Friday, November 15, 2013

Want to see the most annoying ad in the world?


The above ad puts together two of the worst seemingly new Internet advertising tactics there are.  In fact, it would have hit the trifecta had it also contained a ridiculous animated .gif of someone dancing or making a silly face.  Alas, we'll just have to live with these first two...

1) "Trainers hate her."  I see variations of this all the time now, whether it's an ad selling financial services ("Credit card companies hate him."), or whatever.  It's a variation of the "Good cop, Bad cop" game..."Those trainers are jerks!  But not us - So it's you and us versus the mean, hateful trainers!  Why they can't just learn to love her, we'll never know..."

2) "...this weird trick..."  It's WEIRD.  If you only understand one thing about this trick, let it be that.  Just take all your preconceived notions about what is a normal or traditional trick and be prepared to throw them out the window, because things are about to get WEIRD.  Also, it's a "trick" so you won't have to work very hard, kinda like a shortcut.  

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Murphy's Law - Self-flushing toilet edition

When you're at a toilet with a flushing sensor, having done your business, it will flush several extra times while you are still standing there...then once more while you are leaving the stall.

When you're entering a stall with a flushing sensor, you will find someone else's waste still sitting in the toilet, the flushing mechanism not having flushed at all, when the other person was in there.