Google’s Super Bowl Ad Bought The Whole World To Tears

Sports are the celebration of the physical achievements of athletes who time and time again prove the true capabilities of the human body. It is also a celebration of the achievements that form and reinforce the identity of people and nations—the activities that they excel at and pride themselves in.

So, it should come as no surprise that competitions like the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, and the Super Bowl draw in crowds of millions, if not billions around the world. And since many high-profile sporting events are televised, it also draws in a bunch of companies for a chance of some advertising.

The Super Bowl is the ideal example of how a sporting event begins to double as an ad festival. One can even dare to say that it has over time become somewhat of a competition of which company can come out with a better ad with the audience being the jury.

Google managed to sway the hearts of millions with its heartwarming Super Bowl Ad

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The roster offered a slew of funny ads, like the Rick and Morty Pringles commercial and the Mountain Dew Zero “Shining” parody, as well as some more touching and inspirational ads like the NFL’s “Inspire Change” commercial. However, based on the nearly-unanimous reaction that the viewers had, nobody seemed to do it better than Google and their “Loretta” ad.

Their touching commercial for the Google Assistant has brought the entire world to tears. It features the voice of an old man talking to the Assistant, reminiscing of himself with his significant other named Loretta.

It features an elderly man’s voice talking to Google Assistant and reminiscing about his time with Loretta

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Viewers are told a heart-wrenching story of this man’s best moments in life together with Loretta in the hope of not forgetting them. He asks the Assistant to pull up photos of their wedding anniversary. He asks it to remember things like how Loretta hated his mustache. He even asked Google Assistant to play their favorite movie—Casablanca. All of this lead the viewers to believe that the protagonist has lost her to time.

The Assistant recapped with a list of all of the things that the man also asked the Assistant to remember: how Loretta used to hum show tunes, how her favorite flowers were tulips, how she had the most beautiful handwriting. The ad concluded with the words, “Remember that I’m the luckiest man in the world”.

He asks things like to pull up photos of him and Loretta and to show their favorite movie

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Needless to say, this left people in tears. The ad resonated with many as they identified themselves with the protagonist with his sincere voice, being reminded of their own loved ones and the good times they had.

In a Google blog post, it is explained that the ad is voiced by the 85-year-old grandfather of a Google employee, a designer who worked on the commercial. The ad aims to reflect on how Google’s products help people in their daily lives and how every little bit helps in doing so.

Google Assistant responds with “Ok, I’ll remember that” to all things the protagonist asks to note

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Image credits: Google

The ad was built in the vein of the Parisian Love ad from 10 years ago, with the only difference being that everything there was looked up on the search engine, and not in voice commands on Google Assistant. Parisian Love is another one of their ads that hits us in the feels by telling a story of a man who moves to study in Paris, falls in love, and has his happily-ever-after there.

The Googler who worked on this ad had his 85YO grandfather voice the video

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The touching ad concludes with all of the things the Assistant was asked to remember over the years

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Take a look at the touching video ad below. While you’re at it, why not leave a comment below of your fondest memories with loved ones?

Take a look at the video ad for yourself (warning: it hits right in the feels)

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Bill Murray Finally Learns To Love Groundhog Day In This Hilarious Jeep Super Bowl Ad

Even if you’re not the biggest fan of Bill Murray, you’ve probably seen the 1993 movie Groundhog Day – you know, the one where the main character, Phil, is cursed to relive the same day over and over again for as many as 10,000 years. Well, even though the actor hated the movie so much he stopped talking to its director Harold Ramis for 20 years, Murray decided to relive it once again for a hilarious Superbowl ad by Jeep.

Jeep has created a hilarious Groundhog Day-inspired Superbowl ad to promote their new off-roader

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The ad will certainly bring up a lot of memories for the people who grew up watching this movie. It’s full of Murray-esque jokes and even features a guest appearance from Ned Ryerson, Phil’s annoying childhood friend.

Even though the actor hated filming the original movie, it looks like he had a whale of a time filming the new ad

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Just like in the original movie, Punxsutawney Phil and Murray’s character go on all sorts of wacky adventures including off-roading, bike riding, and skiing.

