So I love Pandora, but I still haven’t ponied up and paid for a subscription, thereby saving myself from the hellish (and repeated) experience of listening to their commercials.
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One that has been playing far too frequently of late–an advertisement for ice cream–ends with this little nugget of imbecility: “Tastes so good because it is so good!”
Really marketing people? That’s the best you could come up with?
Let’s think about this in a slightly different way, though.
“Tastes like shit because it is shit!”
Hmmm …
On a scale of one to 10, approximately how rude would it be for me to tap the woman sitting two tables away on the shoulder and inform her that the lady she’s talking with is only two fricking feet away from her!?
All of the undergraduates who are returning to Boulder, obliviously wandering around campus with ears covered by headphones and eyes glued to their most recent text message …
Or their parents, who can’t drive, don’t know what a bike lane is and make a trip to Target feel like a run-in with an errant mob.
I’m going to let this post serve as a warning to all of you unsuspecting souls looking to purchase the generic, Safeway brand of fruit-flavored oatmeal. It’s a very sneaky system.
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See, the strawberry and cream packets (two of them) come in the red package. Makes sense.
The banana and cream packets come in the black package. Makes less sense because bananas are yellow, but it’s a forgivable alternative because yellow would be tough to read, and bananas do in fact turn black when they get really gross and old.
Peaches and cream, however, breaks this mold of sensibility. A blue-colored package was bequeathed unto this orange fruit, which might be because peaches and cream is a delicious flavor and blue is a great color, but its understandability ceases to be understandable when that forces the blueberries and cream variety to adopt purple packaging.
Don’t worry, I have a solution: two in fact..
The most obvious of course, would be to put the peach oatmeal into an orange package. Alternative two: put the peach oatmeal into the purple package and save the blue packaging for the blueberries.
