To the best of my knowledge I have never drank Absolut Vodka and I'm sure I've never bought a bottle of it. But after finding out that michellemalkin.com was proposing a boycott I'll be out shopping for some Absolut tomorrow.

Absolut is good, but there are better vodkas out there for the price.

So the Wiki (new window) lies?

Say it (new window) isn't so

Assholes. If I drank Vodak, I wouldn't drink theirs. Idiots.

Many people down there are illiterate and being fed this BS from every direction, this ad is particularly insulting.

GaryPDX I'm not sure I understand, are you saying that the map is not historically accurate? Or are you saying that there are no Mexicans and Mexican-American who would not like to see that map be accurate again?

Seeing that Malkin and/or her readers were somehow involved in the manufactured outrage, I would have hoped their response would be "Sorry you're such a bunch of f*cking stupid pussies." Alas.

curmudge: GaryPDX I'm not sure I understand, are you saying that the map is not historically accurate? Or are you saying that there are no Mexicans and Mexican-American who would not like to see that map be accurate again?

I'm saying the latino masses on both sides of the border are generally descendants of the indigenous peoples of the region. They want "Aztlan" back from the white Europeans whole stole it from them. The "Blue eyes" decendants of the Spaniards rule Mexico with a cast iron fascist hand and these classes are persecuted in Mexico.

That's why we have all these refugees.

This isn't a joke, it's real (new window)

Many of these folks are poor and illiterate and this recognition from an International corporation is particularly insulting.

GaryPDX not sure that you answered my question but perhaps we are just talking past each other. However, I do support giving Texas back to Mexico. As for the rest of the land the US got from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico can kiss my shiny metal ass.

curmudge: GaryPDX not sure that you answered my question but perhaps we are just talking past each other. However, I do support giving Texas back to Mexico. As for the rest of the land the US got from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico can kiss my shiny metal ass.

If you take a gander at that wiki page, it's pretty much Mexican mythology surrounding the Aztecs and their origin. The dangerous part is the section about the "Chicano Movement" that started in the 60-70's in Sandiego and LA. Today many many in the masses north of Mexico City and up into CA, AZ, NV and NM are buying into it ethnically.

It's just a prominent thing going on. There's a LOT of racism in Mexico between the descendants of the Spaniards and the indiginous peoples.

Yea..we're talking past each other...lol.

It's a stupid train of thought but it's happening and growing.

I live in Southeast New Mexico, and I don't quite understand what all the fuss is about.

/And Albertson's vodak, at $11.99 per 1.75l, FTW.

//Snobby cousin left a partial bottle of Stoli at my house, I drank it, refilled it to the same level with Albertson's, and next time he visited I poured him some, and he never noticed the difference.

GaryPDX Now I understand: the whole Aztlan movement is based on a very flawed understanding of history and like most of these kinds of movements is being pushed by some very cynical asshats. Luckily it has not gotten as violent as the so called independence movements in Spain and other parts of the world.

oldebayer: I live in Southeast New Mexico, and I don't quite understand what all the fuss is about.

/And Albertson's vodak, at $11.99 per 1.75l, FTW.

//Snobby cousin left a partial bottle of Stoli at my house, I drank it, refilled it to the same level with Albertson's, and next time he visited I poured him some, and he never noticed the difference.

My sister is lives in Deming..:)

whats the difference between vodka and vodak?

klymen: whats the difference between vodka and vodak?

Fark and Total Fark?

I drink vodka!!!! woooooooooooooooooo

I submitted an article on the same subject YESTERDAY and didn't get jack.

boooo

GaryPDX: Assholes. If I drank Vodak, I wouldn't drink theirs. Idiots.

Many people down there are illiterate and being fed this BS from every direction, this ad is particularly insulting.

you hating it makes me love it.

I've always enjoyed Absolut--but knowing that curmudge is going to be drinking it, there's no way I'd be caught near it now.

GaryPDX: curmudge: GaryPDX not sure that you answered my question but perhaps we are just talking past each other. However, I do support giving Texas back to Mexico. As for the rest of the land the US got from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico can kiss my shiny metal ass.

If you take a gander at that wiki page, it's pretty much Mexican mythology surrounding the Aztecs and their origin. The dangerous part is the section about the "Chicano Movement" that started in the 60-70's in Sandiego and LA. Today many many in the masses north of Mexico City and up into CA, AZ, NV and NM are buying into it ethnically.

It's just a prominent thing going on. There's a LOT of racism in Mexico between the descendants of the Spaniards and the indiginous peoples.

Yea..we're talking past each other...lol.

It's a stupid train of thought but it's happening and growing.

so hating mexis in the us is somehow better than hating mexis in mexico?

Can we give them the southeast too?

Funniest joke I read regarding that ad:

"Mexicans would hate it if that's how things really were . . . they'd have to travel that much further to get to The United States."

kiyote: I've always enjoyed Absolut

Really? I have rarely enjoyed Absolut. Still better than Smirnoff, though.

The ad only ran in Mexico, and hate-monger Michelle Malkin used it to stir up "terk our jerbs!" hatred.

