The mind works in mysterious waysFollow

I dont usually get any word association, but the one thing I find myself doing often is looking for a button to press while driving, to show me where I am on the map. I've caught myself raising my hand to push said imaginary button. Also, when Im with friends or my family and we get seperated (shopping) I subconciously look again for the "map" to see where my "party members" are so I can make my way to them

Be careful, if one day you do find that button, your radio will shut off and you will hear "Welcome to OnStar, how can I help you?"

A Miller Lite slogan for the Jersey Shore on some Point Of Sale we had couple years ago:

Jersey Shore, Get wet.

Everytime I see Jersey Shore I say Get Wet.

Jersey Shore Get Wet Reality
Jersey Shore Get Wet Landscaping
etc. etc.

true story. A few weeks ago the husbands band had a show in NYC. They rented a minivan for their gear and as immature adults will do, started playing around with every gadget in the new car they could get their hands on. Someone, no one will fess up, found a small blue button and pressed it. Next thing they knew they heard a phone ringing out of the speakers. They panicked and started hitting every button they could find to turn it off. Next thing they heard was "on Star, how can I help you?"


In a very meek voice, one of them asked the guy to turn the radio back on. He obliged, and they didnt touch anything they didnt recognize after. Except for tearing apart the car to find the microphone

I'm not convinced. What percentage of DB admins (read: hardcore computer geeks) do not game at all, and would not know that reference? Who is the target market for that ad?

Seems to be a bit too coincidental for my liking.




Edited, Thu May 11 12:47:59 2006 by Elderon

Without reading any of the rest of the replies: "are belong to us"

Tell a lie long enough and eventually it will be true

EDIT: Cuz I'm a tard and don't know how the emotes work XD

rofl at the repetitive phrases above. :P

Edited, Thu May 11 14:19:15 2006 by ChanchanXI

All your bases are belong to us.

Songs do this as well..

99....

Domo ...

And then there is always this trick as well.. lol




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Edited, Fri May 12 08:10:40 2006 by Fng

Tell a lie long enough and eventually it will be true
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God is real. God loves you. Serve God. You'll live forever. You'll get seventy virgins in Heaven.
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it is a doubleedged sword however. ignore the truth long enough and eventually you will end up living a lie.............

and thus the whole point of why we tend to beleive what we hear/see/read as a whole untill it is proven otherwise. especialy from designate leaders and authority figures.

we are programmed from the first time our parents say "no" to us as infants to do what we are told. to beleive what we are told. and our grey matter in our heads blocs out messages that dont fit in with our programming, or adds the finnishing touches if the message is incomplete, or changes what we hear to fit better with what we have come to believe.

fo instance, when CNN asked president bush if there was any connection with iraq and al-queda and 911 and he said "no" on national television. most of us HERD it, but depending on our mind set, we either used it as a flag to justify our individual position, or we blocked it out as if we didnt hear it, or we changed it by adding words like "yet" as if our beliefes were not invalid, just not totaly proven ...yet....

and still, after that sattement, and a few wellplaced key words in presidential speaches like iraq, al-queda, 911, terrorism , and WMD,s all inthe same paragraph to get you sheep toplay connect the dots without ever saing any of them are connected......

76 percent of you STILL believed iraq was an al-queda trainning camp that sponsered 911 adn was building WMD,s to attack us.

why? because we WANTED it to be true. we WANTED an enemy to attack. we WANTED to be justified in butchering tens of thousands of human beings to vent our rage,

so we believed what we WANTED to believe, and were spoon fed the right key words to get us to follow the path this addministraition WANTED us to follow, without ever actually saying a lie.

welcome to the human condition, as pathetic as it is. not much better than programmed bots just waiting for someone to input programming, infact begging someone to do it.

thats why you see alot more people sitting around waiting for someone else to invite them to a group in mmo,s as oppsed to most people starting theri own. they WANT to follow...something.

most people. baaaaa baaaaa baaaaa

so, to the op, what follows your stetment WILL be what we have been preprogrammed to hear reguardless of the actual message.

So you're saying you'd gladly vote Bush to a third term if you could? I see what you're saying -- excellent point, SR.
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im saying people will believe what they WANT to believe reguardless of the truth or the facts presented.

i am saying we were programed to believe what we are told by authority figures since we were infants.

and whatever authority figure that had the most influence on us will determine what we believe, right or wrong.

the masses are a bunch of mindless bots waiting for input from predetermined origons.

you believe in leader x, leader x flat out lies, you believe the lie reguardless of the truth. you change, bloc out, or add what you WANT to hear reguardless of what you actually hear.

im saying to the op that our answers have been predetermined by which ever authority figure had the most influence on us. so, why ask? just tel us what you want us to hear, and reguardless of what you say, we will hear what we want to hear.