From the sublime to the ridiculous thread

[mightytiges]

What the .... ??? 

Dad spoke to son in Klingon

By Virginia Wheeler
Published: 21 Nov 2009
 
A DAD spoke only KLINGON to his son for the first three years of his life to see if he could pick up the alien language.
 
Linguist Dr d'Armond Speers came up with the idea after watching an episode of Star Trek. He spent days translating phrases into Klingon - hoping his toddler's first word would be "vav" rather than "dad".

Dr Speers, of Minnesota, US, battled on with commands like "find the USS Enterprise", - but his wife only spoke English to the infant.

He said: "He was definitely starting to learn it. When Alec spoke back to me in Klingon his pronunciation was excellent."

Dr Speers experienced problems with his project as the alien language lacked common words like "diaper" and "bottle."

He was forced to use phrases like "thing which is flat" for "table". Eventually he abandoned his scheme, admitting his son "stopped listening to me when I spoke in Klingon". He added: "It was clear he didn't enjoy it."

Alec, now 13, doesn't speak a word of Klingon.

Dr Speers denied being a Trekkie, saying: "I don't go to conventions or wear fake foreheads. I'm a linguist. I get nostalgic when I look back at singing the Klingon lullaby May The Empire Endure."

Actor Leonard Nimoy, who played Capt Kirk's pal Mr Spock, and writer Harve Bennett wanted the alien Klingons to speak a "proper language" and roped in an expert to develop one.

Klingon has 21 consonants and five vowels and is the most spoken fictional language.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2740083/Dad-spoke-to-son-in-Klingon-for-three-years.html#ixzz0Xi6D08wv

[tiga]

Maybe that was the problem with Frawley's coaching...He was doing his half time addresses in Klingon!! 

[mightytiges]

Maybe that was the problem with Frawley's coaching...He was doing his half time addresses in Klingon!! 

Deep Space Ninth 

[Hellenic Tiger]

Maybe that was the problem with Frawley's coaching...He was doing his half time addresses in Klingon!! 

Too many emus and kangaroos also.

[mightytiges]

A LEADING UK supermarket chain has withdrawn a Christmas card that poked fun at "gingers" after claims of discrimination.



http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/tesco-withdraws-christmas-card-reading-santa-loves-all-kids-even-ginger-ones-after-woman-complains/story-e6frfhk6-1225810899121

 

I have a photo of me with ginger hair at that young age  (my hair went black as I grew). Glad Santa still loved me then .

[mightytiges]

Some moronic Americans thinking a KFC Cricket ad is "racist" because an Aussie fan shares his bucket of KFC with a West Indian crowd  ??? and forcing KFC to pull the ad off-air deserves a nomination in this thread.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/kfcs-racist-cricket-ad

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/05/kfcs-racist-ad-australian_n_412002.html

Seriously how stupid can you get

[wayne]

Some moronic Americans thinking a KFC Cricket ad is "racist" because an Aussie fan shares his bucket of KFC with a West Indian crowd  ??? and forcing KFC to pull the ad off-air deserves a nomination in this thread.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/kfcs-racist-cricket-ad

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/05/kfcs-racist-ad-australian_n_412002.html

Seriously how stupid can you get

The fried chicken, african american thing is American. It's not part of our culture and probably not part of West Indian culture either.

If it was, i'm sure one of the West Indian actors in the crowd may have piped up and said 'uh, you know what, this probably isn't a good idea, it's a bit of a touchy subject for us'.

Edit: Dave Chappelle does some hilarious stuff with this topic. Like when African Americans get paid $1 trillion in reparation, KFC shares go through the roof 

[Ox]

Some moronic Americans thinking a KFC Cricket ad is "racist" because an Aussie fan shares his bucket of KFC with a West Indian crowd  ??? and forcing KFC to pull the ad off-air deserves a nomination in this thread.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/kfcs-racist-cricket-ad

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/05/kfcs-racist-ad-australian_n_412002.html

Seriously how stupid can you get

stupid.God-Dam!

[mightytiges]

Some moronic Americans thinking a KFC Cricket ad is "racist" because an Aussie fan shares his bucket of KFC with a West Indian crowd  ??? and forcing KFC to pull the ad off-air deserves a nomination in this thread.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/kfcs-racist-cricket-ad

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/05/kfcs-racist-ad-australian_n_412002.html

Seriously how stupid can you get

The fried chicken, african american thing is American. It's not part of our culture and probably not part of West Indian culture either.

If it was, i'm sure one of the West Indian actors in the crowd may have piped up and said 'uh, you know what, this probably isn't a good idea, it's a bit of a touchy subject for us'.

Exactly that's the thing - West Indians aren't African Americans and vice versa. The uneducated moron (a "white" guy btw) who put it on youtube claiming the ad was racist has the racism issues himself cause he thinks all people with dark skin are the same just because of their skin colour . If England had been touring the ad would've had the Aussie guy sitting amongst the roudy Balmy Army. Interesting to see if KFC rejig the same ad next year for the Ashes.

[tiga]

What about KFC's latest effort where they have someone impersonating a police officer to steal tickets from a scalper. Hmmmm Good food, good values. 

[Penelope]

OK this is football related but i think it belongs here.

If you dont think that so called journalists crawl the internet and these forums for stories........

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/blues-fans-first-in-with-the-boot-as-geelongs-mathew-stokes-faces-drug-charges/story-e6frf7jo-1225826517569

"All the high-and-mighty Cats fans that threw garbage on my club for players getting drunk on a boat, start the back-pedalling now," wrote Macfart on BigFooty.

 

How low can these guys sink.

[mightytiges]

OK this is football related but i think it belongs here.

If you dont think that so called journalists crawl the internet and these forums for stories........

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/blues-fans-first-in-with-the-boot-as-geelongs-mathew-stokes-faces-drug-charges/story-e6frf7jo-1225826517569

"All the high-and-mighty Cats fans that threw garbage on my club for players getting drunk on a boat, start the back-pedalling now," wrote Macfart on BigFooty.

 

How low can these guys sink.

It isn't hard to be a footy journo these days.

The last two BF posters are Tiger supporters IIRC. The fantasy Island line is funny  .

[mightytiges]

LOL at the IOC still trying to forbid the boxing kangaroo flag at the Winter Olympics  .



http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jq3Beut3NdxYafnbwKxlV5Mc9oPA

[mightytiges]

Not sure if it fits in this thread but I had to do a double take when I saw the last line of this. Obviously some idiots never learn from the past  .

The study, by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, showed that more than a third (34.3 per cent) of the 2411 people surveyed believed Germany's 16 million immigrants or people with foreign origins came for the social benefits. About the same number (35.6 per cent) think Germany is being ''overrun by foreigners'' and more than one in 10 called for a ''fuehrer'' to run the country ''with a strong hand''.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/multiculturalism-in-germany-has-failed-says-chancellor-20101017-16p7h.html#poll

That idea worked so well in the 1930s/40s didn't it

[tiga]

Social benefits?? Personally I don't think German beer is actually that good. They always seem to go for quantity of quality.
Mind you, wasn't beer the catalyst for creating their last fuhrer??