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HumanRage · Post by **HumanRage** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 1:36 pm

bad jokes and racism are universal you know

hepar · Post by **hepar** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:13 pm

ulysses wrote:do all the people in the world have this same joke about french?

No. If you care, russians think that dutch people are gays and grass-smokers, but french are womanisers and wine-addict. And yes, they eat frogs, not children.

PS: I wonder if anyone exept us joke about themselves though...

Sergio Nova · Post by **Sergio Nova** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:46 pm

Kamui04 wrote:page 15 - HOW good is karate?
page 26 - HOW vgood is this fist...
page 26 - HOW good is this Karate...

Toji's japanese lines literally translates into the idiom "What good is ...", a short form or variation of "what's the good of...". It means "What is the purpose or advantage of". Toji repeats the same question many times: what good is my fist?, what good is karate?, etc. questioning the purpose of his fist and karate, not how good they are. If you aren't satisfied with these examples, search for "what good is..." and you'll find some examples of it's usage in english.

page 21 - Toji… (missing ellipsis)
Toji! exclamation mark is better in this line.

page 29 - Can this me become stronger?

By "this me", he's referring to what he considers his currently weak and sentimental self, compared to his strong self back when he was winning all those Karate championships.

The fact is that how good does sound strange, anyway…
As to this me, I`ve never seen it used before. To me, it sounds as Chinese English, if you understand me.

hepar · Post by **hepar** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:51 pm

Can't we say:
"What use is this karate?"
"What use is this fist?"

Sergio Nova · Post by **Sergio Nova** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:56 pm

The fact is: stereotypes are always absurd.
Americans, for example (and, honestly, many Europeans as well), consider Brazilian women as prostitutes. Ironically, as far as I am informed, the USA are the greatest producers of pornography on this planet. In past, that status was Scandinavian or German, but nowadays, it is especially American.

I am not critizing American porn industry. If the industry exists, it reflects a costumer market. But let us avoid hypocrisy, for God`s sake.

Anyway, what can we expect from a society that criticize the Colombian drug industry while they are the greatest costumers? What to say about a community that consumes millions of porn videos a year, but almost defenestrated a president because of a simple blowjob? At the same time, they voted for a president who is a serial killer.

The fact is: there are tons of mass destruction weapons in Iraq. Bush himself ordered his troops to drop them on the country.

Let me stop here. Otherwise, I will be also creating a stereotype, and many Americans do deserve respect.

HumanRage · Post by **HumanRage** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:25 am

Kern · Post by **Kern** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:38 am

Sergio wrote:
The fact is: there are tons of mass destruction weapons in Iraq. Bush himself ordered his troops to drop them on the country.

Weapons of mass destruction are nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological.

Sergio Nova · Post by **Sergio Nova** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:25 pm

Kern wrote: Weapons of mass destruction are nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological.

In simple words, you did NOT understand my irony.
Anyway, if you think Tomahawk missiles do not destroy massively…

ulithemuli · Post by **ulithemuli** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:22 pm

dont forget chuck norris.

Post by **crazyankan** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:46 am

ulithemuli wrote:dont forget chuck norris.

Hahaha good one.

http://www.google.com ---> type in "Find Chuck Norris" ----> Press "I`m feeling lucky"

Love the Chuck Norris jokes

wowylied · Post by **wowylied** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:30 am

hepar wrote:
ulysses wrote:do all the people in the world have this same joke about french?
No. If you care, russians think that dutch people are gays and grass-smokers, but french are womanisers and wine-addict. And yes, they eat frogs, not children.

PS: I wonder if anyone exept us joke about themselves though...

No,non and no, we don't eat frog, in the 19 century yes but not now.
We don't drink wine because now wine is too expensive and we are not womanisers and On the contrary in France we have more and more difficulty to found the love because people does not speak to people any more and becomes less and less respectful and tolerant.

romanus · Post by **romanus** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:58 am

it's a fact that french people eat a lot of food that disgusts some foreign people like frog, escargot, or oyster... did U know when U eat oysters they are still alive ? but what a delight !!! they're so good with a muscadet !

french are gay ? we have the same joke/stereotype with the greeks ! lol it may come from greek philosophy, for exemple when Platon said : one more glass of wine and a boy please !

Kern, did U know that the chemical weapon used in the war between Iran and Iraq by "ali the chemister" was selled by france, germany, and the USA for the majority ?
and these ones were selled by Carlyle, a weapon company whose directed by... Bush family...
"By hasard" saddam and his son Ali the chemister were condemn to death sentence before their trial for the use of this kind of weapon.

and sh... it's out of subject ! lol
but whatever, long life to our differences !!! the world would be poor without them !!!

hepar · Post by **hepar** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:15 am

wowylied wrote:No,non and no, we don't eat frog, in the 19 century yes but not now.
We don't drink wine because now wine is too expensive and we are not womanisers and On the contrary in France we have more and more difficulty to found the love because people does not speak to people any more and becomes less and less respectful and tolerant.

