Dubai gym posts an Auschwitz ad on facebook.
Update! Add your alternate headlines in the comments...
The founder of The Circuit Factory in Dubai placed this ad promoting exercise classes on the gym's facebook page, and then quickly took it down hours later, according to UAE's daily newspaper, The National.
Kiss your calories goodbye! (Alternate copyranter headlines: 1.3 million reasons to slim down inside! and Feel The Burn!)
The founder, Phil Parkinson, said, “The idea of the campaign isn’t to upset anybody. The way branding works is (listen closely to this expert) you want people talking about your business. We want them talking about us, but we don’t want people to take offence at it. He added that he used the Auschwitz image because the classes are "like a calorie concentration camp."
Oh, well, I see no problem then (thanks Brandon).
Previously: Christmas vodka billboard makes fun of cheap Jews (also pulled).
posted by copyranter @ 12:30 PM
32 Comments:
this is nothing compared to the anti-semetic cartoons, etc seen in newspapers and TV across the Arab world.
ALT headlines:
"Genocidally purge your calories"
"A final solution for a great workout routine"
"Hate the fat like you hate the Jews"
"Be a bigot without having a big gut"
Winner winner chicken dinner on the final solution line, and I'm alternately liking/hating the Bigot one.
Might be a tad too obvious, but "Workouts set you free."
No, that's a good one.
Arbeit macht buff.
ALT headline:
Work it hard, then hit the showers.
Yes yes, like showers.
You can never be too thin.
This is great. It reaffirms and validates my disinterest in going to a gym. They're full of fascists.
Tight jeans? Never again.
Tired of overblown weight-loss claims?
You can't deny the results
CIRCUIT FACTORY
"Our final solutions await you!"
ALT headline:
"Left/Right, Left/Right, time is running Raus, Raus, your choice!"
"Yes yes, like showers."
Oh yeah? How often do you hit the shower? You like public showers?
New machines. Clean locker rooms. Killer showers.
Less Lebensraum?
"We'll help you melt those pounds right off."
"FREE Bowl of Soup and Piece of Bread after every daily workout!"
"For a good 'Aush-schvitz', try our new 'oven-style' sauna booths"
"Your tattoos are safe with us!"
"We provide you with soaps that contrary to popular belief are 99.4% pure, and vertically striped black and grey towels!"
For your New Year workout Pogrom
@ Sausage
Good to see that love has conquered all your random hatreds since your last diatribe was 'Random Hatred # 4' dated MONDAY, JUNE 4, 2007.
Alternate headlines:
"Free accommodation onsite"
"Watch those calories melt away"
"Bring your relatives, friends and known associates"
"We'll mind your valuables while you work out"
At our gym, you'll really feel the burn.
Dumb ARABASS! Burn the Calories, or i will burn you down
u r f*cking idiot
Landon - did Bianca lend you her computer? Pussy.
So that's what branding is ...
"Winner of the worlds greatest fat camp award 1940-1945."
In Jerusalem, the Holocaust Is Trivialized
Even for the ultra-Orthodox, the Holocaust and Nazism are tossed blithely into political discourse. Is nothing sacred?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/03/in-jerusalem-the-holocaust-is-trivialized.html
This is terrible, but living in China for 8 years I've seen worse. Nazi flags sold alongside national flags at the Olympics. Cartoon Hitlers promoting air conditioning. Women kitted out in SS uniforms promoting catalogues. A few of them I saved and put on my site: http://tracesofevil.com
They are the victim of an internet hoax. Contact the real Phil for details- you'll probably end up retracting this.
Scandal !!!
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