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    Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse

    End of the World Dated Again: 2012

    Sony Sets 2012 Goal For 12MP Cell Cameras, Meets it in a Week

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    Image of Sam Sam
    11/06/09

    In reply to Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse
    I wonder how many people stand at the ends of the tunnel and pretend they are Moses. #advertising
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    Image of David Cooper David Cooper
    11/05/09

    In reply to Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse

    Should've gone with this guy... #advertising
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    Image of CraigJ CraigJ
    11/05/09

    In reply to Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse
    Ha ha? Yes! Once again an excuse to post a link to my current favorite faux trailer for the upcoming disaster porn:
    [www.youtube.com] #advertising
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    11/06/09

    @CraigJ: That was pretty funny. I will definitely see the movie, although I'm sure it will be just as described in the faux trailer. #advertising
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    Image of Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
    11/05/09

    In reply to Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse
    If that were a real subway then that tidal wave would be made out of pee. #advertising
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    11/05/09

    In reply to Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse
    Almost as bad as being in an underground aquarium. There's one in the MOA that's downright scary. Word to the wise, don't ever eat shrooms and enter an underground aquarium. You'll fear fish forever #advertising
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    Image of chunk2242 chunk2242
    11/05/09

    In reply to Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse
    I saw the word Subway, and now I'm hungry for a footlong Chicken Pizziola...thanks. #advertising
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    Image of Identity (Metric) Identity (Metric)
    11/06/09

    @chunk2242: I was so pissed that they took away the Pizziola from my favorite Subway location until I told the manager. Now I get a discount priced pizziola. I think I get the footlong for 4.35 or so. #advertising
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    Image of nowayman nowayman
    11/05/09

    In reply to Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse
    As a recently disappointed Chicagoan, this is the first time in a while I felt a pang of sympathy for Rio. That seems cruel.

    These semi-realistic takes on exploding buildings make me cringe now. Disaster porn used to be the coolest to me, now all it does it make me sad and anxious. The trailer before Zombieland was intensely unpleasant, like a Saw trailer. Thanks, but I don't want to see bright young CG artists envisioning the apocalypse in greater detail. #advertising
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    11/05/09

    @nowayman: wtf is disaster porn #advertising
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    Image of nowayman nowayman
    11/05/09

    @nala1908: A term I've seen before but used in the above article... it denotes movies where the main attraction is shit blowing up/falling down/sinking. Think Independence Day, Armageddon, etc. #advertising
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    Image of nala1908 nala1908
    11/05/09

    @nowayman: those movies are awesome for the SFX not for the story #advertising
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    11/05/09

    @nala1908: Right, thus the term.

    Just like you don't watch a porn for the story you don't watch these for the story. You watch them to see stuff blown up (or as you put it the SFX of stuff blowing up) #advertising
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    Image of punk1n13 punk1n13
    11/05/09

    In reply to Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse
    Waiting for picture of someone dressed as Moses with arms held up high. #advertising
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    11/05/09


    @punk1n13: #advertising
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    Image of Duckspwn Duckspwn
    11/05/09

    In reply to Subway Ad Makes It Look Like the Tunnel Is About to Collapse
    Disaster porn. Almost beats Brian's cross species homosexual technophilia. Actually, it doesn't even come close. The competition is on Frucci! :) #advertising
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    01/26/09

    In reply to End of the World Dated Again: 2012
    I noticed a little plug for the FSM. Blasphemous dogs!
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    Image of shmesley shmesley
    01/25/09

    In reply to End of the World Dated Again: 2012
    ITS ALL HAHA AND JOKES NOW BUT WHEN THE WORLD IS ENDING IN 2012 AND EVERYONE IS DYING IT WILL NOT BE SO FUNNY ANYMORE!!!!
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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    01/25/09

    @shmesley: Seeing as how I've never heard of a way to save us, I'll continue to giggle thanks.
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    Image of laio laio
    01/25/09

    In reply to End of the World Dated Again: 2012
    doesn't it collides with the whole Mayan Calendar thing?


    like, they said everything would change by 2012, and then OMG LHC, haha, that will be so fun.


    finally some decent(meaning they really wrote 2012 at their language, and not some riddle) prophecy put to proof.


    but anyway, i'm not into the details of that, anyone?

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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    01/25/09

    @laio: The Mayans had two calendars used in conjunction are the Tzolk'in and the Haab. The Tzolk'in calendar consists of 260 days. The Haab consists of 365 days. The combined use of these calendars creates a cycle of 52 Haabs (52 years) and is referred to as the Calendar Round. Another calendar used to track longer periods of time is referred to as the Long Count. This calendar is used to track dates relative to each other on a linear scale and utilizes a numeric decimal system to record dates. For example, the Mayan date for December 21, 2012 is 13.0.0.0.0. The long count cycle referred to as the "Great Cycle" lasts for 5,125.36 years.


    The proper end day of the Mayan calendar is December 21, 2012. December 21, 2012 marks the end of the Long Count and Precession Cycle. [www.2012endofdays.org]


    So really it's just the start of a new cycle, not the end of the world. (But that is MHO, you can believe what you want.)

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    Image of shmesley shmesley
    01/25/09

    @1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons:


    IIRC, and remembering from the show about 2012 on the history channel, there are a few significant ancient societies that marked 12-21 2012 as a significant date for the end of the world... i recommend you go to youtube and look up the history channel episode, it is on there. very informative. As far as the people worrying about student loans and such.... my advice is to live life like you will die in 2012 because in all honesty, you are lucky to make it through the day, 4 years even more lucky.

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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    01/26/09

    @shmesley: I saw that episode, thanks. :) That was my main objective and not to include any theory's or skepticism. I like facts. They usually can't be argued with for the most part. Like the fact that the world will end...someday. I just don't dwell on it. It's like how dwelling on your own inevitable death is pointless. You will die.

    Get over it.
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    Image of inspiredEpic inspiredEpic
    01/25/09

    In reply to End of the World Dated Again: 2012
    Lol, that was genius, in a not-genius sort of way. :D
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    Image of webster32 webster32
    01/25/09

    @Jon B.: but everyone with that accent is clearly a brilliant scientist and scholar of knowledge! have we learned nothing from cartoons?
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    01/25/09

    @webster32: and by cartoons, I of course mean the enlightened illustrations presented to our children to aid them in their journey through life.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    01/25/09

    @webster32: Now you know! And knowing half the battle!
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    01/25/09

    @BeautifulAgony: is*
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    01/25/09

    @BeautifulAgony: /forehead slap
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    Image of Trowble (XBL/PSN) Trowble (XBL/PSN)
    01/25/09

    In reply to End of the World Dated Again: 2012
    I'm more afraid of the mutant noodles.
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    01/25/09

    @Trowble (XBL/PSN): Oh, come now... Everybody loves Ramen.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/25/09

    @Trowble (XBL/PSN): But the attack of Bender-Elvis seems much more likely.
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    Image of SegamanXero SegamanXero
    01/26/09

    @BeautifulAgony: but but...

    in the 2012, Ramen loves to eat you!
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    Image of Oniisan608 Oniisan608
    01/25/09

    In reply to End of the World Dated Again: 2012
    The accent kind of got on my nerves
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    01/25/09

    @Oniisan608: All I could think of throughout the video was "FIRE ZEE MISSILES!".


    On a somewhat related note, why isn't this advertisement in French? Do people in France simply understand English if it is spoken with a French accent?

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