If you haven’t seen the movie Up yet, make sure you have a box of tissues by your side when you watch it. Man, why must they tug at our heartstrings like that? The wife and I were sobbing like an only child who had just lost his puppy. Cross my heart.
In the spirit of Up, let me present to you a short video entitled Alma:
Some oversensitive types in America are claiming that a recent commercial aired in Australia is racist. Now, on the surface I can see the problem some people in America might have with this commercial, but since this is an Australian commercial, and I personally have no idea what their society is like down there, nor do I know anything about their culture, history, and daily living experiences, it’s unfair for me to project my American prejudices upon this twenty second television commercial and shout “racism”.
As stated in the source article:
One internet poster wrote: “I wouldn’t consider this racist. Context does matter and the fried chicken thing really is an African-American stereotype thing.”
KFC Australia said of the advert: “It is a light-hearted reference to the West Indian cricket team.
It’s funny how certain people are quick to play the race card without taking the entirety of a situation into account, often seeing things through American eyes and never understanding that America is just one part of a larger whole that has differing opinions, ideas, and values.
Some of you people out there have got to relax a bit. Not everything you see is American-centric. If that were the case, then everyone in the world would sit down to take a crap, there would be no such thing as beer vending machines (which, IMHO, are one of God’s greatest creations), and animals would not be sacrificed during certain high holy days. Please, just get a grip on yourselves. We’re not the center of the world. The sooner you accept that fact the happier you’ll be.
Whelp, this is it. The final post of 2009 is finally at hand. Where does the time go?
It’s been a long year, and hopefully you’ve had more ups than downs, and more smiles than frowns. I’ll be taking Friday off, so before the clock catches up to me, here’s wishing you and yours a very Happy New Year. Thanks for all of your visits, comments, and viewpoints. I hope to return the favor many times over in 2010!
Now, where did I put that Jack Daniels…
While doing a bit of research for my yearly “Best Of The Year” list, I happened upon this collection of the top viral videos from the past decade. It made me smile, laugh, and reminisce about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the internets. It’s amazing to think that ten years have gone by so quickly. It seems as if it was only yesterday we were utterly convinced that the Y2K bug was going to cripple our modern civilization by knocking out the power, causing planes to fall from the sky, erasing our backups, zero-setting our Everquest toons, draining our bank accounts, blocking out the sun, and maliciously burning our toast even though we were sure we set the little knobby thing to “2″ instead of “10″.
*Sigh* Look at us now…
