…according to this ad in a French magazine. The twin towers should have been shorter, DUH!! Jesus Christ, World Trade Center architects! Did you not ANTICIPATE terrorists could hijack some planes and kill all those people? (By the way, the architects of this ad can go fuck themselves.)

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Bang bang, choo-choo train, let me see you shake that thang. Wm. Steven Humphrey is the editor-in-chief of the Portland Mercury and has held the job since 2000. (So don’t get any funny ideas.)

11 replies on “How 9/11 Could’ve Been Avoided…”

  1. What the hell are you going on about?

    Taken from a Google translation of the “Who We Are” section on their website:

    “International mail is a weekly news published in Paris. It allows us to read each week, the best in the world press, translated into French. Since its inception in November 1990, Courier International has included in his 1300 newspaper column different from the New York Daily Times to the Maldives, about 25,000 journalists cited. With the addition of the “greatest writing world “, International Mail following world events, seeks to anticipate, and offers its readers the different points of view, an appropriate opening on the complexity of the world”

    It would seem their goal is to promote a better understanding of world events and cultures by breaking down the language barrier, thus preventing the tendency for uninformed, knee-jerk reactions that you demonstrated so aptly.

  2. @NYK – What the hell are you going on about? You’ve missed the point entirely. That ad is offensive and ridiculous – they are blaming us for the terrorist attacks, because we didn’t “anticipate.”

    How the fuck does that “promote a better understanding of world events?”

  3. Wwwwoooooooooooowwwwww, NYK…
    This is an ADVERTISEMENT that is completely NOT clever, and is probably offensive to a SHIT-TON of people. Way to take-up the French cause…
    And to you France: Go ahead and promote some “free press”, just make sure your readers aren’t wearing any Burkas, right?!

  4. No, no no. The ad alludes to 9/11 while referencing Palestine, suggesting that another “unexpected” tragedy could be on the horizon. Through a better understanding of the world from a variety of sources you can better anticipate the directions of events. Ignorance results in disaster and a feeling of being blind-sided even though the signs are there.

    But it’s clear that nobody can get past the chest-beating and think critically about 9/11 because it’s too sensitive and taboo a subject. And so history repeats itself….

  5. This ad fails in that it is offensive and utterly un-clever.

    However, I now know who Courrier International are. That’s the ultimate point of advertising, really. This thing “worked” in that grabbed our attention and we’re talking about it.

  7. Tasteless, yes. But, let us not dismiss and entire culture due to the few douchebags within it. We helped create the forces that brought 9/11. Should we continue to foster with mindless bellicosity the hatred that will breed another? Perhaps another interpretation of the ad is in order.

  8. Just to clarify, I don’t mind 9/11 jokes—especially if I or another American are making them. But as for France? Sorry, monsieur! TOO SOON!

  9. Who is it offensive to, bigots who think the Twin Towers were hand made by George Washington nursed solely on the glorious tits of Betsy Ross?

    Seriously get over yourselves people, unless you knew someone personally in those towers your emotional reaction is way out of line.

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