This is an actual ad running in a French newspaper called Courrier International.
Fuck the French. Seriously. Why would anyone think that this is acceptable?
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Gah. Maybe it’s just me, but I still feel like we’re taking this whole 9/11 shit way too seriously. Yes, over 2000 people died. Yes, that sucks. No, we can’t do anything about it. So to get butthurt over it every time someone makes a joke doesn’t solve anything. Compared to WWI, 9/11 is a cakewalk. Yet people don’t bitch about WWI anymore. 9/11 is just the latest greatest fear mongering tactic.
I’m less pissed about the number killed and more pissed about the fact that they’re poking fun at the event. They’d shit bricks and call us ignorant Americans if we made jokes about French civilians dying in a suicide bombing.
Well I’m sure it’s creating a stir in France also. It’d be like if someone judged all of america from the West Bro Baptist church. They’re a couple of bad eggs who got lucky to get their message out. It’s an ad you know, the more attention we give it, the more they won.
Marketing 101. Bad marketing works far better than good marketing. Create a controversial advertisement and it will get a lot more coverage.
Mr. Pink, how many times have you seen dancing/DJ’ing Hitler meme and taken offence?
It’s not as if there aren’t still millions around who were affected by his actions.
Yes it’s all tasteless, but that’s the human coping mechanism. The day after the train and bus bombings in London by men in rucksacks, the vendors in Carnaby street were making a rare trade in rucksacks with “does my bomb look big in this?”
What your country needs is a mass bombing campaign on it’s cities that lasts years and you’ll get a hard neck like the Europeans.
Fuck courrier not the french connard ^^
Fuck courrier not the french
Dear Mister Pink,
Imagine Paris Hilton complaining about a broken nail to another woman who has lost a leg. Sure, a broken nail is the worst injury Miss Hilton has ever suffered, but seriously ? Wouldn’t she strike you as a dumb whining little bitch without any clue of how tactless she behaves ?
There, you see, you’re beginning to understand… 9/11 might have been the worst attack ever suffered by the American people on their own territory, but as far a the rest of the world is concerned, 9/11 was only a broken fucking nail. Try getting bombed relentlessly by the German army, then by the US of A while they’re freeing the country, and then maybe you’ll get some perspective and feel the proper shame.
Besides, The ad is not one designed to be funny (honestly ? I kinda feel like calling you a jerk for seeing it that way), but rather to make you think. If you could have anticipated the attacks on 9/11, what would have you done differently ? What should you start doing differently if you were aware of the nature of the next attacks ? Keep on killing more people or trying to communicate with the other nations without behaving like a witless fucking bully ?
At last, “fucking” the French (-people I guess) in its whole just because you’re feeling butthurt while contemplating 9/11 9 years later (9 fucking years !!! When will you finally get the fuck over it dumbass ?) is way over the line. Apologize, bitch.
From France, with love (more than you will ever imagine if you keep on getting paranoid like this.)
(And sorry for the grammar and stuff, but hey, how many other languages can you write flawlessly ?)
Hey Le Filou In my best french……….FUCK YOU BITCH and I will say it now in german FUCK YOU BITCH oh heres in english……..FUCK YOU BITCH….now go fuck your mother
^amerikkkan
Tasteless? Of course. Insensitive, you betcha. Worthy of discrediting an entire nation? Absolutely not. That’s the same kind of thinking that makes people stand against the “terror mosque.”
And while 9/11 may have been the worst single attack on U.S. soil, we’re not without our bloody past either. Well over half a million people died in our civil war. We’ve wiped out countless numbers of the native peoples. And lets not forget the 2,500 that perished on American soil at the attack of Pearl Harbor. We’ve had our tragedies too, but none of it should slight the 3000+ people who died in the World Trade Center Towers.
Le Filou, you’re telling us to get over something that happened 9 years ago, how about you stop bringing up stuff that happened over 50 years ago. Maybe then you’ll have a leg to stand on.
I have somewhat of a unique perspective on this subject. Its not the fact that I escaped death that day. Its not the fact that I traded site installs with my fellow engineer. Its not the fact that he was there on 9-11 instead of me. Its the fact that he fucking died and I didn’t, and that shit still haunts me at night sometimes.
This ad company needs to be cock-punched repeatedly into submission for sure. Totally tasteless.
