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  • No, I meant that they created a demand by marketing up Halitosis like it’s a major problem.

    That’s nothing new, they still do it constantly. Those women’s deodorant commercials make women feel like they are carrying a cloud of funk around with them wherever they go, and they have to smear this deodorant over every inch of their bodies or they’ll offend every nasal passage in the county.

    Before you can offer a solution, you need to make them feel like they have a terrible problem that needs to be fixed immediately, at any cost. Even if you have to make it up.





  • Because it’s better than the shitty music record labels are spewing these days. It’s pretty bad when computer generated music is better than some plastic pop tune “composed” by 12 “producers” who pieced together samples from 30 pieces of classic music recorded by legendary musicians, then stuck some pretty manikin in front to provide a voice to be digitally manipulated until it can be crammed into the mix.


  • Germany. Here we go again.

    Maybe we should start writing down our history, so we won’t make the same mistakes again, for when the next generation zones out when their grandparents try to tell them how to avoid the bad old days from happening again. Of course, we’d have to teach people to read, and train up their Critical Thinking Skills. That sounds like a lot of work, but more importantly, it will cost too much money. Those Sociopathic Oligarchs’ yachts need a lot maintenance. Can’t be wasting that money on education for the poorest 98%.

    Fuck it, a world war every 50 to 100 years is necessary to control the population level.


  • Listerine was a cleaning product until they decided to boost sales by positioning it as a mouthwash.

    First, they had to convince everyone that they needed mouthwash, so they invented HALITOSIS (bad breath), and then offered Listerine as the solution.

    Lysol tried a similar pivot, except they tried to market their cleaning product as post-sex birth control douche. Listerine’s pivot caught on, Lysol’s didn’t.


  • The Andy Griffith Show, but I don’t know about the adjective “weirdly.” The show is supposed to be cozy and comfortable, and it succeeds better than any other show I know. Hilarious, too. Barney Fife is the funniest character in the history of TV. I even named my Lemmy handle after him.

    Perhaps a better choice would be one of my favorite Star Trek series - Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, or Voyager. I record them on TIVO, so I have a huge bank to choose from. I often watch an episode as the last thing before going to bed.