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They're now aware of it. Of course, they'll never admit anything. Just as face-saving as posters here, actually.

Yes, that happens in the ad. But in modern day real life, for these business travelers on expense accounts doing a business-to-business transaction with middle-class (Chinese) Thai business people, in Bangkok, it wouldn't happen. This is the point you continue to ignore--because you want to so much. I'm going to stop repeating it for you.

Actually your own problem and that of the viewers to whom Apple tried to appeal. An inapplicable, unrealistic, negative (in the context) slice of Thai life for what would be the reality of the business-to business situation. Insecurity has nothing to do with it, but is merely a projection of your own need to feel superior. Can't think of any reason they'd want people to think that and reinforce all the pre-existing bigotry in the West and on the forum. San Fran residents wouldn't like a portrayal of their city as a hotbed of crime, homeless, and poop, although there it all is, right there downtown.

Oh, correct then. Are you done?

The myopic poster vision. Thais aren't all the same. Inconceivable, eh. As part of the bigotry, TAT: ANF has always denied there's any Thai middle class. Therefore there can be no tourism. Thai shoppers in malls don't exist: Thais have no money, they're just there for aircon. Farang on principle don't buy in malls, to preserve their Golden Egg Layer status, so ANF Poster Economics holds that Thai shopping malls only launder money. That's why Apple pulled the ad. They didn't like my "negative spin." I wield tremendous powere.

False analogy we keep hearing here. Comedy for comedy's sake, understood as comedy, its only purpose to amuse, is totally different from a business ad for an international audience.

No.

The 20% have no problem at all with ads targeted towards the appropriate audience. An ad for backpackers, showing how they travel and where they stay, while laughing at the backpackers (which we LOVE here), would be just fine. But the backlash against the ad seems broadly based, for good reason.

You seem derailed by the ad's whataboutism because you want to be. It isn't about average lifesyles of working class Thai people. It's about business travelers arriving to do business with middle class Thai business people--in a high tech industry. So Apple could use the same negative selection bias in San Francisco. But it wouldn't dare. Half the country--the libs--would be up in arms at THAT reality.

He's already defeated by parked tour buses. Rather than theorize from a keyboard, he could simply give it a try ONCE. And he doesn't have to go that exact route. Could get off the main soi along the way and walk up and down the side sois. Improvise.

I'm suggesting he give it a try. I dunno about the specific time he walks, but when I pass along that way sometimes I don't notice a lot of tour buses parked around. Russians walk along those streets quite often. There IS traffic, of course. It's a busy area.

A comedy with the purpose of being only a comedy and understood as only a comedy not to be taken seriously. Totally different from business advertisement, which can be comedic w/o pretending it's modern reality for the bigoted and unwashed.

Bangkok is more than a "spot." Laughable. The travelers are trying to do business in that "spot." Again, we have to wonder what planet you live on. The reality is that these business travelers would have been met at the modern airport by a company rep, driver, and modern car/van. Only outdated, backward, inapplicable, negative realities for modern business travelers on expense accounts doing business-to-business transactions.

Ignorant rubbish as usual.

What they said. I like an external trackpad myself. Use a wrist rest to elevate the wrist, small pillow's good. Also have the keyboard and mouse below the table on a pullout shelf so you needn't lean over and elevate your arms.

Private hsps have English facilitators on call as needed. Sometimes they'll accompany the patient to the doc w/o being called. They can also be reached by phone.

No. The problem with bigots is that somehow bigotry is innate, learned from the culture and elementary school onwards, and so imperceivable to the bigot himself. Some of our biggest bigots here are married to Thais. I remember one POTY who couldn't wait until his Thai wife, good woman who took care of him extremely well, went off to work as a teacher so he could enjoy himself denigrating her race, culture, country, politics, and everything else Thai. There seems to be no cure for it, so suppression by force is the only way towards proper respect.

But you see a lot more as well. You see homeless and poop every day in San Francisco. So make an ad of Japanese business travelers stepping around piles of poop, addicts shooting up, homeless begging and threatening, on their way to a flophouse outside of Union Square. Duh.

Negative selection bias.

Exactly. Nothing at all like what modern business travelers on expense accounts experience. In fact, a Thai company rep would have met them at the modern airport with a chauffeured company car or van. I'd be furious if I were Thai as well.

Of course. The elites at Apple were forced to realize that the ignorant, primitive, poor Thais weren't, after all, going to accept that bigoted, condescending treatment for the entertainment of the Western audience. This, after all that money Thais have spent on Apple products many of them can't really afford. Force is the only way, as China has realized.

Money's money. The marketing concept came from Apple itself, and the Thai production company merely followed and embellished the script. Not their job to approve or disapprove, long as it wasn't directly insulting, merely portraying Thailand as it was decades ago.

The libs, mostly. And they'd like the gayness in the ad. But the ad was being shown out of UK youtube, right? So it was even more effective: appealing to Brit bigotry not only against Thais but Americans as well.

“Point of View is worth 80 IQ points.” — Alan Kay

Voice response on the way for the average user. Impressive demos here: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/when-counting-quickly-openais-new-voice-mode-stops-to-catch-its-breath/