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It's not delivery, it's insensitive.

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It's not delivery, it's insensitive.
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It's not delivery, it's insensitive.
September 9, 2014 at 4:07 pm (This post was last modified: September 9, 2014 at 4:08 pm by StealthySkeptic.)
Twitter is a place for complex debates about important topics. It's also a place for brands to shamelessly self-promote. On Monday, these two functions collided in a terrible way.

DiGiorno Pizza, in a bafflingly tone-deaf tweet, used the hashtag "#WhyIStayed" to suggest that you might "stay" somewhere for pizza. Carelessly, it didn't notice that the hashtag is currently being used for people to hold a conversation about domestic violence and share stories of surviving abuse, in the wake of a new video showing NFL star Ray Rice's vicious attack on his then-fiancee Janay Palmer.

The social-media team at DiGiorno apparently saw #WhyIStayed trending and figured it would be a good time to plug for frozen pizza, without checking the hashtag's meaning. Whoops.

Read more here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/09...90504.html
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?

Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
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RE: It's not delivery, it's insensitive.
September 9, 2014 at 4:19 pm
Oops.

This is why the first unwritten rule of posting is to lurk first.
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RE: It's not delivery, it's insensitive.
September 9, 2014 at 4:32 pm
Kudos for the thread name. Big Grin
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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RE: It's not delivery, it's insensitive.
September 9, 2014 at 5:26 pm
(September 9, 2014 at 4:19 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Oops.

This is why the first unwritten rule of posting is to lurk first.

These guys probably are still figuring out what a Twitter does.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?

Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
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