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Re: Subliminal messages can influence us in surprising ways
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Originally Posted by Moontanman
Are we talking about messages put into a medium that cannot be seen by the conscious mind or things like using sex to sell thing with no connection to sex? Sex is used to sell everything from cars to lawn mowers, beer to potato chips. Is this subliminal or is it more subtle than that?
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Most of these messages aren't actually subliminal. We can see what they're trying to do. I guess you can call them liminal. Like the ads where buxom babes in thong bikinis, showing the absolute maximum cleavage allowed by law are using "Salad Shooters" to put thin carrot slices on their salads. The ploy is so obvious, it's irritating as hell.
However, this doesn't explain the seven Salad Shooters in my closet. 
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