Siemens rebranding train wreck is the best cringe humor of 2016

After watching the video I started to throw up in my mouth a little bit.

I’m pretty sure Spaceship Earth is funded by Siemens AG. They have a bunch of divisions, one now horribly renamed. If Body Wars was still running, they’d be a great fit for Siemens Healthineer sponsorship.

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Speaking of David Cross, you have no idea how happy I am that Pit-Pat, the magical pansexual non-threatening spokesthing, is now a corporate actuality.

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So…their mascot is the Greendale Community College Human Being?

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I’m surprised none of you geeks recognized The Engineers Song - mangled up by a corporation, but still, how many corporate executives would even know the song?

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Swear Like Siemens’es derided last minute by Erdogan Turkoewicz, president of someplace.
Mechanical Healthineer Rockabilly Band and Health Data Extractor has been 97% ready for 17 years running, what could go wrong?
All-singing all-dancing Lorum Ipsum was choreographed and polling awesome, when someone dropped in an unrhymable placeholder.
Things Cory tastefully demurred on '16 woo!

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Pit-Pat loves you!

It doesn’t have to be good, or make sense. It’s what mind control looks like. (Polite applause at the end.)

For your viewing pleasure: The Siemens Uroskop:

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Any bets on whether the development team has purchased an Oculus Rift and is writing software to use the Uroskop as a game controller?

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ā€œDickPic Proā€

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To think, someone got paid a healthy sum of money to come up with that name, too.

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Did they have him fight a moon hoax truther?

You know, I think I’d pay money to see Aldrin go a few rounds in the ring with a moon hoax truther. Tough old man knows where he went and what he saw.

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Forwarded it to our engineer that works closely with Siemens… She is threatening me with bodily harm for the earworm she is now afflicted with – it seems to be causing her to come up with many *ineer titles for our company.

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Narp. Just standing ovation and car calls from the nerds in the audience.

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Don’t even suggest it!

(You had me ROFL!)

You’d think they could miniaturize it a bit . . . .

Someone is laughing all the way to the bank…

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for what it’s worth: The Siemens Bank was not renamed to Siemens Moneyneers.

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Of course we recognized it* - we were too busy boggling over how badly the ad folks could do such a thing.
And you’d expect corporate execs who went to the appropriate US tech schools would recognize it, though Hahvahd MBAs might or might not, and European execs mostly went to schools with different drinking songs.

(* Personally, I could never demolish more than about 3-4 beers in one sitting back in college, and even that required large quantities of pizza to get through.)

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