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« Reply #24855 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 11:05:13 » |
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What the fuck goes on in your head man
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« Reply #24856 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 16:23:07 » |
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What the fuck goes on in your head man
So you're telling me you never recognised once of the most prominent "McCain Chips" adverts of the early 2000s (that would also be on when you was fairly young), constantly aired during prime time and probably during SM:TV Live and me having a slight tongue in cheek reference back to it is really far out... Come on fella, if you think my thoughts are so wild, you need to live a little  |
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« Reply #24857 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 16:23:53 » |
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I'm sure you have seen much more wild people than myself JJ  |
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« Reply #24858 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 17:12:04 » |
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So you're telling me you never recognised once of the most prominent "McCain Chips" adverts of the early 2000s (that would also be on when you was fairly young), constantly aired during prime time and probably during SM:TV Live and me having a slight tongue in cheek reference back to it is really far out... Come on fella, if you think my thoughts are so wild, you need to live a little It's not that its far out dude just that you thought of it, remembered the little girl and clearly had to do a bit of stalking to find out her age. Not only that but then you felt that a bunch of strangers also needed to know this. More... creepy than far out. But I suppose we all have our quirks. |
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« Reply #24859 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 17:27:31 » |
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It's not that its far out dude just that you thought of it, remembered the little girl and clearly had to do a bit of stalking to find out her age. Not only that but then you felt that a bunch of strangers also needed to know this.
More... creepy than far out. But I suppose we all have our quirks.
It's not really tbh. I just thought of the advert randomly because I happened to be eating McCain Home Fries (bit of product placement there, sadly unpaid) and remembered how popular it was (at least where I was from). I remember pretty much everyone saying it on the tennis courts at school, then nicking someone's chips  A perked curiosity I know but I then wanted to watch the advert, to see if it was as good as I remembered or much fuss about nothing. It was in the comments (which often can be hilarious) that someone said "those girls are in their mid/late twenties now". If anything it just made me realise how old even we must now be getting. Nowt sinister about it and I think that is the trouble in society today, everything is looked at or viewed with a possible negative edge. It's as if there can no longer be any innocence or joy from even the small things any more. As far sharing with a bunch of strangers. Most of us do that every single day on social media and I would say we do so here (in that most don't know each other), even more so at present. So I posted the ad, maybe I should have planned and constructed my post more clearly when I did so but it was very much posted "in the moment" rather than a calculated or scheduled post. Pure nostalgia. Nothing else  |
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« Reply #24860 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 18:13:51 » |
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I'm old enough to remember, and without going and checking, have absolutely no recollection of what this ad maybe about. I certainly don't remember eating McCain chips on the playground, but I suppose my era was more Smash adverts.
You do come up with some real oddities. It's like my attempts to read Terry Pratchett at times - I know his work is popular, but I couldn't get past the first Chapter of The Light Fantastic.
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« Reply #24861 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 18:22:17 » |
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Bamboo reminds me of Stanley Unwin
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« Reply #24862 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 18:44:13 » |
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I'm old enough to remember, and without going and checking, have absolutely no recollection of what this ad maybe about. I certainly don't remember eating McCain chips on the playground, but I suppose my era was more Smash adverts.
You do come up with some real oddities. It's like my attempts to read Terry Pratchett at times - I know his work is popular, but I couldn't get past the first Chapter of The Light Fantastic.
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« Reply #24863 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 18:47:57 » |
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Bamboo reminds me of Stanley Unwin
Ahhh wonderful Paul Whitehouse is very good at channeling his inner Unwin. ...I certainly don't remember eating McCain chips on the playground, but I suppose my era was more Smash adverts.
You do come up with some real oddities. It's like my attempts to read Terry Pratchett at times - I know his work is popular, but I couldn't get past the first Chapter of The Light Fantastic.
They weren't McCain chips at school, just some caterpack bollocks no doubt. Some did it with "Chip Sticks" too. We were 13/14, which usually isn't immune to buggaring about. Maybe, I know I have a long interest in advertising. There's lots of evidence of this on the TEF but oddity is more from the perception of the individual who thinks so, rather than the one/medium it is applied to. The same is with curiosities, people only become bothered because they allow themselves to be. We're all guilty of that in some sense. Oh you must read Interesting Times. Excellent stuff and if you read it now, it would probably seem to make much more sense than the world we currently live in. "Ang Morpork" - Pratchett was perceived as odd because he was just way ahead of many who could comprehend. In similar references it will be like reading "1984" today and wondering how similar Orwell's musings are reflected in present day life. Alas, most everyone is mad here. Enjoy the ride - too short to not enjoy it whilst it lasts |
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'I'm gonna tell you the secret.
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You smell the gunpowder and you see the blood, you know what that means?
It means you're alive. You've won.
You take the heads so that you don't ever forget.'
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« Reply #24864 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 19:03:26 » |
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I'll add, that I do love some oddball stuff, you are just a bit more oddball than oddball
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« Reply #24865 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 19:05:04 » |
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Not sure what you're going on about, but I like chips.
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« Reply #24866 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 19:15:10 » |
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Not sure what you're going on about, but I like chips.
On the subject of chips, and I am not knocking my move to the USA here because there is plenty of good t o it, but I do miss a good chippy. So, this really does make me happy, I've found a UK run Fish and Chip shop - granted it's a 70 minute drive away - something to look forward to. |
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« Reply #24867 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 19:18:01 » |
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I could kill for a proper chippy cod and chips now.
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« Reply #24868 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 19:22:40 » |
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Can't beat it
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« Reply #24869 on: Monday, January 25, 2021, 19:27:41 » |
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On the subject of chips, and I am not knocking my move to the USA here because there is plenty of good t o it, but I do miss a good chippy. So, this really does make me happy, I've found a UK run Fish and Chip shop - granted it's a 70 minute drive away - something to look forward to.
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