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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
11/20/09

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USA! USA!
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92BuickLeSabre
10/21/09

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Certainly the most bad-ass commercial I can think of since Mean Joe Greene smiled. #weirdthings
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daveyjonesisdead
10/21/09

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Why is the pretty girl always forced to be the one selling? And why is she made to run in the center of the shot at the end? It's not fair! #weirdthings
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Niko Bellic
10/21/09

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Super Bowl ain't shit. #weirdthings
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naugahydeinplainsight
10/21/09

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Sweet Mobile Home Alabama,
Lord I'm coming home to you.

Screw Joe the Plumber, Robert Lee is a real Amurican. #weirdthings
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Spirit Fingers
10/21/09

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You know what ad I'm fascinated by, those new Levi ads. I'm bloody riveted. They're like some sort of civil rights/hippie menagerie of simplistic artistry and pompousness. Like they're saying, "We've been around for decades, literally living in blood and mud. So what have you been doing lately...huh? Sucking your bottom lip? Calling your roommate a douche? Eating Pad Thai right now in your living room? Wearing your underwear inside out? (We know everything.) Our jeans are two-thousand fifteen years old. Buy a Pair and be buried in them! Then you'll know. Then you'll....know." #weirdthings
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92BuickLeSabre
10/21/09

@Spirit Fingers: I try not to be this guy, but...and for exactly the reasons that you mention....

I hate those commercials! Hate them! Hate them. Also, I hate them. They make me want to throw out my Levi's and never purchase another pair. Ever. Ever.

Actually, for the first 10 seconds of the first time I saw one, I did think "Oh, what kind of interesting movie is this for." But by the end of the ad (even before it said Levi's) and up until this very moment...and let me be perfectly clear...they fill me with nothing but pure, raw, unadulterated hatred.

(Oh, I do feel better now!) #weirdthings
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psybab
10/21/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Agreed, it's one of the more annoying commercials on tv right now. Who's the poet who wrote that, anyway? #weirdthings
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Spirit Fingers
10/21/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Wow. I understand your hatred. Truly. Everything I like about the commercial has nothing to do with Levi's jeans. It could've been a commercial about canned peas and some of those images would still be moving.

But still, you should be put at ease, here have some cake. #weirdthings
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92BuickLeSabre
10/21/09

@Spirit Fingers: Mmm ice cream cake! My favorite.

(Now that's a commercial.) #weirdthings
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Yournamehere!
10/22/09

@Spirit Fingers: Well said. The Levi's I wore out of the house today are now in a small heap under my desk. At lunch I will douse them in whatever flammable substance I can find and set them alight in the parking lot.

Patriotism is indeed the last refuge of a scoundrel. This is lazy and makes me angry. Angry and tired. #weirdthings
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UGAdawg
10/21/09

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"My wife's boyfriend..."

Priceless, lol. #weirdthings
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dalisstache
10/21/09

@UGAdawg: Haha, it was even better in the making of the video. The guys are deciding what he'll say about it, like "My ex-wife's boyfriend..." and he goes..."She was my wife then." Priceless! #weirdthings
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cmd
10/21/09

@dalisstache: This video makes me sick - I could only get 2 minute in. Sure I moved out of Alabama as fast as I could but I'd never make fun of people there in such a horrible way. No wonder the blue states think all Northerners are elitist assholes. #weirdthings
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dalisstache
10/22/09

@cmd: It actually gets better. I could see where some may see it as a level of exploitation, but I was hoping not. They weren't making fun of them behind their backs (I think the most they say is they're in the middle of nowhere, which really, isn't that bad. The guys are from North Carolina), and really, the owner was a piece of work. "If I think they're dumb, I won't sell them a house." OK then. #weirdthings
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hilikusopus
10/22/09

@cmd: I saw more as them having a laugh at themselves, and having a sense of humor about it. I'm sorry it struck a cord with you. If it makes you feel better, they produced the commercial free of charge. #weirdthings
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StarAMaze
10/24/09

@cmd: If you dealt with the kind of people we see everyday - you wouldn't think the owner is a "piece of work"
Also @ dalisstache: No one was making fun of anyone. We were all a part of it. It was simply a different way to advertise. We laughed - you should too. You said you moved out of AL as fast as you could - We are still here & we love it. #weirdthings
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sparkyl
10/21/09

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Was that... blood stains? He's hardcore. #weirdthings
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britneyspearstears
10/21/09

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Pretty rad, man. #weirdthings
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Nic Fit
04/23/09

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Uh, I think that "average hourly wage" includes all kinds of stuff like retirement, company percentage of health insurance, etc. You know, stuff that other industrialized nations just pay for through taxes.
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SultanaEleusis
04/23/09

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So are you suggesting that laid off GM workers should quick buy a copy of this book and start exercising until they can do what the cover model is doing? Exactly how will that help them get a new job? Do you sense a boom in Yoga Parlors? Is it a trend? Will we be reading about it in the New York Times? So many questions. So few answers!
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SaraRueful
04/23/09

@SultanaEleusis: Is a yoga parlor like a massage parlor? Is there a "Zen Ending"?
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SkimLatte
04/08/09

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Now in video!

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Astigmatism
04/08/09

@stix: Removed! What did I miss?
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gawkimo
04/08/09

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Manhattan snobbery. A fine tradition with its roots in the Revolutionary War. I believe it was Gen. George Washington who, pushed back by the Redcoats from the Manhattan, who penned the first pretentious article: "'Twas as good a time as any to explore the old village of Brook'lyn as my troops bivouacked on Prospect Hill. I pushed past the prams on the Main Street where crude and lower-caste people of the Nether Lands (along with free'd men of dark completion) perform'd in all mann'rs strange and base. I wrote to Martha that I could not wait to return to the comforts of Islem, where I belong'd."

Later I believe Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall passed the "Manhattan Civilian Act," which required all immigrants to the city (those who moved to the city from the province) to act with extreme airs of pretension in order to gain acceptance, whereupon the blue armbands would be removed and they could feel like higher-class natives to the city.

This tradition has survived to this day, where people from outside of the city move to New York practice becoming "real New Yorkers" by adopting the airs and buying the products embraced by the fictional characters of such televised productions as Sex & The City, Seinfeld, and various films by the famous late 20th Century Ameircan Ashekenazi filmmaker Woody Allen.
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forwardmotion
04/08/09

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Once again, I feel like someone is baiting me to engage in class warfare.
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hatey
04/08/09

@forwardmotion: I know.

I know.
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MisterHippity
04/07/09

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It's interesting how much she dwells on the artist's nudity, and her extreme discomfort from being in such close physical proximity to it. Also, the physical contact with said naked woman ("she touched our faces!"). You'd swear there was some kind of denial going on here.

Katie, honey, wrong with a little same-sex sexual tension? Don't you know it's hip for straight girls to have lesbian feelings these days? Even Harvard girls?
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