View Full Version : Next Recalls 'Nazi' Underwear
nofuture
27-05-2009, 09:49 AM
What utter bollox.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2450404/Next-slammed-for-Hitler-on-pants.html
STORE chain Next yesterday recalled a range of men's underwear after complaints it featured Nazi leader Adolf Hitler saluting planes.
Next said that it had investigated the complaint and found the image - among a series of cartoons - was inspired by a picture of Russia's Lenin. But a spokesman said it was withdrawing the remaining 5,200 pairs of the underwear anyway.
He said: "The complaint came in today and by the end of the day all 5,200 will be withdrawn.
"We have checked with the designer who confirmed the image was inspired by Lenin.
"Nonetheless, if even one customer is offended or upset we are happy to withdraw the range."
The customer who complained, Ben Radomski, said he was happy the product had now been withdrawn.
yozhik
27-05-2009, 10:42 AM
I'd almost consider buying all 5,200 pairs and wearing them as outerwear, for the sake of logic and a one-finger-salute to the oppression of political overcorrectness. :D
eternal_spirit
27-05-2009, 10:54 AM
I'd almost consider buying all 5,200 pairs and wearing them as outerwear, for the sake of logic and a one-finger-salute to the oppression of political overcorrectness. :D
:D could always make a parachute.
Think there's a subliminal in those underwear? Fly over Hitler, he was a nob, he was pants, or full of shit.
gods sun
27-05-2009, 12:19 PM
hey thats not hitler that george w bush
Hm looks like a Nazi salute to me.
Bit bizarre to have that on a pair of grundies, no?
oddblock
27-05-2009, 12:38 PM
Looks nothing like a nazi salute at all. It's a piece of popart on some pants!
But they recall them cos some poor thing was OFFENDED!?!? Awww we must be careful not to offend anyone.
FFS :mad:
Looks nothing like a nazi salute at all. It's a piece of popart on some pants!
But they recall them cos some poor thing was OFFENDED!?!? Awww we must be careful not to offend anyone.
FFS :mad:
Nothing AT ALL like a Nazi Salute?
There might not be any ulterior motive, granted, but you can hardly say it doesn't look like one....
omegasol
27-05-2009, 12:43 PM
Looks nothing like a nazi salute at all. It's a piece of popart on some pants!
seriously are you blind? of course it looks like a nazi salute. even without the zeppelin (which is not directly related to hitler, but to germany) itīs obvious.
ernie
27-05-2009, 02:33 PM
What utter bollox.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2450404/Next-slammed-for-Hitler-on-pants.html
STORE chain Next yesterday recalled a range of men's underwear after complaints it featured Nazi leader Adolf Hitler saluting planes.
Next said that it had investigated the complaint and found the image - among a series of cartoons - was inspired by a picture of Russia's Lenin. But a spokesman said it was withdrawing the remaining 5,200 pairs of the underwear anyway.
He said: "The complaint came in today and by the end of the day all 5,200 will be withdrawn.
"We have checked with the designer who confirmed the image was inspired by Lenin.
"Nonetheless, if even one customer is offended or upset we are happy to withdraw the range."
The customer who complained, Ben Radomski, said he was happy the product had now been withdrawn.
See what the power of the consumer can achieve? I just bet you that young Mr Ben Radomski would be equally vocal, appalled and stirred to action by any underwear depicting the cruelty, historically and currently, being mercilessly beaten out on innocent Palistinians by the state of Israel, who are occupying their country.
drhemp
27-05-2009, 02:43 PM
See what the power of the consumer can achieve? I just bet you that young Mr Ben Radomski would be equally vocal, appalled and stirred to action by any underwear depicting the cruelty, historically and currently, being mercilessly beaten out on innocent Palistinians by the state of Israel, who are occupying their country.
Quite.
A cartoon image of Hitler does not glorify him. This is just daft.
Spike Milligan used to dress up as Hitler and take the piss out of him. He thought him a ridiculous little man with a silly moustache, silly hairstyle, silly uniform and silly voice who deserved nothing more than scorn and ridicule.
Quite.
A cartoon image of Hitler does not glorify him. This is just daft.
Spike Milligan used to dress up as Hitler and take the piss out of him. He thought him a ridiculous little man with a silly moustache, silly hairstyle, silly uniform and silly voice who deserved nothing more than scorn and ridicule.
