Yeah, but wouldn’t it be noticed in the pinning or basting portion of the quilting? Get it together, sew it, take pictures, and post it and still not notice? Crazy.
I could totally see my grandmother doing this. She’ll put colors together and rip them out over and over and then get it done, and notice that it looks weird. That’s a hard pattern to get right sometimes too.
but, that said, if someone brought it to my attention, I sure as shit wouldn’t put it up for sale!
This is a very traditional quilt square pattern, so… I did it. And now every time I look at that damn wall hanging, I feel a mixture of pride that I finished the damn thing (it’s the size of a lap blanket) and massive DERP that I made that square without seeing it. I didn’t notice until at least a year after the whole thing was done.
I had to go back and look again to figure out why this was here and WTF was the deal with the Hitler reference.
I don’t have too much trouble believing that it was unintentional. Now if they come back at us with the old “ancient Indian symbol” bullshit, then I take it all back.
The symbol itself is over 3000 years old. It can be seen in the artwork of acient China and early American Indians.
The word “swastika” comes from the Sanskrit svastika – “su” meaning “good,” “asti” meaning “to be,” and “ka” as a suffix.
In her listing you only see the symbol, not the word but I can still see given the latest history of the symbol why people would react the way they do.
It’s also very common in Japan. First time I caught a student doodling one, I just about hit the roof before I realized it doesn’t have the same baggage over there.
When I went to China it was everywhere. Mind you, it was the correct symbol rather than the Nazi one, but it was a little weird when street vendors tried to sell me little keychains with spinning swastikas for good luck.
GodSaveFreddieMercury
September 15, 2011 at 4:02 pm
It’s pretty easy to lose perspective when you’re quilting, at least for me. Sometimes I am a little surprised when I look at the finished project and see a giant black, white and red Bieber.
As a quilter, can I just say how easy it is to accidentally make swastikas? I totally freaked out my husband one time when I was in the middle of assembling a quilt. He walked in, and suddenly thought that I had become a white supremacist overnight.
Oh, good, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one! I saw that and thought “Huh…that’s actually kind of cute!” It wasn’t until I saw Hitler that I thought “Wait a minute…”
If only they hadn’t put the matching colors on the ends. Blue-white-blue-red would totally have worked. Now their only recourse it to claim it as a Navajo peace symbol, mein fuhrer.
When I was in 3rd grade we had a craft project to do necklaces with giant pendants made of coffee can lids with Native American symbols on them. Well, we had an authentic Navajo rug at home, so I was excited to be able to use an authentic Navajo symbol for my project. Swastika? What’s that? Why am I in trouble? Derp.
BTW, back when I was an avid quilter I rarely pinned anything. I did, however, sketch my designs before I started making them….
I just owned up to actually accidentally making a swastika square. I guess a spouse/friend, who doesn’t get distracted by how well the fabrics go together, is an invaluable quilting tool.
I had to make some “wearable art” samples for a portfolio presentation one year. I did a non-descript patchwork because I had scrap strips of wool already cut. When I got to the photo shoot, the model posed and I realized what it looked like. The photographer thought it was hilarious.
It’s already taken down. So I totally agree this was unintentional. Good quilting though. I’ve tried quilting and I can’t sew a straight line to save mein life.
My aunt made a baby quilt for my daughter with this same pattern. It was pink, grey, and white, so just a faded version of this. She didn’t see it either. I appreciate what she did, but that blanket doesn’t leave the closet much. When we do use it, it’s upside-down so the innocent pink backing is all we see.
I think Etsy may have just done the some unwitting buyer a service. Can you imagine not seeing the swastika, buying them, and then saving them for something like taking the turkey to the table at Thanksgiving? And on the year Junior finally brings his girlfriend to meet the family, too.
I remember freshman year in college I was doodling on the markerboard that was clipped to my dorm room’s front door, and I went all nuts with the black and red and decided to do this really over the top “Gothic peacock.” So a red bird surrounded by black feathers. When my roommate came home with a friend of ours, they were both aghast. I was like “WTF it’s a peacock!”
Turns out it looked pretty much exactly like a massive gaping vagina. And so I had to try again…
I love the Downfall parodies… I think that means I’m going to hell. A friend of someone I went to art school with put one together, called Hitler Gets a Freelance Job. I’m sure some of you artists will appreciate this.
Love that video! Not so much the pot holders… Wonder if we’ll have a wave of flounce again? You’re supporting the Nazis! Shame! (Or something as insane)
okay, i threw out third crazyspouse this week for good {the one who had been anna nicole smith’s dealer, no less}, but you had me laughing my head off w/ yr videotape.
the only thing i can do w/ my life is laugh at it, cos if i didnt i would have to walk in front of the first bus i saw, this day & almost every other day.
Perfect for your next “Beer Hall Putsch Oktoberfest” theme Wedding, Anniversary, Birthday or Bar(Bat) Mitzva party! Guarenteed to raise a furher! You’re sure to be a Hipster Hitler!
This had to have been intentional: the core of the swastika is made up by the Schwartz-Weiss-Rot flag of the German Empire in a pinwheel pattern, with an extra bar of black to complete the Hakkenkreuz.
Love this image. Someone’s in the kitchen with Adolf! Someone’s in the kitchen I know-ow-ow..
Ohh my gahd! My (FOB) German grandmother had a quilt with this very same pattern! When my sisters and I, as children, suddenly saw the swastika in the quilt…well, it was obvious to us that our sweet Oma was a nazi.
treehugginrepublican
September 15, 2011 at 12:20 pm
I made a quilt and 2 years later noticed I had identical rows next to each other….no one bothered to tell me. But mine were hearts, not swastikas….hilarious.
