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  • Joe
    Senior Member
    • May 2000
    • 2435

    What is globalization?

    Question : What is globalization?
    Answer : Princess Diana's death

    Question : How come?

    Answer :

    An English princess with an
    Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a
    French tunnel, driving a
    German car with a
    Dutch engine, driven by a
    Belgian who was high on
    Scottish whiskey, followed closely by
    Italian Paparazzi, on
    Japanese motorcycles, treated by an
    American doctor, using
    Brazilian medicines!
    And this is sent to you by a
    Canadian, using
    Bill Gates' technology which he got from the
    Japanese.

    And you are probably reading this on
    one of the IBM clones that use
    Philippine-made chips, and
    Korean made monitors, assembled by Bangladeshi
    workers in a Singapore plant, transported by lorries
    driven by Indians, hijacked by Indonesians and finally
    sold to you by a Chinese!

    That's Globalization!!!
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  • Skeptical
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2000
    • 2007

    #2
    And therefore we must boycott the French!
    Well, there it is.
    - Keeper of the Grove

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    • Floris
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2001
      • 37767

      #3
      It is great to see how we can entertain ourselves with the deaths of many others .. shall we now start the 9/11 jokes ?

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      • Chen
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2001
        • 8388

        #4
        Originally posted by xiphoid
        It is great to see how we can entertain ourselves with the deaths of many others .. shall we now start the 9/11 jokes ?
        No, that was an American tragedy so it must not be joked. Ever. Or until the Communists are back in the game.
        Chen Avinadav
        Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

        גם אני מאוכזב מסיקור תחרות לתור מוטור של NRG הרשת ע"י מעריב

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        • inetd
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2001
          • 1179
          • 3.0.0 Release Candidate 2

          #5
          Originally posted by Skeptical
          And therefore we must boycott the French!
          Or Bill Gates and the Brazilian medicines!

          Good answer for question!
          Sorry for my bad English! :)

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          • Bane
            Senior Member
            • Jul 2000
            • 515

            #6
            Originally posted by xiphoid
            It is great to see how we can entertain ourselves with the deaths of many others .. shall we now start the 9/11 jokes ?

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            • Beorn
              Senior Member
              • May 2002
              • 451

              #7
              Originally posted by Chen
              No, that was an American tragedy so it must not be joked. Ever. Or until the Communists are back in the game.
              First off, I would go so far as to say it is a world tragedy.

              And I suppose the death of Princess Diana was not a world tragedy too?

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              • Vile
                Senior Member
                • Jul 2002
                • 2779
                • 3.6.x

                #8
                Originally posted by xiphoid
                It is great to see how we can entertain ourselves with the deaths of many others .. shall we now start the 9/11 jokes ?
                I hope you were being sarcastic...
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                • MacKenzie
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2002
                  • 100

                  #9
                  It's a crass joke, tasteless even if it's slightly clever in it's construction... But then I gotta ask, what's the real differance between Diana's death and jokes about any other famous person's demise? I've heard someone crack a joke about Elvis choking to death on a twinkie, and then turn around expressing great moral indignation at a Diana joke.

                  Could it be Diana's a sore point because her death was far more recent than Evlis' or Napolean's or any other typical person in a death joke? If so, what is the acceptable time to be able to express humor on a subject?

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                  • Nemon
                    Senior Member
                    • Jun 2002
                    • 276

                    #10
                    Originally posted by MacKenzie
                    It's a crass joke, tasteless even if it's slightly clever in it's construction... But then I gotta ask, what's the real differance between Diana's death and jokes about any other famous person's demise? I've heard someone crack a joke about Elvis choking to death on a twinkie, and then turn around expressing great moral indignation at a Diana joke.

                    Could it be Diana's a sore point because her death was far more recent than Evlis' or Napolean's or any other typical person in a death joke? If so, what is the acceptable time to be able to express humor on a subject?
                    Life fact no.1) Everyone eventually is a hypocrite.

                    I explain many peoples actions with that, ofcourse at some point i will disagree with that statement.

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                    • bigmattyh
                      Senior Member
                      • Apr 2001
                      • 956

                      #11
                      Originally posted by MacKenzie
                      It's a crass joke, tasteless even if it's slightly clever in it's construction... But then I gotta ask, what's the real differance between Diana's death and jokes about any other famous person's demise? I've heard someone crack a joke about Elvis choking to death on a twinkie, and then turn around expressing great moral indignation at a Diana joke.

                      Could it be Diana's a sore point because her death was far more recent than Evlis' or Napolean's or any other typical person in a death joke? If so, what is the acceptable time to be able to express humor on a subject?
                      It's because it's recent and everyone knows about how she died. You don't have to explain who she was, or who her boyfriend was, or what happened where -- everyone knows, so it makes a good platform for a joke.

                      I don't happen to think the joke is funny because I don't quite get "globalization!" as a punchline, but the concept wasn't lost on me. I think it's pretty interesting, actually -- that our nations are so intertwined.
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                      • ChanServ
                        Senior Member
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 148

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Chen
                        No, that was an American tragedy so it must not be joked. Ever. Or until the Communists are back in the game.
                        *starts up a communist regime*

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