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Emperor’s New Clothes – how arrogant/dumb can one be?


“Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi trying out a T-shirt after launching The Emperor’s New Clothes boutique at Pavilion. The T-shirt was given to him by the boutique owners – his daughter Nori Abdullah (right) and his son-in-law, Khairy Jamaluddin (left).”

- caption of a photo in page 2 of New Straits Times today.

11 comments in last hour but the real “horror” has not dawned on everyone, so I am amending the heading to include “dumb”.

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  1. #1 by iyamwhoiyam on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 9:34 am

    Jeffrey:-

    So in Hans Christian Anderson’s parable, who is dumb – the scoundrels, the go-between Prime Minister or the Emperor, the child that pointed out innocently that the Emperor was naked or the people watching the procession?

    Very well put my friend, very well put =)

  2. #2 by iyamwhoiyam on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 9:36 am

    hey i didn’t know TDM had a breadshop??..i tot he got transport companies only…..

  3. #3 by voice on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 10:10 am

    Yeah, familiar with this?
    “Saya pantang dicabar!”

  4. #4 by Jong on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 10:23 am

    He’s so blur and so dumb, his dotter and sil called him the “emperor” and he thinks he absolutely is.

    For this GE 2008, he asks to be voted in and given the mandate again. What kind of mandate does he think he deserves? …an emperor to rule us? Or shall we hang him huh?

  5. #5 by Tickler on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 10:36 am

    They hang him in Fremont:

    FREMONT — While countries such as Israel and Pakistan are infamous for imposing strict emergency security rules on civilians, the plight of ethnic Indians in Malaysia is less well-known.

    The tropical nation along the South China Sea officially is Islamic, and Hindu residents there complain of second-class treatment by the government.

    Recently, Malaysian police detained several Hindu Rights Action Force leaders under a nearly 50-year-old law that allows people to be held for years without charge.

    On Saturday, local Malaysian Indians plan to gather in Fremont to make banners for a rally Feb. 16 at the Consulate General of Malaysia, Los Angeles, to call for an end to discrimination they say their people routinely suffer under Muslim dominion.
    http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_8137819

  6. #6 by Tickler on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 10:38 am

    hey i didn’t know TDM had a breadshop??. – iyamwhoiyam

    It`s known as `Loaf`.
    That would make him `loafer` i guess.

  7. #7 by Tickler on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 10:42 am

    Bad-awi (`awi` in tamil means `soul`) is nowhere compared to King Canute who sat his throne on the beach, and the evident disregard of the sea for his commands to roll the waves away from the land was proof to his courtiers of the limitations of a king.
    But Bad-awi (soul) is already Emperor with no kingdom.

  8. #8 by Jong on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 10:44 am

    hahaha Tickler, that was a good one, I nearly fell off the chair!

  9. #9 by k1980 on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 10:59 am

    Find out what happened to the Emperor in “Star Wars”

  10. #10 by DarkHorse on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 11:02 am

    “My guess is that the majority will not know the truths basing on the comments on this blog so far taken as sampling of people who can read and understand current events fairly well even though YB Lim has given several hints.” EARNEST

    I wish you’d stop insulting our intelligence.

  11. #11 by Jong on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 11:22 am

    I read that, it can be very condesending. Just ignore him, his right to free speech.

  12. #12 by Jong on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 11:25 am

    should be spelt “condescending”. My apologies.

  13. #13 by iyamwhoiyam on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 11:33 am

    BlackEye Says:

    Yesterday at 22: 55.34
    “Well Dr Mahathir has his Bread shop, AAB has his “Emperor’s New Clothes” JONG

    Not to worry. Jeanne will have her tongkat ali shop.

    I tot she would have to go for the kacip fatimahs??….

  14. #14 by dranony on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 12:26 pm

    Here’s a picture which Badawi might have considered buying:
    Click on link to view:
    “Image of Emperor’s New TShirt”

  15. #15 by dranony on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 12:27 pm

    Here’s a TShirt which Badawi might have considered buying:
    Click on link to view:
    “Image of Emperor’s New TShirt”

  16. #16 by Tickler on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 12:31 pm

    The stress on the removal of MIC president S Samy Vellu as if this would solve all the problems of the Indian community is wrong and would only serve to perpetuate the injustices, said a social activist today.