Also, that video is effing hilarious!
As someone whose never tried quilting, before seeing this and reading the comments I never realized how easy it apparently is to accidentally quilt a swastika.
The fence rail quilt pattern really ought to come with a huge warning. Worse yet, its usually one of the first patterns quilters try. They end up focusing so hard on not sewing through their hand and keeping seams straight that you don’t see Hitler.
I’m not a quilter, but it looks like you only get a swastika if the first and last stripes are similar colours? That should definitely come with a warning.
I’ve done rail fence so many times, I knew exactly where this was going. I’ve also managed to lay out a swastika from quilt blocks at least 4 times a year. That’s why I use a design wall.
“I shall not mention the pattern and their eyes will pass over it. In that way, my subliminal swastikas can convert them. My grrreatest invention! Mwah!”
Can you image map the new Removed image to return? I’m having trouble with the lack of a clickable link when colored orange. Does not compute. Also, sometimes I forget to click Back.
I have a tattoo that I didn’t realize had a tribal swastika until a white supremasist hit on me at a bar one night and pointed it out.
My grandmother is a war camp survivor and if anyone notices it, I just tell them it represents the four elements (which is one of its many original meanings).
Swastikas were historically used for a lot more than a symbol of a fascist government’s horrific genocidal tendencies. They were also good luck symbols common in advertising worldwide, including the US:
I still wouldn’t intentionally get one tattooed on me, but I wouldn’t find your tattoo inherently offensive because of the lack of cruel intent behind getting it.
What is often not noticed about the Nazi swastika is the orientation of the arms and that it is displayed slightly rotated as well.
EXAMPLE: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5018/5435264023_65321eed77.jpg
The “swastika” as a symbol, in some fashion or another of crossed, crooked arms, has been used in every culture around the world since ancient times. The Nazi Party version is the most infamous. Not all swastikas are Nazi swastikas. The one in the post is not but is unfortunate in its color choices that do reinforce the Nazi connection to the symbol.
Chronic Glitter Lung
September 15, 2011 at 11:48 pm
I’m sorry a white supremacist hit on you. A friend of mine once had a guy in skinhead regalia walk up to her and ask what her ethnic background was. When she said German and Lithuanian, he asked her out.
Then her boyfriend, a large black hipster, and all his friends, came back out of the store they’d been in, and skinhead regalia man decided to leave.
I’m Pagan and have two tattoos that incorporate pentagrams. I’ve had LOTS of people (mostly rabid Christians) mistake me for a Satanist.
I also have a yin-yang symbol on my wrist with half in a four-color rainbow. I have never been hit on by a gay woman. (I’m missing that fifth color, I’m told.)
I agree that there are many other historical meanings. However, it is possible for a symbol to become so strongly associated with a negative meaning that there’s simply no recovering from it.
Any positive meanings it might have are completely overshadowed by the negative associations it’s now taken on. Therefore, I’d personally avoid using it because it has no value I can see that is positive enough to supercede its offensiveness to so many people out there.
For me, it’s kinda so far over the line that it’s come all the way back around into shockingly funny. I mean, if Spanish Inquisition jokes can be hilarious, is it just a matter of time until we can have a laugh at the holocaust?
Since 1914, when as a line cook, I made my modest contribution in the culinary world which was forced upon the Reich, over thirty years have passed.
In these three decades, only love for my oven mitts and loyalty to my oven mitts have guided me in all my thoughts, sauces, and flambés. They gave me the strength to make the most difficult pastries, such as no mortal has yet had to taste.
Cool reference, but unfortunately, Hitler ruined it for everyone. Nobody is likely to look at any kind of swastika and think anything other than Nazis or white supremacist assholes. If you have to explain to everyone you meet that they’re mistaken as to the message you’re trying to project, then it’s time to pick a new symbol.
Those people may have a “good luck” swastika on their heads, but if I run into them, I’m not chancing that I’ll be talking to a neo-nazi long enough to find out. The ambiguity is too great.
The ambiguity isn’t there if you familiarize yourself with the visual differences of the ways different cultures use the symbol. If you know that the Nazi party one has arms that indicate motion in an imagined anti-clockwise direction and that it is normally slightly diaganally offset(as tho it were “rolling” anti-clockwise) then it is very easy to never get it mixed up.
The fun part about getting to know the differences is when you see, or are approached by, some “white power” person who throws up the symbol at you somehow, you get to point out they don’t even know their own ideology. Talk about the ultimate moment of snarkiness! woo!
If research is required to discern between two very, very similar symbols, then a) it isn’t “very easy,” and b) you are expecting far too much of the general populace.
What, really, is the value in trying to “preserve” some positive meaning to it? Is it that important a symbol that we just HAVE to have it, no matter how much work it might be to get people not to be offended by it, if that’s even possible?
Get a new symbol. Problem solved, much more easily.
I guess people are too horrified to laugh at the oven jokes, even though they are so clearly deserving of more thumbs. If we can’t laugh at Hitler, who can we laugh at?
I dunno how people can miss shit like this. There’s a lot of weird quilt patterns that have similar designs and I don’t know how you DON’T look at them and think “this looks exactly like a fucking swastika.”
I once wound up getting really bored in a math class and started coloring in some squares on graph paper. It turned into a good-sized acid-green swastika. Didn’t even realize it until I was almost done, but thankfully I never had to turn that thing in.
Chronic Glitter Lung
September 15, 2011 at 11:53 pm
I used to teach high school. At one point a young man and woman on campus had been dating for two years, which is like the high school equivalent of married for twenty.
They were going out after school to celebrate.
His friends decided to decorate his car.
