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9:32 pm - 12/10/2012

Holy. Shit.


An advertisement for Virgin Mobile that hints at sexual assault was recently pulled after Twitter users (including Richard Branson) raged.

The print ad features a middle-aged man standing behind a woman. He's covering her eyes with one hand and holds a wrapped gift in the other. The caption reads: "The gift of Christmas surprise. Necklace? Or chloroform?"

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I honestly expected that it was some 4chan/Reddit hack, it's utterly disgusting that something of this level was earnestly posted as "funny".
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firefox1490 11th-Dec-2012 02:47 am (UTC)
Seriously when making this did no one go, "While we all just giggled I don't actually think thats funny guys." How did this really get past rooms and rooms of people?

lack_ofcolour 11th-Dec-2012 04:45 am (UTC)
MTE. I can see slightly snickering at the fact that the picture COULD be seen that way, but it's certainly not hilarious, nor does it make any sense that it would be used to sell cell phones. Too many companies try to appeal to men with sex and edginess, and they consistently get it wrong. But adding rape to the mix just takes it to a new level of failure.
yankeesarelove 11th-Dec-2012 02:47 am (UTC)
I thought all the screenshots I had seen had been photoshopped with that.
warsawed 11th-Dec-2012 02:47 am (UTC)
this shit is so scary and disturbing
morningtsuji 11th-Dec-2012 02:57 am (UTC)
why so many women have a rape schedule
sadisticsidhe 11th-Dec-2012 02:59 am (UTC)
...what's a rape schedule?
xevochic 11th-Dec-2012 03:53 am (UTC)
I have my issues with Jessica Valenti, but her introducing me to the term "rape schedule" practically changed my life.
swissbeauty23 11th-Dec-2012 03:05 am (UTC)
ia i don't get how it's supposed to be ~funny, it legit creeps me out
crazyventures 11th-Dec-2012 02:47 am (UTC)
Yikes

Should have went with Bad Luck Brian

swissbeauty23 11th-Dec-2012 03:06 am (UTC)
thats fucked up
crazyventures 11th-Dec-2012 03:08 am (UTC)
My favorite is the "Tries to fart steathily in class . . . sharts."
cityxpretty 11th-Dec-2012 04:33 am (UTC)
Some of these really cross the line. And I always feel bad for the people who's pictures are used in these types of memes. Unless they started it themselves.
icangoforthat 11th-Dec-2012 02:48 am (UTC)
JFC. whoever approved of this shit should be fired.
dannysstargirl 11th-Dec-2012 02:48 am (UTC)
ew wtf. i really don't see how this can be funny, under any circumstance. like, sometimes i'll see jokes or advertisements that are wrong but i can see how some people might find it funny, but this one i just don't get.
imnotasquirrel 11th-Dec-2012 02:48 am (UTC)
but it's a joke and therefore exempt from criticism!
viakyusu 11th-Dec-2012 02:51 am (UTC)
STOP! It's British Humor you obviously can't see how funny it is!
kurtvonnegut 11th-Dec-2012 03:05 am (UTC)
we don't have this problem in europe, it's an american thing
tx5mym5 11th-Dec-2012 03:13 am (UTC)
What he said really was a joke with dry, deadpan sarcasm.
ncc_gqmf 11th-Dec-2012 03:15 am (UTC)
Is this nonsense really spreading onto other posts now?
xevochic 11th-Dec-2012 03:55 am (UTC)
Excuse you, that would be humour! HDU
warsawed 11th-Dec-2012 02:56 am (UTC)
doleo 11th-Dec-2012 02:59 am (UTC)
i was gonna say this lol
esoteriq 11th-Dec-2012 02:48 am (UTC)
oic
beetlebums 11th-Dec-2012 02:48 am (UTC)
Shit Branson saved face right away.
rainbow_fish 11th-Dec-2012 02:48 am (UTC)
juat the actual fuck
illapse 11th-Dec-2012 02:48 am (UTC)
what in the actual fuck
imnotasquirrel 11th-Dec-2012 02:54 am (UTC)
your icon is creeping me the fuck out.
violue 11th-Dec-2012 03:06 am (UTC)
OMG I THINK I MIGHT NEED TO ADBLOCK YOUR ICON
illapse 11th-Dec-2012 11:46 pm (UTC)
u luv it
viakyusu 11th-Dec-2012 02:49 am (UTC)


Each new post, I lose another piece of my soul. My spirit is about to leave this horrible world of failed British humor, "grown" Miley Cyrus, and now Date Rape ads. LAWD
warsawed 11th-Dec-2012 02:57 am (UTC)
just think about meryl streep's existence

that helps me

or oprah

or concentrate on like waterfalls and meadows and empty cathedrals and shit
viakyusu 11th-Dec-2012 03:21 am (UTC)
When you said, "Waterfalls" it made me think of TLC thus I feel slightly better. Thank you lol
violue 11th-Dec-2012 03:07 am (UTC)
here I'll make u feel better wit dis

dwightk_schrute 11th-Dec-2012 04:34 am (UTC)
Can someone link me to this British humour post I seem to have missed?
sassandthecity 11th-Dec-2012 02:49 am (UTC)
How is this NOT some gross cutaway joke from Family Guy?
violue 11th-Dec-2012 03:08 am (UTC)
i flipped to family guy for the space of a minute or so during the commercials for next iron chef last night and they managed to squeeze a rape joke into that time
nationalboner 11th-Dec-2012 03:21 am (UTC)
Urggggghhh I fucking hate that show for its offensive unfunny jokes.
genbu_no_miko24 11th-Dec-2012 02:49 am (UTC)
WTF
mv75 11th-Dec-2012 02:50 am (UTC)
just awful
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