Time travelling plumber...

Pup said:
At another forum where this was discussed, and darn it, I can't find it now, a poster from Sweden said that there's a series of ads on TV there now, about people from the future coming back in time to advise themselves about whatever product is being advertised. The poster suggested this might be an outtake, unnused ad, or something from that series. Does that ring a bell with anyone?
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Bingo. The company that ran those ads is AMF Pension, a company that deals with pensions. I'm sure it's a pure coincidence that the blog features a banner from AMF Pension and the tagline of the blog is "This log was made possible by AMF Pension".

Actually, I believe that in the ads (just as in this guy's story), the featured people travelled to the future to meet their future self, to see what a wonderful and meaningful life their future self had -- thanks to the money their present self had saved.
 
Wow. This is funny.

I wrote almost this exact story, word for word, when I was in Grade 4. I still have the book here; I should post a page of it for a laugh.

And I don't even claim that I was particularly creative in Grade 4.. Instead, I think it shows that this guy has the imagination of a small child.
 
Skeptic Guy said:
It's amazing the quality of video he gets from his mobile phone.
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Yeah, that was a big red flag for me. The lens flare shows multiple optic planes, something cell phone cameras don't have, but broadcast video cameras do.
 
I suppose looking at it,surely if he was trying to be credible he wouldn't have travelled in time via the sink cupboard!
Also the video set against the afternoon sun is a well used ad concept."The passing of time"

I'm dissapointed.Not a nutter after all!
 
Apparently, more than this long. Is it really viral marketing? I will feel very silly indeed if it is.

And I see no reason to bring subservientchicken into this; he works hard all day for us, and how do you repay him? You make light of his efforts. The youth of today, honestly.
 
Big Les said:
Apparently, more than this long. Is it really viral marketing? I will feel very silly indeed if it is.
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Prepare to feel silly. His blog is hosted by a company called AMF pension. The "documentary" was made by a company called Machine films. Their website is run by... AMF Pension. Click anywhere on the Machine Films site, except for button to play the movie and what do you get linked to? Yeah. AMF Pension's site.


Also, here's a TV commercial from Sweden in which a woman goes through a wormhole in time and meets her future self. Guess who the commercial is for? :D

 
Azrael 5 said:
I can't get a signal on my mobile phone in my front room never mind in the future!! What contract package has he got?!
Come to think of it,what kind of kitchen cupboard/closet has he got!!

Time travelling plumber...hmmm...fix leaks before they happen?! :)
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No - they can only travel into the future. That's how they can say they'll be there at 5 o'clock, and not show up until 10.
 
It's an extremely clever viral marketing piece. It had me fooled for a few minutes when I first read the description. I figured he went under the sink, whacked his head, sniffed some cleaning solvents, and had a lucid dream. If they'd left out the "cell phone video" (uneccessary embellishment, IMO) we might still be speculating.
 
treble_head said:
Prepare to feel silly. His blog is hosted by a company called AMF pension. The "documentary" was made by a company called Machine films. Their website is run by... AMF Pension. Click anywhere on the Machine Films site, except for button to play the movie and what do you get linked to? Yeah. AMF Pension's site.


Also, here's a TV commercial from Sweden in which a woman goes through a wormhole in time and meets her future self. Guess who the commercial is for? :D

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On the bright side, I'm suing AMF Pension for stealing my storyline.

Prior art, b*tches! Woohoo!
 
Actually, I like the idea of a time-traveling plumber. "I'm here to fix the leak in your pipes."

"I don't have a leak in my pipes!"

"Five...four...three...two..."
 
Here's the part of the film that got cut off:

And then my future self said to me, "Hakan, whatever you do, don't appear in that damn time-travel documentary. It'll make you look stupid, someone will post it on YouTube, and you'll never live down the humiliation."
 
treble_head said:
Prepare to feel silly. His blog is hosted by a company called AMF pension. The "documentary" was made by a company called Machine films. Their website is run by... AMF Pension. Click anywhere on the Machine Films site, except for button to play the movie and what do you get linked to? Yeah. AMF Pension's site.


