Kevin Rudd Addresses Peking University Students

[negooog]

Rudd's taliking about human rights, the girl says she's a uni student and the dude asks for a coke and an apple pie. Subtitles are wrong cause Beijing Uni students struggle with comprehending spoken english. Maybe they wish they could tune out that way.

[thomasascension]

funny very funny

[sungl0]

blah!

[eazybk]

i remember at the time the media thought it was great that he spoke chinese.. but i cant see how how an aussie pm speaking chinese at our own apec is anything other than a natural embarrassment..

[negooog]

@eazybk natural embarrassment?? did you mean national?

[Rambl147]

Australia should say no to anymore immagrants. We need to preserve what Australia is, one of the least populated countrys on earth. I live 2hrs away from Sydney I love where I live its full of Austrlains. I travel to Sydney alot, it seems like a whole different country. Sydney CBD areas are full of Asians and west of Sydney its full of middle easteners. We should expand our own culture and put a serious stop to immagrants.

[poltoons]

I think the aborigines were saying something similar about 222 years ago :)

[Rambl147]

Hahaha I bet. Its such a shame what is happening to Australia and the rest of the world with the ever increasing needs humans demand. Don't they cull kangaroos when the populations are out of control to preserve the flora? We don't want to end up like America on the edge of beeing a 3rd world country. I guess money destroys everything.

[kangurski]

@poltoons I doubt :) they certainly welcomed white people booze then and they certainly like the white people money now. And the only reason why they are not happy is that they want more and more of both.

btw, vid is ok :)

[Rambl147]

@kangurski And you certainly welcome the crime white people money and white people booze bring to Australia. Hahahahaha

[kangurski]

@Rambl147 hmm.. you sound like someone who got too much of one (booze) and not enough of the other (money).

[Rambl147]

@kangurski That would of offended me if I didn't quit drinking 6 years ago :) Back to the point, you people have no fucking idea.

[NTBushPilot]

@poltoons Burnnn

[poltoons]

@NTBushPilot Thanks for watching ;)

[j4m35k4n9]

@Rambl147

hahhaha

you realise without foreign investment,

australia would be in the stone age?

[Dejan187]

@Rambl147 u r tha fkn immigrant go fuck ur queen

[agents1986]

@Rambl147 maybe we should get more immigrants in.. to teach dumb hicks like you how to spell. because clearly the australian education system has failed you.

[Timb0NZ]

@Rambl147 lol, stop being intolerant of other people/cultures.

[TheMrShane1]

This guy knows he can make money by going along with the China lies. I would never lower my self to his level.

[elfornse]

Climate Gate is going to bury this fascist!!

[TimelordV]

that was really good 5/5

[MrGhostwhowalks]

Fair shake of the sauce bottle you lot.

[anyangman]

Lame, and unfunny.

[poltoons]

Don't be so hard on yourself dude.

[jamarson]

The Chinese vocal totally DOES NOT matched with the English Subtitle. very funny video though!

[poltoons]

Of course I'm trying to put Rudd down you nong.

My video is fail. Your brain is fail. We're even.

[xanxus1337]

This video is fail...if you can speak chinese or another foreign language as well as Rudd then talk...

The English subtitles aren't all correct as well...last two people said "I'm a Uni Student" and "One coke and another apple pie". That just shows that you're trying to put Rudd down...you such a liar...go get a life

[xingfenzhen]

The two comments in the crowd made this video!

Girl: I'm a college student

Guy: One Coke, and another apple pie.

[itsanthonyhere]

hahahahahahahahaha

[SCHWANZKUSS]

RUDD'S A DUDD

[poltoons]

catchy line. Props to you if you can come up with one for Turnbull.

[theskitzoestcunt]

China love building walls. They've got the great wall of china and the gret firewall of china. China is still 50 years behind everyone else in terms of freedom of speech, stop fearing the world and open up. Long live the West

[poltoons]

..on the other hand, China's middle class is growing at a massive rate, which could lead to positive reform in the areas of freedom of speech and human rights. All this at a time when the gap between rich and poor in the US just keeps getting bigger...

[embers17]

The wealthiest Prime Minister ever. Well, he's not in it for the money. Global Warming scam carbon taxes, APEC to Asian Community. He is another low-life New World Order puppet boy. We'd better start waking up here or we are next in line like USA. (they already took our guns!)Wait until our police start behaving like bouncers on Saturday nights.

[CoolBun2003]

? I live in China, and i go to youtube every day, never have I got problem with viewing any vids, except the ones that were removed by youtube. By the way, the Chinese speech has got nothing to do with the subtitle whatsoever.

[poltoons]

er, yes, I think we've already established that.

[itsanthonyhere]

Why did you even make this about Rudd anyway? His tones are great and Chinese say his accent is great..

[poltoons]

The animation is basically saying that nobody can understand what Rudd ever says because he speaks bureaucrat-style gibberish - even when speaking in Chinese. Read the English text that accompanies the speech - can you understand what he's blathering on about?

[GTpanik]

you wrong for that

[lookyeahhohon]

China is also very concerned about the racisim issue in Australia, particulary in regards to the Arabs immigrants and originals. China hopes that this is not some kind of a genocide.

[poltoons]

Nice one. When we start shooting our own citizens, get back to me.

[diuleeseafood]

oh you dont shoot your own citizen, you shot and drugged the originals to steal their land.

[poltoons]

a comment about indigenous dispossession and you live in Canada. r..i..g..h..t

[lookyeahhohon]

sending your boys to Iraq to help out in the genocide is pretty much like shooting your own kids???

[poltoons]

Wow, we've gone from Australia's PM speaking gibberish to racism in Australia to Australia's involvement in the Iraq war. Gotta love democracy and freedom of speech.

[diuleeseafood]

he wish

[australiachina]

China government does not fully ban youtube. So far the video is not in Chinese, it is free to be viewed inside China. Most Chinese will not watch youtube due to their lack of English ability. They will visit some Chinese video host websites that are similar to youtube and are strictly censored.

[bowensu]

Misinterpretion and mistranslation

[poltoons]

I agree - you have completely misinterpreted this cartoon.

[thompsonwalker]

great stuff with your toons. looking forward to the next. ignore the morons.

[poltoons]

thanks thompson - but I don't mind the morons. They make me feel so much smarter than I am :)

[thompsonwalker]

Ah, that must be how MY head suddenly got so big.

[AustralianMonarchist]

Vote 1 Darren Chester- Nationals For Gippsland, VIC

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[akaandgbow]

oh dear, 5,133 views and only the idiots feel compelled to comment?

Do have to disagree with the animater though- why ruin g3nzz's succinct and thought provoking observation with superfluous punctuation?

The toon was very funny. well done.

[samdahabib]

Anyone criticising Rudds ability to speak another language must be an absolute moron.

[liber8me]

yeah why bother criticising his ability to speak when you can criticise his ability to fuck up queensland health and infastructure when he was head of the public sector in the labor goss government?

[singrider]

Come on man, It's does't mean that if you can speek Chinese that we will agree about you.

Human Right is poor in China, but it's the fault that we are poor, Govement need money to develop the country.

BUT why we are so poor? Because ALL of YOU INVADED us in 200 years. Took all our gold silver out, sell drug and force us to sign the unfair agreements.

Even our constomer are yours! And when we develop quickly by hard word with low paid and no insure, THEN YOU BECOME HOLY TALK HUMAN RIGHT

[liber8me]

i thought youtube was banned in china

censorship of the internet

nice.

[SCHWANZKUSS]

Rudd is a Noddy

[PoetPerson]

There was so much hype and pomp surrounding Rudd's apparently exemplary grasp of Mandarin, what satirist could resist? Well, I thought it was funny and I don't understand Mandarin (and sometimes even have a problem with English). If it was meant to offend, I think the animator would gone down an entirely different road.

[okuniwa]

shut the hell up noobs, aussies fucking own u americans losers go drop a bomb on urself.

[poltoons]

oh...kay....

[g3nzz]

fuck u cunt aussies rule free tibet

[poltoons]

this is one of those instances where punctuation is oh-so-important.

[eightincher8]

Go Home Aussie!!!!!

None of your Fucking Business!!!

[poltoons]

That's the way! Nothing like a bit of well-articulated passion to spark off a bit of debate.

I'm guessing, eightincher8, that you take exception to Kevin Rudd's comments as presented in this animation. For our non-Mandarin speaking audience, the audio was taken from Kevin Rudd's address to Peking University students, where he refers to China's human rights abuses in Tibet.

[damosanchex]

So you agree with the abuse?

[poltoons]

That's s-a-r-c-a-s... oh forget it.

[elladacat]

it wasn't funny, and the audio from the chinese students don't match the translation. in fact they said "i am a university student/ can i have a cola and another apple pie". if u were chinese you might find it on the nose...

[poltoons]

The animation wasn't aimed at a Chinese audience, so what any Chinese speakers think of it is irrelevant.

As for funny, well that's your opinion. I think you're thick as two short planks, but I have every chance of being funny next week.

[elladacat]

so perhaps one should assume that chinese speakers will not be offended merely on the grounds that the animation was not aimed at them? that's a strong argument... not.

also, u don't know me, so it's sad that you are resorting to personal attacks.

[Steven2690]

I dont think you understand that people who cant speak in Chinese dont know what he was actually saying anyway,

So the subtitles down the bottom could say anything and we wouldnt know the difference because we cant understand the language

[elladacat]

what's funny about that?

[poltoons]

Are you asking me what the point of the animation was, or simply telling me you didn't find it funny?

[kralalrulz]

true