http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut0WDb-xzks&feature=related
And we don't even have one of these restaurants here.
I thought about putting this on a loop on my t.v. when I had a group of friends over last saturday just to see if anyone noticed.
But I didn't....well, I couldn't.
WHAT THE SHIT FUCK DAMN. NO!
I always get Jack in the Box commercials too when the closest one is in St. Louis. WTF, man? They really need to learn how to target their ad dollars.
oh how i miss the glorious tacos i used to eat in california
for one i thought it was delicious cat meat, but i guess its transgenic midget cows after all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrCbcniq-I4 :lulz:
There isn't a Jack in the Box ANYWHERE on the East Coast, and it's torture, much like the Sonic commercials we get in Rhode Island when the closest one is in New Jersey. :x
Wait... you guys pay attention to TV commercials that advertise horribly crap food?
You guys have TV?
I have a notebook, where I record the date, time, channel and program such bad adverts are aired on.
Just in case...
Quote from: Richter on August 19, 2009, 03:58:20 PM
You guys have TV?
Yes.
Remember TV? As in, something that actually receives stations and isn't used solely for the playing of Xbox 360 and DVDs?
I still don't watch it that much unless something interesting is on. Though I got sucked into House a couple days ago.
New season of House in September.
Got potential to be much better than the last season, given the ending and new setting.
Quote from: LMNO on August 19, 2009, 03:57:36 PM
Wait... you guys pay attention to TV commercials that advertise horribly crap food?
It's hard to not notice teeny tiny cows and high pitch singing ... also midgets.
this commercial made me
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Well, I do watch TV, and Mrs LMNO was raised on the beastly thing.
But... why pay attention to the commercials? I'm pretty sure we're all aware of the horrors of the corporate marketing maching, Ben Mack notwithstanding.
And Chick-Fil-A...what I would do for waffle fries sometimes...
Quote from: LMNO on August 19, 2009, 04:03:41 PM
Well, I do watch TV, and Mrs LMNO was raised on the beastly thing.
But... why pay attention to the commercials? I'm pretty sure we're all aware of the horrors of the corporate marketing maching, Ben Mack notwithstanding.
:lulz: I don't sit and watch them intently. It grabbed my attention and then I couldn't stop looking... like a train wreck.
soon I will have a TV again. cause my gf demands to have one (even though, you know, Internets, and I really want to buy a wide flatscreen TFT monitor and mount it to the wall in order to watch that instead) but she wants a TV.
I'm gonna demand that she will always mute it when commercials are on.
Aren't there devices already that do that shit for you? I mean how hard can it be to detect a constantly overcompressed signal that carries more energy than whatever you were watching before?
I haven't had TV for some time, but there is a Jack In The Box not too far from my house.
I haven't eaten at one for ages. Mmmm, crap food!
Quote from: Suu on August 19, 2009, 04:04:41 PM
And Chick-Fil-A...what I would do for waffle fries sometimes...
I always get cravings for Chick-Fil-A on Sundays. It is a very ironically cruel craving. :argh!:
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on August 19, 2009, 07:51:28 PM
Quote from: Suu on August 19, 2009, 04:04:41 PM
And Chick-Fil-A...what I would do for waffle fries sometimes...
I always get cravings for Chick-Fil-A on Sundays. It is a very ironically cruel craving. :argh!:
Stupid Christian food chain. :argh!:
Coincidentally, Eldest Female Offspring and The Boy One report that their dad took them to Jack In The Box for lunch today. :x
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 19, 2009, 05:15:58 PM
Aren't there devices already that do that shit for you? I mean how hard can it be to detect a constantly overcompressed signal that carries more energy than whatever you were watching before?
I've been thinking about that too.
Isn't there a electronics savvy person around here?
i googled:
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/49499
QuoteSome have tried to do this, but there is no effective way to identify and mute commercials. They contain no consistent and reliable identifying features.
