PepsiCo tweeted an apology for its new Apple iPhone app that is designed to help guys pick up the ladies. PepsiCo launched the new app, "AMP UP Before You Score," to promote its AMP energy drink. The app alleges to help guys "get lucky" when they’re out on the town by helping prepare them to meet 24 different types of women.
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50 Responses
10.18.2009
Nothing says sincerity like a tweeted apology.
10.18.2009
Step 1: Buy her a PepsiStep 2: Open her PepsiStep 3: Start applying your condom because,sir, you just picked her up.
10.18.2009
All you need is to put a $ before all that line numbers and you’ll be fine!
10.18.2009
Tell pretty girls they’re smart, smart girls they’re pretty. Treat whores like queens and queens like whores.There, I just got you in with every girl on the planet. Thank me later.
10.18.2009
Why apologize? Geez, I’m so so so tired of people being so sensitive about stuff. Just live your life and stop worrying about what other people say and do. Stop being so offended about everything!
10.18.2009
Pepsi apologizes for iPhone app…before it gets stacks of free advertising…they are really really sorry.
10.18.2009
Here is words for words, Pepsi Twitter apology: " Our app tried to 2 show the humorous lengths guys go 2 pick up women. We apologize if it’s in bad taste & appreciate your feedback."In other words: "We tried to push the envelope as far as we could. We are sorry that our risque attempt caught your attention like we knew it should, now talk it up and help us get as many miles as possible out of it."
10.18.2009
Marketing plan:1. make something mildly controversial (hardly anybody notices).2. apologize (people notice and talk about it).3. success!
10.18.2009
I liked it better when Pepsi decided to stop advertising all together
10.18.2009
Here is the code to pick up womenWhile (bankaccount<$10,000,000)backaccount++;This app works for 99.99% of women
10.18.2009
Does this list apply to drag queens as well as british monarchy?
10.18.2009
no, no, no, you have it all wrong.Step 1: Cut a hole in the boxStep 2: Put your junk in the boxStep 3: Get her to open the box
10.18.2009
if (Man’s Wallet < $100,000) { attitude = bitch;} else { attitude = intrigued; sex = yes; }
10.18.2009
Coca Cola should release an app "How not to get kicked in the nuts because of that cheesy Pepsi app"
10.18.2009
"…short bald overweight 41 year old"You just made my day.
10.18.2009
I think this still boils down to Americans being afraid of sex.
10.18.2009
Step 1: Find a younger woman with obvious daddy issues.Step 2: Exploit until you’re bored.Step 3: Profit.Now, finding one worth marrying, that’s the true difficulty.
10.18.2009
Its easier than that. Three words: "three wolf moon"..
10.18.2009
Gosh. You’d think with an approach like "Find a younger woman with daddy issues and exploit", you’d have nothing but marriage material banging down your door.
10.18.2009
Yeah wtf, too lazy to hold a press conference (free publicity) and apologize in public? Man that a cowards way out. #blind-date, sorry I raped you last night. youre a super gal for not going to the police.
10.18.2009
how long were u in "collage" for?
10.18.2009
Why try to pick up women when the app teaches you how to be an apologizing little girl.
10.18.2009
Step 4: Put your junk in her box
10.18.2009
Damn it! I got an null pointer exception. My bankaccount variable is undefined
10.18.2009
This man has it down pat!
10.18.2009
made me laughyesterday: "pepsi comes up with new iphone app"Today: "pepsi apologizes for new iphone app"
10.18.2009
How or why anyone would take an issue with this just goes to show the depth of stupidity that’s run rampant in our society.Seriously.
10.18.2009
1 million just to understand "how do you feel" total it be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000…it never ends
10.18.2009
The apology is basically all part of the advertising.
10.18.2009
It is easier to grasp the wind,than to grasp a woman’s mind.
10.18.2009
I’m going to try it on your mom.
10.18.2009
[looks around the house]I got an awful lot of junk.
10.18.2009
I have been down this unfortunate road too many times… like you said, it’s great for a while cause they really don’t need any excuses to *****… but then all the sudden you realize that you have become some twisted father like figure at the same time which is creepy as *****
10.18.2009
I’m not saying I’ve done it. I didn’t figure it out until I was already married. 10 years in a few weeks.
10.18.2009
That thing about them not advertising was an article from The Onion.Just checking to make sure you knew this.
10.18.2009
I’m pretty sure that code will FAIL.
10.18.2009
Only 1,000,000 lines of code to understand women? You my friend are way too optimistic. Multiply that by 1,000,000,000 and you still will not be able to understand women.
10.18.2009
Why so sensitive?
10.18.2009
i dl’d it and tried it but the app was not EXTREME enough for me.
10.18.2009
Whoa… hooking up with the mother-in-law tonight???BOW-CHICKA-WOW-WOW…
10.18.2009
One million lines to handle the question "how do you feel?" is probably accurate for a woman. How and feel are two red flags that when a man asks a woman he is inviting a long drawn answer because he opened the door. For instance, the reply will involve feelings and how those feelings came to be.If a woman asks a man, they are intending that man to answer the question as a woman would. Men, like myself, are mostly closed private people and will give a Utilitarian answer, such as "fine", "ok" or "good". This is an immediate red flag to the asking woman because the level of commitment she perceives from the man answering is very low.As I stated earlier that one million lines of code would be accurate, it would be for the reason that there are many many contingencies that would have to be covered for an emotion and a direct link to adjectives describing it. For example, I’m angry but fine <reason> or I’m happy but disappointed <reason>. At last we have come to the final problem, if the program were written by a man, it would be in fact wrong because we still can not accurately, in most cases, predict the emotion and adjective description unless given a very very basic root cause. Emotion, adjectives and reasons are part of a cause and effect paradigm, it appears random as a reason could call two conflicting emotions with the exact same descriptive adjective. My best recommendation to the person who writes the program that predicts a woman’s answer to the question "how do you feel" would be to not write it, some things are best left alone.
10.18.2009
Dude, I SAID I was sorry!
10.18.2009
You don’t need millions of lines of code to not care.
10.18.2009
Confucious say, "take stiff problems in hand"
10.18.2009
I prefer the mind over matter outlook on life. If I don’t mind,it doesn’t matter. I just make it a point not to mind. Dr. Seuss once said. " Say what you want and be who you are. Those that mind don’t matter and those that matter don’t mind." Those lines on that app were funny. If someone gets them to work they deserve to score.
10.18.2009
I’ll let you know how that works out with my mother-in-law tonight. Wish me luck.
10.18.2009
Step 5: PROFIT!!!!
10.18.2009
Let’s just say, for the sake of debate, that this were an app intended for young women trying to "get the hot guy," would we be having this discussion? Why not?
10.18.2009
Who cares how she feels?