This made me laugh and I don't even know what it says

[Quixote1818]

[notadmblnd]

1. Laundry detergent ad

remove stains

[Quixote1818]

2. Not just any stains but Jesus stains! nt

[tokenlib]

3. A religious/ historical relic..the Shroud of Turin...that is funny....

Kind of like whitewashing the Sistine Chapel ceiling--in poor taste and sacrilege perhaps for the devout.. but hilarious if you have a good sense of humor.

[Quixote1818]

4. And the way Jesus is covering his private parts

He looks so modest! I know he does it on the "real" Shroud but they emphasized it more here.

[Surya Gayatri]

5. Translation from the French:

ARIEL has got to the bottom of the Turin Shroud!

After fruit and wine stains, and blood and grease stains, ARIEL has conquered Jesus stains!

[RebelOne]

7. Leave it to the French.

America would never run such an irreligious ad. But I love it. When I was in France, I was shocked by some of the TV ads.

[truedelphi]

9. You might find this of interest - during an

Interview with American scientists, none other than Carl Jung stated that Americans are the most conformist society on earth.

This is scarey in many ways. One of the things that brought about the epic fail of Nazi Germany was the Germans propensity for conformity. Jung spent many years - in fact he started in 1919 while analyzing German clients' dreams - trying to understand what part of the German psyche was coming up with such notions of a Single and Terrible Solution for all societal failures.

Yet we are higher on the conformity scale than they are. And certainly we fall far behind the French in terms of being able to think clearly and "freely."

[laundry_queen]

10. I believe THAT.

There was a book I read a long time ago by Alice Miller...it's also a psychological analysis of how children are raised, how it changed a child's thought patterns as adults and how this produced the type of society that was ripe for totalitarianism. "For Your Own Good." I think it was called. I see a lot of parallels in the US.

[yodermon]

12. +1 for Alice Miller reference. n/t

[tblue37]

14. I will be forever grateful to my daughter for giving me a

Frenchman as a son-in-law. He is a delight to have discussions with!

[zbdent]

8. yes, but how about Holy Shit?

[TwilightGardener]

6. Heh! I remember some of my French--that's pretty good.

[lunatica]

11. You're right! It's very funny!

[HopeHoops]

13. That transcends the need for translation.

[WinkyDink]

15. Bwahaha! Genius!

[burrowowl]

16. Glad to see Hara-Kiri is still around

love it!