Faulty Leaps of Logic Advertisements?
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there's one on the yahoo page where they show a bare chested very hairy man, he is shown with a razor in his hand giving the impression that he will use it to shave off all his body hair,which obviously would take a lot of time\nthen he is shown to have an idea and he just \nshakes his body and all the hair simply falls off, and a slogan appears about doing things faster and its about the new internet explorer or something.\n\nthis ad obviously depends on faulty logic because its impossible to shake hair off your body , but the allegory is used to point out how things can be done faster and easier if done in a new way.\nyou will find countless other examples everywhere now that you know what to look for.
884560
Agree totally.  This forum is an excellent example.  Just more bleating sheep spewing the regular dogma.\n\nMost people find TV advertising to be an insult to their intelligence.  But those Madison Ave ad execs are pretty sharp cookies, so it must follow that the bulk of the ads are aimed at the lowest common denominator, which is the majority, encompassing all down to the delta minus semi-moron.\n\nThese are our fellow Americans.
475916
The design is great, a little more work on the content would be great. Also the ads can really turn somebody blind :)
911968
Sadly, the response to such ads seems to have been fairly low.\n\nHowever, at least someone is trying.  And thats a good thing.  Although I would agree that they need to continue to develop their programs and process.\n\nMy take on it is, if even a few lives are saved or improved - I'll endure the annoyances that some of the commericals offer up.  Even if the messages don't mean much to you or me - they mean something to someone and maybe after the 50th viewing, that person might take steps to save or help someone.
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METACOMMUNICATION\n\nEvery advertisement carries both a message (a meaningful content) as well as a command about how to interpret the message. The command portion of the message "positions the receiver to adopt a particular attitude towards the report." Herein lies the rub, for viewers do not merely decode content, they also react to being positioned. As viewers accumulate experiences of interpreting ads they develop "vocabularies of motive" with which they negotiate the ways that ads address them. (Herskovitz, 1979; Bateson, 1972).\n\n--\nSee source for more info and thank you for asking i find this interesting my self. Cheerio
1170566
advertising is against the rules!!!!
654730
The UK government sometimes puts the most ridiculous adverts on.I was around at a friends house a couple of years ago and we saw one about the dangers of leaving electric blankets. It was hideously graphic; showing the charred bodies of two elderly people in a bed! Horrible\n\nBTW sorry if one of my earlier responses got one of your questions deleted (Bob Marley Day). Me and my potty mouth eh?
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I think you answered your own question.\n\nBesides, at orientation weren't we told to make cool stuff, then worry about how to make money? Perhaps this is a cool thing that simply hasn't had a money-making idea created from it yet. However, advertisement is, I think, the most probable means.
509322
Now, in hindsight, how\nI wish that I had never\njunked those email ads.\n\nLMAO wrathpuppet's is superb! :-)
1122123
It sounds like a false alarm to me.......oops! I'm sorry, couldn't resist the pun.lol\n\nI would get rid of it and then add it again. \n\nDid it just start doing this or has it been doing it all along?
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Not a single one on television or radio. \n\nSome press adverts in targeted publications can be interesting, for example for tech devices.\n\nAn Adverts job tho is not to work directly, but when you next go to the store and see 2 different products, to choose the one you saw advertised. This is the subliminal message they deliver.
708005
if u think their adverts are cr*ap,  then u should try working for them !  i used to work in technical support,  taking phone calls to do with faulty phones..... all i can say is that there are some total freaks out there.....  for example,  one guy rang up and claimed he was being abducted regularly by aliens,  and wanted to know if his phone insurance was valid if he left the earth's atmosphere !!!  the scary thing was that he was totally serious.....    as for Orange adverts,  they have always been dead arty-farty....  remember one of their early ones - it was all in black and white,  and there was a guy with a large dead fish on his head for some mad reason - the best thing though was that Boddingtons Beer did a similar advert about a year later,  taking the p*ss out of it !    the advert i really hate at the moment though is that Boots one,  where they have all those models done up to look like they've been in a fight with a clown's make-up bag......  the slogan says 'be gorgeous this xmas time' -  well,  if that's gorgeous, then god help us all !!!
319071
Yes, advertisers do it and I call it lying. Politicians often do it too.  Religious people do it,  but they don't know any better.  Understatement is closer to the truth.
243495
umm, im a bit confused, if you could clarify your question that would be great, thanx. Or, is this just some more advertising? isnt that spam?
975399
A subliminal one will work marvels and near-miracles - but this type of advertisements are banned in most of the civilised countries !\nOtherwise, saying 'the truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth' works BEST in almost any kind of advertising.
909069
The makers of the commercial deliberately obscured anything that could have definitely identified the software being "used" in the spot to avoid paying for rights or getting into trouble. Everything in the commercial could have been done in Photoshop (i think) and that's probably what was used, but there's really no way to determine what - if any - software was actually used in the piece.
1039266
hey, this is a question and answer forum. take your cheap advertising somewhere else. thank you