One side was beautiful. Hearts, little sayings about the couple.
By the time they got to the other side, they got bored. Swastikas and penises bored.
I was once at a restaurant with my brother and I mentioned being confused about the tiny tables and his response was “They’re so small you have to sit in swastika formation.”
LOL hahaha I watched your video and found this in the related videos…totally awesome…my FB is blowing up with hatred because I posted all of these on my page hahahaha fuckers cant take a joke
Why the shit have I never seen that video before?!?!?!?!?! OMG that seriously wins the internet for the rest of the year. Nothing can even compete with that! “you know what? I give up. I’m just going to put mustaches on everything.” bwwwaaaahahahahaha! Oh, and I signed the petition, like a boss
The symbol was used in a lot of cultures (and as a quilt block) way before Chaplin-stache appropriated it for his mess…but geez, that choice of colors is VERY unfortunate.
I’m glad my go-to color with black and white (which I use in a lot of my quilts) is hot pink!
After April explained how her acceptance of any rape jokes or colours/patterns was acceptable, I have to say I no longer have any objection to swastikas in any colour pattern. Bring it on, I say! April has approved!
Is it bad that it took me minute to register what was wrong with these pot holders? I saw them, then scrolled down and saw Hitler, then had to look again. I thought they were cute at first. I think I need another cup of coffee – I’m not too sharp this morning!
My grandmother actually used this quilting pattern on my bed quilt. It’s peach and light green, all the fabrics have little white patterns so it has very low contrast. It took me a while to realize the blanket is covered in swastikas.
LOLMAO These are amazing. I can just see this sweet person trying to make something homemade and full of love and cupcakes, maybe singing to her puppies as she’s sewing along, little blue jays and mice helping her with every stitch all disney style…the whole house subliminally covered in Naziism
I can totally see her not realizing she was quilting this when she made it–I can–but I’m not sure how she didn’t notice afterwards? Handling them, photographing them? Not once did she say, “Oh holy hell, that kind of looks like a swastika”? But maybe it’s like writing–you don’t see the problem because you’re too “close” to the work.
September 15, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Oh, does Stormwatch have an etsy store now too?
September 15, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Stormfront. wtf is wrong with me..
September 15, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Stormwatch was the weather team’s report before Hurricane Irene.
September 15, 2011 at 1:02 pm
JIM CANTORE’S A NAZI?!!??
September 15, 2011 at 1:40 pm
He’s got the right hair for it…
September 15, 2011 at 1:29 pm
One of the few mistakes I’m happy to make- I think that means I like the weather guys more than the neo-nazi guys, right?
September 15, 2011 at 12:02 pm
This has to be intentional. I can’t imagine sewing them together and not noticing.
September 15, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Pans and pazi
Way too hazi?
Don’t be a fuhrious
Kitchen nazi
Burma shave
September 15, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Luvs you right now
September 15, 2011 at 1:52 pm
You’re my hero.
September 15, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Love. It.
September 15, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Someone, please, I NEED that on a sampler!
September 15, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I need it on some kind of kitchen accessory – pot holder, apron, or tea towel.
September 15, 2011 at 7:17 pm
That’s fucking brilliant. Will you marry me?
September 16, 2011 at 6:45 am
I thought you’d never ask. Let’s do this.
September 15, 2011 at 12:05 pm
I can imagine it. Some people are just blind to what they’re doing.
September 15, 2011 at 12:11 pm
I can imagine it too. It is a pretty traditional quilting pattern … and there is a really good reason you don’t usually see it in those colors.
September 15, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Yeah, but wouldn’t it be noticed in the pinning or basting portion of the quilting? Get it together, sew it, take pictures, and post it and still not notice? Crazy.
September 15, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Even my 8-y-o saw the picture, gasped, and said, “Well, THAT’S pretty offensive. WHY would someone make that?”
September 15, 2011 at 3:20 pm
I could totally see my grandmother doing this. She’ll put colors together and rip them out over and over and then get it done, and notice that it looks weird. That’s a hard pattern to get right sometimes too.
but, that said, if someone brought it to my attention, I sure as shit wouldn’t put it up for sale!
September 15, 2011 at 7:11 pm
I think that may have been part of the Nazi plan.
September 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm
This is a very traditional quilt square pattern, so… I did it. And now every time I look at that damn wall hanging, I feel a mixture of pride that I finished the damn thing (it’s the size of a lap blanket) and massive DERP that I made that square without seeing it. I didn’t notice until at least a year after the whole thing was done.
September 15, 2011 at 12:16 pm
It could be an accident – look at this one http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=207172.0
Mind you, it is not quite as ridiculous as the red, black and white.
September 15, 2011 at 12:54 pm
it almost happened to me. i was designing a pillowcase with stripes and the way i laid them out looked very swastika-y…
September 15, 2011 at 1:06 pm
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September 15, 2011 at 1:17 pm
“I made you a pillow sham!”
September 15, 2011 at 2:26 pm
I had to go back and look again to figure out why this was here and WTF was the deal with the Hitler reference.
I don’t have too much trouble believing that it was unintentional. Now if they come back at us with the old “ancient Indian symbol” bullshit, then I take it all back.
September 15, 2011 at 3:21 pm
It does have a pre-Nazi history, though. That said, noting its pre-Nazi history isn’t going to excuse that particular color scheme!
September 15, 2011 at 3:41 pm
The symbol itself is over 3000 years old. It can be seen in the artwork of acient China and early American Indians.
The word “swastika” comes from the Sanskrit svastika – “su” meaning “good,” “asti” meaning “to be,” and “ka” as a suffix.
In her listing you only see the symbol, not the word but I can still see given the latest history of the symbol why people would react the way they do.
