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No, it was just an attempt to infuse some nonsensical Internet humor into their marketing campaign, only it backfired spectacularly. I won't stop eating Bicky burgers though, just had one last Thursday
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Phlegmish posted:No, it was just an attempt to infuse some nonsensical Internet humor into their marketing campaign, only it backfired spectacularly. gently caress I just got your name. Always assumed it was a play on phlegm, the mucus, not the mucusy people.
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Oct 13, 2019 06:40
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It's like a sketch comedy idea that got mixed up in a marketing pitch and no one knew the difference.
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Oct 13, 2019 06:54
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[/quote] ah i get it now
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Oct 13, 2019 07:20
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pentyne posted:It's like a sketch comedy idea that got mixed up in a marketing pitch and no one knew the difference. They could have gone the Roy Lichenstein route and featured a close-up of a crying girl with the text “Why didn’t I give him... a real Bicky...?”  No violence needed.Hire me, PR bureaus.
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Oct 13, 2019 11:58
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[/quote] More people need to know about Belgium, though.
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Oct 13, 2019 12:14
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Beachcomber posted:More people need to know about Belgium, though. I read King Leopold's Ghost recently and OH BOY that didn't lead to happy dreams.
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Oct 13, 2019 13:42
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I'm not sure what any of this has to do with a failed marketing campaign, but yeah, that gently caress still has statues in Belgium. Fortunately, they regularly get doused in red paint or lose a hand. Belgium itself should pay more attention to this chapter of its history, but one of the reasons it remains underhighlighted (other than the obvious one of minimizing responsibility) is that they generally don't glorify or identify with their colonial past at all, the way many Brits do. Many Belgians barely identify with modern-day Belgium, and if they ever think about it at all they're usually outright negatively disposed towards what it was in the 19th century, namely an archetypical bourgeois state that brutally oppressed the working class and anything that stood in the way of French-speaking supremacism. Not making excuses, it doesn't mean we have the right to disassociate ourselves from those crimes and we need to get rid of those statues and monuments yesterday, but that's one of the psychological/sociological mechanisms involved.
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Oct 13, 2019 14:09
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Phlegmish posted:I'm not sure what any of this has to do with a failed marketing campaign, but yeah, that gently caress still has statues in Belgium. Fortunately, they regularly get doused in red paint or lose a hand. That makes a lot of sense. Frankly our colonial past is underhighlighted too. Hardly anyone here knows about the various atrocities committed by the British imperial state and it's hosed up.
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Oct 13, 2019 14:38
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HopperUK posted:That makes a lot of sense. Frankly our colonial past is underhighlighted too. Hardly anyone here knows about the various atrocities committed by the British imperial state and it's hosed up. You guys can’t really move past as long as Churchill is still treated as a hero. We Americans got through it by just never stopping our imperialism. Big brain move
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Oct 13, 2019 14:52
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Mierenneuker posted:They could have gone the Roy Lichenstein route and featured a close-up of a crying girl with the text “Why didn’t I give him... a real Bicky...?” Sorry, PR has taken the Roy Lichtenstein route and taken your work, made minor alterations, gave you dick all credit, then made tons of money off it while you languish in poverty.
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Oct 13, 2019 16:01
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GrandpaPants posted:Sorry, PR has taken the Roy Lichtenstein route and taken your work, made minor alterations, gave you dick all credit, then made tons of money off it while you languish in poverty. Awfully rude that they didn’t even pay me in exposure.
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Oct 13, 2019 16:59
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They should have used the meme pic of Batman slapping Robin instead.
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Oct 13, 2019 17:48
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CharlestheHammer posted:You guys can’t really move past as long as Churchill is still treated as a hero. I hope I live to see people in my country stop worshipping Churchill and recognize what a truly evil gently caress he was and I'm an American.
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Oct 13, 2019 17:51
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He wasn't that bad for the time compared to other world leaders
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Oct 13, 2019 18:04
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please don't grade world leaders on a curve
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Oct 13, 2019 18:07
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https://twitter.com/AdamHSays/status/1182638528016113665
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Andrast posted:please don't grade world leaders on a curve If we don't, we end up with everyone scoring 0's or worse
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Oct 13, 2019 20:19
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That’s about where they should be. Though even for his time Winston was pretty bad
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Oct 13, 2019 20:23
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King of Foolians posted:They should have used the meme pic of Batman slapping Robin instead. I thought it might have been based on that but the poses are different.
