You have to feel a bit sorry for that smiling little egg guy up there. Here it is, ready to welcome visitors to the website for Fukushima Industries and promise them a happy browsing experience as they look over the company's fine array of industrial cooling equipment, but it's saddled with an insufficiently researched name, "Fukuppy." The company says it had intended to combine the first two syllables of its name with "happy," but it didn't consult with any native English speakers before sending the mascot out into the world. (There's no connection between the corporation and the prefecture where the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is located -- "Fukushima" just means "lucky island." Which hasn't worked out so great either lately.)
I'm probably just talking to myself here, but in fairness, O'Donnell's explanation of the debt ceiling couldn't possibly be worse than what the Tea Party Republicans have been saying, and she probably also had some producer tell her "This is NBC Nightly News, you got to dumb it down...dumb it way down."
Several years ago the Dainippon Ink and Chemical Company introduced a range of paint resins named 'Fine DIC'. After comments from English-speaking customers, the range was renamed to 'Fine Clad'.
We can add this to the lexicon growing around "truthiness". In English this would be Fuck Uppy. As in, "once the Teabaggers got Fuck Uppy with the future of the US, right wing pundits resorted to Truthiness to make it seem like it was the Democrat's fault".
Totally OT: I am watching NBC Nightly News. Kelly O'Donnell just gave one of the WORST (i.e. got almost everything completely wrong) explanations of the debt ceiling I have ever seen, immediately followed by Chuck Todd giving the results of a completely worthless poll about how 51% of Americans are in a now in a four-part group in the middle, each part with their own cute name.
Sorry, Renmin Ribao. You can take your penis tower and suck it. Japan wins the weirdness contest for today (æ¥æ¬ã®ã»ããä¸å½ããå¤ã§ã/æ¥æ¬æ¯ä¸å½ç¹å«).
No, no, the FukUppy is the statue of Freedom that normally stands uppy on the dome of the Capitol.
It has been removed temporarily so that it can be coated in $500,000 worth of gold leaf, by order of the Republican party, the only folks in Washington who are allowed to do legislating.
Fap. Fap. FAP.
It&#039;s just a Shmoo with wings. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wik..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo">http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
I need to read all the comments before I post. See 2 comments below. Great minds blah blah blah.
I&#039;m probably just talking to myself here, but in fairness, O&#039;Donnell&#039;s explanation of the debt ceiling couldn&#039;t possibly be worse than what the Tea Party Republicans have been saying, and she probably also had some producer tell her &quot;This is NBC Nightly News, you got to dumb it down...dumb it way down.&quot;
Several years ago the Dainippon Ink and Chemical Company introduced a range of paint resins named &#039;Fine DIC&#039;. After comments from English-speaking customers, the range was renamed to &#039;Fine Clad&#039;.
Couldn&#039;t be helped. I was keeping my grandma company.
I love my grandma more than my sanity.
Why do you ask, Two Dogs Fucking?
We can add this to the lexicon growing around &quot;truthiness&quot;. In English this would be Fuck Uppy. As in, &quot;once the Teabaggers got Fuck Uppy with the future of the US, right wing pundits resorted to Truthiness to make it seem like it was the Democrat&#039;s fault&quot;.
Needs more eyes.
Totally OT: I am watching NBC Nightly News. Kelly O&#039;Donnell just gave one of the WORST (i.e. got almost everything completely wrong) explanations of the debt ceiling I have ever seen, immediately followed by Chuck Todd giving the results of a completely worthless poll about how 51% of Americans are in a now in a four-part group in the middle, each part with their own cute name.
Sorry, Renmin Ribao. You can take your penis tower and suck it. Japan wins the weirdness contest for today (æ¥æ¬ã®ã»ããä¸å½ããå¤ã§ã/æ¥æ¬æ¯ä¸å½ç¹å«).
No, no, the FukUppy is the statue of Freedom that normally stands uppy on the dome of the Capitol.
It has been removed temporarily so that it can be coated in $500,000 worth of gold leaf, by order of the Republican party, the only folks in Washington who are allowed to do legislating.
In case anyone wants to see for themselves: Chuck Todd&#039;s derp poll parade: <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8004316/ns/video/#53290...">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8... Kelly O&#039;Donnell doesn&#039;t understand the debt ceiling (worst part starts at 2:39): <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8004316/ns/video/#53290...">http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8...