If you're going to start a religion, make sure you don't choose a name for it that can be anagrammed. One of our Swedish viewers alerts us to this bit of prankery, in which the sign on the building of a local Jehovah's Witnesses' Kingdom Hall — "Rikets Sal" — has been creatively edited to read "Skitarsle," which, we are informed, translates in English to "asshole."
Not that we approve of such petty vandalism. But I'm still chuckling.
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A closer translation would be "sh*t ass". Not a common word but you have to work with what you get.
ReplyDeleteAn anagram for Jehovah's Witnesses:
ReplyDelete"Naive. He shows jests."
I thought I was the only swedish reader.
ReplyDeleteNope, here's another one! No surprise that swedes are overrepresented at an atheist blog though.
ReplyDeleteI should add that I wrote back to the guy who sent this in. He explained a more accurate translation is "shit hole." I told him that actually is more applicable, because it's a defamation of a "place" rather than a "person." Again, I can't condone vandalism. But wanted to share that.
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ReplyDeleteI thought I was the only swedish reader."
Det finns fler svenskar här...
Tons of people from Sweden. I want to move there one day. I've been wanting to visit Sweden and Norway for the longest time now.
ReplyDeleteFunny to think that in Sweden atheists are the moral majority.
ReplyDeleteI am quite fond of Sweden, when I was a teenager we had a foreigne xchange student form there who came to live with our family for a year. I considered her like my sister. She is the first atheist I remember meeting.
Hi there Tracie! It's Mattias here who sent you the story. I think you should correct the last sentense in the blog-post ... :) Or is my english that bad?
ReplyDeleteI'm not chuckling.
ReplyDeleteThis is nothing more than criminal trespass and malicious vandalism; no different than removing the "P" and "L" from the sign at a PFLAG office. (See what I did there?)
I can think of a number of places - religious and otherwise - where this kind of stunt would entail genuine risk. JW's are a pretty mild bunch as god-botherers go, so the vandals(s) involved had essentially ZERO chance of getting their clocks cleaned, making this an example of cowardly opportunism masquerading as bravado.
Yay! Sweden rules! ...And swedish Jehova's Witnesses don't! Sverige e bäst, Sverige e bäst...
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