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Bartek wrote:I probably shouldn't have laugh hard and loud reading this, but I found this damn hilarious.

Biggest clothing fail since American Apparel's back to school campaign

& this just in. Their "apology"

The item in question, part of the Cowboy Collection for babies, was inspired by the character of the sheriff in Wild West movies. The word ‘Sheriff’ is visible on the star at the front of the item. Nevertheless, we can understand the sensitive context and connotation that was created. The item does not exist in Israel and as soon as the issue became clear, it was decided the product will be removed from shelves across the world and exterminated.

And another WTF?!: some of us tend to see animals as not so smart, so this is yet another info that we (you) are wrong.

markfiend wrote:And for all I know, they could have been ravens. I'm not sure how you tell the difference.

An old farmer once told me 'If you see a raven on its own - it's a crow and if you see a load of crows - then they're rooks'

Pista wrote:

Bartek wrote:I probably shouldn't have laugh hard and loud reading this, but I found this damn hilarious.

& this just in. Their "apology"

... it was decided the product will be removed from shelves across the world and exterminated.

not the greatest choice of words by them eh? and if you read on in the original article the same company has previously had to withdraw a handbag for having swastikas on it!!

A snip at £1,021,000
Or would you prefer a pink one for £30,000,000?

Aren't all iPhones that expensive?

Just the 128Gb ones apparently

fior that sort of money you could get the mafia to kidnap whoever you wanted to talk to and fly them to your side. what a waste of cash when there are children starving in the world*

*other good causes are available.

I think that if you're the sort of person to drop over a million on a phone, you've already demonstrated that you don't give a shît about starving children.

markfiend wrote:I think that if you're the sort of person to drop over a million on a phone, you've already demonstrated that you don't give a shît about starving children.

Not to forget that if you're the sort of corporation prepared to market a phone for a million beans, you prolly don't rightly care either

Pista wrote:

markfiend wrote:I think that if you're the sort of person to drop over a million on a phone, you've already demonstrated that you don't give a shît about starving children.

Not to forget that if you're the sort of corporation prepared to market a phone for a million beans, you prolly don't rightly care either

Aye.

Well, you don't have to buy an iPhone. I suggest, you instead donate the money to 'starving children' NGOs. The apparatchiks of said NGOs will then use your donations to buy iphones for themselves, so they can better market the starving children.

For a million beans couldn't you buy a starving child and feed it Turkey Twizzlers and blue fizzy pop?

nowayjose wrote:Well, you don't have to buy an iPhone. I suggest, you instead donate the money to 'starving children' NGOs. The apparatchiks of said NGOs will then use your donations to buy iphones for themselves, so they can better market the starving children.

fortunately (or not) i dont have the sort of bank balance where that dilemna is even possible.

in fact i don't even have a bank account.

nowayjose wrote:Well, you don't have to buy an iPhone. I suggest, you instead donate the money to 'starving children' NGOs. The apparatchiks of said NGOs will then use your donations to buy iphones for themselves, so they can better market the starving children.

NGOs need money because they usually work for affairs like 'starving' lifestock and their rights and well-being, i.e. creatures and affairs that nobody else sees much reason to invest in because it won't yield fast financial profit ... also, most of the work of NGOs is done by voluntary and unpaid idiots who spent often lots their time - after daywork - on such issues. Be sure, that these people do keep an eye on what you call the "apparatchiks", i.e. the few employees with a mostly not overly well-paid full-time or part-time job within their organisations, and just like donators they also demand transparency regarding all sorts of budgets. NGOs, like any other sort of organisation do have to present a record of their spending and budget to the tax offices at the end of the year. Anyway, I guess you have no idea about the cost of for example building refugee camps with mobile hospitals, tents, food, drinking water, furneral space and whatever it takes, anywhere in the world where big companies sell weapons (and fat mobiles) to idiots who love to struggle about "ownership" ... ... but alas, as long as the s**t (apparently) goes on on the other edge of the planet ... hell ...