Many commercials are played at a higher volume level, but this is a very inaccurate way to identify a commercial, since the average volume of program material varies. The volume is highly variable within a program: chase scenes, gunshots, and explosions tend to be noisier than dialog.
Since commercials carry no identification tag embedded in the broadcast data, a television would need to identify a commercial by analyzing both the video and audio content and comparing this with known patterns generated by commercials. This would be extremely difficult to do reliably. Consumers would reject a monitoring system that had even a modest failure rate, particularly if it muted program material by accident.
If there was a way to reliably mute commercials, one or more manufacturers would already have offered such a feature in their televisions, either as an added-cost option or a premium feature.
(Imagine tryting to watch a show highlighting award-winning commercials: any system that tried to distinguish content from commercial would have a fit.)
I'm paranoid enough to think the bolded line is weak.
http://www.madeinusaforever.com/muautvmudema.html.
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5708477/description.html
QuoteUS Patent 5708477 - Video signal identifier for controlling a VCR and television based on the occurrence of commercials
actually it should totally be possible. there is only a finite amount of different commercials in the commercial breaks. and judging from the accuracy in music-recognition (call a phone number, it picks up the sound in a noisy bar through the phone speaker and a few seconds later you get a text message with the title and artist from a database of all music ever) it should be dead easy to recognize commercials from the video+audio signal.
only thing you have to do is, just like spam is filtered from email, you need a bunch of signatures for the commercials of this month or week.
worst thing that happens is that a tv program that discusses commercials gets partially blocked out when they show a clip, but that's not too bad and you could manually turn it back on.
should add some sort of community thing to it, people marking TV timeslots as "spam", which are then analyzed at a central server and converted to signatures.
some TV channels have a jingle/clip at the start and end of every commercial block, that's easy. do they still have that in NL?
anyway, really this is totally possible if you want it. I should get a TV card on my new computer to play with this idea.
QuoteYears before, he had invented a module that, when a television commercial appeared, automatically muted the sound. It wasn't at first a context-recognition device. Instead it simply monitored the amplitude of the carrier wave. TV advertisers had taken to running their ads louder and with less audio clutter then the programs that were their nominal vehicles. News of Hadden's module spread by word of mouth. People reported a sense of relief, the lifting of a great burden, even a feeling of joy at being freed from the advertising barrage for the six to eight hours out of every day that the average American spent in front of a television set. Before there could be any coordinated response from the television advertising industry, Adnix had become wildly popular. It forced advertisers and networks into new choices of carrier-wave strategy, each of which Hadden countered with a new invention. Sometimes he invented circuits to defeat strategies that the agencies and the networks had not yet hit upon. He would say he was saving them the trouble of making inventions, at great cost to their shareholders, which were at any rate doomed to failure. As his sales volume increased, he kept cutting prices. It was a kind of electronic warfare. And he was wining.
They tried to sue him - something about a conspiracy in restraint of trade. They had sufficient political muscle that his motion for summary dismissal was denied, but insufficient influence to actually win the case. The trial had forced Hadden to investigate the relevant legal codes. Soon after, he applied, through a well-known Madison Avenue agency in which he was now a major silent partner, to advertise his own product on commercial television. After a few weeks of controversy his commercials were refused. He sued all three networks and in this trial was able to prove conspiracy in restraint of trade. He received a huge settlement that was, at the time, a record for cases of this sort, and which contributed in its modest way to the demise of the original networks.
There had always been people who enjoyed the commercials, of course, and they had no need for Adnix. But they were a dwindling minority. Hadden had made a great fortune by eviscerating broadcast advertising. He also made many enemies.
From Carl Sagan's
Contact. The written one that doesn't have Matthew McConnacunt in it.
Jack-In-The-Box has to be the worst fast food chain ever.
Hardee's or GTFO.
(AKA Carl's Jr. in some areas)
I've never had the displeasure of eating at one.
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on August 20, 2009, 05:18:24 PM
Jack-In-The-Box has to be the worst fast food chain ever.
Hardee's or GTFO.
