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if it were truly subliminal we wouldn't notice it at all.

Precisely the purpose of subliminal advertising. If we knew it was subliminal, then we would feel we were being cheated. They have to ensure no one really understands.

As for the Dyson advert, OK, it's a little O.T.T to suggest that using BJ references might help us go out and buy vacuum cleaners, but true subliminal advertising is much more subtle. Hidden suggestions are almost hypnotically implanted in our unconscious mind telling us that our needs can be fulfilled 'if' we visit the Carphone Warehouse etc.

When we watch TV and we see loads of crappy insurance adverts with Carol Vordamen etc, a normal human being would not consciously give a fuck about her or her shitty adverts, only our unconscious is targeted. Most subliminal messages we recieve are not even used to sell the product advertised, but rather implanting various suggestions in our unconscious telling us how to think, behave, co-operate, etc. If you watch the film by John Carpenter called 'They Live' you'll see an almost identical scenario to true life. In the film their are a set of special shades that when put on allow you to see so-called reality as it truly is. All the adverts suddenly change from looking average to big bold, black text saying things like 'Get married and reproduce' and 'Obey' etc. The shades also cause the true identy of world leaders to unveil, horrible scaley reptile-looking creatures. (If you know much about what I know this isn't so far-fetched at all)

As for the protest songs, definately. I can try to help you out in that. Beware you don't get shot or die in a 'car accident' if your songs get too popular though...

*ensuring

Sure, but ask yourself, 'WHY WOULD A VACUUM CLEANER ADVERT BROADCASTING THROUGHOUT THE DAY/NIGHT SUM UP THESE OBVIOUS CONNOTATIONS?' Sure, a sense of humour, but surely they would regulate that sense of humour. At first I laughed when I seen that advert because I just could not believe they have the ordasity to display such a slogan knowing that it could be interpreted in another way. The truth is, they do not care about our ethics and morals, they just want us to consume till we drop dead, if it means communicating through different ways of fulfilling human desires then sure, why wouldnt they? It works. Lots of people drink coca-cola without a shred of insight into what poisons are being used to supress their intellect simply beacuse it satisfies them. I still smoke cigarettes knowing that they are full of thousands of harmful chemicals that have the potential to cause serious illness to myself and others simply because it's enjoyable and addictive -- just like coca-cola. In the early days when they actually used cocaine in the drink, they made sure people would be addicted to the pleasures that it had to offer and buy the shit repeatedly. These people are crooks, the establishment are all a bunch of crooks and it's time we stop laughing and joking about it and start thinking about it, for once. Consumerism and materialism is among the many different methods of insuring that the population can be controlled through their own pleasure and enjoyment. People who devote their entire lives to look good incase others might laugh at them are just system slaves controlled only by the fear of what others think about them. It's not cool to be intellectual these days. To be cool you need a complete frontal labotomy and a completelack of knowledge needed to evolve as human beings. We are all system slaves, we are all under a form of mass control and delusion which is very difficult to seperate from. The sooner we all wake up and stop messing around the better.

And this is on national TV from day to night. Do you think for a minute that the guy(s) who coined that slogan did not have a clue about what it could essentially suggest as a double meaning? Come on.

You see people? Even m0p's noticed that subliminal.

Subliminal advertising is apparently not illegal in the UK or the US, despite public (and professional) beliefs to the contrary. There is some legislation in both the UK and US concerning TV but none concerning printed advertising. (See: http://www.subliminalworld.org/whatsub1.htm for more information) Like it or loathe it, subliminal advertising is still used to day even though it may be considered

bullshit

by some. As always, the textbook approach to subjects beyond the conceived norm are rejected and seen as wild and paranoid. This is how they achieve their goals folks; we are practically allowing them to go about their little plans without us noticing because we are told that these subjects are ridiculous and not worthy of thought.

/ PaLO I think... :

IQ these days generally is for losers, thats why there's loads of dumb, ant-intellectual people everywhere who see it as 'un-cool' to be intelligent. If only an asteroid was on a direct collision path with this planet so that one day not even the 'best' minds in the world could come up with a solution for the problem because it was 'un-cool' to do so... :

No. Subliminal advertising targets specifically the unconscious mind whilst the conscious mind remains oblivious. When we look at an advertisement, from billboards to TV commercials, the conscious mind pays little attention to them -- however the unconscious mind is being bombarded with all kinds of suggestions. As you may or may not now, sex sells. It is the most common method of gaining people's attention. It is frequently used in car sale adverts etc. But there is a more sinister side to it. Even the most unlikely adverts such as on TV use subliminal 'sex' references our unconscious mind receives. Such methods are used excessively in the Dyson Hoover adverts on television. It sounds absurd to think that such a subject in normal terms would be a likely candidate for such a subject, but look twice...

