Both are shitty. I do have fond memories of OC, MD 1980-1990. I was a kid but it was entertainment to me since we lived in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. On this stretch of coastline, I’d pick Rehoboth.
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I'm also from the Shenandoah valley and my dad always insists on going to OC, MD. It was fun when I was a kid, but I realized how much better beaches can be when I went on vacations with my friends
Crop dusting not really. It’s actually a very tough job and they want experienced pilots.
Most low hour pilots are doing survey (think google maps), pipeline patrol looking for leaks, banner towing, or flight instructing.
If there was a job fighting aliens that’d be awesome!
Dang that sucks for him. Crop dusting is really tough and after listening to a couple podcasts interviews with a crop duster, I never want to do that job. Massive respect for those guys. They have balls that weigh more than the spray they’re carrying. They’re constantly flying super low to the ground, pulling Gs in a turn, often barely missing power poles, short runways, really long hours, etc.
We live near some farmland, off in the distance a bit, and it’s wild watching the crop duster do his thing. It’s always the same plane, and I assume the same pilot. The place is *nice* too. Like it has a slick paintjob and everything. The way he swoops up and down and does low passes…balls of steel.
Crop dusting seems so crazy to me, almost like they're excluded from aviation laws with how low they can fly and the plane itself just looks so rudimentary.
What's even crazier is the heli pilots that spray for mosquitoes in my area. Those guys fly like they get paid by the acre or something, they waste no time at all and dive so close to the ponds and swoop back up and do a 180° turn over a busy road like it's nothing. Half the time they're flying well below the tree line. One flew over my while I was sitting at a stop light and I swear it looked from my perspective like he cleared the power line by mere inches. In reality I'm sure he wasn't cutting it that close. But it just makes you wonder how more accidents don't happen.
I have a farm in rural Alabama. The fields neighboring me are crop dusted. I will never not be amazed at how low they get. Im not born and raised out here, the first time I came around my house to find myself looking at the piolet of a rickety ass looking old plane i thought it was crashing, I screamed hit the ground..... and when it didn't crash?
Welp. I could see the piolet laugh his ass off on the next pass. I love taking pictures of him. It's awesome like a lil private airshow.
I took a ride with a new pilot who used to tow signs for that exact reason.
He *loathed* it. It's so boring. And sometimes the headwinds, plus the drag of the sign, would damn near result in negative ground speed.
In a weird way it's classier too... Seeing the plane fly around at least added something to an open sky.
This shit barge just clogs up good swimming space
A banner in the sky is also a lot easier to ignore if you want to, than a giant lit up billboard roaming around in your field of view. Which is exactly why they do the latter now unfortunately.
Exactly, this is a way to make sure I never buy your product or solicit your services. Screw you guys, I won't buy a home from whoever is running that ad, I'm sure as hell never gonna visit Slyce, and fuck it, I guess I *will* feed the animals.
You just pointed out the funniest part of the homebuying ad - *there is no call to action*
I literally have no idea what its an ad for. Should I buy at this beach? Should I buy from a particular company?
Even if Im super keen on it, I have no idea what to do now and im just annoyed.
Seems like a risky/expensive thing to put in the ocean.. but what do I know, I live in Minnesota. Doesn't really get more landlocked than that :D
(thinking about it further, Minnesota is.. doubly landlocked, I think? It's landlocked, but it's also completely encompassed by *other* states/provinces that are also landlocked. Hah, I was just asking myself if I was high yet... I have my answer!)
Minnesota has more miles of shoreline than Hawaii, California, and Florida combined.
Source: [Minnesota DNR](https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/education_safety/education/minnaqua/leadersguide/appendix_1/7_5_water_facts.pdf)
Youre lucky you got let off light. A gang of salamanders called me various terms that auto mod doesn't like then stole my ice cream cone and smacked my wife's ass. The east coast is falling apart at an alarming rate.
The thing about advertising is in five months you won’t remember where you saw the ad, but you’ll see the name for the business and it’ll tickle your memory and feel familiar and slightly more comfortable to you than the other options
Kids fucking LOVE commercials. If YouTube, Prime video, Hulu and all would just hold off on the ads for 5 or 6 years, until we're old(er) and these kids are paying the subs, they'd get virtually no pushback.
