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11 Mar 2009 02:33 pm
karohemd: by LJ user gothindulgence (Fear)
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Fatal mass shootings in Germany and Alabama and German Yahoo adds the following inappropriate headline (bottom right in screencap): Bayern keep on shooting. (the football club)

Date: 11/3/09 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sarahloo.livejournal.com
Those Yahoo adverts they put under the news headlines are always VERY WRONG!

Date: 11/3/09 02:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
It's not even an ad but another headline. I guess they are automatically picked from various sections of the site but still.
*inapproriate icon* but it's my Bad Taste icon.

Date: 11/3/09 03:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-malk.livejournal.com
Relevant only because of the inappropriate use of "shoot", I was reminded of something I heard once (you might have heard it, but it made me laugh):

The story goes that some British soldiers had escaped, briefly, from a German POW camp during (I think) WWII. None of them spoke German, but they had been taught a few phrases by rote, in case they needed them.

Not long after, they were surrounded by German soldiers, all pointing guns at them. They put their hands up in surrender, and one brave polyglot shouted "Scheißen Sie Nicht! Scheißen Sie Nicht!"

Date: 12/3/09 01:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com
Hehehe.

Date: 12/3/09 06:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theoldcatlady.livejournal.com
OMG, hysterical! I recall 2 stories along those lines, one of them told to us by our high school German teacher. When he was on one of his trips to Germany, one of the students had told someone that her feet were cold and as the German word for "feet" is close to the word referring to a woman's private parts, she, naturally mispronounced it thus informing everyone that her private parts were cold. Never found out if she got any offers to warm them though.

My MIL visited her relatives in Poland years ago, and wanted to ask them if they had ever eaten pizza. She didn't know the Polish word for pizza, so just said "pizza" and was wondering why the men were chuckling and the women looking uncomfortable. Yep, you guessed it, she asked them if they had ever eaten a woman's private parts! The word for that and "pizza" sound alike.

Date: 12/3/09 09:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-malk.livejournal.com
Curiously, in the Old Testament, "feet" was a euphemism for "private parts" (E.g. the prophet Ezekiel has a vision of beings with six wings, two covering their faces, two covering their "feet" and two that they used to fly). I presume that the tradition had changed by New Testament times, or it would have drastically changed the meaning of the story about the woman who washed Jesus' feet.

I will have to remember the one about pizza for the next time I encounter anyone polish. The possibilities are almost endless!

Date: 11/3/09 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] van-bauseneick.livejournal.com
HAHAHA!!!
die bayen halt.
und wolfsburg verfolgt sie! ha!

Date: 11/3/09 03:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whiskeylover.livejournal.com
Inappropriate maybe- but I'm ashamed to admit, that "Bayern ballern fleissig weiter" reduced me to about 5 minutes of helpless giggles in the context... :D

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