I am as eco-friendly as biodegradable toilet paper....
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but this is too fecking much. Apparently, the Greenies themselves are reportedly hunting down and erasing all examples of this video on Youtube’
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pcmechanic There's no bottom to the depths of human stupidity, Sat 2 Oct 2010, 11:34,
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was on here yesterday...but who cares the more that see it the better.
well done 1010... you have made loads of people choose a side on the climate change debate....
the entirely wrong one...
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GODDAMTREEHUGGINGHIPPIES!
Can you get that button thing from Amazon? There are a few people I'd like to use that on
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redazril I LIKE DRUGS!, Sat 2 Oct 2010, 11:48,
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this puzzles me
I know how much thought goes into these campaigns and so when I see this, with its obvious backlash potential it gets me wondering about how this got approved.
So then i start thinking about the negative publicity its generating and then I start thinking about the backlash about that with people defending it etc..and bingo there we have it.
A carefully crafted talking point, disguised as an error of judgement.
Never underestimate how clever advertising people can be.
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BadBadman saw an incorrect comma placement on, Sat 2 Oct 2010, 11:55,
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no thats just not right....
there is no positive impact here....people were already talking about climate change...the debate was there...
this is mishandled and a pr disaster...
this is definately not deliberate...and even if it is...its still a major fucking mistake...
again....what positive impact has this campaign had?
EDIT: unless they are going the peta route.... which is making people hate them.
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there are some dreadfully clever ad people out there (and I've met and worked with a couple of them)
but they still have to sell their ideas to clients and "we'll make you look like a bunch of cunts but it'll start a debate" would be a very, very hard sell.
however there is a lot of work out there that sounded OK in a pitch but in execution turned into a big embarrassing turd.
Chances are this is the later.
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rob, Sat 2 Oct 2010, 13:02,
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lets watch how this unfolds
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BadBadman saw an incorrect comma placement on, Sat 2 Oct 2010, 18:19,
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no mention of
how much power that little blow people up machine thing cost to make, develop and use. Not to mention the fact that the greens could have simply stabbed the nay-sayers to death and then used the bodies for food or fuel wasteful fucks.
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awsm! namaste bitches, Sat 2 Oct 2010, 12:32,
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That advert made me angry
Basically saying that if you don't do something for the environment you should die.
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Bobod Perpetually following through, Sat 2 Oct 2010, 12:50,
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After how that handled the Homeopathy thing too...
10:10 sucks now.
This sort of thing does annoy me. Have they ever tried going to Las Vegas and saying 'see all these bulbs, wouldnt mind changing them for energy saving ones'. Or such like. I genuinely think they are targeting the wrong people.
Its like those 'clean water for far off country' type of campaigns... where they have a bottle of dirty water from a stream in Africa. I said once to one that collared me 'allegedly, Coca Cola drain billions of gallons of water from developing countries, but dont give anything back to the villages'. After much a puzzled look, I basically said 'go and investigate them, rather than cadge money from people who never really gave a shit in the first place, and giving them something new to worry about in their already stressful and over complicated lives'.
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no point speaking to the people who collar you
they almost all work for Arcadia or Tiger, and have merely learnt the script for that day's charity. they have no strong feelings towards or against the people they're "raising money" for
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I like it
although i seem to be the only one on the internet who does.
Fucks sake, it's a good enough point really. You SHOULD be doing more. If you don't, you'll bear the consequences, either directly or indirectly. I feel that point is pretty accurately conveyed here.
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You MUST do more
Don't question our methods. Don't ask whether there are better ways. Don't even think about questioning whether it is needed. Or we'll be after you
That's the impression I got anyway.
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Greenbat, Sat 2 Oct 2010, 14:38,
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My impression is that
they have the impression that they're so high and mighty, so fucking holy, that they'd be justified in making other people's lives a misery if it were for the greater good that they so firmly promote.
No smoke without fire sorta thing. It may just be a 'joke' advert, but such an issue of superiority had to come into someone's head in the first place, right?
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my main concern
with this sort of thing is that it's making the population at large feel uneasy (or at least that's the "message") but it's really governments and corporations who could be making much larger concessions.
It's kinda like Michael Crichton's "State of Fear" was right... even though it wasn't.
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Richard Curtis wrote the script
He hasn't done anything decent since Blackadder.
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"Of course this'll be a great idea! Richard Curtis wrote it! What could possibly go wrong?"
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