Impervious horrors of a leeward shore ([info]arpad) wrote,
@ 2007-11-07 16:02:00
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Дети, учите матчасть
This joke went through daily funmail last week.

A recent survey in England asked the following question:
Are there too many foreigners in this country now?

Answer:
20%: YES
10% : NO
70% :معهد الأمن العالمي بواشنط


The real funny thing, though, is that the Arabic phrase means "World Security Institute of Washingt". Looks like the guy who started a spree copy-pasted it without knowing...

Conclusion? No conclusion here. Just, err, observation.

Thanks to [info]wildernesscat for the input.


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[info]zyama_krendel
2007-11-07 02:33 pm UTC (link)
Говорят, в какой-то компьютерной игре у Главного Злодея-китайца на груди был устрашающий иероглиф, означающий что-то типа "hand wash only".

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[info]taki_net
2007-11-07 02:49 pm UTC (link)
Вот что бывает, когда идиоты умничают. Пока было "10 да, 20 нет, 70 сами мы не местные" - было хоть умеренно смешно...

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[info]knirirr
2007-11-07 02:59 pm UTC (link)
Well, quite.
It was quite a surprise to come back from a trip to Sweden at the weekend. One gets used to living here, but within a couple of hours I had encountered traffic jams, boorish drivers, officious bureaucrats, broken down amenities, overcrowding and general rudeness. It was made more obvious by the comparison.

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[info]natsla
2007-11-07 04:33 pm UTC (link)
i thought that means 'i don't speak english' in arabic

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[info]arpad
2007-11-07 04:41 pm UTC (link)
Yes, those that do their homework (from time to time at least) would have made it meaningful...

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