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Don't know that they should have been expected to know this.
http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2014/05/p-g-pulls-detergent-over-neo-nazi-code?et_cid=3931783&et_rid=54679148&location=top
Procter & Gamble has apologized for "any false connotations" after stirring anger in Germany for unintentionally placing a neo-Nazi code on promotional packages for its Ariel laundry detergent.
Outraged shoppers had posted pictures online of Ariel powder boxes featuring a white soccer jersey with a large number "88." The number is sensitive because far-right extremists in Germany often use it as a code to skirt a ban on the use of Nazi slogans in public: since "H'' is the eighth letter of the alphabet, "88" represents the phrase "Heil Hitler." Similarly, "18" is used to stand for "A.H." or Adolf Hitler.
Procter & Gamble acknowledged Friday that the number was "unintentionally ambiguous."
Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)What would P&G have to gain by doing that on purpose. People are weird.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)The pc list can be too much to keep up with at times.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)Check out the British Column 88 and Combat 18. Note Wikipedia quotes the official line that they are "disbanded"
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)And I am not lacking in intelligence. I bet the ad artist didn't know, either.
OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)They are, after all, a Satanic cult:
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Funny. The US version does 32 loads. http://www.lowes.com/pd_363848-82553-37000510505_0__?productId=3478121]
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)My street address is 1818.
meaculpa2011
(918 posts)Last edited Sat May 10, 2014, 11:22 AM - Edit history (1)
an escaped Nazi.
My address is 634. Add them up... 13. Subtract 13 from 634 and get 621. Reverse 621 and get 126.
1 and 6+2=18=AH.
Hitler's relatives lived on Long Island. I'm living on Long Island.
Coincidence?
leeroysphitz
(10,462 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Alice Cooper is probably also a Nazi.
Or maybe even Hitler himself...
Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)Whatta I know?