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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[XYZpdq]

Don’t a lot of vampire stories start like this?

that Fox TV Doctor Who movie did it too

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Fuck off. You suddenly care about immgration rights when Obama did the same thing Trump is doing for years but y'all didn't do shit. The same with worker's rights, when Obama was pushing jobs overseas to cheap labor or people hiring cheap labor at home. You don't give a fuck. You just wanna put one over on trump.

It's the "It's okay when we do it" mentality in full play here. They want to be the ones to hire cheap overseas labor, not the Republicans.

 

[Lysol]

You can't, just fucking straight up can not be the political party screaming about "muh fundamental values" when you are the party that pushed/pushes for things like gay marriage and troons using female bathrooms. Seriously, can the DNC kindly stop pretending like they give a fuck about "fundamental values".

 

[Echo_Ender]

Womp womp.

That's becoming the only proper response to their endless whining.

 

[UselessRubberKeyboard]

Yeah, ok. When the Dems stop equating 'fundamental values' with screeching about immigrants, men in dresses and Muslim's rights, maybe they'll have a point. Why would the average American have any support for the Dems if that's their platform? There's very little here for regular working families and individuals that make up the majority of the country.

Still, at least you fuckers have an alternative to the Dems' platform (unlike the UK).

 

[Pickle Dick]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...uly-4-independence-day-misspelling/757726002/

Oh America. We're shaking our collective heads over here.

The Fourth of July is a pretty significant national holiday. It is, after all, the day we celebrate the anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of IndepenDENCE.

Note the bold and capitalized text. It is by design.

Because Twitter is apparently paying homage to a day set aside for ... dancing???

Independance Day — not Independence Day — was a popular trend on Twitter on Wednesday morning.

Even the U.S. Air Force, the city of Boston and the New Jersey government used the incorrect spelling in their hashtags.

They weren't the only ones. It even got first lady Melania Trump, who originally tweeted "Happy #IndependanceDay May God bless this great nation & all the people who protect it!"


Eight minutes later, the tweet was removed and replaced with #independenceday, spelled properly.


Luckily, grammar sticklers have pointed out the mistake on many posts using the incorrect spelling.


But still, the misspelling was everywhere — even on posts that are otherwise thoughtful and serious.

 

[Lysol]

Oh no, a typo! Shock! Horror!



Oh wait a minute this isn't fucking news.

 

[Fuck you jewish cunt]

It doesn't matter how you spell it, what matters is that we gained our independence from those British cucks over 200 years ago

 

[Eto]

This isn't too surprising. While rare, this has happened in various places around the world, as people who experience this have a low enough pulse to not be detected. I'm just glad they found her before she could actually freeze to death.

 

[Red Sun]

It doesn't matter how you spell it, what matters is that we gained our independence from those British cucks over 200 years ago

Maybe we should change the spelling like we did with color and armor just to be pricks about it.

 

[Eto]

People are surprised that Twitter users can't spell correctly? That's expecting too much.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Whelp, I guess all this freedom isn't worth making spelling mistakes.

Please take us back, England!!!!!

 

[XYZpdq]

What, you commies don't dance on the Fourth?

 

[Gone_Fission]

Lol don't we have another ongoing thread here about a judge saying Detroit schools have no obligation to actually teach students?

 

[Dysnomia]

Oh no, a typo! Shock! Horror!



Oh wait a minute this isn't fucking news.

Slow news day. The heatwave is making people too boring to do anything interesting.

Now I'll admit I dislike the way certain things are spelled. And spellings do change over time. However, no one can spell these days thanks to the internet being full of stupid people who can't type and don't care how badly they are spelling because "lol teh internet isnt a spelign test".

I hope this doesn't lead to a bunch of permanently changed spellings because everyone is too dumb and lazy to get them right.

Whelp, I guess all this freedom isn't worth making spelling mistakes.

Please take us back, England!!!!!

Yes please. I want to spell color and diarrhea wrong.

 

[Spicy Hog]

Good thing we don't need a license for spelling errors.

 

[CIA Nigger]

How's it on the other side of the fence, Democrats?

All I can think of when hearing that is this classic.

 

[Lysol]

That's unbelievably shitty, but at least she didn't wake up in the crematorium.

 

[Maxliam]

People are surprised that Twitter users can't spell correctly? That's expecting too much.

Hell I know people with master's and phd's and they can't spell for shit. These are guys who can engineer the living shit out of stuff but can't spell relevant. It's not nearly as bad as someone who does "are" for our.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

FUCK SJWS, FUCK socialism, FUCK liberalism, and FUCK THE DEMOCRAT PARTY! FUCK THE DEMS!

USA IS NUMBER ONE!