The whole “ Keep Calm and [ X ] ” style has been a fun little meme for merchandiser everywhere , ever since the now - public domain WWII slogan was rediscover . But a seller on Amazon might have taken the chance too far . So far , in fact , that Amazon found itself receive to take down some offers fora “ Keep Calm and spoil Her ” shirt . Ew .
The shirts , sold by a company called “ Solid Gold Bomb , ” all utilize an well manipulated “ Keep Calm And [ Transitive Verb ] [ Direct Object ] ” format . In club to maximize pass , it seems the company did n’t really make the shirts and deal them on Amazon , but rather recruited a ( uncensored and poorly consider ) dictionary to spit out pattern and have them all made on order . At least that ’s their story . What could possibly go faulty ?
What did go wrong was a variety of offensive transitive verb and unfortunate direct aim mating . “ Keep Calm and Rape Her / Them / Him , ” “ Keep Calm and Hit / Knife / Punch Her , ” and undoubtedly a variety of other unseemly madlibs . After ailment to Amazon , the listings were taken down , and now Solid Gold Bomb is crouching behind its algorithmically bring forth excuse . The internet site has shut off all its societal medium outlets , and has now posted the following substance on the“contact us ” pageof its website :
We have been inform of the fact that we were selling an offensive t - shirt in the main in the UK . This has been directly deleted as it was and had been mechanically generated using a scripted figurer cognitive operation escape against one C of thou of dictionary wrangle .
Any dysphemistic point that are remain are certainly in the cut waiting line and will be removed as soon as the processing is complete . Although we did not in any way deliberately create the offensive deoxythymidine monophosphate - shirt in question and it was the result of a scripted programming unconscious process that was collect by only one member of our stave , we accept the responsibility of the error and our doing our good to correct the issues at manus .
So just keep calm , and consider them scumbags . Or lazy . Or hair - brained . One of those is bound to be accurate . [ The Guardian ]
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