Of course you can say that anything can be perceived in advertising given a little imagination, wild at best, but lets not forget that companies STILL use this technique to this day, even though it was supposedly made an offence to use any form of subliminal advertising. It was made illegal in the light of public awareness for such a subject, so as to make it look like 'the good guys have stopped the corruption'. Nonsense of course. It was made to seem as an eccentric subject that no one could possibly take seriously, you know, that old trick the elite use to cover up their crimes.

As for the horse, the white horse was a sun symbol of the Phoenicians, the black horse under the Brotherhood?s system of reverse symbolism, represents the malevolent use of the suns energy. The Black horse is a symbol of the Brotherhood front in the United Kingdom, Lloyds Bank.

Symbolism is extensively used throughout the media, building architecture, art and corporate logo designs. Not all symbolism is used in a negative way, some claim that it is a way of keeping the hidden knowledge alive, since knowledge is neutral; it is neither positive nor negative.

Check this article out:

http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/mind/subliminal/092600a.html#subby

Its pretty interesting. This subject often gets misinterpreted and shunned, mainly because a population aware of it's effectiveness would have a devestating effect on consumerism and the way we see our world today.

College lost my IQ :

Alright, calm the soddin' hell down will you. I'm getting mine retail, never got round to preloading for some strange reason. I blame it on Steam... (If it was still WON but better hl2 would have been out ages ago and everyone would be very happy and dubya would go to hell etc etc)

Who the hell cares

No, no no no. You should load single player maps by entering map mapname in the console.

If you dont have access to the console by pressing ` (key on the left of the 1 key) then right click on your half-life icon and enter -console in the target section of the properties... If you are still unsure, find some tutorials on the web.

phewz :

hehe

I smoke on the mic like smokin' Joe Frazier
The hell raiser, raisin' hell with the flavor
Terrorise the jam like troops in Pakistan
Swingin through your town like your neighborhood Spiderman
So uhh, tic toc and keep tickin'
While I get ya flippin' off the sh*t I'm kickin'
The Lone Ranger, code red, danger!
Deep in the dark with the art to rip charts apart
The vandal, too hot to handle
Ya battle, you're sayin Goodbye like Tevin Campbell
Roughneck, Jahzzy Jheff on the set
The rebel, I make more noise than heavy metal...

I be tossin, enforcin, my style is awesome
I'm causin more Family Feud's than Richard Dawson
And the survey said -- ya dead!
Fatal Flying Guillotine chops off your f*ckin head
MZA who was that? Aiyyo, Jah is back
Makin niggaz go BO BO!, like on Super Cat
Me fear no-one, oh no, here come
The Jahzelian shogun, killer to the eardrum!

GENERIC_CRETE_01? What's that shizzle?

(shizzle )

Coding is a 'no-go zone' for people like me who havent got a clue what it all means and probably will never.... I just leave it to the coding anoraks...

n00b...

How many members of the Bush Administration does it take to screw in a light bulb?

The Answer is TEN:

1. One to deny that a light bulb needs to be changed, 2. One to attack the patriotism of anyone who says the light bulb needs to be changed,

3. One to blame Clinton for burning out the light bulb,

4. One to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing the light bulb or for darkness,

5. One to give a billion dollar no-bid contract to Haliburton for the new light bulb,

6. One to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner "Light bulb Change Accomplished",

7. One administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally "in the dark",

8. One to viciously smear #7,

9. One surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along,

10. And finally one to confuse Americans about the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.

I'm a chicken hawk, huntin' for a chicken
get paranoid when you hear the glock clikin'.
Speakin' to the punk that's tweakin'
with your bitch hair style
I'll hit ya like Deacon-Jones
house call for DR Bones
I'll roll you up, and smoke you like cones,
split the seed and grow you like clones
don't start me up cuz I'm not the Rolling Stones.
But I get stoned with a lil help from my friends
with the good blend,
then I pass it round back to you again.
I could make you famous like Amos
same as the last punk
when I stuck the gat up his anus.
Hear me growl, uhh, howl
I got the night vision like the wise old owl.
I'm comin' to fetch ya, yea homes I'll wet ya
and burry them bones under my home.
and I.

"Cock the hammer...... cock the hammer it's time for action
Cock the hammer...... cock the hammer it's time for action".

Man that sounds nasty

hehe

If you think about it, as a collective which we all are, really, there is always going to be one bad apple, it's the law of nature that prevails.

