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usmaak 
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 Posted: 21 Dec 2017 at 2:59pm |
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Naming your kid some obscure and pretentious name after a character in a book from almost 60 years ago. How... Well I suppose that I already used the word "pretentious" once and it would just be in bad form to use it again.
Better than naming your kid Katniss, Hermione, or Tris, I suppose. |
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langjie
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Posted: 23 Jan 2018 at 8:31pm |
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i literally want to punch this "scout" in the face.
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crainbebo
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Posted: 23 Jan 2018 at 9:06pm |
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I hate this one too. A child who doesn't know what a computer is, has lived a sheltered life. Or has extreme selective memory. Plus that annoying music 'where is it you wanna go?' Will never buy Apple products!
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Liberty Liberty Liberty my a$$. Oh, and that goes with a majority of the other insurance ads, too.
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MrTim
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Posted: 24 Jan 2018 at 5:34am |
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Don't worry, the poor little ignoramus is headed for a life-time career of working a computerized cash register and will eventually figure that out...
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NJtoTX
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Posted: 24 Jan 2018 at 3:08pm |
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Now that I know the kid's a girl, the ad is incredibly sexist. They're saying girls are scared of computers, but if they don't know they are using one, they'll be fine.
It's like the Barbie "math is hard" thing. If the girl doesn't know it's math, she'll understand it and use it.
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usmaak
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Posted: 24 Jan 2018 at 10:27pm |
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Scout seems like a pretty savvy kid. She goes out on her own, all around town. She goes into taco shops by herself. She's hanging out, taking pics of bugs and talking to her friends online. All this without ending up in a body bag or chained up in someone's basement ala criminal minds. I think that the what's a computer thing is just Apple's way of saying that you can do anything that you would normally do on a computer with an iPad. I mean it is ridiculously untrue, but when has a little thing like the truth gotten in the way of an advertiser? But that said, the what's a computer line has to be one of the stupidest line in advertising.
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usmaak
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Posted: 26 Jan 2018 at 7:18pm |
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Looks like we're not the only people who hate this ad. This showed up on my FB feed this morning.
http://www.guacamoley.com/the-scoop/2018/01/25/rFhmG/that-apple-whats-a-computer-ad-isnt-sitting-well-with-twitterand-theyre-sounding-off?utm_content=inf_10_3742_2&tse_id=INF_04e04e0002c211e881c71b876dfcb7a1 Of course a lot of the twitter posts (I just cannot force myself to use the word tw**t) seem to be from the always offended at everything group. Still kind of amusing, though.
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DarkRealmStar
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Posted: 26 Jan 2018 at 7:41pm |
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DarkRealmStar
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Posted: 26 Jan 2018 at 7:43pm |
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I agree with the Apple "What's A Computer?" ad haters.
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usmaak
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Posted: 26 Jan 2018 at 7:44pm |
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Yea. This commercial would just be a generic kind of annoying were it not for that one line.
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MrTim
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Posted: 27 Jan 2018 at 5:31am |
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I have computers that are older than the adtard Millenials who wrote that Apple commercial...
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Posted: 30 Jan 2018 at 4:27am |
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Yes, I hate this commercial, too. The "What's a computer?" line is the arrogance of trying to say that the I-Pad is MORE than "just" a computer. It's a f**king computer, for Christ's sake!
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Kelly H
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Posted: 30 Jan 2018 at 3:29pm |
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My cat’s name was Scout
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Kelly H
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Posted: 30 Jan 2018 at 3:31pm |
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My mom had that American Graffiti album lol - I loved all the songs on it :)
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Posted: 30 Jan 2018 at 3:35pm |
But in that book, "Scout" was just a nickname. Her real name was Jean Louise. So she wouldn't have been stuck with "Scout" as her legal name for the rest of her life....
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I don't patronize bunny rabbits!
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usmaak
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Posted: 30 Jan 2018 at 4:16pm |
And your cat probably knew what a computer was. Smarter than the Scout on this commercial.
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Posted: 30 Jan 2018 at 7:14pm |
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This is a computer!
 I guess anything before 2000 isn't allowed in Scout's House...Scout and her family are sooooo ignorant!
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Thank God for kids who love Obscure Things.
Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007) |
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Anduril
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Posted: 31 Jan 2018 at 1:54am |
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No, THIS is a computer.
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Posted: 31 Jan 2018 at 2:35pm |
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"It's never too late to choose life...instead of the internet. Just drop the mouse." - Darwin Watterson
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Posted: 31 Jan 2018 at 2:57pm |
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I can't complain but sometimes I still do.
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Posted: 31 Jan 2018 at 3:04pm |
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Where is good ol' Mahk when we need him????
This ad would be a great place for him to pay a visit to!!!! |
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Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.
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Posted: 31 Jan 2018 at 5:29pm |
 "Scout" is a good name for a dog, I hope the parents have a flea collar. They should check her for tics and a full blown case of Lyme's disease as well.  |
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I can't complain but sometimes I still do.
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Posted: 31 Jan 2018 at 11:01pm |
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This commercial makes me long for the rapping teaching in the Microsoft Surface ads.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2018 at 1:33am |
 I kinda sorta have a computer you have my permission to throw at her today, please, now. |
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Posted: 01 Feb 2018 at 5:15am |
Yes, you could indeed do a lot of damage if you threw Kurt Russell at her... |
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