The race that stops an Asian.
So last night my dear radio co-hosts Paul and Glenny were discussing yesterday's Melbourne Cup and the ensuing chaos which resulted after a Japanese jockey won the race:
Glenny: The VRC just weren't prepared at all. They'd obviously figured that the Japanese horse wasn't going to win so thought 'to hell with a translator, to hell with the post-race interview'. It was a total cock-up.
Me: So the post-race interview didn't wash?
Paul: You know the little gimp on the horse who has his moment in the sun after the race is over? He just sat there and did that 'Australian translation' thing where he yelled at the jockey until he got an answer. You know, 'HAPPY? ARE...YOU...HAPPY...? ARE YOU HAPPY TODAY?'
Me: Dear me.
Glenny: Yeah, and then finally the guy goes 'Very happy' and the interview was pretty much over.
Paul: The best bit was the special comments bloke, though.
Me: Who's that?
Glenny: Oh fuck, that's right. I wasn't sure I heard that properly. After the race the winner was riding around waving to everyone and one of the commentators goes: 'Well, I'd trust him to ride my horse...and to order for me at a Chinese restaurant.'
Beat.
Me: What?
Glenny: He said he'd trust the winning jockey to order his Chinese dinner.
Me: He did not.
Paul: He did, I heard it too. It was unebelievable.
Me: What did the other commentators do?
Glenny: Well, they cut back to Bruce Macavaney who looked momentarily stunned before smiling at the camera and pressing on without mentioning it. It was surreal.
Me: You're having me on.
Glenny: I wish I was.
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So can anyone else verify this mystifying occurrence? I was kind of watching the race but not really paying attention as I was in a room with two handsome boys and trying to be funny so they'd fancy me. I can't find anything about it in the paper or online. Perhaps Glenn was smoking crack (NB this is quite possible; he gets bored easily).
What's scarier is to know that it most likely did happen and everyone is so used to this wrong kind of shit that it just washed over us like some kind of cheerily racist sunshower.
367 days til the next election.
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yep, I heard it and well .. and well, after all they are all chinese. I only watch for the cultural example of australian sportsman and was very happy. Most pleasing was that channel 7 left the special comments guy on for the rest of the day - kept me watching when I should have been back at work
... but more important didn't bec and leighton look nice
That's fucking outrageous.
Why on earth would you trust a jockey to order food? Look at the size of them (jockeys generally, not 'chinese' ones in particular) they (again, jockeys in general) probably hardly eat anything.
For what its worth, the commentator can't be that racist, i mean he eats chinese food.
p.s. K-Fed is on the market Fits. Citing "irreconcilable differences" presumably because "finally realised he is a fucking wanker" wasn't on the form.
absolutely happened. the coverage was laced with related comments, lots of "them" and "they" in reference to those clever japanese ...
Yep.
Post race the interviewer on horseback was speaking slowly and loudly as if someone who doesn't understand you will understand you better if you talk in that manner.
underwhelming:
When you put K-Fed and market together in one sentence I thought of K-mart.
yeah it was Simon Marshall a former jockey and complete bogan. He was also heard at one point shortly after just saying "chop chop" for no reason and at the end of the broadcast singing "im turning japanese" not once, but twice.
The look on Bruce's face was completely priceless as he tried to ignore the chinese takeaway comment and get to the ad break.
shit, i fancied you and i wasn't even in the room.
one wag in the bar I was in suggested that Pop Rock was actually the Asian owners' nod to their love of breakdancing, cruelly hamstrung by the phonemic proclivities of inflecting Engrish with a Japanese linguistic palate.
what a sirry cunt.
And then there was Man-omie Robson's question to Damien Oliver afterwards along the lines of, "So, is crying a big part of Japanese culture?"
As if there are no Australian jockeys who have pumped out the odd bucket or two of emotional blubber after winning the cup.
(and what was with all the jovial references to the impending "invasion"?)
who gives a shit?
the japs made me a fortune, they can do whatever the fuck they want.
which brings me to my next point, the only reason people were made was because they didn't bet on them.
arrogant cunts.
asians work harder and more efficiently then ozziez, of course they're gonna breed better, faster horses niggers. for fucks sake.
so much rage.
thankyouforyourtime.
The horses that finished first and second were Japanese ?
But their eyes looked normal....
The best part about the jockey not being able to speak English was the fact that we didn't have to listen to 15 minutes of him crying and thanking his parents and God and telling us that "she's such a good horse." It was nice.
... And instead, we got to hear an interview with good ol' Aussie, Damien Oliver. We can understand what he's saying. Even if it sounds like he's been sped up a bit.
As for the little gimp who interviews on horseback immediately after the race, you're all forgetting that he was talking in broken English, the stereotypical way a Japanese tourist might speak English, in addition to doing it loudly and slowly.
"YOU ... HAPPY? ... YOU ... LIKE? ... LOVE ... ME ... LONG ... TIME? ... YOU ... ORDER ... ME ... DINNER?"
I love it when television becomes undone and their prejudices and bullshit are exposed. The beauty of live TV.
On another note, the Frenchies in my house all said you looked 'cute' on the telly last night babe.
And you know what 'cute' in French means.
C-UTE.
I was hoping they would have kicked on their partying until they ended up at the Espy rocking out to Guitar Wolf that night.
Subby, on 'TV Is My Life' you can read my thoughts on how she was rudely ignored, however. Maybe there's a downside to being TOO c-ute?
Mysteries of A(ustrala)sia #1 The Japanese Restaurant on the main street in Geelong is run by CHINESE PEOPLE. #2 Dim Sims are an Australian invention.
Bevis, I've taken it over to your place...
Check.
I never knew Japanese people and chinese people spoke the same language. You learn the most amazing things on this blog!
Not exactly similar, but similar enough.
Two bogans overheard at the bar.
"Jeez gramps would be spinning in his grave noing the cup had gone over to Japan."
"ken oath"
Yeah was I the only person listening to the interview? To the jockey's credit he managed two words... 'SUPER HORSE!' Which is what every other speech has been about this jockey just did it a little more concisely. The interviewer should of spoken normally instead of slowly then the jockey would have understood...hang on what??
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