(AKA Carl's Jr. in some areas)
WTF? The horrible bacon thingie cheeseburger is what GOD eats.
I mean, when he isn't eating the souls of his worshippers.
We had Hardee's in FL, but I only went there for chicken, never burgers.
Hardee's is a billion times better since they got bought out by Carl's jr.
They used to really suck except for breakfast. Several years ago I remember seeing the "sorry we used to suck, but now we're alot better" Hardee's commercials. Turns out they really meant it. Even McDonalds is copying them with their new 1/3 lb angus burgers, which, by the way, are not as good as Hardee's's 1/3 lb thickburger, also they cost more.
NOW YOU KNOW
Also, Jack-In-The-Box just isn't the same since they stopped serving the E-coli burgers.
Rhode Island isn't a state keen on fast food. Since there are laws here protecting local business from chains, only the big three are around: McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's. And then Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Papa John's for pizza. That's it. Fortunately where I live now is close enough to an Arby's in MA, since the local RI fast food roast beef chain, Walt's, sucks. I mean, Arby's can be disgusting, but Walt's is fucking horrific.
No Chick-Fil-A. I have to drive over an hour to get to one in a mall North of Boston. Sonic, White Castle, and anything of that caliber I have to go to New Jersey for.
We DO have an A&W, but it's seasonal.
fuck fast food!
that shit is horrible. anyone ever look at the nutritional information for hardees??
holy fucking shit. barf gag and barf again.
i haven't eaten any of that shit since... like the beginning of the year and i don't miss it at all. my mom brought burger king shit with her today when she dropped off the squidling (after taking him on a cruise, lucky little turd) and the sight of it alone made me want to puke. not to mention the smell.
i never thought i'd turn into one of those stuck up, smug, snobby finicky eaters but man, i can't believe the shit i was shoving down my gullet.
but those tiny cows make me giggle a little.
Quote from: Squid on August 21, 2009, 03:15:43 AM
i never thought i'd turn into one of those stuck up, smug, snobby finicky eaters but man, i can't believe the shit i was shoving down my gullet.
This.
Quote from: Squid on August 21, 2009, 03:15:43 AM
fuck fast food!
that shit is horrible. anyone ever look at the nutritional information for hardees??
holy fucking shit. barf gag and barf again.
i haven't eaten any of that shit since... like the beginning of the year and i don't miss it at all. my mom brought burger king shit with her today when she dropped off the squidling (after taking him on a cruise, lucky little turd) and the sight of it alone made me want to puke. not to mention the smell.
i never thought i'd turn into one of those stuck up, smug, snobby finicky eaters but man, i can't believe the shit i was shoving down my gullet.
but those tiny cows make me giggle a little.
Yeah, it's kind of amazing how overwhelmingly gross it becomes when you're no longer used to it.
McDonalds food makes me paranoid. And nauseous.
McDonald's burgers make me ill. I have no idea why we thought they were so damn awesome when we were kids. However, I still consider them a road trip/blood sugar staple. Because after you've been in the car for a few hours and you're feeling like crap, partaking in the sacrament of a double cheeseburger from the dollar menu is the way to go.
Otherwise, you get people like Richter speaking monotonously and threatening bodily harm to other drivers, in a way much scarier than his usual road rage.
Paranoia is a useful trait while driving. If more drivers in this state had it, maybe they'd check their damn blind spots :argh!:
If I wanted to be killed by trailer trash, I'd start cutting a red soaked swath through their park. Who trusted these people with kinetic energy anyways?
This is why that cheeseburger is so valuable. Especially when you pick it up before the Connecticut Time Dilation.
Quote from: Richter on August 21, 2009, 03:03:52 PM
Paranoia is a useful trait while driving. If more drivers in this state had it, maybe they'd check their damn blind spots :argh!:
If I wanted to be killed by trailer trash, I'd start cutting a red soaked swath through their park. Who trusted these people with kinetic energy anyways?
Iason, of course. I was against it all along.
