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J.C. Penney billboard with Hitler teapot leaves commuters steamed
Drivers along southern California's Interstate 405 say the photo of the stainless steel kettle bears remarkable resemblance to the former German dictator.
J.C. Penney is in hot water over this kettle that seems to heil Hitler.
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This unfortunate tea kettle seems to heil Hitler.
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J.C. Penney is in hot water over this kettle that seems to heil Hitler.
Trouble is brewing for retailer J.C. Penney after it unveiled a teapot that's a dead ringer for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
Commuters in southern California have been left bewitched by the billboard of the stainless steel kitchen essential that bears a remarkable resemblance to the former German dictator.
Several drivers have posted snaps on Twitter of the 10-by-36-foot ad — which towers over Interstate 405 near Culver City.
One user wrote: "Every time I see that JC Penny billboard with the teapot, I keep seeing Hitler. Seriously, the thing looks exactly like Hitler, 405 S, man."
Oh for Christ's sake, people really need to grow some thicker skin these days. Nowadays everybody's just looking for sh*t to get offend by. I feel sorry for the current generation of kids. They are going to grow up to be the biggest bunch of oversensitive crybabies society has ever produced.
Funny thing is, The British, the French, the Polish...they LOVE making fun of World War II, Hitler, Nazi's (I've even seen a Polish comedy based in a concentration camp (all the women they'd forced in there had anorexia, so they called it paradise). Not exactly common or the ideal topic, but even so!).
And yet, here, stateside...we even censor Laurel and Hardy because Ollie had a "hitler moustache", we try to censor our "anti-war" cartoons because they depicted just a little too much. (Don't get me started on the stupid treatment Disney gives to its "Racially stereotyping" shorts and scenes)
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And yet one of Britain's proudest moments, even to-day, is:
Funny thing is, The British, the French, the Polish...they LOVE making fun of World War II, Hitler, Nazi's (I've even seen a Polish comedy based in a concentration camp (all the women they'd forced in there had anorexia, so they called it paradise). Not exactly common or the ideal topic, but even so!).
Considering there are almost no Jews in Poland these days, that wouldn't be surprising. No one there to complain. Same with most of the other European countries. Europe has never been real fond of Jews.
Funny thing is, The British, the French, the Polish...they LOVE making fun of World War II, Hitler, Nazi's (I've even seen a Polish comedy based in a concentration camp (all the women they'd forced in there had anorexia, so they called it paradise). Not exactly common or the ideal topic, but even so!).
And yet, here, stateside...we even censor Laurel and Hardy because Ollie had a "hitler moustache", we try to censor our "anti-war" cartoons because they depicted just a little too much. (Don't get me started on the stupid treatment Disney gives to its "Racially stereotyping" shorts and scenes
Nobody did it like Mel Brooks.
...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Even a few years ago (well maybe around 10 years), Whose Line is it Anyway's director jumped aboard the PC train and knocked down a Hitler suggestion from the audience for one of their scenarios. The cast pushed the envelope anyway for the rest of the show.
The obscure band Sparks (still around 22 albums later) had a song around 1972 called Girl from Germany, in which a guy brings home a German girl to meet his parents, and the parents act as if he brought Hitler home. They performed this song with go-go girls dancing in cages, dressed as der Fuehrer, complete with moustaches.
Oh, no! Bring her home and the folks look ill My word, they can't forget, they never will They can hear the stormtroops on our lawn When I show her in And the Fuehrer is alive and well In our panelled den... Oh, no! Bring her home and the folks look ill My word, they can't forget that war, what a war!
I don't think I would have thought "Hitler" unless it was pointed out. It's a freaking tea pot with an unfortunate reflection or something. If that wasn't there no one would make the connection.
A new study finds that people who are chipper & happy live longer. Which is surprising because people who aren't chipper & happy want to kill people who are always chipper & happy. David Letterman
The joke is that the ad is trying to sell something that nobody really uses anymore....
I'll bet half of them are bought as decorations...like the pots and pans that people keep on display on their walls or hanging from their ceiling, which look like they've never actually been used.
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