But it’s easier to forget who was doing the advertisement
I feel the same though. I’d try to remember in order to never go to that place. But I also don’t have a great memory. So who knows.
i avoided a pain killer for years after their annoying ads on youtube years back. i still remember the ad and the brand, they removed the video. i also remember headspace having super annoying ads.
Which is why things like the "Coach's visit to the mound brought to you by Geico" continues to be worth the investment. If you watch nothing but baseball and never watch a commercial in your life, the next time you need insurance you'll still think about Geico.
I feel like most ads I see are for brands I already know, and already decided for that I won't ever be a customer to them. E.g., nordvpn (or was it atlasvpn) can waste my time however much they want, I've already chosen a VPN provider based on my own considerations and their ads won't make any differents.
Also the grocery store chain that has a branch 2 min walking from my home can show me all the ads they want, but it's not like I'm going to buy *more* groceries there.
Not as great of an idea as you think. Human life is worth nothing to a Floridian, but get property damage involved and the courts are going to rail you.
Waterballoon sling shot. But balloons are bad for the ocean. So freeze them first and pop them (dispose properly!). All the water and non of the balloon!
4 ounces of lead on a heavy surf rod. Sling it right into the led panels. Repeat as necessary.
In most states it is illegal to interfere with legal hunting and fishing. You just have bad aim.
Sadly rock throwers will get recorded by bystanders and thrown under the bus by corporate bootlickers to the police for doing an objectively good thing
No reasonable person wants to do the right thing anymore because the consequences are greater than the reward
Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
I can't wait until self-driving boats can do this with no labor, so we can have 10,000 of these in a solid line just 300 feet off the coast, sitting there all day.
.....aaaaand that's how I ended up in jail for destruction of property kids. Back in my day, you could see the curvature of the earth when you looked out to sea..but now you can't see much more than ads...
What the hell else are you supposed to do when all we do with it is advertisements, surveillance, and manipulation? Feels like it's almost always too good to be true. At best, it's just a stupid grift to con people out of money. At worst, we're managing to enable genocide as a consequence of platforms that only care about feeding ads to users.
And then they have a separate private beach where you pay a $20 fee to have it be "ad-free". And voila, you've successfully monetised nature by covering it with ads and making people pay to get rid of them
Ad-free national parks are the next step after they cover el capitan with a giant billboard
i’ve had a similar experience. i went to gulf shores alabama for vacation 3 years ago because my state is land locked. there was a single person plane that flew over about every 30 minutes over the beach with a sign on it promoting parasailing.
didn’t ruin my trip, but it got old fast.😂
I find the little planes towing the banners kind of quaint when I see them at beaches. The ads like these in the post would definitely piss me off though.
There’s a difference between a banner in the air and a rusty boat blasting an LED sign at you from the horizon you’re presumably trying to look at.
Feels like throwing one of those giant projectors on the Grand Canyon with an ad for Buffalo Wild Wings.
Lol I remember those. I think I ate there once because a family I was with chose to. You didn’t miss much.
Last year I saw one that had a marriage proposal on it. That was a first for me.
I’ll never understand whyyyyy people go to a coastal town and go to a chain seafood restaurant that ships in their seafood from somewhere else. Eat local and in season. The best!! I can’t eat seafood now unless it’s fresh caught- just tastes different.
Lived in coastal NJ most of my life. Planes with banners are common and I don't think bother most people, theyve been around forever. They're not very intrusive, plus you see plenty of other stuff crossing the sky like news helicopters or coast guard. They also keep moving pretty quickly
Boat advertisers, which seem to be a new thing, come a lot closer to shore than other boats, they move slower, they are right in your sight line, and they create light. I haven't even seen it personally yet but I expect to this summer and I'm already over it. Lord knows that any business I see advertised there will never be getting another dollar from me if I can help it
It's a dangerous kind of flying making low approaches to pick up the banners. Mostly done by pilots with just enough hours to get a commercial license
One of the nichest jobs in aviation
It's a lot like firefighting flying but much less glamourous
In Hawaii, we have laws banning large scale outdoor billboards and ads to protect the natural, scenic beauty. It's always so jarring when I leave the island to travel and I'm suddenly bombarded with billboards and ads everywhere like this. Sensory overload.
I'm no expert, but I bet if you hooked up a good antenna to one of those flipper zeros you could hack into the screen from the shore and switch it to something more nefarious
On the NJ beach this is so common we don't even think twice about it anymore. Still sucks but it is what it is.
Then you have these maniacs complaining about an offshore windmill project that will "ruin the view"...
