Stories that should come from The Onion but don't

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Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Oct 23, 2019 8:49 am

Nazi bunker in Germany to become "design and lifestyle" hotel

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A developer plans to transform the massive Nazi-era St. Pauli anti-aircraft and air raid bunker in Hamburg, Germany into a "design and lifestyle hotel," as described by a spokesperson for the Spanish hotel chain NS Hotel Group designing the property. The structure is currently used as a concert venue and art/music studio space. According to the spokesperson, there are plans for the rebuilt facility, seen in the rendering above, to also hold a World War II memorial. The bunker hotel project comes on the heels of other Nazi-era structures that have been redeveloped. From the New York Times:

In 2018, the former Gestapo headquarters in Hamburg, where Jews, gay people, Roma and other people targeted by the Nazis were tortured and murdered, a cluster of high-end apartments, luxury boutiques and offices opened for business. Protests ensued.

A never-completed holiday resort that Hitler had intended to be used for workers through his “Strength Through Joy” project has been converted to luxury apartments.

The challenge when integrating these sites into modern-day landscapes is “how to reconcile commemoration and consumption or consumerism,” said Thomas L. Doughton, a senior lecturer at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts who takes students on tours of Holocaust sites across Europe to explore the politics of memory.

Dr. Doughton said there were parallels to places in the United States, including plantations where African-Americans were once enslaved and the sites of atrocities against Native Americans, that have been commercialized at the expense of a blunt reckoning with historical oppression. Some of these places’ paying customers are descendants exploring their heritage.

Other travelers, he said, are drawn to the “pornographic” aspect of violence. “Dark tourism,” as the growing trade is known, involves profiting from places that were once sites of shame and horror, contributing to what Dr. Doughton calls the “gentrification of terror.”
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Re: Stories that should come from The Onion but don't

Postby JackRiddler » Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:20 pm

South Carolina public service ad campaign, apparently intended to reduce methamphetamine use.

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Re: Stories that should come from The Onion but don't

Postby DrEvil » Tue Nov 19, 2019 10:29 am

^^Whoever came up with that deserves a prize. I also liked these alternatives from some random Twitter person:

Meth: Just Do It
Meth: You Should Buy Some and Use It
Got Meth?
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Re: Stories that should come from The Onion but don't

Postby JackRiddler » Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:49 pm

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public," the statement attributed to PT Barnum, needs a revision or a corrolary. The implied subject of the sentence, the professionals of sales and propaganda, consistently prove dumbest of all.
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Re: Stories that should come from The Onion but don't

Postby DrEvil » Wed Nov 20, 2019 5:09 pm

I like Douglas Adams' solution. If Elon Musk gets his Mars colony going he should hand out free tickets to people in advertising and telemarketing. And Alex Jones, so he can go rescue all those child slaves.
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Re: Stories that should come from The Onion but don't

Postby JackRiddler » Wed Nov 20, 2019 5:27 pm

DrEvil » Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:09 pm wrote:I like Douglas Adams' solution. If Elon Musk gets his Mars colony going he should hand out free tickets to people in advertising and telemarketing. And Alex Jones, so he can go rescue all those child slaves.


Yeah, but then that plague started with an unsanitized telephone receiver!
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Re: Stories that should come from The Onion but don't

Postby DrEvil » Wed Nov 20, 2019 6:20 pm

But that's why we have smartphones. No sane person lets anyone else touch their phone these days. That's like having someone poke your brain with their fingers.

And honestly, if there are any phone sanitizers still alive today I say we give them a free pass for sheer novelty value (except the guy cleaning the White House phones. He's definitely going to Mars).

And when the colony is up and running we can "terraform" Mars with nukes.
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Postby norton ash » Wed Nov 20, 2019 8:57 pm

That's not South Carolina, Jack, it's a South Dakota meth PSA. Lookit the map, it's a square prairie state.

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Postby JackRiddler » Thu Nov 21, 2019 8:01 am

Ouch! Yes. Thx.
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Postby stickdog99 » Sun Nov 24, 2019 8:11 pm

Meth. Lines form here.
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Postby JackRiddler » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:00 pm

Meth. Move your inland prairie state to the East Coast!
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Postby norton ash » Tue Nov 26, 2019 12:43 pm

Arkansas -- Come for the meth. Stay because you sold your car to buy meth.
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Postby chump » Wed Nov 27, 2019 7:10 pm

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Postby thrulookingglass » Wed Nov 27, 2019 7:52 pm

Desoxyn: not just for fighter pilots and long haul truckers anymore!

Meth isn't polling well with the upper classes.
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Postby Elvis » Wed Nov 27, 2019 9:27 pm

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