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[–] [email protected] 100 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was a subreddit called HailCorporate for when people accidentally post ads that they made themselves. Like we hear so much advertising that we start internalizing it and end up basically thinking and talking in ads.

Of course it kind of typically devolved into accusations of intent, but I always thought it was a neat idea. Does life imitate art or the other way around type of thing?

Thanks for listening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I always thought it was for calling out guerilla marketing, but I guess there is a sort of Poe's Law to marketing lol.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

SUBSCRIBE to your propoganda notifications

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I watch the Superbowl for the ads! 🤪🤪🤪

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I'd be slightly less pissed off about constantly being advertised to if all ads had the same level of effort put into them that superbowl ads do

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Analog Nowhere!! So good

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

oh yep thank you, got mixed up there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Their comics are really growing on me.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t realize Siri and the cats were conspiring. Yesterday I went into the living room to investigate a ruckus and found one of my cats sitting on the couch while the home pod in the window sill was playing Mumford and Sons.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This started in 2011, when cats killed Jobs. Tim Cook is not a real person but a mere avatar operated by cats.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cats are responsible for the ligma outbreak?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Better check your order history lol

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Palette of tuna? One gross order of feathers on a stick? Premium, Extra Fancy catnip?

-- Oh good, nothing amiss here!"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

10lb of Scottish salmon? I must've been drunk..

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So for all of apple's design faults, I genuinely think this might have been intentional because it feels like the venn diagram of Apple software engineers and cat owners is more like a circle.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I wish owning a cat got me employment as an apple SWE :/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, the difference between subsets and equality seems to be lost for them.

That said, I'm not sure if you'd really want to work for Apple.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Does the cat wear a turtle-neck sweater/jumper?

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This seems to be an advertisement

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My brain somehow didn't grasp that I had never heard of a Homepod before, then when I saw your comment I had to think back and was like "wait a second, Siri? That's not google or Alexa" and I had to reread to understand.

Anyway all to say, I'm tired and not reading well but their advertising must be pretty shit if this is the first ad I've ever seen for it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I’ve got one, syncs up easily with other Apple devices but the sound isn’t great. If I hadn’t had a gift card to knock down the price it would not be worth $100, I’ve had cheaper Bluetooth speakers with better sound and hardiness.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago

I once activated Siri, and before I could say anything my dog started barking -- and Siri replied "Good boy!"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

I mean, "I'm only happy when it rains" should be the national anthem for Catland.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean, "Son of Sam" was about a man who became a serial killer after being told to by a dog so I can see why cats would like it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You’d think it would be a cat telling people to kill. Or at least knock shit off the table. Son of Sam could have just been some guy who went into peoples houses and broke stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Dogs are too dumb to conspire. Smart enough to sit and recognize smells, but too dumb for complex thought.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

David Berkowitz. He claimed that in court, and later retracted the statement. Sonny from the Venture Bros parody of the Scooby Gang is also a reference to him.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Playlist

  • "What's New Pussycat?" – Tom Jones
  • "Cool for Cats" – Squeeze
  • "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" – The Tokens
  • "Three Cool Cats" – The Coasters
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or if your cat hates you:

  • “What’s New Pussycat?” – Tom Jones
  • “What’s New Pussycat?” – Tom Jones
  • “What’s New Pussycat?” – Tom Jones
  • “What’s New Pussycat?” – Tom Jones
  • “What’s New Pussycat?” – Tom Jones
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Glad someone gets the reference. Also did that at my store once, it is way worse then you would think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Just keep repeating that for like half a dozen times, until interrupting it with:

  • "It's Not Unusual" - Tom Jones

Before repeating What's New Pussycat again.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

"Too many puppies" - Primus

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Missing 'the cats in the cradle'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Stray cat strut

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
  • The Cure - Lovecats
  • The Ink Spots - That Cat Is High
  • Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot
  • Lords Of Acid - Pussy
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
  • Stray cat strut - the stray cats
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

„Tommy the cat“ - Primus

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
  • Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"Lions Also Cry" - Gato Barbieri

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[–] senkora 14 points 2 months ago

My poodle knows how to tap the homepad with his nose to play music. He gets up to it, taps it, and then curls down beneath it to listen. It’s very cute and definitely intentional on his part.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They are listening to f*cking everything.

I find this more scary than wholesome.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

"Siri, how long has this been going on?"

Siri: https://youtu.be/UGP9uz4s8hQ?si=jhoEOFKHBPhIPszs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

The day we understand ourstand what our cats say is the day they go back into the streets. Hopefully Google doesn't add meow to Google Translate. 😢

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