58 Replies to “Lost in Translation”

    1. This was similar to a person shouting at the top of his lungs at the side of the stage, like a translator for the hearing impaired ..

      Too Funny, … scroll down to the comment by Steve E and click the link …. Ya boy ….

  2. As a Yankee gringo, WTF, was that?
    She was more clear and understandable than he is.
    He seemed too professionally sincere for that to be a parody.
    I felt bad for the translator lady.

    1. Likely she’s being paid a salary that us working class redencks cannot even imagine. Puppetry is profitable.

  6. This has to be satire, no? If it is, brilliant. However, if it’s real, it would have been reviewed before streaming. Any of those responsible still have a job? Why?

    1. Neither did he. Mouth the platitudes of wokeness, appear compliant and move quickly off the stage.

    1. My first thought as well. But Jive wasn’t readily understandable and these words are. Perhaps it’s more a matter of “Our research believes that they won’t believe anything said by someone with a light skin tone, so we need to have the words repeated by a darkie so that it will be believed.”

    1. EXTREME patronizing! It’s sad to think self-respecting aboriginals would go along with this. This used to be called pigeon English … and was mocked. I expect this nonsense from white people as we’ve been overrun by whiney self-hating losers … but not from aboriginals

      1. Totally racist. I imagine 99.9 % of aborigines have gone to school and watch TV. It’s as insulting as Hillary when she breaks into ebonics.

          1. That’s a beautiful recollection., Kenji.

            Much like, “They gonna put you all back in chains.”

            Delaware is not the south. Its a north of the Mason-Dixon line state where Brandon can hide in the basement and pretend there is some local recollection of the cotton-picking troublemakers. Brandon is heroic because his family had a black maid once.

          2. “Delaware is not the south. Its a north of the Mason-Dixon line.”

            I was going to object but they bent the line down the west side Delaware despite the fact that it is south of the east-west part of the line. Maryland and DC were part of the South but not part of the Confederacy like Kentucky and Missouri. Delaware was also a slave state that stayed in the Union. I always considered it a part of the South.

          3. Yes, Delaware was historically a southern state, but was kept out of the Confederacy by the Union army and has been integrated into the northern states in the decade since. Economically Wilmington is effectively plugged into New York via New Jersey, but the countryside still has much in common with the neighbouring parts of Maryland and eastern Virginia.

        2. Unfortunately 99.9% of dark, remote area Aborigines are illiterate and innumerate in 2022 and would be 100% of people who didn’t watch this.

  13. How the hell did Monty Python miss that one (too absurd for even them). I could flash back to the 500 stoned U of A undergrads crammed into a 400 seat lecture hall falling down in uncontrolled laughter.

        1. The hard of hearing don’t consider themselves deaf, way to erase their existence. I’m literally shaking.

          1. Without the hearing aids I’m deaf. Thankfully, common sense has not departed.

            No one benefits from the type of woketardia displayed in the video above.

  16. I hope this is real, though I did look for the Babylon Bee headliner.

    Will they be bringing in someone who speaks with a lisp, so the favored gay class in their gov’t can understand as well?

    Are the aboriginal peoples in Oz seriously not able to understand what that white guy was saying?
    Is this satire?

    Why is the woman in the video not standing on an orange crate or small chair so she can appear to be the same height as the white man?

  19. Not sure of the age of this, but yeah, NO ONE, with the possible exception of the ‘translator’ comes out well from this.

    The Premier. He is ‘Of the Left’ and only failed to win the ‘Most Fascist Australian Premier of the Covid Era’ away because Chairman Dan was so pro-active at beating up old ladies in the streets. He got away with being ‘strong’ by nearly 100% closing the state borders and declare the rest of Australia ‘unclean’ so that his subjects ended up thanking him.

    He or his team thought this was a good idea and allowed it to happen.

    So well done him.

    Also, he is Premier by a large margin based on the most recent WA elections.

    What does this say about the quality of the ‘Conservatives’ in WA? Exactly.

    So well done them.

    Also can we take a moment to consider the Aboriginal Industry as a whole. Their own people are willing to treat them as barely coherent fools who do not understand the concepts (even if flawed) of basic health care. Significant time, effort and money is spent in Australia every day to ensure things like their own flag at official gatherings, Welcome to Country, Recognition of Traditional Owner statements, awareness weeks, different awareness weeks, Indigenous Rounds in every sporting code (aka – a chance for the franchises to sell more merch with the one off playing tops) and now a formal call to allow ‘Voice’ (aka – completely restructure the Australian system of government and re-write the Constitution) and yet AFTER all this…

    After all this they still treat the regional aborigines as extra slow children and see no shame in that.

    Western Australia, people. This is why I make a point to destroy Perth every chance I get in all my fiction.

    1. But do your nipples explode with ecstasy?

      (clue for the puzzled, anothe Monty Python reference about a translation phrasebook gone wrong.)

  23. This is the same clown (during covid hysteria) that wouldn’t allow citizens that refused the experimental injections to use a drive through bottle shop to buy alcohol.

    Maybe he’s thinking of re-introducing similar restrictions, so he thought he’d help out the people most likely to be negatively affected.

  24. The point of this is not the translation. Australian Aborigines have little regard for government (can’t imagine why!) so the message was sent from the Western Australian premier to the Aboriginal community via a trusted Aboriginal Elder. Aborigines DO have regard for their elders so this was a cynical attempt to culturally appropriate that trust.

    1. Per my comment of 11:58 above. I thought I was providing comic relief in this case, not sage political insite!

      1. Don’t worry about it … you are among friends here … at least I believe that to be the case here at SDA.
        Speak freely.

    2. No, no, no, Ian. Aborigines do not have any regard for their elders except on staged TV. Every second advert on NITV or remote area TV station is some health worker or “elder” advertising the vax. They’re all being paid to recite the lines. Even the ads say “paid actors”. The ads aren’t free you know. Government or de facto government pays all the bills to big media. It’s just a wealth transfer from genuine taxpayers, via government who take their cut and get kickbacks, from you and me. You live in a city and trust the media. The state of play amongst the blackfella in remote areas is catastrophic.

  25. Is it possible that there is a prize for upstaging Brandon?

    V. P. Kneepads presents no competition were she even able to muster a single sentence in the English language.

  26. I consider this (being a serious endeavor) as deranged as Canadians “acknowledging the ‘First nation’ traditional territory that we are on for today’s event, blah, blah, blah……”. It makes the non indigenous speaker appear at best, an apologist for the historically dominant culture and at worst, a pandering suck-up suffering from Stockholm Syndrome. Both types of behavior can easily be interpreted as disrespectful and insulting.

    1. Canadians “acknowledging the ‘First nation’ traditional territory that we are on for today’s event […]”

      I have taken to shouting out “but you’re not going to give it back, are you?” at such events. The resulting suppressed laughter has been getting louder and more widespread over time.

  28. McGowan is premier of a state more than double the size of Ontario. Pleasing to see the quality of our “leaders” don’t you think?

    1. A close friend of mine moved to Perth Australia back in 1979 … he lasted two years then came back to Canada … He said the Aussies, on average were a bunch of dumb-shits, but the women were lovely, for the most part.

      They were accustomed to brutish behavior from Aussie men … but remember … this was a time when men were still MEN. So … the Aussie women responded well to the more polite and gentle Canadian male. The Canadian male is now barely male at all. And most of the women of the western world have become nothing but harpy ‘Karens’ .

      Things really change a lot over time ….

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