In other news, Rice Krispies no longer Snap, Crackle and Pop, they have instead been biologically tweaked in order to produce a scathing denunciation of settler-colonialism when you pour the milk on.
I’ll be honest. When I read this my thoughts immediately turned, not to the Palestinian issue, but to the disastrous impact of Trump’s policies on US farmers: AI “President Trump’s policies and administrative actions heavily impact U.S. dairy farms through a mix of labor updates, trade disputes, and regulatory shifts.” Makes sense that a cartoon cow might serve as a spokes🐮 on a genuinely relevant topic. Of course, I could be dead wrong. I assume the issue will be revisited.
Scene, a Frenchman, smoking a Gauloises in front of a barn. "Hello, I'm Ivan Giraud, CEO of Bel Brands, USA, producers of Laughing Cow. You may have heard that ze cow, she is not laughing. Well, that is because she developed the ennui. The ennui, it is a result of this damn war and that lying son of a bitch Trump. But we hope it will soon pass."
It would certainly be a lot better - maybe one would prefer to not have their cheese involved in politics at all, but it would at least be about the business selling them the cheese and not some random contentious thing.
Toilet paper companies are probably the only ones that could get away with this, because you’re already wiping your arse with their product so you kind of win however you feel about it.
Jimmy Fallon was in a movie called Fever Pitch, about an obsessive Red Sox fan. One joke I liked was that everything in his home is Red Sox-themed, except the toilet paper, which is Yankees.
Pretty wild that the ending of that movie ended up having to be changed by the Red Sox actually winning the World Series. In the original (based on the English Premier League team Arsenal) it ended with continued futility, and I'm sure that was the plan for the American version, too. But obviously you can't put that out a few months after the Red Sox win the World Series.
I've never actually seen it but I'll never stop being annoyed at seeing Fallon and Drew Barrymore run onto the field, for whatever scene they were shooting, after the Sox clinched against St. Louis. But 2004 was a painful year for me, as a fan of the toilet paper team.
They also won on the road, so this is in the context of a kind of muted, disappointed Busch Stadium, and they gotta watch these Hollywood goons jumping for joy. Felt bad for Cards fans.
(I wonder if the TP joke was in the original, just with Man U in place of the Yankees.)
For a long time, you could buy Fidel Castro toilet paper in Miami, including a print of Fidel on each sheet. Probably they had come Hugo Chavez, as well.
On the plus side, Israel has excellent dairy with many options to switch to. Assuming they're not all boycotted.
Oh and it's not just the bystander effect. It's cancel-culture-fueled-self-censorship. The first person that says "I think that might be bad for business" will be accused of not just defending genocide but of actually perpetrating it. By the time it gets to the CEO or CMO, it's too late because if they squash it, the intern that started this whole thing will blast them internally and on social media until they are forced to resign. The cow may not be laughing, America won't be laughing, but the Pro Pallys will be.
Unless of course this is totally innocuous and nothing happens, in which case, still shame on Laughing Cow for scaring us like that.
I wonder if the thing we need to talk about is along the lines of, "What the fuck are you people doing to my udders? That milk is for my chi- wait, where is my child? And did you pierce my ears? But mainly the child/milk thing."
1. It's entirely possible Laughing Cow will release a powerful statement on Israel/Palestine, but only because sometimes there's a lag time between when an event happens and when a movie or TV show or marketing campaign is released. You can't just throw together a convincing life sized cow costume and film it on a swing and get it out in a day. Remember how the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light ads arrived after Mulvaney's popularity had begun to wane?
2. Watching Vivek RAMALAMALA!!! (credit to Tim Dillon), I thought "Why isn't this idiot lifting his left foot and leaning before swinging? Does it have something to do with Cricket?" Turns out, after I did the shallowest dive possible, Cricket batters don't normally lift their feet when swinging the whateverthefuck thing they swing is called.
