Sunday, May 15, 2016

Language barrier story


26 comments:

chickelit said...

Thanks for the chuckle!

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

Sounds like some commentators I know, with no irony!

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

It's important to say a proper goodbye.

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Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

OT: pop quiz - On the most current Drudge page is an image of Benjamin Netanyahu. Name the artist behind him.

(yes - it's an easy one)

The Dude said...

There is no artist behind him. There is a work by Moishe Shagal behind him.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

It's important to say a proper goodbye.

You are not kidding.

chickelit said...

The expressions and body language on the young blonde woman are amazing. She is telling the comedian that he could get lucky.

ricpic said...

So now I know Marc anglicized the perfectly good Moishe? Merciless world that has stripped me of all illusion!

Trooper York said...

I bet this is from the Graham Norton Show on the BBC. The best talk show out there right now.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Graham Norton is great. I saw this bit where a guest can hit a lever that throws back the chair that a questioner is sitting on if they believe they're full of it.

For a nasty story that actually did have a funny ending.

The British have less hangups than us and less tolerance for BS also.

ricpic said...

Schmendrik never fails to overpraise furners and knock America -- it's what comrades do!

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

That mayor is probably the least-worst of his party's local bunch. I never said the place was perfect.

But it's always great to hear people like ricpic who've never been outside of his hovel opine on how horrible every place else is. His New York values prevent him from even going to the least white part of the whitest borough surrounding him, but here he is, all Captain America and everything.

And not seeing that is part of his own BS. New York is the epicenter of self-delusion.

Thanks for proving my point.

ricpic's plot to take over America starts with pretending he's actually in Connecticut and mixing it up with the other goys.

chickelit said...

Don't make me repost Kumbaya, folks.

ricpic said...

My "plot" is going swimmingly thank you very much.

Trooper York said...

I just think Graham Norton is very funny for an English poofter. His American guests are always much less inhibited than when they are on American Talk shows. He had one recently with Kevin Costner where he actually seemed to have a personality.

I will never forget the one he had with Amy Winehouse and Charlotte Church and they sang Michael Jackson's "Beat It." Is super craptastic.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

My "plot" is going swimmingly thank you very much.

Doesn't sound like it. Sounds like you're more confused about your own identity than any Yiddish-speaking hater of Harlem I've ever heard. Do you have curly sideburns and hang with the local patrols of the Kiryas Joel sort? Or are they not sufficiently "Old Money" for you?

I mean, I realize you have as much angst in you as Woody Allen or any other New York douchebag, combined with Bill the Butcher's nationalistic rage, etc. But at some point, it might be nice to figure out WTF your problem actually is.

Trooper York said...

Hey don't mock Bill the Butcher dude! I base my world view on him.

Slightly altered of course. I give the Irish a break.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

That was a bad-ass character "DDL" played perfectly but don't forget how he wound up in the end.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

The Irish are too far-removed from his dear sweet Connecticut blue bloods for mr pic. The man's very discerning, you see.

ricpic said...

Comrades get SO touchy about being outed.

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Pic was King of the Ghetto in whichever East European shtetl his parents lived in.

But now he lives in his own Pale of Settlement, and boy is everything there dandy!

Now he gets to be King of the Co-op. Or King of the Condo. Something like that.

It's a very diverse roost he rules over there. No one questions his leadership and authority.

It's only on the internet where he runs into problems.

ricpic said...

My only problem is whether I continue using your present label, Schmendrik, or switch to Our Resident Comrade. It's a tufty but I'm sticking with Schmendrik because it's so YOU!

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

Oh you've got many more problems than that.

"Speak Yiddish, hate the British!" Does that work for you at all the condominium cocktail parties?

Chip Ahoy said...

What a strange toilet.

With what little there is to go on we can make a remote diagnosis. It takes time for the reservoir to fill.

ndspinelli said...

Nice verbal boxing on this thread. One of the cardinal rules of boxing, "Protect yourself @ all times."