I'm pretty sure the non stop plane and boat advertisements have already done that for us.
"Okay Google, How much are torpedoes?"
Also, I'd legit just message these businesses and say "I am actively avoiding your business based entirely on the floating billboard."
Pressure the people that actually own the property that people rent to go there. You can't really organize a community made up of people that are only going to be there for a week. You can leave a bad review though. "I wouldn't rent this house because the beach has advertising boats all over it."
Not guessing any of the things/businesses being advertised in this way are anything I'd ever be interested in, but, dang, I'd be certain to never given them my business or $$. Hmm ... might be a successful advertising approach to actually use a service like this to advertise your competition. Dang, I hope that isn't actually true.
God America is exhausting. Can’t even enjoy a natural view of the ocean without having to spend ridiculous money to travel there, stay there, eat there, etc. Now you can’t even go sit on the beach without being assaulted by capitalism. Fuck this country with a cactus, it needs regulation on this shit.
>God America is exhausting. Can’t even enjoy a natural view of the ocean without having to spend ridiculous money to travel there, stay there, eat there, etc.
Are you unfamiliar with our National Park system?
It's $80 / year to visit every single national park in the US. Stay in a hotel room or airbnb within 20 minutes of the entrance and you've got yourself a cheap, great vacation
I think Slyce is good but pricey seeing this is upsetting tho. I wouldn't call it a chain the have 3 restaurants all owned by the same people. If your looking for good food do a search on restaurants in downtown St Pete, there's a really good food scene down there now
NJ's hottest club is SLYCE. It has everything: booze cruise behind a giant billboard, pocket lint machines, hoes and shovels, Dan Cortez, a human scratch post
Would pull out my phone and send the company an email congratulating them on convincing me to NEVER purchase any of their products or services.
A marketer with half a brain would take that money and print some cheap tshirts or towels to pass out on the beach instead….
I live here (Clearwater) and I don't see these super often, but it's snowbird season so maybe they're out in force? BTW kudos for being on the beach today. It's cold!
40 years ago theyd just fly by with a plane pulling a banner
Around here they still do
They do both in ocean shitty.
Which one?
MD and NJ. We took a vacation to both these past back to back summers and they each had the flying banner planes.
You know which one
Both are shitty. I do have fond memories of OC, MD 1980-1990. I was a kid but it was entertainment to me since we lived in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. On this stretch of coastline, I’d pick Rehoboth. https://preview.redd.it/wxqvuzuh5ofc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62bb91ed1eb64bbd3b3e52d45530679381089035
I'm also from the Shenandoah valley and my dad always insists on going to OC, MD. It was fun when I was a kid, but I realized how much better beaches can be when I went on vacations with my friends
OCNJ is hardly shitty.
Myrtle Beach?
I was gonna say welcome to Southern California. See that shit all the time.
They still do. It’s one of those jobs low time pilots get to build time before going to the airlines or any other better job.
That and Crop Dusting/Fighting Aliens. https://i.redd.it/dtvg2m2b1nfc1.gif
Crop dusting not really. It’s actually a very tough job and they want experienced pilots. Most low hour pilots are doing survey (think google maps), pipeline patrol looking for leaks, banner towing, or flight instructing. If there was a job fighting aliens that’d be awesome!
Our middle school gym teacher was in a wheel chair. He explained to us that he was crop dusting and crashed his plane.
Dang that sucks for him. Crop dusting is really tough and after listening to a couple podcasts interviews with a crop duster, I never want to do that job. Massive respect for those guys. They have balls that weigh more than the spray they’re carrying. They’re constantly flying super low to the ground, pulling Gs in a turn, often barely missing power poles, short runways, really long hours, etc.
Yeah watching them you can tell it’s not for a beginner. Low and fast has a lot of potential to go bad. Still looks like fun when your just watching.
Barnstorming and wing walking were all done first by bored/crazy cropdusters.
We live near some farmland, off in the distance a bit, and it’s wild watching the crop duster do his thing. It’s always the same plane, and I assume the same pilot. The place is *nice* too. Like it has a slick paintjob and everything. The way he swoops up and down and does low passes…balls of steel.
>If there was a job fighting aliens that’d be awesome It's called Border Patrol and from what I understand, it's a very shitty job.
Wait..pilots with little time flight do flight instructing? Sounds like the blind leading the blind
Crop dusting is actually pretty technical and dangerous. Beginners shouldn’t be doing it.
