Saturday, January 12, 2008

Hilarious anti-anti-smoking stunt gets everybody’s attention for a second

“Mindless, brainless and tasteless” and therefore right up the alley for most fanatical and therefore irate smokers out there who feel persecuted by the latest and first real anti-smoking law ever to be introduced in Germany, a web site is offering a T-shirt using, now get this, a yellow Star of David to compare the treatment of smokers in Germany to that of Jews during Nazi rule.



Well-known for their zany, offbeat humor, and being natural, vocal victims in every conceivable circumstance in which practically nothing is asked of them (and of course practically nothing ever is), Germans everywhere are wetting their pants in hilarity at the stunt.

“Get it?” asked one knee-slapping, smoking slob. “By exploiting the murder of Jews in order to symbolize my desire to smoke, that's, well, simply too funny for words. So that’s why they used the star instead. See?”

Certain humorless groups and other easily-offended types are said to have found the T-shirt action less then humorous and offensive, but that is only to be expected in this humorless and rather offensive age of ours in which we live, but hey, it’s a living.

That anti-anti-smoking T-shirt is a real gas.

Kommentare auf Deutsch? Klar.

PS: Thanks for the black bastard and anti-tobacco links, Indeterminacy. The hoax link, too.

Posted by clarsonimus at 10:08:19 | Permanent Link | Comments (12) |
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1 - That has got to be the most tasteless, trashy and moronic stunt I've seen in ages and I'm not surprised Jewish groups are angry. To compare the treatment of the Jews by the Nazi regime to the advent of anti-smoking laws is to mock the suffering of millions. I bet the NPD types are pissing themselves laughing. (Comment this)

Written by: ian in hamburg at 2008/01/12 - 15:58:13
2 - I agree with Ian. Tasteless.

Maria (Comment this)

Written by: Anonymous at 2008/01/12 - 16:48:23
3 - Maria, yeah. I don't know what's going on, but it seems like everybody is stumbling through a mine field these days, blowing up one needless "Nazi" mine after the other. Remember the Eva Herman episode? There were two or three before that, but I've forgotten. People (the latest generation?) have unknowingly let their guard down a little too far, it seems. (Comment this)

Written by: clarsonimus at 2008/01/12 - 21:09:08
4 - Someone should take a picture of the "new German": a person wearing this t-shirt, a cigarette in one hand, and a can of "black bastard" in the other (Ian reported:
http://lettershometoyou.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/come-to-germany-if-youre-looking-for-a-black-bastard ) (Comment this)

Written by: Indeterminacy at 2008/01/13 - 10:49:44
5 - they say Germans have no sense of humour
and now they've proved it (Comment this)

Written by: Anonymous at 2008/01/13 - 12:38:59
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