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- farfromsubtl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+111The blogger doesn't seem to get the point... he assumes that the French would hate Americans due to hidden messages on their clothes... Guess it went over his head.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+81It's real:
http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/tombihn.asp - Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -8/+48wow, this piece of news is only a little bit older than Digg itself...
- lowfalls, on 10/12/2007, -8/+45Yeah, I thought all the anti-france riots, demonstrations, and burnings of Perrier factories really got out-of-hand.
- heaintheavy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Vous avez le cervau d'un sandwich au fromage, Président Bush.
It is quite real, in fact here is a link to the company that is sewing the labels onto its bags:
http://www.tombihn.com/
The tags have been around for about two years. - drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27@mjar81
Yep cause we sure don't want people formulating their own opinions about the world! I will have no part of it even if they make decent things I might actually enjoy...
(sarcasm for those who have bad senses) - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30Gordo:
Hmm. You didn't feel like citing a source for your claim, so I did a quick Google, and found: http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/13859
Apparently Jacques Chirac's approval rating is somewhere between 38% and 45%.
Bush is at 38% overall, and that's from Fox News, so I assume you believe them, right? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144315,00.html - pabloD, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28And afghanistan, and vietnam, and guatemala, and chile, and guam, and puerto rico, and cuba, and haiti, and panama. . . shall I continue?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26axel2k: You don't find it amazing that the situation is reversed an equal number of times?
DIAF - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Don't you mean AMAZING?
- farkdog, on 05/20/2008, -5/+25Dear clothing manufacturer.
We are sorry for your tax audit.
We did not vote to send the IRS to your doorstep, it was entirely random selection. - CircleFusion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I believe he was confusing the 2004 election with the 2000 election
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election%2C_2000#National_results
"Vice President Al Gore came in second in the electoral vote, but received 543,816 more popular votes than Bush."
George W. Bush -- 50,460,110 -- 47.9%
Al Gore -- 51,003,926 -- 48.4% - ezweave, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14It's real but both the blogger and story poster are a bit off... these are not clothing articles. They are backpacks and laptop bags....
http://www.tombihn.com/
That and this is about 2 years old... but meh. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Hellifino - I deliberately used Fox News because I knew they would have the highest ratings for Bush (which are still lower than Chirac), so the right wing kid couldn't come back with higher numbers. I know he's really much lower than that.
- t0mmmmmmm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10i sure know that, i myself have friends who live in CA, TN, OR, ...
i was just saying people dont hate a whole country because of its president, but because people actually elected him
usa sure has lot of beautiful things to offer, we all digg, we all google, we all drink coke, ...
but, just have a look at the other comments! take dwiezel for example, what a dumbass. how do you want europeans to not hate you? - GopherChucks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Duh! Perrier comes from cool mountain caves pre-bottled. Doesn't everyone know this?
- CircleFusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10...except, it's not a hoax. It was confirmed by Snopes.com
- anonydigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10And Iran for taking away their democracy in the 1953 CIA coup and placing a retarded dictator which left Islamic Extremists as the only way out?
- max420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8No, its real. I own a laptop bag from this company which I purchased in Paris. After reading this article I checked my tag, and sure enough... its there.
- partysan, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18Gordo, I'd pay money to see you in an episode of "will it blend?"
- GopherChucks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@t0mmmmmm
please... please stop blaming all of us. Some of us had some common sense, and didn't want to go to war. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8i remember my history teacher saying he saw this when he went to france a couple years ago. never thought it would get this much notoriety though.
- justthisguyyano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@parkerhiggins
I think the really sad fact is that a majority of Americans don't vote at all. - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13pablo - Just sing Yakko's Nations of the World song - it also doubles as a "Who Bush needs to aplogize to" song.
- mookiemookie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I remember when this was a big thing when it first came out, the edit went to the company to ask them why they did it. They sheepishly stated they were talking about the president of their company, not W. Kind of one of those "wink wink, nudge nudge" explanations. I think it's great.
- sven007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@drizek and fffizzz and everyone else who doesn't know
FYI, french fries where invented in Belgium - marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Au contraire, I think that's the sort of humor the French would appreciate.
- t0mmmmmmm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6where else have you ever lived?
- Seidoger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7YES! It's real!
I've heard about that on the local radio (Montreal, french) like one year ago, hehehe!
I like it ! - HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9There was a "rong" party? I never saw that on my ballot...
- vinchu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5merci les mecs pour la tranche de rigolade :)
encore ! - Shivatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@dwiezel:
Although this is off-topic with respect to the Bihn tags, I think you're missing the point. I will fully agree that without the assistance of the United States during the Second World War (and at other times in history), many countries would not be in the place they are today. I certainly agree that many people around the world owe the citizens and leaders of the USA during such times a debt of gratitude for their assistance and charity. I, for one, am certainly not a "unappreciative, unintelligent, unthinking foreigner".
