Author Topic: [NSFW - Parody] Sony Releases New Piece Of Technology (Read 33,239 times)

justice · « **on:** February 10, 2009, 10:47 AM »

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“We listened hard to what our customers said they wanted most out of their home entertainment system, and then we pumped out this impossible-to-use piece of shit.”

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of

tomos · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2009, 11:37 AM »

[swearing] Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

isn't the idea of a warning - [swearing] here - that you give people a chance to avoid whatever you're warning them about (I had to laugh about that)

tomos · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2009, 11:47 AM »

it's very funny all right

can they get away with this ?

justice · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2009, 11:47 AM »

thought it would defeat the purpose of the video to censor the title ;-)

sort of like
[NSFW] Absolutely gorgeous female Jug puppy at Pets Classifieds

bgd77 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2009, 02:10 PM »

A quite similar "commercial", but for a different product and with less swearing (actually, it is a parody - I'm not from US and at first I thought it was not a real product):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05ZQ7WHw8Y

bgd77 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2009, 02:12 PM »

By the way, I really enjoyed the reportage

from ONN.

mouser · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2009, 04:03 PM »

very funny.

ps.
since this forum is for all ages, perhaps it should have been marked as NSFW and could have done without the curse word in subject title?

justice · « **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2009, 04:07 PM »

Sorry. changed the title feel free to amend if where nessecary.

mouser · « **Reply #8 on:** February 10, 2009, 04:25 PM »

superboyac · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2009, 06:15 PM »

Oh my...I'm in tears! That was even funnier than the mac wheel!!!

Ehtyar · « **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2009, 07:57 PM »

IMO the Macbook Wheel was funnier coz it was creative. This one's funny coz it's true

Ehtyar.

Darwin · « **Reply #11 on:** February 10, 2009, 08:16 PM »

OK - I'm getting old. While I agree with the sentiments expressed in the parody (of the Sony POS), I thought the amount of gratuitous swearing detracted from the humour.

BTW, bgd77, the Snuggie is a real product marketed here (in North America), and I've shaken my head a number of times over the idiocy of it... actually, I'm never sure which idea is more idiotic: that someone would dream it up, that someone would market it, or that someone would actually buy it!

tomos · « **Reply #12 on:** February 10, 2009, 09:05 PM »

Quote from: Darwin on February 10, 2009, 08:16 PM

OK - I'm getting old. While I agree with the sentiments expressed in the parody (of the Sony POS), I thought the amount of gratuitous swearing detracted from the humour.

it would have been quite comical actually if they had "beeped" out all the cursing - call it a SFW Version
they do go close to the edge at times - mind you there's a lot heavier stuff than swearing there

Deozaan · « **Reply #13 on:** February 10, 2009, 09:21 PM »

Quote from: Darwin on February 10, 2009, 08:16 PM

OK - I'm getting old. While I agree with the sentiments expressed in the parody (of the Sony POS), I thought the amount of gratuitous swearing detracted from the humour.

Agreed.

f0dder · « **Reply #14 on:** February 10, 2009, 10:27 PM »

I don't mind swearing, but when it's overdone and for no apparent reason (like in this video), it bores me. Enough that I actually found the whole video relatively boring.

Darwin · « **Reply #15 on:** February 10, 2009, 10:37 PM »

Quote from: f0dder on February 10, 2009, 10:27 PM

I don't mind swearing, but when it's overdone and for no apparent reason (like in this video), it bores me. Enough that I actually found the whole video relatively boring.

My point exactly (I'm not above swearing, and it can even be humourous in the right context/done right)

zridling · « **Reply #16 on:** February 11, 2009, 08:45 AM »

Funniest thing I've seen all year, and surprisingly true, just substitute the brand name for just about anything!

bgd77 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 12, 2009, 09:19 AM »

Thanks for the explanation, Darwin. I wouldn't buy the Snuggie blanket either.

I think that these videos show that we have some serious problems:

1. Many not very useful products have invaded the market and people buy them just to be in the trend (it's like fashion, each year we need to buy a new model of socks

).

2. Many brands that 10 or 20 years ago created good, lasting products now manufacture mediocre products. I think that in the beginning they really wanted to create high quality goods, now they only want high profits, which is not a bad thing in theory. The only problem is that we in their search for higher profits they hurt our interests.

So what can we, as customers, do? (especially for point 2)
Are there any brands left that offer quality first (and not arguments like: buy this product because everyone uses and you must use it too)?

I hope I am not off-topic.

wreckedcarzz · « **Reply #18 on:** February 12, 2009, 08:24 PM »

OMG, hilarious. I'm putting it on my PSP and iPod and showing it to everyone tomorrow at school.

I burst out laughing full on (I laughed the whole time) when the blue screen came up saying "Unknown Error Please Restart." Priceless!

BTW: For those of you that think this video has a lot of swearing, you would be amazed at the amount of cursing goes on at my high school. Every other word has something to do with something that no one wants their parents to hear them saying.

nosh · « **Reply #19 on:** February 14, 2009, 05:12 AM »

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I don't mind swearing, but when it's overdone and for no apparent reason (like in this video), it bores me. Enough that I actually found the whole video relatively boring.

+1

Has anyone listened to Mylo's 'Drop the pressure"? Cracks me up, EVERYTIME!

housetier · « **Reply #20 on:** February 14, 2009, 05:26 AM »

So... what is it? What are you supposed to do with this POS?

Stoic Joker · « **Reply #21 on:** February 14, 2009, 08:11 PM »

Me I don't mind the swearing at all, actually if you compare the video's dialog to the dialog of an average person when trying to cope with the techno-babble contained in most translated 5 time into 8 different languages electronic device's "documentation" ... I'd say the video was spot on.

I haven't laughed that hard all week.

Ehtyar · « **Reply #22 on:** February 14, 2009, 08:33 PM »

The swearing was sometimes unnecessary, but it certainly didn't ruin the entire video.

Ehtyar.

OldElmerFudd · « **Reply #23 on:** February 16, 2009, 09:12 PM »

LOL!
Bookmarked to show a small circle of friends. I love The Onion, don't check the videos often enough.
Thanks!

Daleus · « **Reply #24 on:** February 17, 2009, 06:06 PM »

I must now face into the corner and bow my head in shame.

I fell for the Apple wheel crap. I never even looked at the url when someone sent me bit.

I fell for it so hard that I trotted it out at a departmental meeting and was soundly laughed into a crimson red complexion.

The crazy thing is that I was convinced that Apple was just that f***ing stupid.

/sigh - you may all ridicule and jeer to your hearts content - I deserve it.

Back to the doghouse for me