I’m willing to bet that they get higher donations when the ads run compared to not. And the extra amount is far above the cost of the ads.
St Jude is already the richest childrens hospital in America, with over six billion in reserves. They really don’t need your money.
Current expenses run 2 billion a year.
We are proud that 82 cents of every dollar received from donations, research grants, insurance recoveries and investment returns goes to support the current and future needs of St. Jude. Our donors can trust that their giving has helped save the lives of thousands of children.
And they raise about that much each year. Plus they get funding from research grants and such.
I’ll take one of yours. Don’t think I’ve seen it. Of course, I have no idea who Austin James is.
I don’t either. I’d never heard of him until the commercial. He claims to be a musician that has a problem with diabetic finger sticks.
Yeah, that’s how advertising is supposed to work, in general. They presumably wouldn’t spend the money on advertising if they didn’t think it was going to bring in more money than they spent.
I admit, I am bothered when I see something advertised heavily, and I think of all the money being spent on advertising. I am hesitant to spend money on something that is heavily advertised, because I imagine that my money is going, not to the quality of the product that I’m getting in return, but to the advertising. And yet, I wonder, if they didn’t advertise so heavily, might their prices have to be even higher, because they’d need higher profit margins to make up for the lower sales volume?
The latest Chipotle ad could be subtitled “The Soundtrack of Stupidity”.
You see meat being cooked on a griddle, as an employee explains that the sizzling sound is the “soundtrack” of Chipotle, signifying that their food is always fresh.
I’m willing to bet that if you put rancid meat on a hot griddle, it’ll sizzle too.
Of course it will. Rancid meat is juicy.
I just saw an ad for the “US Money Reserve”, some sort of obvious grift involving gold. These scam artistes have given up all pretense of subtlety. It is disturbing that shit like this is even legal.
And the ads I’ve seen for Us Money Reserve target seniors.
Out of macabre curiosity, I found a 2022 ad by the “U.S. Money Reserve”, featuring Chuck Woolery of “Wheel of Fortune” fame.
Chuck talks about a contestant who supposedly won $10,850 in 1976, and wonders how he would have fared if he’d gotten his prize in gold and left it in a vault, compared to stashing the same amount in cash. Chuck claims the gold investment would’ve gone up by more than ten times by 2022, which is a blatant falsehood. The actual return would’ve been less than 3X. If the 1976 gold buyer had cashed in in 2001, he would’ve lost a substantial amount of money. Worse, a person buying gold near its peak price of around $2500 an ounce in early 1980 would have taken a total bath if needing to cash in at the 2001 low of $457 an ounce (the price has since recovered to around $1860 an ounce).
So for an older person hoping for a sizable boost in retirement funds, gold is a poor investment. You’d be taking a big chance that the per-ounce value didn’t drop substantially by the time you needed the money.
Locally, there is are ads for a real estate outfit called “72sold”. The guy in the ad keeps waving his arms around like some sort of crazed Muppet character. I guess it’s a legit company, but the ad is annoying.
Yeah, we are all adults here. There’s no reason to talk about a normal physical function as if it is so outrageously disgusting that half the population needs to be protected from knowing anything about it.
The region between the belly and the vulva is sometimes called the “pudenda”, which derives from the Latin pudere, a verb that means “shame”. The cultural disinclination to treat women’s bodily functions reasonably goes way back.
I’m trying to interpret what function this word is serving in the sentence.
Did you mis the “dis” in “disinclination”?
Reasonably in the sense of with sound reason rather than squicky irrational eww eww eww.
Austin James is that kid who played Elvis in that Tom Hanks movie. I didn’t knew who the heck he was either. I had to look it up.
Austin Butler played Elvis in the Baz Luhrmann movie.