The kind of thing which makes you say “how could they possibly have thought this was a good idea?”
A local bank once did a mailed ad campaign that went along the lines of:
“Tired of living with your parents? Check out our mortgage rates” and stuff along the lines of your parents won’t be doing your laundry anymore.
Like have they never heard of renting?
That one Pepsi ad where there is a protest and a woman gives a cop a pepsi so they’re all friends now. This was around the time of the first Trump admin and BLM protests.
How convenient!
Decades ago, Coca-Cola was trying to enter the market in Saudi Arabia. They ran an ad where “pilgrims” walked around a giant coke bottle, in the same way that Muslim pilgrims in Mecca walk around the Kaaba during Hajj and Umrah. It was very, very poorly received, to say the least, and many attribute it as the main reason why Pepsi has dominated the market instead of Coca-Cola.
How deliciously blasphemous. Makes me almost want to drink a Coke. Almost.
Blizzard’s “Do you guys not have phones?” blunder during the Diablo Immortal reveal
that wasn’t really a campaign or ad, just a gaff made by an out of touch dipshit during the reveal. It was still tonedeaf, sure, but it was hardly Blizzards marketing intention.
An out of touch dipshit? It was the principal game designer from blizzard lol. Plus pretty certain the “dipshit” in question was also not a fan of the mobile only idea.
I once saw a billboard that only had text and a picture of some guy.
The text read “You can’t block this ad”
It made me so irrationally angry and I still to this day don’t even know what they were advertising for.
I’d guess it would be the owner of the billboard advertising the space. I’ve definitely seen that before, often accompanied by a “x thousand people see this every day!” type message.
Advertising advertising is one of the most hilarious things to me.
I hate ads on principle but an ad for an ad is just a level of debauchery I can barely fathom
You looked! See!? Bench ads work!
Ooh, I saw something like that once. What they haven’t considered is that you could just cover it up. Hey presto, blocked.
Ooh, I saw something like that once. What they haven’t considered is that you could just cover it up. Hey presto, blocked.
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We’ve just had a campaign on our city’s public transport trams that said “I’m identifying as a trolleybus”.
During pride month, nonetheless.
tramsgender
Is this a slur against the autistic?
Don’t be so tramsphobic!
We had something similar, but it was just a play on the word transport and was just a normal bus and only for the pride parade we had, thankfully.
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Nah, those are brilliant
I work in 911 dispatch, and there’s a couple crematoriums in the county I work for. Once in a while they call to give us a heads-up when they’re doing a cremation in case anyone calls about smoke.
We enter it as a “controlled burn” notification for our fire department, which I suppose it technically is, but it makes me chuckle a little that we’re entering the same way we would as if someone was burning yard waste or having a bonfire or something.
I don’t know how often they actually do cremations, I assume it’s pretty frequent, and I’m not always the one getting the call, but based on how often I’ve seen these calls go in I don’t think they do it for every cremation. I remember hearing somewhere through the grapevine that when the deceased is extremely obese they tend to really smoke up, so I kind of suspect those are the ones where they give us a heads-up.
Reminds me of an old billboard screw-up in Finland.
One billboard (I can’t remember what the ad was actually for) was quoting an old saying: “If sauna, tar and booze won’t help…” (“…the disease is going to kill you”)
Next to it was an ad for a private clinic. “We’ve got everything to keep you healthy”
Peak of advertising, I bet these pictures spread on internet like wild fire
Amazon spent millions on a single Ring ad during the Super Bowl that was so poorly received it killed a multi-million dollar business deal.
To be clear, all the companies involved are the worst of the worst, so fuck them, but all they had to do was nothing and it would have turned out better (for them, worse for the rest of us).
The latest I can think of is Gwyneth Paltrow’s ad for a luxury condo project on stolen Palestinian land by Israel.
That’s a good one.
Just in general, I get the feeling that she’s not all there. You can probably sell her on anything.
Holy shit I already hated the woman but this is next level. Got any proof?
Didn’t think she could sink any lower and yet here we are
Just search for it on YouTube. Gwyneth Paltrow Israel ad.
shes been selling scams for quite a while, not surprising she is willing to do this.
That old Saturn Ion commercial. A car ad about a world without cars, accidentally showing what a complete waste of space their own product is.
IMO, the easiest answer is always gonna be literally any pro genAI ads, so I’mma go with something different.
I don’t remember the brand, but it was this car ad where someone sealed themselves in their car in their garage and was doing the thing where you set it up so the emission fumes backfire into the vehicle and you commit suicide that way. The ad basically boiled down to how their car was so clean you couldn’t kill yourself off the emission fumes and shit.
I really hope anyone involved with it and/or approved it were either fired and/or had to take some sensitivity course because suicide is something you should never joke about.
Was in a flyer I got years ago.
Given the English/French in both the packaging and the ad, this is probably Canada?
Yep. Canadian Tire haha.
Peggy, that’s the recipe for mustard gas!
Almost. It will do the same thing though. More or less.
No way. Just…no way. Definitely not in a litigous society like the USA. The liability alone would be insane.
Nope not USA. But incredibly stupid regardless. “The clean team”? Like what? Haha.
Funnily enough the hotel we’re staying at has a vending machine with candy and snacks. And also sells Tide detergent in a pack that looks like a box of candy. I’ll get a picture next time I walk by.
Hah!
Although I could see having snacks to fill out the extra spaces in a laundry-products vending machine by the washers.
Actually, just the Tide in a vending machine of snacks.
Yeah that’s cray
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Mixing produces a toxic gas
When bleach is mixed with ammonia, toxic gases called chloramines are produced. Exposure to chloramine gases can cause the following symptoms:
- Coughing.
- Nausea.
- Shortness of breath.
- Watery eyes.
- Chest pain.
- Irritation to the throat, nose, and eyes.
- Wheezing.
- Pneumonia and fluid in the lungs.
https://doh.wa.gov/community-and-environment/contaminants/bleach-mixing-dangers
How many days off work can I get with those symptoms?
I spent a lot more effort learning French than chemistry. Whew!
I live in a neighborhood where every day I see more and more people who can’t make ends meet. Shops and services are closing every month and the storefronts stand empty.
The bank near me has signs up in their window “Celebrating 250 Years of the American Dream!”
Read the fucking room.
That Pepsi ad during BLM.
In hindsight this has to be a far right psy op. It was a year after Trump was elected and they definitely wanted to see an end to both the BLM and MeToo movements.
And The Boys remake of it a couple years later
