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Asiana to sue S.F. TV station over bogus pilot names

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That's your issue - not necessarily mine. 288 people survived, which is something to be thankful for. Was the joke appropriate? Nah. Pretty stupid and insensitive. None the less funny - regardless of your reservations. I seriously doubt the pilots are highly offended. I expect they're grateful they're alive, and have more important concerns than an ill-considered joke. Hey, you don't think the Koreans ever make such jokes about Americans, do you?

oh, I didn't think of that ... the Koreans probably make jokes like that about Americans ... good point ... O.K., it's all right then ...
 
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Lets see what SNL does with this this coming Saturday night!!!

Hu Flung Poo
 
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That is oh so wrong....



and oh so funny. :lamo


But is it anymore racist than the Christmas Story sequence with the singing Chinese waiters singing Sirent Wight?

I believe you mean that is so "wong"
 
**** the suit. Learn how to land a plane.
 
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The intern should get the comedian-of-the-year award.

I don't blame the newscaster at all. She was given a script to read and she read it.

There is no lawsuit whatsoever. There is no economic damage. There is nothing malicious.
 
This is so wrong!

"Bay Area news station KTVU just reported that the pilots of Asiana's disastrous flight 214 were the crack team of "Sum Ting Wong," "Wi Tu Lo," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow.""

Watch the brief video of the television Newscast here:

Asiana to sue S.F. TV station over bogus pilot names

Uh - I think the airline's reputation was damaged when one of their PILOTS wrecked a plane and KILLED THREE PEOPLE. . . I mean - I'm going to forever remember that. People don't know how pilots are really employed, etc -it's going to forever be directly linked to the airline itself.

The radio station should handle their crap journalism and research it in their own way - nothing serious enough came from it to where they could sue because of the NAME joke. They need to just let it go and not bring MORE attention to an already horrid event.
 
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Korean newsanchor says it was "lucky" only Chinese were killed in Asiana crash.

That's just Wong on so many levels.
 
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thanks for helping me make the point the others are missing on this thread ....

btw, have Asian pilots had more plane crashes than non Asians?

Lol heck, I don't know I was just joining in on the cruel fun. But if I had to make a guess I'd say they are probably good pilots where the electronics of the job are concerned. It's a sad story for sure but the joke potential is through the roof. When you consider everything. The pilots crash landing and the emergency vehicle running into people. The thing about stereotypes is there is usually a certain amount of legitimacy to them.
 
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Lol heck, I don't know I was just joining in on the cruel fun. But if I had to make a guess I'd say they are probably good pilots where the electronics of the job are concerned. It's a sad story for sure but the joke potential is through the roof. When you consider everything. The pilots crash landing and the emergency vehicle running into people. The thing about stereotypes is there is usually a certain amount of legitimacy to them.

stereotypes are the cognitive dimension of prejudices and are overgeneralizations asociated with racial or ethnic groups that go beyond the evidence we have for them, and they're the reason ethnic jokes are funny ... unfortunately, these jokes reinforce the sterotypes and therefore prejudices ...
 
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stereotypes are the cognitive dimension of prejudices and are overgeneralizations asociated with racial or ethnic groups that go beyond the evidence we have for them, and they're the reason ethnic jokes are funny ... unfortunately, these jokes reinforce the sterotypes and therefore prejudices ...

Yea, I don't need to know how the clock works to know what time it is. If a joke is funny then it's funny. I've heard comedians of other races and ethnicities other than my own tell white jokes based on stereotypes and I laugh. I've heard jokes about a tragedy hours after it happens and if it's clever I laugh and repeat. Some people find jokes regarding recent tragedies or with stereotypical overtones offensive no matter how clever they are. I'm not one of those people. Yes, I know, if I had loved one on that plane I wouldn't laugh at the jokes but I didn't so I do.
 
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Yea, I don't need to know how the clock works to know what time it is. If a joke is funny then it's funny. I've heard comedians of other races and ethnicities other than my own tell white jokes based on stereotypes and I laugh. I've heard jokes about a tragedy hours after it happens and if it's clever I laugh and repeat. Some people find jokes regarding recent tragedies or with stereotypical overtones offensive no matter how clever they are. I'm not one of those people. Yes, I know, if I had loved one on that plane I wouldn't laugh at the jokes but I didn't so I do.

Have you come across any Newtown shooting jokes? If I come across any, I'll pass them on to you (since your child was not one of the children killed). Meanwhile, you're sure to enjoy these ...
Public Shaming - Idiots Use Plane Crash in San Francisco to Mock Asians, Blame North Korea ... scroll down and you'll see some really funny lines ... enjoy ...
 
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