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Canadian Tire's dysfunctional advertising family.
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| BooseHound@canada.here 2005-07-13, 6:25 pm |
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No communication.
The father is a hen pecked self centered goof.
The wife is a bossy know it all XXXXX.
Both buy endless crap no one needs without including their spouse in the
decision.
The kid is over weight and dumb.
Typical Canadian/American family.
Pretty sad.
Brad
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| PaPaPeng 2005-07-13, 6:26 pm |
| On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:33:17 -0700, BooseHound@canada.here wrote:
quote:
>Typical Canadian/American family.
The operative word is "typical" There are millions of them out there
who buy as opposed to a few thousands of us who like to do things from
scratch and on the cheap.
My only criticism is if that family is so clueless how can they afford
all those useless thingies?
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| Instigator 2005-07-14, 12:25 pm |
| In article <o5gad194m6nh7c8popt74gk5ih9cgs53qc@4ax.com>,
BooseHound@canada.here wrote:
quote:
> No communication.
> The father is a hen pecked self centered goof.
> The wife is a bossy know it all XXXXX.
> Both buy endless crap no one needs without including their spouse in the
> decision.
> The kid is over weight and dumb.
>
> Typical Canadian/American family.
>
Not to mention that free-loader neighbour who can't wait for Mr.
Dysfunctional to buy yet another piece of useless crap so he can use it
too!
Mr. Dysfunctional eats tofu, hugs trees, wears Birkenstocks and listens
to Celine Dijon, I bet. People like him make me puke.
I want to say to him:
"Listen, Mr. Socks-'n-sandals, Celine had her baby, okay??? We are all
very happy with her little miracle, okayyyy? Now let's get OVER it!!!"
And you know what else?? Brad and Jennifer broke up....how about that,
eh? Bet THAT made you drop a stitch, eh? What is that I hear? A wittle
bell ringing?? Is your quiche all nice and fluffy??"
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| Upscale 2005-07-14, 12:25 pm |
| "Instigator" <asif@derek.com> wrote in message[vbcol=seagreen]
Makes me think of some of the shows on the Home and Garden show where an
expert comes into the home to help them clean of the piles of junk, usually
mounds and mounds of toys.
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| ConcreteFinishing&StuccoGuy 2005-07-14, 6:25 pm |
| As usual, Upsqail has missed the point of this post. Cdn Tire is out to
represent the average canadian consumer as an idiotic dolt questing for
happiness via never ending consumerism.
How else can a mega corperation keep idiots buying the low quality made in
china garbage that overflows our landfills???? Of course all this is way
over upsnails head, he is one of the idiot consumers buying chinese pet
rocks at 30% off at crappy tire.
--
Troweller^nospam^@canada.com
Remove the obvious to reply. Experienced and reliable
Concrete Finishing and Synthetic Stucco application in the GTA.
"Upscale" <upscale@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> "Instigator" <asif@derek.com> wrote in message
the[vbcol=seagreen]
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> Makes me think of some of the shows on the Home and Garden show where an
> expert comes into the home to help them clean of the piles of junk,
usually
quote:
> mounds and mounds of toys.
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| PaPaPeng 2005-07-14, 6:25 pm |
| On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:59:04 -0400, "ConcreteFinishing&StuccoGuy"
<Troweller^noSPAM^@canada.com> wrote:
quote:
>As usual, Upsqail has missed the point of this post. Cdn Tire is out to
>represent the average canadian consumer as an idiotic dolt questing for
>happiness via never ending consumerism.
>How else can a mega corperation keep idiots buying the low quality made in
>china garbage that overflows our landfills???? Of course all this is way
>over upsnails head, he is one of the idiot consumers buying chinese pet
>rocks at 30% off at crappy tire.
>
>--
Aw c'mon. Don't be too hard on the consumer or the tool
manufacturers. Those CT tools are actually quite useful and in fact
a lot better in quality and utility than much of the US made stuff I
bought just 10 years ago. And how can you be against anyone who
actually uses a tool to do something. The consumer who buys a power
operated gadget to open a can is in my mind an irresponsible consumer
as one can use a basic can opener to do the same job.
The criticism about the CT ads is the ridiculous assumptions they make
to attract the consumer to buy.
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| Upscale 2005-07-14, 6:25 pm |
| "ConcreteFinishing&StuccoGuy" <Troweller^noSPAM^@canada.com> wrote in
message
quote:
> As usual, Upsqail has missed the point of this post. Cdn Tire is out to
> represent the average canadian consumer as an idiotic dolt questing for
> happiness via never ending consumerism.
Please, feel free to keep talking. As in the other newsgroups you infest,
people will soon see that you're ignorant about what you know, what you have
to say and how low class you really are. I'd call you trailer park trash but
that would be doing a disservice to people who live in trailer parks.
