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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
Screenwriting

Can people possibly be this stupid?

New Mazda commercial with cars driving on their front or rear wheels to sell their new all-wheel drive model. Their sales pitch: why make cars wiht four wheels if you're only going to use two. Shot after shot of CGI cars driving on CGI roads with their front or rear ends lifted up in the air.

And there's a caption: "Professional drivers on closed course. Do not attempt."
If people have become this incredibly stupid, maybe we shouldn't talk them out of doing idiot things. Maybe it'd be best for everyone to let the less fit members of the species prune themselves right out.

Take out the disclaimers and the warnings. Let the nut-intolerants buy McDonald's walnut salad.
jaybee
  

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[nq:1]Take out the disclaimers and the warnings. [/nq] The problem isn't the walnut salad it's the other salads that aren't called any kind of nut salad that may have some nuts in them that can kill. And make no mistake, it's not a matter of nut-"intolerant' as in they give you a stomach ache, we're talking about allergies that can literally stop you breathing.

  • [nq:1]Take out the disclaimers and the warnings.
  • [/nq] The problem isn't the walnut salad it's the other salads that aren't called any kind of nut salad that may have some nuts in them that can kill.
  • And make no mistake, it's not a matter of nut-"intolerant' as in they give you a stomach ache, we're talking about allergies that can literally stop you breathing.
  • And kill you.
  • " F.
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[nq:1]Take out the disclaimers and the warnings. Let the nut-intolerants buy McDonald's walnut salad.[/nq]
The problem isn't the walnut salad it's the other salads that aren't called any kind of nut salad that may have some nuts in them that can kill. And make no mistake, it's not a matter of nut-"intolerant' as in they give you a stomach ache, we're talking about allergies that can lit
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I worked at a food coop once. We had boxes of walnuts with 'Caution: may contain nuts' printed on them. What I don't understand is, when did people become so nut-intolerant? Seems like just in the last few years. I don't remember people dying from nuts when I was a kid. Were people dying but it wasn't reported? Or is the human race becoming allergic to nuts? Holy ****, is this the holy grail that
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@reader1.panix.com:
[nq:2]Take out the disclaimers and the warnings. Let the nut-intolerantsbuy McDonald's walnut salad.[/nq]
[nq:1]The problem isn't the walnut salad it's the other salads that aren't called any kind of nut salad that may ... as in they give you a stomach ache, we're talking about allergies thatcan literally stop you breathing. And kill you.[/nq]
I was referring
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[nq:1]I worked at a food coop once. We had boxes of walnuts with 'Caution: may contain nuts' printed on them. ... becoming allergic to nuts? Holy ****, is this the holy grail that finally proves evolution? Enquiring minds want to know.[/nq]
I was talking to my brother-in-law, who has developed an allergy to latex about this. It makes you wonder if all the **** they are pumping into the air, th
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[nq:1]my brother-in-law, who has developed an allergy to latex about this.[/nq]
Or even:
...my brother-in-law, who has developed an allergy to latex, (I swear that comma was there when I sent the message.)

RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
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[nq:1]New Mazda commercial with cars driving on their front or rear wheelsto sell their new all-wheel drive model. Their sales ... idiot things. Maybe it'd be best for everyone to let theless fit members of the species prune themselves right out.[/nq]
That's nothing.
Awhile ago, there was an ad showing some guy skateboarding and presumably to show how incredibly fast this guy was going, th
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[nq:1]If people have become this incredibly stupid, maybe we shouldn't talk them out of doing idiot things. Maybe it'd be best for everyone to let the less fit members of the species prune themselves right out.[/nq]
Have you ever read The Darwin Awards? It's about exactly that. My favorite: two kids discover they can get high by shooting oxygen up their ***** with a bike pump. Looking for a bi
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[nq:1]So you see, on the one hand you have the question why do we need warnings like these on ... have the question why do we have George W. Bush in the white house? Could there be a connection?[/nq]
~ :~)
Hard to argue on that point.

RonB
"There's a story there...somewhere"
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[nq:1]New Mazda commercial with cars driving on their front or rear wheels to sell their new all-wheel drive model. Their ... the species prune themselves right out. Take out the disclaimers and the warnings. Let the nut-intolerants buy McDonald's walnut salad.[/nq]
No matter WHAT you think of, there will be someone more stupid.

cd

The difference between immorality and immort
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[nq:2]my brother-in-law, who has developed an allergy to latex about this.[/nq]
[nq:1]Or even: ...my brother-in-law, who has developed an allergy to latex, Yeah, but it was MUCH finner without it.

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