Yo! Pizza Hut! Think we're idiots or something?

[gsdx]

(Sorry. Couldn't find a YouTube video for this.)

First you expect us to believe that a world-class Italian restaurant would allow you to serve your 'food' (and I use the term loosely) to it's valued clientèle as if the pasta was their own.

Now you expect us to believe that people are too stupid to know when they're at home.

Your new commercial is a laugh. Seriously. Okay, it's believable that you can blindfold Mom and Dad and Son and Daughter and lead them hand-in-hand in a line out their front door and down the curved stone staircase out front and into a limo parked in their driveway. (Okay, that part was believable.)

But then you really expect us to believe that you tell the blindfolded family they're being taken to a restaurant, you drive them around the block a few times and park in their driveway again, line them up in a hand-to-hand chain again in front of the supposed restaurant (where are all the street noises), lead them back up the same curved stone staircase which they don't recognise, through their own front door and into a house that not only doesn't smell or sound like a restaurant but miraculously doesn't even smell or sound like their own home, and then sit at their own dining table and in their own chairs without having the slightest clue.

But, oh, they are so surprised when they pull off their blindfolds and find their in their own home with Pizza Hut boxes on the table in front of them.

Do you even thing these things through or do you simply assume we're too stupid to see how stupid you think we are?

 

[belamy]

This thread is so stupid.

 

[Lefty]

haven't seen the commercial yet..oh well, haven't seen the inside of a pizza hut in 15 years. in my opinion i haven't missed much in either situation.

 

[Lefty]

hey ratso, drop the word almost and i would agree with you 200%.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

Just as stupid as those Carl's Jr. Commercials where they have the fake restaurant and they serve their Fast Food-quality burgers as "fine dining."

I've had Car's Jr. burgers. Yes.. they're better than McDonald's. But only just. Nobody other than a complete moron is going to think that's a $14 gourmet burger.

But then... men are ALWAYS the idiots in commercials.

Man: My allergies are acting up and I'm too stupid to do anything about it

Woman: Try Comtrex (happens to be in her hand)

Man: What's Comtrex? I'm so dumb I don't even know that there's such thing as allergy medicine and here you are handing it to me... we already had it in the house and I was too dumb to know what it was..

Woman: well, that's my job. I just stand here serving you and always have whatever I need at my finger tips. I'm a woman, it's not like I have a job or a life, you know.

 

[G-Lexington]

Back in the 1980s, they did those commercials where they replaced the fine gourmet coffee in "finer restaurants" with Folger's Crystals, and nobody apparently could tell the difference.

The HBO comedy series Not Necessarily the News did a parody where they started by replacing the coffee at "a finer restaurant" with "Bolger's Crystals"...and then kept going.

"Next, we replaced their shrimp scampi with fast food hamburgers. Nobody said anything."
"Then, we served them leaves and twigs on a hubcap and told them it was Boston cream pie. They fell for it."

Lex

 

[belamy]

I disagree. The way that these corporations try to sell their product (not food, but product) to consumers is disgusting. Their product is disgusting. The ingredients in their taste-driven, quality-lacking product are disgusting. It is engineered to taste like it is good food, and then pumped with millions of dollars to sell it to people.

Why is it legal to sell garbage to consumers and label it as food? It's not just Pizza Hut, either, which scares me, since there is an overabundance of garbage on the market.

The fact that they have to create a whole section (usually a small one) in a store that contains actual food (now labeled 'organic' or the like) is sickening. Why isn't it that 80% of the store is full of actual food, and the people who want to slowly kill themselves with chemical ingredients can go to the small section labeled 'fake food'?? Oh, that's right, fake food is cheaper but still retains 'taste'..and that's okay..so long as it tastes good...

You have to make a living on something and, heck, if there's a place in which you can prosper by offering the stupidest product or doing the most worthless job, that's the USA, and I don't mean it's a bad thing... nor a good one either.

I think the real topic of this thread is that more sophisticated technology and economy allow for people to acquire high-quality products that they can't truly appreciate. Sophistication makes sense only if you have a sophisticated plan for your own life that demands an improvement or at least a change in your environment; but if you just remain a mechanical pig with no imagination you are ultimately contributing to destroy the system that allowed you to become a wealthy and well-considered mechanical pig.

