ASDA Halloween Costume Sh*tstorm

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

I wonder if the same 'PC Gone Mad' crowd are the same people who'd tell a depressed mate to 'man up and pull yourself together'.

Sadly, yes they probably would mate.
There is an underlying reason for this though.
They are ignorant, callous cunts.

 

[Cellarite]

All hell breaking loose in my local Asda. They've called in extra staff and have cancelled all annual leave. They're down the fruit and veg destroying bananas, they've hit the picnic hampers section to rid the of baskets cases and you can't move down the cereal aisle for pallets of Fruit Loops. It's fucking madness I tell thee.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

A foolish and hopeless naive move in the first place by Asda. Shouldn't a new product like this have to be run by their PR dept first? Halloween itself is not a subject without a degree of controversy in some quarters in any event.

I will say, however, that most folk are guilty of not applying the same rules of etiquette to mental and physical illness. It is still the norm for many of us to refer to someone as "mad" or "insane" if they're a bit leftfield, zany or peculiar, for example, in a way which I (for one) wouldn't dream about doing the same with someone by drawing comparisons with a physical condition.

It's (obviously) not a criticism, more an observation.

 

[Skashion]

It is still the norm for many of us to refer to someone as "mad" or "insane" if they're a bit leftfield, zany or peculiar, for example

Indeed, I am highly egalitarian though and happen to think most people are batshit crazy.

 

[nelsons willie]

A foolish and hopeless naive move in the first place by Asda. Shouldn't a new product like this have to be run by their PR dept first? Halloween itself is not a subject without a degree of controversy in some quarters in any event.

I will say, however, that most folk are guilty of not applying the same rules of etiquette to mental and physical illness. It is still the norm for many of us to refer to someone as "mad" or "insane" if they're a bit leftfield, zany or peculiar, for example, in a way which I (for one) wouldn't dream about doing the same with someone by drawing comparisons with a physical condition.

It's (obviously) not a criticism, more an observation.

I wondered that myself. Good post shorty, keep it up.

 

[TGR]

All hell breaking loose in my local Asda. They've called in extra staff and have cancelled all annual leave. They're down the fruit and veg destroying bananas, they've hit the picnic hampers section to rid the of baskets cases and you can't move down the cereal aisle for pallets of Fruit Loops. It's fucking madness I tell thee.

It's the same at my local Asda! They have just cleared the shelves of;

Cadbury's Fruit & Nut bars
Chunky bars (I think a fat person has lodged a formal complaint and is taking legal action against them)
Blackjacks
Drifter bar (it upsets the homeless)
Midget Gems (vertically challenged)
Matchmakers (upsets single people)
Yorkie bars (a Lancastrian has complained)
Wine Gums (Alcoholics)

It is fucking madness I can tell you!

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

It is still the norm for many of us to refer to someone as "mad" or "insane" if they're a bit leftfield, zany or peculiar, for example

Indeed, I am highly egalitarian though and happen to think most people are batshit crazy.

An opinion I can but endorse, most notably following a foray onto the Transfer forum, or after reading any post from Johnsonontheleft.

 

[Mayor West]

Did Asda really need to pull the costume off the shelves though? They could just have renamed the costume to please the sensitive souls. Probably would cost too much though.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

I wonder how many additional hits the Asda website has had today as people go searching for this costume so that they can also be offended? Or how many times Asda has been mentioned today on all the primetime tv news programmes? Or how long Asda trended on Twitter for in the past 24 hours etc etc? Overly cynical? Me?

 

[scall11]

How many people knew a few days ago that ASDA sold Halloween costumes? And now most the bleeding country knows.

I bet the marketing dept. at ASDA are rubbing their hands together and wondering what to do with the halloween costume marketing budget now it's not needed...