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| Boosehound@canada.eh 2005-07-14, 6:25 pm |
| On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:02:44 GMT, PaPaPeng <papapeng@yahoo.com> wrote:
quote:
>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:59:04 -0400, "ConcreteFinishing&StuccoGuy"
><Troweller^noSPAM^@canada.com> wrote:
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>Aw c'mon. Don't be too hard on the consumer or the tool
>manufacturers. Those CT tools are actually quite useful and in fact
>a lot better in quality and utility than much of the US made stuff I
>bought just 10 years ago. And how can you be against anyone who
>actually uses a tool to do something. The consumer who buys a power
>operated gadget to open a can is in my mind an irresponsible consumer
>as one can use a basic can opener to do the same job.
>
>The criticism about the CT ads is the ridiculous assumptions they make
>to attract the consumer to buy.
Are the ads working?
Not on me and I've been a good Canadian Tire customer all my adult life.
I have over $100 of their money all over my house.<g>
I'm embarrassed to even look at the advertised crap in Canadian Tire.
I don't want to be associated with that ad campaign.
One poor bugger down the street bought one of those 'Fueling Stations' and has
been getting ridiculed by his neighbors ever since.
Every time Canadian Tire comes up with a new piece of crap to hang on your
garage wall they ask him when he's buying it.
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| Upscale 2005-07-14, 6:25 pm |
| <Boosehound@canada.eh> wrote in message
quote:
> Every time Canadian Tire comes up with a new piece of crap to hang on your
> garage wall they ask him when he's buying it.
I have to laugh at the ad where they're out camping and they've got three
different types of battery operated pumps for inflating a mattress, soccer
ball an inflatable boat. It's not enough that they're promoting one these
things, but that they're trying to convince the consumer that the needs
three of them.
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| Upscale 2005-07-14, 6:25 pm |
| "PaPaPeng" <papapeng@yahoo.com> wrote in message
quote:
> not that much different. That said I'll never be caught dead with any
> of the refuelling station or wash station stuff. I'll get no end of
> ribbing from the neighbors.
Peer pressure in live operation. There isn't anything to compare to it.
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| On Thu 14 Jul 2005 12:20:09p, Boosehound@canada.eh wrote in
news:ea7dd1955hthsqnlslkqfvb8ks1rp6c7b7@4ax.com:
quote:
> One poor bugger down the street bought one of those 'Fueling Stations'
> and has been getting ridiculed by his neighbors ever since.
> Every time Canadian Tire comes up with a new piece of crap to hang on
> your garage wall they ask him when he's buying it.
Okay, that caught my attention and I had to google up Canadian Tire and
check it out. Took me a few tries. I assume you mean what they call the
"Flow 'n Go Filling Station"? The one with the hose coming off the gas can
that's got a little plastic trigger handle like a gas pump?
That's really really cute. I'm wondering why those things aren't showing up
on the shelves down here. I bet they'd sell. :-)
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| Mark & Juanita 2005-07-15, 4:25 am |
| On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:08:17 GMT, Dan <s2s@charter.net> wrote:
quote:
>On Thu 14 Jul 2005 12:20:09p, Boosehound@canada.eh wrote in
>news:ea7dd1955hthsqnlslkqfvb8ks1rp6c7b7@4ax.com:
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>Okay, that caught my attention and I had to google up Canadian Tire and
>check it out. Took me a few tries. I assume you mean what they call the
>"Flow 'n Go Filling Station"? The one with the hose coming off the gas can
>that's got a little plastic trigger handle like a gas pump?
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>That's really really cute. I'm wondering why those things aren't showing up
>on the shelves down here. I bet they'd sell. :-)
I went to have a look also. To be honest, that doesn't look like too bad
an idea, I could use something like that to fill up my tractor, especially
given the crappy quality of modern gas cans, when trying to dump a 5 gallon
can into the tractor tank, the bloody thing leaks all over the place.
OTOH, a simple siphon would accomplish the same thing at a fraction of the
cost.
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If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough
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| Owen Lawrence 2005-07-16, 4:25 am |
| >>> One poor bugger down the street bought one of those 'Fueling Stations'
quote:
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> I went to have a look also. To be honest, that doesn't look like too bad
> an idea, I could use something like that to fill up my tractor, especially
> given the crappy quality of modern gas cans, when trying to dump a 5
> gallon
> can into the tractor tank, the bloody thing leaks all over the place.
> OTOH, a simple siphon would accomplish the same thing at a fraction of the
> cost.
My father lives in the same town as the inventors of that product; no doubt
he has even done business with them. Practically every time we talk on the
phone he tells me how these guys invested their time and money and now have
a successful product, cranking out as many as they can. I suppose it's just
a matter of time before you see them wherever you are.
Some of those CT commercials are kind of retarded, I admit. I mean, are
you really gonna go hiking with a freakin' giant solar charged lead acid
battery strapped to your back? C'mon! But I have to say, in the last year
or two, some of the products advertised in those commercials really are
pretty cool, and they show true innovation just when I thought pretty much
everything had already been invented.
- Owen -
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