From our language files.
An "insulted liverwurst" (an offended liver sausage) is a German term for someone who pouts, is a primadonna, cannot take a joke, gets easily offended (while often having provided some sort of justification for people to crack a joke in the first place).
The German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has a recent example of behavior that reader comments have labeled "insulted liverwurst". In yesterday's edition, the paper reports that Asiana Airlines announced a lawsuit against against San Francisco TV station KTVU over a report in connection with the crash of an Asiana flight at San Francisco International Airport.
A screen shot from a KTVU report listing the "pilot names", starting with "Captain Sum Ting Wong", followed, for good measure, by "We Tu Lo" and a couple of others, has irked the airline enough to file a suit.
The station apologized for this when it discovered someone had pulled a prank.
While certainly not in good taste, TheEditor thinks this should be it and sides with a reader of the paper who recommends spending the money on pilot training instead.
The fundamental cause of the accident seems to be bad piloting that resulted in a loss of life.
Minor scratches to the egos of whoever decided to take legal action are par for the course and TheEditor just put Asiana on the shit list: "They have their priorities all wrong. You cannot fly at all if you shun every airline that has had an accident, but you should stay the hell away from one that goes the route of the 'insulted liverwurst' after being responsible for the death of passengers."
Is there anybody mature running that airline?
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