Please tell me your initial reaction to this picture....

[JuniperLea]

[hedgehog]

1. Who is AIG and why are they trying to appear super-patriotic?

[DebbieCDC]

2. Disgusting

[Sanity Claws]

3. Repulsion

[JuniperLea]

26. That was the second word that popped into my mind...

And the third thought was purely conspiratorial:)

[Cant trust em]

4. Seems like a long time ago that AIG was relevant. nt

[yurbud]

5. corporate crooks use 9/11 victims as human shields

[proteus_lives]

6. Creepy.

[JuniperLea]

19. That was the first word that came to my mind as well..

I found it in my jewelery box, in the odds and ends area whilst looking for my Dodgers earrings to wear to the game tonight.

A chill went down my spine. I remember finding it on my desk one morning in September of 2001, as I arrived for work at a then recently acquired AIG subsidiary (I left shortly after). It creeped me out then as well, and I stuck it, unworn, in the above-referenced area of my jewelry box. I sold my employee stock just in time, and never looked back... until last night.

[LWolf]

7. This:

:eyes:

and then this:

[ThatsMyBarack]

33. Bingo!

:hi:

[ceile]

8. ugh.

nauseating

[Iggo]

9. Flagpins are for douchebags.

You asked.

[JuniperLea]

47. I want a pin that says that!

:applause:

[JoePhilly]

10. Is that what retires get in lieu of a pension from AIG??

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. My FIRST reaction:

I was touched.

Yeah, I know, in the head...

Perhaps I'm too sentimental, but there it is.

You did ask.

[JuniperLea]

15. My Dear CaliforniaPeggy...

I would expect nothing less than empathy from you. That's why you remain one of my favorite DUers.

[madmax]

12. DU remembers

http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1261.shtml

[slackmaster]

13. Renewed anger at the attackers of 9/11

:nuke:

[John Q. Citizen]

14. i see the sound of doves crying.

[Sebastian Doyle]

18. Prince? Is that you?

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. Just another case of felonious shitbags cashing in on 9-11-01

Of course that's been going on since before the event itself (i.e. the put options which can probably be traced right back to AIG's good buddies at Gold Mansacks)

[JuniperLea]

20. I sold my employee stock just in time...

Whew...

[OhioChick]

17. A bunch of greedy fucks remember 9-11 n/t

[lunatica]

21. Whoever is wearing it is a pompous jingistic cement brain

[ieoeja]

22. I sniggered at the silliness of it. Followed by slight disgust at AIG cashing in on the event. nt

[JuniperLea]

27. Yep...

That's in my list of personal responses as well.

[uppityperson]

23. who is AIG and why do they have to announce they remember 9/11?

Announcing "I remember 9/11" is comparable in meaning to "I remember the sun rose today", for most of us.

[dtexdem]

24. Just more false patriotism bling.

[Chulanowa]

25. Cynical laughter

Followed by a desire to start a bar fight with the faces of AIG ceo's.

[JuniperLea]

28. I'll sit on 'em while you slug 'em...

No love lost here.

I have an AIG Tailgating cook book too... :scared: Maybe some ghoul on eBay will buy these creepy things off me... and I can donate the proceeds to charity. Then I'll burn some sage in my house, and put salt in the corners... then just maybe I'll feel like it's clean again.

[tavalon]

51. Wow, I dislike AIG too, but I never considered cooking them

I guess I just have a failure of imagination.

[mdmc]

29. cool sunny sky

primary day 9-11-2001 in NY.

[Urban Prairie]

30. Revulsion n/t

[dembotoz]

31. now that is funny

[MissDeeds]

32. Using the dead

in a shameless attempt to bolster their image. Disgusting.

[catzies]

34. SHAMELESS EXPLOITATION. That's about it.

n/t

[proud patriot]

40. +1

that was my first thought .

[Cronus Protagonist]

35. A celebration of AIG's greatest moment

I expect to see Cheney wearing one of these.

[JuniperLea]

49. I had similar thoughts when I found it last night...

Hadn't seen it since it was left on my desk at AIG in Sept. 2001... I stuck it away from the light of day... creeped me out.

[drmeow]

36. My first reaction

Oh, f**k off!

Followed by "that's obnoxious"

[BootinUp]

37. I want to get insurance from them!

:sarcasm:

[dogday]

38. Could the CEO of AIG shove that thing up his ASS?

sideways :shrug:

[JuniperLea]

39. Hank Greenberg was the CEO at the time...

:scared:




I rode up a few elevators with him... very odd vibe... never stopped smiling.

[dogday]

41. It already looks like he took my advice....

:rofl:

[JuniperLea]

43. BWAAAHAHAHAHA!

Good to have you back! You didn't post much while serving as a mod... missed you!

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. Made in China by child labor or slave labor...

[WhiteTara]

44. wow. THat is disgusting.

TO use the destruction of the twin towers is just horrible.

[hwmnbn]

45. shameless corporate stunt...

asking us to "remember" our national tragedy so we "forget" what AIG did in Sept. 2008.

So transparent and devious... they must be conservatives.

[JuniperLea]

46. Actually, I got that in September of 2001

It was left on my desk... found it when I came into work (at an AIG subsidiary) one morning.

It creeped me out... I stuck it away and forgot about it until I found it last night.

[tavalon]

48. Too bad they don't remember how to be good corporate citizens

[JuniperLea]

50. Well said... eom

[phasma ex machina]

52. It makes me wonder how many AIG employees died in the attack. Great or small. Guilty or innocent. nt

[AnArmyVeteran]

53. We the people paid billions for those offensive trinkets.

[Ignis]

54. Flag pin?