Which is exactly why I said I was surprized to see such a company as AF put this product out... Again, I expected it to come from a no name company with no standards (or morals)
-=Psykoral=- Raven Productions http://www.technorealm.net http://www.ravenproductions.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maria Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "-=Psykoral=-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [D] nrr: Ambercrombie Shirts (was: ok, who the heck designed this trophy !??!) > Well, the difference between your chris rock example > and af is that one is a company that relies on the > approval of millions of consumers, the other is a bad > ass comedian. and comedians get away with some pretty > harsh shit, that i too find really funny sometimes. > but what bugs me about af is that NO ONE in the > company stopped and thought, 'hmmm.. this might make > people mad.' i mean DUH!!! and you know that shirt > went through a lot of people before hitting the > stores. any business person knows that if you're > trying to make your product popular, you're going to > have it appeal to as many people as possible, unless > you've got some some special rebel cause. and af is > anything but a rebellious product...in my opinion. > and then their retarded PR guy said they thought it > would be funny.. which is just a dumb thing to say > when you've already pissed off thousands of people. > > sure it may be seen as uptight to criticize a joke > about ethnicity, but i think that af should think > about the effects their products have on their image. > chris rock is an individual, af is not. i think the > shirt is a statement about their entire company. > > my 4 cents. > > -maria > > > > > --- -=Psykoral=- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah I heard about that whole T-shirt thing... > > I think the one your talking about involves > > a comment on the way some Asian's pronounce > > certain words... Now, while I have nothing against > > any races as a whole, I find this shirt absolutly > > hillarious!!!!! > > I mean come on, that's what jokes are about, > > exploiting the > > obvious... I'd laugh just as hard if they made a > > shirt about > > "Living in a trailer park, sleeping with thier > > sister, mayonayse > > sandwitch eating, poor ass white folks" ...as per > > Chris Rock. > > > > It was only a matter of time before a shirt like > > this was to be > > released... The market value of comedy will always > > be high. > > The only thing I'm surprized by is that it was > > Ambercrombie > > that did it. I would have thought it would be some > > no name > > company that has no reputation yet. :cP > > > > -=Psykoral=- > > Raven Productions > > http://www.technorealm.net > > http://www.ravenproductions.org > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Maria Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:51 AM > > Subject: Re: [D] nrr: ok, who the heck designed this > > trophy !??! > > > > > > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHHAAA!!!!!!! > > > > > > okay, now who the fuck approved that photo ?? > > > > > > somebody need's to get fired. > > > > > > btw, did you all hear about the t-shirt from > > > abercrombie and fitch that's been getting heat > > because > > > of its racism? "wong laundry" > > > i hate that store. > > > > > > -maria > > > > > > > > > > > > --- natasha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > LMFAO > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020423/168/1funr.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and > > more > > > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > ___________________________________________________________________ The D mailing list http://www.djdenise.com/