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Oct 13, 2019 22:53
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HopperUK posted:That makes a lot of sense. Frankly our colonial past is underhighlighted too. Hardly anyone here knows about the various atrocities committed by the British imperial state and it's hosed up. That's because in the 1950s-1970s, the British realized that they'd been incredibly evil in the past, and put together a plan known as Operation Legacy. Fully backed by the British government, they
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Tunicate posted:That's because in the 1950s-1970s, the British realized that they'd been incredibly evil in the past, and put together a plan known as Operation Legacy. Fully backed by the British government, they I had to look this up, because I thought you were loving with us. ...Nope. Understated, if anything. 
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Tunicate posted:That's because in the 1950s-1970s, the British realized that they'd been incredibly evil in the past, and put together a plan known as Operation Legacy. Fully backed by the British government, they Holy moly, I'd missed this, wooph 
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Oct 13, 2019 23:30
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gently caress, you read about some things and go "that sounds like an episode of The X-Files or something". Like Operation Paperclip, which I literally learned about from The X-Files.
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Oct 13, 2019 23:32
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I didn't even know about that so good job OperationLegacy I guess 
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Oct 14, 2019 12:47
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I watched Churchill the Hollywood years and he seemed an alright sort of fella?
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Oct 15, 2019 10:45
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Can we include the entire NBA in this thread?
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cakesmith handyman posted:I watched Churchill the Hollywood years and he seemed an alright sort of fella? He intentionally made the Indian famines worse because he hated Indians. He would tell anyone who would listen.
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Oct 15, 2019 19:55
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Phanatic posted:Can we include the entire NBA in this thread? You;d think that people whose sole skill was the ability to put a ball in a basket would be self-aware enough to stick to endorsing sneakers. But no, ever since Rodman became the US ambassador to N.Korea, they want to dabble in international politics.
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Oct 15, 2019 20:42
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Yes, how dare they have and share an opinion.
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Oct 18, 2019 19:58
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None of the players are actually giving opinions. It was an exec and now the players are basically being hounded until they give an opinion. So that makes no sense
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I assumed he was making the offer to fleece chuds out of their money and was in favor of him
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Oct 18, 2019 20:21
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CharlestheHammer posted:None of the players are actually giving opinions. It was an exec and now the players are basically being hounded until they give an opinion. So that makes no sense Once you’ve decided to enter the political arena, people are going to expect you to stay there. It’s not unreasonable for people who have taken a position of advancing social justice in the USA to be expected to take a position on playing ball in another country that throws Muslims into prison camps. Also, it’s one thing to say “I’m just a basketball player, I don’t have an opinion.” It’s an entirely different thing to say that the guy who spoke out to defend the protesters in Hong Kong was simply uneducated on the issue, and should have given more thought to the financial impact of his words. The former’s at least arguably a position of neutrality, the latter’s just licking boot.
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Phanatic posted:Once you’ve decided to enter the political arena, people are going to expect you to stay there. It’s not unreasonable for people who have taken a position of advancing social justice in the USA to be expected to take a position on playing ball in another country that throws Muslims into prison camps. This is a good explanation of why LeBron's statement was disappointing, but the "oh Mr. Sportsball man thinks he can talk politics" framing was really bad
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Oct 21, 2019 23:54
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If I agree with an athlete I’m “glad someone is finally saying what needs to be said” If I disagree with an athlete I “think they should stick to playing the game”
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That’s not true, you are not expected to have an opinion on every political thing that’s insane. It’s just racism and bad faith right wingers with some hand wringing libs thrown in for flavor
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Oct 21, 2019 23:55
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oldpainless posted:If I agree with an athlete I’m “glad someone is finally saying what needs to be said” It's perfectly fine to do that when you are talking about tipping or the current president or the fairness of carpool lanes. It's much harder when the athlete's statement is 'I think the violent repression of a population and a supression of their basic human rights is a Bad Thing'. You only have the choice of saying nothing at all or agreeing with them. There's not really the option to say that there are many factors to consider or that it is a complex question.
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I mean, you are kind of a garbage person if you think the answer to “stop repressing basic human rights” is “well, it’s complicated.” Like, what are the complexities that are preventing you from agreeing with the former statement?
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If your telling someone to stick to sports when you don’t have much of an idea what your talking about isn’t that a bit hypocritical
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