Thing is, nobody is really under any illusions, nobody is in the same space as say a non cantonese / chinese speaker watching a chop socky film with english subtitles that you just know are a piss poor translation, but you follow them along anyway.
We all know the lip synch is broken not because it is a foreign language with a different structure and grammar and sounds, but because it isn’t what the person said.
We all know Hitler and XBox come from different eras, but that is what makes it a parody, that is what makes it funny.
One of the funniest ones is the Hitler actor being interviewed, and the subtitles talk about his wife saluting him and him putting the smackdown on the bitch, of course that isn’t anywhere even remotely close to what he was talking about, sure, a german speaker will know what he WAS talking about, but for the rest of us it doesn’t matter, in many ways it works better because we do not understand the audio channel.
For me what makes it one of the funniest ones is that most people who watch it get taken in at first, they think it is an actual interview with the Hitler actor on the subject of Hitler parodies on youtube, because the actor is playing himself, not Hitler.
This makes two assumptions;
- An actor playing himself is himself
- Hitler as we “know” him was the real Hitler
We actually have adequate evidence that neither of these are even remotely true, everyone has “personas” and the more high profile your public persona is the more it is divorced from the truth.
So the parodies now have another intellectual level, we do not just know the subtitles are all bullshit, we also know that the “characters” that make the subtitles funny are also all bullshit.
And in many ways the third and final “amusing level” is when parody meets satire, which we had in the UK in the late eighties / early nineties with Spitting Image and Drop the Dead Donkey on the TV, the televisual equivalent of Private Eye and Punch.
But even there where real events and real people were treated satirically, and real investigations and truths were hinted at, it was all a part of the gag, the court jester, the intention was to poke fun and let off steam, the intention was never to reveal or investigate the truth, in fact the intention was to never actually reveal or investigate the truth, just to use references to it as a seasoning on the joke of the moment.
Hitler was just seasoning on the joke of the moment, which at one point was XBox live, and later as mentioned above a self referential parody on the Hitler parodies themselves.
I think that this is a point that many miss, they think Mike Flex and Anna Dapter are the parody characters pointing fun at news anchors everywhere, I think they are more a parody on the Hitler parody, because everyone with a brain understands that news anchors everywhere are parodies.
“Fake News” is truth, all news is fake news, but “Fake News” is just a parody on Fake News, it’s not revealing anything or investigating anything, nor is it intended to, nor will it ever. Fake News is all there is.
In yesterday’s daily fail there is a story about some skank who claims she overheard a conversation on a train by a guy named Ben who was cheating on his partner, so she blabbed about it on fake news social media and it got reblabbed thousands of times and next thing you know as one commenter said, 50 guys called Ben got dumped.
It’s the birthday paradox writ large and used as a social experiment / social control mechanism.
Fuckerberg’s kike sister flies coach in canada and claims the man who sat next to her in seat 5C was a sexist bastard, no proof, just her story, fuck the evils of fuckbook, some man was allegedly sexist to some skank.
Musk is going to send a car to Mars, well that’s +1 roadster sales to Marvin the Martian, and fuck know tesla needs every sale it can get, what with he “afterthought of the product range” Chevy Bolt ouselling all tesla models on a 2:1 basis last year (and why not, it’s actually not a bad EV, go watch Doug deMuro’s jewtube video)
Meanwhile back home the press is full of adulation because some ginger half german pwinth is engaged to some 3/4 black divorcee skank from the states, does nobody remember Henry 8 and the dissolution of the monasteries and the split from the catholic church?
Merkel would be proud that the german british royal family is marrying a wog immigrant divorcee skank ho, shame she ain’t an aloha snackbar, a few bonus points missed there.
The first child will be called Bitcoin Mulatto Windsor… 5th in line to the throne one day.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho sent congratulations and 100 cases of Brawndo to the happy couple.
Kisses…
pwinth is engaged to some 3/4 black divorcee skank from the states
oh, come on.
that ho over there ( across the pond ) is WAY too light skinned to be 75% real Afreakin Nigger. and it looks like she might have White hair as well.
average Caucasian admixture for US Blacks is ~30%. i’m bettin that her “African American” mother was already near 50% White when she bagged a 100% White husband.
Comment by bob k. mando — December 4, 2017 @ 3:59 pm
My ire is particular because the british royal family has spent the past hundred years trying to pretend they are english or scots, before that they were quite happy to be german, and of course lets not forget Edward and Mrs Simpson, …. philip is a bloody greek but at least he was a white greek.
I’m hip to the whole no such thing as pure bred thing, and hip to the some of the various half breeds come out hot thing, after all it’s not *my* family that has literally claimed a God Given Right to rule over us and to own most of the land, and based that god given right on blue blood vs common blood.
The royals can be commoners, stripped of all lands and properties and state income, suits me fine.
Comment by wimminz — December 4, 2017 @ 6:49 pm
just pullin your leg.
don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Earl Campbell from the Houston Oilers. absolute bulldozer of a running back, looked like a Silverback.
his mother, being pretty much pure Afreakin, looked just like him ( less the beard ).
that makes for a scary damn woman. but a far more typical looking Black female.
The royals can be commoners, stripped of all lands and properties and state income, suits me fine.
given how vestigial their impact in the running of the government affairs is, i don’t understand why the UK didn’t do that after WW2.
they seem to have all of the rights and most of the privileges of royalty … with practically none of the responsibilities.
i assume you keep them around mostly out of social inertia?
Comment by bob k. mando — December 5, 2017 @ 4:28 am
Here is the only recording of everyones favorite uncle where he isn’t putting on an act, with the Finish commander in chief:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustaf_Emil_Mannerheim#Visit_by_Adolf_Hitler
Comment by guest — December 4, 2017 @ 8:19 pm
There is reality, and then there is news/marketing.
Recently, the Philippines announced they would do away with Jeepneys (the main form of transportation for millions of poor filipinos) starting next year, and they’ll replace them with “modernized” versions.
https://business.inquirer.net/241862/jeepney-modernization-program-draws-cheers-jeers
This was done in the name of reducing emissions. Going back to your article on transportation engineering, it would be clear to anyone with any knowledge of engineering that the simplest and most cost effective way of doing this would be to keep the existing fleet of thousands of vehicles, and drop in a new drivetrain and exhaust system with similar performance as the old diesel engines.
Instead they’ve deemed the current fleet as illegal, which will put thousands of small business owners out of work. Instead they’ve priced them out of owning the new fleet, and are only offering loans (at 6% interest) if they want to buy them. So in order to get back to where they already are, they’ll need to go in to massive debt, and end up paying more servicing the debt than they can hope to make operating the vehicles.
Aside from the drivers, the riders will suffer. Someone has to pay for this totally new fleet of thousands of vehicles, and it’ll be externalized to the rider. I expect costs to go up 5 fold for people who are already struggling to survive on a paltry wage. To make matters worse, there is no way they’ll be able to construct enough vehicles in time for the ban to replace all the vehicles they’re going to phase out. This is going to be a clusterfuck as bad as demonetization was in India if they actually carry it out.
So to sum up, on one hand you have the marketing “reducing emissions”, but the actual effect is further disenfranchising the poor unwashed masses and screwing over the little guy. As it always ever was.
Comment by undefined — December 5, 2017 @ 5:32 am
Meghan Markle’s U.S. citizenship could cause tax headaches for British royal family
heh. don’t the royals have accountants? maybe they could ask boris johnson what a pain the ass the irs is.
Comment by let it burn — December 9, 2017 @ 5:43 pm