The ad even has a guest appearance from Phil’s annoying childhood friend, Ned

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The ad has collected nearly 20 million views in less than 24 hours since it came out and people absolutely love it!

“It’s not personal”

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“It’s just a game”

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Here’s the actor in Groundhog Day back in 1993 compared to the 2020 ad

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Check out the full ad below!

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Guy Learns That Not Everyone Can Talk To Themselves In Their Thoughts, And It Blows His Mind

The human brain is one of the most complex objects on our planet. And while we can’t even tell how well we know it, it’s hard to comprehend the stuff we’ve already learned about it as well. Like the fact that not every person has internal monologues.

When Ryan Langdon found out that not everyone can inwardly talk to themselves, his mind was completely blown. “It intrigued me because [after] I read it, [I] didn’t believe it could be true,” he told Bored Panda. So, he decided to investigate it to the best of his abilities. Afterward, Ryan compiled his findings and wrote a comprehensive text that immediately went viral.

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My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their head. All my life, I could hear my voice in my head and speak in full sentences as if I was talking out loud. I thought everyone experienced this, so I did not believe that it could be true at that time. Literally the first person I asked was a classmate of mine who said that she can not “hear” her voice in her mind. I asked her if she could have a conversation with herself in her head and she looked at me funny like I was the weird one in this situation. So I began to become more intrigued. Most people I asked said that they have this internal monologue that is running rampant throughout the day. However, every once in a while, someone would say that they don’t experience this.

My life began to slowly spiral out of control with millions of questions. How do they get through the day? How do they read? How do they make decisions between choice A and choice B? My friend described it as “concept maps” that she sees in her brain. Another friend says that she literally sees the words in her head if she is trying to think about something. I was taking ibuprofen at this point in the day because my brain was literally unable to comprehend this revelation. How have I made it 25 years in life without realizing that people don’t think like me?

I posted a poll on instagram to get a more accurate assessment of the situation. Currently 91 people have responded that they have an internal monologue and 18 people reported that they do not have this. I began asking those people questions about the things that they experience and it is quite different from the majority. I would tell them that I could look at myself in the mirror and have a full blown telepathic conversation with myself without opening my mouth and they responded as if I had schizophrenia. One person even mentioned that when they do voice overs in movies of people’s thoughts, they “wished that it was real.”

And to their surprise, they did not know that the majority of people do in fact experience that echoey voice in their head that is portrayed in TV and film. Another person said that if they tried to have a conversation with themselves in the mirror, they would have to speak out loud because they can’t physically do it inside of their mind.

I started posting screenshots of these conversations on my instagram and my inbox started to flood with people responding to my “investigation.” Many people were reassuring me that I was not crazy for having an internal monologue, while others were as absolutely mind blown as I was. People were telling me that I ruined their day and that they now do not understand anything about life. Maybe you are all just a figment of my imagination, but regardless, yesterday made reality seem even more skewed. How do they think? How does this affect their relationships, jobs, experiences, education? How has this not been mentioned to me before? All of these questions started flooding my mind. Can those people without the internal monologue even formulate these questions in their mind? If they can, how does it happen if they don’t “hear” their voice? I mentioned earlier that I was spiraling out of control. Well, as I write this and as I hear my own voice in my head, I am continuing to fall down the rabbit hole.

Whether people just have different definitions of their thoughts, or if people literally don’t have an internal monologue, there is one thing that we do know… you will definitely get a headache if you keep thinking about this. Just trying to wrap my head around it is causing irreversible brain damage. I suggest asking people around you what they experience. If you are one of the few that do not have this internal monologue, please enlighten me, because I still do not understand life anymore. Send help.

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‘Extremely Obese’ Owl Was Rescued After Being Too Fat To Fly

At the beginning of January, one concerned landowner called Suffolk Owl Sanctuary to report a presumably injured little owl. But upon the first inspection of the female bird, the rescuers thought the owl to be ‘soggy’ as she wasn’t able to fly. However, as it later turned out, the little owl wasn’t soggy at all – she was just a tad overindulged. Well, not just a tad probably, as the Suffolk Owl Sanctuary had examined the bird and deemed it “simply extremely obese” and therefore “unable to fly effectively.”

