• @[email protected]
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    242 months ago

    Remember when ads had several paragraphs in small print and everybody read them because there was nothing else to do.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      and detailed information about the products instead of just a list of vague bullet points that really don’t tell you anything so you have to scour the internet to find out if the thing will actually work for what you want or not.

  • @[email protected]
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    122 months ago

    The ad is kinda weird because the guy is wearing the watch upside down. I love Casio watches though.

    • @canOPM
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      82 months ago

      You assume that’s his arm.

      • jago
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        42 months ago

        Fair rebuttal; we’re meant to infer the left-side hand pointing at the watch belongs to the same model of the right-side arm that’s wearing the watch. Admittedly, this is an assumption based on insufficient data. It’s not impossible that the finger-pointing left hand and the watch-wearing right wrist are owned by two different models.

        That doesn’t change the fact that the watch is worn on a right-arm wrist in an orientation that would show it as upside down to a right-arm wrist owner.

        • @canOPM
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          52 months ago

          Counter rebuttel; my interpretation is sillier

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            Counter counter that it’s intentional due to the built in 8-digit calculator. 58008 and its kin.

        • @threelonmusketeers
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          12 months ago

          the fact that the watch is worn on a right-arm wrist

          Are we sure about this? I’ve looked at it for a while now, and I can kind of believe either. Where would the thumb be?

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    2 months ago

    And to think yesterday I added 1 trillion additional bytes of storage to my computer for the same purchasing power as that watch cost when it was new. What a time to be alive.

    • @canOPM
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      62 months ago

      And you were right.

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    32 months ago

    Playing Abiotic Factor, and I go “huh that’s a neat watch”. Three days later, an advert for a decades old, exact same watch on Lemmy lol

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    22 months ago

    Wow, I don’t know if I have ever seen an uglier advertisement… And I lived through the 90s Sunny D campaign.