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CIPC #176: Shera ceiling tiles ad

Posted on June 23, 2020

I have bad news for the regular CIPC readers: today we’re going to tackle a philosophical question. Yes, one of those deep mysteries that bother…

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CIPC#174: State Farm commerical

Posted on June 10, 2020

State Farm is one of those things, like red sups and school shootings, which most of the world is only familiar with through American media.…

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CIPC #170: Camel advertisement

Posted on May 12, 2020

If you were to ask me for my favourite sites, I would probably go on a tangent about how one should not assume that such…

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CIPC #155: Hanes advertisement

Posted on January 28, 2020August 2, 2020

If you thought we already plumbed the depths of human society last week, here’s a treat for you! Not only do we once again visit…

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CIPC #154: 2016 Kia Optima commercial

Posted on January 21, 2020

After one whole blog post about high culture, we descend once more into the dank morass of the worst type of popular culture: commercials. Our…

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CIPC #148: US marines advertisement

Posted on December 3, 2019December 3, 2019

The US military has many detractors all over the world, but none could possibly make them look sillier than they did themselves, from what I…

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CIPC #139: Miller advertisement

Posted on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019

The image below can be found easily on the net. It is apparently from an advertisement campaign for Miller beer from, I think, the end…

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CIPC #137: Coca cola advertisement

Posted on September 17, 2019September 17, 2019

The greatest rivalries of history and literature – the Montagues and the Capulets, the Hatfields and the McCoys, Barça and Real- pale in comparison to…

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CIPC #128: Keds advertisement

Posted on July 16, 2019

Keds is a brand of sneakers. As in, footwear. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from their advertisement. Case in point: the image below,…

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CIPC #122: meetup.com commercial

Posted on June 4, 2019

Apparently, there are people out there. As if that thought wasn’t scary enough, those people sometimes want to meet each other. This is precisely what…

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