September 15, 2011 at 4:10 pm
It’s also very common in Japan. First time I caught a student doodling one, I just about hit the roof before I realized it doesn’t have the same baggage over there.
September 15, 2011 at 11:11 pm
When I went to China it was everywhere. Mind you, it was the correct symbol rather than the Nazi one, but it was a little weird when street vendors tried to sell me little keychains with spinning swastikas for good luck.
September 15, 2011 at 4:02 pm
It’s pretty easy to lose perspective when you’re quilting, at least for me. Sometimes I am a little surprised when I look at the finished project and see a giant black, white and red Bieber.
September 15, 2011 at 6:55 pm
I spent ten seconds trying to figure out why it was on Regretsy, then scrolled down, saw Hitler, and went, “oh…”
So I’m willing to accept that the person didn’t catch on, or maybe they did later and just went along with it and hoped no one else caught it.
September 15, 2011 at 11:27 pm
This looks like–”Uh, honey, that looks like a Nazi flag quilt.”
“What? DAMN. Oh well, I’m almost done. Maybe no one will notice.”
September 15, 2011 at 12:03 pm
As a quilter, can I just say how easy it is to accidentally make swastikas? I totally freaked out my husband one time when I was in the middle of assembling a quilt. He walked in, and suddenly thought that I had become a white supremacist overnight.
Yeah, I fixed that.
September 15, 2011 at 12:06 pm
I didn’t even catch the swastika at first, to be honest…it probably would have gone unnoticed, even being black, without the color scheme.
September 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Oh, good, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one! I saw that and thought “Huh…that’s actually kind of cute!” It wasn’t until I saw Hitler that I thought “Wait a minute…”
September 15, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Same here–even reading “das hot”, it took me a minute. How terribly unfortunate… to put it very mildly.
September 15, 2011 at 12:37 pm
I didn’t see it at all had to go back and look again twice before I saw it!
Love the video though – classic..
September 15, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Neither did I until I looked at it the second time.
September 15, 2011 at 11:28 pm
I love that color scheme. But you do have to be careful…
September 15, 2011 at 12:06 pm
I have to agree. A fellow quilter myself, my first thought was “Lovely fabrics for a rail fence pattern!”
And then of course I noticed the swastika.
September 15, 2011 at 12:11 pm
If only they hadn’t put the matching colors on the ends. Blue-white-blue-red would totally have worked. Now their only recourse it to claim it as a Navajo peace symbol, mein fuhrer.
September 15, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Yeah, isn’t it conventional to pin the pieces together before sewing, thereby noticing something might be amiss?
September 15, 2011 at 12:28 pm
When I was in 3rd grade we had a craft project to do necklaces with giant pendants made of coffee can lids with Native American symbols on them. Well, we had an authentic Navajo rug at home, so I was excited to be able to use an authentic Navajo symbol for my project. Swastika? What’s that? Why am I in trouble? Derp.
BTW, back when I was an avid quilter I rarely pinned anything. I did, however, sketch my designs before I started making them….
September 15, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Yeah, I was thinking the same–”Ooh, nice fabrics, love the color sch–HEY!”
September 15, 2011 at 12:07 pm
But were your accidental swastikas in a Third Reich color scheme? Because that’s what really impresses me.
September 15, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Mine were in white and blue, perfect for greek nazis.
I did just make a table runner in that color scheme for my mom – my first thought was “Wow, I should get those potholders for her”. Oops.
September 15, 2011 at 12:13 pm
I just owned up to actually accidentally making a swastika square. I guess a spouse/friend, who doesn’t get distracted by how well the fabrics go together, is an invaluable quilting tool.
September 15, 2011 at 12:19 pm
I had to make some “wearable art” samples for a portfolio presentation one year. I did a non-descript patchwork because I had scrap strips of wool already cut. When I got to the photo shoot, the model posed and I realized what it looked like. The photographer thought it was hilarious.
September 15, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Hey, in my college modern dance troupe one choreographer had us hit a “swastika pose.” At least yours was unintentional!
September 15, 2011 at 1:59 pm
I think you get away with it, personally. It looks lovely anyway!
September 15, 2011 at 12:24 pm
“Surprise, honey! Shit’s about to get real.”
September 15, 2011 at 12:59 pm
It’s already taken down. So I totally agree this was unintentional. Good quilting though. I’ve tried quilting and I can’t sew a straight line to save mein life.
September 15, 2011 at 1:18 pm
My aunt made a baby quilt for my daughter with this same pattern. It was pink, grey, and white, so just a faded version of this. She didn’t see it either. I appreciate what she did, but that blanket doesn’t leave the closet much. When we do use it, it’s upside-down so the innocent pink backing is all we see.
September 15, 2011 at 4:01 pm
I think Etsy may have just done the some unwitting buyer a service. Can you imagine not seeing the swastika, buying them, and then saving them for something like taking the turkey to the table at Thanksgiving? And on the year Junior finally brings his girlfriend to meet the family, too.
September 15, 2011 at 10:39 pm
GREAT. Now Junior and Sarah Goldberg are never going to have a future together.
September 16, 2011 at 2:54 am
And Junior went to all the trouble of getting his M.D. and everything!
September 15, 2011 at 4:27 pm
I remember freshman year in college I was doodling on the markerboard that was clipped to my dorm room’s front door, and I went all nuts with the black and red and decided to do this really over the top “Gothic peacock.” So a red bird surrounded by black feathers. When my roommate came home with a friend of ours, they were both aghast. I was like “WTF it’s a peacock!”
