I’m enjoying the fact that I’m the only non-bj0rn person who can pronounce búnaðarbankinn.
hey, even i have problems pronouncing bj0rn 
bj0rn - …
Hey, I got what bjorn (sorry, no symbols) was saying, even before tomndeb spelled it out.
Yes, I understand that corporations can indeed (and shouldn’t be criticized for ) selection of where to spend their charitable dollars.
I believe, if I"m not mistaken, what the OP is upset about is that the corps were given an opportunity to spend said $$ on an issue, and their response was (in part ) ‘sorry, we spend our charitable $$ on other issues’, then when the big name guy came up w/a plan on the same issue, the corps qued up.
And the OP spotted the apparenty hypocrisy. Similar to, if Joe Blow offered them the opportunity to assist a charity re: Parkinsons, and the corp blew 'em off w/something about “we don’t focus on health related issues”, then Michael J. Fox comes around asking for $$ and they ask where they should sign.
Yes, it’s irritating, but look at it this way:
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the issue (bullying) is still getting attention and $$.
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the corps’ intent re: charitable $$ isn’t merely to support charities, it’s a method of garnering public support for the corp, and thereby it’s real mission (selling more Coke for example). And, they’ll get more ‘bang for their charitable buck’ with a larger than life expenditure, the sort that celebrity brings.
IT’s like advertising - they’ll get more exposure though an ad for the Super Bowl than the local cable access re-run programming.
Seriously, pit hawks piss me off sometimes. It’s not hard to get that bjorn is cross about the hypocrisy of companies that won’t put up money for an anti-bullying campaign when approached by unknowns, but leap forward with the cash when someone famous is involved. It’s a fair and valid point.
Instead, it’s just been used as another excuse to laugh at poor English from someone whose first language is not English. Ha. Ha. Ha. Look at funny bjorn and those funny furriners with their funny writing. If that’s not teasing, I don’t know what is.
I went ot see the movie Bj0rn Identity last night…
Ok, you’re right. I have been guilty of this. It’s crass and unfair, and I apologize for my part in it.
There. That being said, I feel much better about myself.
{you know it’s coming}
I’m a new man.
{wait for it}
…one might even say, I’m bj0rn again.
North Chilean guanacos are closely related to the llama, or so I’ve heard, although Mexican whooping llamas are likely a myth.
Well I didn’t act as you suggest. But I’ll say it anyway. I find bj0rn quite easy to understand, even if others see a cipher. In the last …oh 18 months he hasn’t posted anything worth deciphering. It’s been niggling verging on trolling. So, this time he posts something sensible in his idiolect and people react in like it’s the same old bj0rn. Well tough shit. He asked for it. Repeatedly. And mocked those who gave him a go. Cry me a glacier.
I knew someone would post something like this-- lets make it simple for you bj0rn’s logic skills as being lampooned.
There are plenty of non-English speakers who post here just fine, even if they have a hard time with picking the right word. bj0rn tends to be hard to understand in any language, I would imagine.
The only victim here is logic.
I disagree. It’s neither fair nor valid. Look, I donate to breast cancer research. I can go with a legitimate charity like the Susan G. Koman Foundation or I can give to someone I’ve never heard of who telemarkets me. Why is it hypocritical to give to the reputable charity? Bj0rn’s certainly free to make the point, but IMO it’s neither fair, valid or rational.
And regarding the “mocking him for his english” stuff, please check out this thread a better understanding of why people are inclined to be uncharitable.
Whew…When I saw that thread title preceded by a number and a dot, clearly an item from an ordered list, my initial reaction was, “Oh god…kathaksung stumbled over here from Fathom!” :eek:
Wasn’t Joyce always drunk when he wrote? Or have I been whooshed?
And I still want to know what the thread title has to do with the rant about corporate donations!
Yes, on second thought, let’s not post at SDMB…'tis a silly place.
Whew…When I saw that thread title preceded by a number and a dot, clearly an item from an ordered list, my initial reaction was, “Oh god…kathaksung stumbled over here from Fathom!” :eek:
Wasn’t Joyce always drunk when he wrote? Or have I been whooshed?
And I still want to know what the thread title has to do with the rant about corporate donations!
Yes, on second thought, let’s not post at SDMB…'tis a silly place.
Ever see that movie “Cold Fever,” starring Masatoshi Nagase (and Lilli Taylor in a minor role)?
That movie took place in Iceland.
And it rocked.
Iceland!
Sorry 'bout the double post!
sigh Leave him the fuck be, y’all. I’m with Francesca, minty, tom~, and wring–the OP was easily understood. And yet, irony of ironies, in a thread about bullying…
Originally posted by CingerOfTheNorth
No you´re not 
Don´t know if anyone cares anymore but I´ll try to explain why I think bjOrn is upset.
First let me explain einelti. Einelti is an icelandic term used when one is singled out and bullied, teased, beaten up and is generally treated as an outcast by the people around him. It usually happens in school but can also happen in the workplace and it can go on for years. If anyone can offer an english term that describes this it´ll be much appreciated. Maybe Hawthorne had it right with the term Bastardisation .
What bjOrn is pissed about is that whe the makers of a documentary about einelti (both victims of it in childhood) went around and tried to raise funding for it they were denied in both Búnaðarbankinn and Coca-Cola. This in itself is not something to get pissed off about, corporations can choose which charity they sponsor.
But Búnaðarbankinn gave them the specific reason that it didn´t want to associate themselves with the image of einelti. Then when a celebrity (yes, I know. But he is famous in Iceland and a very good actor as well) raises the issue and attracts a lot of public attention, Búnaðarbankinn donates money gladly.
This is somewhat hypocritical and my guess is that´s what pissed off my fellow countryman.
BTW, Fenris . The makers of the documentray were not drunken fratboys. They are young men who went through some very tough times in school and are now trying to raise awaireness so others might be spared that experience.
He’s the “Alleged Murder of Ron” tinfoil hat guy, right? He’s been here and was insta-banned.
Fenris
Yeah, that’s who I meant. Didn’t know, or forgot, that he’d struck out here.
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*Originally posted by Cohen *
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Bing! We now have a legitimate usage of the word “hypocritical”.
Seriously, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation
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Ok, I retract the term. I was trying to be funny and it’s either not translating at all or it just wasn’t funny. Since bj0rn never provided any info regarding the filmmakers (no names, no credentials, no previous works they did), I kept having this mental image of a couple of drunk college students inside a board-room talking to business suited executives and saying “Duuudes…give us money for a film!”.
Fenris
Ummm…I sure wasn’t trying to “bully”, especially as I frequently fight people who do just that, hint-hint.
I honestly could not understand what the point was of the OP, and given past history of the poster, there was a good reason to suspect that the true meaning of said OP might remain elusive to me. So I found it amusingly obscure.
Now that it has been explained, ex post facto, it makes much more sense.