    Charles Santiago said it was not any one person on whom all the blame should be dumped for the social and economic woes facing Indians, but the larger political system or structure.
    http://votecharles.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/anybody-but-samy/

    I take it to mean the whole BN should be chucked out.

  17. #17 by smeagroo on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 12:35 pm

    YEs, dont fall for the “Clean GUy crap” by TDM. You expect a clean new face will be able to change the rotten head within UMNO? Dream on! NO matter how clean one is, he/she will sooner or later be “converted” into one of them. So dont fall for it again!

    Cut of the rotten head and the whole body will cleanse itself!

  18. #18 by k1980 on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 1:20 pm

    The Emperpr’s New Tax
    http://sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=20635
    According to a circular from the Selangor Water Authority (LUAS), factories and golf clubs will have to apply for a licence and then have to pay for rain water! …The circular, which cites a state enactment of 1999, also acts as a “Notis Pemberitahuan Kesalahan” (Notice of Offence) and requires all commercial organisations to fill up a form and make the necessary declarations.

  19. #19 by kaybeegee on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 1:25 pm

    Reminds me of Emperor Nero of the Roman Empire.

  20. #20 by melurian on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 1:44 pm

    look at the bright side, everybody can see the clothes it sells, so everybody’s genius. so aab and his family treat everyone is genius when walk into his boutique….

  21. #21 by EARNEST on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 2:50 pm

    Darkhorse, Jong

    Failure of connection doesn’t mean lack of intelligence. When you failed to connect online, you are not less intelligent.

    Don’t you realize that there are enough people to hate in the world already without your working so hard to give others in this blog another, at my expense?

    Yes, I will defend to Jong’s death my right to my opinion.

  22. #22 by Jeffrey on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 3:32 pm

    Earnest,

    Just a pointer, defend to death your right to opinion but not to Jong’s or anyone else’s death your right to your opinion, which I believe is neither your intention nor (inadvertantly) the right usage. :)

  23. #23 by Jeffrey on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 3:40 pm

    For if something like our right to opinion is important to us, it is only meaningful in terms of us being prepared to defend it even at the cost of our own lives that we value than that of others.

  24. #24 by EARNEST on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 3:53 pm

    Jeffrey,
    This is an exception to the Voltaire’s rule. Jong has not raised any objection.

  25. #25 by Rocky on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 6:35 pm

    the name and the whole thing is kurang manis….emperor…wow!!!

  26. #26 by Jong on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 7:58 pm

    Earnest,

    That’s ‘kurang ajar’. Listen to the wiseman, don’t be stubborn and didn’t you say earlier there’s enough hate in this world already?!

  27. #27 by Samson on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 8:14 pm

    “Yes, watch again how these Malay girls give the Oppositin their ‘middle’ finger”-DarkHorse

    You blind or what? It is the forefinger and not the middle finger. Also it is true that it is typical of Malays to be used in anyway during elections.

    Lastly the girls are not giving the signs to the opposition. They are saying “NAH” and showing the middle finger to the BN government.

    HA HA HA

  28. #28 by DarkHorse on Saturday, 2 February 2008 - 11:57 pm

    “I tot she would have to go for the kacip fatimahs??….”

    Jong, what does this ‘kacip fatimah’ do??

  29. #29 by DarkHorse on Sunday, 3 February 2008 - 12:01 am

    EARNEST,

    I don’t understand why do you want Jong to die? Don’t you mean to say “I’ll fight to defend my right to free speech till death do us part??”

  30. #30 by Colonel on Sunday, 3 February 2008 - 12:05 am

    Don’t waste your time on the old man EARNEST aka DAFTNEE. He wants to take off from where limkamput left. Once in a while he comes in to insult the intelligence of commentators here. Another one suffering from ADS.

  31. #31 by alaneth on Sunday, 3 February 2008 - 1:46 am

    It will take a young kid to say “Look, the Emperor is not wearing any clothes!”.

    Maybe we should listen more to our children.

  32. #32 by madmix on Sunday, 3 February 2008 - 12:10 pm

    Just proves how dumb and dozy AAB is. If he had any brains he would have declined to show up for the boutique even if it is owned by his daughter. He is acknowledging himself as an emperor and at the same time the subject of ridicule in a Hans Christian Andersen children’s story.

