what I don't getis tech companies who are happy to insult their potential customers.
Or do they know that self-respecting nerds wouldn't touch their broadband with a ten foot pole?
Vodafone did one recently with a nerdy guy buying a new phone then almost crying and saying 'I have't had a girlfriend for three years'
I don't understand the logic
(Or do they know that self-respecting nerds wouldn't touch their broadband with a ten foot pole?
Vodafone did one recently with a nerdy guy buying a new phone then almost crying and saying 'I have't had a girlfriend for three years'
I don't understand the logic
Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Mon 18 Feb 2013, 11:51,
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I think its the oppositeThe 'un'nerd people see the 'nerds' in the adverts, relate to the stereotype of them and think 'if they use it, it must be good' although, as you say, I wouldnt have vodafone or BT if you gave it me for free.
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Mon 18 Feb 2013, 12:08,
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It's probably knowing/ postmodern/ post-ironic/ some other shit that trendy advertising execs think will appeal to THE KIDS
drimble he'd been white, he'd been black,
Mon 18 Feb 2013, 12:08,
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"Advertising is the sound of a stick being rattled in a trough" - George Orwell
Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob,
Mon 18 Feb 2013, 12:15,
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Similarly Wonga advertise old biddies borrowing from themAn old biddy couldn't touch them with a barge pole if she wanted to.
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edjogs Collared doves are shit.,
Mon 18 Feb 2013, 13:00,
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Most old biddies keep their money in a shoebox in the wardrobe or under the mattress.
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Smallbrainfield,
Mon 18 Feb 2013, 13:45,
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