Pizza Chain Halts Hitler Ad Campaign

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They now have an ad w/ the Pope holding a slice of pizza saying “Hell is eternal”.

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When you become too open minded you loose all common sense.

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The more uproar, the more attention to their company. You are playing into their hands by posting this.
 
jrnami said:
The more uproar, the more attention to their company. You are playing into their hands by posting this.
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I’m just saying that they are losing their credibility at least in my eyes.
 
bones_IV said:
I’m just saying that they are loosing their credibility at least in my eyes.
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You mean ‘losing’? :confused: Loose is actually an adjective

Loose means:adj 1: not restrained or confined or attached; “a pocket full of
loose bills”; “knocked the ball loose”; “got loose
from his attacker”
2: not compact or dense in structure or arrangement; “loose
gravel” [ant: compact]
3: (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any
player; “a loose ball”
4: not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or
constricting; “loose clothing”; “the large shoes were very
loose” [ant: tight]
5: not officially recognized or controlled; “an informal
agreement”; “a loose organization of the local farmers”
[syn: informal]
6: not literal; “a loose interpretation of what she had been
told”; “a free translation of the poem” [syn: free, liberal]
7: emptying easily or excessively; “loose bowels” [syn: lax]
8: not affixed; “the stamp came loose” [syn: unaffixed] [ant:
affixed]
9: not tense or taut; “the old man’s skin hung loose and gray”;
“slack and wrinkled skin”; “slack sails”; “a slack rope”
[syn: slack]
10: (of textures) full of small openings or gaps; “an open
texture”; “a loose weave” [syn: open]
11: not fixed firmly or tightly; “the bolts became loose over
time”; “a loose chair leg”; “loose bricks”
12: lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; “idle talk”;
“a loose tongue” [syn: idle]
13: not carefully arranged in a package; “a box of loose nails”
14: freely producing mucus; “a loose phlegmy cough”
15: having escaped, especially from confinement; “a convict
still at large”; “searching for two escaped prisoners”;
“dogs loose on the streets”; “criminals on the loose in
the neighborhood” [syn: at large, at liberty, escaped,
on the loose]
16: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior; “her easy
virtue”; “he was told to avoid loose (or light) women”;
“wanton behavior” [syn: easy, light, promiscuous, sluttish,
wanton]
17: not bound or fastened or gathered together; “loose pages”;
“loose papers”
adv : without restraint; “cows in India are running loose” [syn: free]
v 1: grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate,
release, unloose] [ant: confine]
2: turn loose or free from restraint; “let loose mines”; “Loose
terrible plagues upon humanity” [syn: unleash, let
loose]
3: become less tight; “the rope relaxed” [syn: relax]
4: make loose or looser; “loosen the tension on a rope” [syn: loosen]
[ant: stiffen]

Lose means: v 1: fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either
physically or in an abstract sense; “She lost her purse
when she left it unattended on her seat” [ant: keep]
2: fail to win; “We lost the battle but we won the war” [ant: win]
3: suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; “She
lost her husband in the war”; “The couple that wanted to
adopt the child lost her when the biological parents
claimed her”
4: place (something) where one cannot find it again; “I
misplaced my eyeglasses” [syn: misplace, mislay]
5: miss from one’s possessions; lose sight of; “I’ve lost my
glasses again!” [ant: find]
6: allow to go out of sight: “The detective lost the man he was
shadowing after he had to stop at a red light”
7: fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to
profit; “I lost thousands of dollars on that bad
investment!”; “The company turned a loss after the first
year” [syn: turn a loss] [ant: profit, break even]
8: fail to get or obtain; “I lost the opportunity to spend a
year abroad” [ant: win]
9: retreat [syn: fall back, drop off, fall behind, recede]
[ant: gain]
10: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; “I
missed that remark”; “She missed his point”; “We lost
part of what he said” [syn: miss]
11: be set at a disadvantage; “This author really suffers in
translation” [syn: suffer]
 
OK, that was really annoying. It was just a typo, don’t make it out the be a federal case! Sheesh!
 
Sr_Sally said:
OK, that was really annoying. It was just a typo, don’t make it out the be a federal case! Sheesh!
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Are you that easily annoyed? How totally sad for you, you must be very stressed out much of the time.
 
jrnami,

You could try being niice or you could try being fnuny. Do you get your jokes out of a can? A little charity goes a long way, and we are just asking companies to be professional and charitable.

God Bless All,
Michael
 
jrnami said:
The more uproar, the more attention to their company. You are playing into their hands by posting this.
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Are you saying that we should turn around and look the other way while companies are bashing Mother Church?
 
I agree. Ignore. They want this thread and this conversation to go on.
 
I would never buy a pizza called Hell Pizza. If I were at Dominos I would respond with a TV ad with someone eating a pizza in disgust and complaining that their pizza tastes like hell. Instead, they call Dominos.
 
I see this as a pretty miserable and disrespectful attempt at humor by the ad agency rather than Church bashing. I do question the legality of using someone’s image in an ad without their permission, though.
 
geezerbob said:
I see this as a pretty miserable and disrespectful attempt at humor by the ad agency rather than Church bashing. I do question the legality of using someone’s image in an ad without their permission, though.
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I think you can use public figures all you want. The Pope doesn’t use his image for marketing, so no copyright laws apply (i think)
 
Anybody else see the sweet irony in a Jewish baker putting a Hitler pizza in the oven? 😉
 
I don’t believe the ignore it and it will go away arguement will work. In fact I’ve seen it not work. Bill Donohue is certainly not one for silence. They can do far more damage before they tire of the insults. We must not be quiet anymore. That is why there is aneed for a new springtime now. We ignored heresy and looked down at protestantism through our nose for centuries and now it is rampant in the Catholic and Christian communities. It starts with a little joke like this and ends with a cartoon of Mary urinated on in a dung heap.

On the other hand, I don’t see this as a huge slap in the face. It trivializes the reality yes. Perhaps someone will see this ad, ignore the pizza and grow.

I sympathize with those who feel slighted by this ad and sincerely ask, can anyone articulate why this is wrong?
 
iamscifimike said:
We ignored heresy and looked down at protestantism through our nose for centuries and now it is rampant in the Catholic and Christian communities.
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Um quite the opposite, the Church fought protestants tooth and nail, you can’t say the church didn’t do all it could.
 
I can and I do, I believe that is why there is so much misunderstanding of our faith and why so many people are intentionally buried in the lies they are told.

In the beginning of the reformation Church vehemently opposed heresy. More recently, that hasen’t been the case. It is why 95% of Catholics don’t hold true to the Churches teachings and a great number of them are easily led away with poor arguments against the faith ( you should see the anti-Catholic book I’m reading now )

I think we are now starting to bridge the gap between the protestants and ourselves. A charge led by PJPII ( continued by PBXVI ) and Mother Angelica
 
Using the image of Hitler and the Pope to sell pizza illustrates how far disrespect for decency has gone in modern society. Free speech = anything goes. It’s horrible, and very sad. It demonstrates that these people just don’t give a damn how offensive they are. So long as they get attention, that’s enough.
 
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