Ugh, that's terrible. Image having to have that put on your record forever: "Watched a Jennifer Lopez movie."
Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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It was clearly written for the kind of person who could actually afford that kind of car. I think it's just symptomatic of the general disconnect the wealthy have with real life problems than anything else.
Necronic
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Whoever thought it was a good idea to tout American Exceptionalism in a GM auto advertisement must think American's are either very stupid or have very short memories. Their entire business model seems to be based on total disdain for Americans.
I "create my own luck" by buying Toyotas/Subarus.
I "create my own luck" by buying Toyotas/Subarus.
I wonder why they chose Neal McDonough to do the pitch.
--Patrick
While I did not find the ad offensive, I do find it rather haughty. Perhaps they were trying to emulate the attitude portrayed by Denis Leary in those older IBM ads?
I will say that there seems to be a sort of requirement for Big Business to (intentionally or unintentionally) publicly brag about how they prefer to bury/ignore their mistakes rather than learn from them.
--Patrick
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He's handsome, blue eyed, blonde and has a really good speaking voice?
That was my amusement point as well. Of course, they kinda hinted at it with the "car with the keys left in it on the moon" thing, but still.
GasBandit
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I'd be surprised if the moon rover still functions, personally.
Nothin a can of WD-40 can't fix
Actually, I'd think you'd need a brush and maybe some way of getting the lunar dust off of it, but with a fresh set of batteries and a way to wire it back in, it'd fire right up again.
Yeah - more or less what I was talking about. Not being subjected to the normal elements of wear & tear, it would most likely just be a buildup of lunar dust & power issues. Can't recall off the top of my head if there was any solar power being used on the LEMs
I still see him as that sociopath from Justified's 3rd season. Man he was crazypants.
I think the first thing I ever really saw him in was Tin Man. I thought he did a good job.
--Patrick
It is a bit silly to have an actor talk about hard work and putting in a lot of hours.
Because clearly there's no work involved in acting, you just show up and recite a script.
Compared to real work, yep. I've done a lot of work, and acting was the easiest things that I have ever done.Because clearly there's no work involved in acting, you just show up and recite a script.
Did you have to uplift your entire life from your home to New Zealand to do shooting for 6 months? If you haven't, I'd hardly say you are in a position to judge.
To be fair, there's a lot of work that requires that sort of thing or something similar, and while I can't say whether acting is "harder" or not I would venture that for most actors (i.e., not your 8 million bucks per picture) it's a slow, grueling, long day every day. Which is a very different kind of hard compared to the guy working on laying down hot tar in the summer sun on the work crew. But I can tell you what most people would choose if given the choice between the two.
I'm not so sure. If my choice was laying tar, but being able to see my friends at family at my leisure OR having to uplift my entire like for weeks at a time and being away from the people I cared about, I'd almost want to pick the tar. But to claim that acting isn't "real" work is kind of flying in the face of the entire "hasn't made it yet" actors pool who has to do a shit job like waiting tables between acting gigs. It's hard in a different way.
GasBandit
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So are we ready to disband the NSA yet??
http://boingboing.net/2014/03/12/how-the-nsa-plans-to-automatic.html
http://boingboing.net/2014/03/12/how-the-nsa-plans-to-automatic.html
**hanging
Let's privatize it!