naggz (11 hours ago)
Can't believe these fucking retards. The ad isn't racist. Go cry over something more important. What the fuck is racism anyway. We're supposed to be all multi-cultural and shit, but yet everyone still hates gay people? I don't see much of a difference between the two problems. Both effect alot of the worlds population, black people can't help that they were born as their race. Gay people can't help that they were born gay and like the same sex. Gtfo.
― velko, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
oops Dan sorry! I did mean that it was trivialising the WI fans. Into being plot devices for a fried chicken commercial. It's not trivialising the device. It's making quite a thing of it, sadly.
not a KFC fan fwiw
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
xxxxxp are tim tams like penguins?
― i am not down with ppl farting on salami (stevie), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y-cxdruYQc&feature=related
O_O
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess we should applaud the progress they've made in 18 years.
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Used to drive down with best friend in coldest winter to get KFC mashed poato/gravy combo, then snarf it in the car before we got back home.
― keyser (suzy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
American KFC does not do French fries It is much better than UKFC.
― keyser (suzy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The only thing I think I detest when this shit comes up is it resulting in people saying shit like "people forget how backwards Australians are", thank you very much guys, have a nice day.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I detest the racism as well.
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
The ad is dumb, many people here have no idea the "stigma" of fried chicken, they wont see the west indies as "african americans", the whole thing is stupid.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a racist South Korean KFC youtube, freshly delivered to my inbox by ILX user "?????????"
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
congratulations!
― ah ah oh ooh ooh oh ah ah ah ah ah oh ah ah aha ooh (HI DERE), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
the internet is amazing
― chicken sandwich CARL!! (Z S), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
unforgivably stupid is a bit harsh. the only way an australian would be aware of this is by reading ilx racism threads or watching ghostworld.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:47 (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
fyi there was a neighbours story arc about ghostworld!
― Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Please describe!
― girl moves (Abbott), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"xxxxxp are tim tams like penguins?"
can you dip penguins in hot cocoa, use them as a straw, then pop them in your mouth and have them melt into fattening choco goo?show me these penguins!
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/neil_hamburger_01.jpg
"YOU fill our zoos with kangaroos, WE fill your summer breeze with the smell of KFC!"
― Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
hi just poppin in to this thread to say that i ate at a kfc in st. lucia three years ago, it was ok
― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Sky, Harold's... niece?... was a crazy goth that didn't care for trends etc. and it turned out to all be based on thora birch in ghost world. everyone found out, teased her for still following a trend and so she goes through an 'ally sheedy in breakfast club' moment and becomes everything she once dispised for no apparent reason.
― Home Taping Is Killing Zack Morris (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
amazing that popcorn chicken is still around since the days of hammer
― abanana, Wednesday, 6 January 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
australia is so racist it's kinda crazy
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
do ppl there really call aborigines "black fellas"?
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought we had covered this on The Cape of Good Hope's Rolling 09/10 Cricket Season thread...
...anyway, this is a great opportunity for the oppressed white people of surbuban Australia to whinge about Americans and Political Correctness and whatever.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link
PS: I have eaten at KFC but I used to have a Sir Viv Richards "Master Blaster" cricket bat when playing schoolboy cricket.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
australia isn't any more racist than any other western country ime. "blackfella" and "whitefella" are words used mostly by indingenous australians and aren't necessarily racist at all.
― sonderborg, Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
the classic 'launch Chevy Nova in Mexico' move.
This is an urban legend, btw.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Thursday, 7 January 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin, at least do us the courtesy of understanding some of Australia's culture the way you expect us to of yours.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:26 (fourteen years ago) link
There are plenty of racist terms and racism against the indigenous in this country but blackfella ain't one of them, nor is it really even a "taken back" insult. Words like "boong" and "abo" on the other hand... sigh.
― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Thursday, 7 January 2010 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry I didnt see sonderberg had already also pointed that out heh.
Well, they pulled the advertisement off and as predicted...
http://www.news.com.au/world/kfc-australia-pulls-racist-ad-after-us-anger/comments-e6frfkyi-1225816969895
ps: i am not asscoiated with these people
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:13 (fourteen years ago) link
h4yd3n of melbourne Posted at 1:30 PM Today
Stand up for youself KFC. I'm never eating you agian untill you do.
fess up h-man
― mr bollock apple (electricsound), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm currently boycotting them for taking the Tower Burger off the menu again, for what it's worth.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
can't believe that proud aussie company KFC bowed to imperialist american pressure like this
― jabba hands, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
katoomba fried chicken
― mr bollock apple (electricsound), Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Dave of Gold Coast Posted at 1:34 PM Today
Cool Can we now tell America to ban the movie White Chicks, or perhaps Tropic Thunder too... Oh no, wait... they make money for Hollywood... (I know KFC is American, but you get my point).
― velko, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:32 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure i get his point tbh
― max, Thursday, 7 January 2010 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Mystery solved:
Alex of The real world Posted at 3:10 PM Today
I hate Harry Connick Jr. He got all high and mighty because he realised his terrible music wouldn't sell but a few jabs at another country's culture might.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Erm. No. Koori people call *themselves* "blackfullas", its pidgin
Why can't the black dude be a dog or a cat or an animal that people to cuddle, and not some puke-eating street pest that everyone hates?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i had a 'wicked wings snack pack' yesterday at lunch, i could never boycott the dirty bird ;__;
― pyramid of geezer (haitch), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
tbhaitch
― estela, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
I had a Zinger Burger combo the other day so chalk me up as a evil racist Australian.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm chalking you up as a man who got zinged by his own lunch.
― estela, Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
zinger burgers more of a scooby snax for zingers i'd have thought
― Not a reactionary git, just an idiot. (darraghmac), Thursday, 7 January 2010 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
if this has already been posted, apologies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0NU9KULHO8
O_o_O
― j0rdslovesomedude (acoleuthic), Thursday, 1 April 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm
― nijolian dynamite (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 April 2010 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed "salt and freshly ground black people" instead of black pepper.Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is "extremely hard" to do so, Penguin said.The recipe was for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto."We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page."When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cook-book is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable," Mr Sessions said.If anyone complains about the "silly mistake", they will be given the new version, Penguin said.
Penguin Group Australia had to reprint 7,000 copies of Pasta Bible last week, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.
The reprint cost A$20,000 ($18,000; £12,000), but stock in bookshops will not be recalled as it is "extremely hard" to do so, Penguin said.
The recipe was for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto.
"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," head of publishing Bob Sessions is quoted as saying by the Sydney newspaper.
Penguin said almost every one of the more than 150 recipes in the book listed salt and freshly ground black pepper, but a misprint occurred on just one page.
"When it comes to the proofreader, of course they should have picked it up, but proofreading a cook-book is an extremely difficult task. I find that quite forgivable," Mr Sessions said.
If anyone complains about the "silly mistake", they will be given the new version, Penguin said.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 17 April 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
At least this mistake won't make people's crock pots explode.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 17 April 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I love that dude responded with "well, doing your job correctly is hard!"
― human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Look I'm sorry your car exploded, but building gas tanks is complicated work!
― human centipeedi peedi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:41 (fourteen years ago) link