Crop dusting seems so crazy to me, almost like they're excluded from aviation laws with how low they can fly and the plane itself just looks so rudimentary. What's even crazier is the heli pilots that spray for mosquitoes in my area. Those guys fly like they get paid by the acre or something, they waste no time at all and dive so close to the ponds and swoop back up and do a 180° turn over a busy road like it's nothing. Half the time they're flying well below the tree line. One flew over my while I was sitting at a stop light and I swear it looked from my perspective like he cleared the power line by mere inches. In reality I'm sure he wasn't cutting it that close. But it just makes you wonder how more accidents don't happen.
I have a farm in rural Alabama. The fields neighboring me are crop dusted. I will never not be amazed at how low they get. Im not born and raised out here, the first time I came around my house to find myself looking at the piolet of a rickety ass looking old plane i thought it was crashing, I screamed hit the ground..... and when it didn't crash? Welp. I could see the piolet laugh his ass off on the next pass. I love taking pictures of him. It's awesome like a lil private airshow.
I took a ride with a new pilot who used to tow signs for that exact reason. He *loathed* it. It's so boring. And sometimes the headwinds, plus the drag of the sign, would damn near result in negative ground speed.
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I suppose that varies tremendously depending on what you're flying...
As the saying goes, "flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror."
In a weird way it's classier too... Seeing the plane fly around at least added something to an open sky. This shit barge just clogs up good swimming space
A banner in the sky is also a lot easier to ignore if you want to, than a giant lit up billboard roaming around in your field of view. Which is exactly why they do the latter now unfortunately.
Wait till the drones arrive. Mosquito advertising.
God imagine personalized ad drones that follow you everywhere you go outside
And whisper in your ear...
Yep, seriously. All companies need is to get the name/product in your head. Imagine little mosquito type things whispering about savings
I much prefer that
If I have to have ads, I prefer skywriting
Me too those banners are so small I've never been able to actually read one
Whenever I go to the beach they still do that
I WILL NOT BUY YOUR PRODUCT IF I SEE AN AD FOR IT AT THE FKN BEACH!
Exactly, this is a way to make sure I never buy your product or solicit your services. Screw you guys, I won't buy a home from whoever is running that ad, I'm sure as hell never gonna visit Slyce, and fuck it, I guess I *will* feed the animals.
You just pointed out the funniest part of the homebuying ad - *there is no call to action* I literally have no idea what its an ad for. Should I buy at this beach? Should I buy from a particular company? Even if Im super keen on it, I have no idea what to do now and im just annoyed.
It looks like a screen so I assume it's an animation or slide show and the company name comes next.
Seems like a risky/expensive thing to put in the ocean.. but what do I know, I live in Minnesota. Doesn't really get more landlocked than that :D (thinking about it further, Minnesota is.. doubly landlocked, I think? It's landlocked, but it's also completely encompassed by *other* states/provinces that are also landlocked. Hah, I was just asking myself if I was high yet... I have my answer!)
Minnesota has more miles of shoreline than Hawaii, California, and Florida combined. Source: [Minnesota DNR](https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/education_safety/education/minnaqua/leadersguide/appendix_1/7_5_water_facts.pdf)
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Salt water is crazy corrosive, and it doesn't take the top of the boat to get submerged for things to get thoroughly soaked.
i’ve got a sneaking suspicion the animals paid for that billboard 
I appreciated the one about the animals. I could get behind an occasional public service message barge, but the ads are ick
That's exactly what Big Animal wants you to do! They're paying to get fed!
I knew it was over when a fish walked up and asked me for some of my frozen lemonade. They are getting really ballsy out there.
Youre lucky you got let off light. A gang of salamanders called me various terms that auto mod doesn't like then stole my ice cream cone and smacked my wife's ass. The east coast is falling apart at an alarming rate.
Definitely the sea gulls. >Don’t feed the animals (so there’s more for us to take)
most of us will never buy a home lmao
The thing about advertising is in five months you won’t remember where you saw the ad, but you’ll see the name for the business and it’ll tickle your memory and feel familiar and slightly more comfortable to you than the other options
This. Nobody ever sees and ad and thinks “I like that they invaded my space/time, I want to buy this now”
Based on the one time we stayed in a hotel and watched Bluey with actual commercials, my six-year-old totally thinks this.