NGO's are a tool for secret services around the world after the end of cold war.
they eat whatever they can find, they drink champagne and f**k cheap chiks in luxurius hotels around the globe and all get taxed to let them have a good life saying: Hey, we do wat we do for the "starving chldreeen" or Hey, we do what we do for that animal that is going to extinct if we dont do what we do

Ofc none knows what they do and none controls their books...
But wherever you see lots of them active something terrible happens after a while... Statistically their presence is equal to the presence of jackals and vultures near sick zebras.

... it's really funny, that all the things that NGOs are so bitterly accused of are entirely congruent with what CEOs, politicians and members of all ranks of whatever military or secret service (hey cool, that's like James Bond) are doing every day out of tradition - and obviously without anybody taking much offence ... as long as no other CEO, politician or member of the military is affected ...

Here in Germany, the guy who is best known for eating whatever he can find, drinking champagne and f**king cheap chicks in luxury hotels around the globe is Peter Hartz, the "inventor" of the HARTZ-Reforms ...



Oh, and never forget about the motives of many to find a job/a contract with all sorts of entertainment industries ... ...

I can only guess, but I believe that iesus and nowayjose were referring to US NGO's. I mean if you look at currently hype one - the one that started ice bucket challenge - only 27% on collected/donated money went on researches, while CEO earned over $300K and spokesperson nearly $150 k. Obviously, lot o NGO's are doing great job, fantastic, out of sheer need to help people, but other are doing bad publicity to the rest.

nope, they are everywhere...
they even reintroduce slavery in the last 15 years with the term "Volunteers"
wherever we hear that NGO ask for volunteers to do that or the other job you can automate translate that to "Hey, we need some slave persons to work without fees, so the managers of the X NGO can spend all the budget for salaries to do whatever they can do best**"


**as it was mentioned in previous post and that manager in Germany did before he make a break in expenses of German tax payers in luxurius DeutschesBundes-prisons

I like every Greeks that I met and know, but what is puzzling me or even worrying me is a fact that too much of you love conspiracy theories. But I throw it on history and culture (religion).

Bartek wrote:I like every Greeks that I met and know, but what is puzzling me or even worrying me is a fact that too much of you love conspiracy theories. But I throw it on history and culture (religion).

Many things in so little words... what the heck lets begin.
"I like every Greeks that I met and know" - You are lucky, there are many traps to fell in. But if you want a hint, the best of us are those that don't carry extraordinary gifts and too many good words for everything and everyone around.
"what is puzzling me or even worrying me is a fact that too much of you love conspiracy theories"
We mostly don't, proofs for that many, the space is not appropriate to discuss that further.
"But I throw it on history(a) and culture(b) (religion(c))"
3 different things
a. -There are many aspects, views and the most interesting are not in school books. You have to go to a University in Humanist Studies to start understand what is happening in that subject.
b. -Everyone has one but never mix it with (c) or else you will end up in wrong places with the wrong people except if that is your other half and you can't live without. Culture in reality has nothing to do with religion. In most cases it flourishes better with simple net logic.
c.-Don't mix it and don't serve it to the face of anyone you see or speak around. It is a personal matter and choice what you, me, anyone do with the c or the absence of it that in mostly cases has the same characteristics with the existence of it. We must not use it as an analysis parameter with the exception of given important role in a subject, situation, conflict.

Yeah, honey, I never trust those who say sweet words and/or bring gits, I know, you clearly think that I'm naive 16 years old guy.

Yes, you're right, I know few Greeks in person (all live in ATH, BTW.), and counting you in, that's far too many of you tend to believe in conspiracy theories, and have that extreme lack of trust to people (and believe me, Poles don't trust people as hell).

You say don't mix culture and religion, and I'm agree, generally. However religion inflict on culture and is part of culture. And I wasn't talking about personal preferences, but that vibes comes from orthodox church (and btw. it's not mine observation, i read about that).

But because you treated me like a school boy I'll stop what dialog.

@iesus

You can't deny, treasure, that there is a Greek tradition of books (as fat as the bible) about conspiracy theories,
secret service stories (mostly concerning the CIA, the Mossad and other such actors)and so on ... ...

I've seen plenty such books in the 80s, but I forgot the names of the author(s) ...
anyway, quite a few Greek around me felt the need to read them - all ... ...

People picking on my FB friend, the three-titted woman