Comments on: Terrible insurance ad would make brilliant T-shirt

By: pbones

pbones — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:39:00 +0000

Well, this is certainly amusing. But, it bums me out to see folks trying to gouge a profit off my ridiculous idea. If anyone actually wants this shirt, they should buy it at the minimum possible price (0% profit) here:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/onefoottsunami/works/9734268-ridiculous-insurance-ad-turned-shirt-sans-jpg-artifacts

More here: http://www.onefoottsunami.com/2012/12/13/life-imitates-crappy-crappy-art/

By: Jez Kemp

Jez Kemp — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:14:00 +0000

Also available here, no minimum. Huzzah print on demand!
http://www.redbubble.com/people/jezkemp/works/9731102-terrible-insurance-ad-t-shirt

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 06:36:00 +0000

“In response to the new Facebook guidelines, I hereby declare that …”

By: SamSam

SamSam — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:47:00 +0000

I gave my brother that shirt and people feel the need to stop him and correct his shirt constantly…

By: haineux

haineux — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:27:00 +0000

I remember going to a friend’s house, and seeing the little dancing people advertising crap insurance. I thought there should be a disco song called “Calculate New Payment.”

If ElectroLuminescent stuff were easier, I’d make a little dancing people shirt FOR SURE.

By: Crapalicious!

Crapalicious! — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:16:00 +0000

Scratch that – the minimum can be changed to just 10 teeshirts. Which it now is. ;-)

By: Crapalicious!

Crapalicious! — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:31:00 +0000

Yeah, I think that’s the default minimum. :-/

By: EH

EH — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:52:00 +0000

I hope “50″ is the minimum run, because it’s ambitious if not.

By: vonbobo

vonbobo — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:35:00 +0000

Love the shirt! It is missing a stock photo of some random model smiling for no good reason.

By: Crapalicious!

Crapalicious! — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:18:00 +0000

And now it does in fact exist… http://teespring.com/brilliant

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:24:00 +0000

True, like the shirt that says “your retarded”

By: peoplelikefrank

peoplelikefrank — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:55:00 +0000

Same reason that “The Secret” was popular – we want it to be easy. If it’s easy, why isn’t everyone doing it already? Because it’s based on some secret / overlooked / suppressed ‘trick’.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:54:00 +0000

The use of “You Car” is exactly why this would be an awesome shirt.

By: paulj

paulj — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:54:00 +0000

We can look at junk ads like that ironically, but they must appeal to people who have a sense of powerlessness, and a way to regain some measure of control in their lives would be to use “weird tricks” “discovered by local moms” that “professors hate”. It reinforces the world view that the people who run things are putting one over on ordinary people, but they can be defeated with some bit of special knowledge. It actually is ironic and sad that ordinary people do get screwed over by insurance companies and other powerful entities, though whatever is being sold through those ads won’t help things.

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:51:00 +0000

“your”
gad, these people are ijits

By: Rob Beschizza

Rob Beschizza — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:48:00 +0000

It’s just a cheap attention-grabbing ploy, simple as that.

Some trick ads seem designed to pump ‘metrics’ even when they won’t lead to sales? I suppose in that case, it’s some kind of affiliate, scamming the system (and ultimately the advertiser)

By: Crubellier

Crubellier — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:13:00 +0000

Why is it always about “tricks”, btw? I’m guessing there’s some psychological reason, but it’s just odd that everything seems to be a “weird trick” or an “old trick”. And that’s before we get to the remarkable inventiveness of “local moms”.