yakalskovich | Germany is now officially humour-free

This is becoming fucking embarassing.

I don't know if the British yellow press as in Sun or Mirror did anything like it, but their German counterpart Bild (the one rag in all the world that would print the pictures of Diana's smashed car, and the same bunch of idiots that declared 'WE ARE POPE' when Palpatine was elected?) today had a large picture of a nice young Finnish bloke with long dark hair, a little beard, cute little glasses and a rather stylish tattoo on his shoulder on their title page.

No, not Ville Valo in his bearded phase.

The lead singer of Lordi, out of character. With the huge headline: 'He is the Grand Prix monster!'

I thought that the tacit agreement between celebs and press meant that the celebs give the press something outrageous to write about, and the press in return doesn't look beyond the persona much. It is not done, because nobody will talk to you again if you do.

The accompanying article was about how blasphemous Lordi are, and how some oik said he wouldn't let his kids watch the show. Does anybody say 'sore losers'? Because that's what I smell in there.

Did nobody get that it was a joke? Fun? Humour? Because the whole fucking comptition is a joke? Something meant to amuse people?

You know, JOKE. That is when people say 'Ha ha ha ha ha.'

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What did you expect from BILD? They were assimilated! :-D
The problem with most Germans is, that they takes *everything* deadly serious. Like carneval in Köln. That's a deadly serious matter. Not something funny!
Maybe you should put up a sign on the inside of the gate from your housing block to the street: Danger! You are entering a humor free zone!

Yep, in here we have creativity and a sense of humour.

We have the Claw, admitted, but we have those as well...

Please don't declare another national catastrophy- we've got enough of those already. I know only one single person lacking any sense of humour, so it can't be so bad. At the moment, nerves are on end when Christianity is considered. This Pope series on MTV, The Da Vinci Code- it's all too much for poor Benedict, I think. And now monsters winning a contest that was once ruled by nice little songs about cows in pastures, maidens guarding them, flowing rivers and wide mountain ranges- *sigh* Anyway, I've got to admit that I'd consider either Lordi or the whole competition exceedingly funny. But I laughed merrily reading your description of Bild's headline. That's what Bild is for me: involuntary parody at its best.

http://www.bildblog.de

They poke fun. Seriously.

They billed Bild for copy editing recently, because whenever they poke fun at t typo in the online edition, it gets immediately and silently corrected.

*g*

I'll have to keep an eye on this blog. Looks like fun. For weeks I've wanted to buy a copy of Bild. My first one ever. Not just read over the shoulder of another traveler on the train, but one of my own. But they might think I like it. So I don't. Maybe I'll rather pick one from a waste bin. But I highly respect journalists who can turn the most serious of subjects and even nothing into absolute trash. That's art :-)

That is one way of seeing it, yep.

But really stupid people believe that trash, and regurgitate it in what passes for conversation among them. It's irritating.

Yes, that's sad sometimes. But so are a lot of things. Today in my doctor's waiting room, there was this catholic who tried to save the nurses soul by convincing her to go on the outings of their youth group. He actually mentioned the world "salvation" connecting it with a bike tour. Strange. When the nurse left, I was really afraid he'd try to save me. So I desperately buried myself in my book about ravens, hoping he would take it for something satanic by the cover. It worked.

As long as strange people don't hurt anyone- why not leave them be.

Bild does hurt people at times, though.-

But that bike-tour Catholic sounds bloody ridiculous. Save your soul and get fit, whoo-hoo! What a come-on line.-

*rofl*

That sums it up nicely: "Save your soul and get fit"... If I ever meet him again, I'll try to sell that slogan. You'll get the credit for it of course. *lol* Sad thing- you're probably right after all and as this is humour free zone, he won't see the irony and just love it. *g*

I had to make that an icon :o)

Oh yes, that looks great!

If anybody ever asks you where you can book those, though, then welcome them to the humour-free zone.

Even better: I'll make them pay a whole lot of money for a tour to humour-free zone- nad when they've paid, I'll tell them, they're already there. *mad scientist's laughter*

The sad thing is, they probably won't get the irony... *g*

Nah, they didn't buy irony; they ordered bronzey.

*grins*

My friend the Nazgul suggested that I put up a sign on the inside of the gates to the houses where I live: 'Caution - you are now entering the humour-free zone'

Probably they even ordered leady- that's the heaviest I can think of. I'm glad you picked bronzey, though, that was easier to understand.

I read about the sign- and laughed. I think I'll need one of those, too. Maybe next year, first of May, I'll get one and put in on the door of my No 1 enemy. Hehehe.

Ooooh, yes, that sounds like a very good idea!

I should put one up in the place where I work.

As it seems, Cologne is part of the humourfree zone. Who would have thought so!? But their reaction to this joke (heise, in German) is, in fact, ridiculous!

Maybe we should design a medal for outstanding lack of humour and award it weekly or monthly? We's probably find enough candidates for daily awarding, too.

"Zurzeit wird ermittelt, wer hinter dem Scherz steckt und ob man die Urheber strafrechtlich verfolgen kann." is well worth a medal, I think.

Yep, we should definitely sponsor an award...

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