Gym owner uses Auschwitz to promote gym, fauxpologizes, receives an 'F' in Basic Humanity 101

[intrikate88]

DUBAI // The founder of a fitness gym was forced to apologise yesterday after he posted a series of offensive promotional images on the internet, including a photo of a notorious Nazi concentration camp with the slogan: “Kiss your calories goodbye.”

Phil Parkinson, 32, who runs the Circuit Factory’s Facebook group, uploaded the 10 images yesterday

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[benihime99]

[jei_corsair]

*twitch* My God, those are all horrid.

[apis_cerana]

By yesterday afternoon, another three images had been removed. One was a poster depicting a toilet full of faeces, accompanied by the word “bootcamps”. The second showed men doing press-ups, with the caption: “Saving Dubai from s**t like this”. The third was a poster of four scantily dressed women that proclaimed: “Are you a fat s**g? Just be a s**g.”

Wow, how edgy of you.

Now go DIAF please.

[erunamiryene]

Ahmed, a Palestinian, said, “If the Holocaust one wasn’t there, no one would have paid attention to the other images. Sexist images are everywhere.

Oh, well, that's okay then. /eyeroll

By yesterday afternoon, another three images had been removed. One was a poster depicting a toilet full of faeces, accompanied by the word “bootcamps”. The second showed men doing press-ups, with the caption: “Saving Dubai from s**t like this”. The third was a poster of four scantily dressed women that proclaimed: “Are you a fat s**g? Just be a s**g.”

... anyone thought ANY of these were a good idea? Really? You looked at those and thought HOT DIGGITY WE HAVE A WINNER RIGHT HERE, really?

[suzycat]

It sounds like the sort of thing you'd do to jump start yourself, get out a bunch of completely wrong and offensive ideas that jumped into your head about a brief you didn't particularly like or a client you thought was an arsehole. And then of course you would do something ELSE.

[superfan1]

How in the would did he think hideous idea would be a great idea?

[leprofessional]