Microsoft Poland Photoshops Black Guy To White One 964
wanted writes "If you look at Microsoft's Poland business solutions Web site, you will probably not notice anything odd about the main picture. However, when you compare it with the original English version, you can see that someone decided that showing black people in Poland is probably not going to be convincing to business. They just Photoshopped the head of a white guy in for the black one, in an amateurish way, leaving his hand unchanged. (Here's a mirror in case something should happen to the original.)" We noted a few months back that the city of Toronto had done something similar.
Dark Tan? (Score:2, Funny)
Perhaps it was just a spray on tan?
Even Stranger...... (Score:5, Funny)
I would have put a 14" dong on him. (Score:2, Funny)
Who else was epecting (Score:5, Funny)
50th Anniversary of Black Like Me (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe it's Microsoft's way of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the writing of Black Like Me [wikipedia.org].
How offensive (Score:5, Funny)
I find this very rude and discriminatory. How do we know this guy wasn't Gimped?
Re:I would have put a 14" dong on him. (Score:3, Funny)
That's nothing... (Score:5, Funny)
You should see the real original picture [mac.com] before MS photoshopped in those two non-Busey guys.
(Yes, stolen from reddit [reddit.com].)
Re:50th Anniversary of Black Like Me (Score:3, Funny)
Hell, I thought Bill Clinton wrote that book. (How many people are awrare that Clinton was a mutant? He combined all of the white man's worst traits with all of the black man's worst traits, with a few of women's worst traits spliced in to make him everybody's bitch.)
Re:Know your market. (Score:5, Funny)
Rule 34?
Was i the only one that ROFL'D? (Score:1, Funny)
I literally was on the floor dieing when i saw this...
Re:Even Stranger...... (Score:5, Funny)
By the way, I'd already read this on a couple other news sites, and the bluntness of Slashdot's headline cracked me up. The other sites said something like "Microsoft hires racist marketing team". Then Slashdot steps in with "MS PHOTOSHOPS WHITE DUDE OVER SOME BLACK GUY".
Re:Know your market. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dark Tan? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:romney? (Score:5, Funny)
Notice that they fixed it so hastily they forgot to extend the orange bar for the text like they did the first time around.
Re:Know your market. (Score:5, Funny)
The racism flag seems to get trotted out a little too often these days.
Come on. Everyone known those stupid polacks are dirty racists :o)
Re:What about the Asian guy? (Score:3, Funny)
If they Photoshopped in a white guy over the black guy, what about the Asian guy? I mean, how likely are you to see a Korean guy walking the streets of Poland? ( Or maybe I just don't know the streets of Poland).
Korean? He's Canadian, just like a lot of Asians in Poland. However, the sex change operation threw me for a loop, his name is Brenda.
Proper Use of Photoshop Trademark (Score:5, Funny)
Trademarks help protect corporate and product identity, and Photoshop is one of Adobe's most valuable trademarks. By following the below guidelines, you can help Adobe protect the Photoshop brand name.
The Photoshop trademark must never be used as a common verb or as a noun. The Photoshop trademark should always be capitalized and should never be used in possessive form, or as a slang term. It should be used as an adjective to describe the product, and should never be used in abbreviated form. The following examples illustrate these rules:
Trademarks are not verbs.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
Trademarks are not nouns.
CORRECT: The image pokes fun at the Senator.
INCORRECT: The photoshop pokes fun at the Senator.
Always capitalize and use trademarks in their correct form.
CORRECT: The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.
INCORRECT: The image was photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Photoshopped.
INCORRECT: The image was Adobe® Photoshopped.
Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
CORRECT: Those who use Adobe® Photoshop® software to manipulate images as a hobby see their work as an art form.
INCORRECT: A photoshopper sees his hobby as an art form. INCORRECT: My hobby is photoshopping.
Trademarks must never be used in possessive form.
CORRECT: The new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software are impressive.
INCORRECT: Photoshop's features are impressive.
Trademarks are proper adjectives and should be followed by the generic terms they describe.
CORRECT: The image was manipulated using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: The image was manipulated using Photoshop.
Trademarks must never be abbreviated.
CORRECT: Take a look at the new features in Adobe® Photoshop® software.
INCORRECT: Take a look at the new features in PS.
The trademark owner should be identified whenever possible.
Adobe and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.
Re:Even Stranger...... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe.
But any Mac user know it's the ports in the rear that get the most use.
Re:Dark Tan? (Score:3, Funny)
it's so badly photoshopped that they probably used paint...
Re:Proper Use of Photoshop Trademark (Score:1, Funny)
Pronunciation:
CORRECT: Adober Photoshoppr (like Flickr)
INCORRECT: Adobe Arrr Photoshop Arrr
Re:Even Stranger...... (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know what's funnier - your comment or the fact that it was modded 'Informative'
Too soon? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Know your market. (Score:5, Funny)
I can't remember the man's name right now, but one American pilot was finally freed some years back, and living in Chicago. I read an interview that he did with someone, but can't even remember who interviewed him.
+5 Informative.
Re:Know your market. (Score:3, Funny)
It's on the bed right next to the 9; 8 is supposedly filming.
In the previous scene, 7 ate 9.
Re:Know your market. (Score:2, Funny)
The fuck? Now the god damn porn has to be PC?!
You really don't want Mac porn!
Re:Dark Tan? - Long hair? (Score:5, Funny)
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7308/microsoftlocalisation.jpg
Re:Even Stranger...... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm sorry, but you are wrong. (Score:5, Funny)
A woman complemented me on my amazing Japanese
Thats nothing. An American complimented me on my English after I told her I was from Australia. Toughen up!
Re:Even Stranger...... (Score:4, Funny)
Hence the joke... A black guy and a hispanic woman have children... they grew up too lazy to steal....
couldn't they have just made him whiter .. :) (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Dark Tan? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not sure I understand.. by
American style kitchen
..do you mean MacDonald's? Because I'm pretty sure most Europeans don't exactly consider MacDonald's foreign.
Re:I'm sorry, but you are wrong. (Score:2, Funny)
"An American complimented me on my English after I told her I was from Australia."
Well if any of you guys have actually learned English that is worth of praise indeed! *g*
Re:There is no race! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dark Tan? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dark Tan? (Score:5, Funny)
The original showed an Asian guy, a black guy and a white woman. How tediously politically correct. Also completely unrealistic for Poland. (Is it even realistic for the US?)
I'm reminded of the original Mission Impossible series in the 60s. One agent, Barney, was black. He often was sent "undercover" to various (fictional) "Eastern Bloc" countries, and no one noticed, despite him being the only black guy in the whole city (well, we never saw any others).
Which is why it was called Mission Impossible.
Re:Know your market. (Score:3, Funny)
Here [imageshack.us].
Reminds me of a Polish joke (Score:5, Funny)
A polish man finds a lantern laying on the ground.
He takes it home and while cleaning it a genie appears.
The Genie says:
"For freeing me from the lantern, I shall grant you three wishes."
The polish man thinks for a second and says "I wish for a mongol invasion of Poland, please."
The Genie grants him his wish, the mongols invade, and then leave.
The Genie says "Name your second wish."
The man thinks for a moment and says "I wish for a mongol invasion of Poland, please."
The Genie looks at bit puzzled, but grants him his wish.
The Mongol invade, and then leave.
"Now name you third wish"
The man thinks for a bit and says "I wish for a mongol invasion of Poland, please."
The confused Genie says "I'll grant you your wish, but would you tell me why you keep wishing for this?"
The polish man says "Sure, each time the mongols invade Poland they have to go through Russia twice."