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Old 04-09-2007, 01:41 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Racial slur on sofa label




You gotta be kidding me !
i guess some kind of translation mistake ?

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/200265
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Old 04-09-2007, 02:47 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Racial slur on sofa label

Holy <TWIBAT>... Biggest. Oversight. EVAR.
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Old 04-09-2007, 03:30 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Whoa, that is just aweful...
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Old 04-09-2007, 04:24 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Wow, that isn't good...
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Old 04-09-2007, 04:28 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Label maker and inspector was probably getting laid off or fired and pulled that... angry employees makes for bad products
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Re: Racial slur on sofa label

Most probably a misspelling of the "Niger Brown" colour.
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Old 04-10-2007, 11:01 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Or somebody with a VERY old dictionary doing the translation.
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Old 04-10-2007, 12:23 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Cnn news report :

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/play...couch.tag.city
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Re: Racial slur on sofa label

Food-for-thought reading from The African American Registry: ****** (the word), a brief history!

But you HAVE TO read it through - ALL of it! (Covers, among many other things, both the "****** Brown" colour and the use of the n-word by Blacks thmeselves.)
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Old 04-12-2007, 02:41 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Just a typo get over it. I have.
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