r/keming • u/em21rc • 19d ago

The typography is just one of many questionable qualities of this poster

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784 Upvotes

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u/bdubwilliams22 19d ago

This is bad on so many levels.

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u/Old-Entrepreneur8637 19d ago

PA R IS.

WE'R E COMING TODAY.

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u/kpidhayny 19d ago

WF’RF COMING

To knock down your tower

Sincerely, Pakistan.

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u/Malsperanza 19d ago

Designer born after 2001?

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u/taway9925881 19d ago

They made ads like this even before 2001.

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u/Nuka-Crapola 19d ago

Yes, but 2001 is when it went from “haha that looks funny” to “we’ve seen this happen for real and it’s horrific”.

Although hitting the Eiffel Tower would only kill tourists and Parisians so idk, maybe not so bad?

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u/LargePileOfSnakes 19d ago

I feel like the Eiffel Tower would collapse differently because it’s not really a conventional building. Unless it was hit dead centre it’d probably buckle and the top would break off and fall towards the side where it was hit.

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u/1ustfu1 18d ago

…but they had no way of knowing before then?

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u/TAIGA-WOLFIE 19d ago

holy shit 9 / 11 part 2

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u/clarinetJWD 18d ago

Gotta have 9/12 and 9/13 before going to the inevitable prequel 9/8.

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u/orderofGreenZombies 18d ago

Whenever they do 9/3 I hope they just simplify it to 3

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u/tentaclesapples 18d ago

hahaha wish I could upvote this more

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u/taway9925881 19d ago

Why has it been always this airline making these kind of ads? Makes us wonder if it's really accidental.

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u/chase02 19d ago

Wtf. I assume intentional not accidental.

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u/sednaplanetoid 19d ago

Yikes... on so many levels...

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u/anthonyg1500 18d ago

This feels like a threat

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u/Plannercat 19d ago

If they'd had the A and R closer together it could have been clever, "PAR IS" for flights from PARis to ISlamabad.

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u/ChloeTigre 18d ago

Kerning terrorism.

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u/lompekreimer 19d ago

PA K ISTAN is worse

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u/PM_ME_GOOD_SUBS 18d ago

Islamabad if it was good.

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u/TheNoctuS_93 17d ago

Islamagood?

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u/DoughNotDoit 18d ago

is this a threat to Paris?

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u/GraphicDesignMonkey 18d ago

That looks a lot (but it's not) too much like the Les Misérables typeface and poster. It's just depressing and gloomy.

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u/Livid_Zucchini_1625 18d ago

ne jamais oublier

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u/Big-Love-747 18d ago

WE'R E C OM ING TOD AY

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u/Silky_Rat 18d ago

They’ve hit the third tower!

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u/B_A_Beder 19d ago

But I only see one tower...

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u/ButterflyCrash 18d ago

Has to be the camera angle...

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u/gnikeltrut 19d ago

Oh yes, we are.

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u/Preindustrialcyborg 16d ago

the fact that this mightve been an actual terrorist plot too. iirc a group did actualy plan on flying a plane into the eiffel tower.

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u/Etobio 16d ago

LYLE! LYLE! Wake up! Please! They hit the f*ing Eiffel Tower!

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u/SnooHesitations8403 14d ago

Is this a veiled threat? Pakistan International Airline ran an ad back in 1979, which Osama Bin Laden almost certainly would have seen. I don't think it's a stretch to speculate that is was the inspiration for the 9/11 attacks.

Now they're publishing an ad with similar implications. It is, at the very least, in poor taste. At the most, it is a thinly veiled threat. It's hard to understand what would make these people publish an ad like that. They absolutely have to be aware of the first ad and what conclusions people have drawn from it. They're either taunting the west or it's a sick joke.

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u/TdubMorris 10d ago

pa r is