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Twin Towers Costume causes storm in UK

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  • #32
    gobnaitolunacy
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    flazio wrote: »
    or the Titanic for that matter?

    I've seen a Titanic bouncy castle/inflatable slide type thing.

    Anything Titanic themed now seems to be a bit of a larf, an excuse to get dressed up as victims/survivors and put on that godawful warbling from Celine Dion as background music. Costa Concordia captain cossie anyone?


  • #33
    Irish Guitarist
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    What a shoddy, lazy piece of journalism. Someone from The Independent read an article from The Sun and then put it on their site. They couldn't even be bothered finding a photo of the girls and instead used a picture of the front page of The Sun.

    As for the costumes, they were in poor taste but it was hardly newsworthy. The chances are that if The Sun hadn't reported this the families of the people that died would never have known about it.


  • #34
    Frosty McSnowballs
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    What if they went as the famine??????!!!!

    Ohes noes


  • #35
    super_furry
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    The Independent is a tabloid in broadsheet format. Every bit as much of a rag as the Sun or the Sunday Sport.


  • #36
    Agonist
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    The girls’ costumes, which were labelled North Tower and South Tower, featured planes hanging from the buildings amid explosions. They wore hats that were meant to look like smoke billowing out, apparently also showing people jumping to their deaths from upper floors, and all of it topped with miniature American flags.


    I laughed :pac:


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  • #37
    The_Valeyard
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    No one went as the Pentagon?


  • #38
    theblaqueguy
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    They were probably dressing up like that just to get attention , and they have gotten plenty of it!
    Mission accomplished!


  • #39
    The_Valeyard
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    theblaqueguy wrote: »
    They were probably dressing up like that just to get attention , and they have gotten plenty of it!
    Mission accomplished!


    I hear they have links to Iraq.
    Intelligence says so.


  • #40
    the groutch
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    thought thread was about these guys

    http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com/pictures/t/twintowers/02.jpg


  • #41
    fluke
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    Ah sure feck it, it was in Chester, who gives a shoite there.

    £150 quid for two sh1tty costumes?? More like the Win Towers


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  • #42
    Neutronale
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    lahalane wrote: »
    The costumes looked awful. Must have been very poor competition involved if they won.

    Fun girls, they're going to enter as herpes and gonorrhea next year...something to look forward to:rolleyes:


  • #43
    Neutronale
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    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    No one went as the Pentagon?

    Or tower 5, or the Jewish Illuminati who blow it up :eek:


  • #44
    MadsL
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    Friends of mine in the actual year of the Lockerbie Bombing went as the Co-Pilot and Pilot of Pan Am 103 complete with torn and burnt uniforms.

    It was a "Bad Taste" party...not surprising they won, the judges thought it the most bad taste they had seen for some time.


  • #45
    MonaPizza
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    Plazaman wrote: »
    Poor show, they're not even twins !!!

    Anyway over reaction imho, just a couple of students painting cardboard boxes for cheapest costume. Just a step up from cutting eye holes in a bin bag and going as a ghost (although a black Kasper would draw the racist outcry too).

    Especially if you referred to him as a spook


  • #46
    Archeron
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    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    What if they went as the famine??????!!!!

    Ohes noes

    Hmmm, I wonder how you could actually do that.

    "what have you come as?"

    "not a potato anyway!"


  • #47
    Clandestine
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    I give those costumes 9/11


  • #48
    Santa Cruz
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    I know a girl who went to a fancy dress party at Halloween wearing a white dress with ketchup stains on it, black wig and sunglasses. When asked she said she was Jackie Kennedy in Dallas. That's 50 years ago


  • #49
    MagicMarker
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    Santa Cruz wrote: »
    I know a girl who went to a fancy dress party at Halloween wearing a white dress with ketchup stains on it, black wig and sunglasses. When asked she said she was Jackie Kennedy in Dallas. That's 50 years ago
    Jackie Kennedy didn't wear sunglasses and wore a pink dress.

    Your friend fails.


  • #50
    Femme_Fatale
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    I don't find it offensive but can't see anything funny or witty whatsoever about it either.


  • #51
    B.A._Baracus
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    Who dresses up as that anyways. I mean, a few thousand people died. Isnt it out of taste?

    And from another aspect those two had to of sat around thinking "what is the most shocking thing to go as?" .... and they chose that famous image of the burning buildings. It's total shock value. Which is sad.

    But I don't get where the line between acceptable and out of taste/offensive is? ... if this is acceptable. then surely every costume would be acceptable.

    So if a mother dressed her 6 year old daughter up in zombie make-up with a tshirt that said "Madeliene Macaan's dead body" - that would be acceptable too. Because a costume is a costume, right?


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  • #52
    BlaasForRafa
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    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    Who dresses up as that anyways. I mean, a few thousand people died. Isnt it out of taste?

    It was a bad taste party, so they were in costumes appropriate for that theme, that was the point.


  • #53
    B.A._Baracus
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    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    It was a bad taste party, so they were in costumes appropriate for that theme, that was the point.


    I aint no moral pc brigade type. Just certain things shouldnt be touched with a ten foot pole. But the idea of the party was mental itself.


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