[ploesj]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

here is some tintin

 

I only know spanish and english. anyone can translate this?

 

first one means something like: 'my army, equipped the european way and well trained, will easily win from the Baoro'm' (i hope it's right)

second one is a bit harder i only understand one bubble: i found tintin's machine. it's danish, right?

[Rob Instigator]

thanks for the translation!

i used to read tintin in spanish in puerto rico when I was 7 or 8 and even then i found it dull as all fuck

[o o o]

The text has apparently been modified over the years, but I don't know to what extent...

Here is the same image, the first version is from the 1930 edition and the second one is from the 1946 edition:

 

First picture:

Tintin: "My dear friends, I will talk to you today about your fatherland: Belgium!"


Second picture:

Tintin: "If you agree, we will start with a few arithmetic operations. Who can tell me how much is 2 + 2 ? Nobody?... Come on, 2 + 2 ?... 2 + 2 = ...?"


I have no idea what it says nowadays... It probably has not changed much, because I think the main story stayed the same...

[jon boy]

i remember one tin tin when the two detectives found a kilo of pure heroin in tin tins bag and they asked:

'tin tin is this yours'

tin tin replies

'no it must belong to someone else'

and the detectives just let him go! always think of that with tintin.

[Rob Instigator]

I have tried the "tintin maneuver" with the po-po in reference to a fat sack of sticky icky bud. it never works.

[floatingslowly]

so....if Tintin is correct: indigenous Belgians CANNOT perform simple math.

thank gawd at least they know how to make waffles.

[Rob Instigator]

this reminded me of John E. Smoke by the butthole surfers

"Johnny left home before he was born.
A huge Indian teepee had appeared out of Johnnys earlobe,
He didnt know why.
It spoke French and half-Dutch,
Perhaps the teepee was from Belgium,
We dont know."

[Danny Himself]

Originally Posted by Diesel

hew man wut the fuck is al this tin tin business like, calling a white dog snowy, a dina ?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjy-Jnqn1C0

Haha, I was waiting for someone to post some of that. Tin-head.

[demonrail666]

If Tin-Tin is rascist, and I think it probably is, then what good will come from simply banning it? Schools should use it to explain how stereotypes circulated in past culture. Banning is just another way of denying facts.

[demonrail666]

As someone who works in education, something that increasingly disturbs me is the way that a book/film/comic that is offensive towards women, gays, christians or jews is generally tolerated, anything that might be seen as offending blacks or muslims is immediately withdrawn.

[sellouteater]

http://www.tintin.com/

looks like good wholesum fun to me

 

[FruitLoop]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

here is some tintin

 

I only know spanish and english. anyone can translate this?

 

The second one goes (from top to bottom)

-Think about it, what if all white europeans were like Tintin...

-I have found Tintin's device!
-If he doesn't come back within one year plus one day, it is yours!

-If you don't stay calm/quiet, you'll never be like tintin!

-I'll never see a (bula matari????) like Tintin ever again

-I'll miss Terry (guess they mean snowy)

Looks to me like an odd mixture of swedish and danish, unless it's in nynorsk, which would be suprising....


The first one in french was correctly translated previously, and both are taken from Tintin in Congo, which was at the time a belgian colony, and can explain the tone used. White we're at it, Tintin in America portrays (white) americans as gangsters (written during the prohibition era, I guess) and natives as buffalo hunters, The Blue Lotus (the one in China) is rather stereotypical as well with the opium parlors, Black Gold plays on some northern africa or middle east clichés..... basically the only racism-free tintin adventures are the ones on the moon, I guess.

[Rob Instigator]

they are a product of their time.

[!@#$%!]

yes it's true. i grew up reading tintin in french school. also asterix. tintin is yes "racist" because the 20's were racist. it wasn't particularly *trying* to be racist. just watch that buster keaton movie where he gets attacked by african "savages"-- ayayay. it was a part of the culture. movies like "joaquin the greaser" and a lot of cowboy movies too. racist? of course they were-- the times were racist. i own some "felix the cat" dvd where he interacts with "little sambos" and "redskins", in all their stereotyped glory. but these people were no hitlers though. also, popeye was a fucking moron, solved everything with punches, pathetic. want more? want some looney toons? look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djxnw090EeE

[Hip Priest]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

yes it's true. i grew up reading tintin in french school. also asterix. tintin is yes "racist" because the 20's were racist. it wasn't particularly *trying* to be racist. just watch that buster keaton movie where he gets attacked by african "savages"-- ayayay. it was a part of the culture. movies like "joaquin the greaser" and a lot of cowboy movies too. racist? of course they were-- the times were racist. i own some "felix the cat" dvd where he interacts with "little sambos" and "redskins", in all their stereotyped glory. but these people were no hitlers though. also, popeye was a fucking moron, solved everything with punches, pathetic. want more? want some looney toons? look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djxnw090EeE

...and don't forget all the Tarzan films from years ago. For a slightly more modern take on the 'funny little savages' thing, check out the Ewoks in whatever Star Wars film it is. Or those little hooded guys with the red eyes in the first (!?) film.

[Glice]

They don't let the kids read Enid Blighton any more. Rubbish.

I was talking to a British person who's ethnically Chinese, and a British person who's ethnically Pakistani and a white South African and a black South African and a British black panther and a white Briton and a white Dutch person yesterday, and all agreed that it's absolute nonesense that things are banned on these bases.

[jon boy]

 

i used to play with one of these as a child.

[Pookie]

Is that why you're racist now?

[jon boy]

yes being three and having a fluffy soft toy that used to play with all my other toys has turned me into a massive racist. so shut your mouth whitey.

please feel free to see any double entendres within that sentence as posible.

[Pookie]

Originally Posted by Glice

I was talking to a British person who's ethnically Chinese, and a British person who's ethnically Pakistani and a white South African and a black South African and a British black panther and a white Briton and a white Dutch person yesterday...

That reminds me of a time I got into a bit of trouble with my Scottish friend Dougall McDougall, and my Irish friend Seamus O'Shaughnessy. To cut a long story short, we were being chased by a policeman. We saw an old warehouse so ran in. Inside there were 3 empty sacks on the floor, so we each jumped into a sack. The rozzer saw these three bundles on the floor, went up to the first one and kicked it. I shouted out, "Woof Woof", and the copper thinking it's just an old dog left it and kicked the second sack. Dougall yelled out, "Me-ow me-ow", he left this one as well thinking it was just an old cat. He walked over to the last sack and kicked it, and Seamus yelled out.. "Potatoes Potatoes..!"