Banned Advertisements

[Ming]

Originally posted by Solver

The Super Bowl is the biggest day of the year for the advertising community. It's the one day when many people actually watch a TV program and PLAN on watching the commercials.

Wow, is that serious?

There are many research studies that show this... my favorite one (done in back in 2000) goes the extra step and makes the following claim.

Some 130-140 million Americans watch at least some part of the Super Bowl — or about half the American population — and there are 800 million viewers worldwide. Surveys have found that at least 10 million people (7 percent) watch the Super Bowl exclusively for the ads.

[Asher]

I'm not sure these are real ads.

The "busted Apple" one is a really old internet parody...

[Arrian]

It's really quite sad.

It's especially irritating if you actually want to watch... THE GAME.

Lucky for me I'm not that much of a football fan. If they did this sort of **** during the World Series... oh, would I be pissed.

-Arrian

[Ming]

Originally posted by Asher
I'm not sure these are real ads.

The "busted Apple" one is a really old internet parody...

Ya think...

[Agathon]

The Tui's beer one is real. They have loads of ads like that. It's a nice beer too - not too harsh to vomit up.

[Solver]

It's really sad when people watch something for the ads.

Then again, it just proves that your American sports are inferior since the viewers care about the ads and aren't completely immersed in the game .

[Q Classic]

Ugh...

I've never heard of Heavy.com until now, and honestly, the site bites. Slow to load, overabundantly using flash and shockwave, it's the cheap fifty-year-old streetwalker of websites that overuses its perfume and makeup as if that somehow makes it pretty.

The aesthetic appeal of that site ranks somewhat higher than say, Ain't It Cool News with its poo-colored Comic Sans/Arial Wide-Load monstrosity, but below Fark.com's retarded overly iconified page.

I honestly don't know anybody who goes to Heavy.com, either, so I'm quite curious to know exactly what the demographic the people are that go to this site, and whether they're the nitwits responsible for cancelling shows like Arrested Development and Firefly in favor of crud like American Idol.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
Ugh...

I've never heard of Heavy.com until now, and honestly, the site bites. Slow to load, overabundantly using flash and shockwave, it's the cheap fifty-year-old streetwalker of websites that overuses its perfume and makeup as if that somehow makes it pretty.

The aesthetic appeal of that site ranks somewhat higher than say, Ain't It Cool News with its poo-colored Comic Sans/Arial Wide-Load monstrosity, but below Fark.com's retarded overly iconified page.

I honestly don't know anybody who goes to Heavy.com, either, so I'm quite curious to know exactly what the demographic the people are that go to this site, and whether they're the nitwits responsible for cancelling shows like Arrested Development and Firefly in favor of crud like American Idol.

I know it's a pain, but it's the only place I know of that has Spongebong Hemppants. And you can't go wrong with that.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Solver
It's really sad when people watch something for the ads.
.

Oh they don't. That's just something ad people make up.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Thrawn05
I know it's a pain, but it's the only place I know of that has Spongebong Hemppants. And you can't go wrong with that.

Actually, there is. Spongebob is bad enough, I can't imagine anyone making a spoof of it. It's like trying to spoof Gigli.

And honestly, some of these ads had better be worth this much pain--so far, I'm unimpressed.

I'm on a fecking 10-megabit downstream cable connection. I shouldn't have to be waiting this long for the page to load, replete with constant buffering interruptions.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Q Cubed


Actually, there is. Spongebob is bad enough, I can't imagine anyone making a spoof of it. It's like trying to spoof Gigli.

And honestly, some of these ads had better be worth this much pain--so far, I'm unimpressed.

I'm on a fecking 10-megabit downstream cable connection. I shouldn't have to be waiting this long for the page to load, replete with constant buffering interruptions.

Then your cable is messed up. I'm doing 768K DSL and I'm as natural as a duck in water at that site.

Of course, they might limit download speeds to help with the bandwidth. So it may appear slow to what you are normaly used to. If you do try heavy.com, I suggest the animation section. Trust me, GI Joe done Full Metal Jacket style is really good.

[Q Classic]

It's very much not my cable. I just tried downloaded a ~45-mb J2SDK package for linux with no trouble, and nothing else is currently using the network. I shouldn't be having these ads interrupted repeatedly by buffering issues.

I don't think I like this site. That said, I'll be watching these ads for now, but I shan't think I'll be a returnee.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
Spongebob is bad enough, I can't imagine anyone making a spoof of it.

The Big Dog store here spoofs everything. Awhile back they featured a sweatshirt of Spongedog Nopants.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Agathon
I simply cannot see why they wouldn't let the singing cows one on.

I agree. It must just be a general ban on PETA. That's pretty ****ty.

The "Milk gone wild" commercial though... *shudder*

[chequita guevara]

Need glasses was hysterical.