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ghostoffuffle · 3623 days ago · link · · parent · post: Super Bowl roll call: Who is watching, who isn't and why?
I used to get all bent out of shape when commercials exploited deep emotions for crass purposes ("be a good dad! Buy our useless fucking car!"). Then I went on facebook and realized that new marketing amounts to, "hey, I noticed you mentioned girdles in your totally private e-mail. Here's a shitty picture of a girdle. Buy it." Now I appreciate the fact that ad men at least have to employ some artistic sense to shill their shit. Dying art form, that. I've never mentioned girdles in an e-mail, for the record