It might be because of tennis — apparently he’s legitimately kind of good at tennis. And that’s a swing where you plant your feet and pivot your torso. (But then why isn’t his torso moving???)
Jeff, why are you so shocked about the possibility that the laughing cow might be hyper-political? For the past sixty years or so, dedicated, (and, dare I say--increasingly intollerant) progressive social activists have made almost everything politicaly correct or incorrect. You got what you've collectively wanted. Around 1970, Nicholas Fon Hoffmann wrote a book called "We are the people our parents warned us against." There's almost nothing today that some activist group hasn't decided to take to the streets and lecture us about, while going nuts when their own safe spaces are violated. Until the moderate democrats actually retake control of their party, and quit belaboring the rest of us with virtue-signaling pronouncements, things will just get more the way they already are. Thanks a lot, comrad.
I’m wondering whether you have some information we don’t yet have that this is going in the “Palestine” direction? As opposed to something directly relevant to the dairy industry? Keep us posted, Jeff!
Given that we are (how now) talking about a cow, I believe we could safely say "SHE" here: "the possibility that it will issue an impassioned statement." Don't fear the gender.
In other news, Rice Krispies no longer Snap, Crackle and Pop, they have instead been biologically tweaked in order to produce a scathing denunciation of settler-colonialism when you pour the milk on.
Also, "Snap" is an African-American slang term that those little elf things have appropriated.
Is it a slang term if you don't say "Oh," before it?
I’ll be honest. When I read this my thoughts immediately turned, not to the Palestinian issue, but to the disastrous impact of Trump’s policies on US farmers: AI “President Trump’s policies and administrative actions heavily impact U.S. dairy farms through a mix of labor updates, trade disputes, and regulatory shifts.” Makes sense that a cartoon cow might serve as a spokes🐮 on a genuinely relevant topic. Of course, I could be dead wrong. I assume the issue will be revisited.
Scene, a Frenchman, smoking a Gauloises in front of a barn. "Hello, I'm Ivan Giraud, CEO of Bel Brands, USA, producers of Laughing Cow. You may have heard that ze cow, she is not laughing. Well, that is because she developed the ennui. The ennui, it is a result of this damn war and that lying son of a bitch Trump. But we hope it will soon pass."
It would certainly be a lot better - maybe one would prefer to not have their cheese involved in politics at all, but it would at least be about the business selling them the cheese and not some random contentious thing.
Yup as to both points.
I personally was guessing it's going to be about the conditions of dairy cows. But your theory is good too.
Toilet paper companies are probably the only ones that could get away with this, because you’re already wiping your arse with their product so you kind of win however you feel about it.
Jimmy Fallon was in a movie called Fever Pitch, about an obsessive Red Sox fan. One joke I liked was that everything in his home is Red Sox-themed, except the toilet paper, which is Yankees.
Pretty wild that the ending of that movie ended up having to be changed by the Red Sox actually winning the World Series. In the original (based on the English Premier League team Arsenal) it ended with continued futility, and I'm sure that was the plan for the American version, too. But obviously you can't put that out a few months after the Red Sox win the World Series.
I've never actually seen it but I'll never stop being annoyed at seeing Fallon and Drew Barrymore run onto the field, for whatever scene they were shooting, after the Sox clinched against St. Louis. But 2004 was a painful year for me, as a fan of the toilet paper team.
They also won on the road, so this is in the context of a kind of muted, disappointed Busch Stadium, and they gotta watch these Hollywood goons jumping for joy. Felt bad for Cards fans.
(I wonder if the TP joke was in the original, just with Man U in place of the Yankees.)
Oh God, I would LOVE it if a toilet paper brand decided to support a cause (any cause!) this way and didn't realize how it would be taken.
For a long time, you could buy Fidel Castro toilet paper in Miami, including a print of Fidel on each sheet. Probably they had come Hugo Chavez, as well.
On the plus side, Israel has excellent dairy with many options to switch to. Assuming they're not all boycotted.
