Randomness

[Faust]

/\ He has a point, I must say. You can easily go nuts thinking about the complexity of contemporary Western life and the amount of guilt that goes with it, which can make you blow your fucking brains out, David Foster Wallace style.

[endorphinz]

no one says you should forget anything but most need to choose their battles

[rider]

no one says you should forget anything but most need to choose their battles

at least we have the option, animals really don't.

i'm going to eat my [unvegan] words and post some unbelievably good stella mccartney pre fall shoes in the womens footwear thread.

[stagename]

Shock tactics rarely works long term where it matters. There was a study where they showed people shocking images of rotten teeth. These images didn't stimulate the viewers to improve their dental hygiene, just the opposite. They couldn't handle the graphic message, so they started avoiding everything connected with it, including brushing teeth.

Same with shocking images of cruelty towards animals: people just repress them and continue in their old ways.

I would love to see this study. I'll just make a few precisions from a rather general claim toward shockvertising.

From what I know in shockvertising, there's a threshold effect where people can't "handle the graphic message, so they started avoiding everything connected with it, including brushing teeth. Same with shocking images of cruelty towards animals: people just repress them and continue in their old ways." This is probably linked to reversal theory and optimal arousal. That is, shockvertising is OK within a certain limit, but if you cross that limit you'll leave ppl either too gross out, or you'll create such a schism in their self-concept that they'll prefer not to process whatever you show them (between other possible explanations).

So it is a more complex issue than "shocking people turn them off". Shockvertising can be quite useful. Dahl (2003: Does it pay to Shock? Reactions to Shocking and Non-Shocking Ad Content among University Students), when studying the effect of shock in regard of norms without gory/sexual/etc content, found that "shocking content in an advertisement significantly increases attention, benefits memory, and positively influences behavior among a group of university students." Death and sex seem to generally lower the appreciation of an ad (Sabri and Obermiller 2010).

[interest1]

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Dedicated to self-saboteurs, everywhere.


Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

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[soulshui]

[diorowen]

Gosh, I respect Japanese culture where people tend to think about others first instead of their self.

[Chant]

Gosh, I respect Japanese culture where people tend to think about others first instead of their self.

[SHYE_POSER]

I shrunk my Dick in the washing machine.....fits bette now :p

[Peasant]

..shrinkage.

[Peasant]

I think it's more about taking said shrunk item and it drying out... off.

[tron]

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2012/02/10/behold-the-onacounter/

nsfw but oh - my - god

[Dane]

^ I have absolutely no idea what is contained in that link. ???

[tron]

it's a Japanese masturbation aid - game kind of thing. Essentially a fleshlight that you plug in to your computer and that link was about a program that keeps uhhhhh.... stats..

[michael_kard]

Can't wait to upload my wank stats on twitter to compare with those of my friends...