What The Funicular

[-Talbot-]

Seriously What The Funicular?


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3781309/Mattress-company-forced-apologise-tasteless-9-11-themed-add-offering-Twin-Tower-sale-showing-employees-pretending-terror-victims.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus

[Mamyalynne]

Almost (almost) unbelievable.

[andy-hughes]

Moron has access to computer.

What's newsworthy about that?

[-Talbot-]

Well it won't be to you andy as I'm guessing that you didn't lose any family in the 9/11 attack?

[Peter Pedant]

hmm do they have twin brains between all three ?

I hope this thread turns into 'favourite bad taste commercial'
Remember folks - some commercials are so bad - they're good !

In the sixties a American ad was gonna run for a Japanese car:
" from the Folks who brought you Pearl Harbor ...."

or
Gerald Ford ( president of the US ) who endorsed someone:
He grows on you - like cancer .....

[agchristie]

Andy > Moron has access to computer.

Yes,there's a lot of it about these days :(

[Peter Pedant]

O dear ...
put on suitable po-face
lack of sense of humour alert .....

[andy-hughes]

Talbot - //Well it won't be to you andy as I'm guessing that you didn't lose any family in the 9/11 attack? //

And that is relevant because ... what?

Whether or not I lost anyone in 911 is not the issue.

You have pointed out that a numpty in the US has posted a tasteless video.

I suggest that is not news.

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant - //O dear ...
put on suitable po-face
lack of sense of humour alert ..... //

Either you are being ironic, and trying to throw petrol on the fire, or you seriously think there is something remotely amusing about the clip.

Neither position is really helpful.

[agchristie]

It is moronic.This being one of thousands of examples of clips which seeks to just draw attention to themselves.

Seriously,did they expect a positive reaction? It's worse than amateurish.

[-Talbot-]

I think it would be more likely to attract bricks to the store rather than customers AG.

[andy-hughes]

AG- //Seriously,did they expect a positive reaction? It's worse than amateurish. //

It's proof that it is perfectly possible to function as an adult in a society and have absolutely no grasp of common sense or empathy whatsoever.

[Mamyalynne]

It's the train of thought from the grain of an idea to acting it out that I find unfathomable, at no stage did a light pop on - 'this may not be a good idea'.

[-Talbot-]

Yep, Mamya ... you would have thought that the suggestion would have got a few looks of incredulity followed by 'Has anyone else got any other ideas'

[jackthehat]

It has all the hallmarks of being 'The boss's' idea........utterly stupid but no-one dare say so.

[-Talbot-]

I've never had that problem, Jack. I think I would have said something like

'You really are a special kind of idiot aren't you'

I'm gobsmacked it got past the abstract idea stage.