ASDA Halloween Costume Sh*tstorm

[stonerblue]

pc gone mad..







apologies in advance jots

 

[Anonymous]

Nope.

We've got a result, by the way. Remember this started about an hour ago with two or three bipolars chatting on twitter.

ASDA have been reduced to grovelling, have removed it from sale and have pledged a 'sizeable donation to mental health charity Mind'.

If only all fundraising was this easy.

Great result; well played sir!

 

[mackenzie]

Nope.

We've got a result, by the way. Remember this started about an hour ago with two or three bipolars chatting on twitter.

ASDA have been reduced to grovelling, have removed it from sale and have pledged a 'sizeable donation to mental health charity Mind'.

If only all fundraising was this easy.

Great result; well played sir!

Agreed! ;-)

I only mentioned American because of the Wal Mart connection and the fact that America seems to get very giddy about Halloween with the dressing up and stuff.

That apart it was insensitive to the point of astounding

 

[johnny on the spot]

pc gone mad..

apologies in advance jots

No worries mate. But they had to accept it was in poor taste, especially with the hard work put in by hard-stretched charities, the media and the sense that society was making big strides towards understanding. A cheap, nasty costume out of a supermarket does nothing to me by itself. But I had hoped we were moving on and, given that very many of us know people who have experienced mental illness, that we'd be in a place to consider such a thing a bit crap.

Additionally, ASDA and other supermarkets love to con us that they're bang into community, environmental issues and caring when all they really want is all your money. To see their pants and their facade so comically fall down is simply unmissable.

 

[Anonymous]

Nope.

We've got a result, by the way. Remember this started about an hour ago with two or three bipolars chatting on twitter.

ASDA have been reduced to grovelling, have removed it from sale and have pledged a 'sizeable donation to mental health charity Mind'.

If only all fundraising was this easy.

Great result; well played sir!

Agreed! ;-)

I only mentioned American because of the Wal Mart connection and the fact that America seems to get very giddy about Halloween with the dressing up and stuff.

That apart it was insensitive to the point of astounding

Absolutely. It's good to know that you can still make a difference in this day and age.

 

[stonerblue]

pc gone mad..

apologies in advance jots

No worries mate. But they had to accept it was in poor taste, especially with the hard work put in by hard-stretched charities, the media and the sense that society was making big strides towards understanding. A cheap, nasty costume out of a supermarket does nothing to me by itself. But I had hoped we were moving on and, given that very many of us know people who have experienced mental illness, that we'd be in a place to consider such a thing a bit crap.

Additionally, ASDA and other supermarkets love to con us that they're bang into community, environmental issues and caring when all they really want is all your money. To see their pants and their facade so comically fall down is simply unmissable.

not sure if you got the 'joke' there. Was trying to make a play on the word 'mad'. No way was i actually thinking it was pc gone mad to make them squirm and withdraw the idiotic costume.

 

[johnny on the spot]

pc gone mad..

apologies in advance jots

No worries mate. But they had to accept it was in poor taste, especially with the hard work put in by hard-stretched charities, the media and the sense that society was making big strides towards understanding. A cheap, nasty costume out of a supermarket does nothing to me by itself. But I had hoped we were moving on and, given that very many of us know people who have experienced mental illness, that we'd be in a place to consider such a thing a bit crap.

Additionally, ASDA and other supermarkets love to con us that they're bang into community, environmental issues and caring when all they really want is all your money. To see their pants and their facade so comically fall down is simply unmissable.

not sure if you got the 'joke' there. Was trying to make a play on the word 'mad'. No way was i actually thinking it was pc gone mad to make them squirm and withdraw the idiotic costume.

Ah, right. Sorry mate. Been flipping between sites the last couple of hours.

 

[Helmet Cole]

I don't understand the problem. This suit would clearly make you look mental, although as a mental 'patient' I would hope that the treatment received could stop you getting to the covered in blood/ axe wielding stage. The only issue as far as I can see is that it might make it difficult for householders to tell proper mentals from trick-or-treaters on halloween.
Perhaps if you accessorize the costume with rainbow shoelaces it could raise awareness of gay mentalists which would be a win-win?

 

[Rodney Marsh's Hair]

I don't understand the problem. This suit would clearly make you look mental, although as a mental 'patient' I would hope that the treatment received could stop you getting to the covered in blood/ axe wielding stage. The only issue as far as I can see is that it might make it difficult for householders to tell proper mentals from trick-or-treaters on halloween.
Perhaps if you accessorize the costume with rainbow shoelaces it could raise awareness of gay mentalists which would be a win-win?

The problem is Helmet, that people with mental health issues are, by ASDA, being portrayed as the stereotypical 'going crazy with a meat cleaver and is going to cause carnage' type of person while many are working tirelessly to move the stereotype type away from this.

 

[Mayor West]

Just watching this on bbc breakfast, what a ridiculous non story!! It's quite clearly meant to be leatherface lookalike, not someone with depression or anything. Far too sensitive, it's quite pathetic they are even talking about this.