http://gizmodo.com/5019356/emobiles-japanese-ad-equates-obama-with-a-monkey-to-sell-phones http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/27/uselections2008.japan
lol ronaldinho bottle opener thread goes global
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:29 (seventeen years ago)
Japan is weird
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:33 (seventeen years ago)
MOnkey looked more like Bush than Obama.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:35 (seventeen years ago)
yeah its okay to say bush looks like a monkey but then when someone says it about obama you cry about racism! and why is it ok for black people to call each other the n-word but if I do it I am racist?! god it is hard being white
― bnw, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:44 (seventeen years ago)
How does that ad allude to Obama? I don't see it.
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)
Barack Obama is the world's only politician who has ever campaigned on a change ticket.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 21:59 (seventeen years ago)
Oh, okay. Now I get it.
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:00 (seventeen years ago)
This "scandal" is basically a pile of western racial weirdness being dumped on some clueless japanese ad agency.
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:11 (seventeen years ago)
Y
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:11 (seventeen years ago)
"Am I crazy to think the monkey is supposed to represent Barack Obama? Given the track record for companies in Japan that use monkeys and blacks or monkeys as blacks in advertisements ... maybe not!"
^^^youtube comp please
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 22:13 (seventeen years ago)
"This "scandal" is basically a pile of western racial weirdness being dumped on some clueless japanese ad agency.
OTM
I spent a long time in Japan, and there is a lot that you could point to in order to illustrate Japanese racial insensitivity, but this is not one of them. It's just a monkey for fu*k's sake.
― j-rock, Thursday, 3 July 2008 00:51 (seventeen years ago)
and so are we all.
― Frogman Henry, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:00 (seventeen years ago)
profound
# Japanese Obama-esque Monkey Ad [Started by El Tomboto, last updated 1 minute ago] 13 new answers # Garlic Watermelon [Started by s1ocki, last updated 2 minutes ago] 22 new answers
― jeff, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:02 (seventeen years ago)
no wait...it's coming to me...
WASABIMELON!
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)
fwiw the monkey was already being used in ads years ago
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:44 (seventeen years ago)
come on guys this is a controversy about those bigoted horrible japanese
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)
i forget are they the ones that put peepee in coke
― am0n, Thursday, 3 July 2008 02:03 (seventeen years ago)
no, those were the chinese.
japanese have dirty knees look at these.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 3 July 2008 02:15 (seventeen years ago)
-- jeff, Thursday, 3 July 2008 02:02 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link Haha. I think people can't be bothered to watch it is all. Good thread, really weird that they did this though but I think its being blown out of proportion...
― VeronaInTheClub, Friday, 4 July 2008 01:11 (seventeen years ago)
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/7425/imageuploadimage.jpg
― meta pro lols (libcrypt), Friday, 13 March 2009 04:57 (sixteen years ago)
The San Francisco treat?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 13 March 2009 14:16 (sixteen years ago)