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AOL mocks French.
Stryker:
quote:Originally posted by worker201:
Making stupid jokes about what is perceived as the American public's attitude toward the French is indicative of why AOL sucks.
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Jay Leno made that joke, I don't believe he works for AOL.
AOL does suck, I don't really feel like explaining my opinion right now, but i believe they are one of our worst companies.
I don't see how it gives our whole country a bad rep though. You know how pissed people would get if I were to say something like, "that black guy was just arrested for murder, he gives africans a bad rep"? it's ignorant. As is giving 1 man and a company the power to make us all look like idiots. I'm sure there are plenty of examples but most things of importance are led by idiots. I know of 2 people that actually are what you'd expect us americans to be.
TheQuirk:
quote:Despite promising to support any Kurdish uprisings Americans do nothing and thousands of Kurds die in failed uprisings.
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Hrm. I always thought it was because in order to get different Arab countries to sign-up, the US promised they would not "invade" Iraq, so the Middle East wouldn't be THAT destablized.
Keep in mind, I didn't take world history yet, and am just talking about things I read or heared, so feel free to correct me, and I'll feel free to search Google and come up with some more stuff (maybe ;) ).
Laukev7:
This is much different than an isolated murder. This is the case of a mega corporation in control of a big part of the American media. Chances are that people outside the US who will listen to American TV will come across an AOL-owned channel, and might get a very bad opinion of Americans, or at least think they are really ignorant. A good example of this was when CNN mistook Czech Republic for Switzerland on a map:
quote: Jay Leno made that joke, I don't believe he works for AOL.
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Most of these jokes are by Leno, and some of them even repeat themselves. Displaying them along with other jokes like 'laughable lawsuits' or 'dumb laws' as if they're casual jokes to laugh at is just as bad in my opinion. I don't even find the funny; they're downright insulting.
suselinux:
quote:Originally posted by Zardoz:
What I find very disturbing is that someone somewhere at AOL/CNN/ seems to have lost all sense of morality in general! Under the quotes section we have:
Eermm... I thought that was infact right, or am I just a wrong, lefty, hippie, liberal?
[ July 31, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]
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absolutely right
jtpenrod:
I've written about this very thing before. This behavior is utterly childish and contemptable. OK, so Chirac didn't pause long enough to ask: "How high?" when His Bushness told him to jump. Is the rest of the world not entitled to an opinion? How fast all too many folks here in America are to forget. The lady in Paris who, upon hearing about the WTC, said that today we (the French) are all Americans this day? Contrast the reaction of the French with those in other parts of the world. Or that this very same Jacques Chirac that we're all suppose to hate so much was the first foreign leader to visit Ground Zero to pay his respects? Or the fact that not more than a month ago that it was French troops who saved hundreds of Americans when the war in Liberia suddenly exploded into Monrovia? And AOHell is still putting up all those stupid French jokes (which are neither original nor funny)?(!) :eek: :eek: :eek:
Well, let me tell you that as an American I still call those potato strips "French fries", I damn well intend to go on using Mandrake (like I'm going to ditch that and go back to Winderz because MandrakeSoft is a French company ) When will these assholes realize that they are hurting their fellow Americans who happen to own and work at "French" restuarants? Or the Americans who run businesses that import French goods?
Isn't it high time that people get over it? After all, His Bushness proclaimed the war over on May 1.
When will this country grow the fuck up? :confused:
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