Turns out it looked pretty much exactly like a massive gaping vagina. And so I had to try again…
September 15, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Perfect for Pat Robertson’s next potluck dinner.
September 15, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Or Pat Buchanan’s.
September 15, 2011 at 12:03 pm
I see that people can derp in fabric now, not just in writing. Impressive!
September 15, 2011 at 12:19 pm
I think you can probably derp in just about any media.
September 15, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Etsy’s proof of that.
September 15, 2011 at 1:30 pm
“Frabri-derp” (patent pending).
September 15, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Costume derp:
http://bad-fur.livejournal.com/
(sorry, you need an LJ account to read it, but it is so worth it.)
Horrifying samples of the horror that lies within.
melting cat thing
oh god, why did you make a costume of a Chinese crested dog
a group shot of derp
leprosy cat head, with real fur
snowsuit buckethead wolf
September 16, 2011 at 6:51 am
In the final link, poor “Weed” looks so constipated…
September 15, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Hitler commissioned hotpads after Gimmler complained about burning his fingers on the oven handles. #trollingstoned
September 15, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Someone had to make an oven joke… thanks for taking one for the team BB! I’m new here, and didn’t have the (amaze)balls to do it.
September 15, 2011 at 1:03 pm
damnit, i was gonna go for the oven joke. well-played.
September 15, 2011 at 1:16 pm
*curtsey* I was going for gauche, but not too obvious. Did I hit the mark?
September 15, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Dead center.
September 16, 2011 at 2:56 am
I’m glad someone said it! I was just kind of glad that the photoshop was a pie yanno? ^^;
September 15, 2011 at 12:05 pm
That video never gets old…
September 15, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I love the Downfall parodies… I think that means I’m going to hell. A friend of someone I went to art school with put one together, called Hitler Gets a Freelance Job. I’m sure some of you artists will appreciate this.
September 15, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Hitler gets a freelance job is just fucking awesome.
September 15, 2011 at 12:18 pm
It was my first time watching it…now I need to change my pants because I peed myself laughing. Why can’t TV be that good?
September 15, 2011 at 12:24 pm
It’s by far the best downfall.
The freelance job one is great too. I do freelance graphic design, I’m definitely going to send that video to the next client who screws me over.
September 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm
I thought the film studio had all of the Downfall videos taken down from youtube.
September 15, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Maybe they finally realized that they were good publicity? It’s a great film, but I never would have heard of it if not for the parodies.
September 15, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Hitler Learns Organic Chemistry will always be near and dear to mein heart
September 15, 2011 at 12:05 pm
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September 15, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Rosh Hashanah is right around the corner. Hanukkah is still a few months away. If you’re gonna go for the joke, at least get it right.
September 15, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Dear God, that Hitler Etsy thing is fucking gold. “I give up! I’m just going to put mustaches on everything.”
September 15, 2011 at 12:24 pm
…fucking hipsters.
September 15, 2011 at 12:33 pm
This calls for a Hipster Hitler cartoon!
http://hipsterhitler.com/archive/logo/
September 15, 2011 at 12:41 pm
September 15, 2011 at 1:43 pm
So Hitler upcycled the swastika?
September 15, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Repurposed.
September 15, 2011 at 5:07 pm
and made the arms in the opposite direction, so now instead of his symbol being for peace, it was for war.
September 15, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Are they made to withstand the heat of the War Camp ovens?
(Shit, I’m going to Hell now aren’t i?)
September 15, 2011 at 1:13 pm
On the express short bus to Hell. I’ll save you a seat, because if you haven’t got anything nice to say about someone, then come and sit by me!
September 15, 2011 at 12:06 pm
Etsy Hitler. That. Was. Awesome.
September 15, 2011 at 7:19 pm
N-etsy? Heil, Kraftard!
September 15, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Love that video! Not so much the pot holders… Wonder if we’ll have a wave of flounce again? You’re supporting the Nazis! Shame! (Or something as insane)
September 15, 2011 at 12:08 pm
That’s a pretty common quilting pattern. I’m sure she didn’t think at all that it was what it looks like.
September 15, 2011 at 12:36 pm
That’s what makes it so funny and ridiculous – that she DIDN’T notice it.
September 15, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Well, but who doesn’t celebrate the Reichstag fire anniversary every 27 February with a good old-fashioned potluck?
September 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Aw, darn, I really wanted to buy those!!!!
September 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Fucking hipsters, indeed.
September 15, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Wow, two Le Creuset Dutch Ovens. Only the best for Hitler!
September 15, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Fucking Hitlers…. Hitlers love mustaches…
September 15, 2011 at 12:14 pm
okay, i threw out third crazyspouse this week for good {the one who had been anna nicole smith’s dealer, no less}, but you had me laughing my head off w/ yr videotape.
danke, danke, dear.
September 15, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Have you written a biography yet, because I would totally read it.
September 15, 2011 at 3:59 pm
the only thing i can do w/ my life is laugh at it, cos if i didnt i would have to walk in front of the first bus i saw, this day & almost every other day.
September 15, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Perfect for your next “Beer Hall Putsch Oktoberfest” theme Wedding, Anniversary, Birthday or Bar(Bat) Mitzva party! Guarenteed to raise a furher! You’re sure to be a Hipster Hitler!
September 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm
As a person who does quilting I can see where a mistake like that can be made. What surprises me is nobody told her.
September 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Took me a while to notice the swastika, I did Nazi that coming.
…sorry.
September 15, 2011 at 12:23 pm
An’ frankly, I’m offended.
…too soon?
September 15, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Nah, it was the reich move.
September 15, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Heil second that.
September 15, 2011 at 6:09 pm
I’m nazi’n anything wrong with your statement.
