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    Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App

    MacGruber Shills for Pepsi, Changes Name to 'Pepsuber'

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    Image of Inception Inception
    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    "Wish you'd give as much attention to me as you do with your iphone, jerk". Quoted from my ex girlfriend. Does this app have a comeback?
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    badhatharry promoted this comment Inception was starred Inception was unstarred
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    10/13/09

    @Inception: Maybe once you start being touch sensitive, I'll finger you.
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    Image of frigg frigg
    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    I hear Pepsi's also working on an app to generate disingenuous apologies for when you offend your gf, have to apologize, but don't really mean it.

    Looks like they're getting ready to release.
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    10/13/09

    @frigg: The app is mostly for when people find you offensive when what you did made a couple of people laugh, didn't target or even hurt anyone, but people still want you to apologize.
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    10/13/09

    @pettiblay: this type of shit is insidious, and it can do damage. I'm a brown guy, and after 9/11 there was lots of anti-muslim talk. Most of it didn't bother me, because it was letting off steam. But when i heard it on npr's prarie home companion, it really got to me, b/c it felt like there was NOBODY who cared, and it was only get worse.

    So when pepsi comes out with an app that mildly insults women as sexual objects, it can be more hurtful than anything Howard Stern says.
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    frigg promoted this comment frankfrankly was starred frankfrankly was unstarred
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    10/13/09

    @frankfrankly: You really think this app is more insidious than decades of Pepsi adds portraying women as sugar-sucking-sex-kittens?
     Reply
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    10/13/09

    @frigg: Man... I miss those commercials.
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    frigg promoted this comment 00000000 was starred 00000000 was unstarred
    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    they tried 2 sound with it, but failed. this is how it should have read:

    R app trd 2 sho d lol of guys tryn 2 pick up chx. sry if its fail txt us if ur mad.
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    Image of mclifford82 mclifford82
    10/13/09

    @nutbastard: Or they just wanted their message to fit inside of a single tweet. Could go either way but I like my odds of being right :)
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/13/09

    @mclifford82: Because "2" vs "to" equals so many more characters.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/13/09

    @mclifford82:

    they're only at 136 chars by my count...
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    10/13/09

    @badhatharry:

    two of em in this case :P
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    10/13/09

    @nutbastard: You should learn to count; there's 139 characters in the tweet.
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    nutbastard promoted this comment pettiblay was starred pettiblay was unstarred
    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/13/09

    @nutbastard: I'm no mathamagician, but wouldn't adding 2 to 136 (I'm sorry, adding 2 2 136) equal about 13, and therefore be less than 140? I would like for you to check my math on this, because I went to an arts school and have a BFA in theater.
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    10/13/09

    @nutbastard: Second of all, I friended you like two weeks ago. You going to reciprocate that shit, or am I just going to hang out like a sucker?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    10/13/09

    @pettiblay:

    fair enough, but they could've killed that apostrophe, or perhaps they could have gone with one of the many synonyms for 'humorous' that have less than 8 chars.
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    10/13/09

    @badhatharry:

    couldn't we manage both?
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    nutbastard was starred nutbastard was unstarred
    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/13/09

    @nutbastard: No. You friend me, or we both go out in one of those less-successful suicide/murder thingies.
     Reply
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    The app is for comedic purposes. Anyone who actually downloaded the app can tell that none of these "tips" will work. They are just there for shits and giggles. Honestly, I don't see what the big deal is. I'm almost certain that if Dasani Water, or SlimFast made an app that showed women how to pick up men, we wouldn't have a problem.

    It's comedy people, some will find it funny, some won't. You don't have to download it and you sure as hell don't have to acknowledge it. Move on.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    Sounds like they really meant it.
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    Edited by N@tedog at 10/13/09 2:17 PM N@tedog was starred N@tedog was unstarred
    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    Twitterpology: for when you're sorry. Just not sorry enough to spend more than 140 characters apologizing.
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    10/13/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Dude! You used that one already!
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    OMG! Ponies! promoted this comment MarcusMaximus was starred MarcusMaximus was unstarred
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    10/13/09

    @MarcusMaximus: It still holds true. And I know what comments I've made and not made. Ponies has skillz like that.
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    10/13/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Meanwhile, half the time, I forget my own comments before I even finish, you know, coming up with something to uh, whatever.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    My friend just came back into town and has an iphone. It's pretty annoying how often he is checking it, texting, etc. Nothing says fun like sitting there staring at the wall while your friend is locked in on his phone for 1-2 minutes every 5 minutes.
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    10/13/09

    @Saboth: that's not so bad. I have a friend who sends more than 4000 texts per month. One month during the summer he sent 7000. I stole his phone for 2 minutes once. He got 5 texts in that time.

    XD
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    Identity less than three promoted this comment Whytookay - Pro Skub was starred Whytookay - Pro Skub was unstarred
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    10/13/09

    @Whytookay - Pro Skub: 7000? That's nothing. Try dealing with a kid who has ADHD and sends 12000 a month.

    Crazy.
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    10/13/09

    @Identity less than three: O.o

    That's freaking incredible.

    Do his fingers bleed?
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    10/14/09

    @Whytookay - Pro Skub: When he gets cut, yes.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    Any apology that was sent via Twitter and includes two instances of the number 2 as "to" doesn't really fly in my book.