If people can't tell a product from another, why develop new technologies, new financial products and keep innovating to offer something different, better?

 

[gsdx]

This thread is so stupid.

I disagree.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, pjp2nd. Belamy, as usual, is simply being his usual ignorant, insulting self and trying to make other people's threads all about him. He does hate it when someone else gets a bit of attention.

 

[belamy]

Indeed, the people who are uneducated enough to believe that Pizza Hut's pizza is as good as pizza they can make themselves are ultimately helpless, since they will believe what they see on TV ads. But I don't think you really need a plan in order to recognize what is shit (usually corporate food) from what is actually healthy and nutritious.

By "plan" I simply mean knowing what you really want in life, not just swallow whatever comes to your face.

I don't think that poor people are better off by merely having more household devices because 1) it helps making them worthless by relying totally on an outside help, like a little baby or some animal and 2) they have all those products providing the "quality" living I described in 1) because there are other cleverer (not necessarily much cleverer) people who depend on those poorer people acquiring their products to make them wealthier. They are taught to be dependant on the "plan" of the producers, and live under the risk of being totally helpless if the system, for whatever reason, collapses.


If you offer shit to people you are degrading them twice: first you numb down their capacity or interest to discriminate, and second you are fooling them into believing that by receiving shit they are special and getting the best for their comfort and pleasure, like some emperor's new dress.

Well, the corporations producing the crappy food aren't about trying to develop new technologies -- they simply want to purchase the cheapest ingredients and sell their product at the highest price to yield the maximum profit. Perhaps if our food industry was more focused on health and not profit things would be a bit better (but that's wishing for too much since most corporations only concern themselves with profit).

As a side note: An interesting documentary, 'Food, Inc.', is coming out across the nation (or it might already be out). Unfortunately, stuff like this will continue to go unnoticed by the average American consumer, who will consume whatever is advertised in front of him

Well, that's my point: they are headed to the same end of the communist industry... if all the productive system must remain the same and people be there just to consume, shut up and swallow up everything they are given without disturbing and challenging the system, that system will end up crushing under its own weight.
That's basically what happened to GM: they didn't care about what they produced and who they were offering it to, they remained stalled in the inherited pride of having been the best.

Things are one way,but they can always be another way. If you ignore that, others may come that will teach you that. The Chinese and Japanese have been learning the lesson for over a century... I'm not sure if they will really assimilate it though.

 

[belamy]

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, pjp2nd. Belamy, as usual, is simply being his usual ignorant, insulting self and trying to make other people's threads all about him. He does hate it when someone else gets a bit of attention.

you are a paranoid

 

[Garawr]

In this thread, all I could think about was who Jasun was sucking off in that avatar.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

In this thread, all I could think about was who Jasun was sucking off in that avatar.

I have the same problem.

 

[belamy]

In this thread, all I could think about was who Jasun was sucking off in that avatar.

I thought he was biting, literally eating: he looks so angry in his avatars...

 

[winterknight]

All I have to say is that if the Irritatingly Pink Vanish Stain Remover Woman ever turns up unannounced in MY house, she'll get a slap.

Oh, and why do adverts for beauty products have to contain so much crap pseudo-science? What the fuck is "vitafibrine", and why should the average suburban housewife care?

 

[belamy]

All I have to say is that if the Irritatingly Pink Vanish Stain Remover Woman ever turns up unannounced in MY house, she'll get a slap.

Oh, and why do adverts for beauty products have to contain so much crap pseudo-science? What the fuck is "vitafibrine", and why should the average suburban housewife care?

Because it's the modern equivalent of "God said so", literally: people believe in science like they used to believe in God. It's the last word: things are like that, science proves it to be so. Even competent scientists express themselves according to that foolish frame of mind, by saying, for example, that "evidence talks" like when God talks to some Pepe Smith.
When someone they care about is in a bad condition they ask doctors and medicine to do something because "the MUST be something that can be done". When they turn to prayers they are not so much fighting for a solution anymore as much as simply accepting and hoping that the irrational saves the situation.
"Vitafibrine" is just one of the many avatara of God.