September 15, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Oh man, the whole office is trying to figure out what kind of whimsical fuckery is going down in here. Thanks for the laughs.
September 15, 2011 at 12:18 pm
If the seller adds some clocks and eye glasses, he can label them Mein Steamkampf.
September 15, 2011 at 12:18 pm
This had to have been intentional: the core of the swastika is made up by the Schwartz-Weiss-Rot flag of the German Empire in a pinwheel pattern, with an extra bar of black to complete the Hakkenkreuz.
Love this image. Someone’s in the kitchen with Adolf! Someone’s in the kitchen I know-ow-ow..
September 15, 2011 at 12:25 pm
If you look closely, you can see Anne Frank drumming in the background…
September 15, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Ohh my gahd! My (FOB) German grandmother had a quilt with this very same pattern! When my sisters and I, as children, suddenly saw the swastika in the quilt…well, it was obvious to us that our sweet Oma was a nazi.
September 15, 2011 at 12:20 pm
I made a quilt and 2 years later noticed I had identical rows next to each other….no one bothered to tell me. But mine were hearts, not swastikas….hilarious.
Also, that video is effing hilarious!
September 15, 2011 at 12:21 pm
All I see are pinwheels. Pure, Aryan pinwheels.
September 15, 2011 at 12:23 pm
I like how Hitler has the “Cause for Alarm” clock hanging on his kitchen wall.
September 15, 2011 at 12:27 pm
THANK YOU
September 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm
‘Time to see the dentist!’ Seems sinister now, doesn’t it? On a lighter note, whatever he’s cooking looks delicious!
September 15, 2011 at 2:37 pm
I couldn’t help noticing that as well. It’s either beef wellington or salmon en croute, I’m guessing. It looks extremely tasty.
I’m still not sure I’d accept the dinner party invite, though.
September 15, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I noticed that right off. Tee hee hee. Hitler would not approve!
September 15, 2011 at 12:24 pm
am I the only one who noticed this was made with KEVLAR? Hmmmm….
September 15, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Thank You! I thought I was the only one to see that.
I wonder if you can tape it to your chest and then rob banks or something.
September 15, 2011 at 12:51 pm
NO. and you messed up my snarky witticsm that I had all set up.
“I’m surprised Hitler was using them for oven mitts instead of body armor, since they’re made from Kevlar.”
September 15, 2011 at 3:02 pm
They’re actually pasties for those buxom beer hall girls.
September 15, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Nice Polish flags in there, too.
September 15, 2011 at 12:30 pm
That video remains one of the highlights of my life.
September 15, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Oh shit. I cried. That Das Poop is da shitz.
September 15, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Did anyone see curb this week?
http://youtu.be/8UsGVCdEJds
September 15, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Listing has been taken down.
September 15, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Holy crap! I just noticed the small print–”go back to regretsy.com where it’s safe”
September 15, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Aaand you didn’t notice that the cupcakes over at “Etsy” were talking of tit-pinching, nor the Cthulhu-craft gone awry?
September 15, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Nor did you point out the use of the book “Catcher in the Rye”
September 15, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Wait… I see what you did there… I’m so embarassed now. I’m obviously to slow to play with the cool kids.
September 15, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Well done.
September 15, 2011 at 12:39 pm
LOVE the new dead link graphic!
September 15, 2011 at 4:54 pm
What did Phyllis ever do to you?
September 15, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Damn. They would have been hilarious at my WWII reenactment. Now I might have to make my own.
September 15, 2011 at 12:38 pm
I’ll admit that when I first saw the picture I thought, aww that’s kinda cute. It took a few seconds to sink in.
Now please excuse me while I go take a scalding hot shower to scrub off the shame.
September 15, 2011 at 12:38 pm
As someone whose never tried quilting, before seeing this and reading the comments I never realized how easy it apparently is to accidentally quilt a swastika.
September 15, 2011 at 1:03 pm
The fence rail quilt pattern really ought to come with a huge warning. Worse yet, its usually one of the first patterns quilters try. They end up focusing so hard on not sewing through their hand and keeping seams straight that you don’t see Hitler.
September 15, 2011 at 1:35 pm
So it’s like the German version of Where’s Waldo?
September 15, 2011 at 2:39 pm
I’m not a quilter, but it looks like you only get a swastika if the first and last stripes are similar colours? That should definitely come with a warning.
September 15, 2011 at 12:41 pm
That was clever on 88 different levels…
September 15, 2011 at 12:50 pm
When I was a kid I saw some kid drawing swastikas on his folders and so I did too. I simply thought they were pinwheels.
But then, I was in the second grade.
September 15, 2011 at 12:50 pm
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September 15, 2011 at 1:03 pm
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September 15, 2011 at 1:14 pm
If you got nothin’, don’t bother postin’.
September 15, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Shit, I forgot to put a copyright notice on that . . .
September 16, 2011 at 10:05 am
Too late–it’s mein!!!
September 15, 2011 at 12:53 pm
I’ve done rail fence so many times, I knew exactly where this was going. I’ve also managed to lay out a swastika from quilt blocks at least 4 times a year. That’s why I use a design wall.
September 15, 2011 at 1:01 pm
“I shall not mention the pattern and their eyes will pass over it. In that way, my subliminal swastikas can convert them. My grrreatest invention! Mwah!”
September 15, 2011 at 1:01 pm
There are several oven jokes in that one, but I just can’t jews.
September 15, 2011 at 1:06 pm
Can you image map the new Removed image to return? I’m having trouble with the lack of a clickable link when colored orange. Does not compute. Also, sometimes I forget to click Back.
September 15, 2011 at 2:40 pm
You could always click Back.
