Planning has been weaponized, mainly here to make sound strategic that which isn't. We're good at it and have it in our title, so off we're sent to the client/creatives/pitch, to sell. Feel the same?

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if you could want more could like. Is the best response to a non-sensical post by a possible planner .

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I don’t like weapons but I DO like bananas

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I get you, but what would you do if you could want more could like

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You’re not good at it

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Yes we have no bananas

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I recently weaponized in the face of conflict secretly to my neighbor; bananas though came.

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I feel I could haven't been much clearer, guys.

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I might have said it different if I could have, but I could haven't.

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Huh?

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You lost me at Planning

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Not following. Are you asking something? What are you saying by “weaponized”?

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What

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@BBDO -you sound angry about something

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Ok I get it nowant.

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Yeah, OP, defend yourself and explain your post! Or were you just mocking all of us?

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Didn’t even realize we were taking strategy here.

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That’s the strategy 👌🏻

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Senior Planner’nt

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Done with this thread. I could not've been clearer possibly.

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OP and AD2 get it. No one else does, though.

Yeah AD 4 is right I can’t find my weaponized bananas anywhere

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