Adblockers aren't a thing for tv's, nor billboards.
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Sounds logical. I would be shocked if they have more than 10% potato in them tbh haha it's junk food after all
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Pringles are delicious, but are pretty gross once you find out how they're made.
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Everything's pretty gross once you find out where everything comes from, production process, transportation method, and that it fell on the ground before it got placed on a shelf to be sold.
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Waiiiiit, you say that their shape isn't from the artisan craftsmanship, as they carve out the perfect form from the potaters? Oh my!
Almost anything that requires to be formed needs to be soft and mellable before, veeery likely not looking too appetizing. :D
Also let's remember the time when Jamie tried to convert innocent little kids from nuggetism
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Not the first person who said this. I saw how they're made and I still don't see how it's gross.
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I actually prefer the imitation Pringles at Aldi (Clancy's Stackerz, in the US anyway), they are slightly thicker than real Pringles. They don't come in 1000 different flavors, though.
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True, but half of these flavors are terrible anyway and barbecue-flavored Aldi-Pringles trumps them all.
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I once tried an imitation ones and were absolutely disgusting. I had to throw them away. They were so bad I thought they were expired... Sadly they were just bad. Extremely oily, tough, with no taste other than fat... Bleugrhg!
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To this point, I honestly didn't know you guys over there had ALDI :O...
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ALDI is the shit for knock-offs that are as good or better than the brand name.
I am constantly telling people about this.
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Which Pringles was it? I actually like a few of them.
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Gotta try the Dill Pickle, cheeseburger or buffalo ranch ones. I have to find these new chicken ramen flavor. I HAVE TO FIND IT!
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the only ads i fall for are the ones with discounts ^^
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That poor dog's missing out on seeing the cuteness. Somebody needs to bring them a mirror.
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Not buying Pringles till they finally fix their cans , cant stick my tiny hands in that shit(and i do mean TINY).
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Tilt the can. Let the Pringles come to you.
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+1, my hand doesn't fit either, and sometimes I go balls to the wall and just tilt the can to my mouth and eat like a barbarian
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Grab a spare sheet of scratch paper, slide it into the can, then tilt the can horizontally, and pull the paper out. Keeps the crumbs off the table, and just up-end everything when you're done and all the crumbs goes back into the can. Pringles dont tend to be that oily, usually, so you dont have to worry about the grease soaking through the paper.
Alternatively, a bowl or a plate can work wonders for presenting food to you in a palatable form, also they help with portion control so ya dont eat the whole can in a sitting! Once the ones in bowl are gone, you'd have to get up to get more.. and lets be honest, most of us are too lazy to bother doing that. :)
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+1 and I'm 6-4 with monstrous hands.
And tilting the can results in crumbs everywhere.
Just found out there's help for people like us, though. ;_;
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There is help. It's called Lays, or Ruffles, or Kettle, or anything but Pringles. ;)
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True enough, I do love me some kettle-cooked chips.
Lays Mesquite Kettle-Cooked are way up the list, but these are my favorites:
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I really pity the Americans for the amount of commercials they are getting in between programs compared to here.
I couldn't watch 1 program like that.
What they do here though is increase the volume when commercials are on.
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I just record everything and skip the commercials when I'm playing it back. :P
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It is like every 3-6 minutes right? Or on certain shows, certain networks?
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It's not that often. It differs for each show but typically for an hour-long show there is about 40 to 45 minutes of show, and 15-20 minutes of commercials mixed in.
Usually the first commercial does not come for a while (sometimes not until 15-20 minutes), then as you become more invested in watching the show the commercials become more frequent near the end. :P
There are some public TV channels and pay TV channels that do not have commercials. But most do. Even the BBC has commercials here.
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Oh okay i watch uhm, soaps from now and 30 years ago (on youtube/dailymotion) that made it sometimes look like it had commercials every few minutes, maybe it was edited that way.
Yeah movies can be bad here, like a 2 hour movie, taking 3 hours, maybe 3 1/2 because of the added commercials.