Oh and it's not just the bystander effect. It's cancel-culture-fueled-self-censorship. The first person that says "I think that might be bad for business" will be accused of not just defending genocide but of actually perpetrating it. By the time it gets to the CEO or CMO, it's too late because if they squash it, the intern that started this whole thing will blast them internally and on social media until they are forced to resign. The cow may not be laughing, America won't be laughing, but the Pro Pallys will be.
Unless of course this is totally innocuous and nothing happens, in which case, still shame on Laughing Cow for scaring us like that.
Erez: "Pro Pallys." Good one!
Won't you feel bad when the Laughing Cow produces a groundbreaking proposal for resolving the Sudanese civil war.
That would be great partly because the Laughing Cow would surely get a Nobel Peace Prize before Trump.
More importantly: Where does Windex stand on this?
The top comment on that article is still awesome, after all these years.
https://www.imightbewrong.org/p/windex-aint-scared-heres-our-statement/comments
David: Thanks for the flashback!
I wonder if the thing we need to talk about is along the lines of, "What the fuck are you people doing to my udders? That milk is for my chi- wait, where is my child? And did you pierce my ears? But mainly the child/milk thing."
Imagine a lactating cow understanding where the rennet used to make cheese comes from!
Well, of course she's not laughing. The Comedian is dead.
But doctor... I *am* the Laughing Cow.
And there is a cultural reference only a few will get.
1. It's entirely possible Laughing Cow will release a powerful statement on Israel/Palestine, but only because sometimes there's a lag time between when an event happens and when a movie or TV show or marketing campaign is released. You can't just throw together a convincing life sized cow costume and film it on a swing and get it out in a day. Remember how the Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light ads arrived after Mulvaney's popularity had begun to wane?
2. Watching Vivek RAMALAMALA!!! (credit to Tim Dillon), I thought "Why isn't this idiot lifting his left foot and leaning before swinging? Does it have something to do with Cricket?" Turns out, after I did the shallowest dive possible, Cricket batters don't normally lift their feet when swinging the whateverthefuck thing they swing is called.
It might be because of tennis — apparently he’s legitimately kind of good at tennis. And that’s a swing where you plant your feet and pivot your torso. (But then why isn’t his torso moving???)
Trying not to wake up the wife laughing while watching Vivek and his stage 4 arthritis.
Oh, yeah, it could be from tennis. Either way, swinging a baseball bat like that is disqualifying.
I mean…it’s called a bat.
Jeff, why are you so shocked about the possibility that the laughing cow might be hyper-political? For the past sixty years or so, dedicated, (and, dare I say--increasingly intollerant) progressive social activists have made almost everything politicaly correct or incorrect. You got what you've collectively wanted. Around 1970, Nicholas Fon Hoffmann wrote a book called "We are the people our parents warned us against." There's almost nothing today that some activist group hasn't decided to take to the streets and lecture us about, while going nuts when their own safe spaces are violated. Until the moderate democrats actually retake control of their party, and quit belaboring the rest of us with virtue-signaling pronouncements, things will just get more the way they already are. Thanks a lot, comrad.
Have you ever seen how they produce and package spreadable cheese? It's "utterly" fascinating!
Puns? Oh yes! Let there be many puns! Let's make supportive bloodthirsty Hamas fun again!
That Vivek video was hilarious. He promised voters everything except to wash their cars on Sunday.....
I’m wondering whether you have some information we don’t yet have that this is going in the “Palestine” direction? As opposed to something directly relevant to the dairy industry? Keep us posted, Jeff!
Given that we are (how now) talking about a cow, I believe we could safely say "SHE" here: "the possibility that it will issue an impassioned statement." Don't fear the gender.
They're probably trying to get ahead of those damn Sargentos and their stance on the Rohingya conflict.
Maybe they're going to come out with a statement on ethical treatment of dairy cows and how they are going to "do better." I'd support that.
Has the cow always had those earrings?