Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page
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@el_heffe Plays fine on my machine
And the header image isn't blocked too badly by the avatar; you can see all the important info.
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@timebandit Are you saying that Dodge should have predicted a psycho driving a car into a crowd weeks in advance?
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@raceprouk If you can't make the link between the article and the headline on Dodge's site,
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@timebandit I've made the link well enough, thank you. But please, don't let me get in the way of you judging a company for picking a headline weeks before a tragic event.
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@raceprouk said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@timebandit I've made the link well enough, thank you. But please, don't let me get in the way of you judging a company for picking a headline weeks before a tragic event.
I agree, people are getting too damned critical of companies not reacting within 17 milliseconds from something happening.
News flash: I also hear of important news hours later many times. Because I'm at work. And people who post this stuff are at work as well. And maybe, just maybe, they don't have the time to check all the news outlets before every tweet because there's a 0.000000001% chance something happened at or near the location they are posting about or use some word that's not acceptable as of 14 minutes ago because shit hit the fan somewhere.
Or, you know, it might also be a bot posting this stuff.
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@onyx In this instance, that banner will have been up for (likely) a few months in order to advertise the event. And let's not forget that the OP failed in include a link to a news article about the tragedy that happened. That's why I thought the OP was about either the video, or the avatar blocking part of the banner. And you know what? I'm probably right in thinking it has nothing to do with the tragedy, and everything to do with the Twitter page itself.
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@raceprouk not being a great scholar of US geography, I assumed that the location in the latest tweet is close to the location of whatever happened in TFA?
Dunno, and I'm honestly too lazy to check.
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@timebandit said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@raceprouk If you can't make the link between the article and the headline on Dodge's site,
Shrug at me, bro!
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@onyx said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
I agree, people are getting too damned critical of companies not reacting within 17 milliseconds from something happening.
Yeah, but it shouldn't stop us from cracking wise about it.
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@onyx said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@raceprouk not being a great scholar of US geography, I assumed that the location in the latest tweet is close to the location of whatever happened in TFA?
Dunno, and I'm honestly too lazy to check.
Looks like the car racing stuff was in Detroit, Michigan (approximately). TFA was in Virginia. Probably ~1000 miles apart.
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Similar (though arguably more serious) situation happened in Poland in 2010 after president Lech Kaczyński died in a plane crash in Smolensk. After long deliberations and huge nationwide shitstorm, it was decided he and his wife would be buried in the Wawel Castle among Polish kings and other national heroes.
In a completely unrelated chain of events, a beer company decided to buy a giant billboard on a building opposite to Wawel Castle to promote their decades old beer brand. By a completely unintended coincidence, the billboard was posted the day after president's funeral. The ad said something like "Want a thrill? Cold Lech."
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@pjh probably.
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@gąska said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@pjh probably.
Well, as you pointed out, buried (in English) has strong connotations with having 6 feet of dirt above you.
Interment is doing something with you that may include burial, but basically puts you in a fixed place (grave, tomb, columbarium)
Ashes to the wind is covered by neither.
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@onyx said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@raceprouk said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@timebandit I've made the link well enough, thank you. But please, don't let me get in the way of you judging a company for picking a headline weeks before a tragic event.
I agree, people are getting too damned critical of companies not reacting within 17 milliseconds from something happening.
To be honest, my first thought was that someone hacked Dodge's Twitter feed and posted this as a joke. For this to appear on the same day as that other event seemed like just too much of a coincidence.
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@el_heffe said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@onyx said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@raceprouk said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@timebandit I've made the link well enough, thank you. But please, don't let me get in the way of you judging a company for picking a headline weeks before a tragic event.
I agree, people are getting too damned critical of companies not reacting within 17 milliseconds from something happening.
To be honest, my first thought was that someone hacked Dodge's Twitter feed and posted this as a joke. For this to appear on the same day as that other event seemed like just too much of a coincidence.
Unless you're a regular follower of Dodge's (or Roadkill's) twitter feed and therefore know what Roadkill is and have seen literally months of advertising leading up to the Roadkill Nights event
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I find it generally surprising that a car manufacturer creates an event called Roadkill Nights:
Roadkill is an animal or animals that have been struck and killed by motor vehicles on highways. - wiki
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@adynathos said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
I find it generally surprising that a car manufacturer creates an event called Roadkill Nights:
Roadkill is an animal or animals that have been struck and killed by motor vehicles on highways. - wiki
Yes. Even if that other event had not happened, a car company calling their event "Road Kill" is some very questionable marketing.
