On Sunday 02 December 2007, greg emond wrote: > I am french, and the first joke was very funny. The seond one was... THE > truth! I will lift my arms and kill you all with the toxic fumes that > emanate from there! vive le quebec libre!
I shouldn't have gone there, but since I did, and since a fair number of people really don't seem to get it, I feel I should point out for any non-American friends who didn't grasp the irony that the whole rant was "acted out" by a stereotypical insular American with no idea what's going on outside this country's borders. It was all a laugh at the worst my country has to offer on the world stage, not at anyone outside these borders at all, and most especially not French people. (Je parle français aussi, mon ami, bien que je le parle très mal.) [TRANSLATION OF FRENCH TEXT: I speak French too, my friend, though I speak it very badly.] So anyone in the audience who isn't American should point at us and laugh, and anyone who lives inside these borders should look around and laugh. We're not all like that, but some of us really are. But the whole thing was really a horrible public exhibit of why I spent a significant part of my childhood getting beaten up by somebody. Lots of people don't get my twisted sense of humor at all, and especially not in an environment where most readers speak English as a second language, and haven't spent as many hours as I have watching Monty Python, South Park, Carlos Mencia, and weirdly twisted French and Spanish movies. Sorry about all the noise everybody. I just want to make sure there are no hard feelings. If necessary, I'll call Dad over to come hold my head in the toilet and get one of my kids to take a picture of me getting a good old fashioned American swirly. That is if the old man is strong enough to lift my stereotypically overweight American truck driving redneck ass that high. -- D. Michael McIntyre -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
