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What on earth is the BBC thinking. This is just going too far.A New Zealand pizza chain has withdrawn a Halloween promotion that showed skeleton animations of three deceased celebrities dancing on graves.

Hell Pizza's advert showed animations of Sir Edmund Hillary, actor Heath Ledger and the Queen Mother dancing to Michael Jackson's song Thriller. [...] The firm is no stranger to controversy. Last year, it showed Hitler in a Nazi salute with a pizza in his hand. Previously, it has distributed condoms alongside its "Lust" pizza.

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 'Grotesque' NZ pizza ads dropped

The Queen Mother's a "deceased celebrity"?

Heads should roll in Portland Square.

That is so sick:mad: Havent they got any respect for the dead or their families:mad:

spot;1044598 wrote: What on earth is the BBC thinking. This is just going too far.A New Zealand pizza chain has withdrawn a Halloween promotion that showed skeleton animations of three deceased celebrities dancing on graves.

Hell Pizza's advert showed animations of Sir Edmund Hillary, actor Heath Ledger and the Queen Mother dancing to Michael Jackson's song Thriller. [...] The firm is no stranger to controversy. Last year, it showed Hitler in a Nazi salute with a pizza in his hand. Previously, it has distributed condoms alongside its "Lust" pizza.

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 'Grotesque' NZ pizza ads dropped

The Queen Mother's a "deceased celebrity"?

Heads should roll in Portland Square. that is a little too much. but where do you draw the line theses days?? i think the line is long GONE:o

Very disrespectful, but then, I hated the Quizno ads here that had dead and stuffed hamsters dancing around too. I know I would never patronize that business. :-3 The dead should be left alone in peace, there are other ways to advertize.

Hoss;1044706 wrote: I thought the Queen was still alive?:-3 When did she die?wrong Queen

kayleneaussie;1044617 wrote: That is so sick:mad: Havent they got any respect for the dead or their families:mad:


southern yankee;1044618 wrote: that is a little too much. but where do you draw the line theses days?? i think the line is long GONE:o


chonsigirl;1044710 wrote: Very disrespectful, but then, I hated the Quizno ads here that had dead and stuffed hamsters dancing around too. I know I would never patronize that business. :-3 The dead should be left alone in peace, there are other ways to advertize.


Perhaps a letter of protest to the BBC should be in order. They can't possibly get away with calling the Queen Mother a "deceased celebrity", it's the height of poor taste. Someone should be fired for printing that.

spot;1044744 wrote: Perhaps a letter of protest to the BBC should be in order. They can't possibly get away with calling the Queen Mother a "deceased celebrity", it's the height of poor taste. Someone should be fired for printing that.
nothing is off limits theses days. that is why we are in the mess we are in;)

spot;1044744 wrote: Perhaps a letter of protest to the BBC should be in order. They can't possibly get away with calling the Queen Mother a "deceased celebrity", it's the height of poor taste. Someone should be fired for printing that.


Seriously, you should do that! I think that rather than thinking whether something may be offensive or not, they think 'Let's just do it' and wait to see if somebody complains. That's how they 'get away with it'.

I complained about an ad for Nat West bank a few years ago and the ad was removed!

Do keep up spot :rolleyes: :wah:

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spot;1044598 wrote: What on earth is the BBC thinking. This is just going too far.A New Zealand pizza chain has withdrawn a Halloween promotion that showed skeleton animations of three deceased celebrities dancing on graves.

Hell Pizza's advert showed animations of Sir Edmund Hillary, actor Heath Ledger and the Queen Mother dancing to Michael Jackson's song Thriller. [...] The firm is no stranger to controversy. Last year, it showed Hitler in a Nazi salute with a pizza in his hand. Previously, it has distributed condoms alongside its "Lust" pizza.

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | 'Grotesque' NZ pizza ads dropped

The Queen Mother's a "deceased celebrity"?

Heads should roll in Portland Square.


What does it have to do with the BBC? They are just reporting it. Please don't tell me you are another daily mail reader.

gmc;1044818 wrote: What does it have to do with the BBC? They are just reporting it. Please don't tell me you are another daily mail reader.


They have gratuitously referred to the late Queen Mother as a "deceased celebrity"!

spot;1044829 wrote: They have gratuitously referred to the late Queen Mother as a "deceased celebrity"!


Ah! I misunderstood your point.

She is deceased-which she is-and she is a famous person-which is what a celebrity is.

How on earth is calling her a deceased celebrity gratuitous?

Members of the Royal Family, including members of the Royal Family who have Passed On, are not celebrities. They are Royalty, an entirely separate concept which has no overlap with celebrity whatsoever.

Hoss;1044706 wrote: I thought the Queen was still alive?:-3 When did she die?


No, you twerp. :wah: The queen mother is dead..... She's the queens mother.

spot;1044899 wrote: Members of the Royal Family, including members of the Royal Family who have Passed On, are not celebrities. They are Royalty, and entirely separate concept which has no overlap with celebrity whatsoever.


A celebrity is a famous person



Compact Oxford English Dictionary



celebrity

• noun (pl. celebrities) 1 a famous person. 2 the state of being famous.


The royal family are all celebrities whether they like it or not. The fact that they are royalty is why they are celebrities in the first place. If they don't like it they can give it up and go earn a living doing something else. Your complaint is spurious.

gmc;1045011 wrote: A celebrity is a famous person





The royal family are all celebrities whether they like it or not. The fact that they are royalty is why they are celebrities in the first place. If they don't like it they can give it up and go earn a living doing something else. Your complaint is spurious.


I would not put the Queen mother as a celeb but i would Diana..... I don't know why. I think maybe because after the divorce, Diana did court the media intentionally.

gmc;1045011 wrote: The royal family are all celebrities whether they like it or not. The fact that they are royalty is why they are celebrities in the first place. If they don't like it they can give it up and go earn a living doing something else. Your complaint is spurious.


You're just Head of Entertainment, I want to speak to the News Manager.

New Zealanders, Im telling you, those guys are up to something.

Hoss;1045181 wrote: I agree here. I read a post of Lon's that said the New Zealand population increases and decreases by the season. He gave some lame excuse explaining people travel in and out of the country on vacation.:-2

But you and I know better, don't we my pointy-tinfoil-hat friend?

It's the infamous NZSMAW, (pronounced 'NZ-ma' (New Zealander Seasonal Migration to Alien Worlds:-2

:wah::wah::wah:


Yes, they go to america :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

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I would not put the Queen mother as a celeb but i would Diana..... I don't know why. I think maybe because after the divorce, Diana did court the media intentionally.


she's still a celebrity-albeit a deceased one. That we now have people who make a living out of being a professional celebrity is neither here nor there. Of course Diana is a more famous deceased celebrity than the queen mother. Maybe the pizaa company should have used her-"pizza's to die for".

spot;1044744 wrote: Perhaps a letter of protest to the BBC should be in order. They can't possibly get away with calling the Queen Mother a "deceased celebrity", it's the height of poor taste. Someone should be fired for printing that.
:yh_bigsmiWhatever next? Lord Lucan? Cant you see it? He's sailing off into the sunset with a pizza in his hand.....with jimmy hoffa manning the sails....

Raven;1045393 wrote: :yh_bigsmiWhatever next? Lord Lucan? Cant you see it? He's sailing off into the sunset with a pizza in his hand.....with jimmy hoffa manning the sails....


Robert Maxwell with a pizza stuffed in his mouth just as he's falling off the end of a yacht....... Now, that would be funny :wah: