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a little internet drama for your weekend
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.
all together now: who’s for a ceasefire?
from the Independent, via Nag on the Lake
do the math
Daily Total:
1 stir fry serving
1 brown rice serving
4 iced tea servings
1 Kirin serving
3 Plymouth gin & tonic servings
with lime, so that counts as three fruit servings, right?
1 well gin & tonic, with lime
1 Bombay Sapphire & tonic, which the lesbian bartender bought for me because the dress I borrowed from Nina gave the impression there was a Playboy bunny hiding under this mild-mannered librarian type. She also bought Nina‘s drink, which I was paying for, but by that time I was too wasted to do the math. I thought there were a lot of loonies there…more than usual on the DowntownEastSide, I mean.
All the lesbians assumed I was the butch one of the trio, because I was the one with the glasses: Alicia is a Kiev-trained ballerina and Nina is an Indian dancer, among their many other talents and accomplishments, so as they got their groove on every dyke in the place became incredibly jealous of me. I wasn’t about to tell them we were straight; hello, I was getting free drinks! Hey, I was drunk, but I was not crazy!
I must remember to use Nina as my stylist more often.
dance like a monkey
by the New York Dolls. Via BoingBoing.
raincoaster 