Christmas ads - maybe it bothers me more than it should
39anyone seen the latest best buy christmas ad?
it ends with "because when you give tech, people won't just love it, they'll love you!"
are you fucking serious? what kind of fucking bullshit is that??! #CantBestBuyMyLove
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You get a star for the hashtag.
Hey quit elfin' around
Nope, I'd say that bothers you just the right amount.
They sell the idea that unless we go into debt for a holiday (or just any average Tuesday, really), we won't really give a shit.
Dat hashtag tho....
@jaremelz i'm thinking it should be trending on twitter soon.
@carl669 Go make that shit happen, you'll be my hero. Well, even more so.
@jaremelz i'm trying. but it doesn't help that i have no followers and that i only use twitter to enter random contests.
@carl669 Nothing is impossible, you're my number 1 here! Shit, I've had about 5 tweets ever, but I'll go throw down too.
Once I'm done with this bitch cycling and get all the sweat out of my glasses that is. Fuuuuuuuck. Don't follow aerobics and weights with 15 mile rides.
@jaremelz To be fair, jewelers have been flogging that line 365 days a year since .. forever. " Want to buy yourself a wife? She will say 'no' unless you spend 2 months salary on a very common mineral kept artificially expensive by a monopoly. But every woman's love can be bought for the right bling." Now Best Buy is saying everyone's love can be bought for the right (expensive) bit of tech. And men complain that they always get left out of things!
@rockblossom It just makes us low-maintenance bitches look good!
@rockblossom true, but they're just a tad more subtle. their typical message is, "give her a gift she'll love", not "she'll love you". granted, the visuals in their ads do imply it, but it's not part of the tag line. what set me off is that best buy's ad specifically says "they'll love you".
for the record though, jewelers' ads also annoy me.
@carl669 Subtle? Like in "Every kiss begins with K(ay)!" subtle?
@rockblossom Hey now, kisses can happen without love. I wonder what the ratio of spouse to side bitch is with jewelry.
Now, some dude wants to buy me a new range, I WILL love him.
@jaremelz đ Glass/ceramic top with an induction burner, surely? And a double oven. Only the best will do if they want TruLove™
@rockblossom Damn straight! Otherwise they just get kisses. Loveless ones. My specialty.
@jaremelz Would you do another hour cycling and about fifteen reps on the weights for me, please? Thanks so much.
@OldCatLady Gotcha covered! I have recovered, ready to go again. Might not be able to lift my pinkie tomorrow, but that's a small price to pay.
@jaremelz Even, say,... @mfladd? :)
@dashcloud I have no clue what his workout regime is.
@carl669 Put in my 2 cents on Twitter... a little late, but oh well! 'So sad! You suck @BestBuy #CantBestBuyMyLove'
I fucking HATE commercials! They're everywhere! Now I read they're trying to figure out a way to add them to video games. I assume there already is a bunch of product placement. I don't game.
@Teripie - I know! Wasn't cable TV originally supposed to be ad-free? That's how they got us to pay for television in the first place.
@KDemo And now they charge you for local channels and all their damn ads! I have a really good antenna though and it picks up those. But we only use it when the satellite is down.
@Teripie Adblock + no cable = a peaceful life for me
@Teripie Hey, those have paid my salary for the past 8 years!
@darksaber99999 Adblock is great, but check out uBlock Origin. I'm even happier with that!
Is that honest trailers guy?
That hashtag is perfect.
@Thumperchick it looks like one other person has used it so far. we're well on the way to trending! thanks @cattylac!
I knew there was a reason why I almost never ever shop at Best Buy... (besides the fact that their name is usually a lie, I mean)... thanks for the reminder.
This from a scumbag piece of shit company that is opening 5PM on Thanksgiving Day, stealing the holiday from their employees to fleece a bunch of greedy pukes. F*ck them. Just tweeted and emailed my disdain to them, and won't be shopping there any time soon. #SaveThanksgiving
Hey now, lay off Best Buy. Where else would you go to play with electronics and test out tech before buying it online?
@Thumperchick Best Buy... Amazon's showroom
(although I will admit to buying there more often now that they match the prices)
Speaking of commercials... does anybody else switch off the TV when the Candy Crush commercial comes on? I feel sorry for the guy in it... he probably gets spit on in the streets. Not his fault.
Gee I never watch tv anymore except for news when I'm doing my triple s in the morning.
@cranky1950 Something tells me a lot of these young people are going to have to look up triple s . . .
@Pavlov shit, shower, shave... right?
@Thumperchick Yup. Now they don't have to look it up : (
@Pavlov I don't think that many would have had to, though? Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm juuuuuust old enough to not be a "young" people anymore...
@Thumperchick I don't hear it nearly as much as I used to, outside of use by military / ex-military.
@Pavlov Perhaps that's where I heard it. Grew up in southern CA - military bases EVERYWHERE.
@Thumperchick @Pavlov I had no idea.
@Pavlov as a relatively young person, I am familiar with this expression. As a younger,young person--someone told me he had do take care of the S's and he said shit, shower, shave, and have a sandwich. I never forgot the S's.