Posted on: Nov 28 2007 0
Archive for November, 2007
Posted on: Nov 27 2007 0
Microsoft’s Support Centre needs 3nglish lessons
Wonderful use of English by Microsoft support centre staff.
This is why it’s important to articulate clearly, speak slowly and eat your breakfast every morning.

Posted on: Nov 27 2007 0
Dave Chappelle switches to Apple
Dave Chappelle seems like a smart man. He’s made it big after all. His reasons to switch to Apple should be compelling enough. Let’s hear why he switched..

Posted on: Nov 26 2007 0
Regular Everyday Normal Guy
Another one dug up by Harv: The Regular Everyday Normal Guy. It’s a rap song by well.. a regular dude. Finally.
NSFW for language use.
Cheers Harv. 
Posted on: Nov 26 2007 0
Vladimir Putins Game Review
Harv found this gem. It’s the great Russian leader reviewing Call of Duty 4. Enjoy.

Posted on: Nov 26 2007 0
The U.S. versus John Lennon
This is a rather long but worthwhile documentary about the coming of John Lennon to the U.S. in the 70s and how society and most notably the FBI and Immigration service reacted in the wake of his brand of super stardom and political activism. It celebrates his life as a peacenik and attempts to explain his world view using journalists, political activists and most notably Yoko Ono’s point of view.It also interviews FBI and law enforcement agents involved with the concerted campaign waged against Mr. Lennon by the political elite at the time.
Don’t watch this if you’re expecting the assassination to be particularly highlighted. It happens in the last 15 minutes of the film, and considering the goals of the documentary was understandably not the main subject.
Anyway, here’s John. Peace.

Posted on: Nov 26 2007 0
Sterotypes of the World - 2 - The Finnish
This article will explore stereotypes across the known world from a European perspective. Of course no stereotype hunt would be complete without first looking at ourselves as Europeans and what stereotypes we have made about each other. Some of them may not be accurate or even true, but this is what I found out.
We’ve already talked about the Hungarians.
Today we shall start with the Finns. They deserve the ridicule.
Stereotypes of the Finnish 
1. They’re always in a sauna!

Every Finn has a personal sauna. Consequently sweaty naked men and women roam the frosty countryside, scaring innocent tourists.
2. Every Finn has an anti-aircraft gun in his yard!

The Finns hate the Russians. Russians have tried to steal their saunas. This is why every Finnish family has an anti-aircraft gun in his yard or on top of his sauna.
3. All Finns know how to tango!

It’s in their blood. Don’t ask them how it got there. They don’t know. Probably a left-over STD from the 60s when love was free and alcohol was as yet untaxed.
4. They compete with the Russians for vodka!

Every time the Finns shoot down a Russian plane, they steal its vodka supply and tango until dawn to celebrate. To keep this tradition current and topical the Finnish government bans all normal alcohol sales and taxes it to hell.
5. Santa lives there!

Santa needs cheap labour that knows its gadgets. Enter the elves of Lapland. Santa is responsible for 40% of Finlands exports.
6. They eat their Reindeer!

Sorry. No retirement home for Rudolph. Life is hard in the Arctic Circle. The Finns hunt and kill their closest cousins for food.
7. Young Finns are lost to the Internet!

Young Finnish rebels have taken to the Internet since 1970 to escape the reality of daily life in Finland under Santa’s boot. As the inventors of Linux and Nokia they are widely shunned in regular Suomi-Santa-society. This disillusioned mass is responsible for 23% of all blogs world wide.
8. Finns win at Eurovision by appearing in public without makeup!

The Finnish only ever win the Eurovision song contest if they take their masks off. After a 40 year losing streak of 0 points every year Finnish men finally took their masks off in public out of frustration and played some decent music. This shocked everyone into voting for them.
9. The Language!
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Finnish language can only be spoken in a freezer at -50°C or by having your jaw anaesthetized before speaking. This numbs the tongue enough to be able to pronounce the long words with double consonants.
That’s about it for now.
More on a different deserving people next time!

Posted on: Nov 25 2007 0
Sterotypes of the World - 1 - Hungarians
Although stereotyping is a common world-wide phenomenon, it is most vicious and scathing in Europe. Being the home and birthplace of anti-Semitism, slavery, the word ‘genocide’ and the most vile religious persecutions in history, it is hardly surprising that the European tribal ‘us versus them’ culture flourishes like never before.
The history of Europe could be seen as more than 3000 years of continuous continent-wide tribal warfare. Only when war became too expensive and acquired the potential to destroy the entire world were the European tribes brought to a halt and forced into uneasy alliances and deals with each other by necessity and the two main superpowers they were stuck between. The open and often violent tit-for-tat retaliations became rarer. Consequently, excluding the Balkans war, Europe has been at peace for more than 60 years. That is not to say the 3000 years of ingrained tribal Darwinism isn’t still very much alive below the surface. Examples of this can be seen most graphically during Football matches between rival nations and even local clubs, in which many get hurt in riots every year.
This article will explore stereotypes across the known world from a European perspective. Of course no stereotype hunt would be complete without first looking at ourselves as Europeans and what stereotypes we have made about each other. Some of them may not be accurate or even true, but this is what I found out.
Therefore we shall start with one of the more difficult ones:
Stereotypes of Hungarians 
1. They’re communists!
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Hungarians are by default lazy communists. The non-lazy, non-communists are all dead, courtesy of the Russian invasions.
2. They’re car thieves and love crappy cars!
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One of the main hobbies of the typical Hungarian is hustling stolen 1980s DDR Trabants, which are considered the main currency in their country.
3. Goulash isn’t what you think it is!
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Hungarians bury their dead in giant goulash factories. They then sell this to western supermarkets in exchange for a vintage Trabant or two.
4. They’re fake gypsies!
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Since they don’t know how to drive cars they frequently travel around as Gypsies, though that has been stopped by the Romanians now, who have claimed copyright infringement. Hungarians are now using bio-goulash powered vehicles.
5. The women are ‘easy’!
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All Hungarians are experts at pimping their beautiful but slutty sisters.
6. The language!
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Hungarians frequently cannot be distinguished from drunk Scots because of their inability to stay sober. An effective test is asking them to pronounce the word ‘Trabant’. If they can’t do so without crying they’re Hungarian.
Sources: Urban dictionary, Foek.hu, cmdr_sm
More stereotypes on a different people next week.


















