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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    09/08/09

    In reply to Our Plan To Save Annie Leibovitz's Finances
    There is no saving. Either a private beneficiary comes forward or it's all gone. And good riddance; her disgusting consumerism is everything that everyone hates about the so-called rich.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    09/08/09

    In reply to Our Plan To Save Annie Leibovitz's Finances
    Though I would have preferred Miley paired up with Smeagol/Gollum from LOTR, the Whoopi ad more than made up for it. Genius.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/08/09

    In reply to Our Plan To Save Annie Leibovitz's Finances
    Holy shit, is that Nick Denton? Is this why the gecko speaks with a cockney accent?
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    Image of Iamavirgin Iamavirgin
    09/08/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: The picture was taken in the past, so present tense doesn't fit. It must be past particple as in:

    Holy shit, was that Nick Denton? Is that why the Gecko spoke with a cockneyed accent?

    To which I would reply, No, that was just 5 shots of Jaeger at 4am.
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    Uncle_Billy_Slumming promoted this comment Iamavirgin was starred Iamavirgin was unstarred
    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/09/09

    @Iamavirgin:

    That is a mouthful of tense grammar for a virgin!
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    Image of macbeach macbeach
    08/26/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    The biggest problem with that Photoshop job is that the white guy's head is in an impossible position with respect to the body.
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    Image of freckles freckles
    08/26/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    It kind of seems like they forgot to photoshop out the extra pair of legs under the table
     Reply
    Ryan Tate promoted this comment freckles was starred freckles was unstarred
    Image of Ryan Tate Ryan Tate
    08/26/09

    @freckles: Ack! Creepy!
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    Image of AnnaZed AnnaZed
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    Cool, I subscribe to the Photoshop Disasters blog too:

    [photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com]

    So, I'm not sure why you need to post this as well.
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    Ryan Tate promoted this comment AnnaZed was starred AnnaZed was unstarred
    Image of Ryan Tate Ryan Tate
    08/26/09

    @AnnaZed: Didn't see it there, saw it on Engadget, which didn't link them (as far as I can tell). Thanks for the pointer.
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    kinda funny how the Asian guy gets a pass... I'm sure there are Chinese restaurants in Warsaw like there are in every world city, but in a business setting it probably is all white soviet-lookin' folk.
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    Image of Spy from the Land of Rainpeople Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    This is the 2nd time such a thing occurred and got publicized. First time was Oglivy & Matter doing ethnic cleansing for the Ford Motor ad somethime around 1995.

    I can't find the pictures anymore, but I've found an article in British press about the case:

    [www.independent.co.uk]
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    Ryan Tate promoted this comment Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was starred Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was unstarred
    Image of Spy from the Land of Rainpeople Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
    08/25/09


    Oh, and more by the way of history: authentic unretouched photo of Polish national soccer team from 2002.

    I wonder which agency did the retouching this time.
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    Ryan Tate promoted this comment Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was starred Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was unstarred
    Image of kookla kookla
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    I think the most blatant use of Photoshop is the smiles they superimposed on their faces. Who's that giddy during a company meeting?
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    Image of limber limber
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    Bwa ha. I hit this exact problem while designing an international interaction: we had to stop mixing all the minorities in with the white folk after user testing in the Polandy areas of Europe. Quite the wake-up call.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    08/25/09

    @limber: Wait, seriously? That's so very sad.
    Was it an anti-tan thing, or anti-Black?
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    Image of Altaira Altaira
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    What Polish people have you been talking to? My in-laws are Polish and my father-in-law in particular is virulently racist. I have personally witnessed rants against blacks, Jews, Gypsies, Arabs, and Native Americans. He also has severe distrust for non-Catholics (this is related to, but separate from the anti-Semite thing).

    This from a man who fought *against* the Nazis in WWII as a teenager. Oh, almost forgot. He also hates Germans.
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    Flashman promoted this comment Altaira was starred Altaira was unstarred
    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    08/25/09

    @Altaira: So, your father-in-law was upset at the Nazis because he wanted to kill all the non-Aryans himself?!
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    Image of Altaira Altaira
    08/26/09

    @Trai_Dep: He was upset with the Nazis because they invade his home and tried to conscript him into their army. He didn't nessesarily disagree with their politics. And there is a large amount of self-hate going on, as the family's "dirty secret" is that they are, in fact, Gypsies.
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    Image of Jezedude Jezedude
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    It is somehow a common practise in some eastern european countries to replace african americans in corporate ads. I've seen that for example in Russia many many times.
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    Ryan Tate promoted this comment Jezedude was starred Jezedude was unstarred
    Image of meechybee meechybee
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    Looks like the presenter is hitting the escape key — probably because PowerPoint just crashed.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    Translation of the Polish: We have far more beautiful people here than any other country in the world, but don't ask us what happens when we hit 40 as the scientists are still looking into it.
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    Image of octopusink octopusink
    08/25/09

    In reply to Does a Black Guy Belong in This Ad? Microsoft Can't Decide.
    Well to be fair, they already had an Asian and a woman. The black guy was just superfluous diversity. Glad to see they scaled it back just a bit.
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