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43. They probably give suppliers initial benefit of the doubt

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #37)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 06:24 PM

Mar 2013

But I will not be surprised when the company is told to keep calm and sell somewhere else.

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Company apologises for 'Keep Calm And Rape' T-shirts [View all] dipsydoodle Mar 2013 OP

WTH were they thinking? AsahinaKimi Mar 2013 #1

1001001 $$ sofa king Mar 2013 #10

Forget about Amazon Scairp Mar 2013 #34

idiot people WILL buy it but this is a good reason to boycott Amazon wordpix Mar 2013 #53

This. RudynJack Mar 2013 #59

Your post mistakenly assumes they were thinking. (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2013 #13

You may be correct... AsahinaKimi Mar 2013 #16

That is far too nice for these people GeoWilliam750 Mar 2013 #50

ne... AsahinaKimi Mar 2013 #57

Looks like Joe "Girls Gone Wild" Francis has a new line of work Jumpin Jack Fletch Mar 2013 #2

The computer made them do it jsr Mar 2013 #3

Do65you hate it when that happens? LisaLynne Mar 2013 #7

"Boys will be boys" chervilant Mar 2013 #4

I misread your t-shirt . . . another_liberal Mar 2013 #5

MORE. WTF.... Amazon removes offensive 'Keep Calm and Hit Her' T-shirts.... Little Star Mar 2013 #6

Nothing to see here, huh. Business as usual. *sarcasm* freshwest Mar 2013 #22

They are missing one Scairp Mar 2013 #35

Solid Gold Bombs indeed Scairp Mar 2013 #40

If it really is a random slogan generating computer program, tblue37 Mar 2013 #60

Who was the moron that even thought of making that shirt? NewJeffCT Mar 2013 #8

probably one of R$'s takeover companies wordpix Mar 2013 #54

WTF?! Lucky Luciano Mar 2013 #9

As banal as it is unimaginative. Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #12

What's with the "Keep calm..." Crap? Branding? The new P.C. frontier? Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #11

Eh, overall it's just a parody of an old poster. Posteritatis Mar 2013 #14

I remember seeing such posters. They riffed on THAT? Eleanors38 Mar 2013 #24

One particular one, yeah Posteritatis Mar 2013 #26

On a trip to Seattle mimi85 Mar 2013 #30

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On (NT) reACTIONary Mar 2013 #58

Guess I'm just too old to get it RedstDem Mar 2013 #15

kicking for continued visibility niyad Mar 2013 #17

This falls under ARE YOU SERIOUS WTF iandhr Mar 2013 #18

If mercuryblues Mar 2013 #19

Well, it could STILL be computer generated, but only with the tblue37 Mar 2013 #61

I agree - some of them are just nonsense, which is expected if a computer was just petronius Mar 2013 #64

WTF? Solly Mack Mar 2013 #20

Representative of what has been acceptable behavior by men for hundreds of years.Why r u shocked? judesedit Mar 2013 #21

If they ever wind up in prison..maybe they'll get a taste of their own medicine. Hope they like it. judesedit Mar 2013 #23

Suggesting cate94 Mar 2013 #25

prison rape jokes are awful. please stop. bettyellen Mar 2013 #27

notorious human rights abuses BainsBane Mar 2013 #52

Well at least you would know where the wearer of the t-shirt stands... Kalidurga Mar 2013 #28

many here would argue it's satire, or edgy and we don't get it...... bettyellen Mar 2013 #29

Well, I'm sure the t-shirt makers are protected by the First Amendment. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2013 #32

of course, I was commenting on how misogynistic humour is commonly defended here as "edgy" bettyellen Mar 2013 #39

Rape culture Texasgal Mar 2013 #51

Well, hopefully the imbeciles who are longing for a new issue Sheldon Cooper Mar 2013 #33

No need for creativity if you can be edgy. athenasatanjesus Mar 2013 #31

Domestic violence humor is "edgy" in some quarters of the Internet Prism Mar 2013 #36

What suprises me dipsydoodle Mar 2013 #37

They probably give suppliers initial benefit of the doubt Prism Mar 2013 #43

provoking gets confused too frequently with thought provoking...... bettyellen Mar 2013 #42

It's a fine line between provocative and ugly Prism Mar 2013 #44

Obviously offensive. BalancedGoat Mar 2013 #38

or you'd think they'd include "him" too, as being the butt of these weird jokes. bettyellen Mar 2013 #41

From the look of that listing dipsydoodle Mar 2013 #45

Well the links you posted did say that the company's headquarters are in the UK Revanchist Mar 2013 #46

Its a Worcester MA company. dipsydoodle Mar 2013 #47

Thanks for the correction, I was going by this line in your O.P. Revanchist Mar 2013 #48

The Mail's wording is wrong dipsydoodle Mar 2013 #49

But I read that it is controlled by a company in Oxford. nt tblue37 Mar 2013 #62

There are contradictory statements dipsydoodle Mar 2013 #63

Ugh... sakabatou Mar 2013 #55

Cowards. Their Contact Us page just has a copy of the lame kestrel91316 Mar 2013 #56

Not good enough!!!! Beacool Mar 2013 #65