Headline fails, and Subby does too.

Q-Why do vodka and liquor ads always show average looking men with hot models?

A-Because they are selling fantasy

/Get over it. How many 'wetback' jokes were swimming around hollywood movies in the 80's. Can't we all just get along?

Accepts Apology

Nice non-apology apology. "If by chance you are a person that was offended by an ad that wasn't meant for you ever to see, because we would never show you what we really think of you, then we are apologizing for you having to see the ad." - Love Absolut Vodak

Stupid farkers. I think I'll use the last of mine to clean greasy car parts.

That non-apology was not good enough.

"More than a dozen calls to boycott Absolut were posted on michellemalkin.com"

... oh BFD.

Invade Mexico just to mess with Absolut.

I quit drinking hard liquor several years ago. The opportunity to piss off Michelle Malkin is almost enough to make me start back up.

Mexicans? In MY Vodak?

kiyote you're welcome.

Zuel: Nice non-apology apology. "If by chance you are a person that was offended by an ad that wasn't meant for you ever to see, because we would never show you what we really think of you, then we are apologizing for you having to see the ad." - Love Absolut Vodak

Stupid farkers. I think I'll use the last of mine to clean greasy car parts.

That non-apology was not good enough.

Yeah, it's kinda stupid for an international company like that to expect it's ads to only reach it's targeted audience, especially these days with such speedy communication between distant lands. Methinks their marketing department should be penalized for shortsightedness.

"Lighten up, Francis."

Skeptos: I quit drinking hard liquor several years ago.

Me too.


Mainlining the stuff is much more efficient.

Ketel One > Absolut

We always considered Absolut to be the Zima of vodaks.

Never would have believed there were enough gay Mexicans to justify a marketing campaign.

I'll stick with my Stolichnaya.

I like Absolut Vodka, but after finding out that curmuge is out shopping for some, I will never buy it again. Plenty of excellent vodkas out there. I must defend the honor of the American-Mexicans that live across the border.

/Texan
//Bite my shiny metal ass

made me laugh:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=vodak

1. vodak
180 up, 73 down


Further proof that even the most idiotic brainfart can become a meme.

Typical FARK reader: "Vodak! LOL! It's funny and I don't know why! OMGWTFLOLBBQ"

Oh_Enough_Already: Funniest joke I read regarding that ad:

"Mexicans would hate it if that's how things really were . . . they'd have to travel that much further to get to The United States."

Bingo. We could give them all the land back overnight and it wouldn't improve Mexico one whit. It would degenerate into the same shiathole Mexico already is.

Sandwyrm: Zuel: Nice non-apology apology. "If by chance you are a person that was offended by an ad that wasn't meant for you ever to see, because we would never show you what we really think of you, then we are apologizing for you having to see the ad." - Love Absolut Vodak

Stupid farkers. I think I'll use the last of mine to clean greasy car parts.

That non-apology was not good enough.

Yeah, it's kinda stupid for an international company like that to expect it's ads to only reach it's targeted audience, especially these days with such speedy communication between distant lands. Methinks their marketing department should be penalized for shortsightedness.

you poor babies, so sad that you are offended by looking at a map.
where is my violin?

I'm angry!

Gregory F. Stuart
re-elect_jimmy_carter: is this a jew thread?

*looks*

EsteeFlwrPot: I drink vodka!!!! woooooooooooooooooo

Yes.

I laughed but I dont get it.

/rum
//in my drink
///too much

Oh come on!

xyx111: I like Absolut Vodka, but after finding out that curmuge is out shopping for some, I will never buy it again. Plenty of excellent vodkas out there. I must defend the honor of the American-Mexicans that live across the border.

/Texan
//Bite my shiny metal ass

I suggest Tito's.

/Texas has queers, steers and one good vodak distillery.

Ral: Oh_Enough_Already: Funniest joke I read regarding that ad:

"Mexicans would hate it if that's how things really were . . . they'd have to travel that much further to get to The United States."

Bingo. We could give them all the land back overnight and it wouldn't improve Mexico one whit. It would degenerate into the same shiathole Mexico already is.

a place where you can shoot rifles out of your inner city window and eat enchiladas all day long?

i might even move back to the states for that.

Nocens: We always considered Absolut to be the Zima of vodaks.

Never would have believed there were enough gay Mexicans to justify a marketing campaign.

I'll stick with my Stolichnaya.

you gotta get the 100 proof tho, not that 80proof crap.

re-elect_jimmy_carter:
you poor babies, so sad that you are offended by looking at a map.
where is my violin?

Where did I say I was offended? Understanding a mindset now equals to having it?

Your deductive abilities are of questionable worth.

To be fair, most Europeans who visit here are a bit shocked by the number of dusky, spanish-speaking inhabitants.

/Took some French friends to Mexico, stopped in San Antonio for lunch.
//They kept asking if we were in Mexico.
///I couldn't convince them otherwise.

Given that all the people who lived in the Southwest at the time all this happened are dead, let's move on already.

I'd like to see how well an "Absolut Germany" map would go over in Austria and the Czech Republic.