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So yeah, good game, bad commercials.
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Yeah, definitely. I try not to get too excited about Super Bowl commercials and talk big about how "I watch the game just for the commercials!" and everything, but yeah. Pretty bad.
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I want to make a funny YouTube about that actually.
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About how bad they were?
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Well, you saw how a lot of them were actually pretty misogynistic?
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I wouldn't go that far
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There were at least two that focused solely around men resenting their female partners. And there were loads that were explicitly sexual, those Go Daddy things were just women removing their tops.
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They weren't models of feminist discourse or anything, but I don't think
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They revolved around exploiting and objectifying women! That was the whole point! The fact that Go Daddy is sort of winking about it doesn't make it ok! It just makes them creepy leering winksters, not post-gender hipsters!
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Jesus
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Sorry, I got wrapped up. ... Anyways, so a lot of them were misogynistic
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A lot of them weren't very progressive
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To put it mildly. But then there was the really cute Google one, with the guy falling in love and marrying a French woman
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With the sappy music.
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Right. Anyways, the video would be, it would start with text that said "Hey Google! FTFY!" And then
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What's FTFY?
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"Fixed that for you" It's sort of an internet joke
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HA HA HA! HO HO!
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It's not... don't be a jerk. Regardless, the video shows the text, then starts showing the Google commercial, it starts out the same, but then it changes! And the stuff it starts showing, after the "Churches in Paris" or whatever, becomes stuff like "Prostitutes in Tampa" and "paternity tests", and then the last one is "How many pigs does it take to eat a whole human corpse?" Get it?
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Well, it sure sounds disgusting. So the joke is that a man starts out idealistically, descends into disillusionment and sexual deviancy, then murders his wife? Tee-hee! Consider my ribs tickled!
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No, the joke is that, now, you know, the one sort of positive ad has been modified to fit in with the other ones! The ones that are abusive towards women!
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That sounds terrible, and not funny.
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Well, it's hard to explain
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Also, I think the three circles of Hell correspond pretty nicely to "Endlessly watching a 'funny' YouTube video", to "Endlessly hearing someone describe a 'funny' YouTube video", to "Endlessly hearing someone describe a totally fictional, that they just made up, 'funny' YouTube video."
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Well. There's nine circles of Hell, so... you look dumb.
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I am confident we could get rid of six of them.
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Like?
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Idolatry. That's probably one of them, right?
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Probably.
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Ok, cool. Cause that one definitely doesn't make sense any more.
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Did it ever?
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?