I rarely watch tv anymore, and my remote broke so i have to physically walk to the tv to change channels and not being able to just jump to a different channel. :x
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Some networks and shows have way more commercials than others. Not to mention for some reason they're allowed to show scam products as long as there's a microscopic disclaimer at the bottom. And don't get me started on the quality of content of the actual shows themselves.
It's no wonder so many people are giving up on television.
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And ones about certain medication with a dozen of side effects. :p
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I don't look TV, since many years,... the commercials piss me on and destroy any good feeling by looking a movie.
Baby sloths are cuter :o)
and a girlfriend that melts away when she see them and "say" Ahwwwww (translating a sound is really hard^^) is cute too ^^ (but no chance against the baby sloths)
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Yeah, in sites I love like this one I turn off my adblock, I've been heavily tempted by some tasty junk food too, but I love that damn garbage anyways :P
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Sometimes advertisements just get their critical hits on you.
It's especially tricky with trailers for videogames and the like, where you have dedicated audiovisual artists trying to draw you in.
I mean, consider how successful the teaser for Dead Island was. Without even showing any gameplay, without any relation to the story, they conjured up a powerful zombie survival scenario and cranked up the feels using some amazing music and clever pacing. The game itself got a lot more benefit of the doubt than it would have otherwise, and you can bet the preorders spiked majorly as a result of that ad project.
I'm a sucker for completing games I don't even enjoy. Once I get a little ways in, I'll usually tell myself to 'give it a chance' but repeat that every 30 minutes, assuming I'm missing something. I did it for Dead Island, even though it had a few interesting moments. However the FPS Syndicate remake by EA was so bad that I couldn't stomach it and uninstalled, just to get the space back. I didn't pre-order, but the audiovisual department definitely earned their pay with that one. They even commissioned Skrillex and Digitalism for the game, using the Skrillex track in the teaser video, which generated a ton of hype.
In the end, we're creatures with hearts that ask pleasure first, and the whole 'retail therapy' thing can be pretty addictive. I mean, Valve became a supergiant on the back of making really good sales, and we all gave ourselves massive gaming backlogs just because buying cool things sometimes feels as fun as playing them in the moment. :u
But seriously, don't buy Syndicate, hnngh.
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I'm a sucker for completing games I don't even enjoy.
I'm the same way, but with me, it's less "maybe I'm missing something" and more "I see potential in this, maybe it will get better later on."
The most recent game that I beat despite not liking it at all was Drakengard. The only decent parts of Drakengard were the character models and the track that plays when the game is totaling up your experience after missions; the game-play is a repetitive slog despite switching between two genres every couple missions (it's almost impressive how it manages to be so repetitive in spite of the differences between the two genres). Almost all enemies have the same AI and can be taken out with the same strategy, but if you try to do anything else or mess up this strategy even a little bit, they can kill you pretty quickly, at which point you have to start the entire mission over.
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That's pretty much what I meant. I completed the whole of Bioshock wondering when it was going to really warm up for me, but it never did.
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I recently watched a walkthrough of syndicate, it looked pretty alright with me. What was so bad about it?
Brink, Bioshock Infinite, and mirrors edge are some other games that ads definitely overhyped.
I'm tired of dubstep and fast cuts. For me, those type of add make me have a bad taste about the game.
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The gunplay was weak, the specials were gimmicky, the linearity was painfully obvious (being ushered from one interaction scene to the next), the introduction of each new ability set up a multi-stage interactive tutorial shooting range type affair. Everything felt like a speedbump and without the combat to make things feel spicy, the only thing I really felt was the ache of passing time I could be spending doing something I'd enjoy.
Just really didn't work well for me, which is weird given I found the battlefield singleplayer campaigns to be more tolerable.
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I don't think it's possible to go through life and not be affected by advertising to some extent. Most of the time we don't realize it, because so much of it is subliminal product placement or we just see a billboard somewhere and it affects our memory later when we're making a purchase decision.
