'Fukushima effect' on Japan goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima

[Taro Toporific]

French TV Host Riles Japan With 'Fukushima' Comment About Goalie
e.nikkei.com | October 16, 2012 | PARIS (Kyodo)--A French television host has riled Japan by showing a composite picture of Japan goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima with four arms and citing the "Fukushima effect" when praising him for his performance in Japan's defeat of France in a soccer friendly.
The Japanese Embassy in France is planning to lodge a protest with the national television station France 2 about the remark made by the host Laurent Ruquier...more...

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http://mcetv.fr/news-express/1410-on-n- ... n-du-japon

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Nice diplomacy, Frog.

Ironically, this goalie was the sook who cried when the Belgians teased him, too....

[Samurai_Jerk]

I'm glad to see the Foreign Ministry is tackling the big issues.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I'm glad to see the Foreign Ministry is tackling the big issues.

Well, soccer is the world's biggest sport and it is a bit unfair if you've got to play against a goalie with four arms...

[matsuki]

"We Japanese regret....."

[Coligny]

Ruquier is an humorist...

and not exactly a newcomer...

go ahead... protest...

Just hope he don't make public apologies...

they might be braziliun times worse than his first joke...

[yanpa]

they might be braziliun times worse than his first joke...

So you're saying he waxes lyrical?

[GomiGirl]

they might be braziliun times worse than his first joke...

So you're saying he waxes lyrical?

Yellow card!!

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Ruquier is an humorist...
Just hope he don't make public apologies...
they might be braziliun times worse than his first joke...

He may shit on the restaurant floor, piss in the airplane aisle or let his little pooch shit everywhere...nothing says "class" quite as well as putting an "e" on the end of it to make "classe."

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

they might be braziliun times worse than his first joke...

So you're saying he waxes lyrical?

Yellow card!!

With you, GG...

[Coligny]

You'ze just djealous because a Frenchman just need to take a leak to make worlwide news while yer people could discover time travel and nobody would care aboot it...

[Coligny]

they might be braziliun times worse than his first joke...

So you're saying he waxes lyrical?

Yellow card!!

With you, GG...

ok, once again...

LAPIN...

Can somebody spell it out for the cultural minorities ?

(i got, braziliun and waxe, but the lyrical part ? nista ne razumem...)

[GomiGirl]

wax lyrical
to talk about something with a lot of interest and excitement I recall Roz waxing lyrical about the flatness of his stomach.
See also: wax

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

You'ze just djealous because a Frenchman just need to take a leak to make worlwide news while yer people could discover time travel and nobody would care aboot it...

You're right...we discovered time travel long ago and nobody gives a fuck. It's 1997 in Oz, and probably even earlier in New Zealand (I think I can see Slick Willy pulling out one of his cigars...)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

(i got, braziliun and waxe, but the lyrical part ? nista ne razumem...)

To "wax lyrical" means to speak eloquently about something (and maybe even slightly derogatorily if used to describe excessively florid speech, but that's not the case here).

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Sorry...just noticed GG answered much earlier, far more succinctly...Apologies.

[matsuki]

I think I can see Slick Willy pulling out one of his cigars...

I hope it makes you cringe as much as I did when I heard about that. If not, just imagine it was like a twirling a screwdriver in a bowl of Jello

[yanpa]

I think I can see Slick Willy pulling out one of his cigars...

I hope it makes you cringe as much as I did when I heard about that. If not, just imagine it was like a twirling a screwdriver in a bowl of Jello

I'm going to have to invoke LAPIN on the above :mystified:

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I hope it makes you cringe as much as I did when I heard about that. If not, just imagine it was like a twirling a screwdriver in a bowl of Jello

Don't forget...you've never been married to Hillary.