The two guys are the same actor, Anders Matthesen, believe it or not.
I'll give a full year's membership at Domai to any Dane who will transcribe and translate this in full, before Jan 9.
Update: much of the storyline is about terrorists, believe it or not. And it seems the Danish cartoon-story is not over yet, lo this story from 2 January 2010. I think fundamentalists have long memories. [Thanks to Joe.]
I sure can't translate it for you (wish I could though), but it's cool and amazing that it's one person doing it..
ReplyDeleteHe's playing virtually all parts in the show. A bit of an ego trip, but it's very funny and he's doing a great job.
ReplyDeleteShoot! From the sign behind, I had hoped the song would be in arabic too. No such luck. Can't help you then.
ReplyDeleteThat sign seems to read: "The hummus is delicious".
Makes the whole setting even weirder. I mean, it looks as much like a place where signs in arabic would promote the hummus, as my cat looks like a Cadillac.
Unless it's set in Azerbaijan: that's the most likely place I can imagine where ads in arabic would recommend the hummus, and blokes would play the balalaika in a language that doesn't seem to be Russian. Azerbaijan, or Turkmenistan, or Yughuristan.
It's close to Iran, where they write with the Arabic alphabet, but theirs is a different language. Turkey also doesn't fit...
Speaking of Turkey, time for me to get a snack. See ya!
"I've heard of Turkey, but I didn't know Hungry was a country!" -- (Miss Teen South Carolina)
I can't blame her, it's very sloppy pronunciation when everybody leaves out the A in Hungary.
ReplyDeleteHe sings in Danish.
This scene takes place in a basement in Copenhagen, where a sausage vending cart is being repaired by people who seem to be terrahrisss planning to take out the Danish government.
Well, if Pascal can't translate it, then no one can. Pointless to even contemplate it. Onward!
ReplyDeleteGiven my expertise in Fundie talk, TTL, you might be right on that one! ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd there I thought all theorists spoke arabican... (Wait, isn't that actually a COFFEE?)
That Miss Teen South Carolina quote was from a clip seen on this very blog: "I thought Europe WAS a country? I think they speak French there. Budapest? Never heard of that place..."
(Take out the DANISH government? Why would anyone want to bother? At least, there's money to be made controlling AMERICA. Or Switzerland. Yeah, I'd do Switzerland. Be it only to be world master of the chocolate!)
"But I don't have a problem with chocolate. I can quit anytime I want to. I just don't wanna, that's all!"
Have you ever tasted terrahrisss flambay? It's even yummier than the hummus with meshwi kebab. The trick is to let the flambé spontaneously fry in its own juices. It's not as infrequent as one might think if you know where to chop... I mean shop!!!
"Now, pay close attention to this demonstration," the Pakistani teacher at kamikaze school said while buckling his work jacket, "because I won't be doing it twice!"
But why on Gaia's back does Eolake Stobblehouse need any help in translating DANISH???
(Has it really been so long? ;-)
The Lil' Mermaid said to tell you she misses you (and your candid camera)...
I could do it, but I'm too lazy. Easier to reward a young buck.
ReplyDeleteDenmark used to be a very soft country where anybody with a sob-story could go and get a home and money. There's a backlash against this, after the millennium and the prophet-cartoon story.
Would a young stallion suit you as well? ;-)
ReplyDeleteThis sort of backlash can be seen in most of Europe, nay, "the West", overseas included. The cartoon story rubbed many people the wrong way, especially since no OTHER people are as "thorny" when you come close to them. Have you ever seen what the French dare draw, say, sing, and puppetize about John-Paul Squared and Ben 16?
(Not to be mistaken with Ben10, the boy who turns into aliens! That's a whole OTHER cartoon. ;-)
Also, the blokes behind the millenium fireworks (since litotes seem approptiate) brazenly abused sob-stories to install their preparations.
Nowadays, to be accepted as a political refugee from burning Mesopotamia without significant difficulty, you have to be a Christian. "Go figure". Just because they're being systematically singled out by head-hunters and everybody other sort of criminals back home...
(A radical speaker openly stated, I quote: "Do not buy their houses. Wait a little, and you'll have them for free!")
My feeling is, that presence of the followers of J. in these parts (in these pits?) of the globe is doomed in the not too long term. Even in Lebanon, the proportion of those who emigrated, to no return, is a national taboo. People who long for life in a civilized place.
For some mysterious reason, I just might join their numbers... ):-
How's that backlash being felt in Londonistan? Any long-awaited waking up visible there?
Or is freedom of speech still limited to hate of sexual minorities, calls to beheading cartoonists, and stoning bare-faced women?...
"I think fundamentalists have long memories."
ReplyDeleteCorrection: they just have single-track minds! :-(
That's the sole reason why Salman R. is still in need of protection today.
"Be rigid, be brittle, and let your shards intimidate everyone, especially aiming at those who aren't spontaneously quivering at your blood-shot eyes."
The cartoons will in turn become a minor excuse, like the Veil Law in France, when some new red rag fad arises. Moooo!
BTW, Somalia is the new "fave summer resort" of Al-Qadavera. Anarchy breeds weeds...
I sure can't translate it for you (wish I could though), but it's cool and amazing that it's one person doing it..
ReplyDeleteWell, it wouldn't matter anyway, the fine print says it has to be a Dane who translates it, not just someone who understands Danish. Mm..danish. Cherry cheese, please. How could we have "a Danish" but not "a Swedish" or you can't say "I'll have a Mongolian please." The Danes must be sweet because they got a pastry named after them. ;-)
The French have a kiss named after them. I'd say that's sweet too. :-)
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