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W.W.L.D. · 08-06-2003, 01:52 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Do guys even drink Coors Light? The only people I think I have ever seen drinking it are women (lord knows why - it tastes like water - actually maybe that is why). Why does Coors target guys so relentlessly in its ads? Is it working - anyone know?

I don't see many males or females drinking Coors Light when I go out. But, I frequently have people over on the weekends and sometimes a guy will bring Coors Light. I just assumed these people don't really care about the taste -- they just want to be, you know, like social.

I sure do wish that Coors would bring back those commercials with the fun-loving, sports-playing, Coors Light-drinking giants. Who was the target audience for that?

greatwhitenorthchick · 08-06-2003, 01:55 PM

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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
I really hate the adds. I sincerely hope that the "band" that does that twins song drives their bus over a cliff.

You say the dreamiest things. That ad annoys me as well. But I think I am just programmed to have a beer ad tell me how great hockey is and how proud I am to be a Canadian that I reject any ad that attempts to tell me otherwise.

Atticus Grinch · 08-06-2003, 01:58 PM

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Originally posted by idle acts
As I understand it, even the decisions made at the Anglican Conference may not be "binding," as some Es consider them to be advisory in nature. Thus, as I understand it, the group that confirmed Bishop Robinson was free to do so without violating church doctrine.

The Episcopal Church in America is 2.5 million members and shrinking. The worldwide Anglican Communion of which it is a member is 77 million members and growing. The problem was that the Anglican Conference in question (known as "Lambeth" for short), which is dominated by politically leftist but doctrinally conservative traditionalists in Africa (think "Archbishop Tutu"), issued a scholarly paper saying that homosexuality was "contrary to scripture."

Here's the problem: It is. Homosexuality is "contrary to scripture." But rather than say that the church in America has moved beyond the cultural taboos and mistranslated myths of an ancient nomadic shepherd tribe, church leaders here were forced to issue statements of their own reconciling homosexuality with scripture, which is a pretty stupid exercise. They simply don't want to admit that homosexuality is now placed in a category with other Hebrew Scripture condemnations we totally ignore in modern life.

The Episcopal Church in America won't schism (is that a verb?) over this, although some parishes will leave and become independent or go over to the Catholics (don't laugh; it's happened before).

Edited to add: Also on the agenda at this General Convention were liturgical reforms that would have added a ritual for the blessing of a same-sex relationship (not a marriage). It was widely expected that this would be defeated as a sop to those who couldn't handle Robinson + same sex union blessings in the Book of Occasional Services.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone · 08-06-2003, 02:03 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
But I think I am just programmed to have a beer ad tell me how great hockey is and how proud I am to be a Canadian that I reject any ad that attempts to tell me otherwise.

What do you think of the Blue ads with the dude in the bear suit? For reasons I can't really explain, they amuse me.

Puft Daddy · 08-06-2003, 02:05 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I think I am just programmed to have a beer ad tell me how great hockey is and how proud I am to be a Canadian that I reject any ad that attempts to tell me otherwise.

Edited to say: Not quick enough on the draw, but ...

Could that make seeing the Labatt's ad with the proud Canadian bear and some hoser* friends playing hockey a quasi-religious experience? NTTAWWT, of course.

* hoser in the sense that they look like rejected extras from 'Slap Shot'.

P (what the hell ever happened to fire-brewed Stroh's, anyway?) D

bilmore · 08-06-2003, 02:07 PM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
The Episcopal Church in America is 2.5 million members and shrinking. . . .

From Scrappleface.com:

Episcopal Church Appoints First Openly-Muslim Bishop

(2003-08-04) -- Bishops in the Episcopal Church today approved the election of the first openly-Muslim bishop in the church's history.

The Islamic cleric, who rejects the deity of Jesus Christ, received an overwhelming majority of the vote.

A spokesman for the Episcopal Church said the move demonstrates, "Our church is open to all people, regardless of their beliefs, or whether they accept the teachings of the Bible."

