The kind of thing which makes you say “how could they possibly have thought this was a good idea?”
Australian supermarket promoting the freshness of their produce on ANZAC day, the national holiday in rememberance of fallen soldiers.
Woolworths takes down Anzac ‘Fresh in our Memories’ website after social media backlash
We have a new contender
Decades ago, Coca-Cola was trying to enter the market in Saudi Arabia. They ran an ad where “pilgrims” walked around a giant coke bottle, in the same way that Muslim pilgrims in Mecca walk around the Kaaba during Hajj and Umrah. It was very, very poorly received, to say the least, and many attribute it as the main reason why Pepsi has dominated the market instead of Coca-Cola.
How deliciously blasphemous. Makes me almost want to drink a Coke. Almost.
Amazon spent millions on a single Ring ad during the Super Bowl that was so poorly received it killed a multi-million dollar business deal.
To be clear, all the companies involved are the worst of the worst, so fuck them, but all they had to do was nothing and it would have turned out better (for them, worse for the rest of us).
The latest I can think of is Gwyneth Paltrow’s ad for a luxury condo project on stolen Palestinian land by Israel.
That Pepsi ad during BLM.
We’ve just had a campaign on our city’s public transport trams that said “I’m identifying as a trolleybus”.
During pride month, nonetheless.
tramsgender
Blizzard’s “Do you guys not have phones?” blunder during the Diablo Immortal reveal
Was in a flyer I got years ago.
Peggy, that’s the recipe for mustard gas!
No way. Just…no way. Definitely not in a litigous society like the USA. The liability alone would be insane.
Nope not USA. But incredibly stupid regardless. “The clean team”? Like what? Haha.
Funnily enough the hotel we’re staying at has a vending machine with candy and snacks. And also sells Tide detergent in a pack that looks like a box of candy. I’ll get a picture next time I walk by.
Hah!
Although I could see having snacks to fill out the extra spaces in a laundry-products vending machine by the washers.
Actually, just the Tide in a vending machine of snacks.
Wow. Looks like a retro candy box haha.
Yeah that’s cray
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Mixing produces a toxic gas
When bleach is mixed with ammonia, toxic gases called chloramines are produced. Exposure to chloramine gases can cause the following symptoms:
- Coughing.
- Nausea.
- Shortness of breath.
- Watery eyes.
- Chest pain.
- Irritation to the throat, nose, and eyes.
- Wheezing.
- Pneumonia and fluid in the lungs.
https://doh.wa.gov/community-and-environment/contaminants/bleach-mixing-dangers
I spent a lot more effort learning French than chemistry. Whew!
Other way around for me. But if you want an omelette du fromage, I got you covered.
How many days off work can I get with those symptoms?
If you inhale enough, all of them. But you’d either be dead or very not well off. But more likely dead.
The “hide the pain” facial expression really sells it.
