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Posted on 05/09/2014 2:43:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Procter & Gamble has apologized for “any false connotations” after stirring anger in Germany for unintentionally placing a neo-Nazi code on promotional packages for its Ariel laundry detergent.
Outraged shoppers had posted pictures online of Ariel powder boxes featuring a white soccer jersey with a large number “88.” The number is sensitive because far-right extremists in Germany often use it as a code to skirt a ban on the use of Nazi slogans in public: since “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet, “88” represents the phrase “Heil Hitler.” Similarly, “18” is used to stand for “A.H.” or Adolf Hitler. …
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Maybe they can use “69” instead...
So, 2815 would be BHO?
Learn something new every day, all this time I thought
it was 666.
No wonder the West is being colonized.
“”The number “88” was intended to show how many loads of laundry buyers would be able to do with one package.
Haessig said the company has stopped shipping the offending powder, as well as a liquid detergent that was being promoted as “Ariel 18.” The number also represented the number of loads that could be done, the company said.””
Assuming that is his real name, of course...
There’s some numerical way that 666 means Nero.
I guess 18 wheelers will now have to learn to get by with 17 or the Justice Brothers will bring the heat via megaphone.
The marketing manager for this product is likely a late 20 something that is clueless on these issues.
P&G used to have the best talent in the field in this area. Who needs high paid old farts around that were schooled in proper international protocol when we are in such a connected society and are all technical and stuff? /s
The 17+1 wheeler, veered off of the bridge in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Ronald Wilson Reagan -- 6 6 6.
This is crazy. How can one keep track of all the forbidden words and signs? I recall a protest in Boston because a bar had a monkey on display. A number of yeears ago somebody in the media was fired by mentioning certain common foods. Certain numbers are forbidden. The most innocent comments on twitter have cost people their careers. And let’s not forget what we way in the privacy of our home in the heat of the moment can be cause for us getting fired..
Oh, for the love of God!
You bet. There’s no end to this kind of thing.
Oh for Pete’s sake I guess us hams cant use 88s anymore to the YL’s what’s next no more 73s. What a bunch of PC wussies this world is turning into.
In Hebrew lettering, his name would be Nrn Qsr (Neron Qaesar)
Hebrew doesn’t use a separate set of characters for numerals; each letter has a numerical value. The numerical values of “Nrn Qsr” add up to 666. But it’s disputed whether it would add up to 666 or 616, since “n” in a final position is a different letter than “n” elsewhere. Incredibly, many ancient copies of the New Testament say the number of the beast is 616!
666 for Reagan is simply the number of letters in each name of his: Ronald Wilson Reagan.
As a fun aside:
Ellen Burke White claimed that if you added up the letters in the Pope’s official title, you’d get 666, supposedly proving he was the anti-Christ. To get this, the alleged official title was “Vicar of the Son of God.” (VICarIVs fILeII DeI = VIC VI LII DI = 6+106+52+501 = 666, although translating the U to V is dubious) The problem is that the Pope is the vicar of Jesus in his human nature, so the Catholic title (only one of dozens) is “Vicar of the Son of Man.” Oddly however: eLLen goVLD VVhIte = LL VLD VVI = 100+555+11 = 666). Oops.
Burke White? Obviously I meant Gould White. I don’t know WHERE Burke White came from.
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