Australian Prime Minister's Spoof "Apocalypse" Speech Goes Viral In China

brindafella writes "Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, recorded a spoof speech about the Mayan calendar apocalypse several days ago, for radio station "Triple J". Gillard said in part, 'Whether the final blow comes from flesh eating zombies, demonic hell beasts or from the total triumph of K-pop, if you know one thing about me it is this: I will always fight for you to the very end.' The speech has been picked up in China on Sina Weibo (China's Twitter) and has achieved well over 23,000 repeats, without anyone picking up the irony." This comes on the heels of the online version of China's Communist Party newspaper picking up an Onion story about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un being named the "Sexiest Man Alive."

Comments

K-pop?

[Platinumrat]

Then the apocalypse is already upon us and I for one welcome our Korean overloads.

Re:K-pop?

[somersault]

Op, op op, OP is correct.

Re:K-pop?

[samoanbiscuit]

Korean pop has been called K-pop (and Japanese pop called J-pop) long before Gangnam Style was a twinkle in PSY's sunglasses.

Stupid People

[Nyder]

will believe anything on the interwebs.

Shit

[Intrepid imaginaut]

Why did nobody tell me demonic hell beasts were an option. Why am I always last to get the memo? I'm all geared up for zombies, vampires, ice ages, meteorite strikes, pandemics and alien invasions. Now I have to go study Alice Cooper videos for vulnerabilities. Is salt good or is that just ghosts? Damn!

Re:Shit

[Mindcontrolled]

Don't worry. Demonic hell beasts are handled like fast zombies. Firepower is key. Just don't rely on your anti-zombie shotguns. You want armor piercing capability. Minor upgrade to your gear, no big thing. Wait, don't you have at least one M82 for anti-alien action?? I thought you were prepared...

Re:Shit

[Intrepid imaginaut]

Wait, don't you have at least one M82 for anti-alien action?? I thought you were prepared...

Please, my shit is next gen. I've got a powerbook running windows 95 on a virtual PC that I left exposed to the internet for a couple of days.

Welcome to earth!

Erm..

[philmarcracken]

As an aussie. This was not funny the first time. And not funny the second on /.

Im just glad she listened to the right people when it comes to fiber.

Re:Erm..

[Farmer Tim]

Im just glad she listened to the right people when it comes to fiber.

Indeed, the last thing you want is a constipated PM.

Re:Stupid People

[Spottywot]

I believe you.

Re:What I would like to know...

[somersault]

Hmm.. could be that all that stuff about the Great Firewall is just a practical joke. And North Korea is actually a real paradise with real unicorns. They just pretend to be a horrible, insane dictatorship to keep us out..

23,000 repeats

[lucmove]

23,000 repeats shouldn't mean much in China.

Re:Sarcasm

[Anonymous Coward]

From my experience working with Chinese people, and I don't mean people of Chinese decent, but actually born, raised and lived in China most of their lives; they don't get sarcasm. Most of them, anyway. They don't.

My boss is Chinese, and will stare blankly when I make a sarcastic remark about something, and most of the Chinese people around me are the same. They just have a different sense of humor, I guess it's a cultural thing. ...and it's not like I can write [SARCASM] on a notebook and hold it up like a sign. They won't get the reference either.

Re:Humour and irony

[Jawnn]

I hate to tell you this, but all over Europe it is well known that Americans don't understand irony.

No, it isn't anything like silvery or coppery....

I hate to tell you this, but all over the U.S.A. it is well known that Europeans are prone to over-generalizing when it comes to Americans.