September 15, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Yes, you need to be careful or you might get a nazi-err-nasty burn.
September 15, 2011 at 1:35 pm
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September 15, 2011 at 1:50 pm
I have a tattoo that I didn’t realize had a tribal swastika until a white supremasist hit on me at a bar one night and pointed it out.
My grandmother is a war camp survivor and if anyone notices it, I just tell them it represents the four elements (which is one of its many original meanings).
September 15, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Swastikas were historically used for a lot more than a symbol of a fascist government’s horrific genocidal tendencies. They were also good luck symbols common in advertising worldwide, including the US:
I still wouldn’t intentionally get one tattooed on me, but I wouldn’t find your tattoo inherently offensive because of the lack of cruel intent behind getting it.
September 15, 2011 at 6:04 pm
What is often not noticed about the Nazi swastika is the orientation of the arms and that it is displayed slightly rotated as well.
EXAMPLE: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5018/5435264023_65321eed77.jpg
The “swastika” as a symbol, in some fashion or another of crossed, crooked arms, has been used in every culture around the world since ancient times. The Nazi Party version is the most infamous. Not all swastikas are Nazi swastikas. The one in the post is not but is unfortunate in its color choices that do reinforce the Nazi connection to the symbol.
September 15, 2011 at 11:48 pm
I’m sorry a white supremacist hit on you. A friend of mine once had a guy in skinhead regalia walk up to her and ask what her ethnic background was. When she said German and Lithuanian, he asked her out.
Then her boyfriend, a large black hipster, and all his friends, came back out of the store they’d been in, and skinhead regalia man decided to leave.
September 16, 2011 at 7:30 am
I’m Pagan and have two tattoos that incorporate pentagrams. I’ve had LOTS of people (mostly rabid Christians) mistake me for a Satanist.
I also have a yin-yang symbol on my wrist with half in a four-color rainbow. I have never been hit on by a gay woman. (I’m missing that fifth color, I’m told.)
I thought I had a point, but I’ve forgotten it.
September 15, 2011 at 6:31 pm
I agree that there are many other historical meanings. However, it is possible for a symbol to become so strongly associated with a negative meaning that there’s simply no recovering from it.
Any positive meanings it might have are completely overshadowed by the negative associations it’s now taken on. Therefore, I’d personally avoid using it because it has no value I can see that is positive enough to supercede its offensiveness to so many people out there.
September 15, 2011 at 1:42 pm
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September 15, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I’d hate/love to see the response this comment would get on Facebook. “UR IN SO BAD TASTE!”
September 15, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Actually, I genuinely think that is in bad taste. I believe it may have crossed the Fine Line.
I realise this is subjective.
September 15, 2011 at 4:47 pm
For me, it’s kinda so far over the line that it’s come all the way back around into shockingly funny. I mean, if Spanish Inquisition jokes can be hilarious, is it just a matter of time until we can have a laugh at the holocaust?
September 16, 2011 at 7:38 am
Depends on witch holocaust you’re referring to.
September 15, 2011 at 1:43 pm
Since 1914, when as a line cook, I made my modest contribution in the culinary world which was forced upon the Reich, over thirty years have passed.
In these three decades, only love for my oven mitts and loyalty to my oven mitts have guided me in all my thoughts, sauces, and flambés. They gave me the strength to make the most difficult pastries, such as no mortal has yet had to taste.
September 15, 2011 at 1:49 pm
cracking up at *safety pin earrings*. I don’t have pierced ears. I wonder if the safety pin earrings might do the trick for me!…
September 15, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Save the Sacred Swastika
September 15, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Cool reference, but unfortunately, Hitler ruined it for everyone. Nobody is likely to look at any kind of swastika and think anything other than Nazis or white supremacist assholes. If you have to explain to everyone you meet that they’re mistaken as to the message you’re trying to project, then it’s time to pick a new symbol.
Those people may have a “good luck” swastika on their heads, but if I run into them, I’m not chancing that I’ll be talking to a neo-nazi long enough to find out. The ambiguity is too great.
September 15, 2011 at 2:43 pm
They’re not helping themselves by calling a “Swastika”, for one thing. I’m sure it has other names.
September 15, 2011 at 2:46 pm
However, there is some interesting content on that website. I particularly recommend clicking on “ManWoman’s Vision” in the left sidebar.
September 15, 2011 at 3:33 pm
IIRC in Germany it was actually called the “Hakkenkreuze” (hook cross).
I’d mention the swavastika (the counter-clockwise mirror image) but I’m pretty sure dyslexic Nazis have gone and ruined that one too.
September 15, 2011 at 6:11 pm
The ambiguity isn’t there if you familiarize yourself with the visual differences of the ways different cultures use the symbol. If you know that the Nazi party one has arms that indicate motion in an imagined anti-clockwise direction and that it is normally slightly diaganally offset(as tho it were “rolling” anti-clockwise) then it is very easy to never get it mixed up.
September 15, 2011 at 6:32 pm
The fun part about getting to know the differences is when you see, or are approached by, some “white power” person who throws up the symbol at you somehow, you get to point out they don’t even know their own ideology. Talk about the ultimate moment of snarkiness! woo!
September 15, 2011 at 6:36 pm
If research is required to discern between two very, very similar symbols, then a) it isn’t “very easy,” and b) you are expecting far too much of the general populace.
What, really, is the value in trying to “preserve” some positive meaning to it? Is it that important a symbol that we just HAVE to have it, no matter how much work it might be to get people not to be offended by it, if that’s even possible?
Get a new symbol. Problem solved, much more easily.
September 16, 2011 at 3:09 am
I associate swastikas with Home Owners Associations. Same thing, right?
