Principia Discordia

Principia Discordia => Or Kill Me => Topic started by: deet on October 23, 2005, 07:17:05 PM

Title: The unintentional subliminal consequences of advertising
Post by: deet on October 23, 2005, 07:17:05 PM
I saw a full-page newspaper ad the other day. It was for an apartment complex, and the draw of the ad was that they had full laundry facilities on-site.  The message was "we have laundry, and it's a good place to live."  The catch-phrase used was "No more creepy laundry-room guy."

I was reading this in a laundrymat. I felt like the creepy laundry-room guy. I am not, however, creepy. Complete strangers will talk to me, almost anywhere I go.  I don't make a point of flirting with girls when I'm doing laundry, but if I saw a hottie folding towels, I would probably say "Hi," if I was bored and wanted to talk.

What if she was the one reading the ad? What if she, having just learned of the "creepy-laundry room guy," was approached by a male shortly after, in a laundry room?
Title: The unintentional subliminal consequences of advertising
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on October 23, 2005, 07:19:04 PM
What makes you think that was unintentional?
Title: The unintentional subliminal consequences of advertising
Post by: deet on October 23, 2005, 07:21:29 PM
a lingering hope that marketers might have some humanity left in them, after capitalism has taken over their minds.
Title: The unintentional subliminal consequences of advertising
Post by: The Good Reverend Roger on October 23, 2005, 07:25:52 PM
Quote from: ethosiona lingering hope that marketers might have some humanity left in them, after capitalism has taken over their minds.

:lol:

Optimist.

:lol: