Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by jbverschoor on Monday March 20, 2017 @03:45AM
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Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by Axsuul on Monday March 20, 2017 @04:53AM
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Unter is the German word for under while Über can mean above
Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by BinaryIdiot on Monday March 20, 2017 @06:22AM
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I didn't get it. Thanks for explaining it!
Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by omginternets on Monday March 20, 2017 @05:56AM
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That's the joke.
Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by renesd on Monday March 20, 2017 @06:04AM
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Über is the joke?
Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by matt4077 on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:43AM
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Uber is going Under
Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by thomask0 on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:20AM
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Well what's happening with all the rats leaving the ship it feels more like the "Der Ubergang"
For non-German speakers, its a pun on the German name of the the movie Downfall (Untergang), infamous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip.
Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by hueving on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:52AM
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>infamous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip.
Interesting side-node about 'infamous'. Just because a movie depicts a terrible event or subject (Hitler in this case), it doesn't mean the move itself is 'infamous'. The movie (i.e. the artists) didn't do a terrible deed (e.g. completely misrepresent Hitler as innocent), so in this case the movie is simply "famous for it's Hitler in the bunker clip".
Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by ivraatiems on Monday March 20, 2017 @10:13AM
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I think it's more infamous because the clip has been used memetically as a joke on other people/things freaking out about stuff. So the movie's not infamous but the clip is.
Re:Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures
by hueving on Monday March 20, 2017 @11:35PM
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But it's still just famous because it's used in a humorous context. When I think of all of the combinations of those clips I've seen, I think of them in a funny way, not a bad way.
Maybe those clips are really offensive to some people, in which case they would be infamous to the offended.