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That post reminds me of late-night TV commercials for bizarre gadgets, which try to sell you on their nonsense by showing videos of ordinary people completely f
by mikeash 8y ago
That post reminds me of late-night TV commercials for bizarre gadgets, which try to sell you on their nonsense by showing videos of ordinary people completely failing to accomplish easy household tasks.
- 0xfeba 8y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago/ https://www.reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago/ Yeah every taxi experience I've had has been terrible. Taking a longer route to increase the fair, rude, drives like a maniac. Then hassles me for a tip.
- isostatic 8y ago“Kevin” opening milk in friends in the 90s I assume those “infomercials” don’t exist nowadays with video on demand.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y agoIt's easy to laugh at them, but generally those products are actually being sold to people with disabilities.
- mikeash 8y agoInteresting. You'd think they would show people with disabilities in the ads... unless they were going for the mental sort.
- Sohcahtoa82 8y agoMy guess is that if they showed people with disabilities using them, able-bodied people would be less likely to buy them. They might admit some product might actually be kind of handy, but seeing it used by the disabled in an ad would implicitly send the message that it's for disabled people and not buy it.