Published on 12, July, 2020
I have just finished reading this interesting article on the Psychology Today website.
A new study has found that people on the autism spectrum 'may be impervious to misleading marketing compared to the rest of us'.
During various discussions over the years I have noticed advertising has more of an impact on neurotypical people than myself, however, as I do not know anyone else on the spectrum I was never sure whether that accounted for the difference.
I subscribe to the Psychology Today autism RSS feed and find there are some very interesting articles posted.
One of my memes...
Love it!....I think for me as advertising represents such over exaggerated and idealistic views of human existence (sic) it just makes even more remote and alien from my own life perspective that I just switch off....can't relate to it at alll.....and it is so far away from where I sit that I chose not to even try to relate or engage with it!
For example....why would I want to buy tampons, when I don't even like roller skating! Lol
Bill Hicks has a good line on marketing men
I wonder who the bright spark was who thought a good name for pile ointment would be 'Anusol'.
You've been doing that all week! Boom-boom!
Ah well, it doesn't matter so much if I'm a bit shaky when being a scruffy gardener, my clients pretty much leave me to get on with it.
I reckon we should have a party night when everyone's available. Set a time. Start a thread and post tunes, daft bits of drunken conversation, daft jokes, the usual blah!
A chat room would be good...
I've freaked out by the leaderboard....I'm meant to be working at home!! Eek!
Why would they do that? I see you've made it to the top of the leader board, I'm rather alarmed that I'm on there at all!
I have to say I do, too. I don't really drink sodas, but if I do it's Pepsi Max.
And yes... it contains more caffeine than regular Pepsi
Everyone needs a slice of silly everyday!!
Good.......won't be long before NAS kick me off this site, I reckon.......!!
I like it though. lol
Hi Elephant, I like a good bit of silly here and there!
Brown liquid?
I take Pepsi Max with me when I go gardening, it's sugar free, not sure if there's caffeine either, what am I left with?
coca cola localisation china
Brand: Coca-Cola
Transliterated Name: Ke Kou Ke Le
Meaning: Tasty Fun (apparently.....)
.....how about....diabetic juice?
Coke would just be 'Liquid Sugar and Caffeine'.
Hi Spotty....
i blame Tom...it all went very silly,....very quickly! Lol
Thoroughly splendid Tom, went from the hysterical to the revolting to just plain silly!
They are hilarious!!!,...I can see why you posted the link and not pictures of the individual products......
Do you think the ASD community would feel more engaged if the product names were more literal....and the product purpose presented in a less glamourising or pretentious way....
for example...
Check out some of these...
http://worldwideinterweb.com/4133-worst-product-names-ever/
On serious note, some companies seem unable to promote their products in a positive light...and their efforts to sell the wonders of the product that they are pushing....just reinforce how rubbish their product actually is. Unless you just purchase ironically....maybe that is the hook?
A good vintage that one!....but will use some mouth wash so my breath won't smell of alcohol!
I'd buy the existential mix and the re-mix on twelve inch white vinyl. Always wanted to be able to purchase gorms too.
Wow,
having just gone through this whole thread I think I need some caffeine lol. All the examples are amazing / terrible and everything in between! And loving the space / physics tangent too! I sense a touch of the Brian Cox in you Tom
I do wonder if the secret of selling something boring is to give it such a stupid name, people buy one just to show other people, though now we all have a camera in our pockets in our phones we no longer have to buy the silly named products.
Also, noticing your comment Elephant:
. said:And how do they get something with the diameter of 100,000 light years into the shop in the first place
I preferred the re-mix....,,,lol
p.s. Coffee has officially kicked in!
When I worked in wholefoods, we used to sell all sorts of bags of mixes. Trail Mix, Bombay Mix, etc. In a meeting one day, the boss was trying to think of a new mix we could make up. I suggested 'Existential Mix'. A completely empty bag! It wouldn't cost us much to produce, and I thought it would be a good seller considering some of the customers we had
Lol.....transportation costs must have been very low....can't eat warps....they give me indigestion....
Lol......it is a constant query.....oh the joys of existential doubt!
They had a 'Black Hole' bar, too. There was nothing inside. Just a warp in the time-space continuum...
Who would want to eat a whole Milky Way...? And how do they get something with the diameter of 100,000 light years into the shop in the first place?
silly name....
When I first went out to the US in 1988, I noticed that 'Marathon' was 'Snickers'. I think we took it from them.
Also, our 'Mars' was their 'Milky Way'.
No on wants to eat a sweaty trainer?....
Was that some kind of existential question Elephant, as you asked it of yourself?
Starburst sucks? Now to say something sucks is great advertising if it;s for vacuum cleaners, as after all a vacuum cleaner that doesn't suck is rather useless!!!! Speaking of confectionery when Marathon changed it's name to Snickers I was put off, don't they mean Sneakers, tho why call it after an American term for trainers. I can't help but think Snickers sounds like some disease!!!
Are you ok?
...certainly less mess...and I wouldn't have to share the nibbles!
bit overwhelmed by the suggestion......in a nice way....whoah!
Buzzer sound......self depreciation warning!!!....Spotty, stop it!