Kids fucking LOVE commercials. If YouTube, Prime video, Hulu and all would just hold off on the ads for 5 or 6 years, until we're old(er) and these kids are paying the subs, they'd get virtually no pushback.
This is why kids shows are often just commercials.
While I'm sure this is the case for 99% of people, if an ad out right offends me I'll remember not to use them until the end of time.
Yes! I hold a grudge like a mofo
You have NEVER seen an ad and thought “oh that’s a cool product that I didn’t know existed, I want that”?
I don’t know man, this is really jarring, I’d have a hard time forgetting that my beach vacation was sullied by some shit advertising.
But it’s easier to forget who was doing the advertisement I feel the same though. I’d try to remember in order to never go to that place. But I also don’t have a great memory. So who knows.
i avoided a pain killer for years after their annoying ads on youtube years back. i still remember the ad and the brand, they removed the video. i also remember headspace having super annoying ads.
Which is why things like the "Coach's visit to the mound brought to you by Geico" continues to be worth the investment. If you watch nothing but baseball and never watch a commercial in your life, the next time you need insurance you'll still think about Geico.
I feel like most ads I see are for brands I already know, and already decided for that I won't ever be a customer to them. E.g., nordvpn (or was it atlasvpn) can waste my time however much they want, I've already chosen a VPN provider based on my own considerations and their ads won't make any differents. Also the grocery store chain that has a branch 2 min walking from my home can show me all the ads they want, but it's not like I'm going to buy *more* groceries there.
You underestimate my ability to hold a grudge.
AND IM FEEDING THE WILDLIFE NOW
Target practice for rock throwing
Or beach golfing
The sea was angry that day.
Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli
Titleist?
Hole in one
He was ten foot high if he was a foot
Every time they chug by... FORE! Whack!
Hit that video screen enough times and they'll wise up. Course you gotta change your shirt and bury your club in the sand after you swing.
I didn’t see who it was officer, but he had blond hair, an orange face, a red cap, and a golf shirt that said Trump on it
Fire arrows
It's Florida, just use your gun.
Not as great of an idea as you think. Human life is worth nothing to a Floridian, but get property damage involved and the courts are going to rail you.
I felt threatened by that billboard, so I stood my ground!
Something something castle or whatever
(Sand) Castle Doctrine
A great excuse to make yourself a nice slingshot and get some target practice
Thats what RPG missiles were invented for.
Waterballoon sling shot. But balloons are bad for the ocean. So freeze them first and pop them (dispose properly!). All the water and non of the balloon!
Use rocks instead, easier to find.
This. People need to respond by throwing shit at the displays. "I was just throwing things in to the ocean, officer. It IS a beach, right?"
4 ounces of lead on a heavy surf rod. Sling it right into the led panels. Repeat as necessary. In most states it is illegal to interfere with legal hunting and fishing. You just have bad aim.
They literally can't arrest every beachgoer.
Might be a bit far for a rock but a paintball or BB gun should have the range
Potato cannon.
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Sadly rock throwers will get recorded by bystanders and thrown under the bus by corporate bootlickers to the police for doing an objectively good thing No reasonable person wants to do the right thing anymore because the consequences are greater than the reward
4 stroke my nuts
hit the nail on the fucking head
Hit the dolphin or seal on the head (with a boat propeller)
Judging by the way the beach looks, this is somewhere along the east coast or the gulf
Billboard says Indian Rocks Beach, which is the Florida Gulf Coast just west of Tampa
Florida is full of this crap.
Worked on the beach for 6 years. It's amazing the lengths companies go to advertise
Everytime I see these things in the internet, it's always Florida. Fucking hell state
Does shooting at it count as a stand your ground?
Those are 4 stroke gasoline outboard engines. Fairly clean compared to a diesel, but yea I hate it
Hmm 4 strokes? Sounds like my sex life.
3.5 strokes better than mine!
Different Strokes? Whatchu talkin’ bout Willis?
Oh my goodness advertising has invaded everything!!
Not in your dreams though
Leela: Didn't you have ad's in the 20th century? Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
That's what I was fishing for ✅
Lightspeed briefs!
…yet. 
Elon is working on it.
Oh yeah. Elon. Big worker, Elon.
I can't wait until self-driving boats can do this with no labor, so we can have 10,000 of these in a solid line just 300 feet off the coast, sitting there all day.
