Lunarloki's New Writeups

Video News Releases (thing)

2002-05-10T17:50:40Z

"When we come back, we'll tell you about a great new diet..."

Video newsreels or VNR's, began to really blossom in the early 90's. Contrary to the name, a video newsreel is not a news story. It is, in fact, a commercial.

Many companies, especially American drug cartels send pre-recorded video clips to local news stations all over the country. Toward the end of the 20th century, marketers realized that the best way to sell something effectively was to disguise the message, to hide it in other content or put it in a context where few people would recognize it as a commercial and thus dismiss it..

So we have VNR's. News stations are more than willing to air them, partly because their parent stations are hungry for that dwindling ad revenue, and anything they can do to forge a business relationship with a big company, they will. Another contributing factor is the reduction of cost. The news station doesn't…

All Your Media Are Belong to Us (idea)

2002-05-10T08:02:37Z

just when you thought
it was safe
to think
here comes mental piracy

-Incubus

How much would you pay now?!?! 50 dollars!? 60 dollars!!? NO!! You can get this brand new (insert thing here) for the low, low, price of... your brain!!!

As each generation grows up in an environment saturated with new media, people become less dazzled by flash and razzle ads. People successively grow more capable of understanding attempts to subvert their minds. People become experts at advertisement autopsies.

That being said, advertisers have had to adapt, growing more and more devious at every turn. Not only that, but they've had to compartmentalize, splitting their efforts and sending them every which way. These days, your average hard-core marketing…

Scheisskopf (thing)

2002-05-09T17:53:19Z

Scheisskopf: (German) (s.) (v.) shithead. Composed of the German words scheiss (shit) and kopf (head) and with the exact same meaning as the English equivalent. A person, of disfavorable disposition (i.e. jerk, asshole, scumbag, Cock mcNugget, fuckface, etc.)

There was also a character in the Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22, with the surname Scheisskopf. As I recall, he had a very bad temper and wasn't the brightest star in the sky. He starts out as a lieutenant and, throughout the course of the book, works his way up to lieutenant general and can be seen as a symbol of the disfavor among enlisted men, especially high-ranking ones, for officers, as he embodies pretty much everything an enlisted man hates in an officer.

Wichser (thing)

2002-05-09T17:41:22Z

Wichser:(German) (vick - sah): 1. An insult in German slang, one who masturbates excessively.

The German slang term Wichser, is a direct equivalent of the similar-sounding British slang term wanker. It means the same thing, is used in the same way, and has the same connotations.

Sometimes, in older usage, the word "links" or "left" was put in front to make a compound word: Linkswichser. If you call someone a Linkswichser, not only are you telling them they jack-off a lot, but you're saying they do it the "wrong way".

(i.e. with the left hand. It's well-known that left-handed people were once thought of as being backwards.)

vÃ¶geln (idea)

2002-05-09T17:05:01Z

The word vÃ¶gel, in German, means "bird". There's an intereting slang verb in German related to this word. VÃ¶geln is roughly the equivalent of the English word screw as applied to copulation. So in German, if you want to say someone is screwing, you say they are birding, instead, i.e.:

active construction:
Mikael vÃ¶gelt Gretchen

translation: Mikael is birding Gretchen

passive construction:
Gestern abend ist Gretchen von Mikael vÃ¶gelt geworden.

translation: Gretchen got birded by Mikael last night.

It is said that this usage of the noun, vÃ¶gel, in German came about sometime in the Middle Ages, when particularly amorous lords and ladies were referred to as "screwing like birds." Eventually, it shortened into a verb form.

Free condoms (thing)

2002-05-09T16:01:42Z

Numerous agencies, institutions, and organizations, such as Planned Parenthood and college housing offer free condoms in the name of public health and safety. That being considered, you would think that it might be pretty easy to find free condoms online for those with the inclination to do the nasty without getting a horrible disease.

So you go to Google and put in a search for free condoms, and find out it's not so easy after all.

The first thing you'll see, and the one you'll come across most often, is a site called freecondoms.com. Heads up! Despite the name...

This site does not offer free condoms.

They say they exist in the public interest, as you might imagine a site offering free condoms would. Unfortunately, they actually exist to benefit themselves with advertising revenue, and to benefit corporations with promotions.

When you sign on to the site, you get 30 free "condom points".…