mrjared: Hard not to pick some stuff up.

Did you atleast try to pick one of them up instead of listening to them talk about shoes and purses.

/The woman was elated to get her $12 purse from NY & Co...
//I'm elated this broad is cheaper than me

Big_Bad_Dad: Provide for your family, fix things, hang out with your buddy's and drink beer when you get a chance.

You had me until the beer part. There isn't a beverage out there that I enjoy less.

Why do people even bother to watch crap reports like this? Who gives a flying f*ck what some dipshiat marketing people think about the state of the average male's masculinity? Most marketing geniuses I know think a peach schnappes with a Zima chaser is macho, so any trend announcements from that quarter have to be taken with a grain of salt.

Rapmaster2000:
As a dolt working on an MBA in marketing/data analysis do you have any pointers to prevent me from getting in the way of creative types at an advertising firm? Many of my peers are far worse than me with understanding advertising. Seriously, some (okay, most) of the ideas I hear in marketing are terrible.

Well... I think a lot of the problem is, the people who don't know/understand the creative will come over and say "needs more fonts" or "make that blink" or "how about you say it this way, I hear that's how they're talking on the streets!" and you just kind of die a little inside because you can see it's not sound design, or know everyone hates blinking text, or using "what's hip on the streets NOW, won't be in 4 months when the ad sees the light of day. Most vexing for me, personally, is when they insist upon things that are entirely wrong -- I worked on an ad that said: "This is a drink choice for people who are excited, energetic and alive." Alive. Because other drinks are for the dead? And another time, "everyday, more people choose this drink." It's "Every day."

But the MBA people just insist and insist, and step all over the people hired to do their jobs, and for some reason, have more clout. You'd think the editor would have final say on spelling/usage, but no...

It tends to make you bitter, especially when you see the stupidity on a 50-foot billboard.

So, to sum: Do your job, and let other do theirs? I think that's the best thing.

I don't want to hear about the sense of humor thing. I've never seen an ugly, poor funny guy pick up a woman in his clown car. I have however, seen plenty of rich, humorless, sometimes abusive douchebags with hot ass women. It's something women like to say so they don't come off as superficial but it's mostly bullshiat.

/there are excepions of course, probably mostly among farkettes

mrjared: If that is true, congrats to you. You are one of the rare few who say "smart and funny" and actually mean it. Most of the time it's "smart and funny and hot, smart and funny optional"

/smart and funny and single
//bitter? somewhat

Work on the hot part... sheesh...