I have feelings about this ad and I hate everything normally. Here’s the deal:
The guy tied up is my fave wrestler in the WORLD for the past 4 years, Bryan Danielson (in the WWE as Daniel Bryan). This is a classic lady in peril image but here it’s been reversed to put a guy in peril instead of a lady. All of that is obvious as the train approaches but you know what really gets me?
This might be the most legit creative ad I have ever seen for a pro wrestling show. I’m fucking serious. Normally we’d have an image of 2 dudes either staring at us like “Buy this PPV or we’ll do a fuck ton of roids, blow and downers!” or they stare at each other like, “Dude, I love you so much right now I’d totally do you if I didn’t think we’d be fired for having created great legit man on man love characters so for now lets scowl at each other, nice tan!”
There is pretty much no middle ground. It’s BUY us looking at you or BUY us looking mad at eat other. THAT IS IT.
Here’s some dude who won some sort of creative lotto where the odds were against him and dammit something great happened! I feel a minor weeping coming on. I shall call my wife and phone hug her right now!
Also listen to Porcupine Tree. I have been dong that for 3 days straight now. Can Pink Floyd be reincarnated if they haven’t actually died? I shall synch this PPV up to the Staircase Infinities EP. I love you PPL!
So this is amazing.
Mike used to be one of the flyer dressers too.
MJ legit looks like he’s stumped on a test where the question is, “WTF is that sweater all about, homie?”
“I can get you four, five pair of these, fam. Discounted.”
Cool outfit + sea of spilled blood + gale force winds = sudden urge to pee!
lol wut
(Source: darkface)
THIS===>
There isn’t a lot left that leaves me outraged, but I find myself outraged by the total cluster that is Komen pulling funding from Planned Parenthood.
I grew up to an activist, but after managing a sexual assault and child abuse prevention hotline… I gave up. When the cops let a rapist go…
I figure certain friends of mind need to see this. You know who you are…
I CAN PLAY THE OCTAVARIUM FLUTE SOLO
JUST GETTING IT OUT THERE.
This here kid wins.
You guys are awesome.
Fuck Yeah!!!
I think this is a “dumb” argument no matter the ethnicity of the person speaking. In a free market economy we as consumers have the right to buy the best, most useful products we can at the most reasonable price. Guilt should NEVER be a factor.
As business people, in the same system we have a responsibility to you ion the market yo give you the BEST service/product we can possibly provide within the scope of our respective business models.
When we open businesses we have to think that we’re going to have to compete with other business on all sorts of levels. We CANNOT expect someone to spend money with us because we happen to belong to similar demographic groups as our customers. We have to be willing to COMPETE.
MAKE a better product. PROVIDE and superior service. Go home and count you money and take your ass back to work the next day.
THAT is the only obligation to the public a business owner has and it’s also the only real way you as a consumer can evaluate where you spend your money. You are not helping a business with a substandard product get better by spending your money there. In fact, because you give them money you are hurting the situation. They will learn NOTHING.
Support who and what you want but understand how the system is supposed to work. There is nothing about black business that says that a product or service has to be substandard.
That beings said, SHOP LOCAL and Shop OFTEN :)
I don’t mind paying a lil extra.
I don’t mind traveling a lil distance.
But I will not buy a crappy product.
Won’t be guilted or swindled into purchasing less than quality items or services.
I hate that mindset that I should pay extra for a subpar item just because you’re black.
THANK YOU! I’m not against paying more, but if that shit obliterates when wet…no deals.
I agree, no, you shouldn’t buy crap products because someone is black, BUT.
Might you take into account that black people are naturally poorer and receive less help from professionals and therefore might have a product that, while not AS good as white people’s stuff, may have a drastic potential to improve if it was given a chance to receive the money and support that the white people’s products already have?
