11/24/2004: Billboard coverup
 

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Can you feel the ass of the culture tightening? In this case it's in Israel, where a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews demanded that Sarah Jessica Parker's dress should be a little less revealing.

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.............Lucky she wasn't showing any ankle or they really would have let her have it.

Retards...

Soon we'll be back to public floggings as punishment for using naughty words.

Well, come on. It's Israel for crying out loud, not Los Angeles. It was bad research to assume they would find that sort of marketing acceptable in the first place.

I would agree that in the US the pendulum is swinging back to "tight ass" land, but Israel founded the Tight Ass Nation in the first place.

At least they didn't burn the billboard to the ground.

It appears to me that not only did they change her clothing, they changed her skin tone to be more "culturally acceptable".
The company name is Unilever. Maybe I really AM twisted. Sounds like a sex toy to me. :blush:

Is it just me or is her nose a little bigger as well?

The apparent change in skin tone is probably just caused by different light giving different exposure (no pun intended). And do you really think her nose could get any bigger?

Chanting....Burka for Bradshaw...Burka for Bradshaw...Burka for Bradshaw. :rolleyes:

"Lucky she wasn't showing any ankle or they really would have let her have it."

"Retards."

Come now. Different cultures have different standards, for any number of cultural, religious and social reasons.

Over here in the UK we were laughing our arses off at the (to us) ludicrous furore that erupted over Janet Jackson's infamous 'nipple slip' at the Superbowl – "Quick Marjorie! Cover the children's eyes before they're corrupted forever and damned to an eternity in the fiery pit!"

By the same token, billboards and TV ads for shower/bath products across Europe regularly show women's breasts and nobody blinks – it's normal.

The quoted kneejerk reactions above are ill-thought-out and emit a slightly unpleasant whiff of xenophobia. Don't sneer at what you don't understand.

Wow, the UK's stereotypical "American" name is Marjorie? :confused:

Not really - just the first thing that popped into my head, for some bizarre reason. You get my (slightly pompous) point though, surely? :3eye:

Oh yes, I got the overall point. I was just amused at the name choice. Here in the U.S. (or at least down south), the everyman Brit would be named Jeeves, or Nigel, or Niles.

Someone quoted on WTOP that the coverup was done because it's WINTER now so she wouldn't be showing as much skin.

Har.

than they forgot the cap and gloves...