I Hate Marketing Propoganda!!!!!!!11!!1!!!

[rtf]

I have kept this in my system for a long time, but now I have finally snapped.  What is going on with Gatorade? (If they don't have gatorade across the lake,  please excuse my ignorance and read my rant anyway   );
I see the new gatorade-  Gatorade X- Factor.  Ooohh!  the X-factor!  Is it just me, or has American culture totally became stupid over the letter X?  I mean really!  Everything has gone from Extreme to X- treme!  I hate that!  Name one common commercial food product that is not X-Treme!

So now the marketers at whatever company parents Gatorade has thought of a brand new, totally original name for a brand new, totally original gatorade sub-quencher:  

               X- Factor


OK, so they got the hype, but where is the substance.  Hmmm, after using every cliche in the book, our high-level marketers have came to a halt.  What has not been used yet that is so cool that it bears the name, X- FACTOR?  Surely our overpaid marketing department can think of something...



But they don't.  So what they do is take one flavor, and combine it with another.



That's IT!!!  They think that this is the thing that can change Gatorade forever!  Two flavors!  Why diddn't they think of that?

Flashback-
...
Begginings of Gatorade Company.
...
After a succesful release of their first line of colors- ahem, Flavors, A new line of flavors cometh.

Remember Strawberry-Kiwi?

Classic




Gatorade sucks.
I had a baseball game today, and one of my teammates got a Gatorade ICE, with "Clear Flavor"
In case you don't know, Gatorade ICE is the exact same thing as gatorade, except there is no color.   It is as clear as water.

Here is the conversation between a low-level manufacturer, Jimbo Jones,  and a high-level manager, Thomas, during the birth of Gatorade ICE:

Jimbo:   Um, hey, boss?

Thomas:  Yes?

Jimbo:  Duuh, we're all out of duh ar-tih-fish-owl color for duh Strawberry flavor?

Thomas:  Jimbo, I told you to use it sparingly.  Only put in what you need.  Have you called our supplier?

Jimbo:    Duh, no.  Theyre closed.  We'll have to wait and miss the shipping, or not use color.

Thomas:  Jimbo, you incompeta- Say, wait...  I've just thought of a fabulous idea!!!!


And thus, history is made.


In today's culture, it seems like anything ICE means that they ran out of artificial colors, and then they decided to market it.

Classic



In conclusion, bad marketing has tried to target the ignorant by using cheap slogans and bad descisions.  They take the exact same thing and they double it, changing the label.  No one is safe.  We must bail out before it's too late!  Earth is in danger!

I am insulted.

[Las Naranjas]

losers, I'm not buying anything short of >< - |=4(+0r

[Kairus]

Yeah, that ICE thing you mention reminds me a lot to those "Clear Coke" and "Clear Pepsi" they sold some years ago (when I were young ).  Marketing means exactly that, brainwashing you so you think something totally useless is indeed something you can't live without. It's one of the lying sciences.

Many books have been written on how to convince consumers that they have to buy your stuff, and we see everyday those principles put into practice in one way or another.

Have you ever wondered why sex has become an everyday factor in TV commercials and programmes? Because it sells, and it's not that it sells because it looks good, or because of the way our culture works. The principle behind it is simple, they just exploit something humans can't escape as we are all animals and it's hard to avoid instinct.

And we have slogans, great, a small phrase that gets stuck to your brain and you're repeating it over and over on your mind all day long remembering the product associated with it. The same happens with the songs.

It's all crap, but it will be hard to make it stop. I wonder how it could be possible.

If anyone has a brilliant idea to stop the consumerism expansion that doesn't involve killing too many people please post it here.

[BruisedWeasel]

There is hope, my froggy comrade. Velveeta is still pure. It still melts betta than chedda. No surfboarding punk-azz kids telling punk-azz kids how extreme processed cheese bricks are. I hope it stays that way, or I'll be at a loss as to what to melt in my quesadilla.

[Peter Thomas]

It bugs me how they all use subconscious messages to try and influence us. Like McDonalds and Hungry Jacks and KFC.

They spent MILLIONS on research that proved that the colour red makes you hungry, while the colour orange makes you want to hurry up (read: eat faster). So what do they do? They paint their bilboards red and yellow and white, while they decorate their restaurants in shades of orange.

I walk into one of those restaurants and think "you losers. Just for THAT, I'm only going to order ONE muffin, and I'll take my FLIPPING-ARSE time, thank you very much..."

[BruisedWeasel]

You could stab out your eyes, for being weak and allowing the lies of the propaganda pandas to decieve you, Peter.

[shbaz]

If I had a choice, I'd never eat any artificial colorings. On average, they are carcinogenic, mutagenic or in high levels, toxic. This gatorade ICE, were I an atheletic person who was into that sort of thing, would be a blessing. Do you know what colors that stuff can make your feces? It's that strong. Bad bad bad..

Most people make the mistake of believing that in this day and age nothing dangerous can possibly be on the market with the Gestapo FDA. I don't drink milk, do you know why? They pump the cows full of growth hormones to make them produce up to 10 times what they would naturally, the resulting milk is full of puss (dead white blood cells, they grow in abundance when they detect the drugs and then are killed and recycled through the milk), tons of different kinds of antibiotics and growth hormones, and fat. My logic says that since more than 3/4 of the world doesn't drink milk at all, and naturally there's never been a reason to after infancy, there's no reason for me to consider it necessary to have four servings a day (as the FDA food pyramid suggests). Besides, I'm not a growing calf, I won't need to gain a hundred pounds in the next six months. Does it make sense to anyone else here, or is it just me?