September 15, 2011 at 4:43 pm
i was gonna add him too.
i like him but i wish i really knew what to think about restoring a symbol to its common, & probably proper, & certainly originally intended, use.
i mean: would it make much difference if it wasnt restored?
i know this is not the place for this particular discussion & i actually really do like manwoman. i just find the whole thing curious.
September 15, 2011 at 2:17 pm
September 15, 2011 at 2:43 pm
That’s brilliant.
September 15, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Heh, I can’t take credit for anything other than re-posting it. It’s been around a while.
September 15, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Looks like it was drawn by a Nazi with Williams syndrome?
September 15, 2011 at 2:38 pm
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September 15, 2011 at 2:53 pm
You gotta protect those hands when you’re pulling those piping hot jews out of the oven….amirite?
All kidding aside these would be a great accessory to have for my Holocaust themed easy bake oven I and another poster came up with a few posts back.
September 15, 2011 at 4:52 pm
I guess people are too horrified to laugh at the oven jokes, even though they are so clearly deserving of more thumbs. If we can’t laugh at Hitler, who can we laugh at?
September 15, 2011 at 7:24 pm
I could not agree more. oven jokes, concentration camp jokes, mass murder jokes…I am the fucked up guy who laughs at them
Seriously though my grandfather died in a concentration camp….yeah…he fell out of a guard tower! HEYOOOOOO!!!!!
September 15, 2011 at 3:12 pm
I dunno how people can miss shit like this. There’s a lot of weird quilt patterns that have similar designs and I don’t know how you DON’T look at them and think “this looks exactly like a fucking swastika.”
September 15, 2011 at 3:14 pm
COOL STORY TIME:
I once wound up getting really bored in a math class and started coloring in some squares on graph paper. It turned into a good-sized acid-green swastika. Didn’t even realize it until I was almost done, but thankfully I never had to turn that thing in.
/cool story Bromance
September 15, 2011 at 11:53 pm
I used to teach high school. At one point a young man and woman on campus had been dating for two years, which is like the high school equivalent of married for twenty.
They were going out after school to celebrate.
His friends decided to decorate his car.
One side was beautiful. Hearts, little sayings about the couple.
By the time they got to the other side, they got bored. Swastikas and penises bored.
This is how the young man found his car.
I think they sincerely meant well.
September 15, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Oh, look! Indian Good Luck Potholders!
September 15, 2011 at 5:08 pm
I was once at a restaurant with my brother and I mentioned being confused about the tiny tables and his response was “They’re so small you have to sit in swastika formation.”
September 15, 2011 at 5:27 pm
September 15, 2011 at 5:34 pm
That video is awesome!!!
September 15, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Good Lord. I HOPE this was not intentional. However, they will be perfect if the KKK planned a bake sale. O.o
September 15, 2011 at 6:32 pm
That etsy parody of Downfall is genius. I laughed so hard I could not actually make any noise.
September 16, 2011 at 8:34 am
Laughing without making noise is called “fat man laugh” in my house. And as I get older and fatter I find myself laughing like that all the time.
September 15, 2011 at 6:35 pm
i promise this will make you cry with laughter
September 15, 2011 at 6:40 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eNoSV8EZ2M
since i suck at life heres the link
September 15, 2011 at 7:20 pm
LOL hahaha I watched your video and found this in the related videos…totally awesome…my FB is blowing up with hatred because I posted all of these on my page hahahaha fuckers cant take a joke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=VfjyTHDBtn0&feature=fvwp
September 15, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Why the shit have I never seen that video before?!?!?!?!?! OMG that seriously wins the internet for the rest of the year. Nothing can even compete with that! “you know what? I give up. I’m just going to put mustaches on everything.” bwwwaaaahahahahaha! Oh, and I signed the petition, like a boss
September 15, 2011 at 9:44 pm
The symbol was used in a lot of cultures (and as a quilt block) way before Chaplin-stache appropriated it for his mess…but geez, that choice of colors is VERY unfortunate.
I’m glad my go-to color with black and white (which I use in a lot of my quilts) is hot pink!
September 16, 2011 at 3:05 am
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September 16, 2011 at 6:46 am
Is it bad that it took me minute to register what was wrong with these pot holders? I saw them, then scrolled down and saw Hitler, then had to look again. I thought they were cute at first. I think I need another cup of coffee – I’m not too sharp this morning!
September 16, 2011 at 10:42 am
http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl
Some things just happen to turn out that way.
September 16, 2011 at 1:09 pm
jawohl mein hairball!
September 16, 2011 at 11:59 am
Hotsy potsy nazi
September 16, 2011 at 3:57 pm
My grandmother actually used this quilting pattern on my bed quilt. It’s peach and light green, all the fabrics have little white patterns so it has very low contrast. It took me a while to realize the blanket is covered in swastikas.
September 16, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Ausgescheissenet!!!
September 16, 2011 at 6:21 pm
LOLMAO These are amazing. I can just see this sweet person trying to make something homemade and full of love and cupcakes, maybe singing to her puppies as she’s sewing along, little blue jays and mice helping her with every stitch all disney style…the whole house subliminally covered in Naziism
September 17, 2011 at 2:18 am
That Das Poop clip is one of the funniest things I’ve seen, I don’t know how you guys come with that shit.
October 10, 2011 at 12:53 am
I can totally see her not realizing she was quilting this when she made it–I can–but I’m not sure how she didn’t notice afterwards? Handling them, photographing them? Not once did she say, “Oh holy hell, that kind of looks like a swastika”? But maybe it’s like writing–you don’t see the problem because you’re too “close” to the work.
On the plus side, nice quilting job, I guess?