Do you prefere being gays after all?

Kern · Post by **Kern** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:52 am

romanus wrote:
Kern, did U know that the chemical weapon used in the war between Iran and Iraq by "ali the chemister" was selled by france, germany

Perhaps you can provide ANY evidence.

wowylied · Post by **wowylied** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:54 pm

hepar wrote:
wowylied wrote:No,non and no, we don't eat frog, in the 19 century yes but not now.
We don't drink wine because now wine is too expensive and we are not womanisers and On the contrary in France we have more and more difficulty to found the love because people does not speak to people any more and becomes less and less respectful and tolerant.
Do you prefere being gays after all?

I'm not gay but where will be the problem if i am ?

hepar · Post by **hepar** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:20 pm

wowylied wrote:I'm not gay but where will be the problem if i am ?

Inside you... Right~ inside you

Don't worry, it's just that post-soviet ortodox ateists still believe that abnormality was and is a sin and ain't for joking around.

ulithemuli · Post by **ulithemuli** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:59 am

i dont think you should complain about eating frogs - guess what the asians eat. chicken or seafood ice cream. insects, brains, etc... well its true (and im chinese so im not racist). oh wait, we were talking about europeans right...

wowylied wrote:I'm not gay but where will be the problem if i am ?

Burn the witch! jk

romanus wrote: Kern, did U know that the chemical weapon used in the war between Iran and Iraq by "ali the chemister" was selled by france, germany

well actually they bought it from bush first.

Kern · Post by **Kern** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:49 am

Germany didn't sell any Weapons of mass destruction to Iraq.

Lacaud · Post by **Lacaud** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:01 am

ulysses wrote:
Sergio wrote:
HumanRage wrote:yeah, more ladder council, and more french-venusian-baby-eaters
Did you really like the idea of French eating children?
Initially I understood that as a bad taste joke with haute cuisine.
But perhaps there is a pun with some sexual perversion, although I believe such things exist everywhere (especially in Japan, so he did not need to use French as models).
It's funny:
I have a brasilian friend who told me that in Brasil, french people were considered as gays. when he went and studied in France, his friends warned him not to become gay like french people.

And a Japanese friend of mine told me there was the same joke about french people in Japan. And now I see the venusians in GLO...
I'm french and I'm wondering:
do all the people in the world have this same joke about french?

Thats a first for me. The only French jokes I know are the frogs ones and WWII ones; not including the french resistance.

Sergio Nova · Post by **Sergio Nova** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:28 pm

Lacaud wrote:Thats a first for me. The only French jokes I know are the frogs ones and WWII ones; not including the french resistance.

As far as I know, we Brazilians are all considered transvestites in France.
I have never been to France to check, anyway.

hepar · Post by **hepar** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:32 pm

Sergio wrote:As far as I know, we Brazilians are all considered transvestites in France.
I have never been to France to check, anyway.

You'd better not, they will trick you as a girl.

Sergio Nova · Post by **Sergio Nova** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:39 pm

hepar wrote:In Soviet Russia kids eat YOU!

Let me ask you.
Do you mean the brats are difficult to deal with?

hepar · Post by **hepar** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:33 pm

Sergio wrote:
hepar wrote:In Soviet Russia kids eat YOU!
Let me ask you.
Do you mean the brats are difficult to deal with?

Yes, it's hard to raise kids, because they're too selfish and stuff, and not helping at all - i'd say parasites.

PS: I made quite a lot of this jokes couple of years ago. Like this:

In Soviet Russia you're mother-in-law,
In America law mothering YOU! (or other way round)

In America you're picking up garbage,
In Soviet Russia garbage picks YOU. (*garbages <-> cops in russian)

In America you're robbing banks,
In Sovit Russia banks rob YOU.

et cetera et cetera...

Sergio Nova · Post by **Sergio Nova** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:50 pm

hepar wrote: In America you're robbing banks,
In Sovit Russia banks rob YOU.

et cetera et cetera...

Bah! Banks rob you everywhere in the world.
And American banks are no exception at all, believe me.

Sergio Nova · Post by **Sergio Nova** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:54 pm

crazyankan wrote: Hahaha good one.

http://www.google.com ---> type in "Find Chuck Norris" ----> Press "I`m feeling lucky"

Love the Chuck Norris jokes

Siomply great, crazyankan.