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Title: Your own PSA
Post by: LeeC on 03 Nov 2009, 22:39
So if you were to put together your own Public Service Announcement, what would it be?
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: JD on 03 Nov 2009, 22:41
Would probably be a PSA against Disney
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: David_Dovey on 04 Nov 2009, 05:08
But Tommy Disney is the man
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Inlander on 04 Nov 2009, 05:21
Wait, do you mean "he's the man", or "he's the Man"?
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: David_Dovey on 04 Nov 2009, 05:23
Disney is Whitey

and what do we do with Whitey?
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Inlander on 04 Nov 2009, 05:42
Make it our life's mission to destroy every single copy of her cover of "I Will Always Love You"?

Oh, wait.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Caleb on 04 Nov 2009, 06:11
I already did a bunch of crappy ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUBMS7_iHyY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qohn-hWQWP4
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: tania on 04 Nov 2009, 06:54
buy me an iphone

did you know that somewhere in canada right now there's a young woman who suffers in agony every single day because she still doesn't own an iphone

shh yes i know it is terrible but don't cry, we can all work together to put an end to this global tragedy. all it takes is your credit card. in an envelope. mailed to me. details about how much i am enjoying my new iphone will follow.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: JD on 04 Nov 2009, 07:15
I am content with an asexual existence

I considered that you might be gay but I doubt there's a homosexual guy out there who doesn't think Disney is awesome.

I hate Disney but I keep it to myself in polite society, like my seething hatred of all ethnic minorities, women and queers.
Words are coming out of your mouth but I don't know what you are saying.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: jhocking on 04 Nov 2009, 07:45
details about how much i am enjoying my new iphone will follow.

Actually, your pitch might be more effective if you changed the payoff to "details will follow about how I accidentally broke the iphone and now I feel the sting of losing that which I had."
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: tania on 04 Nov 2009, 08:17
eagles don't ride the bus in canada, what kind of crazy country do you think this is
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Slick on 04 Nov 2009, 09:02
goose attacks are actually fairly regular in these parts.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 04 Nov 2009, 09:09
eagles don't ride the bus in canada, what kind of crazy country do you think this is

Yeah.  I don't know what country you're thinking of in which eagles ride buses.  In the US they all ride in 1980's Camaros.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Theriandros on 04 Nov 2009, 09:09
I am content with an asexual existence

I considered that you might be gay but I doubt there's a homosexual guy out there who doesn't think Disney is awesome.

I hate Disney but I keep it to myself in polite society, like my seething hatred of all ethnic minorities, women and queers.

Why do you hate Disney again?

Also: Pixar is better.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Jace on 04 Nov 2009, 09:29
Pixar is owned by Disney.

Also, Tania, remember when you got attacked by wasps (or was it bees) wherever you went for a couple months?

I do not have any good ideas for a PSA, just ideas for financial planning done by a luchador.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Theriandros on 04 Nov 2009, 09:52
Pixar became famous before Disney bought them. However, Up has convinced me that they're not going to cut open the golden goose, so I at least don't loathe Disney for buying Pixar.

Zip-ah-dee-doo-dah...
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Alex C on 04 Nov 2009, 10:01
I just don't understand Disney hate.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Boro_Bandito on 04 Nov 2009, 11:02

seething hatred of all ethnic minorities, women and queers.

That's the Disney hate. Also I've been led to believe that while owned by Disney, Pixar's been able to pretty much run their own shit, right?
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: JD on 04 Nov 2009, 11:54
Pixar and Disney are more like partners. Marvel too, probably.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Tom on 04 Nov 2009, 12:43
...I doubt there's a homosexual guy out there who doesn't think Disney is awesome.

Well, I don't hate Disney but it is pretty meh, I have a similar approach to you. Pixar is all right and I've read Marvel for ages and probably will not stop for a while.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Blue Kitty on 04 Nov 2009, 12:59
Yeah...I got nothing either.  I just don't feel outraged by things like I used to.

Maybe a PSA on how people shouldn't drive to close to other people or they will crash into them will laughing maniacally.



Maybe I should explain how a Michigan left works
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 04 Nov 2009, 14:48
I'd do a PSA on how PSAs are doing bad things do human society, and then a PSA after that on how PSAs about PSAs aren't funny in an ironic way; they're just stupid.

Then the second PSA would then play over and over in an infinite loop.

The idea is that eventually, the viewer would get so sick of the PSA loop that they'd shut it off and not want to see another PSA again, ultimately fulfilling the first PSA's goal of getting people to stop watching PSAs.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Christophe on 04 Nov 2009, 15:11
like a bumper sticker of Calvin pissing onto another sticker of Calvin pissing onto the original Calvin pissing sticker, pissing onto each other for all eternity

(actually my PSA would be about how you are a bad person if you have Calvin pissing stickers on your car and how you should feel bad)
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Inlander on 04 Nov 2009, 15:11
I just don't understand Disney hate.

It's related to Spielberg hate. Basically a hatred of all things saccharine, emotionally manipulative, overly sentimental, and needlessly cutesy.

Also they did a real number on Whinnie-the-Pooh and now every kid in the world automatically thinks of the shitted up Disney version instead of the infinitely superior original whenever the name is mentioned, so fuck Disney.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: tania on 04 Nov 2009, 20:50
Remember when you moved house last year and every time you went outside you got attacked by geese.

i think maybe you're thinking of jasmine, i was the one who used to go outside every morning and spray them with the hose to keep them from shitting all over my driveway

also

I just don't understand Disney hate.

what if i told you their advertising campaign extends as far as developing and building an entire town (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida) where real life people actually live and where the majority of town "holidays" basically revolve around spending money on disney products in some way? because personally i think that's insane and creepy as hell.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: De_El on 05 Nov 2009, 00:25
Like, really? Are those the first reasons to hate Disney that spring to mind? I mean, I guess if racist caricatures of any given ethnic group are okay, because, you know, it's all kids can understand or maybe because that's just what people were like at the time, then I guess there's nothing really wrong with Disney.

Which, I guess, is not to say that I actually hate Disney. I was just surprised no one mentioned it.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: David_Dovey on 05 Nov 2009, 00:32
Also they did a real number on Whinnie-the-Pooh and now every kid in the world automatically thinks of the shitted up Disney version instead of the infinitely superior original whenever the name is mentioned, so fuck Disney.

Kinda like the Whitney Houston/I Will Always Love You thing.. isn't it wonderful when things come full circle like that?

Personally I am pretty conflicted about Disney but I think in the end they come out on the positive side of the ledger
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: scarred on 05 Nov 2009, 00:33
Guys Disney isn't racist anymore they are totally doing a movie with a black princess, it is set in the deep South and -

oh fuck
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Inlander on 05 Nov 2009, 00:36
I would just like to say that the most recent thing I have heard about Disney, as of about an hour ago when I saw it on the evening news, is that a whole bunch of farmers and villagers in China are going to be forcibly evicted from their land so that Disney can build a theme park outside Shanghai.
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: jhocking on 05 Nov 2009, 05:55
china started it (http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/05/02/disneyland-in-china/)
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 05 Nov 2009, 08:23
There's a Japan-centric blog out there that doesn't like China?  THE WHOLE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN!
Title: Re: Your own PSA
Post by: BeoPuppy on 05 Nov 2009, 22:04
Yeah, but, COME ON ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLvK5nKbo6w