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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3100 on: March 01, 2012, 06:00:22 AM »

I heard that same story long ago, like 2004.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3101 on: March 01, 2012, 06:23:37 AM »

So what happens when the market is flooded with prostitutes?
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3102 on: March 01, 2012, 06:24:34 AM »

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/brothel.asp

fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:re:LIBERALS IN GERMANY
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Ted Belmont

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3103 on: March 01, 2012, 06:35:03 AM »

Yeah, prostitution has been legal in Germany for a while now.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3104 on: March 01, 2012, 08:17:33 AM »

Huh. The person I got that from is a very diligent practising lawyer who is usually very good about sources.

Oh well, just goes to show.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3105 on: March 01, 2012, 09:41:08 AM »

Tell Nick Jones he sucks.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3106 on: March 01, 2012, 10:13:13 AM »

Now if only Germany would allow videogames as well.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3107 on: March 01, 2012, 11:10:42 AM »

Tell Nick Jones he sucks.

The funny thing was when I talked him later he was like "YES YOU ARE THE FOURTH PERSON TO TELL ME TODAY. UGH."   :nyoro~n:

Anyway, Nick's a good guy. Known him for a long time. One of them MTG-playing lawyers (which admittedly sounds like the opposite of a good guy).
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3109 on: March 02, 2012, 12:32:19 PM »

Boy, they sure showed her how wrong she was.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3110 on: March 02, 2012, 12:41:41 PM »

On the flipside, she's probably guaranteed a scholarship from somebody now.

Kind of weird seeing this shit go down where I was born.  I vaguely remember the place as not being too terribly, er, Georgian.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3111 on: March 02, 2012, 03:15:00 PM »

That's funny, I thought schools tried to AVOID lawsuits.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3112 on: March 10, 2012, 06:58:36 PM »

An aircraft carrier for the... Wyoming national army? It's less impossible than you think

The friend who sent me this said the idea's already been shot down (NO! REALLY?!) but can't find that bit anywhere.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3113 on: March 10, 2012, 07:55:44 PM »

If they buy the Enterprise, I swear to god...
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3115 on: March 16, 2012, 02:11:01 PM »

Do we have a schadenfreude thread? If not, we should start one for that.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3116 on: March 16, 2012, 07:58:57 PM »

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3117 on: March 17, 2012, 12:01:06 AM »

Honestly, get over yourselves with shit like this. Yeah, be careful not to name a new shade of lipstick Khmer Rouge, but forgive me for not being upset about an accidental reference to a fairly obscure (outside of Ireland) detail of history, that isn't even going to be sold in Ireland.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3118 on: March 17, 2012, 03:25:58 AM »

I guess you can argue that it's a minor fuckup in the grand scheme of fuckups, but honestly, how does a company that lives and dies by its marketing as much as Nike fail to at some point in the branding process to toss the name into a Wikipedia search and find out it has largely negative connotations to some people, to the point where it caused some uncomfortable public embarrassment to another company trying to use the name just six years ago?

The initial post contains the proper reaction, I think; it's not so much offensive (to those of us not living in Ireland) as it is just face-slappingly dumb.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3119 on: March 17, 2012, 04:18:03 AM »

Small note to add regarding the "It's not being released in Ireland". This is actually intended for release in Ireland (not mentioned in the linked article but was mentioned elsewhere) and is being released on St. Patrick's Day.

And Brentai has it. It's not that offensive to most living people*, but basically some idiot at Nike equated "I drink in a bar in [North American town] with an Irish name!" with "Boy, I sure know about Ireland!"

*[Obligatory joke about the Irish not really being people.]
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