The election of the Muslim bishop comes as the church stands ready to approve its first homosexual Bishop, V. Gene Robinson. Later today, the bishops plan to vote on the election of the church's first openly-atheist bishop

greatwhitenorthchick · 08-06-2003, 02:09 PM

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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
What do you think of the Blue ads with the dude in the bear suit? For reasons I can't really explain, they amuse me.

The Labatts ads in Canada are much better* - so when I first saw the bear ad I thought - this is really kind of stupid. But I will admit that he has grown on me.

*Last year they had this Jackass-themed one that really made me laugh out loud. And they have this one where a spontaneous game of street hockey breaks out on this busy intersection in downtown Toronto that is very good. - perhaps I am biased though.

Atticus Grinch · 08-06-2003, 02:25 PM

An infant has his own blog.

Top entries include "Paparazzi Getting Tiresome"; "Drinking Myself to Sleep 'Not a Problem'"; and "Older Chicks Have Hypnotizing Mammaries." So far, I disagree with nothing this kid has to say.

LessinSF · 08-06-2003, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by Jack Manfred I think Larry Flynt would make a far more entertaining governor than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The only part of his platform I really disagree with - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...5/MN259959.DTL - is the tax on slot machines is too high; it would deter too many players.

ThrashersFan · 08-06-2003, 02:44 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
The Labatts ads in Canada are much better* - so when I first saw the bear ad I thought - this is really kind of stupid. But I will admit that he has grown on me.

*Last year they had this Jackass-themed one that really made me laugh out loud. And they have this one where a spontaneous game of street hockey breaks out on this busy intersection in downtown Toronto that is very good. - perhaps I am biased though.

Many years back I dated a fine Canuck who worked for Labatts which really doesn't have much of anything to do with this thread but I felt like saying it anyway.

I don't get beer ads -- period. I have never tried a beer because of an ad. As with smokes, I have a brand and I don't go elsewhere. Am I alone in this? Are other people really driven to try beer (or just about any other product) by ads? While it is true that ads can at times be amusing, I just don't feel that they work as intended (at least not on me). I know about the whole subconscious argument but I think perhaps the fact that my shopping habits have not really changed much in the past 10 years or so counters that as does the fact that I don't see a lot of ads anyway yet I still buy shit. Couldn't they just lower the price of stuff instead of paying for ads?

LessinSF · 08-06-2003, 02:48 PM

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Originally posted by bridge of love
tying threads- I only heard part of this yesterday, but Howard Stern was playing excerpts from what seemed to be a queer eye promo for E...

Stern was playing part of the Jenna Jameson True Hollywood Story this morning - set your Tivo for Sunday night. She talks about how her father used to fuck her friends and her brother helped her get in the buz. Also how she got addicted to speed.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 08-06-2003, 02:52 PM

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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
. . . . While it is true that ads can at times be amusing, I just don't feel that they work as intended (at least not on me) . . .

Yet you drink Miller Ice?

SlaveNoMore · 08-06-2003, 02:52 PM

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greatwhitenorthchick
Do guys even drink Coors Light? The only people I think I have ever seen drinking it are women (lord knows why - it tastes like water - actually maybe that is why). Why does Coors target guys so relentlessly in its ads? Is it working - anyone know?

I used to switch to Coors Light after a long night of drinking... in order to sober up and drive home.

not7yS

ThrashersFan · 08-06-2003, 02:55 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Yet you drink Miller Ice?

Nope. Does Miller make an ice beer? Not that I would try it.

taxwonk · 08-06-2003, 02:58 PM

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Originally posted by leagleaze

I ask you is there anything wrong with wearing a pair of fuck me heels? I say no. A THOUSAND TIMES NO. And clearly most lesbians agree, at least when I wear them they seem to have no problem with it. Perhaps THEY are engaging in the very same sort of judging of feminine attractivenesss they so decry, oh yes, those sapphic hypocrites. HYPOCRITES I SAY!

A lot of that is where I live, I know. I really should just move.

It ain't that they object to heels. It's just that spike heels get bogged down in the mud when yer possum huntin'.