Calling the kettle Hitler

This one is from our old standby controversy mongers of the Huffingtion Post, who got it from the twitterati and the redditi.

To make sure the kettle looks more like that guy, they blurred the image.

Yeah.

When will they do a funny post about bad food names?

Yuk Chuck.

Come on, you don't think yuk chuck is funny?

Well, neither does my chinese grocery store. They only put the "yuk chuck" underneath the pictogram (which is really what many chinese symbols started out as) to help me find some way to talk about the product.

Do you have squiggles? is not the best question to ask the clerk.

Do you have yuk chuck is more precise.

It was an unpleasant day for the software developer colleague of mine when I told him he should not use all the funny Asian food names, penis and otherwise, he had collected on company time and which he wanted to incorporate in a presentation of a new enterprise software module.

I understand why you enjoy them, I told him, but you have no idea who will be attending the presentation. It needs only one remote participant without your sense of humor, and you have a situation.

And while we are calling the kettle Hitler, UPS has no problem dressing their German employees in brown uniforms.

When Germans talk of "brown shirts" they still mean Nazis.

We do not know if the neo-Nazi preference for black is in part due to UPS having taken their brown.

There is also about the story of the green bearded middle aged man who called his six feral cats Hitler. Next time, maybe.

[Update 29 May 2013] We beat German online Der Spiegel by 24 hours! To be fair, they had to do a write-up in German, and that takes time.