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@el_heffe said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@adynathos said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
I find it generally surprising that a car manufacturer creates an event called Roadkill Nights:
Roadkill is an animal or animals that have been struck and killed by motor vehicles on highways. - wiki
Yes. Even if that other event had not happened, a car company calling their event "Road Kill" is some very questionable marketing.
In some parts of the backwoods roadkill is defined as "dinner"
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@el_heffe said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@adynathos said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
I find it generally surprising that a car manufacturer creates an event called Roadkill Nights:
Roadkill is an animal or animals that have been struck and killed by motor vehicles on highways. - wiki
Yes. Even if that other event had not happened, a car company calling their event "Road Kill" is some very questionable marketing.
Fucking sigh. Did I not LITERALLY JUST make a post talking about people who speak about things of which they know literally nothing?
Roadkill is a Youtube series operated by Motor Trend. Dodge is the current headline sponsor.It is a very apt title for the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ko6EQSbMekIt's also one of the top two automotive video properties ON THE PLANET across all mediums at the current time.
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@weng said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
Roadkill is a Youtube series operated by Motor Trend.
Which I had never heard of, until now. Sorry, I'm not a car nerd.
In 2014, 32,675 people were killed in 29,989 automobile crashes, an average of 96 per day, and injuring 2,2 million.
And so I still say that a car company calling something "Road Kill" is highly questionable marketing.
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@pjh entombed would work too.
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The whole debacle was a waste of a perfectly good Challenger.
If the perpetrator really wanted to smash into a crowd, he should have brought a Mustang. Then, he might be able to invoke the same plausible deniability defense that all the other idiot Mustang owners who plow into crowds use.
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@el_heffe said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@onyx said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@raceprouk said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@timebandit I've made the link well enough, thank you. But please, don't let me get in the way of you judging a company for picking a headline weeks before a tragic event.
I agree, people are getting too damned critical of companies not reacting within 17 milliseconds from something happening.
To be honest, my first thought was that someone hacked Dodge's Twitter feed and posted this as a joke. For this to appear on the same day as that other event seemed like just too much of a coincidence.
You do realise that Dodge banner would have been uploaded weeks ago, right?
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@raceprouk said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@el_heffe said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@onyx said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@raceprouk said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@timebandit I've made the link well enough, thank you. But please, don't let me get in the way of you judging a company for picking a headline weeks before a tragic event.
I agree, people are getting too damned critical of companies not reacting within 17 milliseconds from something happening.
To be honest, my first thought was that someone hacked Dodge's Twitter feed and posted this as a joke. For this to appear on the same day as that other event seemed like just too much of a coincidence.
You do realise that Dodge banner would have been uploaded weeks ago, right?
Doesn't matter. The false flag conspiracy theorists are already including this in their evidence.
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@weng said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
Fucking sigh. Did I not LITERALLY JUST make a post talking about people who speak about things of which they know literally nothing?
Roadkill is a Youtube series operated by Motor Trend. Dodge is the current headline sponsor.Still something they should probably acquaint people with before slapping it as their tagline. Roadkill Nights sounds like a barbecue festival in very deep South.
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@maciejasjmj Months. Of. Runup.
Just because it's the first time you've seen it doesn't mean it's the first time the audience for which it was intended has seen it.
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So their new tagline is going to be "if you can"?
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@boomzilla said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@onyx said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@raceprouk not being a great scholar of US geography, I assumed that the location in the latest tweet is close to the location of whatever happened in TFA?
Dunno, and I'm honestly too lazy to check.
Looks like the car racing stuff was in Detroit, Michigan (approximately). TFA was in Virginia. Probably ~1000 miles apart.
When it comes the to US, that's in the range of "pretty close, almost the same place", right?
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@el_heffe said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@weng said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
Roadkill is a Youtube series operated by Motor Trend.
Which I had never heard of, until now. Sorry, I'm not a car nerd.
In 2014, 32,675 people were killed in 29,989 automobile crashes, an average of 96 per day, and injuring 2,2 million.
