Na na na, na na na na na na na, you get to be happy...

[azurite]

So I'm a dweeb. I joined 4husorting and now I'm letting people dissect my character and determine if I'm a Ravendor, a Slytherpuff, or some other bizarre combination thereof of the houses. So far, people seem to think I'm a Gryffinpuff! Sad thing is, I thought each of the 6 house combinations would have one of the four main houses in the "first" position:
Huffle(puff)
Gryffin(dor)
Raven(claw)
Slyth(erin)

But the houses are as follows:
Ravendor (Ravenclaw + Gryffindor)
Gryffinpuff (Gryffindor + Hufflepuff)
Ravenpuff (Ravenclaw + Hufflepuff)
Slytherclaw (Slytherin + Ravenclaw)
Slytherpuff (Slytherin + Hufflepuff)
Slytheriffin (Slytherin + Gryffindor)

So as you can see, Ravenclaw has 2 houses (which is okay), Slytherin has 3 (hey!) Gryffindor has one (one shrot), and Hufflepuff has NONE! Not that I don't like the names or anything, but...

Slytheriffin should be changed to Gryfferin or something. And if you wanted to be fair, each house would get 1 name, and two major houses (for the sake of the HP verse, we'll say Gryffindor and Slytherin) would have an additional 2:
* Ravenpuff (Ravenclaw main - Ravenclaw + Hufflepuff)
* Gryffinpuff (Gryffindor main - Gryffindor + Hufflepuff)
* Slytherclaw (Slytherin main - Slytherin + Ravenclaw)
* Hufflerin (Hufflepuff main - Hufflepuff + Slytherin, though admittedly Slytherpuff sounds cooler)
* Slytheriffin (Slytherin main - Slytherin + Gryffindor)
* Gryffinclaw (Gryffindor main - Gryffindor + Ravenclaw)

Hee.

Anyway, so I manged to transfer almost ALL of my files to my laptop -teh yay! But alas, I still can't get LimeWire or iTunes to work, and I don't know why! I'm praying for the Device & Drivers CD, and maybe I can afford to splurge on a 1 GB Memory Card... the question is $159 from Dell Direct, or possibly more expensive for a name brand? BestBuy.com didn't even carry cards for my laptop!

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day! ARGH!

It be Joe's birthday! Happy birthday, matey! (I would do the giant text rainbow color thing, but I'm at school, so I don't have the prog. that does that.)

Also, I was thinking (completely randomly) to make some HBP banners that say (all sophisticated-like) "JKR sunk my 'ship. But I'm still writing. That's the power of my OTP/OT3/whatever." Anyone want?

And finally, because I love having an excuse OTHER than fanfiction to annoy rhapsody_dragon I propose this question to her and all of you on my FL, because I love getting opinions and arguing/debating, or just learning about fresh perspectives...

What do you think of shock advertising? By shock advertising, I mean things like the United Colors of Benetton using the picture of a man dying of AIDS on his deathbed, and sticking their logo in the corner. I mean the same company using the nude torso of a male model and stamping his forearm with a Holocaust-like tattoo reading "HIV positive." What do ads like these do to you, make you think about the company advertising, the magazine/newspaper they appear in, the photographer, or the models/people pictured? Why? Is anyone justified using shock advertising, and if so, for what reasons? (For example, does donating to a charity for AIDS relief justify using the image described above for an ad for clothing?)

See the first image here: http://webquiz.ilrn.com/books/levc04q/levc04.06.01.02.png

Time to go to mythology class (Mr. Adams calls it My-thologee)!

Comments

[svelterose.livejournal.com]

As a international business major, I'll probably just say things that everyone has said before...

First of all, advertising has become so pronouced that methods like using a strange animal mascot (Aflec duck, Geico Gecko) are becoming outdone. Now Geico is getting rid of their Gecko and going for the "way off tangent" advertisement method which is actually quite successful in the fact that it makes you go, "What the hell?" at the end of the commercial.

The companies what you to sit there and be like "What the hell?" because that means, instead of passing through your ear and out the other, the idea has now been retained in your memory instead of just something like, "Dude...can't even remember what the commercials were about."

Shock advertisement makes people go, "What the fuck?" because you don't normally see things like that in media. It was a taboo ten years ago to even post a naked body on the big screen - if there was a naked body, then it was pornography.

Pictures like the one you posted makes us immediately go, "Oh man..." and then you tend to want to look at the picture closer. Upon observation, you realize that it's probably only a small fraction of what AIDS victims have to go through in poor country. These pictures are meant to play on your sympathy because sympathy sells (not as much as sex but that's a whole different topic. XD) - it would be better to say, emotions sell.

The picture grabs you in, then you sympathize...and the more you sympathize, the more you want to help. These types of advertisements, however, I would not expect ending up in Cosmo or Seventeen anytime soon. Probably New Scientist and/or US Weekly (not the one about the stars @_@)- ads like that would make me think that the magazine I'm reading has substance instead of "60 ways to make your lover orgasm". People are justified in using whatever method (be it legal) to attract the people; I mean with each day, they're growing more and more apathetic to the state around them. A picture like that will either disgust the person or make the person think- you hope, both. Either way, it gets their attention.

As for the justification...well, a corporation isn't going to just donate money like that without making sure they can get something out of it- if this is how the AIDS charity can get their money, then so be it. Most likely, people won't even recognize that UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON...

...or at least I didn't. XD

In conclusion, the picture does have me going, "Oh shit. O_O" but I'm not about to donate money anytime soon. However, it's imprinted on my mind so more than likely, when the subject of AIDS pop up, that image will be one of the first I recall. In a way, they have just made one more person more knowledgeable about the disease who before, probably didn't have the time to give 2 cents about.

[rhapsody-dragon.livejournal.com]

Heh, well I don't know if I'll offer as much insight on this as Svelte, but hey that's all right. Everything she said really makes sense and I can agree with on a business standpoint...

Though, I might just be more conservative on this. I really don't approve of that advertisement you linked to. The people in that ad might have given consent, or might just be actors, but moments like those, to me, deserve better treating-- don't just throw a logo on it.

Or the Aids/Holocaust-tattoo example... You need to be careful with things like that because of the adverse effects it can have on people. I mean, our amity aid from Germany doesn't even like to mention Hitler's name. Shock advertising can and does cross the line in those areas...

But sometimes people need to be shocked into seeing the truth. So I guess this type of advertising, because it works like it does, has to be used only in very necessary places. Because it's all relative...that makes it tough. When do you do that?

:S Remember the Target Market ads in the Shonen Jumps? With like the mouths of people stitched up? Those made me cringe and shut the book.... I didn't say-- Hey! I'm not gonna smoke! (I already made up my mind. Seriously...those kinds of ads are useless, in my opinion.) I said-- Gross! I'm not gonna open this magazine!

Basically, I really only see a tiny fraction of companies being justified in using shock advertising... I'd be very upset if Ambercrombie started posting dying children in their ads. 'We helped these kids! Look! They were dying but now they're not! Oh! By the way! Buy our over-priced t-shirts! :D"

Y'know?

Anyway...that's my thoughts. :)

[fallenstar23.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God... That Benetton ad is sickening... Seriously sickening... Wow...

...wow...

Anyways, is the title of your entry from L5Y?

[azurite]

Yes. Yes it is. And it's all baine's fault for getting me into it.