    That said, I thought it was humorous. But yeah, checking your iPhone several times during a date won't help your case, regardless of what information you've suddenly just learned.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/13/09

    @Platypus Man: It does kind of read like Prince is their copywriter.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    An app to brag about getting laid to your friends? I already have MMS.
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    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    If I'm looking at my phone while on a date with you, it's because I find browsing icanhascheezburger.com entries that I've already seen 15 times funnier and more interesting than you.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/13/09

    In reply to Pepsi Issues "Apology" For Offensive iPhone Dating App
    It's not better than the hand tally with the strip of masking tape labeled "SEX"
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    Edited by Kaiser-Machead at 10/13/09 1:45 PM Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    10/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I just carve notches into my bedpost. I find that to be far more subtle, and I tend to date women who can read so...
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/13/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: What I do is I steal a strand of their hair, and I keep it in a drawer so I can someday make a super clone of everyone I have ever slept with. So far I have two strands of hair, but one of them is from some girl whose boobs I brushed up against on the subway.

    Hey, I'm free to babysit if anyone needs it.
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    10/13/09

    @badhatharry: Jesus Christ dude.

    That's brilliant!
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    Image of Dancing Milkcarton Dancing Milkcarton
    02/01/09

    In reply to MacGruber Shills for Pepsi, Changes Name to 'Pepsuber'
    That was the most un-funny collection of videos I've seen in a long time.


    Every SNL has ~ 8 minutes of genuinely funny stuff in it. These clips do not belong in those 8 minutes.

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    02/01/09

    @Dancing Milkcarton: There's a reason they keep moving around when "Weekend Update" is aired. And why all the truly horrible sketches get aired after the second musical performance.


    For over a decade, I've sort of imagined Lorne Michaels standing by the camera giving the "cut" sign to every sketch. Personally, I think that every sketch should have a hard limit of 2.5 minutes and the order of performance should be randomly drawn from a hat.

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    02/01/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Honestly, the funniest thing I saw on SNL was when I tuned in and Amy Poehler was saying goodbye. Not her saying goodbye, but that whole Weekend Update was chock full o' funny. Especially the Patterson sketch. I'm so pissed they got yelled at for that, b/c I still laugh when I think about it. Now if you will excuse me, I have to go pay for 50 dollars worth of circus tickets.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    02/01/09

    In reply to MacGruber Shills for Pepsi, Changes Name to 'Pepsuber'
    So what's the alternative?


    Thanks to DVRs, people fast-forward through commercials. Thanks to YouTube, many people don't even watch the show when and where it's originally shown.


    The shows still cost money to make but because people viewing habits have radically changed, the ability to sell commercial airtime through traditional means has waned. And no, smirking referential product placement is not funny. It was a cute gag in Wayne's World. It was overhyped and mistaken for clever writing on 30 Rock. It's an old gag and proof of weak writing.


    Keep laughing, keep whining. It won't be long until the annoying TNT-style bottom-third popup ads become the norm.

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    02/01/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Those Outback Steakhouse references in 30 Rock this week were disgusting. NBC is the biggest culprit of this kind of sellout. And network television wonders why they're losing viewership. I'll take the TNT style lower pop-ups any day as they're easy to ignore. Stitching that effluvium into show dialogue is however not easy to ignore and only serves to aggravate.
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    02/01/09

    @HDC: That's the vicious cycle. They throw in product placement and drive away viewers. Which lowers ad rates. Which leads to more product placement. And worse writing. And worse viewership.


    The solution to getting people to watch ads is simple - make better ads. Here's one of my favorites, with Peyton Manning, who is consistently in well-written ads.


    And here is another ad, from Verizon, also funny.


    Make good ads and people will watch them.

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    02/01/09

    @HDC: Well, since NBC is eliminating their 10pm shows/dramas due to cost, they should be good money wise for a little bit longer.
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    02/01/09

    In reply to MacGruber Shills for Pepsi, Changes Name to 'Pepsuber'
    Anyone besides me think that Richard Dean Anderson got way fat since the last time we saw him on television?
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    02/01/09

    @Franknbeans: The "last time"? He's been on Stargate: Atlantis for years.
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    02/01/09

    @Franknbeans: Yeah, unlike Adam Savage who has gotten a little chunkier since he got the Mythterns(Dump Grant and Torry, just leave me Kari), RDA seems to have relaxed a little too much by his pond with no fish with some six packs.
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    02/01/09

    @2Legit2Quit_GitEmSteveDave:


    I curse you all to a retirement age of constant angst over your naturally aging, fattening bodies. He's one year shy of 60 for chrissakes.

     Reply
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    02/01/09

    @Rick Austin Grime: Mine was a Stargate reference!
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    02/01/09

    In reply to MacGruber Shills for Pepsi, Changes Name to 'Pepsuber'
    Oh, my stomach, it's aching...
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    Image of BeautifulAgony BeautifulAgony
    02/01/09

    @NightBlade: Soothe it with a Pepsi.


    ;)

     Reply
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    02/01/09

    @BeautifulAgony: Pepsi isn't even good.
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    02/02/09

    @ERIFNOMI: Pepsuber's gonna kick your ass for saying that...
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