That Microsoft Ad
Crispy
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<div class="IPBDescription">Have a vomit receptacle handy</div>A really good dig at Microsoft or a message-at-all-costs piece of viral marketing aimed solely at reminding you about <i>Windows 7</i>'s impending launch? Whatever it is, the creators have chosen to remain anonymous. A quick google revealed no official endorsement of the advert from Microsoft and nobody coming forward to claim authorship. Ladies and gentlemen, what you are about to see carries a severe health warning* (but hopefully you'll just choke up a bit of sick and be mostly okay). I present for you - <i>Hosting Your Party</i>
Ill-advised high quality link here, if you can bear it: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ...player_embedded</a>
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And now for the shorter and much more bearable parody:
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* May cause temporary or permanant blindness, bleeding from the ears, bursting of the inner ear drum, nausia, chronic nausia, sociopathy, the purchase of an iPhone, iPod or iShuffle, self-harm, suicide, destruction of personal property, a predilection for arson and/or enrolment in a far-right political group.
Ill-advised high quality link here, if you can bear it: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ...player_embedded</a>
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And now for the shorter and much more bearable parody:
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* May cause temporary or permanant blindness, bleeding from the ears, bursting of the inner ear drum, nausia, chronic nausia, sociopathy, the purchase of an iPhone, iPod or iShuffle, self-harm, suicide, destruction of personal property, a predilection for arson and/or enrolment in a far-right political group.
Comments
Check.
<!--quoteo(post=1729086:date=Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM:name=Crispy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Crispy @ Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1729086"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->bleeding from the ears<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Check.
<!--quoteo(post=1729086:date=Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM:name=Crispy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Crispy @ Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1729086"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->bursting of the inner ear drum, nausia, chronic nausia, sociopathy<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Check, check, check and check.
<!--quoteo(post=1729086:date=Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM:name=Crispy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Crispy @ Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1729086"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->self-harm<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Check.
<!--quoteo(post=1729086:date=Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM:name=Crispy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Crispy @ Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1729086"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->suicide<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Had I watched more than the two oh-so-agonizing minutes, check.
<!--quoteo(post=1729086:date=Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM:name=Crispy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Crispy @ Sep 27 2009, 05:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1729086"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->destruction of personal property<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Check.
Fake.