this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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Vintage and Retro Ads, Promos, Fliers, Etc.

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For sharing images of vintage magazine ads, fliers, promos, etc.

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[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

A head full of facts (up to 50 facts maximum)

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

That sounds about right.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 points 6 months ago

I'm not sure most of the people I know have more than 50 facts in their heads.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

It's the Alzheimer's edition

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Remember when ads had several paragraphs in small print and everybody read them because there was nothing else to do.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 6 months ago

and detailed information about the products instead of just a list of vague bullet points that really don't tell you anything so you have to scour the internet to find out if the thing will actually work for what you want or not.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The ad is kinda weird because the guy is wearing the watch upside down. I love Casio watches though.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You assume that's his arm.

[–] jago@lemmy.cafe 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fair rebuttal; we're meant to infer the left-side hand pointing at the watch belongs to the same model of the right-side arm that's wearing the watch. Admittedly, this is an assumption based on insufficient data. It's not impossible that the finger-pointing left hand and the watch-wearing right wrist are owned by two different models.

That doesn't change the fact that the watch is worn on a right-arm wrist in an orientation that would show it as upside down to a right-arm wrist owner.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Counter rebuttel; my interpretation is sillier

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Counter counter that it’s intentional due to the built in 8-digit calculator. 58008 and its kin.

the fact that the watch is worn on a right-arm wrist

Are we sure about this? I've looked at it for a while now, and I can kind of believe either. Where would the thumb be?

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Awww. I had one of these as a kid. I thought it was the coolest thing ever at the time.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

And you were right.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

And to think yesterday I added 1 trillion additional bytes of storage to my computer for the same purchasing power as that watch cost when it was new. What a time to be alive.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But did you put 50 things from your head in it?

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Error. My head does not contain 50 unique things.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Buffer underflow.

Me too. Me too.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Playing Abiotic Factor, and I go "huh that's a neat watch". Three days later, an advert for a decades old, exact same watch on Lemmy lol

[–] WamGams@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I don't know if I have ever seen an uglier advertisement... And I lived through the 90s Sunny D campaign.

[–] abrake@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I love it. It's like a dollar store Dali knock off.