Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Is it weird, if every time I see an ad that interrupts a video or whatever I'm doing I make a point to say to myself in my head

"your product sucks"
"I hate "name" of product"
"I hate your "name" company"
"your product is diseased and I will never buy it"

Until the skip button is available.

Maybe it's just me since ads obviously work or they wouldn't pay so much money to show us them.

Then again people ringing up in the evening while you're watching a movie to sell loft insulation also obviously works or they wouldn't keep doing it.

It makes no sense to me, if a company does something annoying why do people reward them for it. It goes against common sense!

Ad blocker does wonders against those ads btw. Even in videos.

Honestly, I don't think it's a conscious thing. I'm sure no one thinks "Wow, that ad made me really want to buy this product" right after they see the ad. But by seeing the ad, it adds itself to your subconscious library. And then when you think about buying something along those lines your brain will immediately bring that up.

I mean, advertisements are an entire industry of their own. Companies spend trillions of dollars on them every year. It must have some kind of positive return.

I'll never forget this one ad that I used to see all the time. It was at the start of every single video I wanted to watch on the internet for like two years. It was the most annoying song in the entire world and it was worsened by the fact that they didn't even sell you anything. Or so I thought. It ended with the picture of a chili pepper. We don't have Chili's in my hometown. But when I went on a road trip with friends years later, we drove past a Chili's and I recognized that STUPID F***ING LITTLE PEPPER and I almost crashed my damn car in rage. But because my friends are *** they decided that would be a good place to stop for lunch because they knew it would torture me. F*ck Chili's and f*ck their stupid "WHO BROKE THE COPIER COPIER COPIER COPIER COPIER COPIERRRRRRRRRRRRRR" ad.

Sorry, that came from a really dark place.

They build on name recognition and your short attention span.

You hate mcdonalds because they put an ad in your porno a month ago, but they rely on you forgetting why you hate them next time you want a burger two months from now.

Or being too lazy to hold a grudge. I mean really. You can only boycot any company for so long realistically. You don't really have any choices. If they all do it, you have to pick the least annoyance. It's not like you're going to not eat fast food.

I mean look, how many nike boycotts are we on now with satan shoes? Is this number 4 or 5? You forgot, you buy nikes again, they piss you off again you burn your $100 shoes and then you buy them again a year later. The cycle repeats. They win over and over again no matter how outraged you claim to be.

Wholesome.


If only they sold burgers there. They sell some sort of protein compound formed and chemically altered to appear to take on burger characteristics, but with enough preservatives to basically fossilize by simple air exposure when the tiny bit of moisture dries away.

I mean... just stop for a moment and try to think about a REALLY DELICIOUS BURGER YOU'VE HAD.

I'll wait.

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100% no chance that McDonalds came to mind in that moment you were trying to think of one of your best burger memories.

Honestly, if you want to prevent yourself from buying any product, think of a really bad thing and convince yourself that it ties to that.

For example, since Chili's was mentioned, I had bad food poisoning from a Chili's in my area. I have never set foot in a Chili's again, even when I'm out of the area or state.

So, if you want to keep yourself from buying from a specific place, imagine the worst of it and you will find that you will never set foot at that place ever again.

Brah. You don't go to macD's for yum. You go there cause they're open and they're close and you don't wanna cook and wash dishes right now.

That's the entire business model. You don't go there cause you want to, you go there cause you DONT want to do anything else.

I didn't step food inside of a Walmart for years (at least half a decade) just due to... well, if you just stop and think about Walmart, I doubt you won't be able to quickly come up with one or two reasons why one would not shop there. Finally, I needed something and I knew Walmart would have it so, as Henry Rollins says, I "committed Walmart".

Since I had last been inside of one, they had done away with the little islands of cashiers and instead had a kind of pen area of self-checkout and there was a camera with a live feed of me staring at the register's cam.

I literally had a moment where my brain did a soft reset as I thought interally: W T F?

I mean... I get why they would have that set up. Self checkout pen seems to promote loss-prevetion and the cameras are there to record stolen debit card use. Still. I don't ever want to shop where I am in a situation where the company decided that enough of their customers are somehow criminal that they need to show that "big brother" is watching.


Last time I ate there, I'm 99.99% certain that their drink mix made me slightly ill. Not throw-up sick, but it made my body actually feel "bad". Like my stomach sent chemical signals to my brain to indicate that what I drank was not something I should do again.

Because loft insulation guy annoys you with his super late calls but when you finally do need loft insulation... who do you call? The first loft insulation guy you can think off.

Getting your floors redone? 800-588-2300 EMPIRE today! Why because it sticks in your head and at the very least you're going to call them for a quote. Also sucks to be everyone with the jingle stuck in their head now.

You don't need to hear an ad when you need the product/service you just need to think of the company when you need what they're selling. And if you can only think of 2 companies that provide a service, one of them will probably get your money. Because will you honestly go out and do research into other options just because those two companies annoy you with their shitty ads before videos? No. You're still getting whatever your fast food of choice is no matter how much their advertisements annoy you. Or, apparently, because they annoy you and your friends enjoy making you suffer.

Advertising on the web is REALLY schizophrenic.

I see stuff aimed at me because age. Toenail clippers for seniors. For drivers over 50. Over 50? You must play this game.

then they show me clothing for women way younger than I. plunging necklines, shirts open to the navel, transparent skirts, even shorter shorts....

They seem to know not to show me doughnut adds though.

Advertisements have a lot to do with attempts, too. I know people who've had bad experiences with a restaurant one time and never set foot in that place for the rest of their lives. Those exact same people have visited one particular restaurant a whopping four times, with each experience worse than the last. Why? Because that restaurant keeps putting up ads that look like this:

The worst part is when they advertise you something you just bought because you just bought it. Like, no thanks, I don't need a second dining room table.

I can understand when I get ads trying to sell me winter jackets because I verbally declared I was looking for them. I've long since accepted that my phone listens to my every word. But I do get kinda skeeved out when all I do is think in my brain about something like "my office chair is uncomfortable" and suddenly I'm peppered with ads selling me office chairs >_>;

That looks horrible actually.

Your welcome.

Shameful.

See, there's that too. I actually think that's an advertising thing as well. All these burger places make the biggest, thickest, ugliest, drippiest sandwich in the world with 80 different toppings so you can't even taste anything. But because it's so monstrous it ends up confusing a lot of people into thinking "damn that must be good!"

But you're right. It doesn't look good. And it wasn't good.

Home made is the best for pretty much any food because you can alter your recipe to your own tastes.

Really damn annoys me when artists put hairy tails on Mithra!

JP artist.

https://twitter.com/Heat_FFXI/status/1379278536167464962

Oooh! Are we going to get back into ye olde debate about just how fuzzy Mithra are supposed to be?

*sits back with some popcorn*

This is both the most awesome and also the most incredibly stupid thing I've seen for a while.

Reminds me of one of the sculptures in Beetlejuice.