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So apparently many Jews and Muslims find the disease name "Swine Flu" offensive because of the association with pigs which is prohibited in their religions so the deputy health minister in Israel has proposed that they call it "Mexican Flu." Hilarious! (in a most offensive way of course)
So on the news this morning I heard that the Mexican ambassador to Israel has already complained that they are very offended that Israel thought it fit to exchange "Swine" for "Mexican."
Why does this make me laugh so much?
It is bloody awful but sort of reminds me of something I'd see in a Monty Python sketch.
So apparently many Jews and Muslims find the disease name "Swine Flu" offensive because of the association with pigs which is prohibited in their religions so the deputy health minister in Israel has proposed that they call it "Mexican Flu." Hilarious! (in a most offensive way of course)
So on the news this morning I heard that the Mexican ambassador to Israel has already complained that they are very offended that Israel thought it fit to exchange "Swine" for "Mexican."
Why does this make me laugh so much?
It is bloody awful but sort of reminds me of something I'd see in a Monty Python sketch.
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 9:21 AMhehehe
well, i can tell you that it makes ME laugh because all the desperate
stretches toward over-PC'ing *everything*, especially when trying to span
various cultural differences, is funny in the most offensive-but-hilarious
python-esque of ways.
apparently the Mexican ambassador's offense was enough to withdraw
the idea though. jta.org/news/article/2...anged-in-israel -
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 9:25 AMAwww that is too bad. My husband and I were just joking that Israel should just go for broke and call it "Dirty Wetback Flu." Surely that wouldn't offend anyone?
It is just too funny to me. You'd think Israel of all countries would be more aware of not pissing off countries that they have good relations with.
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 9:39 AMUh... right. Because everyone would feel MUCH better about contracting the disease if it didn't have a negative association with their religion. -
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 9:41 AMYes, the offensive part of the disease is its name being associated with pigs not its possible outcome of death. -
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 9:44 AMWe're agreed then: the name of this disease should be officially changed to "Fuzzy Puppy Flu".
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 10:55 AMI just laughed my ass off at this entire thread. Thanks ya'll.
-K
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 11:39 AM<<"Fuzzy Puppy Flu". >>
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 1:24 PM
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 12:56 PMBut - pigs have a negative association in Judaism/Islam because they are "unclean" animals. What's more unclean than spreading disease? If anything, calling it "swine flu" shows the prohibition to be correct. I would think the health minister would be happy to say," look, we were right. Pigs are unclean!"
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 1:15 PMOh, don't go trying to bring logic into this!
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 1:34 PMCant call it the "fuzzy puppy flu". Many Arab cultures hate dogs.
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 1:37 PMOh dude Elaine is totally correct. Maybe "fuzzy bunny flu?" -
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 1:40 PMWell, this stupid topic actually yields an interesting question:
Is there anything that is universally liked? Oxygen, maybe? -
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 1:48 PMWell, I would like to say "bacon".
I think everyone likes a properly working digestive system.
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Wed, April 29, 2009 - 1:50 PMOxygen flu?
Hmm that almost sounds like the bends. Would that piss off divers? -
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Wed, April 29, 2009 - 1:53 PMRe: Oxygen Flu
In hindsight, I realize this suggestion is plant-ist, as they rely on hydrogen dioxide and would consider oxygen a waste product - equivalent to poop, to us. Sigh. My apologies to any plants I may have offended. -
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Wed, April 29, 2009 - 2:04 PMYou know, those countries are going about this renaming thing all wrong. Instead of calling it the "mexican flu", we really should be calling the "Taco flu".
I mean, who doesn't like a taco? Soulless bastards, that's who, the kind who hate our freedoms to eat tacos. -
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Tue, May 5, 2009 - 4:40 PMThe humans are dead flu. -
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Tue, May 5, 2009 - 4:40 PMWait a minute...
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Tue, May 5, 2009 - 4:41 PMOh, and pigs aren't that dirty 'till you lock 50 of 'em behind a 30 square foot fence.
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Tue, May 5, 2009 - 5:47 PMWould it make a difference if you did piss off a Zombie? Either way they still want your brains. -
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Tue, May 5, 2009 - 8:30 PMNo you piss ion a swine/wetback/H1658r5468900dre3576.935/1 flu zombie
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Mon, May 11, 2009 - 9:02 AMmaybe call it
" flu watch 2009 "
cause swine are bound to be offended,
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Sun, May 17, 2009 - 1:08 AMThis is so funny...You can't please ALL the people ALL the time...haha!!!
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Re: You can't make this shit up
Thu, May 28, 2009 - 8:44 PMWow, so I hear some shmuck read this thread and interpreted it as racist against Mexicans. I find that interesting as well as amusing. Poor thing must not understand the subtleties of some humor. Could be that there is some sort of mental defect interfering with his or her comprehension.
