Overseen and Overheard

What does it all mean? I’m a student interested in people - the things we say and do, the way we dress, and especially the messages we're sending.

[overseenandoverheard]

This is fantastic!

I'm reading my textbook for class, Business Ethics, and I think this is great:

"Concern with the serious nature of psychological appeals appears to have motivated the California Wine Institute to adopt an advertising code of standards. The following restrictions are included:

No wine ad shall present persons engaged in activities with appeal particularly to minors. Among those excluded: amateur or professional sports figures, celebrities, or cowboys; rock stars, race car drivers.

No wine ad shall exploit the human form or “feature provocative or enticing poses or be demeaning to any individual.”

No wine ad shall portray wine in a setting where food is not presented.

No wine ad shall present wine in “quantities inappropriate to the situation.”

No wine ad shall portray wine as similar to another type of beverage or product such as milk, soda, or candy.

No wine ad shall associate wine with personal performance, social attainment, achievement, wealth, or the attainment of adulthood.

No wine ad shall show automobiles in a way that one could construe their conjunction.

In adopting such a rigorous code of advertising ethics, the California Wine Institute rightly acknowledged the subtle implications and psychological nuances that affect the message that an ad communicates."

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Sorbitol, the sugar substitute used by Trident, can indirectly promote tooth decay: It nurtures the normally harmless bacteria that sugar activates into decay-producing microorganisms.

William Shaw - Business Ethics

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Cascadian Farm sells organic breakfast cereal, but from looking at the box you can’t tell that it’s actually made by General Mills. That’s because General Mills is aiming the cereal at buyers who tend to eschew the brands of the big conglomerates. Similarly, you can’t guess from reading the label of Blue Moon beer that it comes from Coors Brewing Company, and the label of Red Dog beer identifies its maker as Plank Road Brewery although it is really produced by Miller Brewing Company. This practice is spreading as big food and drink makers buy up the little brands that populate organic food stores or create their own “natural” products and boutique brands.

William Shaw - Business Ethics

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"The number of automobile recalls per year has doubled since 1993; today, one in twelve cars is recalled."

Business Ethics - William Shaw

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"In a typical year, packaging and containers for household products injure 224,000 people"

William Shaw - Business Ethics

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If you wondered if you still have to do group projects in college...

The answer is YES

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On average, smokers die fourteen years earlier than nonsmokers.

Business Ethics - Shaw

[barackohmama-deactivated2012100]

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Where are the parents?

[catleecious]

[vvhatserface]

KITTY. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!

[vvhatserface]

I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE

[makiface]

[bobdoom-deactivated20200515]

"You expect me to jump off of this cliff?  Are you insane?"

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Vegans don’t eat honey because they don’t want to exploit bee labor.

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Vegans don’t eat honey because they don’t want to exploit bee labor.

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Vegans don’t eat honey because they don’t want to exploit bee labor.

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I got it already...don't bee-labor the point

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Vegans don’t eat honey because they don’t want to exploit bee labor.

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Vegans don’t eat honey because they don’t want to exploit bee labor.

[overseenandoverheard]

Vegans don’t eat honey because they don’t want to exploit bee labor.

[overseenandoverheard]

Vegans don’t eat honey because they don’t want to exploit bee labor.

[overseenandoverheard]

Vegans don’t eat honey because they don’t want to exploit bee labor.

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Vegans don't eat honey because they don't want to exploit bee labor.

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All I want is someone who wants to be with me when the makeup is on and when the makeup is off. 

Isn't that what everyone wants?

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If Only...

Portable even...

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"If we have 99.9% defect-free work, 50 newborn babies in the United States would be dropped on the floor by a physician daily; 200,000 incorrect prescriptions would be filled each year; two planes would not land safely each hour at Atlanta’s Harts- field International Airport; we would be without electricity, heat, or water for 15 minutes each day; and 22,000 times an hour, banks would deduct the wrong check from someone else’s account. In other words, “mistakes happen” is not an acceptable part of the customer’s quality perspective."

Applied Organizational Communication: Theory and Practice in a Global Environment.