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[sje46]

Odd subliminal messages on Comedy Central...possible ARG?

[JustAQ]

Apparently it's only in the UK. That's . . . odd. Guess we'll have to wait and see if anything comes of it.

[sowasred2012]

Googled it - just in the UK? Hmmmm..... I don't have Comedy Central, but if I can help with anything I will.

[Euthanatos]

Yeah, that's definitively something... what sort of something is a whole other question.

There is some discussion of this on reddit.

http://www.reddit.com/r/deadarmyrage


The words we have so far are:

FRIDGE ROTTEN WARM FOOD STINK
BREED WITH CAUTION TIME TO PANIC
MIND BRAINWASHING SUBLIMINAL CONTROL PARANOID
ELITE FLESH EMPOWERED TRUTH NOTHING
DEAD ARMY RAGE A THOUSAND SUNS FORGET
LABOUR SEEMS LAUGHED AT

[sje46]

Yeah, that's the subreddit I created.

Some things to note:

Comedy Central is an American channel, but it has a UK version too. The submission on reddit was made by a non-American. All the shows that we know of that it appeared on appear on Comedy Central UK (including The Office and Two and a Half Men...which do not air on Comedy Central US). It is unclear if these ads have shown up in America (I thought they did, but it is now looking unlikely). We should probably assume this is a Brit-centered phenomenon.

Transcripts:

M1:(earliest known instance seems to be around April 11)

According to the internet, the first recorded
use of MIND control was in 1950 during the
Korean War. Since then some people blame
organised religion for BRAINWASHING the
vulnerable. Others claim governments are
responsible, using SUBLIMINAL language
to influence your subconscious brain. Well
we say cobblers. Ultimately if you want to
go down the pub, buy a new hat or eat a lovely
chicken, this is all down to you. You are in
CONTROL and no-one else is. You are a free-
thinking individual.Or is that just what they want
you to think? After all just because you're
PARANOID. Doesn't mean they're not after you.

Highlighted: Mind brainwashing subliminal control paranoid.

M2: (earliest known about two days ago...May 10)

"WELL IT HAD TO HAPPEN EVENTUALLY. NOW IT HAS. HE'S DEAD. TIME TO BREATHE A COLLECTIVE SIGH OF RELIEF. ANY HAPPIER? WELL NO. HOW COULD YOU BE? WE'RE NO SAFER. THEY'RE STILL OUT THERE. HIDING IN PLAIN SITE. A SEETHING, ANGRY ARMY WITH PHOTOFIT FACES AND IDENTIKIT WARDROBE, BONDED BY RAGE AND DOGMATIC BELIEF THAT WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS RIGHT. WE ALL SEE THEM ON THE NEWS, WILD EYES BURNING WITH THE FIRE OF A THOUSAND SUNS AS THEY RAGE INTO THE ABYSS. THEY DO NOT WAVER, THEY DO NOT HESITATE AND THEY NEVER, EVER FORGET. AND THAT'S JUST THE JOCKS IN BASEBALL CAPS AND CHINOS SCREAMING "USA" ON FOX NEWS."

Dead army a thousand suns forget.

M3: (early April, perhaps April 4th)

Bus drivers are a strange BREED. What's going
on in their lives and minds that makes them
think that way? You'd think being entrusted
WITHseveral tonnes of metal and glass would
make them drive with diligence and CAUTION.
But no, they plough through streets in their
hulking steel beasts with enough speed to
rip a hole in the space TIME continuum,
which is ironic as space and time are things
TO which they seem totally oblivious. As
the old saying goes, you wait for a bus for
ages and the three turn up at once - and
run you over. But don't PANIC live for
today. You may be hit by a bus tomorrow.

Breed with caution time to panic.

M4: (at least April 5th, since this anon quoted it. Anonymous is almost certainly not related to this, though.)

If you are reading this then you have passed.
You are now part of a cultural ELITE You have
transcended the shadowy world of the FLESH
rising from the ashes of society like a shimmering
phoenix: beautiful, iridescent and EMPOWERED.
this is not about creed religion nor cult, merely
that you have seen passed the gossamer veil of
the superficial and uncovered the TRUTH. Now
the world is yours for the taking, grip it, squeeze
it for all it's worth and let the juices drip down
your throat.There is NOTHING you cannot
achieve in your luminous radiance. Except fly.
You cannot fly. Don't even try. It'll end in tears.

Elite flesh empowered truth nothing.

M5:

People in the service industry charge LABOUR on top of doing their job. Go to any garage, call out any plumber or electrician they;ll charge for teh work, then add the same amount again for 'labour'. SEEMS unfair, labour's your job, right? Do these people deserve to be paid twice? You can't get away with that anywhere else, you can't turn up to work every day for a week, then charge an extra five days' work on top for actually getting out of bed and onto a bus. Try it. Whatever you do, invoice your boss for 'labour'/ Actually don't, chances are you will be either LAUGHED AT or fired.

Labour seems laughed at.

Notice the British spelling of labour.

M6:

Why do they advertise fridges, who doesn't
have a FRIDGE? Are there thousands of
people staring vacantly at an empty space
in the kitchen next to the washing machine
surrounded by ROTTEN food? We have all
worked out by now that milk doesn't last long
at room temperature, which in itself is quite
odd as a cow is quite WARM. But then again,
yoghurt is just gone off milk and most people
like yoghurt. Maybe we're missing a trick.
Maybe we should all throw out our fridges,
wait for our FOOD to turn and see what
wonderful culinary surprises await us.
Might STINK a bit though......

Fridge rotten warm food

[Zobot257]

...the HECK?

[thebruce]

intriguing...

ETA: Apparently this has been known at least as early as April 4th - http://www.alien-ufos.com/conspiracy-theories/38339-subliminal-messages-comedy-cental-uk.html

[sub-xero]

The Wrong Tree. .

[kolixela]

I can officially say that we have seen at least the dead army one in the states, I saw it on TV a little while back.

Doesn't speak to me as a humor thing.

kolixela

[JehosephatDostoevsky]

Yeh, these have been on Comedy Central (UK) for a while now. I've always just assumed they were references to the vanity cards at the end of Chuck Lorre shows, as they're in the same style, and Comedy Central has the rights to 2.5 Men in the UK.

[birmz2012]

I can assure you this is not in any way British humour. I live in the UK and i have noticed these subliminal paragraphs occuring far too many times for my liking, they are not displayed that long at all, its more like a flash, which led me to believe theres something dodgy going on. i dont know what its talking about but i am a bit concerned why they feel the need to do this sort of fucked up shit.

[catherwood]

a new block has popped up.

http://whofortedblog.com/2013/01/21/television-viewer-captures-very-weird-subliminal-message/