No, France24’s Alison, Koreans Are Not Sour Wowsers!
After a tiring day, I turned on the TV and unwisely opted to start with France24, which, going on past experience, does not invariably delight its viewers.
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Today, the first thing I heard was that Korean TV viewers had been ‘OUTRAGED!’
One might imagine that Koreans in the southern half of that partitioned peninsula are often outraged, when they, as they frequently must be, are reminded of the daily hell…
….in which their enslaved compatriots in North Korea are forced by the Communist dictatorship to live.
But no, today, viewers were ‘OUTRAGED’ – that was the actual word used by F24’s Alison Sargent…
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…by the inclusion among the dummy spectators at one of those ‘spectatorless’ soccer games, of…
SHOCK HORROR…
SEX Dolls!
‘Outraged?’
Soccer fans?
I like footie but have hardly been a ‘fan’ since I left The Old Country.
Nevertheless, I have not forgotten the ribald repartee that enlivened the terracing!
Today, I laughed out loud..
Har Har Har!
…even before Little Ali used the O-Word!
God knows we all need something to laugh about these days!
Then of course, it may be that Koreans have little or no sense of humour?
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Not so.
I have met a fair number of South Korean expats here in Indonesia, and they are perfectly normal.
Betcha there were gales of merriment from the DMZ to the deep-south tip of that peninsula!
JazPen 18:32 on May 19, 2020 Permalink |
Yes, I saw that and laughed too.
Who wouldn’t?
But you need to translate that Australian word ‘wowsers.’
I think it means what American call ‘uptight’ people, am I right?
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ross1948 18:39 on May 19, 2020 Permalink |
You are not the only one to seek clarification, JazPen.
One dictionary defines a wowser thus – ‘One with strong moral views against excessive consumption of alcohol, gambling, pornography, etc., who seeks to promulgate those views.’ (Wiktionary)
My apologies – I spend so much time communicating with people in Australia, I am used to hearing and using their slang!
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Jock T 19:35 on May 19, 2020 Permalink |
Why would anybody get upset, never mind outraged?
A wee bit of harmless fun!
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Keith Milner 10:28 on May 20, 2020 Permalink |
Funny! I’m sure most Koreans thought it was funny too!
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