Friday Funnies

[BSR]

 

[mike carey]

This is completely true, it's an account of everyone's life.

[+ jeezopete]

[mike carey]

I've been watching some mindless YouTube videos that are spoken narratives with random images or videos, sometimes relevant to the story, often not, and the narrative also in printed text on the screen. The mismatches and howlers in the spoken versus written narrative are frequent, as are random flips into Chinese, Cantonese, Vietnamese, French, Italian and whatever other language the software selects, usually only for a few seconds. One frequent flip is for the spoken narrative to spell out amounts of money as, say 'dollars 142 zero zero zero' and sometimes substitute 'ling ling ling' for the zeros. That's Mandarin. The videos are a variety of morality tales of familial or financial betrayal, parents' wildly extreme favouring of a 'golden child' over another to the point of heartless and absolutely complete exploitation of the, often by then adult, non-favoured child. You get the picture. Small variations on a few themes, but enough different twists and even witty or pointed one-liners for you not to give up on the whole genre.

Well, over the last week or so I had heard hospital scenes where they would refer to a 'for line' in the narrative, and my mind dismissed it as something that I could ignore because not knowing what they were talking about didn't detract from the story being told and I couldn't be bothered stopping and trying to work it out.

Fast forward to today, and I happened to be watching the screen at the same time as they repeated the phrase, and I had to snort my coffee. The text on the screen showing when they mentioned the 'for line' said 'IV line'.

[Danny-Darko]