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[Dreams-Visions]

So GAF, here I am chillin in the airport, waiting for a connecting flight and looking at a magazine. You know, one of those lame catalogs you find on a plane sitting in the pouch attached to the seat in front of you. Well I decided to hold onto one because there was something towards the front I wanted to google later and maybe pick up somewhere. As I sift through the pages of junk, I wind up floored by a single advertisement. It's for a shoe company called "Gravity Defyer".

seriously? Is this real life? I know companies are sometimes hard up for a unique look that will generate a buzz...but this has to be the lamest shit I ever did see. If this had been an add in Hustler, I would have only given it a chuckle. Instead, I just smh.

http://gravitydefyer.com/


So yea...someone explain this shenanigans. What grown ass adult would wear these? G.A.F.?

 

[tearsofash]

I would proudly wear a sperm logo on my feet.

 

[DonMigs85]

Those look like sperm

 

[samus i am]

Wish we still had the smiley faces!

 

[bangai-o]

are those sperms?

 

[Kraftwerk]

...Why is there a sperm on the shoe?

 

[CozMick]

Imagine kicking someone into pregnancy.

 

[Beatbox]

...Why is there a sperm on the shoe?

Because it's cool!

 

[Dreams-Visions]

are those sperms?

you know what?

It is.

GRAVITY DEFYER™ LOGO CAUSES PULL OUT – pain free/comfortable footwear line still swimming upstream despite retailer outrage.

Sherman Oaks, CA (August 31, 2010) Online shopping giant QVC and catalog mailer Seventh Avenue are the latest to run from the Gravity Defyer™ "seed of life" logo controversy.

Alexander Elnekaveh, founder and CEO of Gravity Defyer™, states, "Our logo is deliberate. Our customers feel like they are getting the beginning of a new life when they try our shoes. Pain and fatigue are alleviated, energy is restored; they can walk and exercise again. What represents that? The seed of life. We're not embarrassed by it, nor are our customers. We are currently working with some of the best retailers in the world and look forward to future business opportunities with companies that are liberal enough to embrace this concept. There's no shame, there's pride."

The Gravity Defyer™ Versoshock™ Trampoline Technology is revolutionary in footwear and is rapidly gaining market share through unheard of 30-day risk free trials. No charge is made to consumers when ordering the shoes and if they are not satisfied with any shoe purchased, they can return the shoes and only be charged for shipping & handling. Hundreds of thousands of shoes have shipped during the last quarter, primarily to recurring customers.

http://gravitydefyer.com/Gravity-Defyer-Logo-Causes-Pull-Out


WAT THA FUCK GET THE FUCK OUT.

G.A.F.?

 

[Katana_Strikes]

Taking the shoe fetish to a new distance.

 

[Mechanical Snowman]

Slick seed of life

Because it's cool!

 

[aku:jiki]

I don't know what you're talking about. That's edgy and cool to me.

Sort of like the text on the side of a can of Monster.

 

[GatorBait]

They want it to look like a sperm, so why wouldn't it get approved? It's not like it's a giant cock on the side of the shoe.

 

[DonMigs85]

Wait, that "seed of life" thing on the package was intentional?
EDIT: Looks like it is. It discriminates against egg cells, though.

 

[SmithnCo]

They call it the "Seed of Life Logo," so it is supposed to be sperm. Is it because sperm sometimes supposedly "defies gravity" to reach the egg? Either way it's pretty weird.

 

[Ultima ratio regum]

...Why is there a sperm on the shoe?

good question, I actually like the technology in the shoes, but I'm not fond of the logo, hence if I bought it would have to cover the logo with something.

 

[Deleted member 74300]

See man you gotta understand that the logo just works.

 

[eternaLightness]

They help you make babies.

 

[fallengorn]

They should combine their sneakers with Heelys and call them Spermaslides.

 

[Why would you do that?]

I always wondered why sperm wasn't used metaphorically in media.

I mean, people always talk about the rain, or trees, or animals metaphorically... Why not the fertilizer of life, spermatozoa?

But then I realized that it would probably just end up sounding really creepy...

 

[Dreams-Visions]

See man you gotta understand that the logo just works.

honestly...after reading the press release,

"Our logo is deliberate. Our customers feel like they are getting the beginning of a new life when they try our shoes."

was my real-life reaction.

 

[Juanadams]

Wow at first I thought someone in the marketing department pulled on on them, but the fact that it's intentional makes it even funnier to me.

 

[Ephemeris]

yeah I'm good, no thanks. Only time that shit ends up on my footwear is when she gets out of the way.

 

[donkey show]

 

[Takao]

Wish we still had the smiley faces!

I still got smileys. :lol

 

[Mechanical Snowman]

See man you gotta understand that the logo just works.

4/10

 

[EviLore]

I always wondered why sperm wasn't used metaphorically in media.

I mean, people always talk about the rain, or trees, or animals metaphorically... Why not the fertilizer of life, spermatozoa?

But then I realized that it would probably just end up sounding really creepy...

Here's one example:

Pride Fighting Championships open weight class tournament to determine the strongest fighter in the world at the time.

 

[Always-honest]

fine with me.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

fine with me.

I bet someone in Hipster-GAF has a pair.

 

[HeySeuss]

Those shoes must make you feel spunky.

 

[esquire]

Those shoes must make you feel spunky.

Haa!

NeoGAF: We got jokes and jokes and jokes and pokes!

 

[Clydefrog]

Looks like a tadpole.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Looks like a tadpole.

I think the company would be offended you'd mistake their sperm for a tadpole!

 

[From The Dust]

I would proudly wear a sperm logo on my feet.

heh, foot fetishism

 

[WedgeX]

you know what?

It is.


http://gravitydefyer.com/Gravity-Defyer-Logo-Causes-Pull-Out


WAT THA FUCK GET THE FUCK OUT.

G.A.F.?

I like how their rebuttal URL is about pulling out.

 

[Kurtofan]

There is nothing wrong with sperm.
It's a nice looking symbol to me, though the shoes looks awful.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

There is nothing wrong with sperm.
It's a nice looking symbol to me, though the shoes looks awful.

it's pure gimmick. that's what makes it lame.

 

[JGS]

This is part of my ads here now.

 

[MWS Natural]

Would be funny if they came out with a basketball shoe that you had to "Pump" up.

 

[Raistlin]

you know what?

It is.


http://gravitydefyer.com/Gravity-Defyer-Logo-Causes-Pull-Out


WAT THA FUCK GET THE FUCK OUT.

G.A.F.?

AHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[Devolution]

Actually makes for a decent block of pattern though:

 

[Koomaster]

If the shoes are really good; who cares about the logo? I'd proudly wear them if they were comfy. Then again I'm gay and have no aversion to sperm logos like most people it seems.

 

[Degen]

what an innovative way to decrease your own sales

 

[Plasmid]

Sperm-Shoes.

Is this like the disco shoes with fish in them?

 

[Dreams-Visions]

If the shoes are really good; who cares about the logo? I'd proudly wear them if they were comfy. Then again I'm gay and have no aversion to sperm logos like most people it seems.

...aaaaand watch the pussy go the other way.

 

[AceBandage]

 

[Kurtofan]

it's pure gimmick. that's what makes it lame.

All logos are "gimmicks" then.

 

[Something Wicked]

I don't feel compelled to purchase such shoes. It's quite an impotent marketing campaign.

 

[BertramCooper]

This will forever be the world's best logo.

So simple. So very wrong.

 

[BobTheFork]

Whomever approved that knew exactly what is was, don't trick yourself into thinking otherwise

edit: wtf OGC what's wrong with... *tilts head to the left* ohhhhhh.