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1 month ago

in FML: 浜崎あゆみ (Hamasaki Ayumi) - & on boylikesmusic

You mean the store that sells clothing three times what it should actually cost? Damn, I wish I'd known it when it was a music store instead.

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4 months ago

in thoughts on a subway. an atheist…bus…subway. whatever. on johpanonline

From my perspective, I see at as atheists generally not wanting to seem as crazy as the religious ads look to the non-religious crowd. Religious things always tell you "GOD IS THERE BELIEVE IN GOD THE END!!!ONEONE", and these atheist ads expressing what they believe but not saying it is the definitive ending of it all makes them look less crazy and less like missionaries trying to force their beliefs onto everybody else. I'm not saying religious people in general do that, because they most certainly don't, but that's the impression I get from ads such as Bus Stop Bible Study...and pretty much all religious propaganda. So taking it from that point of view, the use of that word makes these ads even more anti-religion, because of their different usage of that advertising space and way of addressing people from the people who make religious ads.

If this comment is in any way offensive, then I apologize, because that was not my intention. Apparently the debater inside of me lives, after all, despite how much I loathe doing debates at school...xD.

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johpan While trying to avoid sounding crazy, they also lost credibility by adding in that probably. The religious (lacking a better term) fanatics lose cred by forcing the existence of God on others so I've ignored their advertisements completely. From an advertising perspective, however, at least they know what they believe and don't throw in a probably to be all PC about it. Yeah, they sound crazy because they're trying to force things on people that aren't 100%, true but what I was trying to get at with my opinion piece is that with throwing the probably in there, it just doesn't sound convincing at all.

Also, you say that the ad expresses their beliefs except that their belief is that there is no god, not there probably isn't a god.

From a purely advertising perspective, would you be convinced to buy a Big Mac if McDonalds' catchphrase was "I'm probably lovin' it"?

Also, no worries. I didn't find any of it offensive ^_^.

7 months ago

in [Review]Radwimps - Radwimps 2 ~Hatten Tojō~ (RADWIMPS2～発展途上～) (2005.3.8) on DO THE ROCK

I saw her in your header.