Having said that, we should not overlook the wrongs of the present just because a nation has done great things in the past. If you saved someone's life 10 years ago, does that mean that you should be allowed to kill someone now and not face scrunity or repercussion? In a similar manner, despite the many good things that the US has done right over the years, as a citizen of the global community, I refuse to stand by idly while _your_ leaders violate basic tenents of human rights (1) and continue to conduct themselves in a fashion which sees the world become a more dangerous place in which to live (2). (For what it's worth, I don't single the US out, either -- there are plenty of other countries that can be condemmed for such atrocities. But we are talking about the United States in this thread.)
Before you continue to boast proudly about the past of your country, dwiezel, perhaps you should consider what you stand for today.
(1) http://nytimes.com/2004/11/30/politics/30gitmo.html?ei=5094&en=8d107165e454d8b6&hp=&ex=1101877200&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1101843681-+nTyVVJpq8yXt1yEg4X28g
(2) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24terror.html?ex=1316750400&en=da252be85d1b39fa&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss - parkerhiggins, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I believe yuutomo said "The majority of Americans did not vote for him." Even given that the population of the United States is 300 million, and that eligible voters make up about 70% of that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout), I'd say that it's pretty clear the majority of Americans didn't vote for our president.
- repins, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8The majority has never voted for the President, have you seen the voter turnout percentages?
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It would be funny as hell if they forget to change the labels if Hillary Clinton get elected in '08.
- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -13/+17It had to do with France not supporting us in our decision to attack Iraq. France had two reasons for not wanting us to attack. First, they wanted us to exhaust diplomatic courses of making Saddam adhere to the nuclear regulatory inspections that Hans Blix was conducting. Secondly, they didn't want the world knowing that they were selling Iraq parts for their aircraft in violation of the sanctions the UN had imposed on Iraq.
- max420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What? who bottles them, Cave gnomes?
- xGORDOx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Ok, this poll was taken in November 2006, yet it is more recent than the one you supplied.
It is just under a month old...
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/14067
It puts Chiracs "approval" rating at 25%.
Here is a site with poll numbers from everywhere (literally everywhere) and no one has Bush lower than 25%...
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
I guarantee that the difference in numbers is the economy, which what I stated in my original post.
Frances unemployment rate is currently - 9% (which is lower than I had previously thought actually.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_France
United States unemployment rate is currently - 4.4% (which when Clinton had a 4.7% rate, it was front page news in every newspaper!)
Call me right wing if you want, I'm a Libertarian actually. I don't really care either way.
The numbers speak for themselves.
(Oh, and I tried to use the same sources as you did, except for FOX - why bring more hate?) - GopherChucks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5>And Godwin's Law is proven, yet again.
>"argumentum ad nazium..."
I see what you did there... - shackleton1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Although they are secretly a little bit jealous of American plumbing..
- gravylookout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4nice E.E. Cummings reference!
- mikesbaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@CircleFusion
do you understand why the electoral college is in place? obviously not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College - sebnukem, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Inaccurate. French do not hate Americans. They don't even hate the retard monkey in chief called dubya. They pity them with their lousy food, lousy coffee, lousy gaz mileage, lousy air quality, lousy education, their mickey & freedom-fries culture, their religious freaks that seem to be the norm, the inexistent social security, the unaffordable schooling, the unequal medical system and funny ape-like leadership. French do not hate Americans.
- Aloiv, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Oh digg, you always have something that puts a smile to my face
Way to go clothing guys! - max420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@sven007
French is one of major languges in Belgium :p - Rosco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Will this tag statement still apply in 2 years?
- GopherChucks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4b/c i want to go back to europe and get even *more* drunk next time! :D
- JuyLe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't think they sell in France, never seen anything from this brand, and I'm a kindof hardcore shopper ! But, it's a funny message, even if Mr.Bush could take it bad, ... But actually he cannot read French.
Chirac's approval rating is for sure pretty low, but he's really getting old and is really absent, we never see him. He need to go, really. - e73rock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5i'm getting a bit tired of this false notion that we (America) are Freedom like when Bush said "Freedom was attacked today..." or wahtever after 9/11 and that people hate us because we are free (spz104). We have a lot of FREEDOMS.
We are not Freedom.
and dwiezel...noone is denying you your right to boycott, it's you blind patriotism that turns people off. - yuutomo, on 10/12/2007, -20/+23Dear Clothing Manufacturer,
glad to see you are being honest enough to admit that bush is a ***** idiot and somehow he was re-elected, when the majority of americans did not vote for him. I hope he gets hanged when his term ends after he is tried for crimes against humanity, and americans. -
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