It dunt look like Hitler though, just a randomer giving a Nazi salute. In front of a fleet of bombers and a zeppelin.
Hm.
oddblock
27-05-2009, 03:21 PM
look, the thumb is facing upwards, it may be someone signalling a direction but lets not split hairs here and say it's definately a NAZI salute, because it's clearly not.
http://cache3.asset-cache.net/xc/dv485074.jpg?v=1&c=NewsMaker&k=2&d=F40D46AB971D94FF2C919214E1333DAC
Or
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03Aq8aD4hD1uI/610x.jpg
Now I think those undercrackers have a man whos hand is MORE like the pic above than below.
oddblock
27-05-2009, 03:23 PM
Yeah the context is with bombers but this does not automatically mean the man is doing a nazi salute and it is depicting nazis.
The info was given to us by the Sun!
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/03Aq8aD4hD1uI/610x.jpg
Oh my god, these guys look so fuckin' inbred.
biblegirl
27-05-2009, 05:15 PM
Quite.
A cartoon image of Hitler does not glorify him. This is just daft.
Spike Milligan used to dress up as Hitler and take the piss out of him. He thought him a ridiculous little man with a silly moustache, silly hairstyle, silly uniform and silly voice who deserved nothing more than scorn and ridicule.
how could an image of ANYONE on a pair of UNDERWEAR be GLORIFYING?!
cluas
27-05-2009, 05:21 PM
Actually it has nothing to do with nazi's .... Here's the pic of Lenin....:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Lenin.WWI.JPG
nofuture
27-05-2009, 06:04 PM
Didn't the Romans do that salute before the Nazis?
ricko
27-05-2009, 06:16 PM
...There's a swastika shaped runway at Denver Airport and murals depicting dead children - nobody's complained about that???
...There's a swastika shaped runway at Denver Airport and murals depicting dead children - nobody's complained about that???
LOL Good point
655321
27-05-2009, 06:51 PM
Those underwear could start a holocaust. They must be banned 4 life.
oddblock
27-05-2009, 10:08 PM
I think ALL underpants should be banned
http://marksimpson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/Smooth%20Y%20front%202.jpg
:D
scuzz
27-05-2009, 10:41 PM
Oh Noes - best throw away my Vivian Westwood Destroy T-Shirt.
Actually, I reckon my Napalm Death - Nazi Punks Fuck Off! T-shirt would probably cause comment.
yozhik
28-05-2009, 01:26 AM
Those underwear could start a holocaust. They must be banned 4 life.
Well, we haven't had one yet, apart from a trumped up, bloated, distorted, factually incorrect and politically motivated one ... so maybe it would be a good idea, to justify all of these damn Holocaust museums around the world, built to suck money from your pocket for a falsified historical event, to siphon from the brainwashed to send to the great unwashed Zionists and their demon state of Israel.
biblegirl
28-05-2009, 02:02 AM
Well, we haven't had one yet, apart from a trumped up, bloated, distorted, factually incorrect and politically motivated one ... so maybe it would be a good idea, to justify all of these damn Holocaust museums around the world, built to suck money from your pocket for a falsified historical event, to siphon from the brainwashed to send to the great unwashed Zionists and their demon state of Israel.
tell us how you really feel about it yozhik :p
yozhik
28-05-2009, 02:11 AM
tell us how you really feel about it yozhik :p
:D ... sorry ... just all of this political correctness really pulls at my family jewels.
Especially the taboo subject of the (cough) Holocaust.
I mean ... ffs ... people are going to jail, just for stating publicly that they believe there should be more scientific examination of the "facts".
Well, SHIT ... if those who protect the Holocaust myth have nothing to fear; why make it a Thought Crime to publicly state it needs to be examined???
They should be welcoming scientific proof and verifiable facts.
Then the "debunkers" would be "put in their place" once and for all.
The more the protectors cry foul and the more people that are locked up for merely stating a perfectly acceptable request; that we apply the same "test of facts" on this historical event as we do any other event in history ... the more it stinks of something rotten and false.
Political correctness has gone too far.
A fucking comic strip drawing on underpants???
Suck me dry and call me Dusty ... its gone too far!!