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Asha

Mandela

By Asha, in General Chat

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Guest MattP

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This tribute concert. lol

Pissing it down, pa system not working, crowd starting to boo.

Obama got cheered and Blair got booed lol

The bbc telling us yesterday they could fill the place ten times over and its half empty.

Merging Cultures

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In Cape Town for the birth of my son. Better hospitals than Lesotho...

In the hotel lobby, white receptionist looking at the tv to black waitress...

"Is that still on? What time did it start?"

BBC in Cape Town outside City Hall, "thousands of people packed in here".

We drove by 20mins before and there were maybe 400 people...

Webbo

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South Africa's deaf federation has confirmed that an interpreter using sign language during the Mandela memorial was a 'fake'.
The man, who signed for a portion of the televised event at  Johannesburg's FNB Stadium was simply making up his own signs, according to the Deaf Federation of South Africa.
The unidentified man seen around the world on television next to leaders like U.S. President Barack Obama 'was moving his hands around but there was no meaning in what he used his hands for,' said Bruno Druchen, the federation's national director.Three sign language experts said the man was not signing in South African or American sign languages.
 
South African sign language covers all of the country's 11 official languages, according to the federation. 
South African parliament member Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen, a member of the ruling party who is deaf and who is married to Druchen, also said the man communicated nothing with his hand and arm movements.
Nicole Du Toit, an official sign language interpreter who also watched the broadcast, said in a telephone interview that the man on stage purporting to sign was an embarrassment.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Vacamion

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Hilarious.

 

I thought when I saw it that he was a bit "Rock and roll"....

 

lol

 

What on EARTH would make you want to stand up there and fake being able to sign?

 

Takes some cojones to try that.

Guest MattP

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lol

Even for Africa that is brilliant.

Can't wait for the funeral on Sunday, should be comedy gold.

bovril

bovril

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football players would have understood him

 

Yes, looks like he's picked them up from watching over-enthusiastic Serie A coaches! lol

One of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Guest MattP

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Is there no end to the BBC worship?

 

Question Time is actually from Johannesburg tomorrow.

Harry - LCFC

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Why do the conservatives keep finding ways of mocking these events? Is it just that it's a fairly left wing thing and you're drawn towards attacking it or do you have a genuine reason for disliking what you see? Honestly I'd be interested to know as I don't understand it at the moment.

Guest MattP

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Why do the conservatives keep finding ways of mocking these events? Is it just that it's a fairly left wing thing and you're drawn towards attacking it or do you have a genuine reason for disliking what you see? Honestly I'd be interested to know as I don't understand it at the moment.

 

Because it's funny, we all know what the ANC are, despite the leftist media trying to tell us how wonderful they have made South Africa we all know the reality of it, they have turned it into a AIDS ridden, corrupt, backwards dump, of course we are going to mock when you see things that miming expert who they allowed to stand next to Barack Obama etc (and they actually have now admitted they don't even know his name lol) It's the South Africa a lot of us know who haven't been fed the media lies.

 

How can you not laugh when a nations people start cheering Robert Mugabe and Barack Obama and booing Tony Blair and George Bush, it's a memorial for Nelson Mandela's memorial and the crowd are judging on peoples race.

 

But from a personal level it's the bullshit and obsession I can't stand.

 

The BBC saying a million people are expected to walk up to the memorial, it was going to bigger than Churchills funeral and then you turn it on and they haven't even half filled a stadium of 80,000. Moving Question Time to Joburg tonight.

 

With watching what they are showing you would think Jesus Christ has died, at least the turnout for the events has probably showed a lot of people that Nelson Mandela is actually probably more of a hero to white liberal westerners who have never set foot in South Africa than black South Africans themselves.

 

The only station I saw give a speech to any anti-Mandela speaker was CNN (he was black) and they cut him off sharp as soon as he started saying that at least before the ANC even though it was racist at least the blacks could get a meal and a job.

Guest MattP

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Fair enough. Hadn't realised some of that stuff was going on.  :blush:

 

Set the Sky Plus for the funeral on Sunday, we should be guaranteed some comedy gold.

Guest MattP

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This is just the gift that keeps on giving lol If in doubt pull out the disabled card. I've heard he's already been asked to do the sign language for the DNO television station.

 

Anyone give me odds on a Witch Doctor raising him from the dead at the funeral?

 

 

A "fake" sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela's memorial service has reportedly said he suffered a schizophrenic episode.

Thamsanqa Jantjie, who was criticised on social media for apparently making "meaningless gestures" during the ceremony, said he takes medication for the condition.

He does not know whether it was the magnitude of what he was doing or the happiness he felt which might have triggered the attack while on stage.

The 34-year-old man, who was pictured signing next to world leaders including US President Barack Obama, claimed he suddenly lost concentration and started hearing voices and hallucinating.

Mr Jantjie said it impaired his ability to hear things properly and interpret what was said, but he could not leave so stayed and continued to sign words and phrases that did not make sense.

Guest MattP

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They are unbelievable.

I know it's their hero passing but even I didn't expect it to this extent.

pSinatra

pSinatra

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I saw Eastenders last week & they managed to shoehorn Mandela's death into that.  Given that Eastenders is filmed months in advance, I thought it piss poor that they had filmed a scene in preparation for his death.  Why bother?  As if it isn't miserable enough already?

 

They couldn't predetermine the circumstances of his death, so had two actors staring aimlessly at a front page headline of the Walford Gazette stating that Mandela had died.  Proper thought provoking it was.

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