We Are Borg, erm...

[yakalskovich]

In a fit of its usual dementia coupled with mindless patriotism, Germany's leading conservative tabloid, 'Bild' (also known as 'Die Bildzeitung), triumphs mightily about the German cardinal Ratzinger being elected pope, filling its title page with 6 inch high letters proclaiming:



This translates to :

"WE ARE POPE!"

I knew about Palpatine, but the Borg as well???

And yes, it sounds just as silly and inappropriate in German...

ETA: Der Spiegel, the magazine/news site wiebke refers to, actually has a picture of the title page, complete with a hand so the fearsome size of the letters becomes apparent:



ETA 2: Telepolis is already mocking that title page as well. Sorry, those last two links are in German.

Comments

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Even Der Spiegel has got some eyebrow-raising German, when it comes to this.

[yakalskovich]

They do, but they have never summarily declared the whole bloody country Pope! 'BIld' saying "We Are World Champions" (not that we were, recently, at anything) may be fuzzy but generally makes sense, but this is more than woolly thinking and bad German - it's overgeneralisation and uninivted inclusion.

I'm definitely not Pope. Thanks, but no thanks!

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

I agree, The Bild headline is just crazy. Funny too...

[yakalskovich]

Well, if they think they can rally people behind that moronic slogan, they're mistaken - you'll have seen at spiegel.de how unhappy and deeply divided people are about this.

[nazgulwears.livejournal.com]

> I'm definitely not Pope. Thanks, but no thanks!
Well, you would get to wear funny costumes. Then again, I only need a movie as an excuse to wear funny costumes...

[yakalskovich]

White and red - gah, how boring! No black or purple in it!

I'm not going to wear funny costumes that have neither purple not black.

*pout*

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing*

You will be assimilated!

[yakalskovich]

Exactly! That is what they are, essentially, suggesting to anybody who sees that title page.

*is going to resist heroically*

*is perhaps Jean-Luc Picard?*

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

This headline has now earned a story & pic in the New York Times. (So papers are reporting on one another.)

Registration required probably but:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/20/international/worldspecial2/20germany.html

[nazgulwears.livejournal.com]

> (also known as 'Die Bildzeitung)
I always though it was called 'Blöd'.

[yakalskovich]

Yep, it is 'Blöd' - but apart from wiebke and the three or five other people on my flist who speak German, nobody gets the joke.