Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland.
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@randahl He's not funny anyway. For me, it's just embarrassing and thoughtless... and it makes me angry.
@noefremmed Sadly, nearly all developed countries seem to have stupid 'comedians' like this now.
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@randahl @DavidNielsen
It should be USarian. Beavers have different English.@mikalai @randahl @DavidNielsen not really, unless you count “out” and “sorry.”
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@randahl He's a fairly successful comedian and recently got into a lot of trouble for attacking conservative politicians at a beer festival, basically he lost a job over that.
However, part of his routine is that he plays reactionary types in order to make fun of them, or even going undercover to right-wing parties and such. If you know that this a stage persona, it can be quite funny. i guess this went wrong because nobody in Greenland knew the context.
@StephanMatthiesen Yeah, that seems to be where it went wrong. Greenlanders didn't know it was a joke. All they saw was someone acting like an asshole, so they understandably assumed he was some asshole.
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@randahl@mastodon.social as a German citizen myself I can only ask: Who the fuck is Maximilian Schafroth?
@daswarkeinhuhn Well, in any sufficiently large society, there's always going to be people we're personally unfamiliar with.
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@daarin @randahl Apparently it was for the show Extra 3 by the NDR: https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/ausland/internationale-politik/id_101105550/groenland-satire-aktion-des-ndr-geht-nach-hinten-los.html
So from a public broadcaster all of us germans have to pay. Here are their contacts, if you want to tell them what you think of this "joke": https://www.ndr.de/der_ndr/kontakt
@laria Let's not over-react, either. That's also a kind of attention. Just call it what it is, a poorly planned and executed prank.
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@randahl I don't think so. Germans have a lot of humour. E.g. when Trump imposed tariffs, a comedian from the heute show waited in front of an American supermarket in Germany with a hi-viz west labeled "Zoll" (customs) and demanded a 25% bite of candy bars that had just been purchased. That was actually quite hilarious.
@hennichodernich @randahl "Germans have a lot of humor," yes, but this has nothing to do with humor.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl Nor should it, as it is not amusing in any way but I am sure he got his clicks by being obnoxious
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@randahl Speaking american ? sorry i don't know this language, only english exist.
@lexinova American is a dialect of English, though it has its own dialects. I don't know what the article meant by it. Maybe they meant he was imitating some American accent (of which there are also multiples).
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@randahl
He's actually in public TV and the political satire is actually really good.Let's see what the context of this is - I'd assume they are making fun of Trump's attempts to colonize Greenland somehow...
@ckd Humour is subjective, but I don't know what you mean by "really good". It seems fairly one-dimensional to me, the kind of humour teenagers think is clever. Illustrating that some Americans are jingoistic assholes isn't exactly biting satire.
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@randahl The show is public TV and usually known for serious satire, not comedy or even cringe comedy.
The "comedian" is also known for satire.So I don't understand this at all. How can anybody think this could be a great or funny idea?
@nobilor It might have been intended as part of some larger bit that would provide context making it seem funnier, I don't know. I don't know anything about this guy, and I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. That said, it doesn't seem clever or funny from this narrow perspective, and maybe it's not.
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@syferdet For certain kinds of 'entertainers', there's no such thing as bad publicity. Even us talking about here might be helping his career.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl oh man
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@randahl don’t you mean English, since American isn’t a language?
@DavidNielsen American is an English dialect. But it's not clear what the article meant by it. The dialect is more distinct in writing, but he presumably only spoke. Maybe they're referring to an imitation of some American accent.
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@laria Let's not over-react, either. That's also a kind of attention. Just call it what it is, a poorly planned and executed prank.
@wesdym I don't think it was "poorly planned", it was, however, in poor taste.
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@lexinova American is a dialect of English, though it has its own dialects. I don't know what the article meant by it. Maybe they meant he was imitating some American accent (of which there are also multiples).
@wesdym The US speak US english not ... american.
And like their name suggest dialect are dialect of a language, as such american language DO NOT exist.
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@DavidNielsen @randahl Don't know who said it, but "The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language"
@grumpydad No one knows for sure. The oldest DOCUMENTED source is Oscar Wilde, in his 1887 play "The Canterville Ghost". It's more commonly attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but no original source has been proven.
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@wesdym The US speak US english not ... american.
And like their name suggest dialect are dialect of a language, as such american language DO NOT exist.
@lexinova Okay, whatever.
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@lexinova American is a dialect of English, though it has its own dialects. I don't know what the article meant by it. Maybe they meant he was imitating some American accent (of which there are also multiples).
@wesdym @lexinova Somewhat of reduced English, I guess that's American. They constantly keep losing letters, like in humor with just one u, or an i missing from aluminium. Also heard the statement "There's Spoken English and Broken English". There are tons of quips.
But back to the guy: You can't fix stupid. Possibly too much I expect from my fellow countrymen. There seems to be a tendency of misbehaving when they go abroad.
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@wesdym @lexinova Somewhat of reduced English, I guess that's American. They constantly keep losing letters, like in humor with just one u, or an i missing from aluminium. Also heard the statement "There's Spoken English and Broken English". There are tons of quips.
But back to the guy: You can't fix stupid. Possibly too much I expect from my fellow countrymen. There seems to be a tendency of misbehaving when they go abroad.
@dazzr @wesdym yeah i just tend to be annoyed to people that threat a dialect as a "true" language, American is US english (with some change), nothing more nothing else.
But the Issue with a big part of US, is they are never exposed to international people, and when they do (tiktok) they go out of their way to acquire it and shut down this exposition.
If you weren't so isolated, majority of US would see that US is certainly not "the best and free country in the world".
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@dazzr @wesdym yeah i just tend to be annoyed to people that threat a dialect as a "true" language, American is US english (with some change), nothing more nothing else.
But the Issue with a big part of US, is they are never exposed to international people, and when they do (tiktok) they go out of their way to acquire it and shut down this exposition.
If you weren't so isolated, majority of US would see that US is certainly not "the best and free country in the world".
