PDA

View Full Version : Spanish basketball team poses for offensive photo

MMC
08-12-2008, 06:05 PM
Read the article and see the "offensive" photo Here (http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Spanish-basketball-team-poses-for-offensive-pict?urn=oly,100152).

Personally, I don't see the big deal in all of this. Sure, I understand why Chinese officials are mad, but it was a simple joke that spread a little far. What do you think Xgen?
MushroomMammoth
08-12-2008, 06:27 PM
Seems funny to me.
Defective
08-12-2008, 06:35 PM
Funny and offending. They are clearly making fun of Chinese people, but that's what everyone does so....
Ignatz
08-12-2008, 06:35 PM
I don't think any judgement should be made, because we don't know in what context the picture was used.

It's for an ad? Well, gee, that helps a whole ####ing lot. Now could we see this advertisement?

I will say, however, that the article writer was disgustingly biased.
DarkReality
08-12-2008, 06:39 PM
... What exactly was the point of posing like that anyway? o.O
denacioust
08-12-2008, 06:41 PM
Well, the moral of the story is they beat China in basketball.
Dan
08-12-2008, 08:43 PM
Boy, that's real hard to do.
Sperry
08-12-2008, 09:00 PM
It'd be like a team posing with little cardboard cutouts of the word ######. Sure, you might have meant "yo we beat you", but if that's not the message they get, it really doesn't matter.

[Oh, and pardon the offensive tongue, for you would-be reporters. -.-]
StickMaster
08-12-2008, 09:06 PM
I think China needs a sence of humer.
Fabian920
08-12-2008, 09:58 PM
I like Spanish peoples.
Taktwo
08-12-2008, 10:46 PM
I think China needs a sence of humer.

Have you been to China?

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8420/seriousux9.jpg

They are NOT happy people.
SitarFreak
08-13-2008, 08:09 AM
Actually, when it comes to their country, they are actually outwardly patriotic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANUB_VZGNXQ

Really, they didn't even need a singer.
DarkReality
08-13-2008, 09:26 AM
That's because the secret invisible chinapolice arrests anyone who doesn't sing. Man, you're so ignorant.

>_>

How is happy the same thing as outwardly patriotic and being proud that your nation is dominating the Olympics?
StickMaster
08-13-2008, 10:39 AM
The US is in the lead. I really just checked we have more total medals then them so their gold medals dont match up to the US. Yeah for US! Did you get it?
Sperry
08-13-2008, 07:46 PM
I'll say this again.... Total medals mean nothing. "Yay, we're best at losing to two other people!"... So what?

If you're going to measure "victory" at the Olympics [way to miss the point], at least measure with the correct scale. Gold medals are used as the primary basis for winning; and Silver/Bronze only come into place if there is a tie for Golds.

*exhale of seriousness*
n3xus
08-13-2008, 08:36 PM
The spanish team was not only highly inconsiderate of its chinese hosts but have also disregarded the lasting diplomatic complications between Spain and China. In one instant theyve insulted 1,321,851,888 people. if they didnt mean any offense then they were extremely stupid.
¿CRAZYØ¿
08-14-2008, 08:58 AM
I'll say this again.... Total medals mean nothing. "Yay, we're best at losing to two other people!"... So what?

If you're going to measure "victory" at the Olympics [way to miss the point], at least measure with the correct scale. Gold medals are used as the primary basis for winning; and Silver/Bronze only come into place if there is a tie for Golds.

*exhale of seriousness*
America just reports it like that. If America had more gold, and China had more total, they would still have the US in the lead.