did any of you see the nike y2k commercal

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Even though it is done humorously it still gets the awareness out. When the first y2k related power failures start occuring it wont be funny anymore. It sad that our society is so insenitive, and has such a callous disregard for the misery that this technological nightmare will cause. Only love will heal the planet after this clusterfu*k. Atomic war,disease, famine,ecological mass distruction is real funny. ha ha ha not. The masses are sleepwalking. It took 30 years of hard protesting to get the govts to stop exploding nukes underground and radioactively posioning the environment. In 7 years they have dismantled the treaty and the movement that would give our kids some hope for a none radioactive future. y2k would not be a problem if our nation wasnt so asleep at the wheel. Dont follow leaders that watch corp parking meters. Failure to plan for y2k is planing to fail. So go ahead and ignore it. just do it like the nike commerical says. Get the message. If Nazi gerbles was alive he would be proud of the y2k misinformation campagne that the media is waging under the direction of the Govt. 50 + or - a few days left and thats it, the best they can do ,sad very sad.

-- y2k aware mike (y2k aware mike@conservation .com), November 14, 1999

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This place is getting stranger.

-- stranger (scarimg@me.badly), November 14, 1999.

Are you kidding. Now all the dumb shits sitting in front of the tv (dead brain time) will just laugh it off. No one will take ANY of it seriously. Nike did a great dis-service to tv viewers everywhere.

-- anonymous (anonymous@anonymous.com), November 14, 1999.

Now if they had shown shoestores empty of NIKE shoes 'cause of Y2K, and a flash of ships full of NIKEs dead in the water, and Asian factories ground to a halt... now THAT would have been a waker-upper.

Got shoes?

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), November 14, 1999.


We have to be careful. Some people complain that over zealous fundamentalists lose their sense of humor as the first negative effect. :)

I saw the commercial and I thought it was an absolutely humorous way to get the point across. I almost fell out of my chair laughing. What really made it a message was how the jogging guy seemed totally oblivious to everything going on. He even said HI to a fellow jogger in a casual everyday manner. So, I think that contrast emphasized something. Did he really GI?

-- Lord Jagged (Dancers@End of Time.Com), November 14, 1999.


Gosh, I thought it was great how the commercial pulled off a mini documentary in the space of what, 60 seconds. This was a milestone giving great visuals on what could possibly happen after rollover. Too bad the DGI jogger never GI'd even at the end.

-- Debi (LongTimeLurker@shy.com), November 14, 1999.


Yeah, but I liked it anyway...

-- Nabi (nabi7@yahoo.com), November 14, 1999.

Saw it for the first time last night and the hubby and I just turned and looked at each other, slack-jawed and watched it w/out moving a muscle (we normally tune out commercials and actually very rarely ever watch TV). I, personally, found it a bit freaky. The dinosaur or whatever that was *was* funny! I did find it sad that the jogger just kept right on jogging. If you really look at the underlying message Nike is giving it is this:

EVEN IF THE WORLD IS ENDING, JUST KEEP RIGHT ON RUNNING IN *OUR* SHOES!

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), November 14, 1999.


Just saw it 5 minutes ago. Pretty good computer animation.

Zero effect on the populace. Y2k will be a non-issue until Y2k becomes an issue.

-- runner (runner@street.com), November 14, 1999.


maybe some of the braindead fucks (read polly dgi's) will pull their heads out of the sands/asses and get a clue and take the time to a little preparing beyond the kosigan?/redcross/fema/disinformation (read three day storm)

better yet let the fucks loot all the nike stores and run from the marines and national guard in newly looted/liberated shoes and clothes made and sold by nike (serves nike right if that happens)!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- me (meandyou@us.org), November 14, 1999.


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