Also, here's a TV commercial from Sweden in which a woman goes through a wormhole in time and meets her future self. Guess who the commercial is for? :D

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OK, I am officially a skep-tard. :( I feel like Chris French on Shirley Ghostman.

Interesting to consider how well this sort of viral marketing works though; there must be a fair few dumbasses like me out there who out of a sense of a
offended pride will now never buy any of their products. :blush:
 
Goshawk said:
His website is all in...Norwegian? Google won't translate Norwegian/English yet. :(
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Swedish I'd wager (haven't checked) since he talked about working on Öland (isle of eastern coast of Sweden). Lived on the main land close to Öland (Kalmar, the other end of the bridge connecting land and the main land).


To get somewhat OT: one of the more common jokes/prejudices against Ölänningar is that they're supposedly really stupid. So either the prejudice is true, and this guy shows how, or it's false and it's all a clever joke, or a con. :)
 
Pup said:
At another forum where this was discussed, and darn it, I can't find it now, a poster from Sweden said that there's a series of ads on TV there now, about people from the future coming back in time to advise themselves about whatever product is being advertised. The poster suggested this might be an outtake, unnused ad, or something from that series. Does that ring a bell with anyone?
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Yes. An insurance company advertising their pension funds thingamajjig used that. Peopel travelled to the future, met themselves as senior citizens, and got to see how fine and dansdy everythign was since they had chosen to invest their pension in just *that* company.
 
asmodean said:
To get somewhat OT: one of the more common jokes/prejudices against Ölänningar is that they're supposedly really stupid. So either the prejudice is true, and this guy shows how, or it's false and it's all a clever joke, or a con. :)
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Seriously. It's a viral marketing program. Why are we still arguing this? That just seems weird.
 
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treble_head said:
Seriously. It's a viral marketing program. Why are we still arguing this? That just seems weird.
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Yeah, I noticed that ater posting. Ofc, I could've gone back and edited my post, or emptied them, but that'd be a bit dishonest I think. :)

In any case, 'twas an off-shoot of the AMF commersial. Nice to know.
 
Big Les said:
Interesting to consider how well this sort of viral marketing works though; there must be a fair few dumbasses like me out there who out of a sense of a
offended pride will now never buy any of their products. :blush:
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I agree with you, but I would not buy products from a viral marketing campaign because it seems so dishonest; kind of like slipping products into your favourite sitcom and incorporating it into the plot.

I would guess that marketers have done the calculations though.
# Enticed by Viral Marketing Campaign - # Turned off by Viral Marketing Campaign = PROFIT!
 
intellectual exercise

even though this was just a case of viral marketing, I would be interested in seeing what sort of effects would be seen if a stable wormhole hypothetically had existed in the back of his cupboard. Now assuming that the back of his cupboard is roughly 1 meter in width, it would take a mass roughly the mass of Jupiter converted to energy to open such a wormhole, according to Physics of the Impossible by Dr. Michio Kaku. However, with such a wormhole, I'm curious what sort of damage would have been done to the neighborhood. What would the gravitational force of such a wormhole have destroyed? His house? The neighborhood? Him? since it seems highly unlikely that exotic matter would be found in sufficient quantities in a residential neighborhood.

If someone who is versed in theoretical physics could post what would be required to create such a hypothetical wormhole, and what sort of effects it would have on a residential neighborhood, or travellers going through it, that would be kinda cool. thanks.
 
Also, before I forget

Also, before I forget, a quick response to Big_Les. If this guy's video has plotholes in it showing it was staged, how would this guy be a nutcase who thought he had travelled through time. Wouldn't it be more like he was a fraud? (This is more of a semantics issue, since we all know now that this guy was involved in a marketing campaign.)
 
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