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[squeakywheel]

A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens

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[prophetess666]

I'm highly amused by this as well :)

When I heard the story over the weekend, I was baffled that they in some way or another hadn't heard that name used in it's actual context. I mean, did they just hear the name "Lolita" and think "oh, that's pretty, let's name some beds after it". Corporate coverups are funny!

[neonleonb]

Yeah, surely someone in the company knew what it meant. Presumably, office politics kept the knowledgeable person from cluing in the important people on the project. That is truly a failure of corporate culture if I've ever heard one.

[primavera]

I am disturbed.