Do you guys have Dairy Queen out there? I love Dairy Queen.
I take the kids to one at the coast twice a year.
There used to be a few here but now there's just one.
This place is really becoming a wasteland of "closed" and "for lease" buildings.
I haven't eaten at one since I was in 3rd grade.
It isn't just the fat, sugar and salt in the food that pisses me off and makes me not want to eat it. It's that these companies allow all this crap to go into their food.
It's almost a damn drug that hooks you. If you stop eating fast food, you crave it hard core for a good week/month before you're disgusted by it.
I tell ya, there's something wrong here when you feel like you "have to have cheeseburger NOW".
And as far as fast food goes, the best one for you is Pita Pit. The chicken shwarma pita has the least amount of sodium and the fat and calories yadda yadda.
And it still isn't all that healthy. Also pricey if you're in a pinch.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on August 21, 2009, 04:14:42 PM
Do you guys have Dairy Queen out there? I love Dairy Queen.
I take the kids to one at the coast twice a year.
We have Dairy Queen.
But it doesn't look the same as when I was a kid.
THIS THREAD IS MAKING ME WANT A GODDAMMED CHEESEBURGER.
...and I don't even LIKE cheeseburgers!
WTG, PeeDee! :argh!:
Make one.
Then you can control what goes in it and it's sure not to SUCK BALLS!
I like homemade the best. That way I can use really good ground bison and season it how I want, and put all kinds of crazy awesome stuffs on it like avocado.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on August 21, 2009, 04:14:42 PM
Do you guys have Dairy Queen out there? I love Dairy Queen.
I take the kids to one at the coast twice a year.
In the malls only. We did have a free-standing one in Florida, but I was never a huge fan of it.
It's just not the same since they canned Dennis the Menace.
Quote from: The Lord and Lady Omnibus Fuck on August 21, 2009, 06:47:07 AM
Quote from: Squid on August 21, 2009, 03:15:43 AM
fuck fast food!
that shit is horrible. anyone ever look at the nutritional information for hardees??
holy fucking shit. barf gag and barf again.
i haven't eaten any of that shit since... like the beginning of the year and i don't miss it at all. my mom brought burger king shit with her today when she dropped off the squidling (after taking him on a cruise, lucky little turd) and the sight of it alone made me want to puke. not to mention the smell.
i never thought i'd turn into one of those stuck up, smug, snobby finicky eaters but man, i can't believe the shit i was shoving down my gullet.
but those tiny cows make me giggle a little.
Yeah, it's kind of amazing how overwhelmingly gross it becomes when you're no longer used to it.
yep, after dating (my first) vegetarian for a year, I kinda got used to the idea that if I were gonna eat meat, it'd better be damn good biological meat (and bacon). after a while I had a "frikandel" at a fastfood cafetaria (traditional Dutch rubbery meatpaste dildo served with mayo, curry-ketchup and onions), it was horrible. I used to love those things. Only meat I still eat at a cafetaria is a "kroket" (short meat ragout filled cylinder with a crunchy breadcrumb crust, deepfried), cause for some reason those still have some quality meat in them (some cafetarias even fabricate their own in a desperate attempt to show culinary skill besides knowing how to properly deepfry potatoe fries--which they often do not).
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 31, 2009, 02:14:22 PMafter a while I had a "frikandel" at a fastfood cafetaria (traditional Dutch rubbery meatpaste dildo served with mayo, curry-ketchup and onions), it was horrible.
:x :x :x
I screamed/cried too Nigel
What an awful picture that paints
Quote from: Squid on August 31, 2009, 05:28:44 PM
I screamed/cried too Nigel
What an awful picture that paints
I remember that my favorite food in the whole world was the terrible bacon thingie at Jack in the Box.
I smelled one the other day, and I thought I was gonna puke.
Plus: My taste has apparently improved.
Negative: That's one less thing in the world that I enjoy.
Baconator or GTFO!!!!
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I just puked curry up my throat into my mouth.
had to swallow it.
thanks.