From: "Barry Gershenfeld" Subject: Re: [OT]: All Your Base Are Belong To Us ... ... > >There's alittle more but this is the main part. As you can see - you need > >to have been bitten by the bug before this starts to appear at all humorous. > >The shockwave video helps rather. > > It's a strange kind of humor, based on the fact that the English is > so poor. This fact could easily be lost on our non-US list > members (and I don't just mean the ozzies ) That is what is funny to Americans, the poor English. I'm surprised some Oriental activists don't protest it as a racial slur. I think the humor is in poor taste (but funny, still). I was offended when I heard the physicist Stephen Hawking (Stephen Hawking (Cambridge Lectures) - 01 Of 08.mp3) apologize (joke) that his speech synthesizer (he is paralyzed and can no longer speak) couldn't reproduce 'proper' English! Dreadfully sorry no Brit could design a synthesizer up to the task, Sir Professor Hawking 8^) All your engineers flee to America, where they don't have to support socialists and royal parasite fossils? The world's best rock stars have! Anyway, sometimes people don't realize how hurtful some humor is until they get a dose of it. Depends on how victimized you've been - getting salt rubbed on you only hurts when your skin has been flayed off. For instance, I read about some sports team that decided to name itself 'The Fighting Whities' and use a white yuppie businessman in suit and tie as a mascot. This was intended to offend and give WASPS a dose of their own medicine, because often white Americans have used racial stereotypes to name sport teams. It backfired; many white males thought it was quite funny rather than offensive, taking the identity projection of competitive martial, warrior virtues as a compliment, and ordered lots of their T-shirts, to the chagrin of the instigators. What is truly offensive is not an embarrassing lack of verbal etiquette; its that American corporations abuse their workers like toilet paper, degrading their enthusiasm, ambition and moral, then import foreigners (that don't know what 'normal' is - to resent and oppose corporate degradation and exploitation rather than passively accept it) to exploit. Conservatives / Republicans constantly bash immigrants - they want immigrants to live in fear of being deported, rather than wanting business to fear breaking the laws by hiring them; bribed politicians make laws to be broken and terrify indentured immigrant slaves. Pink Fascism sucks. I wish I could laugh about it, but the situation behind it makes me too damn angry. http://www.hireamericancitizens.org/ Scott ******************************************************* Is the American Identity freedom to pursue happiness and profit from the fruit of your own labors, or a servant leased to corporations by corrupt federal government taxing you to your tolerance? How is it IRS permits corporations to evade taxes in offshore 'special purpose entities' (like Enron), yet we peasants are prosecuted? "The strong do as they will, the weak suffer what they must." -Thucydides ******************************************************* -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics