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$100? I think I’ll just find a Chinese restaurant and get a fortune cookie.
probably peruvian dollars or something. hardly a fail.
Precisely.
Not Engrish (as the syntax is good enough) and the “$” sign is also used to indicate “pesos” in several Latin American countries.
As an example, not long ago the Venezuelan Peso had an exchange rate in the range of thousands of pesos per US Dollar, and the currency symbol was the same “$”.
So that could be only a few US cents in Pesos.
Sorry but this Engrish fails.
I fail.
I’ll correct myself: Venezuela uses Bolivar, not Peso, and I think the symbol is different.
As many have pointed out below, that’s likely Colombian Pesos.
Errare humanum est.
You corrected yourself correctly. This is in Cartagena, Colombia.
Wait. We know this is not in the US because it says calls to the US are $100/minute. Among the other contries of where you can call, Colombia is listed as one of them. Would someone make calls to their own country for the same price as international calls?
Technically, some countries use USD or EUR as their de-facto currency w/out really belonging to either monetary system, so “$” isn’t necessarily some other currency that’s not USD.
I thought this type of usage was called ‘de jure’, not ‘de facto’. Meaning fail.
Yep, it’s Colombian. Carulla is a Colombian supermarket chain.
So why are domestic calls priced the same as int’l ones?
That’s what I’ve been asking. Any Colombians know the answer?
Exactly, i live in Cartagena, Colombia as well and i know where that sign may have been.
Actually, 100 Colombian pesos are 0.02 US dolars. correct me if wrong.
And yet the Engrish lies not in the price, but rather the destinies…
this is fake. The print is way to dark compared to the other papers on the board and there are clearly creases in the paper, which do not translate to the text. better luck next time, engrishfunny.com
The other papers are older, crumpled, bent, and printed in a different font and smaller point size retard!
I didn’t realize retards came in different point sizes. Is it directly or inversely proportional to their IQ scores? Actually, based on my work with this population, I think it probably ought to be in proportion to the seriousness of any accompanying mental heath diagnosis. Bipolar mania always seems to come with a HUGE font!
You never get steamed at people who’s immediate reaction to anything they see on these sites is to yell “Fake” or “Fotochop”? When I get steamed the first things to suffer are my typing, grammar and proff-reeding skils!
If Photoshop was used as often as is claimed, the Adobe Corporation would be a bigger corporation than Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and General Motors combined.
It’s MS Paint. Look at the pixels.
Each pixel copyrighted by Bill Gates?
Sorry, whether somebody photoshopped it or just took the picture is of less concern to me than whether it is funny. Whether it is “real” Engrish or not is less concern to me than whether it is funny. So as you probably know, there are some things that get me steamed, but these are not among them. But I tend to agree with Buck in that practically every pic we see has someone claiming it was faked. And since there are no riches and virtually no fame associated with getting a fake pic posted on this site, I can’t imagine that there are that many people making this stuff up.
I was just making fun of those who call “Photoshop.” If you don’t think it is funny, I won’t do it again.
My response was actually directed at paws4thot, and it wasn’t intended as a criticism, just a response saying that no, the “photoshop” trolls don’t bother me more than any other trolls. I actually didn’t know what to make of your post there, since for all I know there might be a way to examine the individual pixels of a posted pic and tell their origin, although I suspected you were joking.
Well, if you see the tiny Microsoft copyright on the individual pixels, you can tell it is from MS Paint, but you’d need a microscope.
Plus, you have to turn the picture around, because the tiny Microsoft copyright is on the back of the pixels.
You’re a sweet kitty with kitty logic! Here, let me scratch your ears and chin! Just don’t drool on me like the last tom used too.
Okay. Hand me that pixel when you’re done with it.
Exactly!
Psst! There’s somebody down below you named “Rattus!”
So what? Did you want me to eat the rattus?
Well, there is a precedent. Somebody ate laconejita’s face. Of course, he was a troll, but in this case I’d be inclined to excuse you on the grounds of biological imperative.
I prefer mouse, actually…
I thought you preferred cheeseburgers.
You don’t put mouse on your cheeseburgers?
You disregard the prevalence of p!racy.
Your lovely (p!) is not as racy as you might imagine.
- Manager.
Yes, and yes. That is why I truly wish there were an edit feature to this site – it would make getting angry much less embarrassing.
Not to mention the troll-proofing aspect.
Yeah, but we also have a lot of fun with the mistakes people make in their posts, too, so I think not having an edit feature just adds to the LOLZ. As far as trolls, we get few persistent ones, anyway. Some get turned away by a clever put-down; mostly we ignore them and they go away.
I wonder what happened to my stalking troll. I haven’t seen him around lately.
But I don’t miss him. I should always be prepared because he creeps up when I least expect him.
I ate it. It was tough, but slightly nutritious. Not as good as a Daveburger, but better than Steve with a Mike glaze.
I guess that’s why you’re not interested in rattus.
Quite.
I wish I had had better proff-reading skills when I was in college.
I usually understood the subject. I wish I had better people and proph reading skills.
