I can’t believe you’d mention those commercials and not mention those GODDAMN FUCKING “LIKE A ROCK” ADS! CHRIST JESUS! If I hear that song one more fucking time while I watch some stupid truck drive over rocks that have obviously been fastened to the set I’m going to buy a .30-06 just so I can shoot my TV set out. Bob Seger will suck chimp dicks in hell for recording that song.
And another one I hate is the “Ford Focus” commericial. It’s not enough that the Focus is the ugliest goddamned car since that dog car in “Dumb and Dumber” - they have to torture us with those commercials with idiot models driving European versions of the car around stinking European cities while that irritating woman-pop-corporate song plays about how if you drive your mass-produced-and-marketed Ford Focus you’re a revolutionary on par with Thomas Jefferson.
I actually just read an article in the LA Times (love newspapers on the web!) about ethnic tension in Glendale that stated that Glendale has the highest population of Armenians per capita of any city outside of the Armenian capital (the name of which escapes me at the moment).
Those damned commercials where the guy is fucking obsessed with beer when there’s a hot chick right the fuck in front of him! Get a god-damned LIFE or let me get with her! FUCKHEAD! It’s not FUCKING FUNNY!
Armenia did become independent after the break-up of the old Soviet Union. Since then, it has be sort of having an on-again, off-again war with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno Karabach region, which makes the European news media from time-to-time. The capital is Yerevan (?sp).
I beleive that there are also significant Armenian-speaking populations in Iran and Iraq, which may have led to the confusion with Farsi.
If you’d asked me, though, I would have guessed that most of the people leaving the region to settle in the USA would have been Kurds, who would presumably be Kurdish speakers.
I’ll back Homer up on this - Johnson County has about 2% unemployment overall for about the last 4 years, and in the tech areas it’s been basically 0%. There has been a HUGE influx of foreign IT people to the area, especially Indians and Chinese. Hell, 10 of the last 10 job applicants I had were Indian or Chinese nationals, not that I care any but I’m just saying the cultural landscape in southern JoCo is changing rapidly, and that is what I believe Homer is noticing most.
And only the Indians seem to be able to speak English very well - one fellow from Bangalore that worked with me for a year put my knowledge of English to shame. And before you start clicking the “flame” button - their language skills mean nothing to me except for customer service/client relations jobs. A person who’s 20% fluent in English talking to a client from Mississippi results in serious client frustration, and lost work. So we hire them for purely programming jobs and offer to pay for training in English.
Anthracite, right on both counts. I also love it when Maury has those 8 year olds who smoke and drink and beat up their parents, and they go to boot camp and get yelled at and cry and come back all changed and stuff. It’s hilarious.
Homer, That was great! This may sound weird, but I get to a point where stupid shit bothers me and it will only take one little thing like a Dodge commercial to send me to the top of a tower with a gun.
