Tacky taste in advertising

triforcharity said:
While perusing the interwebs today, I came across a video on MSNBC about an advertisement for American Airlines at Ground Zero.

Seems pretty innocent, right? Sure, untill you read what it says.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43107896#43107896

Yeah, you read that right. "You'll like where we land."


Now, I know it was not AA that personally put that ad there, and it was the MTA (Mass Transit Authority), but, come on, who would not find that tacky?

It also says that American Airlines this week re-instated flight numbers 93 and 175. How the **** does that happen?!?!?!?!?
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Have you been out of the country/"civilization" for a decade or 2? Tacky/vulgar/crude/nasty/thoughtless have been all the rage for some time now. tee hee.
 
leftysergeant said:
Meh. Even though, per the Supreme Court, corporations are people, they are also not, again, per SCOTUS, required to care how people feel if it stands in the way of profit.
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Are you implying that corporations *are* required to care how people feel if it doesn't stand in the way of profit, per the SCOTUS?
 
Maybe I've spent more time in German speaking countries than is wise for a Brit, but I always thought it particularly unfortunate that here in the UK the Morrison supermarket chain called its washing powder "Cyclon". I understand that it comes as a powder or as capsules, going by the advertising, and is guaranteed to thoroughly clean.
 
Emet said:
That would presume anyone knew. There was some organization, perhaps in Wisconsin, say Wisconsin Teachers Federation. (I don't remember the details). The reserved the domain name WTF.com or org. It took a while--I think they eventually changed the name of the organization--to Teachers Federation of Wisconsin, along with their url.
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A lot of people aren't very hip to the internet and its slang.

At my work, the accepted abbreviation for "follow up" is "FU", so managers forward emails about things to their staff and only add the remark "FU".

Which is funny to some of us. Although not as funny as when one manager wanted to express the wish that someone would follow up a matter concerning physician assistants: she forwarded a long email chain with the notation at the top in big bold type "FUPA". The manager is question is quite obese and nobody ever got around to explaining what was so funny.
 
If you think that was tasteless, wait until the viral marketing kicks in, with the swarthy guys wandering around holding glowing suitcases.
 
triforcharity said:
While perusing the interwebs today, I came across a video on MSNBC about an advertisement for American Airlines at Ground Zero.

Seems pretty innocent, right? Sure, untill you read what it says.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43107896#43107896

Yeah, you read that right. "You'll like where we land."


Now, I know it was not AA that personally put that ad there, and it was the MTA (Mass Transit Authority), but, come on, who would not find that tacky?

It also says that American Airlines this week re-instated flight numbers 93 and 175. How the **** does that happen?!?!?!?!?

Discuss.
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It's been 10 years. People really need to Get. The. ****. Over. It.
 
It's an airline ad. What was it supposed to say?

"You're going to hate where we land"?

"You're going to love where we land, but not where we crash"?

"You're going to love where our TSA agents land their hands"?

I suppose just about any airline ad near Ground Zero would be taken as offensive. Imagine if it was just a photo of a plane, with no words. I'm sure that, alone, would freak people out!

I really do echo the point that some people just need to get over it!

triforcharity said:
I respectfully disagree. You cannot "get over" something like that. You can cope with it, anddeal with it emotionally, but to "get over it" is impossible IMO.
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Eh, you'll get over it eventually.
 
What do the flight numbers have to do with anything? Do people think any flight with those numbers will share the same fate? (apparently they don't all go the same, those were the first flights of their number to hit buildings)
 
Silly Green Monkey said:
What do the flight numbers have to do with anything? Do people think any flight with those numbers will share the same fate? (apparently they don't all go the same, those were the first flights of their number to hit buildings)
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Traditionally, flight numbers of planes that experienced disasters are retired.
 
Silly Green Monkey said:
What do the flight numbers have to do with anything? Do people think any flight with those numbers will share the same fate? (apparently they don't all go the same, those were the first flights of their number to hit buildings)
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Well, people are superstitious. Korean Airlines renumbered the Kamchitka Island Death Flight because they felt no one would book to fly on 007 (I believe that was the original number) in case Ivan decided to use it for target practice again.
It's still flying. Leaving and arriving from/to same locations and at the same times (roughly speaking, allowing for faster planes and all that - it's the daily from JFK to Seoul), but it's just got a different number.
 
triforcharity said:
I respectfully disagree. You cannot "get over" something like that. You can cope with it, anddeal with it emotionally, but to "get over it" is impossible IMO.
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Of course you can. You will just have to climb down from your cross and use the wood to form a bridge.
 
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