Maybe don't call your shoe the "predator", but if you do, don't carry it in child sizes...

[njord@zeroes.ca]

@alice
i see that Adidas wanted to give the old "Reebok Incubus" woman's running shoes some competition for the most inappropriately named shoe ever sold

[momo@social.linux.pizza]

@alice
When my wife was pregnant and we were looking into potential names for the kid, my wife asked me why I try to come up with the absolute worst of nicknames for potential name candidates.

I replied: For two reasons. First, kids can be cruel, especially teenage kids. And second: My first name was used to come up with a racist slur about black female genitals as a nickname for me. That's far worse than transforming Benjamin into 'Ben, jam (it) in!'. If I can come up with shit like that, so can they.

That shoe example there reminds me what marketing departments are there for. And that I did a better job in naming my kids than they did naming their shoes.

[sonstharmlos@sueden.social]

@alice From the developers of therapistsearch.com

[alice@lgbtqia.space]

@momo my ex and I did that for our kid.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@alice

Someone in the marketing department didn't think that one through, did they? ‍️

[juanejot@beige.party]

@alice Remember how the Epstein-Files-in-Chief was just guessing sycophants’ shoe sizes?
Yeah, anybody got his?

[acb@mastodon.social]

@alice shouldn’t that be the gold Trump sneaker?

[momo@social.linux.pizza]

@alice
I wish my mom and dad did that for me.

[sancla@infosec.exchange]

@alice wtf…

[htpcnz@mastodon.social]

@alice why not? these been in the market for over three decades, if you know anything about kids, they don't word associate as overly sensitive adults are and want to wear the same boots as their favourite players. geez.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@alice oh my dog never seen an ad that awful. They really have no taste and no brain.

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@alice @momo also here.

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@f4grx @alice @momo I did that. And there were a couple I didn't expect, and those came from particularly cruel adults

[justbeep@social.tchncs.de]

@alice
Welcome to the age of #epstein et al.

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

@alice the word unisex is doing some serious heavy lifting there.

Is this like the cursed version of the unabomber…?

[proedie@mastodon.green]

@alice The perfect gift for a lonely child you met on the street.

‘Come on, kiddo, I know a great pitch to try the shoes. It’s on the other side of this lonely forest.’

[elbeetoots@mastodon.nl]

@alice Perhaps they felt that "Unisex-Child Terminator" was a bit too much

[softspeak@defcon.social]

@alice

But the Epstein and Trump names were taken.

[hellomiakoda@pdx.social]

@alice Oooh, this must be the shoe company Trump was getting the shoes he was handing out to republicans.

[saltywizard@beige.party]

@alice

(oh, I can't wait to read all the comments on this gem!)