Just a quick note to let you all know that multiculturalism in action can get on this good Canadian’s nerves as much as anyone’s.
There is some shrivelled old Chinese granny standing on her balcony, slapping herself on the back and hawking up phlegm.
LOUDLY.
She has been doing this for, I kid you not, a solid half-hour. I was having dinner but had to stop. I was going to make some tea but knew I’d be unable to drink it.
Surely this must come under noise pollution guidelines???
via Scobleizer.
At one time, if you typed “Internet Drama” into the Yahoo search engine, my blog came up #1. It’s a long story, and I shall spare you, although it’s buried deep in the archives at VFB, unless Mickey has deleted it (50/50).
Still, it was thrilling to be number one at something.
But here is a man whose ability to piss off the Internet surpasses even my own. The key difference between us is that he was just trying to help.
Japanprobe has the full report. Seems that a major Japanese comedian has been arrested for raping a 17-year-old girl, and that has the country, quite naturally, in an uproar. A video of the scandal has been among the most popular YouTube videos, and therein lies the problem.
Seems the Aynglish speakers don’t like no Japs on YouTube. And, hoisting themselves onto their hind legs and jury-rigging opposable thumbs out of duct tape and old porno VHS cases, they have typed in many an angry, racist response to the video.
“It’s YouTube! SPEAK ENGLISH!” they cry, apparently unaware that Al Gore neither invented, nor reserved for exclusive American use, the Internet.
Now, this poor sod looked at all the bile his fellow citizens had spewed and he thought he’d post a rebuke, which he did here.
Alas, there is nothing on the Internet, no matter how innocent, that cannot and, indeed, will not be misinterpreted for maximum dramatic value.
Seems that some Japanese people with faulty ESL educations mistook his remarks for racism, and the clip was featured on the daily news, as “Prejudiced American Guy.”
This is his response. Forgive the earnestness; I’m a sucker for earnestness once I’ve had a few drinks.
Who don’t luv a good, dirty pun, eh?
I’d like to thank all the little people…before they turn on me.
Also the Generator Blog, from whence I stole this Web-award generator. Hey, no sense in waiting for the grass to grow, eh? I thought I’d give all those web-awarders a helping hand. That’s right; raincoaster is always thinking of others. So put your feet up, guys. I’ve gotcha covered.
Meanwhile, in Operation Global Media Domination news, I am happy to report that I have cracked the top 89,000 on Technorati, out of about 45 million blogs, and only since the second-last day of February, when I started the blog. Mother would be so proud. Thanks are particularly due all those Brits who have mistaken me for one of themselves, and a True Patriot at that. Look, I hate Tony Blair as much as any of you, but I also have extremely mixed feelings. It’s…it’s complicated, okay??? Oh yeah, and somebody came to the blog looking for BoJo Porn; try the Times.
The posts most responsible for this rush to the cranial summit of the blogosphere are, of course, Beautiful Agony and 101 Bottles of diet coke, 523 mentos, and 2 mad scientists. Baby Eagles are still big in parts of Cyberia, and some poor, demented dude keeps hitting the blog every damn day looking for Charo porn and finding only a cool, Up With Queers music video. Speaking of gays, Ernest and Bertram went viral for a day or so, landing on a couple of forums across the ocean until the bandwidth got bustickated or whatever it is that happens to bandwidth; short form, E&B viral campaign snipped in the bud, dammit!!!
The latest potentially-viral stars are a couple of YouTubers: Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager, the sad tale of Darth‘s loserish brother’s humdrum life, and Paris Hilton stewing, nearly nekkid, in poop soup. Then there’s the Found Porn Slideshow, always a big hit with the Neanderthals.
The only serious post that’s showing any longevity is From Israel, With Love, the Update which is good as the MSM and much of the blogosphere including BoingBoing seems to have got the story substantially wrong, even after corrections.
So that’s all for this edition of Operation Global Media Domination, other than to say that going offline for a few days actually increased the hits. When I went on vacation, my “take it for granted” number of hits was 300. Now it’s 650.
I should take more vacations.
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