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[Reelya]

Eh, I'm working on this account, the caller is complaining that she can't set up an automatic payment with the electric company. First thing she does is blame the bank for a problem with her credit card, then she says she can't do it online because her ISP "fucked up her laptop", then she says she needs to do it over the phone, and makes a point to jab about how flaky this is because the phone company can't get their shit together. Then the electric company person says they don't accept card details over the phone due to security reasons, then the woman says "how come every other company has no problem with that!?" and demands to speak to a supervisor. Seriously, and that's the first 1 minute. These calls are tiring for me just auditing them, let alone the poor dude getting an earful of this.

[delphonso]

On the topic of ogresses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S45TLjZDzPk&feature=share

[Jopax]

HEY HEY!

[Iduno]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hH8rxarVG8

To the surprise of no one, this says it originally aired on See BS.

[methylatedspirit]

I remembered there was an ad for a hair transplant center, and the ad was literally 3/4ths of the colors of the asexual flag. From top to bottom, grey, white, purple, in that order. Only thing missing was the black on top. Is it some kind of veiled threat, like "You'll go asexual if you don't go to us!"? I have the original ad screenshotted on my phone. I'd show it, but it contains information that I'd rather not divulge.

Also in poorly-thought-out ads:

[wierd]

It's an ad, for an Elite Book, Written in L337.

[Reelya]

But that's l337 lite, where there are no substitutions at all, just alternating capslock. Basically it's a 12 year old's version of typing l337 text.

So they wanted to type it in l337, but they thought "oh if we type the e in Specs as "sp3cs" the people we're targeting might not understand what that is!" which should be the red flag that it's a bad idea, not a sign that you should use capslock instead of throwing a '3' in there.

[Egan_BW]

That's just HoNk.

[Naturegirl1999]

IsN’t ThE aLtErNaTiNg CaPs SaRcAsM?

[Eschar]

ThAt'S wHaT I ThOuGhT tOo.

[MaxTheFox]

Yeah it's often used to indicate a mocking tone. So it looks like it implies that the "ElItEbOoK" isn't that elite...

[bloop_bleep]

Is this a mock ad or a real ad?

[Reelya]

It doesn't have enough going for it to be satire. But it's not official HP marketing material either, it's probably some online resellers marketing material. This is a real laptop.

If you were doing satire you'd have gone with the character substitutions of 3 for e, etc in the specs/features headings.

[Bumber]

https://youtu.be/NCWS3WmzsZg?t=882

[Naturegirl1999]

some funny GameCube “corruptions” (done on an emulator, no console was harmed)