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When logos/branding go wrong

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    #32
    Chunners
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 424 ✭✭Chunners


    youtheman wrote: »
    My son was eating breakfast one day and the Sunday paper was on the table beside him. He said 'Dad, do you see anything wrong with that advertisment ?'. Hadn't noticed it myself but when it was pointed out I thought , wtf, do they not get people to proof read these things before they go to print !!!!

    OK I'll bite, whats wrong with it? :o


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    #33
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Mitisubishi Pajero. wanker in Spanish, was quickly renamed montero in Spanish speaking countries.

    Mazda La Puta, the whore in Spanish.


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    #34
    youtheman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭youtheman


    Chunners wrote: »
    OK I'll bite, whats wrong with it? :o

    Its a fancy mathematical equation. But 'Capability' and 'Committment' are UNDER the line. So it says the LESS Capable and Committed you are the MORE successful you are, and vice versa. And many people might miss that, including the bright spark who drafted the add in the first place. But you'd think an organisation such as Deloitte would have copped it before they went to print.


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    #35
    0O0
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭0O0


    youtheman wrote: »
    Its a fancy mathematical equation. But 'Capability' and 'Committment' are UNDER the line. So it says the LESS Capable and Committed you are the MORE successful you are, and vice versa. And many people might miss that, including the bright spark who drafted the add in the first place. But you'd think an organisation such as Deloitte would have copped it before they went to print.

    No it means that Success = the square root of (Strategy divided by Capability and Committment)


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    #36
    SameDiff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 145 ✭✭SameDiff


    0O0 wrote: »
    No it means that Success = the square root of (Strategy divided by Capability and Committment)

    It's still incorrect. Poster above is right, you're not.


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    #37
    Chunners
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 424 ✭✭Chunners


    youtheman wrote: »
    Its a fancy mathematical equation. But 'Capability' and 'Committment' are UNDER the line. So it says the LESS Capable and Committed you are the MORE successful you are, and vice versa. And many people might miss that, including the bright spark who drafted the add in the first place. But you'd think an organisation such as Deloitte would have copped it before they went to print.

    Sorry you lost me after "it's"


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    #38
    wtd2008
    Registered Users Posts: 204 ✭✭wtd2008


    Mitusubishi Pajero never ceases to amuse Spaniards when they come here, Pajero is w*nker in Spanish...might be apt for some drivers.


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    #39
    youtheman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭youtheman


    Chunners wrote: »
    Sorry you lost me after "it's"

    It's a maths equation. Its says, for example, that you can double your success by being 1/4 as capable, i.e. replace capable people with idiots.

    Might work is some organisations (maybe !!!!!!)


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    #40
    Fiolina
    Registered Users Posts: 623 ✭✭✭Fiolina


    Not branding as such but this was funny...

    http://www.dailyedge.ie/super-valu-bastard-turkey-1728075-Oct2014/


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    #41
    DundalkDuffman
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭DundalkDuffman


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Mitisubishi Pajero. wanker in Spanish, was quickly renamed montero in Spanish speaking countries.

    Mazda La Puta, the whore in Spanish.

    Similarly that's why the Nova was only called so in the UK and then called Corsa elsewhere. Nova in spanish, don't go!


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    #42
    Missyelliot2
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Missyelliot2


    The Dacia Duster has to be the worst named car ever.
    'What car do you drive?'

    'I drive a Duster'........hardly Spartacus


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    #43
    Chunners
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 424 ✭✭Chunners


    Fiolina wrote: »
    Not branding as such but this was funny...

    http://www.dailyedge.ie/super-valu-bastard-turkey-1728075-Oct2014/

    Ha brilliant :D


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    #44
    Chunners
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 424 ✭✭Chunners


    youtheman wrote: »
    It's a maths equation. Its says, for example, that you can double your success by being 1/4 as capable, i.e. replace capable people with idiots.

    Might work is some organisations (maybe !!!!!!)

    No offense but being able to work that out at a glance does nothing to increase your "coolness factor" :pac:

    the_it_crowd_moss.jpg


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    #45
    youtheman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭youtheman


    Chunners wrote: »
    No offense but being able to work that out at a glance does nothing to increase your "coolness factor" :pac:

    the_it_crowd_moss.jpg

    Tell me about it .................... as the song goes "cause you'll always find me in the kitchen at parties ".


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    #46
    DUBACC
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭DUBACC


    Chunners wrote: »
    OK I'll bite, whats wrong with it? :o

    First thing I noticed was the closing date for entries being last year...


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    #47
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    http://www.bigmickey.ie/shop/index.php - Logo probably created by this guy: http://elitedaily.com/humor/dirty-minded-graphic-designer-pranks-restaurant-owner-hilarious-series-texts-photos/653004/


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    #48
    bigmickey.ie
    Company Representative Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭bigmickey.ie


    smash wrote: »
    http://www.bigmickey.ie/shop/index.php - Logo probably created by this guy: http://elitedaily.com/humor/dirty-minded-graphic-designer-pranks-restaurant-owner-hilarious-series-texts-photos/653004/


    No, not his work. It was self created.

    The logo came about totally out of the blue.

    It's not my fault, in the words of Lady Gaga "I was born this way". lol


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    #49
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 40,980 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Karsini wrote: »
    EE probably shouldn't set up shop in Ireland, their 4GEE network would get a lot of laughs I'm sure. :pac:

    That reminds me of the Chinese "Gee Bag" brand. They couldnt understand why Irish people liked the page so much and took the piss.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #50
    Chunners
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 424 ✭✭Chunners


    Seen this at the top of the page here yesterday, at first glance (well to me anyway) it looks like he's giving her the finger :D

    thefinger_zps9e6be29f.jpg


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    #51
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    That reminds me of the Chinese "Gee Bag" brand. They couldnt understand why Irish people liked the page so much and took the piss.

    I only realised this was Geeeee not Jeeee.... I really need to start paying attention....


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    #52
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Wang Laboratories a computer manufacturer went on an advertising run with the the slogan

    Wang Cares.

    Needless to day it didn't run for long.


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