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yeah, as long as it's not the chinese being offended it's totally fine.
even USA TV and movies [self] censor that way.
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What do all of you have with tomato sauces? 10 days ago we had Maunder Catchup[^].
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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There are many of these.
For example, the Mitsubishi 4x4 sold in the UK as the "Shogun" is known in much of the world as the "Pajero" - which in Spanish means a man who plays with himself a lot ... 
I had a Shogun - but my neighbour had a Japanese import Pajero and he was, rather.
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Globalization isn't always easy...
Earlier this year Microsoft changed an image of a woman with a green hat because the green hat apparently indicated prostitution in China or some such.
And then there's the aspirin package that had three images, the first was a man with a headache, in the second picture he took a pill and in the third picture he was happy again.
They shipped to Asia and the Middle East, but didn't sell very well...
Those countries read from right to left 
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Just like in the case of the green-hat image in China, some people think every other ethnic group made of idiots...
So Chinese people can't spot the difference between an insult and a innocent image, and Cree are so stupid that think Heinz deliberately insulting them...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Cree are so stupid that think Heinz deliberately insulting them
I didn't get that impression at all. They thought it was funny, not insulting.
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Exactly! So why all those came and started to patronize them in such a stupid manner?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I'm sure most people won't give a mayo what it means in Cree. 
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I've got an old book which is full of stories like that, its title is something like "Big business blunders in international marketing". A large section is devoteed to names and terminology. (Other sections discuss e.g. use of colors, the shape/size of containers, the use of humour in the ads etc.) It may be a little outdated now (it came out around 1980), but such stories tend to be rather long-lived, so I guess I will dig it up from the basement tonight!
One example that I rarely see mentioned outside Norway: Honda Fitta was marketed as "small on the outside, roomy inside. For your daily pleasure!" - "Fitta" means "the c**t" in Norwegian, which gives the marketing slogan a slightly unintended interpretation. (The car was soon renamed to Honda Jazz in the Nordic markets.)
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Mark Reads 'Small Gods': Part 1 - YouTube[^]
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hi Eddy, I am curious to ask what you like about this reading/author; what does the content mean to you.
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: what does the content mean to you.
I find Small Gods to be one of Terry's best.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Well, thanks, but I am confused by what appears to be a reading of a copyrighted work by Terry Pratchett by some grinning manic idiot ... with no mention of a license to do same.
thanks, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: Well, thanks, but I am confused by what appears to be a reading of a copyrighted work by Terry Pratchett by some grinning manic idiot ... with no mention of a license to do same.
I hadn't even considered that. Should I remove the link?
Still, youtube hosts it and uses it to generate revenue, and from the intro I learned that it is the 13th book.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hi, No, I'm not suggesting you report it; it's hard for me to imagine an author of Pratchett's status and popularity (or, his fans) allowing the complete work to be read by Joe Maniac on YouTube ... the work is on Audible as a pay-for [^]. I'm just puzzled how this content has stayed up given the fact YouTube does police IP content.
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Wow. I thought there was some law of nature against me agreeing with you.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
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Nathan Minier wrote: Wow. I thought there was some law of nature against me agreeing with you.
You'd also find something agreeable in the stuff that an infinite amount of monkeys generate.
Might not happen again for another 12 years.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Argh, I also agree with that! Stop it!
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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24 years.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Alcohol and Calculus do not mix.
Please don’t drink and derive.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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There was this taciturn coworker, his name was Logarithm. No matter what we did, he could not integrate.
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DRHuff wrote: Alcohol and Calculus do not mix.
well, post the homework calculus on the lounge Q&A,
... and to ensure you are still doing a fair share of work do twice as much alcohol.
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There was a saying at university :
Code Drunk, Debug Drunk.
If you try otherwise, it does not work.
I'd rather be phishing!
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DRHuff wrote: Alcohol and Calculus do not mix.
1 / 3 = 0.333∞
0.333∞ + 0.333∞ + 0.333∞ = 0.999∞
So, where did my ∞small piece of pizza go? Maths owes me an ∞ amount of pizza!!
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