Coca-Cola blames bilingual promotion for ‘You Retard’ message under bottle cap - Polidicks

[img]http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/2013/09/bottle-cap.jpg?w=620&h=330&crop=1[/img] [quote]A beverage company’s attempt to combine French and English words under its bottle caps as part of a fun game for customers ended disastrously this week when an Edmonton woman unscrewed her Vitaminwater and saw the message “YOU RETARD” under the cap. Blake Loates was at dinner with her husband on Tuesday when she saw the offensive message, thinking it to be the work of a prankster or disgruntled employee. “We immediately thought ‘You have got to be kidding me,’” she told the Huffington Post Alberta. Her father, Doug, was even more upset, given that his two younger daughters Maddi and Fiona both live with disabilities. Maddi is visually impaired “but gets along just fine,” Doug Loates wrote in an angry letter to Coca-Cola, Vitaminwater’s parent company. [/quote] [url=http://o.canada.com/2013/09/19/vitaminwater-bottle-cap/]**SOURCE**[/url]

People are actually getting upset over this lmao

Is this news.

Of [I]course[/I] it'd be opened by a family that has disabilities.

Wow, I would've just laughed my ass off and said "must've been a mistake, that's amazing" and then kept that cap.

Oh wow what are the chances.

Well yeah, companies can't call their customers retards without someone getting pissed off.

I mean honestly, if I ever got that bottle cap, I would have felt like the luckiest person on Earth and laughed. No need to take this to court or anything. That's not to say I don't understand the implications if a literally mentally handicapped person unscrewed this though...

People are far too prone to getting offended by everything these days.

People need to lighten up.

that's a very [i]special[/i] bottletop they have there.

it's probably because she was drinking vitaminwater

if i opened a bottlecap and it said 'fuck you' or something like that, i might get pretty mad too. and i'd probably pretend to be madder in hopes of winning a lawsuit.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;42249568]if i opened a bottlecap and it said 'fuck you' or something like that, i might get pretty mad too. and i'd probably pretend to be madder in hopes of winning a lawsuit.[/QUOTE] id prolly just burst out laughing and hold onto the cap.

[QUOTE=fulgrim;42249580]id prolly just burst out laughing and hold onto the cap.[/QUOTE] you retard, you could get free money!

Why do people get so upset over things that are clearly just machine errors. Do they really believe Coca Cola specifically set out to insult them.

Thats what happens when you mix English and French. This is why Quebec should be free. [QUOTE]Her father, Doug, was even more upset, given that his two younger daughters Maddi and Fiona both live with disabilities.[/QUOTE] These coincidences.

[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;42249568]if i opened a bottlecap and it said 'fuck you' or something like that, i might get pretty mad too. and i'd probably pretend to be madder in hopes of winning a lawsuit.[/QUOTE] retard is french for delay

[QUOTE=Chubbles;42249507]That's not to say I don't understand the implications if a literally mentally handicapped person unscrewed this though...[/QUOTE] i dont think anyone that was actually retarded would really care. i had a retarded friend in school and he called himself retarded all the time (hint: it's a word that defines mentally handicapped people, and only people that aren't retarded get offended by it, because they find the word too BLUNT because so many people use it as an insult now)

[QUOTE=Arthamus;42249645]retard is french for delay[/QUOTE] retard is english for delay too

so where can I get a vitamin water with that cap

[QUOTE=Unisath;42249763]retard is english for delay too[/QUOTE] delay for french is also delay for english too!

People are just a bunch of bitches these days.

At least they got something with their promotion. I was that unlucky bastard who opened an Android KitKat to find there was no code.

[QUOTE=Arthamus;42249645]retard is french for delay[/QUOTE] "YOU DELAY" doesn't quite have that same hilarious ring to it

[QUOTE=Unisath;42249763]retard is english for delay too[/QUOTE] I actually just looked this up.. I always assumed it kind of did but never knew for sure. Turns out it actually is from the French word "retarder". You learn (or confirm anyway) something new every day.

Hell, I'd buy Coca-Cola more often if it called me a retard, just for the laughs. You just don't get that sense of simmering spite and inability to give a shit from companies anymore, since everyone has to get their panties in a bunch over inconsequential shit and sue.

"It's not a coincidence that I have disabled family members, it's quite clearly an attack!"

Well, people buying vitamin water aren't that far from retarded if they aren't full blown retard yet tbh.

[quote]Her father, Doug, was even more upset, given that his two younger daughters Maddi and Fiona both live with disabilities.[/quote] What a beautiful coincidence. The creation of life on Earth, the evolution of the human race, and this man receiving a bottle cap with "You retard" printed on it when he has disabled children. Simply amazing.