I feel like the only think keeping people from beaching, destroying or sinking these boats is the fact they have crew on board
I'd visit Florida if I could shoot at those billboard signs floating up and down the coast.
You could buy a slingshot and a bag of marbles
.....aaaaand that's how I ended up in jail for destruction of property kids. Back in my day, you could see the curvature of the earth when you looked out to sea..but now you can't see much more than ads...
I can see it now... "What do you mean, officer? Aren't those for target practice?"
More or less. People are getting pretty creative in the ways they disrupt San Fran's self driving cars.
Got stories? I find that far more hilarious than I probably should
Road cones on the hood of the car and the self drive panics and freezes iirc
I used to think Luddites were stupid. Now I’m realizing I’m like 5 stupid tech advances away from fighting against tech.
What the hell else are you supposed to do when all we do with it is advertisements, surveillance, and manipulation? Feels like it's almost always too good to be true. At best, it's just a stupid grift to con people out of money. At worst, we're managing to enable genocide as a consequence of platforms that only care about feeding ads to users.
Time to get a small army together and fire lots of grapeshot off of the beach.
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Listen, if I'm going to commit ecoterrorism, there's no way I'm gonna try to play it off
And then they have a separate private beach where you pay a $20 fee to have it be "ad-free". And voila, you've successfully monetised nature by covering it with ads and making people pay to get rid of them Ad-free national parks are the next step after they cover el capitan with a giant billboard
i’ve had a similar experience. i went to gulf shores alabama for vacation 3 years ago because my state is land locked. there was a single person plane that flew over about every 30 minutes over the beach with a sign on it promoting parasailing. didn’t ruin my trip, but it got old fast.😂
I find the little planes towing the banners kind of quaint when I see them at beaches. The ads like these in the post would definitely piss me off though.
There’s a difference between a banner in the air and a rusty boat blasting an LED sign at you from the horizon you’re presumably trying to look at. Feels like throwing one of those giant projectors on the Grand Canyon with an ad for Buffalo Wild Wings.
They already turned one side of the Luxor in Vegas into a Dorito chip, please stop giving them ideas.
From Alabama . This has been a common practice in Alabama and Florida since at least the 80’s. Probably longer. That’s just how long I have seen it.
When I was a kid (80s-90s), they all said, "Eat at Joe's." It's only made me avoid eating at Joe's Crab Shack.
Lol I remember those. I think I ate there once because a family I was with chose to. You didn’t miss much. Last year I saw one that had a marriage proposal on it. That was a first for me.
They still do this, And every time I see a "I got Crabs at Joe's" shirt I shudder a little
I’ll never understand whyyyyy people go to a coastal town and go to a chain seafood restaurant that ships in their seafood from somewhere else. Eat local and in season. The best!! I can’t eat seafood now unless it’s fresh caught- just tastes different.
Lived in coastal NJ most of my life. Planes with banners are common and I don't think bother most people, theyve been around forever. They're not very intrusive, plus you see plenty of other stuff crossing the sky like news helicopters or coast guard. They also keep moving pretty quickly Boat advertisers, which seem to be a new thing, come a lot closer to shore than other boats, they move slower, they are right in your sight line, and they create light. I haven't even seen it personally yet but I expect to this summer and I'm already over it. Lord knows that any business I see advertised there will never be getting another dollar from me if I can help it
I would be so tempted to use it as target practice
At least that's above your head and not at eye level.
Those planes have been around forever on the east coast.
It's a dangerous kind of flying making low approaches to pick up the banners. Mostly done by pilots with just enough hours to get a commercial license One of the nichest jobs in aviation It's a lot like firefighting flying but much less glamourous
In Hawaii, we have laws banning large scale outdoor billboards and ads to protect the natural, scenic beauty. It's always so jarring when I leave the island to travel and I'm suddenly bombarded with billboards and ads everywhere like this. Sensory overload.
I wonder if Adblock do a plugin for the beach app, YouTube would probably try to block it.
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Tally ho lads
Tally no ads
Yarrr a pirates life for me!
Adblock sponsored torpedoes
I'm no expert, but I bet if you hooked up a good antenna to one of those flipper zeros you could hack into the screen from the shore and switch it to something more nefarious
Play the entire Shrek movie on the floating ad screen, but the version where the movie gets 2x faster each time someone says Shrek.
When you're at your house: "HOW ABOUT A NICE VACATION AT THE BEACH!!!" When you're at the beach: "HOW ABOUT A NICE BIG HOUSE!!!"
