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[Torak]

We should string him up on Worldwide news.

Wars should be clean of naughty language.

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

We should string him up on Worldwide news.

Wars should be clean of naughty language.

I second this notion! War should be honourable!

[chaoticag]

I am Arabian, it is just that in Arabic, everyone who had his ancestors speaking Arabic is called "Araby", or so I got the impression. It just goes to show that these things can be under your nose for quite a while.

That does seem pretty funny.  Maybe I got a misimpression though.  I've only known Arabs from Iraq and Lebannon (although she lived in Egypt for a while).  Where do you/your ancestors come from?

Although come to think of it it's not all that weird.  There's plenty of really basic stuff about their European/African/Asian ancestors that most people in the U.S. have no clue about.  You could learn the correct way to say "Eire" (the Irish name for Ireland) and I doubt one in a hundred Irish-Americans would know what you were saying, including myself until quite recently.

I'm not Arab-American, just Arabic. From what I get, most of my ancestors have lived in what is now the United Arab Emirates (again, in the arabic version it is "Arabyah", the feminin of "Araby").

[mainiac]

I felt a slight urge to shout back "Arabic doesn't use the Latin alphabet, you white devil!"

... but that would have been silly!  Nah, I know what you ment.

[Fenrir]

I care little what the prince calls people. What I want to know is: why is the prince a foot soldier? Should he not be leading the army to victory and glory? He is their prince, their future king!

[chaoticag]

I felt a slight urge to shout back "Arabic doesn't use the Latin alphabet, you white devil!"

... but that would have been silly!  Nah, I know what you ment.

Typing in the arabic alphabet just takes a long time to do so, but I can do it.

لاكنَّ ني قادرٌ على الطبع
(don't worry, it just means that I can type, I only made it bigger because I have trouble reading it at 12pt).

[Cthulhu]

Have you ever seen what happens if you turn a can of coke upside down and remove the swishy serifs from the logo?

Just a coincidence, but still pretty crazy.

[Fenrir]

Have you ever seen what happens if you turn a can of coke upside down and remove the swishy serifs from the logo?

I don't feel like finding out for myself. What happens?

[Cthulhu]

It says some anti-Muslim stuff in Arabic.

Well, I assume it does, because I don't read Arabic.

[chaoticag]

It doesn't, its sort of like the rumor that spread a few years ago here about pepsi standing for Pay Every Penny, Save Israel. I found it funny that you can apply that to Ireland, Iceland, India and Indonesia. Also, pepsi got its name from a digestive protien called pepsin. (Soda used to be perscribed to people with digestive problems.)

[Neonivek]

Or the Rumor that Cocacola Classic used to have a picture of someone doing cocaine (and that it used to have Cocaine in it)

I seen that supposive picture on my can... people were looking WAAAAY too deep into it... it is just some random splashes that at MOST makes a face of someone with a really large nose.

[chaoticag]

Actually, it did use to have cocaine in it, but that was before drug control was issued.

[Neonivek]

Actually, it did use to have cocaine in it, but that was before drug control was issued.

What about the story that companies are trying to lobby to allow caffine in juice?

[chaoticag]

Unsure, though why the hell would one put caffine in juice is beyond me. I drink juice when I want to relax, other than that I prefer soda as my main caffine source. I really cannot stand coffee.

[Kagus]

I thought Coca-Cola just had coca leaves in it, not cocaine.  And I'd like to remind people that they're not the same bloody thing!