I hung around the halls of academe long enough to learn that what you know and what you can do have little to do with success in that environment. It’s all politics. That’s why I wish I had had better proff-reading skills.
Considering that one prof I had used to lapse back into German when he became really enthusiastic about the material he was teaching, I could’ve done with some prof-understanding skills in that language. “Prof, prof, you’re Doing It again, prof, prof, bitte, oh grud, someone in the first row throw something to get his attention, will you?”
Well, these are the result of using US Dollar symbol ($) for Colombian currency, pesos (written as a $ but with an additional line); in fact, this calls worth 100 pesos, a 20th part of a dollar.
Methinks the funny part is not the money amount, but the word “destinies”.
Well, I can sure say that it would have to be a hell of a destiny to be worth $100 a minute! So it’s a nickel a minute, $3.00 an hour, $72 dollars a day, $26,280 USD a year. Hmmm… It would still have to be a pretty darn good destiny!
Okay, I would call to find my destiny for $100 a minute, whether US or Colombian. As for the font thing, you ought to see the posters I create for stuff. I use a different size and kind of font for almost every line!
It doesn’t say you find out your destiny for $100 a minute; it says that you can “ask for other destinies,” implying that the destiny itself is what you’re paying for. If someone could tell me, accurately, my destiny for any price, I’d decline, since uncertainty and surprises are an important part of the experience of life, and because what happens if you find out your destiny is to be hit by a truck today and spend the rest of your life drooling and being fed by the nurses in a long-term care facility? But if I could CHOOSE a destiny, I could see that as a much more intriguing possibility.
it says “TO” not “WITHIN” the US. It gotta be a country that also uses the $ sign as well.
or! I could just type this out, print it, post it, and voila! I got an engrish here.
Exactly. In most cases, there is no way of knowing for sure if a pic is genuine, unless multiple people report having seen the same thing (and even in those cases, we’ve still had people yelling, “Photoshop!”). It’s not like we’re assessing the validity of a UFO video; we know Engrish exists, and it’s easy to see how someone could put “destinies” instead of “destinations.” So look. Laugh. Enjoy. Remain clam.
Aw, come one! $ doesn’t stands for “US Dollar” all around the world!
In this case means Colombian Peso…
In Chile is Chilean Peso…
In Argenita is Argentinian Peso…
In Mexico is a Mexican Peso…
And 100 colombian pesos are less tan 6 cents of an american dollar. Prety good deal indeed.
That’s not the engrish. It’s the word “destinies”
Apparently the shocked little panda pointing to the word is not a sufficient hint. :/
Destiny isn’t supposed to something you can buy your way into, goddamnit! I mean, sure, that’s what happens, but it’s not fair!!!
As everybody’s parents always told them, who ever said life was fair? When we’re young, we often become upset by the inequalities of the world and cry for justice. If we make it to a certain age, and have a decent level of insight, we come to realize how many of life’s inequalities have come out in our favor, and how little we have really accomplished with all our advantages, and we end up crying for mercy instead of justice.
Life stinks and then you die if you are lucky, is the thought of a fatal fatalist. If you endure, you live the life of Job.
If you endure, things change. Things became pretty good for Job after things changed.
Never cry. When the going gets tough, the tough get manic. If it doesn’t get better, enjoy it anyway.
Nothing wrong with crying. I think it would be healthy for me if I could cry more often, but I still have that old conditioning, big boys don’t cry. But I agree that happiness has a lot more to do with wanting what you have than having what you want.
I say, do it yourself!! Who wants a destiny made by a factory slave in China, anyway? Don’t buy into the consumer trap! make your own!
Oh, I believe that it helps to make wise choices, although we often don’t know which choices truly were wise except in retrospect. But I long ago learned that there are far fewer things over which I have control than over those I don’t, and that life is what happens when we’re making other plans.
$100 a minute? That would be one time to pray for premature ejaculation!
What a bargain!
It is if the sign is in Zimbabwe!
Every day from 10 to 12 a.m. and 7 to 9 p.m.
Umm… If it’s from 10am to 12am that is like ALL DAY so don’t need the 7pm to 9pm
At first glance, I thought $100 dollars was a lot, but to choose my own destiny, I think it’s a bargain.
i never believe in this “DESTINY” crap!
You are destined to find out you’re wrong.
I only eat organic, vegetarian, high-fibre, low-fat, dolphin-friendly, locally-grown, GM-free, carbon-neutral destinies. That’s why I am doomed to spend the rest of my life wearing a hemp sack woven by endangered penguins, eating rocks I harvested myself and being avoided by other humans because I smell dreadful due to lack of bathing and singing “Kumbaya” accompanying myself on a drum made from the karma of a baby fur seal, and my colon will be the strongest muscle in my body.
We’ve talked about your fatalism before, haven’t we?
Hey, I have a lot of fun with those penguins, they are really witty conversationalists, and one of them is a fantastic cryptic crossword setter.
Perhaps it’s time we talked about some nice antipsychotic medications…
Do you also have a best friend named Spalding, who happens to be a volleyball?