reverse psychology..

I hate those ads. I know they're supposed to be funny, or ironic, or reverse psychology or old school or something. But I just think they suck. And I'm a dude.

ok, so type 2 diabetes is better than, you know, appearing gay.

couldn't they just make a commercial that appealed to men, but without demeaning women?

And a double fuck-you to Dr. Pepper because as a man I love diet drinks.

And a triple-fuck-you to them because they dared to try to define for me what it means to be a man.

and environment would be better off abolishing all "soft drinks"

don't buy into the propaganda

It still get that fun fizz, but with no additives, sugar, fake sugar, etc.

I started carrying the soda-sized bottle around, requested them all Wal-greens so I didn't have to go to Kroger's every time I wanted one and now the Wal-Greens carries them and they're usually running low! I hope I started a healthier trend.

Or better yet... FIJI!

Yes, let's drown the coastal dwellers of polynesia and sink Kiribati underwater by burning gobs of fossil fuels to transport water to your local corner store!

Some people don't want any one else to have any fun.

Seriously? That's all you have?

it's cheaper.

it's cheaper.

You brought it up... your link... you know... to something that actually works and doesn't taste like crap.

I'll share in whatever verbal roasting you have in store.

For someone with a "Fawke em" name, our radical obviously is not familiar with the bottled water issue.

None of us can be.

What is ironic is that I live next to former seltzer water... a former spa that was one of FDR's favorite and, yet, I'm not offered local seltzer water.

That might be the problem.

not to mention, carbonated and seltzer drinks give gas, make you fart and/or belch. Yuck.

Just don't drink bottled drinks. Waste, waste, waste of earth's resources. And polluting, polluting, polluting.
And it steals water from the local people, who need it to live.

I don't drink that.

Which, unlike water from France, is easier to get to the west coast of the US. Also, they use plastic bottles, unlike the more energy intensive glass ones used for Perrier (and, no, they are not shipping the empties back to France).

Water flows downhill all by itself under the influence of gravity. It does not do so in a manner which gets it from a spring in France to the shelf at Walgreens.

Now, notice the word "environment" in the post to which you were responding.

Is it sparkling and what do I try and ask for?

Are you taking medication?


FIJI! IT'S WATER! FROM FIJI!

Hello? Is this thing on?

You DO understand that I've never seen that before in my life, right?

When you say, "Fiji," I think of the place, not a product?

You really must realize what is available to you may or may not be to me and/or, if it is, it may not be advertized in a manner that I would know what it is.


On edit: I still don't know if it's sparkling. If it's just mineral water, I'll stick with my carbonized tapped and Perrier. The sparkling is the sale.

On edit 2: Husband just said it's NOT sparkling water - it's just regular spring water. I live in an area with plenty of spring water. I drink that, too. My whole point is that I drink sparkling water to get over the soda fix. I already drink clean, plain water, too.

Do you know where Perrier comes from, and who owns it?

either Coke or Pepsi owns it.

I realize it's corporate, but isn't that the problem? Some of us want things like this that don't have a local equivalent.

I probably raise and/or buy tons of fresh veg in the spring and summer and fall locally that off-sets my Perrier habit.

...what do they mean to you?

And, no, Perrier is owned by Nestlé. You know, those folks who provided free baby formula to third world mothers and convinced them that bottle feeding was "modern and healthy" regardless of whether those women had access to adequate water supplies to mix formula, with predictable results.

So I guess what I'm experiencing here is more accurately described as cognitive dissonance.

so I didn't worry about where my baby's milk came from. I KNEW. I CREATED IT. For both of 'em. Their first fruits and veg were from our garden, woo.

My user name is from a movie. The real Guy Fawkes was guarding a gun powder pit. I created the name because I work in IT security and, yet still love Anonymous.

and the environment is giving people a little cognitive dissonance.

Also, your apparent ignorance of unbelievably common brands of bottled drinking water.

I drink flavored seltzer. Same but without the sugar and other garbage in soda.

Is that your kid? Adorable!

told her is to stop drinking soda. He said there is so much crap in there that the body doesn't know how to absorb because it's not natural.
And it really helped. Now she drinks 1/2 water 1/2 juice instead - with a soda every now and then.

I know that might sound insulting but I personally am strongly opposed to banning any sort of foodstuff or beverage, people have the ability and right to chose what they consume.

I believe in choice, but I am more than familiar with the power of marketing and propaganda by multi-million $$ corporations... and we have a very uneducated and gullible population of people that want to fit in. Using the "nanny state" argument is misleading and disingenuous.

