize companies that advertise on radio stations that I listen to. The only thing you can do is switch between three stations constantly to find one that's playing decent music. It makes me want to shoot the people who come up with the stupid-ass monologues and then tie their dead bodies to the people who do the voices and throw them into a river.

13th August 2003, 10:14	#18
Raz Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 6,470	I haven't watched proper tv in months, i watch films on video/dvd and programme episodes that i've downloaded but i refuse to turn it on anymore, i don't want to be greeted with what i need to buy from 'our sponsers' next.

13th August 2003, 12:31	#19
ÇhäötïÇLüñätïÇ Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Timeless void. Posts: 80	Earth is turning into one big pile o' spam..

14th August 2003, 18:23	#20
gremmlin Senior Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: Illadelph Suburbia Posts: 292	In the words of Al Pacino in Scarface, "Ya know what capitalism is? Getting fucked." "Revolution begins with the self, in the self" Toni Cade Bambara

15th August 2003, 04:55	#22
Bob the Tomato Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Louisiana Posts: 258	One thing I liked about Colorado. No billboard ads. In fact, I didn't see a sign over 10 feet tall or so. Makes a world of difference both inside and outside the city.

15th August 2003, 22:08	#24
sgtfuzzbubble011 Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 60,767	Yeah, well, my connection isn't that great... even if they do call it "broadband." Just for the hell of it, this afternoon on my way home from work, I turned on the radio to see if the usual commercials were playing. To my surprise and delight, I didn't hear a single commercial during my entire drive home. I was like... Cool! But, figure the odds of that ever happening again.

16th August 2003, 10:45	#25
Budgie Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Hell frozen up Posts: 1,217	There's this rather local mainstream radio station called N-JOY that doesn't broadcast any commercials, downside is they play the same mainstream crap all over The "good" radio stations that play rather underground music ... don't really exist, that's why I got Winamp streaming music all day . Ah well, can't have everything I guess . Please consider the Forum Rules before posting utter crap. Thank you!

16th August 2003, 14:13	#26
Raz Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Manchester Posts: 6,470	I just have my thousands of mp3s and have done with it. I take recommendations of people i know have good taste to find my good music. My brother, certain friends etc etc.

16th August 2003, 17:26	#28
Budgie Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Hell frozen up Posts: 1,217	Ads in magazines are whack, too. On certain magazines (no, not the Playboy ), it's gotten so bad that there's a fullsized ad on every other page Not mentioning the rather little ads in between paragraphs sometimes. Really ugly, makes me wanna throw the damn magazine against the wall, it really prevents me from enjoying the articles. Please consider the Forum Rules before posting utter crap. Thank you!

17th August 2003, 02:40	#31
ÇhäötïÇLüñätïÇ Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Timeless void. Posts: 80	Well, if u wanna fight spam... here's a start, toss your TV in the garbage.

17th August 2003, 09:13	#33
Budgie Major Dude Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Hell frozen up Posts: 1,217	There are some billboards near where I live that are preferrably located near traffic lights that would even electrically change their ad paper roll after a moment. Those are really ugly, quite high, too . They seriously cluttered the area with these. Please consider the Forum Rules before posting utter crap. Thank you!

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