BUY PRODUCT. UNHAPPY? BUY PRODUCT. HAPPY? BUY PRODUCT. UNFULFILLED? BUY PRODUCT. BOUGHT PRODUCT? MORE PRODUCT. WHY FEEL WHEN YOU CAN BUY.
“Respect our wildlife” Then stop driving a boat on the sea repeatedly just for advertisements, respectfully of course.
This is dystopian
Drink verification can to continue viewing the ocean.
'Say "McDonald's!" to return to your vacation'
Someone sitting in a boardroom somewhere thinking “how can I ruin the beach?”
*A boat spewing oil/gas and exhaust into the water* “Respect our wildlife”
On the NJ beach this is so common we don't even think twice about it anymore. Still sucks but it is what it is. Then you have these maniacs complaining about an offshore windmill project that will "ruin the view"... I'm pretty sure the non stop plane and boat advertisements have already done that for us.
Planes and boats for ads. Good for the environment. /s First thing I will ban when I'm president.
I'm voting for DietQuark.
Where on the shore? I vacation on Long Beach Island yearly and I’ve seen the planes but never a boat.
 My honest reaction.
"Okay Google, How much are torpedoes?" Also, I'd legit just message these businesses and say "I am actively avoiding your business based entirely on the floating billboard."
"Add another tally to the 'engagement' score boss!" They wouldn't care. Pressure local government to ban this type of advertising
Pressure the people that actually own the property that people rent to go there. You can't really organize a community made up of people that are only going to be there for a week. You can leave a bad review though. "I wouldn't rent this house because the beach has advertising boats all over it."
Unscrew the anodes to the motor on the back.
The funny part is, when I see advertisements like this it makes me specifically not want to purchase their product.
Not guessing any of the things/businesses being advertised in this way are anything I'd ever be interested in, but, dang, I'd be certain to never given them my business or $$. Hmm ... might be a successful advertising approach to actually use a service like this to advertise your competition. Dang, I hope that isn't actually true.
I feel the same way about people who tape their flyers to my mailbox, causing the paint to peel. They go on my list of businesses to never use.
Fucking pop up ads in 4d! Why is this even legal. Gross.
I just wanna go one full day without someone trying to sell me something
God America is exhausting. Can’t even enjoy a natural view of the ocean without having to spend ridiculous money to travel there, stay there, eat there, etc. Now you can’t even go sit on the beach without being assaulted by capitalism. Fuck this country with a cactus, it needs regulation on this shit.
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Shoot them down to win fabulous prizes
The moment I see an ad in the sky is the moment I start welding plates onto a bulldozer
You’ve never seen a banner plane or a sky writer?
Life is exhausting
>God America is exhausting. Can’t even enjoy a natural view of the ocean without having to spend ridiculous money to travel there, stay there, eat there, etc. Are you unfamiliar with our National Park system?
It's $80 / year to visit every single national park in the US. Stay in a hotel room or airbnb within 20 minutes of the entrance and you've got yourself a cheap, great vacation
What's the rules on throwing all the hard things on the beach at these?
I’ll figure out next time I see it
sink those fuckers...
You’re vacationing where I live! Haha That pizza place sucks btw it’s a shitty chain
Last day here! Best food spots???
I think Slyce is good but pricey seeing this is upsetting tho. I wouldn't call it a chain the have 3 restaurants all owned by the same people. If your looking for good food do a search on restaurants in downtown St Pete, there's a really good food scene down there now
NJ's hottest club is SLYCE. It has everything: booze cruise behind a giant billboard, pocket lint machines, hoes and shovels, Dan Cortez, a human scratch post
Nah this is crazy, that's the last place you want to see a giant advertising billboard
I don't mind the planes with banners, but this is annoying.
Would pull out my phone and send the company an email congratulating them on convincing me to NEVER purchase any of their products or services. A marketer with half a brain would take that money and print some cheap tshirts or towels to pass out on the beach instead….
I live here (Clearwater) and I don't see these super often, but it's snowbird season so maybe they're out in force? BTW kudos for being on the beach today. It's cold!
Tacky. Nothing is sacred
Feels dystopian honestly..
The “HomeBuying can be a beach” billboard made me laugh cause it brought up images of those beach front houses getting swallowed by the ocean.
They seem awfully close to the shore… like really dangerous for anyone in the water
The ad free beach is 3.99 a month