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  • #32
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    I thought the thread title said "Aids?!?!?!?"


  • #33
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    Interesting, it's part 1 of 6, just in case people stop after the first part.

    each episode is split into 6 parts on youtube, 4 episodes in total. If you have an interest in that kind of thing its extremely fascinating and slightly depressing, otherwise it might be hard to watch, i dont know..



    Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the human mind and its workings. His influence on the twentieth century is generally considered profound. The series describes the ways public relations and politicians have utilized Freud's theories during the last 100 years for the "engineering of consent"....

    ...Paul Mazer, a Wall Street banker working for Lehman Brothers in the 1930s: "We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. [...] Man's desires must overshadow his needs."


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self


  • #34
    bertie4evr
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭bertie4evr


    For all the people complaining about the trailers and warnings on DVDs press:

    STOP>STOP>PLAY

    It skips through it all.Works on 95% of the DVDs I've tried.


  • #35
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    AlcoholicA wrote: »
    I thought the thread title said "Aids?!?!?!?"
    oh dear troll detected


  • #36
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    AlcoholicA wrote: »
    I thought the thread title said "Aids?!?!?!?"
    were you disappointed when you saw it was about ads? :P


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  • #37
    tony1kenobi
    Registered Users Posts: 3,748 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    CreepingDeath wrote: »
    You don't need to subscribe to boards to avoid the ads, just use the Firefox plugin "Adblock Plus" :pac::pac::pac:

    But it doesn't work.I still saw this ^^ ad.


  • #38
    Cianos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Why are people surprised about the maximisation of profits when it's the driving force behind pretty much every factor of modern day living?


  • #39
    evolutionqy7
    Registered Users Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭evolutionqy7


    Cianos wrote: »
    Why are people surprised about the maximisation of profits when it's the driving force behind pretty much every factor of modern day living?

    im not surprised im just annoyed as that i pay to watch a movie and i have to watch bloody adds before it...i pay for my dvd i still have to watch adds...i pay sky tv free + tv licence and i still have to watch bloody adds (most of the time)


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