[HomoSapiensSap]

The advert - Look to the very far bottom right. Look at the gentleman on the right-hand side of the woman waving the red flag.

Here is a tube advert for the Olympics:

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/uploads/dru...evaulter_0.jpg


Now, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but it does seem quite silly to put him there, all alone and out of the way of everybody else. They could have just blended him into the background of everybody near the station, like putting him next to the guy with orange hair or something

Just seems a bit strange, that's all. What do you guys think of it - just a random coincidence or occurrence?


UPDATE: Actually, I've just come up with a more plausible theory. If you read the text on the right, you'll see that it's advising to travel by foot or by bike (i.e. not using the tube). Maybe in order to better get this point across or be persuasive, the advertiser has planted the guy on the right in order play on stereotypes about Muslim terrorists. You'd find it hard to prove in a court of law, but it is certainly very plausible, no? A ploy on the subconscious.

What does everybody else think?

[HomoSapiensSap]

P.S.

A further thing - the advert isn't even representative. Everybody is white apart from the dodgy Arab in the bottom far right.

[Aphotic Cosmos]

Implying that everyone should walk to work in the Olympics to avoid being bombed into oblivion. Well done, LOCOG.

[Snagprophet]

Prejudices? Or stereotypes?

[Darth Stewie]

or an even more plausible theory is they drew the picture, some bureaucrat complained there wasn't enough diversity so they slapped on an Arab.

Could be another one in the very bottom left corner (might need to zoom in to see it), or it could be an Italian.

[HomoSapiensSap]

(Original post by Aphotic Cosmos)
Implying that everyone should walk to work in the Olympics to avoid being bombed into oblivion. Well done, LOCOG.

It's certainly no more ridiculous than British Airways advertising 'Don't fly' lol - they must be so financially secure from all of the foreigners coming and going during this period that they don't need any more passengers

[HomoSapiensSap]

(Original post by Darth Stewie)
or an even more plausible theory is they drew the picture, some bureaucrat complained there wasn't enough diversity so they slapped on an Arab.

Just one Arab, with a mass of white people - 'tis a bit ridiculous, considering East London itself has a large Arab/Islamic etc population.

Where's the Black Man, the Chinese, the Indian?

[HomoSapiensSap]

(Original post by Snagprophet)
Prejudices? Or stereotypes?

Yes, that's what I mean - I'll fix it up.

[Snagprophet]

(Original post by HomoSapiensSap)
Yes, that's what I mean - I'll fix it up.

Because prejudices are unfounded connotations whereas stereotypes have an ounce of truth.

[cid]

(Original post by Snagprophet)
Because prejudices are unfounded connotations whereas stereotypes have an ounce of truth.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18409...ereotypes.html


sometimes ...maybe

[Ano1]

(Original post by HomoSapiensSap)
Just one Arab, with a mass of white people - 'tis a bit ridiculous, considering East London itself has a large Arab/Islamic etc population.

Where's the Black Man, the Chinese, the Indian?

Get over yourself.

[HomoSapiensSap]

(Original post by Ano1)
Get over yourself.

What do you mean? Explain yourself?

[Hopple]

(Original post by HomoSapiensSap)
The advert - Look to the very far bottom right. Look at the gentleman on the right-hand side of the woman waving the red flag.

Here is a tube advert for the Olympics:

http://www.thedrum.co.uk/uploads/dru...evaulter_0.jpg


Now, I'm no conspiracy theorist, but it does seem quite silly to put him there, all alone and out of the way of everybody else. They could have just blended him into the background of everybody near the station, like putting him next to the guy with orange hair or something

Just seems a bit strange, that's all. What do you guys think of it - just a random coincidence or occurrence?


UPDATE: Actually, I've just come up with a more plausible theory. If you read the text on the right, you'll see that it's advising to travel by foot or by bike (i.e. not using the tube). Maybe in order to better get this point across or be persuasive, the advertiser has planted the guy on the right in order play on stereotypes about Muslim terrorists. You'd find it hard to prove in a court of law, but it is certainly very plausible, no? A ploy on the subconscious.

What does everybody else think?

Look in the bottom left, Boris is responsible. He's not intelligent enough to do any subliminal stuff so I think you're over-analysing.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by HomoSapiensSap)
Just one Arab, with a mass of white people - 'tis a bit ridiculous, considering East London itself has a large Arab/Islamic etc population.

Where's the Black Man, the Chinese, the Indian?

Could also be a Sikh, who are Indian, don't see that many Muslims wearing turbans

[Clip]

Seems quite diverse to me.

The guy directly below the blue flag (facing away) might be Chinese. There is a person underneath the armpit of the person on the right with the orange flag wearing dark glasses - so they could be blind - and who's to say that the two guys to the right of the bloke with the orange afro aren't gay?

[Martyn*]

(Original post by Iqbal007)
Seems like a Sikh, who are Indian, don't see that many Muslims wearing turbans

http://www.nndb.com/people/669/000023600/osama-med.jpg

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by Martyn*)
http://www.nndb.com/people/669/000023600/osama-med.jpg

one guy, well done, I said not that many wear it

[Martyn*]

(Original post by Iqbal007)
one guy, well done, I said not that many wear it

Art is a mode of representation. The figure wearing the turban or head scarf does not have to represent a person. It could be an artistic analogy representing something sinister like a terrorist threat, and Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organisation, was founded by Osama ben Laden, which, I think, is the figure represented here.

[Iqbal007]

(Original post by Martyn*)
Art is a mode of representation. The figure wearing the turban or head scarf does not have to represent a person. It could be an artistic analogy representing something sinister like a terrorist threat, and Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organisation, was founded by Osama ben Laden, which, I think, is the figure represented here.

or something else such as a Sikh person

[ForensicShoe]

Looks like something that Siobhan's design team would come out with during an episode of Twenty-Twelve