This video is a series of funny commercials for an ostensibly dense guy, who opens a laundromat for only washing white clothes, and calls it “Whites Only Laundry”. After he realizes his mistake, he makes a couple of even more racist commercials trying to fix his mistake.
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Joss Whedon, the guy who made Buffy, The Avengers movie, Firefly, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, made a new video explaining why he’s voting for Romney, and — unlike most endorsements — it has to do with the coming Zombie Apocalypse.
From YouTube, via Angry_Robot
McDonald’s Canada made this video showing exactly how burgers are photographed and how they compare with ones made in the restaurant. It’s a very interesting and surprisingly frank behind-the-scenes look at the advertising process.
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Introducing the Manslater: a revolutionary device that translates woman language into simple man-words. Finally, the power to know what she means!
It has a patented FemLogic Processing Chip and can also translate the other way, turning “Hey, mind if I catch a movie with the guys?” into “You are a lovely, wonderful woman who meets all of my needs, and even though I will miss you, this night I wish to see Death Cop 9 with my bros.”
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The stock photo warehouse Getty Images made this excellent video ad depicting life from adulthood to old age. It’s called From Love to Bingo and was done entirely by stringing together stock photos. Quite possibly the most interesting minute of your day.
Funny parody of a Valtrex commercial, treating Facebook’s Timeline as if it were herpes:
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Back in the 1990s, AT&T was a giant telecommunications company and former government-sponsored telephone monopoly that spanned most of the 20th century, until 1982. But the 2000s hit it hard, and in 2005 it was finally bought by one of its former subsidiaries, Southwestern Bell, which then changed its name and became the AT&T we know today.
AT&T Logo in the 1960s
In 1993 however, the original AT&T tried to brand itself as an innovator that would bring the future to the masses. This was exemplified by an ad campaign which showed then-futuristic things that are now all too familiar: e-books, tablet computers, online shopping, video calls, GPS navigation, streaming movies, self-checkout and Siri. The tag line was “… and the company that will bring it to you: AT&T.”
Ironically, if any one company could take credit for bringing those technologies to the masses, it would be Apple — which at the time was on the fast track to bankruptcy. In the decade that followed, Steve Jobs returned to Apple and turned it around while AT&T began its slow descent into insolvency. But regardless of which company did actually bring the future to us, the ad campaign remains eerily prescient.
From YouTube
The College for Creative Studies in Detroit has a new advertising campaign done by Team Detroit.
The danger of dabbling in art, of course, is the same as the danger of dabbling in drugs: an unstable life of poverty; always trying to do more art, always wondering when your next paycheck is going to come, living in a shack with no heat because art took any chance of having a real career away — all the while being involved in a string of intense but brief flash-in-the-pan relationships with other art lovers, who, aside from the onlookers gawking at the train wreck that is an artist’s life, are the only people that will spend time with them. And it should be needless to mention that there’s also heavy drug use throughout.
Pretty much everyone will gladly put some cow milk on their cereal, but give them horse milk, and they cringe. Give them human milk and they’ll throw it in your face; and then your stomach will turn. How does it make any sense that we find it disgusting to drink our own species’ milk, but we’ll lap up the bovine kind as if we had four stomachs? The answer of course is that no one thinks about it; we’re brainwashed at an early age to think that cow (and goat) milk is somehow natural — but if it comes from anything else, it crosses some wildly arbitrary line. Dog milk? Eww. Cat? Bear? Donkey? Gross. Pig? Why not pig? It’s basically a tiny cow. But noooo, that’s disgusting. And cow milk isn’t?
Let’s say the first guy who milked a cow was an ancient Sumerian named Brian. If you imagine what sort of situation would lead to you feeling around a pig’s nether regions and milking it, then actually drinking that milk, it would probably be in the neighborhood of the situation Brian found himself in. Which, by Occam’s Razor, probably means you’d be starving and say “hell, I’d rather milk that pig than die of famine”. Then you’d tell your other famished friends that instead of slaughtering the pigs and getting a few meals out of them, you can milk the pigs and get a sort of filling beverage for years. And voila: the milk pig is born.
But the British milk distributor Cravendale has some other, funnier ideas on how cow milking got started, which they share in a video entitled “Milk me, Brian“:
From YouTube, via Laughing Squid