I haven't had "actual" TV with commercials for years now, just Netflix / Kodi / downloads for a few shows I like to watch, so when I'm at someone's house and the TV is on with the commercials, talking heads and everything else it makes me uncomfortable just how brain-numbing it is. Kinda like when I use someone else's browser and they have no adblock, I'm shocked at how cluttered everything becomes.
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Yes, in the paste it was much fewer advertising.
When i sit at the PC from my dad i can only cry.... its so devastating... and how old people are.... don't let anyone change anything (and pay for commercial TV - and be happy with it..... o_O -).
I want the "good old days" back :-D ( yes now i want to be seen as the old one that say that and can't remember on the bad stuff in the "old days" :-D )
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Oh, I've definitely been subconsciously affected by advertising before, but never this directly where I see a product I'm not a big fan off, but go and buy it 'cause I saw an ad.
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I'm like you, I never watch TV, only specific shows on Netflix or Amazon. I unplugged my cable box because we never used it. Watching live TV is now unpleasant.
What I don't understand, and really can't stand, is that some people will just turn on the TV to have it on. Even if there's nothing good on, they'll still sit there and watch it. It's like a mix of background noise and blue light that they can't bear to be without.
I've actually asked, "Do you like this show?"
'No, not really.'
"Are you enjoying it?"
'No.'
"Then why not turn it off?"
'Eh, there's nothing better on.'
"Then why not turn off the TV?"
'Eh, it's better than nothing.'
Nothing? Do you not realize there's a whole world outside the TV, full of books and games and sights?
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One thing I hate about watching television (as opposed to watching it on DVD) are the commercials. They always seem to increase the volume when they are played (even though it was supposed to have been changed here in Canada so they weren't allowed to do that anymore), and that irritates the heck out of me!
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as opposed to watching it on DVD
I recently saw something which I still fail to comprehend: I'm currently rewatching the James Bond Definitive Collection (well, more like having them run in the background while I do stuff in the kitchen but anyway) and the first thing that greets me when I start a DVD is a 3 minute ad for the James Bond Definitve Collection. On EVERY SINGLE DISK!
I mean... I already bought them. What more do you want from me ? :D
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They want you to buy copies for your family and friends!;)
Are they at least skippable? I don't mind the ads you can at least hit 'Menu' or 'Skip' on the remote to bypass, but I hate the ones that you have to hit fastforward to get by, since they don't allow any other method of avoiding them!
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Yeah, unskippable ads are the worst. They are skippable but I'm often doing the dishes when I watch them so I dry my hands to put a new disc in, just to forget about the ad. Maybe I should put my DVD remote into one of those plastic lunch bags so I can use it with wet hands.
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And what I also really hate about ads on DVDs is when they put trailers in front of the feature film. I don't mind if they put them with the extras but I don't buy DVDs to watch trailers.
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OMG, I've totally seen that on a few DVDs. I'm always flabbergasted by it. Did you really put a trailer for the movie I'm about to watch in front of the movie I'm about to watch? Who QCed and signed off on this?
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I wish adblockers were able to block ads disguised to look like legitimate articles on news sites.
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Commercial every 6-9 minutes during The Walking Dead season finale last Sunday
I'd buy the fellow who invented DVR a beer..
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I used to like Pringles a lot but for some reason I don't like them as much anymore. Maybe eating my share of stale Pringles had something to do with it. That's one bad thing about Pringles is they go stale kinda quick.
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I think Pringles are terrible. One side is coated in flavor powder, the other side isn't, the coating is inconsistent, and flavor powder aside they taste like fried cardboard. They're a triumph of advertising and a crime against food.
Also, this is why I don't watch TV. :)
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I finally fell for one.An Ad.
Advertisements have been getting more convincing to me recently, making me want products I know I hate, such as Subway. But potato chips I'm just as ambivalent about that I bought some pringles after seeing their new add campaign. They aren't as disappointing as Dairy Queen was. but I had less expections.
Have a shit game that had good hype
CriedWolves is Bae
And btw, this is the cutest thing ever.
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