I see the soft drink issue as a me against big money/power interests and I sure as hell am going to educate myself as best I can about the issue. Soft drinks waste millions of pounds of plastic, glass and aluminum every year, soft drinks have little or (mostly) no nutritional value, poor people spend an inordinate percentage of their money on soft drinks, compared to wealthier people and soft drinks contribute significantly to tooth decay, obesity and general malnutrition.

I believe people have the right to consume what they want but this is bigger than that...

The response was rude, but I'd really like to know an alternative to Perrier (I recycle the bottle, btw)

No sweetener but still a flavored soda, just not cloying.

If only I could regulate what they drink outside of the house.

I think it has been slowly killing me. I went cold turkey from soda 3 weeks ago.

that stuff WILL kill you

and the millions of plastic and aluminum cans is contributing to the degradation of the environment

I lost forty pounds just by cutting out all soda. Even the diet stuff with no calories triggered massive hunger pains and junk food cravings for me.

Haven't had a soda in five years and don't even miss it. I find it really shocking in the grocery store how much money people pretty much literally piss away on something with no nutritive value that screws up their teeth, gives them headaches, and just makes them hungrier than when they started.

No creativity to them at all. They just sucked - not funny in the least bit. One of the worst ad campaigns I've ever seen, in fact.

Like the ones from Slim Jims, Axe Body Spray, Miller Lite, and about 100 others I can't think of - but it doesn't get the message out very well.

"Strong enough for a man. Made for a woman."

Guess your ad worked.

I haven't liked the stuff since I was ten, it tastes too much like over the counter cough syrup.

Dr. Pepper is my favorite soda.

But since I don't drink it anyway, I just email this commercial around to others to encourage them to boycott it.

go figure...

Exactly right.

It's mostly just liquor and guessing -- Dilbert

We're talking about it, and that gets people to buy Dr Pepper.

The usual suspects haven't even bothered with the "it's different" argument this time around.

for a woman's different "ph". I don't know whether it's true or not.

The Dr. Pepper ad doesn't seem to claim that Dr. Pepper is
formulated for men's different tastebuds or something...

It's just sexist for its own sake.

Then there are all those ads that start out with voice overs talking to women about this or that as if a man couldn't ever be using that product.

now you'll try it or talk about it or write a rant on an internet message board.


It's still just gross chemicals put in a BPA lined can. Ignore it.

does it contain? Liquified testicles? I wonder who's bright idea that was?

ad I can think of was for Secret: "It's strong enough for a man, but made for a woman."

Um... not quite the same, is it?

and as an advertising ploy it's working... the OP proves it...

and action movies.

and those north African women think they have it bad with their genital mutilation. Wait until they see the horrors bourgeoisie western women face in the form of oppressive Dr. Pepper ads. Hey I know what we'll do, ladies. Lets buy a bunch of it a drink it just to show 'em. I bet they never anticipated that in a million years. Has Cracked magazine weighed in?

it to genital mutilation.

baffled.

And yes people's outrage at this satyrical advert brings the spoiled nature of western bourgeoisie culture into stark focus.

Yourself and so shall I.

So my guess is that doctor pepper 10 is for male menstrual periods, whatever those are, or the worst ad campaign since ExtenZe.

i think the current crop of 20 somethings in the agency world aren't very talented.

you can tell which commercials were driven by younger creative types. they are the ones that are mean-spirited, snarky, and just silly for the sake of being silly. but not in a good way.

in other words, they suck.

that is all.

But I agree- most ads are stupid.

Now they are running something for the ladies a la Red Bull. A young woman chases two muggers on a moped who stole her friend's purse.

still, the humor is so deadpan, I'm sure most folks miss it. I bet they're not selling more DP because of it...

The guy says, "catchphrase" right before they reveal that.

n/t

There is nothing wrong with doing that. Why do you think action movies have so many explosions and crap in their trailers, they are going after the men, because we like that shit.

Same with romantic comedies and their appeal to the women and hence, the trailers are totally different. Its nothing new. Many products are targeted to either men or women.

"Just for Men" hair color hit the market.

Won't someone save us??!

It is a commercial.

Women are too smart to drink this concoction, or just shouldn't considering.

Ingredients
CARBONATED WATER, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, CARAMEL COLOR, PHOSPHORIC ACID, ASPARTAME, SODIUM BENZOATE, CAFFEINE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS, ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, SODIUM PHOSPHATE

And that's quoted from their website.

Obviously, they're trying to kill men. And boys. ORRRRRR, they're trying through commercialized psych-ops to get women to drink it to do damage to them. (Tell them they can't drink it, they'll drink twice as much.)

We CAN get crazy on this. Or just see it as stupid marketing by idiots.

in a certain demographic.