[Peter Thomas]

Do you know what colors that stuff can make your feces? It's that strong. Bad bad bad..

I know you were being serious, but that just made me laugh!

Damn, I am immature sometimes


I couldn't live without milk. I know it's not 'real' as such, but it tastes so damn good! mmmm...... and yoghurt! I could not live without yoghurt..... OR CHEESE!

Okay..... you get the idea, just dairy in general. I don't care what preservatives they put in it.... look at this way - it'll take a hell of a lot longer for me to start rotting when I'm dead than if I ate food without preservatives.

LONG LIVE CORPSES!!

[shbaz]

I couldn't live without milk. I know it's not 'real' as such, but it tastes so damn good! mmmm...... and yoghurt! I could not live without yoghurt..... OR CHEESE!

Okay..... you get the idea, just dairy in general. I don't care what preservatives they put in it.... look at this way - it'll take a hell of a lot longer for me to start rotting when I'm dead than if I ate food without preservatives.

LONG LIVE CORPSES!!

I don't drink milk. Occasionally I eat yogurt or ice cream, and I'm constantly eating cheese. Meat is nearly as bad, but I don't feel like I'm even capable of avoiding that one.

I drank soy milk for a while. It's weird that it tastes terrible at first and then after some time you become accustomed to it and you think of it as "real" milk. Lately I just drink a lot of juice and water.

I'm not talking about preservatives Peter, I'm talking about growth hormones and medication. Every day bacteria is getting stronger because antibiotics are overused, milk isn't really helping any. No studies have been done on the effects of this residue from growth hormones and antibiotics in milk, so society is pretty much one big experiment right now.

Note how doctors claim the calcium in Milk helps prevent osteoperosis and promote strong bones, yet America has a higher rate of osteoperosis than any other place in the world. Places that don't drink milk have scarcely heard of the disease.

I don't think anyone is going to stop drinking milk or Mountain Dew (especially bad doses of Yellow 5 coloring) because of what I'm saying here, but it's important to know at least.. Society usually keeps a cocky attitude that no matter how bad some people say something is, nothing bad will happen to them.

[rtf]

That's why you gotta buy the "Organic Free-Range FDA Approved ANti-Growth Hormone and Antibiotic-Free" Milk.  

I love milk.  I bring it to school in a 1.5 liter bottle.  I drink my milk in class.  The teacher goes like "Daniel, what are your drinking"  I reply nonchalantly, "Milk."  She says "Well, at least it's not one of those gross gatorades, colas, or Hawiaan Punches."

I love my milk and my milk loves me.  It's an everlasting bond of joy, trust, friendship, and calcium.  If it wasn't for milk, I would have broken my arm on the hurdles instead of just fracturing it.
Milk is my friend.

[Layabout]

I cant consume any kind of milk. It makes me sick.

I really hate the taste of milk anyway.

Marketing is never going to go away. It's there, live with it. Choose to ignore it if you must.

[Peter Thomas]

That's why you gotta buy the "Organic Free-Range FDA Approved ANti-Growth Hormone and Antibiotic-Free" Milk.  

I love milk.  I bring it to school in a 1.5 liter bottle.  I drink my milk in class.  The teacher goes like "Daniel, what are your drinking"  I reply nonchalantly, "Milk."  She says "Well, at least it's not one of those gross gatorades, colas, or Hawiaan Punches."

I love my milk and my milk loves me.  It's an everlasting bond of joy, trust, friendship, and calcium.  If it wasn't for milk, I would have broken my arm on the hurdles instead of just fracturing it.
Milk is my friend.

My sentiments exactly. Except my name's not Daniel.... obviously...

Shabz: Yeah - I took a look at that NOTmilk link in your sig. Once I figured out which bloody link to click I realised just how gross it was. But I shall still drink milk.

And I still say LONG LIVE CORPSES!

[Redwall]

The first post made me think of this...

"I wanted to call the show 'Going to Other Planets', but the company said that shows with 'X' in the name get higher ratings."

- Martin Lloyd, "Wormhole X-Treme!", Stargate SG-1

[Gfunkera]

Its seems that "x" works, why would they market something if It didn't work?  Someone is definatley buying this stuff. I live here in the USA and yes our country is very capitalist we like to hype things up especially "gatorade" ?? No actually its a big problem with movies, they hype them right up to be this great movie and then when you see them you realy hate them because the previews seem to be better than the movie itself.....

[Mari]

Gatorade - Tastes GREAT! when you need it most.

Translation:

Gatorade - When you are thirsty, it tastes like Dom Perignon, but otherwise, it tastes like lukewarm Jello.

[Ali]

has American culture totally became stupid over the letter X?

Exxon are still called Esso in europe. The US changed the name in the 70s to sound more futuristic.

Who's futuristic now, fossil fuel boys?

[evenatlab]

Yesterday at Subway sandwich shop,  the only doritos (brand of chip) available was this new sort that only contains 6 carbs.

They were called Doritos EDGE.

Edge! What edge could these chips possibly be on?  I tried them, and I think the implied edge is horrible, bland taste.  But they were way over that edge.