Devinettes au cours de français

Demande: Il faut lui faire la guerre
Réponse automatique de mes collègues de cours: à George Bush!

Itämeri

Oletko huomannut että suomeksi Itämeri on väärällä puolella?

So where the bloody hell are you?

An advertising campaing that shows that cultural differences are certainly not restricted to speakers of different languages, or languages other than English, "So where the bloody hell are you?" was a very controversial Tourism Australia campaign. Even though I like the ad, I find it really funny.



The worst part is that it seems to not have impacted the amount of visitors to Australia very much where it was aired.

A mis lectores hispanoparlantes: Es como si hicieran un comercial turístico de Venezuela y la Miss Universo al final le preguntara a la audiencia "¿Y dónde coño estás?".

Song for the flu

"I wonder how, I wonder why, yesterday I told you about the blue, blue sky, and all that I can see is just another lemon tea."

Meet Darth Sinus

My first contribution to YouTube, and a bad joke as usual.

What happens when you mix the Imperial March with a terrible flu?


Shot with my N93.

25 things not to post in your blog

Hilarious. I guess it proves that the usage of tools doesn't always correspond with the usage of the brain...

Via Gwyn's blog.

Today I remembered a high school quote

Heard from one of my English writing teachers:

"Yes, but, and this is a big, big but..." at which point, given that his hand movements resembled a homonimous word with an extra t, everybody laughed.

Vader has some existencial problems

Funniest mash-up I've ever seen. They took some dialogue from other movies by James-Earl Jones, and put it together with Star Wars footage. Amazing result.

Molotov quiere Ver Golazos

El celebérrimo video censurado de Molotov para Televisa Deportes abajo.


La historia aquí y aquí.
Lo más cómico del asunto es que en el portal de Televisa esmas.com ya le tenían sitio guardado, pero no sé por qué no lo pusieron, ja.

Yo sólo me pregunto, si ya saben cómo son los de Molotov, y la relación previa que han tenido con Televisa (sólo basta recordar "Que no te haga bobo Jacobo" o "El Carnal de las Estrellas"), ¿cómo se les ocurre pedirles una canción?

El Fogoncito va a China

La cadena mexicana de taquerías El Fogoncito ha decidido abrir sucursales en China. Yo me pregunto, ¿cuánto tiempo tardará antes de que salgan fotos de versiones piratas en Pinches Chinos?

Disclaimer: No estoy de acuerdo con algunas actitudes del site anterior que podrían ser interpretadas como racistas.

Actualización: Las fotos en Flickr. Como la de abajo. ¿A poco no se les antoja?

Fogoncito, Inauguracion 092, originally uploaded by CRoberts.

Very funny ads.com: March of the Emperor

A great ad from Canal Plus, one of the funniest I've seen in years.

Link here: http://veryfunnyads.com/ads/24990.html

Star Wars quote of the day

I was explaining that many of the people studying with me haven't seen Star Wars.

"Hey, now I know why capitalism is so screwed", somebody else said.
"Why?"
"They haven't seen Star Wars, so they don't know anything about evil empires"

Sometimes marketing gets it wrong...

You've all heard the stories about the Mitsubishi Pajero (which is not sold with that name in Spanish-speaking countries because then it means the Mitsubishi Wanker), the difficulties when translating slogans and so on...

Eating in a corporate canteen, I noticed that in a drive to improve service they also changed the names of their different sections, so "World cuisine" became "Be global", the vegetarian section became "be green", etc. The problem is that the grill section became "be grilled". I wonder why it looked so empty. ;-)

Día de los Santos Inocentes

Las noticias de Reformado.com, Beckham por fin fichó por el Barsa, FIFA le da el FIFA World Player a Zidane y se lo quita a Cannavaro, la federación de Jai-Alai denuncia a Nintendo por plagio del Wii son algunas de las que han dado vueltas este 28 de Diciembre, Día de los Santos Inocentes.

Pero si las creen, es su bronca.

Lordi Cola

Lordi Cola, originally uploaded by Chiva Congelado.

Picture the scene: I'm in Finland after a while, go to the supermarket and find Lordi Cola. Then a kid around 8 years old stands in front of it, and starts singing "Hard Rock Hallelujah" with a French accent...

Priceless!

Tama-Chan the seal

I was listening to the Tama-Chan song the other day, and it made me smile... =)

Big Brother DIP: Canal del Congreso

Como tal vez hayan visto en las noticias, la situación en el Congreso antes de la toma de protesta del presidente Calderón está calientita. Un amigo que estaba escuchando la radio mexicana me dijo que cuando mencionaron que la transmisión era "en vivo por el Canal del Congreso" se le ocurrió que ya tenemos una versión muy mexicana de Big Brother. Primera vez en su historia que el Canal del Congreso tiene rating.

¿Podremos votar por botar al diputado que peor nos caiga (o que ya nos tenga hasta el gorro)? ¿Con lo que gane el Congreso en el Big Brother DIP resanarán los hoyos en el presupuesto? ¿Quién quedará en la casota de Big Brother en San Lázaro?

Pulp fiction dialogue

Jules & Vincent are talking about Vincent's European experiences.

Vincent: ...But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is?

Jules: What?

Vincent: It's the little differences. I mean they got the same shit over there that they got here, but it's just - it's just there it's a little different.

Jules: Examples?

Vincent: Alright, well you can walk into a movie theater in Amsterdam and buy a beer. And I don't mean just like in no paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer. And in Paris, you can buy a beer at McDonald's. And you know what they call a, uh, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

Jules: They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?

Vincent: Nah, man, they got the metric system, they wouldn't know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.

Jules: What do they call it?

Vincent: They call it a "Royale with Cheese."

Jules: "Royale with Cheese."

Vincent: That's right.

Jules: What do they call a Big Mac?

Vincent: A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it "Le Big Mac."

Jules: "Le Big Mac." [laughs] What do they call a Whopper?

Vincent: I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King. But, you know what they put on french fries in Holland instead of ketchup?

Jules: What?

Vincent: Mayonnaise.

Jules: God damn!

Vincent: I seen 'em do it, man, they fuckin' drown 'em in that shit.

Jules: That's some fucked up shit.

This was probably for the Mexican tourists...

This was probably for the Mexican tourists..., originally uploaded by Chiva Congelado.

"Attention:
it is forbidden to throw stones. It is dangerous for the inhabitants of the valley.
-Friends of the Castle"

Found at Vianden Castle in Luxembourg.

You know you've been in Belgium too long when...

I saw this list at Genki David's blog. Much better than the list I had originally published.

And I haven't been here that long...