  33. #33 by EARNEST on Sunday, 3 February 2008 - 1:50 pm

    That’s ‘kurang ajar’. Listen to the wiseman, don’t be stubborn and didn’t you say earlier there’s enough hate in this world already? — Jong

    don’t understand why do you want Jong to die? Don’t you mean to say “I’ll fight to defend my right to free speech till death do us part??” – Darkhorse

    “Till death do us part”…. is a solemn marriage vow. If Jong were my better half, death would be a great relief because of our loggerheaded irreconcilable differences.

    Jokes aside, I never wanted Jong to die. On the contrary, I wanted to defend her belief in free speech till her death which I guess will occur long after I leave this world, basing on my guesstimate that she is in her 20s, about half my age premising on her hotheadedness when she misconceived a comment which was not meant to be provocative, and the fact that females have longer life expectancy (75.8years) than males (71.1 years) in Malaysia. There is not an inkling of hatred. Where did she get that from? Judgment clouded by her predisposition to criticize me?

    Failure to defend your freedom of speech is not a capital offence. It will not lead to anybody’s death. Defend to death here means defend to natural death, dying of old age.

    It is largely because of the contribution of 18th century philosopher Voltaire that we now have the Universal Declaration of Humans Rights 1948. Voltaire said “I may not agree with everything you said, but I will defend to my death your right to say it”.

    Since I do not expect Jong who urged others to ignore me to say that in defence of my freedom of speech, I volunteer to do so on her behalf, which if you have read my comments carefully does not in anyway express my desire for her death, but rather to defend her belief in freedom of speech beyond the grave (my grave), and my spirit to support her as long as she lives.

    Colonel’s comments were based on misinterpretations and misconceptions.

    I note that Jong’s advice to ignore me is not heeded, which is good for me because I wish others in this blog would take more seriously LUAS’s gross abuse of power as pointed out by k1980 in the following link on “The Emperor’s New Tax” than Colonel and Darkhorse’s misconceived “insult to intelligence”.

    http://sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=20635

  34. #34 by DarkHorse on Monday, 4 February 2008 - 1:32 am

    “Till death do us part”…. is a solemn marriage vow. If Jong were my better half, death would be a great relief…” EARNEST

    Wow! This is the final thrust – a coup de grace!

  35. #35 by boh-liao on Monday, 4 February 2008 - 1:48 pm

    The self-declared employable but unemployed SIL now co-owns an expensive shop at Pavilion, a paradise for the rich. Intrestingly, TDM also has a shop there.

    Soon a command will be issued by KJ/SIL that anyone wishing to meet AAB at his Putrajaya PM office must wear clothings and underwear (inclusive of bra, panty, and brief) bought from The Emperor’s New Clothes boutique.

    Without The Emperor’s New Clothes (halal or not, we don’t know, since this line of clothes may make people feel naked), one cannot meet AAB. Easy money, right?

  36. #36 by rajanjohn on Monday, 4 February 2008 - 2:50 pm

    Would have been better if it was AAB dressed like “Darth Vader”

  37. #37 by limkamput on Tuesday, 5 February 2008 - 1:03 am

    Colonel’s comments were based on misinterpretations and misconceptions. Earnest

    What else is new from this group of retard!

  38. #38 by EARNEST on Wednesday, 6 February 2008 - 12:24 am

    limkamput, good to hear from you again. What you said of them is correct X 5.

    Darkhorse,
    Your allegation is out of context, but your defence of Jong is so touching and romantic that it reminded me of a love poem I came across years ago. See link below:

    http://www.imagesaustralia.com/poetryromantic.htm

  39. #39 by Colonel on Wednesday, 6 February 2008 - 1:39 am

    Limkamput has been busted!

  40. #40 by BoDo Singh on Wednesday, 6 February 2008 - 4:31 am

    This time the ‘ol fart has gone for good. That’s for calling me ‘bodoh”

  41. #41 by Sagaladoola on Wednesday, 6 February 2008 - 10:01 am

    Hahaha,

    Is the name of the Emperor , Nero ?

    You know, that one who “fiddled while Rome burns”…

    Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nero.shtml

    Regards,
    http://sagaladoola.blogspot.com

  42. #42 by AhStone on Friday, 7 March 2008 - 5:51 pm

    …. with such stupidity and arrogance… AAB might as well just wear “birthday suit” everywhere he goes and oh, whoever will burn down that shop, well done! lets boycott the shop and if we buy the shirt, lets step on it

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