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One concerned citizen called animal rescuers as he found an owl in a ditch, unable to fly

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Suffolk Owl Sanctuary – a UK-based organization – was contacted when one landowner spotted an owl in a ditch. “Usually in these instances, we assume injury of sorts that is preventing the owl from flying – occasionally becoming wet causes them to become grounded too,” the sanctuary wrote on their Facebook page. “So you can imagine our surprise that when we examined her, we found her to simply be extremely obese!”

But as it turned out, the owl was simply ‘too fat’ to be airborne

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Upon weighing the overindulged bird, the rescuers found out that it is roughly a third heavier than a large healthy female little owl (Athene noctua). “She was unable to fly effectively due to the fatty deposits around her body,” Suffolk-based animal rescuers wrote. They added that it is very unusual for wild birds to become obese naturally, so the rescuers put all effort into investigating the possible scenarios – the first being that she was an escaped aviary bird. However, it turned out that she was simply “an unusual case of natural obesity.” As this winter was pretty mild, the area that the little owl roamed in was crawling with field mice and voles. The animal rescuers spent a few weeks observing the fluffy bird and put her on a strict diet. “We can now happily say she has trimmed down to a more natural weight for release,” Suffolk Owl Sanctuary writes.

After a few weeks of strict diet, the little owl was released back into the wild

“Wow…what a little star Plump has turned out to be!” Owl Sanctuary writes. “Here she is upon release, flying gracefully off into the British countryside at a much healthier, and happier weight.” Let’s just hope that this chunky avian has learned her lesson and won’t be overindulging in mice anymore!

Many people thought they’d found their spirit animal

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OnSITE wins contest to create Saudi Arabian desert house

French architecture studio OnSITE has designed a holiday home made up of four rock-like rooms, which could be built in the Al-Ula desert in the north west of Saudi Arabia.

The holiday home by OnSITE was the winner of the inaugural Sculpting Spaces: Architectural Desert Dwellings for Al-Ula competition.

It was designed in collaboration with artist studio Lehm Design Raum, Jordanian textile artist Ishraq Zraikat, ceramics company Amaco and landscape designer Sensomoto.

The team's design takes the form of four small buildings, named void room, earth room, water room, fire room, that would be grouped together on a valley floor surrounded by red-sandstone cliffs.

Each of the free-standing rooms would be 15 square-metres and clad in locally sourced rock and contain one of the holiday home's functions.

A bed would be placed in the earth room, while the fire room, which the team describe as an "inhabitable chimney", would contain a kitchen.

The water room would be a dome-like structure with a saltwater bath and a shower that flows from the dome's oculus, while the void room would be arranged around a central stone monolith and used as a place to write, sit or eat.

The holiday home would be completed with a fifth "room" located on the valley ridge. This structure would be a stone plinth accessed by steps cut into the valley wall and would be used as an observatory.

The holiday home was designed for the Al-Ula area of Saudi Arabia, which is around 220 miles north of the city of Medina and contains the Madain Saleh UNESCO World Heritage site.

It is part of the Royal Commission for Al-Ula's long-term plan to develop tourism in the region. The commission will now work with the OnSITE team to develop the project.

"Ultimately the aim will be to open these dwellings to visitors, allowing them to experience overnight stays at this evolving cultural crossroads, where art, heritage and nature meet," said the commission.

OnSITE's design was chosen from a shortlist of ten by a jury led by Adrian Lahoud, dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art in London and curator of the 2020 Sharjah Triennale.

"The proposal reinterprets the possibilities of inhabiting this phenomenal landscape, whilst being respectful and true to the qualities of local life, materials and indigenous nature," said the jury.

"The Sculpting Spaces programme maximises, draws on, [and] recognises the potential of the desert as a dynamic territory of possibility. It has been exciting and inspiring to see this heritage site coming to life through the eyes of the artists and architects who have shared their proposals with us."

Visualisations by OnSITE, Lehm Design Raum, Amaco and Sensomoto.

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