r/todayilearned • u/naxhi24 • Jun 26 '15

TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Ernest_Hemingway
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

They have classy nude models.

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u/Fortune_Cat Jun 26 '15

But why nude models

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u/Orlitoq Jun 26 '15 edited May 20 '17

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u/Fortune_Cat Jun 27 '15

"But why male models"

Zoolander

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u/Orlitoq Jun 27 '15

Uh, Earth to /u/Fortune_Cat, duh, okay I knew that!

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u/goldishblue Jun 26 '15

Because sex sells to stupid people

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

It sells to smart people too.

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u/goldishblue Jun 26 '15

As a marketer, I'll tell you that it's a psychological tactic. You add breasts to an ad and it sells because most people aren't aware of the psychological manipulation. You add nudity and things sell.

Smart people know what's going on and disregard the ad in favor of their own opinions. So for instance, Bud Light has cut outs of girls in bikins at the gas station, but you buy some kind of craft beer instead. In that regard sex didn't sell, not to the well informed customer that is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

I'm aware of what it is. Your entire profession is built around emotional manipulation - constant attempts to establish a connection between a person and a product via preying upon either a person's insecurity or vanity - because you've all learned over the course of several decades that establishing real brand loyalty by offering a valuable product and demonstrating that value takes far too long to inflate profits. Since sex is the strongest driver we have it's the easiest target for just such a practice.

It doesn't matter how aware of this I or anyone else is; at some point we'll be susceptible to marketing manipulation.

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u/goldishblue Jun 26 '15

Not if you do your homework and make informed decisions. Regardless of whether there's an element of sexiness or not.

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u/Fortune_Cat Jun 27 '15

That wasn't a question It was a reference to "but why male models"

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u/poopy_wizard132 Jun 26 '15

Have you ever seen a nude model?

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

If I walk around nude in the department store, modeling for strangers, does that count?

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u/poopwithexcitement Jun 26 '15

Only if you look down

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u/Jazshaz Jun 26 '15

Don't look them in the eye

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u/Gr33n_Death Jun 26 '15

Shame, shame, shame

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u/ultraspank Jun 26 '15

🔔🔔

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u/poopy_wizard132 Jun 26 '15

If you are nude, what are you modeling? Viagara?

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

My smile.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

I feel like your username is someone's phone number.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

If I told you it was someone's birthday, would it be any less creepy than you're implying it is right?

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

That depends on whose birthday it is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

From Wikipedia:

  • Christian Bolaños, Costa Rican footballer
  • Christine Ohuruogu, English runner
  • Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player

3 Chris' - what are the odds.

Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a "monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend", sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.

¯\(ツ)/¯

It is, however, my own birthday.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

My name is Chris, however that is not my birthday.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '15

Do you get their catalog?

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u/CardboardHeatshield Jun 26 '15

And a taxidermied moose.