Topic: What the fuck? (Read 315102 times)

JDigital · « **Reply #3100 on:** March 01, 2012, 06:00:22 AM »

I heard that same story long ago, like 2004.

Büge · « **Reply #3101 on:** March 01, 2012, 06:23:37 AM »

So what happens when the market is flooded with prostitutes?

Shinra · « **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

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #3103 on:** March 01, 2012, 06:35:03 AM »

Yeah, prostitution has been legal in Germany for a while now.

Mongrel · « **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.

patito · « **Reply #3105 on:** March 01, 2012, 09:41:08 AM »

Tell Nick Jones he sucks.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #3106 on:** March 01, 2012, 10:13:13 AM »

Now if only Germany would allow videogames as well.

Mongrel · « **Reply #3107 on:** March 01, 2012, 11:10:42 AM »

Quote from: patito on March 01, 2012, 09:41:08 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."

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).

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #3108 on:** March 02, 2012, 12:17:04 PM »

A thirteen-year-old girl who routinely makes straight A's writes an award-winning essay that also criticizes her school. Her school responds by failing her, kicking her out of school, blacklisting her, and shoving her into a special school that handles aggressive or otherwise children.

Thad · « **Reply #3109 on:** March 02, 2012, 12:32:19 PM »

Boy, they sure showed her how wrong she was.

Brentai · « **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.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #3111 on:** March 02, 2012, 03:15:00 PM »

That's funny, I thought schools tried to AVOID lawsuits.

Mongrel · « **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.

Büge · « **Reply #3113 on:** March 10, 2012, 07:55:44 PM »

If they buy the Enterprise, I swear to god...

Mongrel · « **Reply #3114 on:** March 16, 2012, 02:00:44 PM »

Breaking news: The director of the Kony 2012 protest video just arrested for allegedly vandalizing several cars and masturbating in public

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #3115 on:** March 16, 2012, 02:11:01 PM »

Do we have a schadenfreude thread? If not, we should start one for that.

Mongrel · « **Reply #3116 on:** March 16, 2012, 07:58:57 PM »

The Nike Black & Tan

The Price is Right losing horn

Bal · « **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.

Brentai · « **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.

Mongrel · « **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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