Seriously Bad Taste Merchandise

I thought it said 'doin' it dirty'.
 
This literally appeared as an ad on my Instagram feed just minutes ago (though I daresay, she looks a little more like Helen Mirren):

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Looks like other 'products' artfully photoshopped and put up on Farcebook pages.

Then again, the Chinese knock-off merchants aren't known for sensitivity. They imagine the Westerners desire for cheap tat overrules any sense of taste. Might not be wrong at that.
 
I had one of those didn't every child get one free to celebrate the coronation?
or was that just what I was told or even a local thing, there were 2 sizes never
saw the larger one I was only 4 or so memory may be wrong.
 
And folks have been blocked from 'selling' wristbands on eBay.
Firstly, they're free to get.
Secondly, yep - distasteful.
Thirdly - when you describe your item as 'unused' then as you got said item for free, just for standing in a queue, then it's not been used, has it?
I know it's a genuinely 'once in a lifetime event'* but FFS, this is the most blatant demonstration of modern commercialisation, isn't it?

* I'm not a monarchist but I'm aware of a sense of history.
 
Stormkhan said:
And folks have been blocked from 'selling' wristbands on eBay.
Firstly, they're free to get.
Secondly, yep - distasteful.
Thirdly - when you describe your item as 'unused' then as you got said item for free, just for standing in a queue, then it's not been used, has it?
I know it's a genuinely 'once in a lifetime event'* but FFS, this is the most blatant demonstration of modern commercialisation, isn't it?

* I'm not a monarchist but I'm aware of a sense of history.
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For the sake of history (when someone reads this years from now): these are wristbands to get into the miles-long queue to view the Queen's casket.
 
One of the talks we do is about various bits of murder and mayhem, mainly 19thC. And we stumbled on these, beauties, Victorian murder souvenirs. Not just the broadside ballads and penny dreadfuls everyone knows about but people also bought ornaments or mugs to commemorate the latest murder. We have always ended that talk with a couple of slides of the murder memorabilia and have threatened to make an entire talk that is dedicated to just murder tat. Wonder if it'd be popular?

https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com...and-our-enduring-fascination-with-true-crime/
 
Ghost In The Machine said:
One of the talks we do is about various bits of murder and mayhem, mainly 19thC. And we stumbled on these, beauties, Victorian murder souvenirs. Not just the broadside ballads and penny dreadfuls everyone knows about but people also bought ornaments or mugs to commemorate the latest murder. We have always ended that talk with a couple of slides of the murder memorabilia and have threatened to make an entire talk that is dedicated to just murder tat. Wonder if it'd be popular?

https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com...and-our-enduring-fascination-with-true-crime/
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Would today’s audiences pick up the irony?

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maximus otter
 
This is real, and it's available in a variety of colors and sizes via Etsy. From a functional perspective I'm not sure the "handle" is all that useful, but it's definitely eye-catching.

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It's one of the odd / wacky sex toys listed in this year's Daily Beast Sex-tember sampler of sex accessories.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/weird-sex-toys?ref=home
 
EnolaGaia said:
This is real, and it's available in a variety of colors and sizes
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Religious dildos have a long history! The most commonly-encountered used to be the Virgin Mary style: one side with a blue, nunny face and rosary beads, the obverse with a purple bell-end and bulging veins.

I have reason to recall it, when my mother caught me, transfixed by the sight of one, as it revolved on a turntable in the window of a Blackpool novelties emporium! I was about eight and only really understood the nun side! I got a good, hard slap, anyway! :evillaugh:
 
maximus otter said:
Mike Tyson (the Mike Tyson) is selling edible cannabis products shaped like an ear with a lump bitten out of it ...
If you don't know why this is in bad taste:
https://www.republicworld.com/sport...ander-holyfields-ear-in-1997-boxing-news.html
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Update ... Tyson is now promoting "Holy Ears" ear-shaped cannabis edibles for the Xmas season. He's jointly advertising them with Evander Holyfield - the boxer whose ear Tyson bit.

 

Fast Food Restaurant Sparks Outrage With Anne Frank Burger and Hitler Fries​


A fast food restaurant has proved tasteless after allowing customers to add the “Adolf” cheese and bacon-covered french fries as a side to their “Ana Frank” hamburger in Argentina.

Honky Donky, a local eatery in the small town of Rafaela in the Santa Fe province, offered the two options on their menu along with others named after Mongolian khagan Genghis Khan (misspelled as Gengis), Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong, and World War II-era Italian fascist leader and Hitler ally, Benito Mussolini.

Soon after, Honky Donky apologized for the menus in their Instagram story, according to screenshots posted by local media, and announced that they would rename the items after “defenders of peace and human rights” like “Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Dalai Lama, Barak (sic) Obama, Teresa de Calcuta, Carlos Mujica, Nelson Mandela, Mijail (sic) Gorbachov, Juan Pablo II, among others.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9y7z/argentina-anne-frank-hitler-hamburger-outrage

Lit. Trans.: "Restaurant gets the kind of free publicity that money can't buy."

:rolleyes:

maximus otter
 
History or political teaching aside, I've noticed bad taste merchandise tends to come from/be sold in countries that weren't directly affected by the issues. Sure, the US troops uncovered the horrors of the concentration camps - but that was long ago and in a far away place.
Is there any US sellers of tat which show 'jokes' about the Alamo seige? 9-11?
Look at the outcry over the anti-monarchist chippy and the Queens death.
The way I see it, 'bad taste' requires context and a certain amount of negative empathy. "You can't take a joke" can only go so far.
 
Stormkhan said:
It's not only a satire on the whole nasty case, it's a pretty good swipe at producers such as Franklin Mint.
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There are loads of them. Selected big news stories get the souvenir plate treatment. :)

This one though, the joke is watered down a bit by the inclusion of the child's image. It's supposed to be mocking the offending adults.
Probably wouldn't be done like that now.
 
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