We need to learn to move on. By responding in a harassed manner we are actually throwing fuel into the fire. We give these kind of non-entities alot of joy as they seek to gain controversy.

Consider them as sentinals from the matrix...

Pick it
Pack It
Fire it up
Come along,
And Take a hit from the bong,
Put the blunt down just for a second,
Don't get me wrong it's not a new method!!
Inhale,
Exhale...
Just gotta ounce in the mail...

BrattyLord I guess :

Its hard to say. I guess its the same as the old dilema; which came first, the chicken or the egg?

(Same bloody insults)

Chicken, rice and peas! Dumpling! Jerk Chicken! (not jerk pork though cos I dont eat pork.)
I dont eat fish, I just generally despise the taste of anything that came from the sea. My dad thinks I'm mad for not appreciating seafood, but then again ithink he's mad for eating the stuff he eats - like ox tail soup!

*The day I witnessed him cook ox tail soup was the day I imagined The Prdator holding this spinal column in mid air

No, I think I'll stick to what I like.

Most likely from this site:

http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/insult.html

...Some of them are actually quite good, you van actually get away with using them!

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Anyway, I think it would be incredibly foolish of Anonymous to stick around, although I have to say there is that slight possibility that Anonymous returns as enother user as Trapt pointed out unless his IP is banned. As they say, "You have to be cruel to be kind."

Mind you, I had alot of trouble trying to convince my parents about the benefits of broadband - I said something on the lines of "yeah, it'dbe great, I will be able to do my research 100 times faster!" (In other words, I'll be able to play HL online 100 times faster)

It was inevitable. Yet again Anonymous (too shit scared to real his true identity) has ruined another thread for everyone. It seems your whole life resolves around disliking others. If you have a problem with any of the TWHL members, go some place else, because we aint prepared to leave, it's up to you to get your fat arse and do so.

What I find insulting is your blatant arrogance when it comes to other peoples views and oppinions. What the hell you seem to get out of this, I'm not too sure, but if this pesists, I'm phoning the TWHL cops. I've had enough of your 'gooberality', and so has everyone else. If you think your cool, god only knows what your definition of that word may be, but it certainly isnt an internationally accepted definition I can assure you.

I mean it really is pathetic. When will you stop making an ass of yourself? Is that a rhetorical question? I dont know. Your like the George Bush of the Half-Life world, completely insane, ignorant, arrogant, politically incorrect, horrorfying, and unacceptable.

No, I dont download or use irc during my server running. I read about various console commands that may prevent any lag for players. Its annoying because I always have almost no ping at all while everyone else has absurd ping levels (reaching into the 3000). I will limit max players to about 8, (6 is TOO low! - especially as I enjoy playing the new Zombie Panic mod for a laugh) - Erm, I think what causes lag for others is dial-up users entering the server, so I may have to find out the command that prevents them from entering (unfair, but necessary). I'm basically just going to look around the internet for lag prevention.

GET OFF 56K YOU DIAL-UP PIECE OF SHIT!

fffs....I'm on broadband dumbass!

Everytime I create a server it always ends up real lagged and everyone moans. I never get affected by lag though, only others. Someone said I should use listenserver, but I dont understand what it is and what I do with it... Basically, is there a way of reducing this terrible lag? (Ping reaches sometimes over 3000! - This must be stopped.)

Yeah, this is real annoying. Its happening on an verage of every minute.......

Nah, I think they deserve a good slap myself...

C'mon! Chop Chop!

Still Anonymous, no one likes you for your arrogance, selfishness, complete lack of respect for PaLO, and horrible comment posting.

Your so immature, you keep trying to redeem yourself but with failed results. I'd like to slap your grandparents for giving birth to your parents who gave birth to you.

I got a better plan. Have you and your friends dress up to look like Rush Limbaugh and maul innocent bystanders.

Education = Conditioning/Indoctrinating/Forcing the values of the so-called 'norm'.

Those who later qualify in the form of a degree have actually been awarded for their co-operation with the system. This is a great way to make sure that people stay in fll co-operation in the hope of achieving it's 'benefits'.

I am studying for my degree currently, and finding it bloody hard to cope.

WCD, you have won the TWHL award for biggest ego - well done.

...well, it's not great

Halloween is just an excuse for Americans to eat pumpkins and get fat.

"I don't care if it tastes like pumpking pie, but I'll never know cos I don't eat the filthy motherf****r."

Dajuppi, your av gets seedier everytime

I swear to god that's true aswell. I got a bollocking off my parents for that though! :

Never enter a battle of wits unarmed...