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Posted by Dr. Jonas Bashir (Member # 481) on :

A Chinese newspaper, the Beijing Evening News, picked up a story from an American media source about some structural reforms for the Capitol.

Yes, from The Onion!

Here's the blunder, as told by Reuters.

Originally picked up from /.

Posted by thoughtychops (Member # 480) on :

It's that whole freedom of the press thing. Gets 'em every time.

Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :

Hooray for laughter!

Posted by The Vulcan (Member # 633) on :

I dun get it?

[ June 08, 2002, 14:30: Message edited by: The Vulcan ]

Posted by Magna Ultrus (Member # 239) on :

Chinese people are stupid, see.

Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :

That was narrow-minded.....

The goofball at that paper needs to figure out what the Onion is though.....

Posted by Veers (Member # 661) on :

Knowing China, the writers wrote that story were probably executed.

Posted by The BWC (Member # 818) on :

^
He said what I didn't want to at the time.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I suppose Onion-related things are too looney for me to file away in the Flameboard.

For now.

Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :

I guess that the Chinese are too set in their state-run media system to understand the concept of political satire.

Very amusing...

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I HATE THE CHINEZE LETS BOMB EM!

Posted by Nim Pim (Member # 205) on :

"The minute you start turning away from your chinese morals, cultural bondage and laws of existence is the minute you stop being human, Qi of Jiu."

Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Magna Ultrus:
Chinese people are stupid, see.

Oh yes. Given that I am chinese, I believe the following:

2 + 2 = 17.
Christina Columbia Discovered America in 1967.
Water is made from 1 Hydrogen and 2 Oxygen Atoms.
The plural of Window is Windii.
Bill Gates is the head of Apple Computers, under attack by Congress for antitrust, a crime punishable under law by death by lethal injection.

[ June 09, 2002, 20:16: Message edited by: Tahna Los ]

Posted by Magna Ultrus (Member # 239) on :

if(UM.Sarcasm=True) {
people.misunderstandings = exponential;
humor.level = humor.level--;
UM.Generalizations = ignorant;
}

Yes. I hate the Chinese. They are all indeed extraordinarily stupid people. With bad hair. Yes.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

I thought you were American Tahna.

Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Magna Ultrus:
if(UM.Sarcasm=True) {
people.misunderstandings = exponential;
humor.level = humor.level--;
UM.Generalizations = ignorant;
}

Yes. I hate the Chinese. They are all indeed extraordinarily stupid people. With bad hair. Yes.

Funny, I couldn't tell if both posts were either sarcasm or a deliberate attempt at a cheap shot.

You cannot expect everyone to laugh at your jokes, UM. And you cannot expect everyone to interpret everything you say as sarcasm.

And oh by the way, Liam, I am a Chinese person born in Canada.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Well, I understood UM from the beginning. It scares me, but it's true.

Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :

UM is always sarcastic, unless he's posting in the Star Wars section.

It's true.

And TSN is "Making Sense" with Bernie Mac, Jon Frakes, and Charles Capps as "The Odd Neighbor Who Keeps Giving Me The Evil Eye."