Balenciaga Apologizes For Ads Featuring Children Holding BDSM Teddy Bears

[Cow Poke]

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

People have been putting teddy bears in clothes for generations. I bet you had a teddy bear with clothes on it when you were a child, did it scar you for life?

I once shot a fully dressed teddy bear out of a homemade canon, and somehow, he managed to remain fully dressed for the entire flight.

[Diogenes]

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

People have been putting teddy bears in clothes for generations. I bet you had a teddy bear with clothes on it when you were a child, did it scar you for life?

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

A teddy bear without clothes on is perfectly acceptable as well.

[Cow Poke]

For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

A teddy bear without clothes on is perfectly acceptable as well.

Then there's that bear on TV who's always talking about toilet paper, and he runs around inside the house nekked as a jaybird.

[rogue06]

I once shot a fully dressed teddy bear out of a homemade canon, and somehow, he managed to remain fully dressed for the entire flight.

As if further proof that we be bruddas is needed.

[Cow Poke]

As if further proof that we be bruddas is needed.

Did you remember to put his goggles on?

[rogue06]

Did you remember to put his goggles on?

You know the motto of roguetech: "Safety First! If we remember to think about it."

[Cow Poke]

You know the motto of roguetech: "Safety First! If we remember to think about it."

From the teddy bear, we moved onto multiple stage rockets and actual living newts.
The "nose cone" containing the newt actually disappeared from view (no idea what that actual height was) and returned safely to earth.
Mrs Johnson was fuming mad because we trampled her prize rose bushes in recovering our newtronaut.

[rogue06]

From the teddy bear, we moved onto multiple stage rockets and actual living newts.
The "nose cone" containing the newt actually disappeared from view (no idea what that actual height was) and returned safely to earth.
Mrs Johnson was fuming mad because we trampled her prize rose bushes in recovering our newtronaut.

We stuck them in tubes and pipes and pretended they were bazookas but primarily we made mortars. And I started designing my first shells.

Couldn't get any of them to explode though. Didn't figure that out for another decade.

[Cow Poke]

We stuck them in tubes and pipes and pretended they were bazookas but primarily we made mortars. And I started designing my first shells.

Couldn't get any of them to explode though. Didn't figure that out for another decade.

Sometimes it was as simple as pounding an iron pipe into the ground at an angle, dropping a t-bomb in, a golf ball on top of that, and BOOM --- yeah, a mortar.

A week after one of these events, I was with my dad getting gas at the Gulf station where they were replacing a plate glass window at the front of the station.
My dad asked about, and "old slow Roy" said -- "it's the darnedest thing --- we found a golf ball behind the desk with scorch marks on it - the police are checking for fingerprints".

(I didn't realize it at the time that a golf ball was a terrible object from which to extract fingerprints, and it didn't occur to me that my fingerprints wouldn't (at that point in time) be on file anywhere - I didn't sleep for a week!)

[Sparko]

From the teddy bear, we moved onto multiple stage rockets and actual living newts.
The "nose cone" containing the newt actually disappeared from view (no idea what that actual height was) and returned safely to earth.
Mrs Johnson was fuming mad because we trampled her prize rose bushes in recovering our newtronaut.

Did the rocket fly according to Newtonian physics?

[rogue06]

Sometimes it was as simple as pounding an iron pipe into the ground at an angle, dropping a t-bomb in, a golf ball on top of that, and BOOM --- yeah, a mortar.

A week after one of these events, I was with my dad getting gas at the Gulf station where they were replacing a plate glass window at the front of the station.
My dad asked about, and "old slow Roy" said -- "it's the darnedest thing --- we found a golf ball behind the desk with scorch marks on it - the police are checking for fingerprints".

(I didn't realize it at the time that a golf ball was a terrible object from which to extract fingerprints, and it didn't occur to me that my fingerprints wouldn't (at that point in time) be on file anywhere - I didn't sleep for a week!)

We started with using an old rusty shotgun. I once stuck a broom handle down the barrel to which a small Molotov Cocktail was attached and used a chemical igniter so no open flame (a certain powder that reacts violently to gasoline was wrapped in a Kleenex and taped to the side of the bottle). Dang thing exploded the barrel. I guess it weighed too much and acted as a plug.

But I remembered the safety first motto and rigged it to be fired by pulling a 10 string attached to the trigger as I stood behind a big tree.

We started using the steel pipes used as posts for chain link fences after that.

[rogue06]

In an era when athletes are measured not by how well they perform but how woke they are, this is a nice change

Source: Rams’ Cupp Denounces Ad Campaign Featuring Kids With Bondage Gear

The NFL constantly pumps its woke “Inspire Change” campaign, and Rams’ receiver extraordinaire Cooper Kupp turned that into a positive over the weekend. Cupp slammed Balenciaga for a BDSM-themed ad campaign featuring children.

The fashion company Balenciaga has apologized for the unthinkable ad featuring a child holding a teddy bear dressed in bondage attire.

The most valuable player of this year’s Super Bowl, Cupp wrote a statement demanding Balenciaga be held accountable for this sick, twisted imagery:

“To try to be a voice for our children, who rely on the protection of the men and women that were entrusted the responsibility of nurturing them and raising them up: please make yourself aware of the attack against our young ones by @balenciaga, and ensure that they are held responsible for it.

“For those of us in positions to create change in the way that companies manipulate people and advertise evil, please stand up!”

How refreshing! A key figure in a league known for woke nonsense stands up for children and makes a crucial point on the declining cultural state of the nation.

Balenciaga came under fire for teaming up with Adidas for a second ad with disturbing child abuse imagery. This ad also included language from the U.S. Supreme Court case on pedophilia, United States v. Williams, regarding the distribution of child pornography.

Balenciaga apologized for both ads and indicated it is pursuing legal action against the people responsible for creating them.

Fox News reported the photographer for the “Toy Stories” campaign is Gabriele Galimberti. The despicable photographs have been “mostly scrubbed from the global brand’s website,” said Fox’s Ryan Gaydos.

According to the New York Post, the fashion house released its mea culpa in an Instagram post Monday afternoon.:

“We strongly condemn child abuse; it was never our intent to include it in the narrative. Our plush bear bags and the gift collection should have not been featured with children. This was a wrong choice by Balenciaga, combined with our failure in assessing and validating images. The responsibility for this lies with Balenciaga alone.”

Balenciaga also termed the campaigns “reckless negligence.”

To say the least.


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I'm surprised to see that they didn't pillory Kupp for his comments, claiming that he is endangering the life of the photographer or those in the BDSM community -- that seems to be the latest ruse to silence opposition.

[seer]

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[Bill the Cat]

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I got one better than that. This one is going around Twitter.

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[mossrose]

I once shot a fully dressed teddy bear out of a homemade canon, and somehow, he managed to remain fully dressed for the entire flight.

That must have been quite a large tome.