That's a completely unrelated statistic, because roadkill is an animal, something you can hunt. Unless you do hunt people?
Filed under: I fully understand. After all, man is the most dangerous game.
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@anotherusername said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@pjh entombed would work too.
If a tomb was involved, yes...
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@weng said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
It's also one of the top two automotive video properties ON THE PLANET across all mediums at the current time.
Above at least one of Top Gear and the Grand Tour?
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@jaloopa said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@weng said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
It's also one of the top two automotive video properties ON THE PLANET across all mediums at the current time.
Above at least one of Top Gear and the Grand Tour?
Oh right GT started last year. 3 or 4 these days.
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@pjh said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
Interred
Merriam Webster says:
to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb
Dictionary.com says:
- to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
- Obsolete. to put into the earth.
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@anotherusername said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
entombed
Dictionary.com says:
verb (used with object)
- to place in a tomb; bury; inter.
- to serve as a tomb for:
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@pjh said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@anotherusername said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@pjh entombed would work too.
If a tomb was involved, yes...
A tomb is simply a vault where a corpse is laid... usually an underground vault, although I see no reason why it must be underground to be a "tomb".
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"Bury" is often used as a generic term for putting a dead body to rest somehow.
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@raceprouk said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@timebandit Are you saying that Dodge should have predicted a psycho driving a car into a crowd weeks in advance?
This is called "looking for trouble". Let's browse every company site to see if any have references to car accidents, then point and laugh at them! Well there's like 12,000 corporations and a lot of them do stuff with cars, so congratulations you found one. But understand that people without the stupid-gene are just going to sit there going, "uh huh, so what?"
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@anotherusername said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@pjh said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
A tomb is simply a vault where a corpse is laid... usually an underground vault, although I see no reason why it must be underground to be a "tomb".https://hoodwork-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/story/image/7784/Twin-Peaks-Tavern.jpg
(Yeah, another obscure joke, I know, I know... the Twin Peaks Tavern was one of the first gay bars on Castro St., if not the first, and for a long time the only one with panel windows. While it has a lot of history, well, so do most of the patrons, or at least that was true when I was in the area. Even when I moved to the Bay Area in the 1990s, it was frequently called "a tomb with a view" due to the geriatric clientèle.
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@scholrlea that does not sound at all like the Twin Peaks bars that I've heard of...
https://twitter.com/TwinPeaksLodge/status/436206210862178304
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@kt_ said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
because roadkill is an animal, something you can hunt.
Was having trouble parsing that. I thought to myself, "No, I don't usually hunt roadkill..."
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@anotherusername said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@scholrlea that does not sound at all like the Twin Peaks bars that I've heard of...
https://twitter.com/TwinPeaksLodge/status/436206210862178304
That looks like a particularly boring place, I don't think I'd enjoy it.
Ah, no that looks relaxing....
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@tsaukpaetra said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@kt_ said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
because roadkill is an animal, something you can hunt.
Was having trouble parsing that. I thought to myself, "No, I don't usually hunt roadkill..."
Do you hunt at all?
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@kt_ said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@kt_ said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
because roadkill is an animal, something you can hunt.
Was having trouble parsing that. I thought to myself, "No, I don't usually hunt roadkill..."
Do you hunt at all?
Not very successfully, no. Well, animals or roadkill. I'm rather good at finding glitches and bugs!
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@tsaukpaetra said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@kt_ said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@kt_ said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
because roadkill is an animal, something you can hunt.
Was having trouble parsing that. I thought to myself, "No, I don't usually hunt roadkill..."
Do you hunt at all?
Not very successfully, no. Well, animals or roadkill. I'm rather good at finding glitches and bugs!
Bugs, you should squash them!
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@kt_ said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@kt_ said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@tsaukpaetra said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
@kt_ said in Dodge should probably pay more attention to their Twitter page:
because roadkill is an animal, something you can hunt.
Was having trouble parsing that. I thought to myself, "No, I don't usually hunt roadkill..."
Do you hunt at all?
Not very successfully, no. Well, animals or roadkill. I'm rather good at finding glitches and bugs!
Bugs, you should squash them!
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@anotherusername When someone says Twin Peaks, I think of this…