SmokaDustbowl posted:

how do you get the smart car down to drive it

Jonny 290 posted:

some dudes actually buy tricked out peterbilts to haul their monster RV and maintain a valid CDL

SmokaDustbowl posted:

how do you get the smart car down to drive it

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

with your big strong muscles

FAT32 SHAMER posted:

for a brief moment I thought you were saying it’s good to not ride motorcycles while horny

refleks posted:

cant believe how divorced he is

Nitr0 posted:

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I hate Elon so much

Mr. Nice! posted:

elmo stans are now saying apple supports pedophelia because they haven’t threatened to remove the balenciaga app and they only threatened twitter after elmo removed all the bad stuff from it.

Mr. Nice! posted:

elmo stans are now saying apple supports pedophelia because they haven’t threatened to remove the balenciaga app and they only threatened twitter after elmo removed all the bad stuff from it.

Asymmetric POSTer posted:

i cant stop reading this thread its beginning to become unhealthy

Mr. Nice! posted:

elmo stans are now saying apple supports pedophelia because they haven’t threatened to remove the balenciaga app and they only threatened twitter after elmo removed all the bad stuff from it.

Sapozhnik posted:

https://twitter.com/godofeep/status/1578548727526043648

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

do I want to know what the balenciaga thing refers to?

Asymmetric POSTer posted:

i cant stop reading this thread its beginning to become unhealthy

cnn, the most trusted name in lols posted:

uxury fashion house Balenciaga is suing the production company behind its Spring 2023 ad campaign after paperwork about a Supreme Court ruling on child pornography was identified in one of the images.
The label, which is already facing condemnation over a different campaign involving children, initiated the lawsuit Friday in the New York State Supreme Court. Balenciaga is seeking at least $25 million in damages from production company North Six, Inc., set designer Nicholas Des Jardins and his company
Balenciaga hired North Six and Des Jardins to develop and produce its Spring 2023 campaign, according to the court summons.
Kanye West dropped by Balenciaga
It said the campaign, which featured actor Nicole Kidman and model Bella Hadid, among others, was meant to replicate a corporate environment, with shots staged in a "Manhattan office space."
On a messy desk featured in one image, however, the clutter visibly included a page from the 2008 Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Williams, a case "which confirms as illegal and not protected by freedom of speech the promotion of child pornography," according to a statement Balenciaga provided to CNN Monday.
The court document claims Balenciaga, which is owned by French luxury group Kering, had no knowledge of and did not authorize the inclusion of this particular piece of paperwork.
In its statement to CNN, Balenciaga said "all the items included in this shooting were provided by third parties that confirmed in writing that these props were fake office documents. They turned out to be real legal papers most likely coming from the filming of a television drama."
Balenciaga said in the summons it believes the defendants' "inexplicable acts and omissions were malevolent or, at the very least, extraordinarily reckless."
Fashion gaffes are a reflection of the industry's diversity problem
The court filing alleges that, as a result of the defendants' actions, "members of the public, including the news media, have falsely and horrifically associated Balenciaga with the repulsive and deeply disturbing subject of the court decision." North Six and Des Jardins, it states, should be held liable for "all harm resulting from this false association."
Amelia K. Brankov, an attorney for Nicholas Des Jardins and his company Nicholas Des Jardins LLC, said in an emailed statement to CNN that "there certainly was no malevolent scheme going on. As Balenciaga is aware, numerous boxes of documents simply were sourced from a prop house as rental items."
"Moreover, representatives from Balenciaga were present at the shoot, overseeing it and handling papers and props," Brankov's statement continued, "and Des Jardins as a set designer was not responsible for image selection from the shoot."
A representative for North Six said the production company "did not have creative input or control over the shoot. North Six was not on set during the final set arrangements."

Nessus posted:

I thought it was the BDSM teddy bear, but apparently it was this

Shame Boy posted:

"a reflection of the industry's diversity problem" uh how is this... that... exactly

Shame Boy posted:

"a reflection of the industry's diversity problem" uh how is this... that... exactly

e: oh i bet you just accidentally copy/pasted one of those stupid links to other articles (that they put IN THE MIDDLE of articles for some loving reason) by accident since that line seems really out of place

Jabor posted:

I think the author is assuming that a bunch of people looked over the stuff, recognized what it was, and thought "this is fine" because it's the sort of thing they joke about around the watercooler.

As opposed to the reality where nobody even looked at or thought about what the text on the prop pages was until the commercial was actually aired, and got into the hands of some weirdo whose hobby is reading the text on background props in advertisements.

Jabor posted:

some weirdo whose hobby is reading the text on background props in advertisements.

Sapozhnik posted:

https://twitter.com/godofeep/status/1578548727526043648