Apology for/explanation of rant, was Re: What do you guys listen to? :)

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Sunday 02 December 2007, greg emond wrote:

> I am french, and the first joke was very funny.  The seond one was... THE
> truth! I will lift my arms and kill you all with the toxic fumes that
> emanate from there!  vive le quebec libre!

I shouldn't have gone there, but since I did, and since a fair number of 
people really don't seem to get it, I feel I should point out for any 
non-American friends who didn't grasp the irony that the whole rant 
was "acted out" by a stereotypical insular American with no idea what's going 
on outside this country's borders.  It was all a laugh at the worst my 
country has to offer on the world stage, not at anyone outside these borders 
at all, and most especially not French people.  (Je parle français aussi, mon 
ami, bien que je le parle très mal.)  [TRANSLATION OF FRENCH TEXT: I speak 
French too, my friend, though I speak it very badly.]

So anyone in the audience who isn't American should point at us and laugh, and 
anyone who lives inside these borders should look around and laugh.  We're 
not all like that, but some of us really are.

But the whole thing was really a horrible public exhibit of why I spent a 
significant part of my childhood getting beaten up by somebody.  Lots of 
people don't get my twisted sense of humor at all, and especially not in an 
environment where most readers speak English as a second language, and 
haven't spent as many hours as I have watching Monty Python, South Park, 
Carlos Mencia, and weirdly twisted French and Spanish movies.

Sorry about all the noise everybody.  I just want to make sure there are no 
hard feelings.

If necessary, I'll call Dad over to come hold my head in the toilet and get 
one of my kids to take a picture of me getting a good old fashioned American 
swirly.  That is if the old man is strong enough to lift my stereotypically 
overweight American truck driving redneck ass that high.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre