Anji
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 | June 18th, 2007 at 03:01pm Maybe they're only sold to get you high. That way all women look too beautiful to be true. |
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Posts: 34269 | June 23rd, 2007 at 08:08pm Kitti:being female and therefore an expert on this...I HATE THE SMELL OF AXE! yeah, guys, wear axe, women will want to run away and VOMIT! *shudder*
freaking lies, all lies... haha i don't mind it tbh. |
Dom
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Posts: 1691 | June 24th, 2007 at 03:23pm i think its stupid they regulate the amount of adverts you can have for contraception, and they are only shown very late, despite the increasing numbers in STD's and teenage pregnancys in this country at the moment. |
Anji
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| June 29th, 2007 at 10:37am Well, that's one approach, but in the 80's loads of buses in Nottingham had condom advertisements and a picture of the Grim Reaper in the background with all these dead people who supposedly had died from STD's, not that it's likely.  |
Biffy Clyro
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Posts: 16018 | June 29th, 2007 at 11:48am Advertising isn't a bad thing. It is informative in the main. Sure people claim that some for example cigarette adverts are aimed at children, but they still need adults to buy said cigarettes for them. Anyone beyond the age of about 12 should be able to make up their own mind on things. |
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Posts: 9656 | June 29th, 2007 at 06:45pm We can't really escape from advertising :/ I mean, in a way, even wearing a band t-shirt is advertising, although I suppose it's the person's choice whether they wear it. It kinda depends what context or situation it's in to decide whether advertising is good or bad. |
Anji
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| July 1st, 2007 at 01:03pm Timid:We can't really escape from advertising :/ I mean, in a way, even wearing a band t-shirt is advertising, although I suppose it's the person's choice whether they wear it. It kinda depends what context or situation it's in to decide whether advertising is good or bad. That's where subculture comes in, take the case from the punk days of lore, the shop 'Sex' run by Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren, and Bernie Rhodes. The ultimate no logo, no brand clothing store. Worn by the few, true punks. Then one day, 'Nevermind the bollocks, here's the Sex Pistols' who are advertising the newest, fab, spring line shirts a la 'Sex' shop. Now everyone wants to dress like them, to look like them, to be like them. Other clothing companies cash in on the 'punk' craze. Now everyone's wearing the same thing, everyone looks the same, everyone is the same. It's what makes money pass hands, what helps businesses earn money.
So there has to continually be new trends in order for them to be trendy, they need to be advertised, and for the advertisements to work, people have got to spend money on those products. It's ugly, but essential. |
Anji
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| July 1st, 2007 at 01:04pm To add a little social science to it, what is considered 'subculture' is not at all 'subculture' but part of the mainstream economy. |
