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WBraun
climber
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Feb 13, 2014 - 10:57am PT
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LOL ^^^^^
So true ....
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 13, 2014 - 11:21am PT
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A kali Wolf, maybe
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 13, 2014 - 11:43am PT
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Wow, just looked at this this morning, I never thought this one would have legs. I guess I should have figured it would get hijacked by rSin.
I think what I mostly found offensive was the anti-Euro/everybody else in the world, false patriotic bravado. I really don't care if you like or don't like Caddies.
I'm off to go catch the bus to work while my 14 yr old SUV sits in the carport. Guess I should have taken 2 weeks off in August (instead of none).
Cheers!
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fluffy
Trad climber
Colorado
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Feb 13, 2014 - 12:00pm PT
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it's exactly the attitude expressed in the ad that made Yvon Chouinard determine to find a way to protect a smooth-sided parallel finger crack...yeah, he went there and offered a way for the rest of us to go there, too...he also built a successful (lib translation: evuhl) CORPORATION
lol wut
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Feb 13, 2014 - 12:03pm PT
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Wow sounds like this is where the party was last night lol!
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Braunini
Big Wall climber
cupertino
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Feb 13, 2014 - 12:13pm PT
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It certainly wasn't aimed at the baby boomer leftists demographic still ass-deep in counterculture veganism who commute on Segway scooters to cash their government checks, stop by to purchase medical weed , and then hang out at Starbucks the rest of the day .
In other words about 97% of ST members
rSin:
Che
LOL! And then it got funny
I think I will start calling you blue collar jesus
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John M
climber
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Feb 13, 2014 - 12:18pm PT
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To be clear, I didn't find the ad to be offensive. I found it to be sad.
what Dingus said earlier..
The ad ran during the Olympics. It has a very anti-Euro tone and anti-labor as well, ok? The dude symbolizes a certain American male demographic. 1 + 1 + 1 = GOP.
Its sad that this demographic exists. Its sad that an ad that belittles others would work. Its sad that people still believe that all you have to do is work hard. and you will have lots of toys, and toys are worth it. And anyone who doesn't have toys, well, they didn't work hard enough. Its sad that some people can't see or don't care that the ad belittles others because after all, its only a commercial.
And why should anyone give a sh#t about that kind of attitude? Because many of those people control a large portion of our world. They are the as#@&%es controlling congress and wrecking anything good anyone wants to do.
sure its just a commercial. But its indicative of an underlying rot.
Lulz..
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Feb 13, 2014 - 12:23pm PT
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Timid for the win!
How is it your labor is blood free and dick sucking free yet everyone else's is not?
Oh yeah, f*#k only two weeks off in August.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2014 - 01:35pm PT
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HI YO SILVIO![Click to View YouTube Video]Ah, my Chinese smoke duck! You likee?
Say the magic word, win free hundred won ton! Made from chaff, but it's organic.
Do NOT taste the Rainbow.
Embrace the Rainbow.
Use a prophylactic, though.
BIOTCH FOR THE WIN, and what are you, all candy-asses?
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Feb 13, 2014 - 01:43pm PT
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I drive a Cadillac. Seriously.
It's got 208k on it, runs great.
Haven't watched the commercial or read the thread, just thought I'd share that.
The trunk holds a lot of tools. Other carpenters mock me, but it gets better mileage than my full size pickup. It gets me from point a to point b, and I'm not picky.
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Darryl Cramer
Social climber
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Feb 13, 2014 - 01:58pm PT
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Who wants a useless Cadillac anyway? The only climber who could carry that off was Dick Cilley in his prime! And even he had to set it on fire and dance on top of it!
Many years ago on a weekend morning I received a phone call that went as follows:
[erik]. Hey I think Dick is back in town.
[me] I haven't heard from him. Did he call you?
[erik] No but we are driving up to Zekes Wall and there is a Cadillac in front of us. Only Dick would bring a Caddie up this road.
When they got to the end of the road it turns out it really was Cilley.
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Braunini
Big Wall climber
cupertino
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Feb 13, 2014 - 02:04pm PT
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How is it your labor is blood free and dick sucking free yet everyone else's is not?
An excellent question that he will never answer
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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Feb 13, 2014 - 03:02pm PT
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it's exactly the attitude expressed in the ad that made Yvon Chouinard determine to find a way to protect a smooth-sided parallel finger crack...
lol wut
Hexes, man, hexes. A Coonyard/Frost production.
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FTOR
Sport climber
CA
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Feb 13, 2014 - 05:42pm PT
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not only could cilley pull-off the caddy, more often than not he'd have sinatra blaring...
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Yak-Chik
Trad climber
Phoenix
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Feb 13, 2014 - 09:06pm PT
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That actor was a crazy bad guy in the Justified tv series. Selling cars
now means he's made it. Saw the caddy ad and thought it was 'off' just enough to make it stick in peoples heads.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Feb 14, 2014 - 12:44am PT
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Cilley use to babysit and sing Sinatra to his charges!
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speelyei
Trad climber
Mohave County Arizona
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Feb 14, 2014 - 07:34am PT
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Like most ads, I found it mildly irritating and it seemed aimed at someone else. Nothing about it was applicable to me.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 14, 2014 - 11:59am PT
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Myself, Mr. Cilley, and Dr. Cosgrove doing our part for aspirational propaganda!
(30 years ahead of that nouveau riche plonker in the commercial)
"When a real guy quits a chick he doesn't ride off into the sunset … He drives away in Detroit steel."
 Sir Richard Cilley.
Yo, Reilly …
If it's going to be Cadillac here's the one we want on hand for pulling laps around Laguna Seca:
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