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I hate the way every sodding company is trying to act like your friend these days. Are we really that naive that we can be won over by a few insincere niceties despite terrible quality?"
You have very beautiful eyes.
But I agree. "I'm your best friend" is a marketing ploy, thought it is not an old one. I just have this image of a car dealer paying every complement, heck calling you his best friend and then asks, "so you wanna buy a car?"
Maybe Stan from Monkey Island. I enjoy the little things that make you smile at least, businesses are capable of doing things that are a bit quirky and I see no harm in enjoying them. I try to make myself impervious to marketing ploys, I suspect some business do think about the customer rather than think "how am I going to take their money", but at the end of the day, to make the maximum profit they need to reel you in and company's image can do that. Though I know not everybody is resistent to it, hence so much money goes into PR and advertisement.