For all the references to WW1 as a comparison, its a war, things are somewhat different in war. I agree with you completely Mr. Incognito on your points. The French are the biggest Hippocratic society in the world (well maybe second, French Canadians are first). I guarantee you that if one of our ad companies made a comparative ad the French would fly off the fucking handle.
Oh and lastly……Why do French tanks have rear view mirrors? “So they can watch the battle!” If it wasn’t for us “American’s” as you put it, you would be eating Kraut daily and wearing Lederhosen right now. Thats right, you can thank us, I enjoy a good Kraut dog once and a while, but wearing Lederhosen looks incredibly homo. I bet some hot women wearing them would look tasty though.
I hereby challenge WTC to find some hot women wearing Lederhosen and post them up.
Peace out!
I find it strange that some of you disagree with Mr. Pink. I’m not American and am definitely no fan of American foreign policy which leads to all this shit in the first place, but I agree with Pink that the advert is insensitive and tasteless.
It doesn’t take a genius to work out that such an advert will hurt feelings and anger people, but as Stove said it’s done intentionally to give them publicity, and it’s working because we and other are already doing their advertising for them.
*Sits back and munches popcorn*
Oh Le Filou, you dirty trickster you. You’ve got a PhD in trolling. The butthurt is strong in this thread.
Who cares if the French are making fun of us? Why does everyone care so much? The French have been an international Joke since the 1930′s. Nobody likes the French. Reacting to this dumb fucking add just gives them unearned lulz.
Fuck the French. Fuck the whiners. High five for Jesus!
Looks shopped to me… oh wait, you guys are talking about something else.
One of those had a pole at the top, right? Fucking Frenchies, learn to shoop right.
You’re all fucking racist lol
why did you say fuck you to 65million people
it’s just 1 newspaper who decide to make a provocative advertise (they took jfk muderer too) and u say fuck french?
the 9/11 it was like 10 islamic and u say fuck muslim…
learn to make the difference seriously Journalist are not the people they’re fucking guys who always want to make buzz and see to people the bad thing
WWII = ~70 years ago
9/11 = A little less than a decade ago.
9/11 = A wound that can still be opened
WWII = A broken arm that has healed a long time ago
i see the obvious 9/11 reference, but i don’t get what they’re trying to say
I’m not accepting any of the defense on behalf of the French placed here in this thread. Fuck these champagne drinking son of a bitch fucks. The only decent thing they ever did was to give us a hand in the Revolutionary War. Well that, and give power to a jackass as retarded as Napoleon so he’d fuck things up and sell us the Louisiana Purchase. Stupid cheese eating egotistical cunts.
I don’t understand why everyone here doesn’t work together to reach a common goal and hate us Brits …. it’d solve a lot of problems.
Come on, you know it makes sense.
And I still don’t get what point they were trying to make…the towers should have been smaller?? Or, maybe we should have made them retractable?? Not only are they assholes, but they don’t make sense…kinda like a french movie…
Regardless, there is nothing funny about this ad. Any joke about a sensitive subject is funny until you’re actually the subject of it. I know people affected by 9/11. Tell them it isn’t a big deal.
Fuck the French? No. Fuck the douchebags who actually ran this insensitive ad.
i can see my apartment in that photo!
I didn’t expect, “Fuck the French” to draw so many comments.
In all seriousness, though, I realize that it was the Courrier and not the French population that decided to run this piece of trash.
I still say fuck the french…and everyone else for that matter
Since today is 9/11 this seems fitting to comment.
So some company made a tasteless commercial. It got your panties in wad Miss Pink. Take a deep breath and get over it. Tasteless is much of the internet. Should we remove you? I enjoy your site but others would consider most of your website tasteless.
We only got a small, but ugly taste of terrorism on our shores. As others pointed out. Many other countries take this shit repeatedly. Want to be pissed. Be pissed at the terrorists and try get involved to help fight them. I can ignore ads like that and give them the recognition they deserve, none… You posting it here are helping further their advertising campaign. They get exactly what they want.
Fuck yourself, dude. I support this campaign. Why would this event be so sacred, even that we can’t say anything about? Just look around you, American people. Other people have suffered and still suffer. And all you care about is 9/11. So just fuck you.
The interesting thing is that this kind of problem always finishes with racism. This is a french newspaper, so what? I’m French and I’ve nothing to do with this.