People from Pampers already responded and apologized and promised that they will fix this error by the end of next week.

Mail of the angry user (my fellow Mensan):
Dear Sir/Madam,

In your ignorance you have annexed the country of Slovenia to the territory of the Italian republic on your on-line world map. Such mistreatment cannot be accepted. I expect your error will be dismissed and your disrespect and discrepancy corrected.

Sincerely,
Xxxx Xxxxxxxx

Their reply:
Thanks for getting in touch with this information

I passed it to our technical team who assured me this issue is being resolved and should be visible by end of next week.

I am sorry for any distress or disappointment caused and can assure you this was certainly not our intention.

Thank you again for your assistance.

Kind regards,
Oda, Consumer Relations

     by Sunshine on July 10, 2007 at 8:20 am

And not only Slovenia, but also Istria. You have stumbled upon a sinister plan…

     by R on July 10, 2007 at 8:43 am

According to www.parmers.si, they’re going to annex it to Hungary, now.

     by historix on July 10, 2007 at 8:43 am

It’s www.pampers.si, of course.

     by historix on July 10, 2007 at 8:44 am

People from Pampers already responded and apologized and promised that they will fix this error by the end of next week.

Mussolini must be spinning in his lavish crypt.

historix: Good Lord, you’re right! Pampers.si is in Hungarian. The plot thickens!

     by Michael M. on July 10, 2007 at 9:03 am

Unbelievable!

     by nika on July 10, 2007 at 9:15 am

Actually it just looks like the Pamper.si link is redirecting to the www.pg.hu site.

     by Michael N. on July 10, 2007 at 9:16 am

And now for some good news: there is no pampers.hr.

     by alcessa on July 10, 2007 at 9:30 am

OMG!

So the Italians are ressurecting the “Mare Nostro” plan, whereas the Hungarians went about using IT to do what they couldn’t do in a 1000 years

So, Michael… What was it that you were talking about launching another web-crusade? Here’s a worthy goal: Getting the web’s maps right

     by pengovsky on July 10, 2007 at 9:56 am

I can’t believe it. WTF? How do people make web pages if they don’t have access to the internet? Let’s wait until the end of the week waiting for Pampers people to fix the mistake …

     by Petrula on July 10, 2007 at 10:22 am

Even the Hungarian version on www.pampers.si has a strange map. It features
united Czechoslovakia, united pre-1991 Yugoslavia without Istria (sunken by atomic bomb?) and politicaly divided Great Britain. Do these people know something we don’t? Perhaps this is just a commercial, so that we would laugh ourselves until we shit in our pants, thus realizing that we need their adult diaper products.

     by historix on July 10, 2007 at 10:33 am

Pengovsky: How about a movement called Help For Geographically Challenged Corporations And Small Businesses?

Short: HFGCCASB

Its members have to search for such maps regularly and write e-mails to the culprits’ representatives. And publish the results.

Let us all join together.

     by alcessa on July 10, 2007 at 10:38 am

Very good! Count me in. Anyone else?

     by pengovsky on July 10, 2007 at 10:43 am

And I thought, it’s their products who are meant to be full of shit

     by Dietmar on July 10, 2007 at 12:38 pm

Dietmar: ROTFL!

     by pengovsky on July 10, 2007 at 12:51 pm

Michael,
I think you should be given credit for finding this highly appropriate picture of Benito as he seems to be wearing some primitive version of Pampers.
That, or he was a participant in the highly competitive Italian version of this Mexican sporting event.

     by DarkoV on July 10, 2007 at 1:59 pm

Darko: You don’t want to see the original guy who was wearing the diaper pre-photoshop, although you can probably tell that he’s way too old to wear them.

We really need to get some kind of Justice League started. I’ll give it some thought in the next few days.

     by Michael M. on July 10, 2007 at 6:52 pm

Moreover Albania, Montenegro, and Serbia were merged to a Balkan version of the Axis of evil

     by Daniel on July 10, 2007 at 9:19 pm

Jaz bi pa čisto izven konteksta prosil občinstvo , če si pogleda posnetek in poda relativno sodniško mnenje.

www.natalijaverboten.com

HVALA

     by Iztok on July 10, 2007 at 11:10 pm

Ja Iztok, čisto izven konteksta je in kaj ko bi že nehal utrujati s tem?!?! Na milijon blogih sem že zasledila da delaš identično reklamo in zadeva postaja enostavno zoprna.

     by Sunshine on July 11, 2007 at 7:04 am

Any attempt to spam this site will result in URLs being changed to the Natalija Verboten homepage. If you really want adspace, feel free to buy a google ad.

     by Michael M. on July 11, 2007 at 8:26 am

Nice move Michael!

     by Sunshine on July 11, 2007 at 9:09 am

hehehe… Nice one, Michael! I must remember it

     by pengovsky on July 11, 2007 at 10:11 am

If EU sometimes doesn’t get it, why would the corporations. It happened before:
brezdlake.blogspot.com/2006/12/slovenija-izvedla-anschluss-italije.html
On the map, Slovenia and Italy are one, and so are Romania and Bulgaria. Barroso is of course smiling as usual.

     by Dr. Rosenfeld on July 12, 2007 at 10:17 pm