Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads
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British Humor.
Just sit back and enjoy it. 🤷🏻♀️
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Monty Python, that ad isn't.
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@springlering62 The double chin one - the guy has a look of horror on his face for both 😂
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what? You’re not worried he had a six pack on one side and a four pack on the other?
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every once in a while I find an article that’s a gold mine of crazy advertising. These mostly came from a real estate site, and “the” big local radio/Tv station.
The first one is particularly amusing because their eyes…..‘Roid Rage?
For those of you wanting to keep your 8th grade bodies:
the stuff of horror movies, right?
And in case you’re needing a discount brain scan, who knew a Solo cup would do the trick?!
more cup mysteries:
more horror:
best oxymoron of the day. “Viral” wellness drops. 👍🏻
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I always love the "we all do it" celebrity weight-loss secrets. Considering how many celebrities are overweight, if they're included in that "we all" part, then why would I want to start?
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“19” is the new “two weeks”. Have to keep our expectations in check, right?
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and some are too funny to skim past:
Dog forgot to put on the anonymity wig for this ad:
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new favorite!!!!!!!
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It's an Aphrodisiac?
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Re: PP with multiple very eye-roll-triggering ads.
I think the "over 40 muscle" guys on the beach are actually 27, they just spent too much time in the sun without sunscreen. 😉 Hello, skin cancer? They do look angry about something: I wonder if that's supposed to appeal to the "alpha male" mythology crowd.
I'd been getting so, so many ads from that Willow weight loss place - the rather mild "Good News - Weight Loss Within Reach" ad with the cartoon woman in a blue bikini top. I finally hid them totally in one app I use. They were video ads, so there were comments - I often read comments on those things out of curiosity. They were pretty coy about it, using language like "our doctors carefully review each person's health history and situation before developing a plan", but it seemed ultra-clear what was going on. Reading between the lines, I suspect they were willing to provide compounded GLP-1 agonist drugs to people including those with only small amounts of weight to lose, like 10 pounds. For sure, they were implying that.
In the US, now that some of the branded GLP-1 drugs are coming off the drug shortage list, the drug companies are suing compounding pharmacies in some cases (various reasons, including intellectual property issues), and overall the FDA is considering tighter regulation of those compounding pharmacies citing concerns about quality and safety. I suspect we'll see the more scammy end of that industry trying to low-key sneak some profit taking into the short run because of all that. Suspect that's Willow's game, but it's mere suspicion.
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Pretty sure those guys would kill me if I played football with them. Also, I'm pretty sure they'd kill everyone.
"for those of you wanting to keep your grade 8 bodies…."
Ummmm, just why?Also, sure I can make my pants drop with much less than 4 ingredients.
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I’m just intrigued that so many took “pants drop” totally different than me!
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For pants drop, I think (I hope) they forgot the word "size" in there. I want to drop another pant size (already down one pant size), However, I don't want my pants to drop when I am wearing them, which is the image I am getting 😂
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Well . . . as one who commented about what I suspect you'd consider the other way: I obviously took it as a double entendre, even though they might not have had both meanings in mind. Brain still in junior high, I guess. 😆
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I was victim of many of Googles Fraudulent youtube ads. To start. My latest one is the. V shred we all seen on YouTube ad. I signed up for the 56$ trial than it kept offering different subscriptions. Personal trainer. Came out to be 150.$ than here comes the supplement drugs to help burn fat. That when my total increase to 420$ i was like nope. I need to afford groceries. Canceled the entire membership. The only ad I recommend was the total gym Chuck Norris approved add. That was on the internet. I bought and still use. If not at the gym. An the silver bullet smoothie blender i bought. And used for protein shakes. Crazy how Google is alowing YouTube to post fraudulent business ads. With A.I voice over.
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Apparently Kelloggs have made mathematically challenged advertising for some revolting concoction of theirs. The aim is apparently to maximise the surface area to volume ratio to maximise glaze. They essentially claimed spheres are better than torus; this is false. In fact, a sphere is the worst shape (although proof of that is slightly non-trivial).
https://imgur.com/a/kelloggs-mathematical-blunder-x4o01cz
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Clearly, the surface area misrepresentation has been debunked: Good show.
But another factor could be relevant, perhaps.
In industrial processing terms, how does the glazing process work on the sphere vs. the torus? Is the sphere easier to fully glaze to an evenly thicker coating?
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In case it's not obvious, I'm just joking around here. I love the link. I hope the dude wins consideration for an Ig Nobel prize.
A researcher won one in the Nutrition category for a study about cereal soggification, so it's not out of the question.
For those unfamiliar with the Ig Nobel prizes, they are nerd heaven. They're an outgrowth of the Journal of Improbable Research, a real thing. The awards ceremony acceptance speeches are moderated by an 8-year-old girl who, when a speech hits the time limit, starts repeating (in a loud ultra-whiny voice) "Please stop. I'm bored." over and over. It's gold, pure gold.
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strange that I’ve heard of Ig noble prizes but haven’t the faintest what a torus is. ( Neither does spellcheck, apparently, so props to the rest of you.)
Anyway while we’re on the subject of crap advertising, if I see another woman with blue miracle peel off lips going to hurl this dang device at the wall.
I would appear that I’m prime marketing fodder for this idiocy Probably because I don’t know what a torus/Doris/tori is and am now off to look it up
This reminds me, in elementary school we were each tasked with finding and presenting a new vocabulary word to the class One fella came up with google.We all laughed and said,”we’ll never use that word!”
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Essentially, a torus is a donut. Cheerios has used a torus for its shape for decades.
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I fell for the magic blue lipstick ads. That stuff is amazing! I am obsessed and it is now on my “see a sale and definitely stock up” list!
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