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Pepsi Can, Twin Towers?

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.Ian.
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My mom showed me this, this morning. She was saying how it looks like the Twin Towers on this Pepsi can. She posted a link on facebook, and now it's literally no where to be found, which seemed odd too me.


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Personally I don't see how this could look like the twin towers really. I don't know though. Thoughts?
Dec 19 2011 7:55AM
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.frenchy
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Just looks like any regular city to me.. Haha.
Dec 19 2011 8:02AM
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.Ian.
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That's what I thought too, but I guess it's starting some internet outrage. Just wondered your guyses thoughts.
Dec 19 2011 8:04AM
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.Ian.
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Relevant to my own thread:

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Dec 19 2011 8:51AM
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caucasian_chad
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It only does because it's in Arabic... And there's an airplane in the graphic...
Dec 19 2011 8:56AM
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.Ian.
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Ya I guess that's what people are thinking.
Now I'm gonna start over-thinking this though, like why is there 1 star in the sky?

Aww dammit now I'm doing it too.
Dec 19 2011 8:59AM
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Mike-O
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This is an outrage!

How could they put a generic city skyline on a beverage can and think they could get away with it?!

Class-action, here we come.
Dec 19 2011 9:05AM
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caucasian_chad
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Better question, why is there a snowflake? The only snow on the Arabian Peninsula is in Ski Dubai.
Dec 19 2011 9:06AM
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.Ian.
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Ya that's that star thing I was talking about.
I literally don't see what the big deal is though, that's why I made this.

Why is something like this causing an internet outrage?
Dec 19 2011 9:08AM
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seward
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because american's are american.
Dec 19 2011 9:29AM
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caucasian_chad
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You're an American too.
Dec 19 2011 9:31AM
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seward
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thats news to me bro.
Dec 19 2011 9:32AM
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caucasian_chad
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What continent to you live on?
Dec 19 2011 9:34AM
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CliffyByro
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didn't you leave ns?
Dec 19 2011 9:38AM
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seward
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Its called the Death Star.

Its in a galaxy far far away.

youve probably never heard of it bro.
Dec 19 2011 9:43AM
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.Ian.
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Dude I've heard of it! I think it's where Tammy Wamnutz is also from right?

I'm still curious to see if someone thinks the cityscape has to do with America's twin towers though. I'd like to hear their argument as to why they think that.
Dec 19 2011 9:47AM
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seward
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ya, tommy walrus is from there too, but i was from there first bro.


everything looks like the twin towers. i doubt its meant to be, but it does look like it.
i have two pencils on my desk right now, side by side, they look like the twin towers.
any silhouette of a city skyline, is going to have buildings that look like the twin towers.

you know how many foods are shaped like dicks??
Dec 19 2011 9:54AM
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.Ian.
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Haha ya I know.
Just think this, a multi-million dollar company putting a picture on one of their cans that would basically stop a whole nation from drinking it... I doubt it.
Dec 19 2011 9:57AM
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samwise
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uhhhhhh has anyone ever been to NYC?
Dec 19 2011 10:12AM
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.Ian.
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Yes
Dec 19 2011 10:21AM
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Shireshredder
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Theres a little snow in the Hajar mountains sometimes.

Anyway OP, where are you to have arabic on your can?
Dec 19 2011 10:30AM
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hey-dude-its-me
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I wouldn't be offended and might not even notice it if I saw it as a customer but if I were on the design/ad team I would definitely have spoken up about the similarities even if they are really vague. Huge fail on their part.
Dec 19 2011 11:23AM
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hey-dude-its-me
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I don't think its his pic, some guy found it in Iraq



and a small part of me feels like it might have been intentionally done by a single person there who just snuck it in
Dec 19 2011 11:29AM
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howlongcanausern
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the twin towers have been 'found' on currency, bread, and now cans??

now that i think of it....two skis next to each other? twin towers:

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Dec 19 2011 11:35AM
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TechnoPotamus
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I appreciate the fact that you guys took time out of your busy day removing temporal lobe tumors and calculating the precise ratio of rocket fuel necessary to reach jupiter to dazzle all of us average joes with your incredible observations. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to watching 2 and a half men while hopping on one leg and simultaneously trying to bite my ear and lick my elbow.
Dec 19 2011 11:47AM
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1337
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and here we have yet another golden post from chris.
Dec 19 2011 11:50AM
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Shireshredder
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Ahh right, im in Dubai at the moment and the cans are the same
Dec 19 2011 11:56AM
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fujarome
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It's not even a generic city. It's a loose portrayal of a road leading into a depiction of the dubai skyline. Look up a picture of the skyline there, or check snopes. Guarantee they'll have something about this today or tomorrow.


I love the whole "this looks like it might possibly maybe depict 9/11 in some minor, irrelevant way, if you search for 9/11 within it and look at it the right way....this company did this on purpose! Protest them forever!"


even the slightest bit of common sense should also make you wonder why Pepsi, an American company, would release cans in the middle east that depict an American tragedy. It's not like they release products here with the bombing of hiroshima, or the killing osama on them....so why would they do it elsewhere?
Dec 19 2011 4:45PM
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Supergyro
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Illuminati banking lizards that's why!
Dec 19 2011 5:06PM
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.Blake.
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Everything looks like 9/11 if you look close enough
Dec 19 2011 5:08PM
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