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[challenge entry] Nike clothes aren't made in Third World sweatshops.
UNESCO just made a typo.

A harrowing image search, that one was

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(I helped save b3ta! MissPrism, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:36, archived)
# hahaha!
I knew it!

Does anyone remember that story about the guy who wanted "sweatshop" sewn into his personalised Nikes and they refused the order? I never found out if that was urban myth of FACT!
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:37, archived)
# Fact.
media.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,7541,440022,00.html
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:37, archived)
# ah yes,
not mark thomas then. I need food.
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:43, archived)
# A classic example
of a brand that should *not* attempt viral marketing...
(I helped save b3ta! Manic can teach you the secret of fire, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:52, archived)
# I am scared
at how quick you answered!
(I helped save b3ta! AzToTheRescue The arsehole formally known as Az The S slur, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:59, archived)
# I heard about that.
it was Mark Thomas wasnt it?
(I helped save b3ta! PMGT -Bacon., Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:37, archived)
# Jonah Peretti
True, says snopes:
www.snopes.com/business/consumer/nike.asp
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:42, archived)
# pah
they would say that...
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:49, archived)
# Fucking
CIA
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:50, archived)
# careful
they're watching us. well. me.
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:52, archived)
# Hehe
Yay!
(I helped save b3ta! Dogtanian, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:38, archived)
# That's
funny.
(I helped save b3ta! 0% Interest Expand Reply Retweet Favorite More, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:41, archived)
# Who ever heard of a shop that sells sweat anyway
unless it sells sweat for lazy posh people who want to impress their friend by pretending to go jogging,
yet hide around the corner and dowse themselves in designer sweat?
w,y,h
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:42, archived)
# Nice!
And true.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:43, archived)
# Yes, yes, yes
that's all well and good. But sometimes you need trainers made with the sort of detail that you can only get with very tiny fingers.
(I helped save b3ta! sp3ktor - no,.. I don't know either, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:44, archived)
# I just did that search,
and it came up with this...

Sweatshop Warriors!!!
(I helped save b3ta! Fudgebags will wear you like a glove, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:46, archived)
# Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
What a fabulous name.
(I helped save b3ta! MissPrism, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 10:57, archived)