A friend of mine said I had to watch this and I’m so glad I did. It’s basically 8 minutes of Star Wars film, but the “director” of this particular mashup has substitued Darth Vadar’s voice for Brick Top’s (Alan Ford) from the film Snatch. It’s just brilliant:
The biggest (sic) indicator that the rumours of Ronaldo leaving Manchester United for Real Madrid this summer might actually have some substance. Is this what Carlos meant when he said that he hadn’t been made to feel part of the family? All he had to do was turn his head slightly. D’oh!
Got to hand it to Swansea Council. They make sure all of their signs are translated into Welsh. Or at least, they try to.
In this particular instance, they emailed the English off to be translated. For the record, the Welsh part of the sign shown above says:
I am not in the office at the moment.
Please send any work to be translated
On the bright side, they weren’t the first to cock-up. According to the BBC, cyclists between Cardiff and Penarth in 2006 were confused by a bilingual road sign telling them they had problems with an “inflamed bladder”.
Just one of those short moments in life that makes you shake your head…
I’m not really into politics, especially not US politics but every now and again something comes along that just makes you laugh. And here is 30 seconds that should do just that…
Now this struck me a bit odd frankly. According to the BBC, scientists have beamed images and messages to a planet some 20 light years from Earth in an attempt to illicit a response should life exist there. Fine. I’m sure it’s all very technical and let’s be honest, you don’t know unless you try.
But with all that manpower and effort, not to mention any cost involved, isn’t it just a tad short-sighted to think that, if the messages do arrive, and ET is at least semi-intelligent and not crawling around on it’s stomach sucking up sand, that the alien beings can speak English? So let’s assume for a moment they can, and they reply. How are we going to decipher their reply? Might take years to find it was something like “Not bad ta. Weather’s not great. Oh and by the way, the invasion launches tomorrow.” They can’t be imagining much resistance.
Let’s just hope they don’t have the adage “a picture says more than a thousand words”!
It reminded me of that episode a few years back when Nasa launched a Mars probe at great expense. Waiting with baited breath, they watched as it veered off into the planet’s atmosphere and consigned itself to what will probably become the Universe’s largest dustbin. And why was this? Turned out someone at Lockheed had plotted it’s route in English units rather than metric. D’oh.